ClimateState, The Week #28 in Review
Missed an item this week? Review the news and posts covered by Climate State during the week 28, 2014.
Ice cores what they reveal and how deniers distort the data
A widely circulated piece of climate denial nonsense purports to use legitimate evidence from Greenland ice cores.
Oil and gas wells are leaking greenhouse gas
Hydraulic fracturing is not the main risk. The main risk is poor well completion that can cause methane leakage.
Rupert Murdoch: How to react to climate change?
When it comes to climate impacts, according to Murdoch we just have to move a bit inland and the worst is a temperature rise of 3 degree and a modest sea level rise of six inches.
Changing the dialogue on energy and climate
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.
Climate Change explained 1958, The Bell Telephone Science Hour
On the Bell Telephone Science Hour Frank Capra warns of Global Warming in 1958.
The invention of solar power (1954)
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.
Jimmy Stewart on Solar Energy: 1938
This forgotten bit of americana, proving once again how a dream of distributed, free, energy from the sun has fascinated generations of idealists and dreamers.
Time history of atmospheric carbon dioxide (2013 data)
Findings show that greenhouse gasses keep rising, a trend observed since the Industrial Revolution (1880s) and has accelerated in recent decades.