Air sampling by NOAA over Colorado Finds 4% Methane Leakage, More Than Double Industry Claims Natural-gas operations could release far more methane into the atmosphere than previously thought. [Source: Nature] How much methane leaks during the entire lifecycle of unconventional gas has emerged as a key question in the fracking debate. Natural gas is mostly [...]
Readers asked what a good extended metaphor was for global warming. Here’s one, courtesy of the National Center for Atmospheric Research: AtmosNews takes a lighthearted look at an unexpected analogy, explaining why some people call carbon dioxide (and the other greenhouse gases) the steroids of the climate system. Statistics and extreme behavior are involved, whether [...]
As the Obama Administration moves to open up Arctic waters for exploratory offshore oil and gas drilling, a raising tide of opposition is emerging to counter the decision. In the last two weeks, dozens of members of Congress, hundreds of scientists, and tens of thousands of concerned citizens have expressed their concerns about the environmental [...]
Gary Trudeau is running a whole week on the disinformers. Related Posts: Kentucky creationism theme park set to open in 2014 will ?include dinosaurs? Doonesbury Takes on the Climate Change Deniers Great Doonesbury Global Warming Cartoon
Job creation in California’s clean energy/materials manufacturing sector increased by 53% from 1995 to 2010 When times get tough, companies often fall back on an old familiar phrase: “we just need to do more with less.” That usually applies to human resources. But it’s equally important with natural resources. As it turns out, “green” companies [...]
Neither California nor the Mojave will survive unrestricted emissions of heat trapping greenhouse gases, but we can harness solar energy responsibly by Jessica Goad (with some thoughts by Joe Romm at the end) The Los Angeles Times recently published a story on large-scale solar that gets much of the context and many of the facts [...]
To preserve a livable climate, we need to leave most remaining hydrocarbons in the ground. Guess who doesn’t like that idea? by Bill McKibben, reposted from TomDispatch If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, [...]
Top Five Oil Companies Made $1 Trillion in Profits from 2001 Through 2011 by Daniel J. Weiss, Jackie Weidman, Rebecca Leber General economic theory holds that companies will produce more of a good if its price is higher, or if it receives subsidies. Funny that these rules didn?t seem to apply to Big Oil in [...]
Other stories below: Global warming could kill off snails; South Korean lawmakers vote for limits on greenhouse gas emissions AEP chief: Coal’s elimination ‘just not going to happen’ Although the amount of energy produced by coal will decrease in the nation — from 45 percent today to 39 percent by 2020 — a top electric [...]
Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us, and training them into a [...]
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