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Climate Change Solutions Will Not Be Easy or Cheap
Posted on February 25th, 2008 on Climate Change Blog
If someone tells you solutions for global heating are easy and inexpensive, they are either lying, wishful or ignorant. A new Australian government repor...

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John Holdren: US public opinion is near a tipping point on climate change despite deniers’ strategy
Posted on February 24th, 2008 on ClimateScienceWatch
In a February 18 interview at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Harvard Prof. John Holdren, outgoing AA...

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Harvard Prof. John Holdren on “Global Climate Disruption: What do we know, what should we do?””
Posted on February 24th, 2008 on ClimateScienceWatch
"Global warming is a misnomer. It implies something gradual, uniform, and benign. What we’re experiencing is none of these,” sa...

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Major corporations seek green image on climate policy but fund coal lobby front group
Posted on February 22nd, 2008 on ClimateScienceWatch
Major U.S. corporations that are part of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, which has called for strong legislation to reduce greenhouse ga...

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New blog on carbon offsets and sequestration
Posted on February 22nd, 2008 on Prometheus
Several students in our Science and Technology Policy class here at the University of Colorado are writing blogs for their projects this semester....

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House Science Committee chairman questions White House delay on federal science integrity principles
Posted on February 22nd, 2008 on ClimateScienceWatch
In the more than six months since the enactment of a law requiring the President’s Office of Science and Technology Policy to develop pr...

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R&D Funding - An Investment that Looks Like an Entitlement
Posted on February 20th, 2008 on Prometheus
This post is prompted by the following quote from Raymond Orbach. Dr. Orbach is the head of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science,...


Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Spy Satellite Shootdown Attempt
Posted on February 20th, 2008 on Prometheus
The Navy is apparently going to try to shoot down that wayward spy satellite sometime in the next 48 hours. The attempt to shoot...


So Much for Peak Oil, Plug-In Hybrids, and Reliance on Foreign Dictators
Posted on February 18th, 2008 on Prometheus
In the New York Times Kenneth Chang reports on a novel application of air capture of carbon dioxide that promises carbon neutral gasoline forever....

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Climate Model Predictions and Adaptation
Posted on February 18th, 2008 on Prometheus
At a recent conference on adaptation in London, I co-authored a presented paper (with Suraje Dessai, Mike Hulme, and Rob Lempert) on the the...

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