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Theme song of an African geothermal conference.
Archive for the ‘Climate change’ Category
January 18th, 2013
The endless GOP hostage theatre over US budgets succeeds in one of its main purposes: to distract attention from issues that matter. Like the race against the clock to avoid complete climate breakdown. We already have the trailers. So here comes a fat Victorian-novel style doorstopper weekend post with as many nutritious links as a [...]
January 8th, 2013
Mapping EGS seismic clouds with pretty coloured bubbles.
December 24th, 2012
A survey on American attitudes to climate change consistently gives self-contradictory results.
December 21st, 2012
The precautions against superstorm Sandy worked because the US government FEMA listened to a European computer forecast, not its own.
November 13th, 2012
Category: China, Climate change
In his keynote speech last Thursday to the 18th Congress of the Chinese Communist party, retiring President Hu Jintao said: Energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP as well as the discharge of major pollutants should decrease sharply. Source: Leslie Hook for the Financial Times (paywall); summarised here. This wasn´t a toe-dipping [...]
November 12th, 2012
Category: Climate change
Joe Romm nails the difference between real and rhetorical strategies of adaptation to climate change.
November 2nd, 2012
Category: Clash of Civilizations, Climate change, Religion and Politics, Republican Party, Watching Conservatives
As Mark notes just below, GOP climate denial is coming to bite Willard in the behind. But this still begs the fundamental question: of all the issues in the world, why has the Republican Party developed such an incredible antipathy to doing anything about or even acknowledging the reality of anthrpogenic climate change? After all, [...]
October 30th, 2012
Category: Climate change, Gotham City
Andrew Cuomo tells the inconvenient truth: New York, from now on, will have to start thinking like New Orleans