But today I have more nuanced feelings. Over the years Ive joined the boards of two environmental groups, [...]
But today I have more nuanced feelings. Over the years Ive joined the boards of two environmental groups, [...]
The Fed model compares the forward earnings yield of the stock market with 10-year government bond yields. The model assumes that investors view stocks and bonds as competing assets and will purchase whichever asset has a higher yield, according to an article in Quarterly Review of Economics and [...]
Dennis J. Gray, one of the founders, said the group decided to establish itself as [...]
Below the fold is a brief guest posting by Altaira, who is employed at an NGO working on issues related to sustainable development. She has a Masters Degree in Agricultural Science. Previously on TheOilDrum, Altaira wrote Can the Wealthy Have a Separate Peace?
Following discussions with Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, US President Obama has altered his schedule and will attend the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties at Copenhagen on 18 December, the [...]
Planet Earth is in imminent peril. We now have clear evidence of the crisis, provided by increasingly detailed information about how Earth responded to perturbing forces during its history and by observations of changes that are beginning to occur [...]
James Hansen - Power Failure: Politicians are fiddling while the planet burns. What's a voter to do?
Planet Earth is in imminent peril. We now have clear evidence of the crisis, provided by increasingly detailed information about how Earth responded to perturbing forces during its history and by observations of [...]
The US Environmental Protection Agency will award a $739,500 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant to Foss Maritime Company, Environmental Solutions Worldwide (ESW) and the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA), which are partnering to test a pollution-reducing device on two Foss tugs, the Garth Foss and the Lindsey [...]
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The recent run-up in gold and oil prices is not inflationary, said James Bullard, the president of St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, in a CNBC television interview Wednesday. Bullard said the Fed generally would not like to start tightening monetary policy until the unemployment [...]
Republicans, Obama officials face off over the implications for science
WASHINGTON - House Republicans pointed to controversial e-mails leaked from climate scientists and said it was evidence of corruption. Top administration scientists looking at the same thing found no such sign, saying it doesn't change the fact that the world is' [...]
Does the latest generation of energy-saving light bulbs save energy? A comprehensive study conducted by Osram, the German lighting company, provides evidence that they do.
While that may seem self-evident, until the release of the report on Monday the answer remained unclear. [...]
The research director at the centre of a row over climate change data said he would stand down from the post while there is an independent review.
Professor Phil Jones, director of the Norwich-based University of East Anglia's (UEA) Climatic Research Unit (CRU), has said he stands by his data.
Sceptics claim [...]
1. Dubais early impact
2. China in 2010
3. Copenhagen
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Earth continues to warm
by Tim Varga
I’m as disappointed as the next person in some of the conduct evident in the hacked emails of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. Although I generally have some sympathy for a derogatory tone taken towards the so-called skeptics — after [...]
The Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) adopted by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) earlier this year (earlier post) requires a 10% reduction in the average greenhouse gas (GHG) emission intensity of the state’s transportation fuels by 2020.
The regulation also levies the calculation of Indirect Land Use Change [...]
September U.S. petroleum consumption was lowered 518,000 barrels per day to 18.362 million bpd, the Energy Information Administration said in its monthly petroleum supply report. [...]
Interest in space-based solar power (SBSP) has been cyclical over the last 40 years. The first wave of interest came in the late 1960s through the 70s, from Peter Glasers initial promulgation of the concept through the design studies funded by NASA and [...]
Kurt Wulff (McDep Associates) submits: Buy-recommended ConocoPhillips (COP) offers unlevered appreciation potential of 66% to a McDep Ratio of 1.0 where stock price would equal Net Present Value (NPV) of $105 a share. Third quarter results released [...]
by Jack Rosebro
With little more than a week left before the 15th Congress of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) convenes in Copenhagen, and following months of increasing doubt that international agreement can be realized on a binding emissions reduction plan to replace the Kyoto Protocol, many [...]
