Real Climate
JANUARY 28, 2024
A recent sensible-sounding piece by Roy Spencer for the Heritage foundation is full of misrepresentations. Let’s play spot the fallacy. Comparing climate models to observations is usually a great idea, but there are some obvious pitfalls to avoid if you want to be taken seriously. The most obvious one is to neglect the impacts of internal variability – which is not synchronized across the models or with the observations.
Inside Climate News
JANUARY 28, 2024
Most of the public seems unaware that global temperatures will soon push past the target to which the U.N. hoped to limit warming, but researchers see social and psychological crises brewing. By Bob Berwyn As Earth’s annual average temperature pushes against the 1.5 degree Celsius limit beyond which climatologists expect the impacts of global warming to intensify, social scientists warn that humanity may be about to sleepwalk into a dangerous new era in human history.
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Scientific American
JANUARY 28, 2024
A missing mammal rediscovered in Indonesia, a speedy new species of dinosaur in Brazil, Ivory Coast chimpanzees that snoop on their neighbors, and much more in this month’s Quick Hits
A Greener Life
JANUARY 28, 2024
By Anders Lorenzen The actor Peter Capaldi has become the latest celebrity to back offshore wind. The actor, best known for his roles in ‘The Thick of It’, playing a ruthless spin doctor, and as ‘Doctor Who’ in the BBC TV Series, has teamed up with Greenpeace to highlight the benefits of the renewable energy technology and to deliver a message to UK politicians.
Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions
In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.
Scientific American
JANUARY 28, 2024
Plutonium-pit secrets, growing up in parallel universes, the strange aftermath of a fictional wildfire, and more books out now
Greenbuilding Law
JANUARY 28, 2024
You can provide feedback on the draft national definition for a Zero Emissions Building. The White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy, through the U.S. Department of Energy, is seeking “to create a standardized, verifiable basis for defining a zero emissions building.” A broadly accepted common minimum definition for a zero greenhouse gas emissions building, as well as a pathway for verification, is foundational in efforts by public and private entities to transition the building sector to
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A Greener Life
JANUARY 28, 2024
By Anders Lorenzen An announcement by US President Joe Biden to pause the approvals for pending and future applications to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from new projects has been warmly welcomed by climate activists and could delay decisions on new plants until after the US Elections taking place on the 5th of November 2024. During that pause, the Department of Energy (DOE) is to conduct a review looking at the economic as well as environmental impacts of projects seeking approval to expor
MGKF Law
JANUARY 28, 2024
On January 2, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan issued an order to exclude the expert testimony of Dr. Robert Michaels in a series of cases related to the corrosive water in Flint, Michigan. Carthan, et al. v. Snyder et al , No. 5:16-cv-1044 (E.D. Mich. 2024). The court held that Dr. Michaels, in applying a methodology commonly employed by epidemiologists known as the Bradford Hill guidelines, failed to establish an association between corrosive water an
Cleannovate
JANUARY 28, 2024
The ban on single use plastic paper bags in Kenya was a good move. But was it enough to tackle the plastic menace? Certainly not. We still use non-recyclable plastics everyday of our lives. NON-RECYCLABLE PLASTICS Non-recyclable plastics cannot be recycled easily. Infact majority can’t be recycled at all.
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 28, 2024
Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- Awards/Recognition -- Centre County Master Watershed Steward Art Gover Earns Natural Resource Education Award [PaEN] -- Hazleton Standard Speaker: Almost 50,000 Students Participating In PA Trout In The Classroom Program -- Erie Times: 17-Year-Old Millcreek Teen Hero Zachary Coverdale Nominated For Carnegie Medal For Rescuing Woman Trapped In Her Car In A Pond Grants -- Penn State C
Speaker: Antoine M. Thompson, Executive Director of the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition
Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Inclusion (DEJI) policies, programs, and initiatives are critically important as we move forward with public and private sector climate and sustainability goals and plans. Underserved and socially, economically, and racially disadvantaged communities bear the burden of pollution, higher energy costs, limited resources, and limited investments in the clean energy and transportation sectors.
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 28, 2024
Here are 76 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Thank you for your leadership! -- Centre County Master Watershed Steward Art Gover Earns Natural Resource Education Award [PaEN] -- Hazleton Standard Speaker: Almost 50,000 Students Participating In PA Trout In The Classroom Program
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 28, 2024
“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people.” - - Article I, Section 27 Pennsylvania Constitution [It’s Not A Suggestion] Governor’s Budget Address: February 6 Sen
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 28, 2024
Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro -- AP: PA Gov. Shapiro Says He Wants To ‘Get S Done,’ He’s Made It His Slogan, Profanity And All -- TribLive Guest Essay: Shapiro’s Duck-And-Dodge First Year - By Commonwealth Partners -- Gov. Shapiro: Unemployment Compensation System Back On Track With Enhanced Customer Service -- Gov.
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