Climate & Energy

One of Climate Deniers favorite dodges is water vapor

Climate Denial Crock of the Week: The big mist take 1
Posted 5 days, 7 hours ago By Peter Sinclair One of the most contentious of climate crocks is the role of water vapor in climate change. And climate deniers are always trying to fog the issue. But don't be scared, Crock of the Week is here, to help make sure you don't get sucked in.
The U.S.-India climate ‘partnership’ 0
Posted 5 days, 9 hours ago By Jonathan Zasloff At least that’s what the White House is calling it. Does it mean anything? Maybe.
Obama going to Copenhagen 0
Posted 5 days, 11 hours ago By Agence France-Presse President Barack Obama will attend the climate summit in Copenhagen next month and offer to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, officials said Wednesday.
Singin' in the rain

What to make of the new climate poll 41
Posted 5 days, 21 hours ago By David Roberts There's a new Washington Post-ABC News poll out on climate change; Juliet Eilperin's got a good piece up about it (despite the terrible headline, for which she is not responsible). Having watched this story bounce around, I'm frustrated yet again by how these polls are discussed. Here's how I would write the lede to the story.
Remembering People Power in Seattle in 1999 and Berlin in 1989

Learning how to count to 350 0
Posted 6 days, 4 hours ago By Rebecca Solnit Next month, at the climate change summit in Copenhagen, the wealthy nations that produce most of the excess carbon in our atmosphere will almost certainly fail to embrace measures adequate to ward off the devastation of our planet by heat and chaotic weather. Activists -- farmers, environmentalists, island-dwellers -- around the world will try to write a different future, a bolder one, and if anniversaries are an omen, then they have history on their side.
‘Everybody’s Scared To Be A Skeptic’

SuperFreak Dubner embraces ClimateGate conspiracy theories 24
Posted 6 days, 4 hours ago By Brad Johnson Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of SuperFreakonomics, has embraced charges by the right wing that a handful of illegally obtained private emails means that the scientific consensus on climate change is actually a dangerous conspiracy.
Notable Quotable

Obama administration officials grateful for early spring 10
Posted 6 days, 4 hours ago By Ashley Braun When a bill to address climate change gets put off, be grateful that climate change itself pitches in to help.
Grading the states on net metering and interconnection standards

Freeing the grid 0
Posted 6 days, 10 hours ago By Adam Browning
The Kids Are Alright. Not So Sure About the Adults.

Kids just say no—to fossil fuels 0
Posted 6 days, 14 hours ago By Osha Gray Davidson See how one young activist is rallying his fellow teens to fight climate change -- and what happened when he took his message to D.C.
Toward a more perfect invisible hand

Making buildings more efficient: rationalizing retrofit markets 6
Posted 6 days, 21 hours ago By David Roberts As I said in my last post, taking energy efficiency in buildings seriously means expanding our policy horizons beyond the blunt tool of raising energy prices. We have to think in creative ways about how to remove market and behavioral failures that inhibit cost-effective responses to today's energy prices. How can we make efficiency markets more rational and robust? What follows is not intended to be comprehensive, just to call out some of the bigger challenges and a few interesting attempts to overcome them. There are folks out there who know much more about this than me -- I hope they'll comment or email me with things to add.