Image credit: The Age From my post on why consensus matters in climate science to my follow up on why blogging is not science , it’s common for climate skeptic commenters to claim that any reference to the majority of expert scientific opinion on climate change is simply an “appeal to authority”…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Lord Monckton Claims Non-Scientists Shouldn’t Talk Climate Science?
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photo: Alex Proimos via flickr Even with all the serious doubts about its scalability or financial viability, carbon capture and storage repeatedly continues to get talked up as a key part of a future low-carbon energy economy. Adding to the practical issues swirling around CCS is this bit, from research just published in Nature Geoscience
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Geological Storage of CO2 Emissions Only Viable if Leakage Kept to Less Than 1% in 1000 Years
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Photo via Eco Friendly Mag That is the, well, you know. I just finished reading the lively (and aggravating) debate on cap and trade hosted by Salon last week, and it reminded me of what dire straits we’re in when it comes to US climate change policy. Many feel that cap and trade is the best option available to limit carbon emissions, and, yes, there are reasons why many others have legitimate concerns with such a system. But in an ideological debate over the mechanism’s merits — especially … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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To Cap or Not to Cap (and Trade)?
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Victor Kam builds his dream house; Aaron Harris for the Toronto Star It started with the title: “Statement of Sustainability” where Ian Harvey writes in the Star about how Victor Kam is going green and he’s putting his money where his mouth is: He’s embarking on a million-dollar gamble to design and build the most practical, sustainable home possible just north of the city. It goes downhill from there, an example of everything that is wrong about “green building” and “sustainable design” as practiced by so many today. Where do we s… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A 4300 SF House in the Suburbs Is Not a "Statement of Sustainability"
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Photo: Flickr , CC Shaping Demand to Match Supply Serious discussions about renewable energy usually end up being about energy storage too. Wind and solar power are both intermittent sources of electricity, so if we want to power a significant fraction of our power grids with them, we need a way to store power for windless and cloudy days. The most talked about candidates are batteries, molten salts, pumping water uphill, compressed air, etc. All of this has to do with supply, but what about demand? “Demand response” is very u… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Smart Grid + Demand Response = Underrated Renewable Energy Storage?
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photo: Tambako the Jaguar via flickr One more piece of information supporting how important your personal dietary choices are in dealing with climate change: New research published in the journal Global Environmental Change shows that by reducing the amount of meat and dairy eaten and changing… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Meat & Dairy Matter – Changing Consumer Choices Can Cut Methane & Nitrous Oxide Emissions 84%
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photo via flickr There’s news out of Canada, home of this week’s G20, about fossil fuel subsidies. Reports say that at the behest of the USA, the group of the 20 largest economies in the world have agreed to r emove language that says that cuts in subsidies should be “voluntary. ” The result could be greater price party for renewable energy sources. The movement seems to be the result of the Gulf oil spill, which continues unabated. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Breaking News: G20 Steps Up Efforts To Phase Out Fossil Fuel Subsidies
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Credit: Jill Clardy . You might say they’re tapped out, so they’re tapping in. More U.S. cities are phasing out bottled water from their budgets, according to a national survey released by the U.S. Conference of Mayors . Those surveyed say they’re switching to tap water instead because it’s fiscally and environmentally responsible. Either way, it’s a refreshing sign, and should be a nice kick in the wallet to the bottled water marketing c… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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U.S. Cities Cutting Bottled Water Use As Budgets Dry Up
Old Buick drivers lobby ’till the wheels are off. Image credit: Jennifer Zimmerman, Pbase The codger lobby is frantically arguing that smart metering will bring added expense to the low income retiree. It’s paranoid, unsubstantiated thinking and it’s working. The Maryland Public Service Commission has sunk a flagship smart grid initiative of the Obama Administration, As reported in the NYT Energy & Environment section : “A utility proposal to install smart mete… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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AARP Dumbs Down Maryland’s Important Smart Grid Initiative
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Well, it is depressing… Image: NASA, public domain. The 12th Victim of the Deepwater Horizon? If the BP oil spill in the Gulf of New Mexico never happened, William Allen “Rookie” Kruse might still be alive. At least that’s what his family thinks, and they’d like him to be considered the 12th victim of the explosion that took place on the Deepwater Horizon rig. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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