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President Obama will attend negotiations in Copenhagen where he will promise 17 percent emissions reductions below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83% by 2050, Obama administration officials said. These are the US's most ambitious targets to reduce climate change causing greenhouse gases. The 17 percent reduction range is consistent with a climate bill that passed in the House in June and is pending in the...
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The GREEN MARKET (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The meeting in Copenhagen is the fifteenth meeting on climate change but it is not the last. The US Senate's inability to pass climate change legislation before international negotiations begin at COP15 does not constitute the end of the process. The Senate's inaction may be profoundly dissapointing, however, the Obama administration has demonstrated its commitment to reducing emissions. COP15 can...
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Asking one simple question by Norm Kalmanovitch | Climate Realists All that needs to be done in the spirit of “science protocol’ is to ask this one simple question: “How much of the thermal radiation energy from the Earth in the band centred on the 14.77micron wavelength that is resonant with the vibrational mode of CO2 has already been affected by the current atmospheric CO2 concentration,...
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Fairer Globalization (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Today the U.S. Department of Energy released the following announcement , which details several U.S.-China energy initiatives very much consistent with the recommendations of our recent Carnegie Council working group . The announcement is below. Beijing, China - Today, President Barack Obama and President Hu Jintao announced a far-reaching package of measures to strengthen cooperation between the United...
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Green Options (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Under the new Green FDR administration of President Obama, there has been such an increase in renewable technologies funding, that keeping up with qualifying and selecting the best of the best in innovative new renewable energy tech is overwhelming the Department of Energy. So Nobel-prizewinning scientist Steven Chu of the DOE has hired a professional Venture Capitalist to help run the DOE renewable...
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Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Anti-nuclear groups claim the end of a fuel test is “huge setback” for the utility A rapid-fire exchange of press releases this week Friday, Nov 13 made short order of a claim [ press release ] by Friends of the Earth (FOE) and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) that the end of testing of MOX fuel in a Duke Power reactor is a “huge setback” to the program. Identical letters...
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Treehugger (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Photo: Wikipedia , CC Probably a Good Place to Start U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said that hydropower capacity in the United States could "double with minimal impact to the environment", mostly just by installing more efficient turbines at existing hydroelectric projects or at dams without power components, increasing the use of pumped-storage projects, and encouraging the use of run-of-the-river...
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Newswise (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Energy Secretary Steven Chu's recently appointed advisor, Arun Majumdar, will make his first major appearance as the keynote speaker at the 2009 New York Advanced Energy Conference. Majumdar will deliver his remarks at the Hyatt Wind Watch in Hauppauge, New York, on Wednesday, November 18 at 11:30 am.
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Green Options (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
US Secretary of Energy, Dr. Steven Chu Arizona State University professor Cody Friesen thinks he can make a metal-air battery with up to 11 times the energy density of lithium batteries at potentially half the cost. Now the US Department of Energy’s advanced research incubator ARPA-E has just given his spin-off company, Fluidic Energy , a $5.13 million research grant to try and do just that....
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Marc Gunther (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Once a professor, always a professor. Steven Chu, the energy secretary, winner of the Nobel Prize and former physics teacher at Berkeley, spoke tonight at a Washington fundraising dinner for Conservation International, the global NGO. Actually, he delivered a lecture, deploying a long, detailed PowerPoint presentation, with charts and graphs explaining temperature fluctuations over decades, rising...
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Godfather Of Green Greed Perhaps this 'climate crisis' hysteria is the greatest scam in a generation, leading inexorably toward centralized world government at a pace neither voters nor soldiers could sustain without it. Or perhaps the alarmists are right, and the main driver of global temperatures is not the huge ball of fire in the sky. Still, one scam that is no longer in doubt is the flim-flam...
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Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
DOE to Provide $5.5 Million in Funding to Automotive X Prize 11/03/2009 - Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently announced that the Department of Energy is providing up to $5… Visit the original post at: Energy News
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
C3: Another Example of Why Public Radio & TV Can't Be Trusted On Global Warming Reporting Read here . A blog maintained by the Minnesota Public Radio uses a graph to visually suggest that global temperatures are relentlessly rising, along with CO2 emissions, as the climate models have "accurately" predicted. It's a powerful image that unfortunately is totally disconnected from today's...
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Climate Progress (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
The guest blogger today is the Nobel prize-winning Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, by way of HuffPost. As you’ll see, he’s the mirror image of Bush’s Energy Secretary (see “Bodman as Orwell: DOE erases ‘most successful’ weatherization program from website“). I’ve always been a bit of an energy efficiency nut. I’ve made it my mission to [...]
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Green Car Advisor (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
In the biggest federal boost for green car development in decades, the 2010 energy budget bill just signed into law by President Obama includes $814 million in funding for various alternative fuel and vehicle programs. One provision, $283 million for fuel cells and hydrogen fuel, restored more than $100 million that in funds for automotive-specific programs that Energy Secretary Steven Chu initially...
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