Climate clippings 67
I’ve used a random image for the featured image of this post. I was going to use the one that once was my gravatar (to the left) but the original is quite small and it came up fuzzy. Actually I [...]
Coal Seam Gas: Behind the Seams – media project and fundraiser
As LP readers will know, many bloggers have been concerned for a long time about the quality of public debate around contentious issues. Many of these issues are ‘wicked problems’ – scientifically and socially complex, presenting real challenges to policy [...]
Climate clippings 66
New solar PV nanotechnology There have been so many developments in PV technology it’s hard to know which will be significant. Gizmag tells us about new material consisting of tiny hollow spheres, made out of nanocrystalline-silicon. The new material is [...]
Climate clippings 65
I’m still stressing out over the project I’m working on and various health matters that are annoying, time-consuming but OK-ish. John D has helped as always, but don’t blame him for the fourth one, the one on Rupert’s WSJ. Australian [...]
Climate clippings 64
I’m currently working on another project, which is taking up much of my time. This week we had about 200mm of rain in one day. That could have been why my cable connection to the internet disappeared for 36 hours. [...]
Climate clippings 63
China report on climate change (Photo from Reuters, via The Age.) From Reuters we hear about the Second National Assessment Report on Climate Change which sums up advancing scientific knowledge about the consequences and costs of global warming for China: [...]
Climate clippings 62
Energy savings work! It had passed me by, but an outfit called the Breakthrough Institute (BTI) has been suggesting that energy savings don’t work, according to a guest post at Climate Progress. They say there is a “rebound effect” which [...]
Remembering the floods
As I write we have brutal heat in Brisbane, with a dry west wind. On 11 January last year Robert Merkel put up a post, Queensland floods get worse. Later that day Mark put up a post, Brisbane flood maps and up [...]
Climate clippings 61
David Archer on methane Climate clippings 58 led with an item on Methane worries. @ 18 I identified David Archer as one who is “very knowledgeable on the matter [and] thinks the process will be chronic rather than catastrophic.” He [...]
Climate clippings 60: 2011 review edition
The year in review For me the year began with the post Climate crunch: the fierce urgency of now, wherein we were reminded that the time for significant action on climate change was now and that postponing such action would [...]
Climate clippings 59
Tokelau leads the world! I’ve been looking for some positive stories for Christmas. What can be more positive than Tokelau going almost completely to renewables? I guess it helps if you’ve got only 1,500 people and three cars. Harnessing desert [...]
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