sduford on Jan 25 2008 | Filed under: Environment
From The Daily Green:
It was California Senator Barbara Boxer versus EPA head Stephen L. Johnson yesterday on Capitol Hill.
It wasn’t even a close match.
In an extraordinary hearing on Johnson’s much-maligned decision to deny California and 14 other states the right to cut tailpipe emissions, committee head Barbara Boxer was quoted as saying:”You’re going against your [...]
sduford on Jan 23 2008 | Filed under: Extreme Weather, Global Warming, The Science
A new study to be published this week shows that increased wind shear might actually mean that global warming will result in less hurricanes.
This is highly controversial and most climatologists disagree with this finding. I think the trend over the last 20 years has been pretty clear that hurricanes are getting stronger and more frequent, [...]
sduford on Jan 23 2008 | Filed under: Global Warming, The Science
Although air temperatures on the Antarctic continent have not been going much at all, puzzling scientists, this new study shows that ice loss is accelerating. The cause is likely to be the warming water of the circumpolar current.
sduford on Jan 17 2008 | Filed under: Environment, Politics
I have discussed in these pages the environmental disaster of biblical proportion that is caused by oil sand exploitation in northern Alberta. Now it looks like Premier Stelmach is in total denial. It’s amazing how low people can sink just for money.
Reposted from DeSmogBlog.
Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach was in Washington, DC today hyping his province’s [...]
sduford on Jan 10 2008 | Filed under: Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Technology
Last month Scientific American published an interesting article on a grand plan to replace most of America’s energy sources through the use of large scale solar energy. After reading it, I would say that it is quite realistic and feasible.
The biggest obstacle is the cost: 420 billion dollars over 40 years. But then again [...]
sduford on Jan 10 2008 | Filed under: Environment
The exploitation of the tar sands in Northern Alberta is an economic disaster of epic proportions. Now the Pembina Institute and the World Wildlife Fund have issued a scathing report on the lack of effort from the industry to do better, and from the government to oversee and regulate them.
By BOB WEBER
The Canadian Press
January 10, [...]
sduford on Jan 04 2008 | Filed under: The Science
“Changing one’s mind in light of the evidence is not weakness: Changing one’s mind is the essence of intellectual growth.”
Thomas W. Martin
sduford on Jan 04 2008 | Filed under: Politics, The Denial Machine
DeSmogBlog has just handed out their very first SmogMaker Awards
This is the first year for the SmogMaker Awards, honoring those who have subverted honest and forthright public conversation on global warming.
Judged by an expert panel of fraudbusters – the staff at the climate change watchdog DeSmogBlog.com – these awards recognize clever, deceptive or merely devious [...]