Solving climate change could be the best bargain ever offered to humanity.A number of studies have estimated that we should invest roughly 500 billion dollars per year—slightly less than one percent of global GDP—in clean energy and solutions to … [Read more...]
Patrick-Murray Administration Announces Clean Energy and Climate Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions 25 percent by 2020
Wednesday 01/05/ By Leave a Comment
01/05/2011 - Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles recently set the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit for 2020 required by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008 at 25 percent below 1990 levels, the maximum … [Read more...]
How We Know Global Warming Is Happening in One Graphic
Thursday 12/30/ By Leave a Comment
image: Skeptical Science Skeptical Science has been really pulling out all the stops as 2010 comes to an end, first releasing a great PDF Guide to Global Warming Skepticism and now adding the above image summarizing all the different indicators that … [Read more...]
Electric Car Conversion Kits – How to Build Your Own Electric Vehicle
Wednesday 12/29/ By Leave a Comment
Jim M. Watson asked: Electric car conversion kits are becoming more and more popular every day. Converting your current vehicle to run on electricity can help you save thousands of dollars on gasoline costs. By building your own electric … [Read more...]
Blizzards & Blustery Wind Don’t Mean Global Warming Is Fake – Say It With Me (Again) People
Monday 12/27/ By Leave a Comment
photo: Matthew McDermott I have to say that I haven't yet heard some wrong-but-glib media personality exclaim that the blizzard that just whacked the East Coast proves that global warming isn't happening, but no doubt it'll be said or has been said … [Read more...]
Obama complains about Chinese wind-power
Sunday 12/26/ By Leave a Comment
The Obama administration’s trade complaint against China over support for its wind-energy manufacturers won backing from U.S. business groups. The case, filed at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, is the first by the U.S. over green … [Read more...]
Energy Mix Predictions for 2035
Wednesday 12/22/ By Leave a Comment
The energy industry “is caught in the middle of the world's uncertainty whirlpool, surrounded by currents of market, regulatory and technical forces that all await resolution,” Black & Veatch (B&V), a large global engineering, consulting and … [Read more...]
Study finds global rivers and streams emitting 3x IPCC estimates of the GHG N2O
Wednesday 12/22/ By Leave a Comment
Scientists report in an open access paper this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that river and stream networks are the source of at least 10% of human-caused nitrous oxide emissions to the atmosphere. … [Read more...]
Report: Automakers struggle to find balance between CA policymakers and state’s buyers
Tuesday 12/21/ By Leave a Comment
Filed under: Diesel, EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Hydrogen, MPG, Legislation and Policy, Natural Gas, USA It's a classic dichotomy - automakers need to build both the kinds of cars consumer want to buy and also the kinds of cars the policymakers tell them … [Read more...]
How Geothermal Energy Works
Thursday 12/16/ By Leave a Comment
Lisa A Mason asked: More people are talking today about how to save fuel and how to find more energy efficient ways to do the things we need to do every day. Geothermal heat and energy are one revolutionary way to use the natural energy … [Read more...]