Tag: climate change
member name: Steve B.
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December 13, 2009 10:04 AM EST --
There is an old saying that a lie will travel half-way around the world before the truth has tied it's shoes. So it is with the phony email "scandal", the latest version of the "birthers" and "death panels". . . .
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December 25, 2008 05:54 PM EST --
Some time ago, I wrote that climate skeptics should throw in the towel when Fox News owner, Rupert Murdoch abandoned the skeptics' camp.
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?memberId=84960&articleId=281474977097716&nav=MyGather . . .
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October 07, 2007 08:28 PM EDT --
Regardless of your feelings about Wal-Mart as a corporation, it is no small matter when the corporate giant begins installing energy saving solar systems on its supercenters. This past week, Wal-Mart and . . .
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December 31, 2008 12:50 PM EST --
A billion gallon coal sludge spill in Tennessee again raises the question, is there really any such thing as clean coal?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/26/tennessee.sludge/index.html?section=cnn_latest . . .
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October 31, 2007 06:48 PM EDT --
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District is nearing completion of a solar-hydrogen fueling station that will fuel 14 hydrogen, fuel-cell cars. The demonstration project will be completed at the end of . . .
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November 15, 2007 04:26 PM EST --
In recent days, you may have read that the congressional democratic leadership has backed away from renewable energy by dropping from the current energy bill the renewable portfolio standard (RPS) and . . .
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December 04, 2007 05:41 PM EST --
Sierra Club is reporting that Pelosi will introduce the energy bill in the House this week, including CAFE standards of 35 mpg by 2020. In releasing her press statement, Pelosi said, "This comprehensive . . .
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December 08, 2007 11:41 PM EST --
The House of Representatives passed the energy bill this week, which would require automakers to achieve a fleet average of 35 mpg by 2020. The bill also included a renewable portfolio standard, which . . .
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November 28, 2009 10:24 AM EST --
According to a new report, "Rising Tigers Sleeping Giant", the Asian countries of China, Japan, and South Korea are far outdistancing U.S. investments in "New Energy". According to the report, China alone . . .
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September 14, 2007 01:07 PM EDT --
An "arguement" that global warming contrarians often make is that in the 1970s, scientists were predicting that we were headed into an ice age, so why should anyone pay attention to climate science . . .
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November 25, 2009 02:54 PM EST --
Scientists have released The Copenhagen Diagnosis , a summary of hundreds of studies that have taken place over the 3 years since the last IPCC Report was issued. The major findings in these studies . . .
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January 21, 2007 07:42 PM EST --
The new global warming report of the International Panel on Climate Change is reported to make the case stronger, based on research and evidence, that the atmosphere is warming in substantial consequence . . .
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October 05, 2006 09:54 AM EDT --
Fifteen month old article in USA Today stated
Posted 6/12/2005 7:31 PM Updated 6/13/2005 6:15 PM
The debate's over: Globe is warming
By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY
Don't . . .
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September 26, 2007 06:44 PM EDT --
I continue to be surprised by the solar energy activity in Canada. Listening to some skeptics, you would think that solar energy won't work outside southern or southwestern U.S. In a previous article, . . .
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October 16, 2007 05:10 PM EDT --
Nuclear proponents often proclaim that nuclear energy is safe, and that worries about its safety are irrational and emotionally laden. When challenged, they will quickly assert that nuclear energy has . . .
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October 23, 2007 12:58 PM EDT --
The Nanosolar Corporation, initiated in 2002 by Martin Roscheisen and Brian Sager, had the goal of mass manufacturing medium-efficient solar cells at one-tenth of the cost of traditional, silicon-wafer . . .
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November 11, 2007 09:44 PM EST --
The Rocky Mountain Institute and the U.S. Green Building Council have teamed up to produce a program (approx. 30 minutes), which features the economic sense of building green. In this program, several . . .
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April 02, 2009 11:57 AM EDT --
First Solar reported in February that the clean energy company reached the holy grail of renewables: $1/Watt, or equivalency/parity with coal. That is, First Solar now is able to produce solar energy . . .
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September 27, 2007 07:47 PM EDT --
Skeptics about renewable energy will frequently say things like, "Solar and wind will never be anything but a minor contributor to the entire energy needs of our country." If that is the case, . . .
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September 29, 2007 03:56 PM EDT --
The Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), founded by Amory Lovins, has just commemorated its 25th anniversary. The Institute was founded in response to the U.S. energy crises of the 1970s. Instead of focusing . . .
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