Tag: chemistry

$200 million hydrogen highway probably won’t work and is a good idea
November 21, 2013 0

$200 million hydrogen highway probably won’t work and is a good idea

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Tweet Delayed blogging here, but thought I’d call out an initiative to fund $20 million annually for a decade to create hydrogen fueling stations in California. This should create 100 new fueling stations – currently the state has nine that are open to the public. Maybe I’m being too skeptical, but electric vehicles have a huge leg up on hydrogen and still confront an enormous challenge getting an adequate infrastructure in place, so I have strong doubts about whether this will work

Adaptation For Those That Can Afford It
November 19, 2013 0

Adaptation For Those That Can Afford It

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The cop outs are accumulating Japan could set a new 2020 emissions reductions target of 3.8% on 2005 levels, the Nikkei newspaper reports. It says Minister of the Environment Nobuteru Ishihara will announce the new goal at UN talks in Warsaw next month

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on the Costs of Climate Change
November 18, 2013 0

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on the Costs of Climate Change

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Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional

Pics and video from last week
November 17, 2013 0

Pics and video from last week

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Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional.

Miscellaneous Debris, or the AR5 Estimates of SLR
November 15, 2013 0

Miscellaneous Debris, or the AR5 Estimates of SLR

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The ice sheet experts estimates come from Bamber and Aspinall (2013).  A major gap in predictive capability concerning the future evolution of the ice sheets was identified in the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. As a consequence, it has been suggested that the AR4 estimates of future sea-level rise from this source may have been underestimated.

Roger Pielke Sr. Was Right
November 13, 2013 0

Roger Pielke Sr. Was Right

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Tweet if you want to see where the energy is look in the oceans.  Albatross in the comments points to an analysis by the NOAA Environmental Visualization Lab of the engine room for Super Typhoon Haiyan below the surface of the ocean.

Places to Donate for Haiyan Relief
November 11, 2013 0

Places to Donate for Haiyan Relief

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From KVUE TV in Texas TO FIND VICTIMS AND SHELTERS: Google launched a crisis and relief map including evacuation shelters, crisis areas and relief drop zones. Go here for the map. Google also launched a person finder