Category Climate change

California is taking a major first step towards reducing greenhouse emissions. This plan mandates reduction of greenhouse gas emissions starting in 2012. Sure, parts of the bill are a bit limp, but still, it does make California the first state…

Beetles are killing million of trees in the Rockies. Climate change is certainly a major cause. Temperatures are higher and droughts are worse, conditions that favor an explosion of the beetle population. Another cause is the large number of big…

A video on YouTube spoofing Al Gore’s views on global warming appears to have been made by an amateur. It wasn’t. It came from a Republican PR firm that has Exxon as a client. New Media Musings links to the…

It’s better than US ethanol and is already being used to power large fleets. Gas stations in Brazil routinely sell it… From the Virdian Design newsletter #470 People in the USA know nothing of Brazilian ethanol. The Brazilians been running…

Hot weather is expected to push electricity use in California Monday far beyond anything the state has seen before. Temperatures where we are will be a mere 100 today, down from Saturday’s 117. There are bizarre rumors that temperatures by…