Not: “If all starch, sugar, fat and natural oils were used to make liquid biofuels and none went to food, feed or other industrial uses (…) biodiesel could meet 8% of diesel demand,” Tony Regan, principal consultant with Singapore energy consultancy Nexant, told a gathering held by the British Chamber of Commerce in Singapore. With …
Climate science is fun and all, but I think we pretty much know what we need to know at this point. I’m thinking maybe I need to start paying more attention to global energy economics: As China and India’s energy consumption grows, coal stands to make the largest gains from shifts in future fossil fuel …
Traveling Babo at Easter Island (Rapa Nui) Originally uploaded by travelbabo. Big Toe’s cousin sent this postcard from a recent visit to Easter Island
As we here in Albuquerque prepare to lament the loss of our beloved Albuquerque Tribune, let us raise a glass in toast to one of the Trib’s most accomplished graduates, Hank Stuever, who last night had the distinct privilege and high honor of covering the visit by some French guy to the White House for …
La Niña is strengthening, according to the monthly diagnostic discussion out today. The pool of cool water continues to creep westward: The anticipated results: Expected La Niña impacts during November – January include a continuation of above-average precipitation over Indonesia and below-average precipitation over the central equatorial Pacific. For the contiguous United States, potential impacts …
I was all excited at the prospect that humans aren’t causing global warming after all, that it’s really benthic bacteria. Then Roger Pielke Jr., suspicious bastard that he is, had to go and pour cold water over the whole deal. Turns out that the University of Arizona doesn’t really have a “Department of Climatology,” as …
NASA has posted a remarkable MODIS satellite image showing the areas that burned in Southern California.
A couple of years ago, one of my favorite science teachers was extolling the virtues of those cheap hand held infrared thermometers. He said you just need to hand one to a kid and turn ’em loose and they’ll start asking all kinds of interesting questions and testing out the answers. So I was surprised …
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My friend Malcolm, who lives in Sydney, has some fascinating observations today on how hard it is to see drought as it is happening, something he (interestingly) noticed after returning to Sydney following a visit to a wetter place: When you live in an area that changes by degrees month to month and year to …
Drought conditions have been good for Georgia’s pecan crop: The record drought gripping the Southeast isn’t all bad news: It’s meant nearly perfect weather for growing pecans in Georgia. The state is on pace to be the nation’s top pecan producer this year, with shellers predicting more than 125 million pounds harvested, said pecan horticulturist …