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Weird weather in a warming world. In the end, there are two climate threats: one created by increasing human vulnerability to calamitous weather, the other by human actions, particularly emissions of warming gases, that relentlessly shift the odds toward making today’s weather extremes tomorrow’s norm. New York Times. Opinion, 8 September 2010. [Registration Required]
Another item for climate panel’s to-do list. A committee convened by the InterAcademy Council, delivered a long to-do list to the IPCC. Recommendations included limiting the term and policy recommendations of its leadership and fostering more transparency in its machinations. New York Times. Opinion, 4 September 2010. [Registration Required]
China sustains blunt ‘You first’ message on CO2. Yu Qingtai, China’s lead negotiator in climate talks from 2007 through the conference in Copenhagen last December, said that China’s national interests will always come first; and in any move toward binding steps for reducing global emissions of greenhouse gases, rich countries must go first. New York Times. Opinion, 3 September 2010. [Registration Required]
Bill Gates on R&D, a carbon tax and China’s climate role. Bill Gates, the software innovator and development philanthropist who has recently championed a big research push to advance non-polluting energy choices, weighs in with some new thoughts after reading a critique of his thesis by Richard Rosen of the Tellus Institute. New York Times. Opinion, 2 September 2010. [Registration Required]
Pacific hot spells shifting as predicted in human-heated world. Federal researchers have published work concluding that a particular variant of the periodic El Niño warmups of the tropical Pacific Ocean is becoming more frequent and stronger. The pattern appears to fit what is expected from human-driven warming of the global climate. New York Times. Opinion, 28 August 2010. [Registration Required]
A challenge to Bill Gates on energy research. Gates, and many economists, are far too optimistic that R&D can help the world solve the climate problem cheaply. It is not going to be cheap, and people (and politicians, especially) have got to get used to that idea. New York Times. Opinion, 27 August 2010. [Registration Required]
On Harvard misconduct, climate research and trust. A prime problem with climate science — related to peer review — is that it is implicitly done by very small tribes (sea ice folks, glacier folks, modelers, climate-ecologists, etc) so real peer review — avoiding confirmation bias — is tough, for sure. New York Times. Opinion, 27 August 2010. [Registration Required]
From climate science to climate activism - the sequel. Is there a way to reconcile the personal and the professional sides of life as a scientist working on consequential, urgent questions? New York Times. Opinion, 26 August 2010. [Registration Required]
The Gates path to an energy revolution. Bill Gates has many ideas about how to make non-polluting energy technologies so cheap that coal reverts to being the shiny black rock it was before the industrial revolution. New York Times. Opinion, 25 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Climate "CSI" team takes on Russian heat. Even though the NOAA Climate Scene Investigation team concluded that Russia's heat wave had no significant relationship to global warming, they did hint that warming surface temperatures will produce more severe events in the future. New York Times. Opinion, 25 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Lessons in resilience from New Orleans. New Orleans has an extraordinary history of multihazard threats, experience, and resilience. Located on the subsiding delta of the lower Mississippi River, much of the city is below sea level. It has experienced 27 major floods over the past 290 years. New York Times. Opinion, 14 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Despite costs, ‘clean coal’ remains Obama priority. The vast remaining deposits of coal in the world guarantee that it will remain a big part of the global energy mix for decades. Reflecting that situation, the White House has maintained a bullish stance on carbon capture and storage which it continues to call a “clean coal” technology. New York Times. Opinion, 13 August 2010. [Registration Required]
The technology imperative for energy and climate. If you care about fostering prosperity in poor places while limiting the buildup of greenhouse gases in the globe’s shared atmosphere, it’s time to recognize the technology imperative that lies behind the world’s entwined climate and energy challenges. New York Times. Opinion, 11 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Scientists see links from Asian floods to Russian heat. Two climatologists have separately described atmospheric dynamics that appear to link the extreme rains and flooding in Asia with Russia’s unrelenting, extraordinary heat and resulting conflagrations. New York Times. Opinion, 11 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Vast ice ‘island’ breaks free of Greenland glacier. Greenland has for years been shedding ice faster than the rate at which accumulating snow adds to the overall bulk of its ice sheet. The calving of an enormous ice “island” from the Petermann Glacier several days ago created a photogenic “moment” in a long-term process. New York Times. Opinion, 8 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Climate policy is paralyzed, but the climate isn’t. While American energy and climate policy remain paralyzed, physics isn’t standing still. And the science pointing to big, long-lasting consequences for the world from the buildup of greenhouse gases continues to accumulate. New York Times. Opinion, 4 August 2010. [Registration Required]
The broken Senate. The riven Senate, with the decision today not to close out a modest package of energy initiatives focused on oil drilling, is basically saying the following: Don’t look for the vital 21st-century energy quest, let alone a reality-based approach to global warming, to begin within the borders of the United States. New York Times. Opinion, 4 August 2010. [Registration Required]
Lessons from two important climate forecasts. This is a tale of two climate forecasts — one successful, the other not. A great scientist is defined not only by his or her achievements, but by the ability to follow the data, whichever way it flows. Wallace Broecker fits the bill. New York Times. Opinion, 30 July 2010. [Registration Required]
Next steps on climate and energy. The 20th century ended on Friday, at least in relation to the discourse over what to do about global warming. The end came with the failure of a seven-year effort in the Senate to pass a climate bill centered on a cap-and-trade system for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. New York Times. Opinion, 27 July 2010. [Registration Required]
With no Obama push, Senate punts on climate. Obama has not yet, apparently, found the strength to break free of the 20th-century-style left-right fight to forge a positive path that is true to the scope and time scale of the climate and energy challenge and could resonate with Americans. New York Times. Opinion, 23 July 2010. [Registration Required]
Indoor living and the global greenhouse. Given that humans are spending ever more time indoors, with all the heating, cooling and lighting potentially attending such a lifestyle, finding big cuts in energy use in structures can make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions and energy appetites. New York Times. Opinion, 23 July 2010. [Registration Required]
Filling the global energy research gap. Earlier this week, the International Energy Agency released a batch of new findings and reports as its contribution to the Obama administration’s “Clean Energy Ministerial” meeting in Washington. New York Times. Opinion, 22 July 2010. [Registration Required]
A climate warrior. Schneider built the case that global warming, while laden with complexity, justified an aggressive response. New York Times. Opinion, 19 July 2010. [Registration Required]
Climate panel struggles with media plan. The 831 researchers who will contribute to the next round of assessments of climate science and policy options by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been sent a letter admonishing them to “keep a distance from the media.” New York Times. 11 July 2010. [Registration Required]
Ethics and the greenhouse, One of the toughest realities attending debates over what to do, or not do, about the growing human influence on the climate system is that more science does not necessarily clarify society’s, or individual’s, responses. New York Times. Opinion, 10 July 2010. [Registration Required]
Hot weather in a warming climate. The last few days have seen lots of payback, with climate campaigners working hard to build a teachable moment around the brutal heat that first baked, and now is merely poaching, much of the northeastern United States. New York Times. Opinion, 9 July 2010. [Registration Required]
Climategate fever breaks. Changes are clearly needed in how climate science proceeds and how it is assessed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But it’s no surprise that that transition has come with growing pains. New York Times. Opinion, 9 July 2010. [Registration Required]
Climate whitewash, blackwash and ‘mushroom clouds.’ No inquiry of this sort will ever clear the slate given the polarization over this issue, fueled both by divergent ideologies and very large financial stakes related to energy policy. Everyone shares some blame. New York Times. Opinion, 8 July 2010. [Registration Required]
Dutch agency seeks clarity from climate panel. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change should be clearer on how it draws conclusions from the body of research it assesses when gauging the impacts of global warming, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency has concluded. 6 July 2010.
Energy needs of China's consumers swamping efficiency gains. Keith Bradsher has filed an important story showing how the energy demands of China’s emerging consumer class are overwhelming the central government’s efforts to cut industrial energy waste and blunt growth in carbon dioxide emissions. New York Times. Opinion, 5 July 2010. [Registration Required]
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