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A professor deals the political climate around Climate Change: A professor deals the political climate around climate change"summaries for policy makers"There's your problem right there.The minute scientists stop writing papers for evaluation by scientists, and start writing polemic for politicians, they have overstepped the boundaries of their craft.As such, they are no longer experts and the hoi polloi have...; Tags: climate change thing, climate change, environment; Discussion threads 2008-04-27
California's Green Guru Speaks Out: The clean-tech industry of today is in its early stages, about where Microsoft was in 1980, says Terry Tamminen, an adviser at Pegasus Capital Advisors and the former director of California's Environmental Protection Agency. Now a main force behind the state's rise to the top as a climate change policy...; Tags: California, News, Green, climate change, microsoft, environment, Terry Tamminen; Videos 2008-04-16
Global Warming: Global WarmingThe problem isglobal temperatures dropped .75 degrees C in 2007, thus showing that the climate models are completely worthless.What would be more effective is identifying business opportunities based on the HYSTERIA surrounding climate change.Global warming is the wrong wordsSure the average temperature has been cooler by a wee bit...; Tags: Sales tools, climate change, global warming, cold calling; Discussion threads 2008-03-11
Rating Al Gore's tech cred: Rating Al Gore's tech credAgendasFirst of all there are many scientists who link global temperature fluctuations to a documented cyclical increase in solar activity.The theory of 'human-caused catastrophic climate change' is first and foremost a tool for implementing global socialism. Lot's of people including you through your implications like to...; Tags: Al Gore, global warming, climate change; Discussion threads 2007-11-02
Global warming: is it over so soon?: Global warming: is it over so soon?We still need tocurb our CO2 output, we still need to advance alternative renewable energy sources. To not pursue then and say "Oh well!" in an invitation to suicide of the human race. Personally seeing the damage done so far by the recent...; Tags: carbon dioxide, ocean, climate change, global warming; Discussion threads 2007-09-17

UK Cell phone cancer researchers: The jury is still out. Especially for kids.: UK Cell phone cancer researchers: The jury is still out. Especially for kids.It's like climate change...... there is loads of funding for projects to avoid climate change but no funding for projects to *disprove* climate change.Scientists and politicians then tell us that no projects exist that disprove climate change. Obviously...; Tags: climate change, cell phone, phone; Discussion threads 2007-09-12
Is hot air a greenhouse gas? Or just ear pollution?: They talked global warming down in Australia. All those leaders from the U.S., China, Japan, Russia, host-nation Australia, Indonesia and fifteen other nations agreed that they aspire to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Boy, that's reassuring. These leaders didn't do anything radical, like promise to do anything. ...; Tags: China, Leader, Pollution, Greenhouse Gas, Declaration, Greenhouse Gas Emission, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-09-08
Recycling apathy doesn't bode well for green tech habits: Recycling apathy doesn't bode well for green tech habitsWindows contributes to global climate changeWhy should anyone feel defensive about "being cheap?"America and Americans are in debt to the eyeballs and have no savings because we spend the money as fast as we get it and then we borrow so we...; Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, computer hardware, GNU/Linux, fossil fuel, hardware, Microsoft Windows, global climate change, greenhouse gas, climate change, green technology; Discussion threads 2007-09-04
Rolling walls of boiling mud, is Microsoft prepared?: Rolling walls of boiling mud, is Microsoft prepared?When terrorists are on vacation we are afraid of volcanoesWhat should we be afraid of tomorrow? Giant burritos?What is this obsession? Can't we live one day without trying to scare one another? :)maybe mother nature will help OSSHopefully Washington State’s Mount Rainer will...; Tags: climate change, global warming, Microsoft Corp., wall; Discussion threads 2007-08-22
Green: tech and VC money converge: Technology Partners announced this week, they've got a bundle of dough. And they intend to invest it in green tech and bio-tech start-ups. Today, CNET's Martin Lamonica checks in with the company. What are they seeing in the coming years?In short, they're seeing green. A long-term...; Tags: research, renewable energy, green tech, energy, climate change, Blogroll; Blog posts 2007-08-01
A matter of degree: If you have any doubts that some folks are rushing to get in position to get rich off climate change and high energy prices, I gotta bridge I'll sell ya.Perhaps no finer proof of the gold rush around energy: a new university training program in "carbon management." The University...; Tags: global warming, fossil fuel, energy, climate change, Blogroll, air pollution; Blog posts 2007-07-31
"Car piece, electricity piece" & what will Nancy do?: House Speaker Nancy Peloci (D-CA) is facing some crucial decisons on proposed changes in American energy laws. Her hometown newspaper says the Speaker hasn't said what she'll do about either tougher mileage standards for cars, or about forcing renewable energy for generating more of the nation's electricity. Currently,...; Tags: renewable energy, global warming, fossil fuel, federal government, energy, climate change, cars &, traffic, Blogroll; Blog posts 2007-07-30
Hard cheese for hard coal: They may stop mining hard coal in Germany. The energy source that literally fueled Germany's manufacturing in the 19th and 20th Centuries will no longer come from German mines in the Ruhr Valley. The Washington Post article today points out how heavily the German underground coal mines have...; Tags: renewable energy, nuclear power, global warming, fossil fuel, energy, climate change, Blogroll, air pollution; Blog posts 2007-07-29
Ozone revisited: There's a detailed, delightful (if you're a chemist) explication of the recent ozone research over on the realclimate blog. It's helpful to follow the realclimate blog's explanation of the vast difference between ozone's behavior on the earth's surface, and in the stratosphere.I early blogged the original research publication right...; Tags: research, global warming, climate change, Blogroll, air pollution; Blog posts 2007-07-27
Good news for the future: Airplanes are a cursed blessing. They make travel over long distances possible in less time than anybody could have imagined 120 years ago. A week to take a steamer from New York to Liverpool. Sound like fun?But the curse comes with all that crud jets spew into...; Tags: research, green tech, global warming, fossil fuel, federal government, energy, climate change, Blogroll, aviation &, aeronautics, air pollution; Blog posts 2007-07-27
Ozone: too much here, too little there: Hey folks, can we just get our ozone in balance? Seems like crystals and mantras aren't gonna do it. There's no political stigma on climate change research in Britain so they're regularly coming with up new findings.Today comes a study saying there are chmicals in the Antarctic that...; Tags: research, green tech, global warming, climate change, air pollution; Blog posts 2007-07-26
Finding fault in Japan: The July 16th earthquake that hit Japan's Niigata prefecture has left the country shaken: sesimically, politically, economically. There are elections for the nation's upper house on July 29.The elections could be affected by public anger and fear after the quake badly damaged the world's largest nuclear power plant, measured...; Tags: nuclear power, green tech, global warming, fossil fuel, energy, climate change, air pollution; Blog posts 2007-07-25
High water gets political across the pond: The 2005 New Orleans flooding and aftermath remain a political hot button here. Now British politics is awash in flood problems. Meteorologists say the British summer has been especially wet because the jet stream is running further south than usual. At least that's how the Yank publication,...; Tags: climate change, global warming; Blog posts 2007-07-24
Pelosi asks Yahoo users how to solve Climate Change: Pelosi asks Yahoo users how to solve climate changeLess HOT AIR out of Washington!!!Politicians are the world's primary source of hot air and methane. If they stop the posturing, the junkets, the mass mailings, the PR photo-op trips, etc, that would have a great effect.It's ironic that Pelosi should...; Tags: Public relations, Pelosi, climate change, Yahoo! Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-05-25
U.N. report cites ways to beat Climate Change: U.N. report cites ways to beat climate changeWell They Would Say That Wouldn't They" Bill Hare, a Greenpeace adviser who co-authored the report".Enough said.; Tags: Investment, climate change; Discussion threads 2007-05-04