"Send the entire bill to the flat-earthers"
Thanks to damage from recent north Atlantic superstorms, a major New Jersey utility wants to spend $4 billion over the next ten years to make its grid less susceptible to storm damage."It's clear that...
View ArticleSnow and a warming climate
A strange thing happened during the recent blizzard in the New England. There was a rare outbreak of science journalism. If you missed Seth Borenstein's article for the Associated Press ("Global...
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Shenanigans on tribal lands in the North Dakota shale oil rush
Here is another sordid tale in the crazed frenzy to frack America. A spate of lawsuits have been filed over possible abuses in the leasing of tribal lands in the shale oil and gas rush in North Dakota....
View ArticleOver the Bitumen Cliff: West Virginia
A few days ago, I looked at a newly published report that challenges the economic wisdom behind the tar sands gold rush in Canada. "The Bitumen Cliff," written by the Canadian Centre for Policy...
View ArticleWisconsin kingpin Scott Walker and his pet iron mine
Scott Walker owes his political existence to billionaires. While we often focus on his gifts from the Koch brothers, there are others with very deep pockets, contempt for democracy, and disregard for...
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Volcanoes, aerosols, and global warming
What is the connection between this -. . . and this?The answer:Neely said previous observations suggest that increases in stratospheric aerosols since 2000 have counterbalanced as much as 25 percent of...
View ArticleReading climate policy tea leaves
"We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations."-- Barack Obama, January 21, 2013 The president made climate change...
View ArticleFracking the Energy Department
More depressing news. It looks like the rumor that the president was going to nominate Ernest Moniz to head the Department of Energy is well-founded.The president will also nominate MIT scientist...
View ArticleHow climate "skeptics" win science blog awards
Year after year, websites that attack climate science win Web Blog Awards for best science site. It adds an air of legitimacy to these sites, further increasing traffic and profile. I never could...
View ArticleI wonder how often this happens
Last week a federal grand jury indicted the owner of a large natural gas drilling operation for dumping fracking waste into storm drains in northern Ohio. According to his employees, about 400,000...
View ArticleOil consultants shaped State Deparment's Keystone XL pipeline assessment...
I wish I were surprised by the news that the State Department relied on oil and pipeline consulting firms to shape its new and improved Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Keystone XL...
View ArticleMore climate reality
Two new papers on our rapidly changing climate deserve our attention. Sadly, as environmental journalism dies, few outside the scientific community are likely to be aware of the findings.The first...
View ArticleTeaching climate science literacy in schools gets a boost
We know the fossil fuel industry has funneled cash into efforts to teach climate change "skepticism" in schools. Steve Horn has documented the fingerprints of the American Legislative Council (ALEC) on...
View ArticleThomas Friedman calls for noise on Keystone XL
Thomas Friedman uses his column in the New York Times today to call for activists to "go crazy" about the Keystone XL pipeline.So I hope that Bill McKibben and his 350.org coalition go crazy. I’m...
View ArticleTest driving Reality Drop, the Climate Reality Project's siege engine
Former Vice President Al Gore helped launch the Climate Reality Project in 2011. The goal was to create a grassroots movement to push for meaningful steps toward a low carbon energy future.The Climate...
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Economic impacts of climate change adding up in Florida
Human intelligence is highly overrated. Let's take a trip to Florida for a little proof.Florida is vulnerable to any rise in sea level. The mere 6-7 inches seas rose during the 20th century are already...
View ArticleWhat you should know if you use Facebook
Everyone who uses Facebook should read this new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (open access article). Applying data mining algorithms to Facebook likes for...
View ArticleCan you spare a click (to support a cancer program)?
My son has neuroendocrine cancer, a rare form of cancer known mostly as the killer of Apple's Steve Jobs and Wendy's Dave Thomas. For those without their wealth, it is a trying and very expensive...
View ArticleInterior Secretary admits Shell "screwed up" in the Arctic Sea
The headline in the Los Angeles Times says it all: Salazar on Arctic drilling: 'Shell screwed up in 2012'. The story tells us what we already know. Royal Dutch Shell fought for approval to drill off...
View ArticleThinking big on clean energy: What is possible in New York state
While the planet warms from fossil fuel emissions, deployment of clean energy has been slow in the United States. That is not to say there has not been progress as wind and solar dominate new...
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