An analysis last year by Gilbert Metcalf, of Tufts University, concluded that feed-tariffs – essentially a mandated price for utilities’ purchase of renewable energy – is the most effective tool encouraging investment: The review of the European and US experience provides a number of lessons to guide future renewables policy in the United States. First, …
New Mexico’s approach to implementing greenhouse gas legislation.
Stehfest et al. in Climatic Change: A global transition to a low meat-diet as recommended for health reasons would reduce the mitigation costs to achieve a 450 ppm CO2-eq. stabilisation target by about 50% in 2050 compared to the reference case. Dietary changes could therefore not only create substantial benefits for human health and global land …
James Annan argues that Roger and I are both wrong in our discussion of how to properly think about James Hansens 2006 draft paper discussing the possibility of “super El Nino”: It’s OK to hold Hansen to his 2006 El Nino forecast. (Fleck wrong.) A careful reading of that forecast suggests Hansen got it right. …
In this morning’s Albuquerque Journal (sub/ad req.): When I began my search for Leopold, I asked Witt and his colleagues at UNM’s Museum of Southwestern Biology whether they had any specimens in their vast research collection of plants and animals that might have been collected by Leopold himself. Witt, who is the curator of birds, …
Alan Mutter argued yesterday that newspapers’ print products are central to driving traffic to their web sites – that a significant fraction of the web audience overlaps print, and that the loss of print “stripped of the advantages that formerly differentiated it from all other rivals, would become just one of thousands of URLs competing …
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If you’ll indulge me, a big Inkstain hug for hug for Bob Brewin: I’m a reluctant blogger and know that good reporting will always beat any blog, as this Albuquerque Journal story illustrates. The Journal is a privately owned, independent newspaper (a rare item in these times) and is struggling to survive in an environment …
I’ve largely been out of the climate wars fray for years, but yesterday’s Hansen v. Pielke thread leads to a couple of observations: New business model: mention Hansen and Pielke a lot. The quality and usefulness of commenter contributions scales as the inverse square of their relative anonymity. (This blog in recent years has largely …
Here’s the ticket to big time business success on the Internet. Find some way to put your ads next to content created by someone else. Keep all of the money. Profit! The beauty of the model of Google is the way they’ve they leveraged their investment in engineering talent to, at relatively small marginal cost, …
Roger Pielke Jr. has a bit of an odd post up today taking James Hansen to task for predicting a “super El Niño” in 2006, which did not come to pass. Here’s Roger: I’ve always thought that predictions made should not be forgotten, but evaluated and learned from. The “prediction” in question, which I wrote …
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