Get Energy Smart! NOW!

This is a critically important item that I will be writing on, as well, but mwmwm has written a good piece that merits reading.   Simply put, we can put warming aside and acidification of the oceans provides more than enough reason for acting with alacrity to cut CO2 emissions and to begin to look for […]

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Amid the focus on Waxman-Markey’s climate-focused provisions, sometimes we (I) lose sight of the strongest and most valuable portions of the American Climate and Energy Security (ACES) Act: the Energy Efficiency elements. It is (nearly …) without question that one of the fastest, highest payoff, and most powerful near-term (and continuing) Silver BBs to tackle […]

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With a look at his area’s opportunities for augmenting low-GHG power from hydropower, a guest post from Badger from the Pacific Northwest. Driving around Washington State and Oregon this weekend, I saw more examples of how the Pacific Northwest is leading in installing renewable energy systems, not only in the future, but right now, with […]

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A guest post from “loblolly” in which “A retired science teacher looks at subtle and not so subtle efforts by the oil and coal industry and global warming deniers to subvert environmental education in the public schools, by spreading doubt and making teaching about global warming a controversial topic in public school classrooms.” Received from […]

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A beautifully illustrated guest post from alefnot, providing education about the carbon cycle. A few days earlier this was air and water (and a trace bit of dirt). Is that amazing or what?!? A couple of weeks earlier, so was most of this (except the woody bits). You can almost see CO2 being drawn down. […]

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This guest post, courtesy of the ever-brilliant and thoughtful Arthur Smith, looks to the recent CBO report on climate change. Thanks to Michael Tobis I discovered a new report this week from the Congressional Budget Office that has the most dramatic illustration I’ve seen of projections of temperature for the remainder of this century (see […]

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