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- Kerry-Boxer bill battle set for Tuesday
- U.S. Senate Committee may move ahead with Kerry-Boxer climate bill. by Harry Fuller
- Tags: Climate, U.S. Senate, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- NOAA's prophetic pronouncements get reax
- From Greenpeace, hated by global warming deniers--Greenpeace USA Climate Campaign Director Damon Moglen issued this statement: “The White House report on climate change is a stark confirmation of what scientists have been saying for years: unless we dramatically curb our emissions, the world will face unprecedented climate...
- Tags: U.S., President, NOAA, Climate, Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Airlines on Climate: Don't blame us blame the Banks
- I've posted before in these pages about how the business lobby, under pressure to respond to climate change, is starting to fracture. There was another dramatic example of this yesterday in Kuala Lumpur at the annual general meeting of the International Air Transport Association IATA when the CEO, Giovanni Bisignani, took an...
- Tags: Bank, Carbon, Climate, Climate Group, Government, James Farrar, Management, Strategy, UK Air Passenger Duty
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Climate change driven IT spend: are we being hoodwinked?
- One of the great things about being an Irregular is that every now and again, one of our motley band will toss a pebble into a pond which sends ripples. Last weekend Jeff Nolan, one of our founders and a great personal friend said this: ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Carbon Dioxide, Climate, Argument, Tom, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- What climate negotiators can learn from open source
- Solutions to climate change will not all come from the top down. They won't all resort from mandates. They will come from the bottom-up, from entrepreneurs delivering alternative energy systems because they can make money at it. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Open Source, Climate, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-07
- Hearing the Call: A Promethean Encounter in Copenhagen?
- [caption id="attachment_634" align="aligncenter" width="396" caption="Cate Blanchett: A Promethean Encounter with CEOs in Copenhagen?"][/caption] The great and the good of global business got together in Copenhagen last week to try to reach consensus on what the private sector message should be to the UN...
- Tags: Greenhouse Gas, Copenhagen, Climate, Deforestation, Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Sun & Symantec: A New Breed of Sustainability Leadership?
- The passage of the Waxman Markey Bill through the US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee this week has left behind it some hard feelings and a split in the business lobby. The US Chamber of Commerce came under severe pressure for lobbying against the...
- Tags: Sustainability, Symantec Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Duke Energy Corp., Climate, Chamber, Bjorn Lomborg, Globalization, Security, Strategy, Management, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-05-24
- Earth System Grid Authentication Infrastructure: Integrating Local Authentication, OpenID and PKI
- Climate scientists face a wide variety of practical problems, but there exists an overarching need to efficiently access and manipulate climate model data. Increasingly, for example, researchers must assemble and analyze large datasets that are archived in different formats on disparate platforms, and must extract portions of datasets to compute...
- Tags: Software, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Grid, Climate, Authentication, PKI, Tools & Techniques, Security, Management
- White papers 2009-05-20
- Global warming heating up Washington D.C.
- There are many billions of dollars at stake. Not since the Wall Street meltdown have we seen such high stakes in the lobbyist-WhiteHouse-Congress axis. From oil to transportation to electricity to corn to solar to your very kitchen and office air conditioning--everything is in play. Costs may...
- Tags: Climate, Global Warming, Transportation, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-10
- Something wonderful about global warming
- We're getting more looks into nature's deep freeze. This month we can read about Lubya,the young woolly mammoth who's really 40,000 years old. She's been outta the Siberian no-longer-permafrost for a couple years and she has a tale to tell. Here you can see Lubya. She...
- Tags: Climate, Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-04
- Climate has changed around climate change. U.S. to be pushy.
- The chief scientist at the EPA says the U.S. will be pushing for more aggressive scientific action at the next international climate talks. Those happen in Copehagen at the end of this year. American scientists have complained that science was marginalized at the EPA during the past eight...
- Tags: U.S., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Climate, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-01-29
- Climate change politics
- U.S. Senator James Imhofe(R-Oilklahoma) has a strong new ally in his fight against the fantasy of climate change. Despite his minority party status, Imhofe fights to expose the global warming hoaxes he sees abounding. The new president of the European Union is President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic,...
- Tags: Climate, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-01-03
- Change of political climate re: climate change
- There'll be a change in climate change politics in the U.S. effective January 21, 2009. Environmental advocates are pointing to a line-up of strong scientifically-trained appointees, in contrast to the current administration where politics consistently trumped science. Some of the promises made during the campaign by the Obama...
- Tags: Climate, Environmental Advocate, Social Security, Recruitment & Selection, Government, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-22
- Talking climate in Europe
- At the international climate change conference in Poznan, Poland, there is much concern over what role the U.S.will play after January 20, 2009. There have been direct messages that the U.S. will play a different role than it has over the past eight years. How significant, asks this blogger,...
- Tags: Poland, Climate, European Union, Leadership, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-11
- Should engineers fix climate change?
- Two weeks ago, I wrote that 1,500 ships could fight climate change. Many readers sent me interesting comments. And of those, who wants to remain anonymous, sent me his thoughts about climate change. This started a conversation between the two of us and you'll see the result of our exchange...
- Tags: Greenland, Ice, Pollution, Climate, Joe, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Climate Change: Is Your Business Ready?
- Environmental issues, including climate change, are at the forefront of today's issues for consumers and politicians, and for all those who must confront the rising tide of concern about global warming around the world. But what is the role for business? And how should leaders prepare for the emerging low-carbon...
- Tags: Sustainability, Climate
- Webcasts 2008-09-18
- Climate changes of yore
- Paleoclimatology is not just a hot topic now, it's also cool. And there are some serious implicatons for what is happening around the globe right now. Aside from the heedless arguments over who or what is to be balmed for current climate change, and constant carping from those...
- Tags: Climate, Paleoclimatology, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Pine trees to frogs, global warming is killing 'em off
- In the northern lattitudes the boreal forests of North America are losing their evergreens. Scientists say the mountain pine beetle is thriving due to the warmer winters. In turn beetles are killing large numbers of trees in Canadian forests. Previous beetle attacks have occurred in the Canadian...
- Tags: Climate, Global Warming, Species, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- One constant in the Earth's climate: change
- A scientific conference in Europe has brought out some recent research findings on the polar regions. Much is being learned for the first time about Antarctic's prehistoric climate. One thing's certain: there's been a lot of change. Over the eons. The ice sheets on...
- Tags: Climate, Antarctic, Productivity, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- McKinsey and PwC On How Companies Think About Sustainability Management: All Hat, No Cattle
- Two separate reports show a massive disconnect on sustainability between C-level strategic intent and real world performance. In the report Confronting Corruption, PWC surveyed executives and whilst 80% reported their companies had an anti corruption management programme, only 22% were confident such programmes were effective. On climate change, the McKinsey...
- Tags: Sustainability, McKinsey & Co., PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Corruption, Others, Climate, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
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