Using peer-reviewed science and Google Earth technology, anew map shows what will happen if the global average temperature goes 4°C above the pre-industrial average. Climate change is very abstract, even to those who think, read, and write about it a…
If Global Warming Were Caused by Aliens…
What a great cartoon. I ran across it on ClimateProgresstoday, but think I’ve heard this idea mentioned before. As Horsey (the cartoonist) shows, if the threats we are facing due to climate change were coming from any external source, most people…
Earth’s Atmosphere Collapses to Surprising Degree, Baffles Scientists
The Earth’s upper atmosphere expands and contracts a bit naturally. But a recent record-breaking collapse has scientists confused. Read the rest of this entry »
Bikes for Transporting More than People
Bikes that are more than bikes. TreeHugger had two nice posts recently on bikes of the future and bikes of the past that help people transport various things besides people. These are definitely worth a share. As you can see…
Excellent Article in National Post about Climate Deniers, Written by a Conservative
Want to understand why climate deniers refuse to believe climate change is happening despite a nearly perfect consensus amongst climate scientists that it is? Want to know why “climategate” got so much attention despite there being no good reason for it?…
$200 Million for Your Smart Grid Ideas: GE Ecomagination Challenge
Have a good idea for energy creation and distribution? GE and 4 prominent venture capital firms are offering up $200 million for winners of its Ecomagination Challenge in an effort to quicken development of a national smart grid. Perhaps you could be the…
Spain Opens Largest Solar Power Plant in World, Passes US as Largest Solar Power Generator
Spain has now opened the largest solar power plant in the world, the La Florida solar plant in Alvarado, Badajoz. With the opening of this massive solar power plant, Spain has also now passed up the United States as the…
Smart Grid Technology Helps New York City
An old Cleantechnica writer (actually, our previous editor), Ariel Schwartz, wrote a great article this week on how a nascent smart grid helped to prevent brownouts and blackouts in New York during a record-breaking heat wave earlier this month. Although our…
Greencast: National Security and Climate Change, Bicycling Politicians, New National Parks in Russia…
Here is this week’s “greencast” or screencast of great green news from around the internet (that we didn’t already cover). Enjoy the video above via YouTube or in high definition on screenr. By the way, if you happen to notice the…
BP Oil Spill Capped, Lessons Learned from this Oil Spill Disaster?
BP oil spill is capped, but have we learned our lessons? Finally! The BP oil spill is reportedly capped. Jeremy Bloom over on our sister site, FailDrill, has a good in-depth post on this story (BP Shuts Off the Oil,…