According to a new report conducted by the University of Waterloo, oil and gas wells are leaking heat-trapping gases and pose a greater threat then fracking to the environment. Maurice Dusseault, a professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences explained: “Hydraulic fracturing is not the main risk. The main risk is poor well completion that can…
Bob Inglis at TEDxJacksonville: Although he hales from the reddest district of the reddest state in the United States of America, Bob Inglis tells a story of how he came to appreciate the threat of climate change and how he believes the solution lies in the bedrock principals of conservatism. Bob Inglis is the Executive…
The famous Bell Telephone Hour clip, with the all knowing Dr Frank Baxter explaining a very modern understanding of climate science in 1958. Enlightening and infuriating. Bell Telephone Science Hour Frank Capra warns of Global Warming (1958) Bell Telephone Science Hour Frank Capra warns of Global Warming (1958) 1958 – Frank Capra warns of Global…
Frank Capra directed (from 1952–1956), the famous Bell Telephone Science Hour specials from the 1950s. The series highlighted the then-emerging research on climate change, and the birth of solar energy technology, and what it all meant – below the fold. Related Bell Laboratory Science Series: Our Mr. Sun (1956) Educational Film
Peter Sinclair, found an interesting clip on the topic of solar energy, back from 1938. The clip is from “You Can’t Take it With You“, directed by Frank Capra. Sinclair, added: This forgotten bit of americana, proving once again how a dream of distributed, free, energy from the sun has fascinated generations of idealists and…
The study, Energy investments under climate policy: A comparison of global models, published in the journal Climate Change Economics (DOI: 10.1142/S2010007813400101 | 2013) explored global energy spending and concluded that low-carbon energy and energy efficiency investments of about 1.1 trillion annually are required, to meet the emissions reduction targets to keep the world below 2°C. In context, additional $0.8…
DeSmog Canada published a series of aerial photos from Canada Alberta. Alex MacLean is one of America’s most famed and iconic aerial photographers. His perspective on human structures, from bodies sunbathing at the beach to complex, overlapping highway systems, always seems to hint at a larger symbolic meaning hidden in the mundane. By photographing from above, MacLean shows…
Published on Jun 26, 2014: Excerpt from a speech to the League of Conservation Voters, June 25,2014. Related Poll: Americans Will Vote for Climate Conscious Candidates
Published on Jun 29, 2014: A powerful message on the “truly disruptive” nature of solar energy technologies and the profound changes they portent for energy generation and individual customers … drawn from a range of respected energy experts. Peter Sinclair, notes: Everywhere I go, I’m telling people that we are in a stage very much…
In the March edition of our Big Question video series, David Archer of the University of Chicago joins Booth professors Jesse Shapiro and Jane Risen to discuss why the public’s view of global warming is so far from the scientific consensus.
New York Times: Scientist, Candidate and Planet Earth’s Lifeguard Barry Commoner, a founder of modern ecology and one of its most provocative thinkers and mobilizers in making environmentalism a people’s political cause. Wikipedia
Published on Apr 3, 2014 Senator Grassley on the importance of renewing the wind energy PTC absent comprehensive energy tax reform. Senator Charles Grassley is known to be a long time fiscal conservative Republican Senator from Iowa. Obviously, the size and scope of the Iowa wind industry belies the anti-renewable propaganda of the science denial…
The summary of the report can be read here. Overview AR5 Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability Related UN climate report: Pricing of CO2 emissions critical.
Nature Editorial (Nature Climate Change doi:10.1038/nclimate2193): Even if some sceptics consider climate science akin to witchcraft and politicians pursue ineffective policies, private enterprise is beginning to take climate change seriously. Climate protection requires no magic solutions, but it does require boldness and resolve from policy makers. Instead, what we have is the kind of political timidity that…
Mike Mann discusses his new piece in Scientific American, which outlines critical thresholds in climate warming in the not-too-far-off future, based on the sensitivity of Earth climate. Scientific American: Most scientists concur that two degrees C of warming above the temperature during preindustrial time would harm all sectors of civilization—food, water, health, land, national security, energy…