Category Archives: Climate Change

Western Climate Initiative

By dniemeier | Published: July 28, 2010
The Western Climate Initiative (WCI) released its plan for the regional carbon market, of which California is a member. The plan outlines the general framework for partially achieving AB 32 goals. Because the WCI is comprised of six other western states, in addition to California, and four Canadian provinces, the goals have been set a [...]
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Hobson’s Choice

By dniemeier | Published: May 3, 2010
For a thoughtful discussion on the Gulf spill, see this blog entry by Tom Beamish (at UC Davis): http://mitpress.typepad.com/mitpresslog/2010/05/the-gulf-spill-and-the-hobsons-choice-of-oil-production.html#more
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Graham Walks Away

By dniemeier | Published: April 25, 2010
The Washington Post has announced that the anticipated press conference called for tomorrow (Monday, April 26) to announce the outline of the Kerry-Lieberman-Graham compromise proposal for a climate and energy bill has been canceled. Graham states “…appears to be a decision by the Obama Administration and the Senate Democratic leadership to move immigration instead of [...]
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Tidy List of What Aliens Are Doing to the Earth

By dniemeier | Published: December 8, 2009
From the National Wildlife Federation’s Dr. Amanda Staudt (full post), While opponents want to draw attention to decade-old emails, here is what is happening right now to the planet: Temperatures this decade have been higher than any other decade on record, and one degree (F) higher than average temperatures in the 20th century. Ocean temperatures [...]
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Latest from the UK Met Office

By dniemeier | Published: December 8, 2009
Today BBC ran this article with this graph, It’s worth noting that, The WMO uses three temperature sets – one from the UK Met Office and the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU), and two from the US, maintained by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) and the space agency Nasa. Asked [...]
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2020 Targets in Context

By dniemeier | Published: November 22, 2009
There is nearly universal agreement that GHG emissions must come down quickly to constrain future temperature increases to the 2 degree C mark. As we go into Copenhagen, with two US bills on the table, the Senate hopefully to pass soon, I thought it might be worth showing some of the targets associated with other [...]
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