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Hansen on why he became an activist: "Our planet is close to climate tipping points" and it is "clear that needed actions will happen only if the public, somehow, becomes forcefully involved." - Top climatologist launches new website with graphs and analy

60-month and 132-month running means of global surface temperature anomaly with a base period 1951-1980.

The nation's leading — and most scientifically prescient — climatologist has a new website, Updating the Climate Science: What Path is the Real World Following? It "will present updated graphs and discussion of key quantities that help provide understanding of how climate change is developing and how effective or ineffective global actions are in affecting climate forcings and future...

Hansen on why he became an activist: "Our planet is close to climate tipping points" and it is "clear that needed actions will happen only if the public, somehow, becomes forcefully involved." - Top climatologist launches new website with graphs and analy

60-month and 132-month running means of global surface temperature anomaly with a base period 1951-1980.

The nation's leading — and most scientifically prescient — climatologist has a new website, Updating the Climate Science: What Path is the Real World Following? It "will present updated graphs and discussion of key quantities that help provide understanding of how climate change is developing and how effective or ineffective global actions are in affecting climate forcings and future...

Hansen on why he became an activist: "Our planet is close to climate tipping points" and it is "clear that needed actions will happen only if the public, somehow, becomes forcefully involved." - Top climatologist launches new website with graphs and analy

60-month and 132-month running means of global surface temperature anomaly with a base period 1951-1980.

The nation's leading — and most scientifically prescient — climatologist has a new website, Updating the Climate Science: What Path is the Real World Following? It "will present updated graphs and discussion of key quantities that help provide understanding of how climate change is developing and how effective or ineffective global actions are in affecting climate forcings and future...

Hansen on why he became an activist: "Our planet is close to climate tipping points" and it is "clear that needed actions will happen only if the public, somehow, becomes forcefully involved." - Top climatologist launches new website with graphs and analy

60-month and 132-month running means of global surface temperature anomaly with a base period 1951-1980.

The nation's leading — and most scientifically prescient — climatologist has a new website, Updating the Climate Science: What Path is the Real World Following? It "will present updated graphs and discussion of key quantities that help provide understanding of how climate change is developing and how effective or ineffective global actions are in affecting climate forcings and future...

Hansen on why he became an activist: "Our planet is close to climate tipping points" and it is "clear that needed actions will happen only if the public, somehow, becomes forcefully involved." - Top climatologist launches new website with graphs and analy

60-month and 132-month running means of global surface temperature anomaly with a base period 1951-1980.

The nation's leading — and most scientifically prescient — climatologist has a new website, Updating the Climate Science: What Path is the Real World Following? It "will present updated graphs and discussion of key quantities that help provide understanding of how climate change is developing and how effective or ineffective global actions are in affecting climate forcings and future...

Hansen on why he became an activist: "Our planet is close to climate tipping points" and it is "clear that needed actions will happen only if the public, somehow, becomes forcefully involved." - Top climatologist launches new website with graphs and analy

60-month and 132-month running means of global surface temperature anomaly with a base period 1951-1980.

The nation's leading — and most scientifically prescient — climatologist has a new website, Updating the Climate Science: What Path is the Real World Following? It "will present updated graphs and discussion of key quantities that help provide understanding of how climate change is developing and how effective or ineffective global actions are in affecting climate forcings and future...

Hansen on why he became an activist: "Our planet is close to climate tipping points" and it is "clear that needed actions will happen only if the public, somehow, becomes forcefully involved." - Top climatologist launches new website with graphs and analy

60-month and 132-month running means of global surface temperature anomaly with a base period 1951-1980.

The nation's leading — and most scientifically prescient — climatologist has a new website, Updating the Climate Science: What Path is the Real World Following? It "will present updated graphs and discussion of key quantities that help provide understanding of how climate change is developing and how effective or ineffective global actions are in affecting climate forcings and future...

Climate change is bad for nuclear power, industry needs a shrinking cap on carbon to survive

Conservatives who oppose clean energy and real climate action typically tout uber-expensive  nuclear power as the solution (see Lamar Alexander calls nuclear "the cheap clean energy solution," renews GOP call for 100 new nukes, which would cost some $1 trillion).  CAP's Richard W. Caperton explains in this Wonk Room cross post how failure to pursue genuine action on climate change –  a shrinking cap and rising price on carbon –  actually harms the industry (see also "2009 summer heatwave...

First Energy Regional Innovation Cluster announced - $129 million Interagency Energy Efficiency Cluster Initiative to be located in Philadelphia

Tuesday was a landmark in our nation's technology innovation policy, as CAP's Sean Pool explains.  The Department of Energy announced that a consortium of more than 90 public- and private-sector organizations based in the Philadelphia region will host the first Energy Regional Innovation Cluster or, E-RIC, a new interagency program to accelerate energy innovation and commercialization. The new E-RIC was selected among many applicants to win $129 million dollars in grants and...

Alaska firestorm: Leading GOP Senate candidate Joe Miller says "We haven't heard there's man-made global warming."

The leading Republican candidate for Senate from the state that's Ground Zero for climate change is a flat-out denier of human-caused global warming.  He apparently thinks the term "greenhouse gases" is just a figure of speech (see " 10 indicators of a human fingerprint on climate change ").  Hard to believe that anti-EPA Lisa "dirty air" Murkowski is too liberal, too "green" for Alaska.  No worries though — if they keep electing people who oppose action on climate, there won't be much...