The U.S. isn’t alone in having public opinion shift against the proposition that the global climate is warming, mainly due to human activity. Great Britain has fallen from 41% to only 26%, Germany from 62% to 42%. The media need to hold climate skeptics to the same standards as climate scientists.
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The U.S. produces 5 million barrels of oil a day, and imports 10 million more. The biggest source of imports is — surprise! — Canada. Much of Canada’s oil is from oil sands, aka tar sands, that is sent south in pipelines. The relationship is politically advantageous, but environmentally risky.
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The New York Times editorializes that the National Academy of Sciences reports just published offer persuasive evidence that putting off dealing with global climate warming would be folly. It hopes the reports jolt the Senate into passing an energy and climate bill like the one the House passed last year.
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Here, Andy Revkin follows up his post on the National Academies’ new reports. All use “climate change” in the title. A colleague suggests a different frame: Adapting to the Risks and Opportunities of Climate; Advancing our Understanding of Climate; Limiting Human Influences on Future Climate.
In this column, Andy Revkin discusses the reports just issued by the National Academies of Science, noting that NAS has warned about global warming since 1991. The new reports review climate science, analyze ways to cut greenhouse gases, and how to build a sustainable society given climate change.
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Anyone for a wind battery? Several companies are working on it. The idea is to store wind energy during the night when electricity demand and rates are low, then discharge it when rates are high. Costs are still too expensive, but new battery technologies now being tested are promising.
The National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, just issued three reports on climate change. The Council finds the case for harmful human influence on climate overwhelming. It urges an emission budget, a price on carbon, and a single agency to coordinate action research.
Tom Friedman in his New York Times column says that President Obama disappoints by failing to lead on energy. The Gulf oil spill gives Obama an opportunity to ask the American people for sacrifice, something only possible after a catastrophe. Friedman urges: Don’t squander your 9/11 moment, Mr. President.
You don’t have to be an angel to find this New York Times article interesting. It says that venture capitalists invest these days not in green start-ups, but in more mature clean tech companies. It highlights one investment firm, Richard Branson’s Virgin Green Fund, and two companies, Quench and GreenRoad.
This New York TImes article is about mitigation. Genetically engineered crops face fierce opposition, yet have done a lot of good, and could do much more as climate change affects the poorest regeions. If we do not use genetic engineering wisely, if we let propaganda trump science, the poorest will suffer.