That coal is dirty is hardly a surprise to anyone who’s read about coal. Mining coal destroys mountaintops and towns as surely as it does the lives of the miners themselves. Burning […]
The Weekly Carboholic: boreal forest moves north, reducing Arctic albedo
When we think about forests and global heating, we generally think about how forests sequester carbon via respiration and storage in their trunks and leaves. For that reason, we’re often told that […]
The Weekly Carboholic: boosting energy efficiency is hard to do
Energy efficiency is tricky. You might think that increasing energy efficiency would be a no-brainer, since it usually pays for itself, improves the reliability of electrical transmission systems, reduces the number of […]
The Weekly Carboholic: powering Europe from the Sahara
Spiegel Online published a story last week about how a group of Europeans have formed the Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Corporation (TREC) to develop enough solar-thermal power in the Sahara to power all […]
The Weekly Carboholic: Soil key to global heating too
Dirt. It’s all around you. You wash it off your car. You run and hike on it. You buy it to plant your new roses in. And yet, according to an amazing […]
The Weekly Carboholic: Jet stream drift may confirm global heating models
The jet stream has been described by many as a river of air in the atmosphere. It’s similar in that respect to the Gulf Stream in the ocean, and both serve similar […]
The Weekly Carboholic: Study says dams reduced sea level rise
Image Source: US Bureau of Reclamation Dams exist to store massive amounts of water, water that may be used for flood control, irrigation, human consumption, or even electricity generation. And dams are […]
The Weekly Carboholic: Project Vulcan maps US CO2 emissions in detail
In our first Carboholic, I pointed people at a great new tool to monitor global carbon emissions, the Carma (Carbon Monitoring for Action) website. Today I’d like to point people to a […]
The Weekly Carboholic: Gore launches massive global heating media campaign
The Washington Post reports that Al Gore and his Alliance for Climate Protection are launching one of the most expensive advocacy programs ever. The We campaign will run over the next three […]
The Weekly Carboholic: US coal exports boost electricity prices and China's CO2 emissions
According to the New York Times, the U.S. has begun exporting coal to countries like Japan, Germany, India, and China. In the process, our domestic coal prices have risen more, percentage rise, […]
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