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Energy/Corporate – Leading by example
Here’s another example of large corporations starting to lead by example, sizeable users of electricity, disconnecting themselves from bargain basement deals offered by big, dirty coal power barons...
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Change of mind by friend of Nick Minchin
Bombshell: Koch-Funded Study Finds ‘Global Warming Is Real’, ‘On The High End’ And ‘Essentially All’ Due To Carbon Pollution Richard Muller is one of the key folks, included in the ABC doco, who’s been...
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Record snowstorms not inconsistent with warming world
The science behind this is clear: Warmer temperatures cause more water to evaporate into the atmosphere, and warmer air holds more water than cooler air. The air’s “water-holding capacity,” in fact,...
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How clouds affect climate change
Denialists claim clouds are biggest contributors to warming. Actually they can add and subtract and balance one another out. Cycle time is hours or days. Meanwhile CO2 accumulates and lingers, for...
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USA & China Aim – Phase Down Use Potent Greenhouse Gases Known As HFCs
This is Xi’s first meeting with Obama as the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, which is the analogue to the Chinese presidency. Recently China has made news on plans to cut carbon...
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Plants Blamed for Human Deaths in Heat Waves
Normally, plants absorb ozone through stomata, small holes in their leaves. Heatwaves cause closed stomata, absorbing less ozone. More ozone buildsup in air. … found this loss of ozone absorption...
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Why Australia’s electricity footprint is more than double California’s
Of course, we knew we were bad but not this bad! Hazelwood continues to operate at 1.5tonne CO2 per MWh electricity, compared with 1 tonne for black coal power. Of course it receives exemptions and...
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$48 – the right price for a tonne of CO2?
Interesting news in USA as Obama administration gives even more teeth to their EPA( as our giants contenders for PM compete to cut more “green tape” and further emasculate our EPA) >readmore>...
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Earth ‘may be doubly sensitive’ to CO2
You may think the prospect of climate change is alarming, a call to action to slow down our emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. You’re almost certainly right. But some scientists...
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The Extraordinary Climate And Environmental Legacy Of Henry Waxman
Of course, Australia copied EPA from USA, but made it a toothless tiger…There is no EPA regulation of CO2 without Waxman.. The reason that President Obama has the ability to regulate greenhouse gases...
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World’s Oldest Direct Measure Of Atmospheric CO2 May Lose Its Funding
How desperate is this? >readmore> ThinkProgress
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Scientists find human fingerprints all over Australia’s hottest year on record
“Another study led by Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology looked in particular at that hot 2013 September, when the maximum temperatures were 3.32C above the long-term average (what they were between...
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Forests love CO2. Or do they?
It sounds logical, but unfortunately it’s not that simple. While in the short-term the trees may profit from greater CO2 levels, their faster rates of growth may seem them suck nutrients out of the...
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But Cape Grim recorded 480ppm CO2e in 2013 already
This is at least getting plenty attention about climate change in mainstream media. Isn’t it sad that usual pundits are saying it’s just another number, of no particular significance. Equivalent...
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Problem – reinforced concrete
Concrete cancer: not pretty. Sarang/Wikimedia Commons By itself, concrete is a very durable construction material. The magnificent Pantheon in Rome, world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome, is in...
View ArticleThe science everyone needs to know about climate change, in 6 charts
Take a closer look at what’s driving climate change and how scientists know CO2 is involved, in a series of charts examining the evidence in different ways. — Read on...
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