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On Science, Politics and Climate Change

It's important to avoid "overheated rhetoric" on climate change. It's equally important to get the science right. For example, while the rate of warming in the atmosphere in the 2000s has slowed, the oceans continue to absorb heat, and some of that heat will undoubtedly eventually find its way into the atmosphere. (Flickr/lanacar)
by Bill Chameides
May 22, 2013

U.S. Representative Lamar Representative Lamar Smith’s strutting his science cred.

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Statistically Speaking: U.S. Shipping by the Numbers

truck
by Bill Chameides
May 15, 2013

What’s in all those trucks anyway? Being a consumer in the global economy has its advantages. We can get stuff [...]

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CO2 Reaches New Heights: A Symbolic Exercise in Splitting Hairs

The Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii recently recorded a milestone in carbon dioxide concentrations. Is it a big deal? (Image provided by NOAA ESRL Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, Colorado, USA)
by Bill Chameides
May 14, 2013

Did concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) exceed 400 parts per million at Mauna Loa?

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Greenhouse Gas Emissions: EPA Cries Foul on Keystone, Gov. Forecasts Fall Short

Canadian Tar Sands
by Bill Chameides
Apr 24, 2013

Two news items surrounding greenhouse gas emissions moved over the past week. One on the trajectory of said emissions from government number-crunching. The other on what the proposed Keystone pipeline might mean for emissions.

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Old Wang Coal?

coal barge in China
by Bill Chameides
Feb 18, 2013

Is China, the world’s largest producer and consumer of coal, a promising market for U.S. coal exports?

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Climate Change Change Gonna Come?

Obama, presidential inauguration, January 2013
by Bill Chameides
Jan 22, 2013

Obama promises action on climate change during his second term.

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Climate Change Mitigation: Caught Between a Wedge and a Hard Place

The computer circa late 1960s. A lot has happened in computer technology since then. Could the next 50 years bring similar radical changes to the world’s energy infrastructure? (Photograph by cliff1066â„¢/Flickr)
by Bill Chameides
Jan 15, 2013

New study concludes that addressing climate change will require “fundamental and disruptive transformation of the global energy system.”

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Climate Sensitivity Revisited

by Bill Chameides
Jan 10, 2013

New study on climate sensitivity has some good news and some not so good news.

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While We Were Away: Circa 2012-13

by Bill Chameides
Jan 9, 2013

They say time waits for no man. The news, of course, waits for no one either. An apt idea for today as we review of some of the environmental goings-on during our holiday break.

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Climate Change: The Human Factor Factored In

Think of humanity and climate as one enormous negative feedback system. If we are to avert potentially catastrophic climate change, as temperature climbs, we must respond by lowering emissions. (NASA)
by Bill Chameides
Jul 25, 2012

How sensitive are you to climate change?

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