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Something Stinks: California Must End Manure Biomethane Accounting Gimmicks in its Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

A recent post by UC Davis economist Aaron Smith puts the question quite directly, Cow Poop is Now a Big Part of California Fuel Policy: Are the state’s new low-carbon fuel regulations full of BS? As Professor Smith explained in an earlier post , “the cost of an anaerobic digester is 10 times the market value of the gas it produces.”

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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

For longer time-scales where GWM-GHG warming tends to dominate, there is no clear and obvious expectation, based on our present knowledge, that the Atlantic hurricane season should become progressively longer into the 21st century. Mike Mann and Stefan Rahmstorf are co-founders and regular authors of RealClimate. Smith, B.B.B.

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Pairing of Cooper pairs helps protect qubits against noise

Physics World

Courtesy: W C Smith et al., “Magnifying Quantum Phase Fluctuations with Cooper-Pair Pairing”, Phys Rev X 12 021002, [link]. They achieved this by creating a generalized version of a Josephson junction in which two Cooper pairs tunnel through the junction simultaneously – that is, a pairing of Cooper pairs.

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Michigan’s Climate-Ready Future: Wetland Parks, Less Cement, Roomy Shores

Circle of Blue

One potential solution, said Conan Smith, president and CEO of the Michigan Environmental Council, is to work with the food industry to develop new markets for more environmentally-friendly crops, so farmers have more incentive to grow them. Pessimism often dominates conversation about America’s future.

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

1] I am an invited expert reviewer of the next assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment,” and author of the 2020 book on the environment, Apocalypse Never , published by HarperCollins. Smith, D.J. Smith, D.J. I will make four points in my testimony: 1.