Tag Archives: climate
Recent UN Climate Change Initiatives
As part of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Ban Ki-moon, theUN’s secretary general, urged leaders of the Group of the G20 toincrease their investments in clean energy and the green economy. "The risks — and costs — of inaction on climate change grow each year. The more we delay, the more we will pay," he [...]
Will Climate and Energy Legislation Really Happen this Year?
I try not to watch a lot of television, but last Tuesday I made sureto be in front of the TV and it wasn’t only because it was Game 6between two historic NBA rivals, the Boston Celtics and the LA Lakers. As a solar installer, I wanted to see if the Presidential addressconcerning the BP Oil [...]
President Obama Edges Toward Straight Talk on Climate and Energy
Popout While President Obama’s rhetoric on energy and climate is still short on specifics, the message above is at least an improvement on his OvalOffice Address last week. Source
Applied Materials Talks Comprehensive Climate and Energy Legislation on Twitter
Today on the summer solstice — the day the sun shines in thenorthern hemisphere for the longest period of time all year — AppliedMaterials kicked-off its series of online conversations via Twitter with Mike Dabbs, Director of Government Affairs at Applied Materials bydiscussing the impact of comprehensive climate and energy legislation in the U.S. During the Twitterstorm, [...]
Climate Modeling for Dummies
The Chalmers Climate Calculator allows the user candecide on when and how fast emissions of CO2 are reduced and what thisemissions scenario implies in terms of CO2 concentration and globalaverage surface temperature change.Example of questions that can beexplored with the model: What if we delay emission cuts for another 10, 20, or 30 years? How significant is [...]
Climate Science: Wildly Misunderstood by Key Senators
Three United States senators – Sens. Lindsay Graham, Orrin Hatch andJames Inhofe – last week demonstrated continued confusion aboutthe scientific support for climate change. Senator Graham, R-SC: “The science about global warming has changed. I think they’ve oversold this stuff, quite frankly. I think they’ve beenalarmist and the science is in question.” Senator Hatch, R-Utah: “There is nowhere near [...]
Conservatives Launch Cyber Attack on Climate Bill
Following in the footsteps of BP, conservative groups are buying up GoogleAdWords in an effort to spread misinformation about the American Power Act. Groups such as American Solutions and Pajamas Media have been running campaigns on Google so that when a user types in “American Power Act”into a news search, their ads will appear before [...]
Solar Industry Reacts to Senate Climate Bill
The Solar EnergyIndustries Association released the following statement thisafternoon, in response to the Senate climate bill, the American Power Act: While we’re still analyzing the 987-page bill, we’repleased with the effort to place a price on carbon, an essential step in stopping global warming and stimulating greater deployment of renewable energy sources like solar. But [...]
U.S. Climate Bill To Be Introduced This Week
Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., have announced plans to roll out comprehensive energy and climate-change legislation onWednesday without Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. The senatorsexpressed their appreciation for Graham’s commitment to passingcomprehensive energy independence legislation, stating that he has madesignificant contribution to the bill. "We are more encouragedtoday that we can secure the [...]