86% of recent US drop in C emissions from coal-to-gas shift & efficiency. Table: John Miller’s calculation of 4 different carbon emission reduction categories’ impacts on reducing U.S. carbon emissions 2005-2012.
From Energy Collective post, “Is Natural Gas Critical to Reducing U.S. Carbon Emissions?”
Hilarious “gotcha” by @junkscience: Journalist focused on climate “acknowledged” contact with climate scientists. Steve Milloy says this is ”evidence of Revkin’s special status within the group.” I say it’s evidence of my 25-year focus on climate science, even as other journalists snored.
Update: Milloy doubles down, looking back at “climategate 2.0”..
Anthony @Wattsupwiththat asks if my self description as climate activist in @drgrist tweet undercuts my cred:
When you tweeted this to David Roberts…
“I’m totally hopeful actually, and I consider myself a climate activist.”…don’t you think your role as a self proclaimed climate activist compromises your objectivity as a reporter for climate issues? - Anthony Watts
Here’s my reply:
Nope. See this post. My activism is directed at revealing reality.
@WenStephenson, “my way or the highway” climate guy. I thought progressives were about rainbow coalitions and big tents.
I differ with @philaroneanu on path #forwardonclimate but we have to meet & jam. Two lefty banjo players?? (Mine upside down, his reverse-strung.)
Still liking Kathy Zhang’s @dotearth depiction of the uneven state of the battle over climate policy.
Single-Study Syndrome Label. Use when someone focuses too hard on cherry-picked study of questionable quality.
- Part 1: A Superstorm for Global Warming Research
- Part 2: Politically Charged Science
- Part 3: A Climate Rebel Takes on the Establishment
- Part 4: The Smoking Gun of Climatology
- Part 5: The Reality of Rising Sea Levels
- Part 6: The Myth of the Monster Storm
Glacier retreat in Andes last 30 yrs fastest since depth of Little Ice Age 300 yrs ago. ht @mongabay. Warming main driver. Good @WorldBank video report.
“Six Americas” work on US climate & energy attitudes is invaluable. There’s great information in this interview about the opportunity to press for climate resilience.
But the “dot connecting” described by Ed Maibach below is problematic given that patterns of derechos, U.S. hurricane strikes and damaging tornadoes have no evident link to global warming from the greenhouse-gas buildup:
“We’ve tracked significant weather and climatic events as they happen, like the el derecho that affected us here in the mid-Atlantic region last summer and a variety of other major weather and climatic events and we’ve shown that a majority of Americans see each of those as being made worse by climate change. So it really seems like public is beginning to connect the dots on this one.”
Links from greenhouse heating to heat waves and heavy downpours are clearer, as was described in the new draft National Climate Assessment.
"Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls. When the fruit is despatched, the leaf falls. The circuit of the waters is mere falling. The walking of man and all animals is a falling forward.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841
The human trick in this century is to foster practices and policies that result in us FALLING FORWARD without falling down. Visit Dot Earth and join the journey.
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