Climate Change

Coal: Moving Beyond Burning Stuff

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:56:00 GMT

The coal conundrum: should we or should we not build more coal power plants?This is the second of two guest blogs by Johannes Feddema. Here is a link to the first one.Part II: Coal and future energy sourcesJohannes Feddema ‘A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” Max Planck, a German physicist (1949...
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The Locomotive Will Rust in the Shed

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:54:00 GMT

Back in April I was driving across the country and mentioned the controversy over a coal power plant in Kansas. ( Climate in America). As fate would have it, this summer I have met Johannes Feddema who is a professor at the University of Kansas, and yes, a member of KEEP. KEEP? -- Kansas Energy and Environmental Policy Advisory Group. Johan wrote this blog - and the next one. So thanks from me, and be good to him. Here's a previous entry of mine on Texas CoalThe coa...
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Until the Maples come to Churchill

Sat, 5 Jul 2008 18:30:00 GMT

Forests on the Move“Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be untilGreat Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hillShall come against him.” MacBeth, William Shakespeare, Act IV, Scene 1High school English, MacBeth – I loved MacBeth. MacBeth was safe because the forest would not “unfix his earthbound root” and march against him. This week I read an interesting article on climate change and forests. It is also another opportunity for you to contribute to a research proj...
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Attribution: Blowing in the WInd

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:33:00 GMT

Attribution (5)This is the fifth in a series on the attribution of climate change; that is, how do we determine to what extent the observed warming is caused by humans? The earlier entries are cataloged at the end. (This one should, perhaps be the first!)First a return to basics: I received a good letter from a reader about the difficulty of determining trends and attribution from, primarily, the last 150 years of observations. The challenge seems even more daun...
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A Summit on Climate Prediction

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:13:00 GMT

Climate Summit: What Direction Now?I’ve been going to a lot of meetings lately where we are talking about where the climate modeling community is talking about what to do next? What comes after the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) as the results of this assessment permeates society?The World Modeling Summit for Climate Predictions: The first meeting I attended was hosted by the European Center for Medium-range Weather Forecasts and sponsored by the World Clim...
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