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With all due respect, you might at least get the sequence of events correct. McIntire's criticism of the "hockey stick" was the reason the...
I read it. It's twaddle. It's written for people who can't notice glaring logical inconsistencies and who have no interest in getting an...
FWIW, yeah, I was sweating as I was shoveling the snow out of my driveway. As we say here in the South, it isn't so much the cold as the...
And, since I'm the type of guy who prefers facts, I finally dug up historical snowfall data for Washington, DC, here:...
"Heavy snow will return occasionally, says Dr Viner, but when it does we will be unprepared. "We're really going to get caught out. Snow will...
NASA GISS/Jim Hansen and others published both ground-based and satellite-based analyses last year. The news writeups read such that Hansen et...
For world electricity needs only, there was a nice post on realclimate that illustrated the size of the solar panels necessary. It's the black...
I haven't a clue. In some cases, yes, even for a small producer, but this all seems to hang on exploiting tax and subsidy angles, as here: Power...
Re: How many books do you have to read to make e-readers more environmentally better than paper book This is a surprisingly difficult question....
This is, in fact, the whole point of the green tag (renewable energy certificate) market. Most state utilities are under mandates to produce...
My two cents. First, the article is poorly argued. It assumes that factory capacity for producing batteries is the limiting factor in sales of...
Green car congress had a nice nutshell graph: [IMG] With this description: "Decadal warming rates arising from (i) greenhouse gases and...
I've done that calculation for a project at my church, and 50 hours is in the ballpark. The key is to realize how cheap good CFLs are. It takes...
I get that. What I'm about here is what economists call diminishing marginal utility, or diminishing returns, or whatever. No liquid fuels...
I still hold out hope for cellulosic butanol. I completely agree on the foolishness of converting food into fuel. But this would be whatever...
An interesting fact from the forest and paper industry is that, by their definition, the majority of paper in the US now gets recycled....
In the interest of fairness, what is Penn State's official statement regarding this? I believe it's this....
My understanding about recycling is that the economics vary a lot from time to time and place to place, but that the environmental benefits are...
I'll ditto that. My favorite model for this is what I term "CBO rules" (after the US Congressional Budget Office). The CBO is asked to create...
Right now, ice extent is slightly below where it was for the record-breaking 2006-2007 season. From the National Ice and Snow Data Center: [IMG]...
