Climate Change For The Rest Of US #2: Update and Excerpt
Well, the first 24 hours were excellent for my new book “The Lukewarmer’s Way.” Expectations were high, given that the book I wrote with Steve Mosher 5 years ago (Climategate: The CRUTape Letters) was...
View ArticleMy New Book Gets Its Own Website
Stairway Press has created a website for my recently published book “The Lukewarmer’s Way–Climate Change For The Rest Of Us.” You can visit it here. It has a brief bio and an ordering form if you want...
View ArticleSo now it’s a war? Climate change perspectives are… changing
Well, okay. Venkatesh Rao at the Atlantic says that the only chance we have at dealing with climate change is to treat it like a war. Here are two similarly well-thought out declarations in the same...
View ArticleI’m starting a new weblog
Because two blogs aren’t enough, obviously. So, The Green New Deal was put forward without an explanation of how to implement it. I have started a weblog to try and show ways in which the principal...
View ArticleA Climate Survey! (And it’s not even mine!)
Please share your views on climate change and reading blogs by filling out this survey. The data will be used for getting to know the readers of climate change blogs. What’s in it for you? You have a...
View ArticleI’m baaaack!
In 2013 the Energy Information Administration (part of the US Dept. of Energy) projected that the world would consume 810 quadrillion BTUs (Quads) in 2040.I disagreed. My rough calculations led me to...
View ArticleThe Lukewarmers Win
A decade later. I think it’s past time to look at what was said here and elsewhere a decade ago, to see how well we all held up. My thesis will be that we Lukewarmers decisively won the debate about...
View ArticleSense and Sensitivity
There is only one important scientific question regarding climate change: Is atmospheric sensitivity high or low? If it is high the planet has big problems. If it is low we can deal with global...
View ArticleClimate Change–15 Years After
I started researching climate change in 2009. I was working as an energy analyst covering renewables–mostly solar, but a bit of wind power and biofuels. The more I read about climate change and CO2...
View ArticleJob 1 in Dealing With Climate Change
If you accept my premise (from my previous post) that the best way of thinking about human contributions to climate change is to focus on fuels rather than emissions, it becomes fairly easy to...
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