Paul Collier, writing in the current Foreign Affairs, argues thus about climate change and food prices: In recent years, the increase in demand resulting from gradually increasing incomes in Asia has instead been matched with several supply shocks, such as the prolonged drought in Australia. These shocks will only become more common with the climatic …
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a short piece for the newspaper about a talk by David Rutledge on his analysis of the peak oil-climate linkage: Humanity may be rapidly running out of fossil fuels, according to Dave Rutledge, but every cloud has its silver lining. In this case, the California Institute of Technology …
Via Rich Sweeney, and interesting project to test adding solar energy to existing fossil fuel plants: Both projects involve adding steam generated by a solar thermal field to a conventional fossil fuel-powered steam cycle, either to offset some of the coal or natural gas required to generate electric power or to boost overall plant power …
David Satterthwaite argues that the oft-repeated claim that cities generate three quarters of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions is just plain wrong. Writing in the current issue of the journal Environment and Urbanization, he charts what sounds a lot like one of those oft-repeated urban legends: Perhaps this was an estimate for the United States, …
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The Myth of the Cooling Consensus was the second most read AMS paper last month.
Rich Sweeney may be an Al Gore enthusiast, but he’s got some good questions about the gritty details of Gore’s “renewable in 10 years” plan.
An interesting new working paper by Hall et al. looks at the role of energy subsidies in the developing world as a problem – and potential solution – in dealing with climate change: Many non-OECD countries currently subsidize energy, and particularly fossil fuels, thereby creating an opportunity for subsidy reform or elimination that would have …
David Appell asks.
Airport average: 0.88 inch (2.24 cm) Airport 2008: 1.38 inches (3.5 cm) My house: 1.64 inches (4.17 cm) Worth noting: that all came the first half of the month. It’s been dry since.
Fans of hockey sticks and other related climatic time series will no doubt see a familiar shape if they squint and look at this graph from the Albuquerque Office of the National Weather Service: