In case you hadn’t noticed, S&R is going crazy getting ready for the DNC next week. For that reason, the Weekly Carbholic will not run this week. Tune in next week when […]
The Weekly Carboholic: David Evans' climate facts hardly factual
I’ve started to read a number of commentators around editorial pages, blogs, and letters to the editor that are quoting an Australian by the name of David Evans. In case you’re unfamiliar, […]
The Weekly Carboholic: good-bye Holocene, hello Anthropocene?
Until recently, according to the International Commission on Stratigraphy, we have been in the Holocene geologic epoch. The Holocene started about 10,000 years ago with the end of the last ice age […]
The Weekly Carboholic: oil prices fall, but not because of Bush
On Monday, President Bush announced that he had reversed an executive order originally put in place by his father that restricted drilling on the outer continental shelf (OCS). Yesterday, crude oil prices […]
The Weekly Carboholic: public opinion shifts from the environment to drilling and mining
The AAA overnight survey of gasoline prices found that the national average price for gasoline is at $4.108, and the cheapest gasoline in the U.S. is still $3.930. With prices that high, […]
The Weekly Carboholic: anti-oil speculator resolution useless political theater
On June 26, the United States House of Representatives passed HR 6377, a resolution that requires the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to use all of its authority, including emergency powers if […]
The Weekly Carboholic: Dr. Hansen twenty years later
Twenty years ago, on June 23, a scientist relatively unknown outside his field went before the Senate to give testimony about the greenhouse effect. Dr. James Hansen, of NASA’s Goddard Institute for […]
The Weekly Carboholic: China's carbon emissions exceed the U.S.'
It’s official – China has officially overtaken the United States as the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2). In 2007, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said that it expected China to […]
The Weekly Carboholic: Catch-22 for carbon capture and solar thermal
Catch-22: a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem or by a rule <the show-business catch-22:no work unless you have an agent, no […]
The Weekly Carboholic: Not a drop to drink…
People without water will do anything – Wendon, The Ice Pirates (1984) Deprived of water, people die within days of dehydration. So do livestock. Crops wither and, if the fields produce at […]
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