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Energy and Global Warming News for August 19th: Pakistan is new benchmark in climate-related disasters; Windstalks harvest wind energy in a field

Windstalks Harvest Wind Energy In A Field

… [A:] group of designers has created a new style of wind farm that takes a few cues from nature itself.

Designed as a potential energy source for the planned city of Masdar in Abu Dhabi, the Windstalks, as they are known, resemble a wheat field. Only instead of stalks of wheat, the fields consist of 1,203 55-meter-tall carbon fiber-reinforced resin poles, each full of piezoelectric ceramic discs and electrodes. When the poles blow in the wind, the...

I went to a statistician fight and a hockey stick broke out - Part 2, DeepClimate throws McShane and Wyner into the penalty box: "This is a deeply flawed study"

Last week, the anti-science crowd were touting a couple of statisticians who had launched a slashing cross-check on a small portion of the scientific research supporting  our scientific understanding that current warming is very likely unprecedented in the last thousand years.

As I discussed here, the McShane and Wyner analysis actually produced a Hockey Stick — and even as the climate science community ducked the blow, the Medieval Warm Period got hit in the head (see also Deltoid, who...

Why oil billionaire David Koch is secretly funding Astroturf to repeal CA clean energy laws

This Wonk Room cross-post is part of a Progressive Media blogging series on the fossil fuel-funded Prop 23 effort to repeal California's clean energy climate law. Read Rebecca Lefton's posts on Prop 23's economic impact, national repercussions, and funding from Texas oil companies.

Much has been reported about how Texan oil companies Valero and Tesoro have been fighting to repeal the landmark clean energy climate change law, AB 32. The Wonk Room recently obtained a PowerPoint from Tesoro s...

Energy and Global Warming News for August 18th: Warming seas drive massive coral death in Indonesia; U.S. CO2 emissions to increase 3.4% this year; Powered by China, clean energy investment holds steady in Q2

Massive Coral Mortality Following Bleaching in Indonesia

The Wildlife Conservation Society has released initial field observations that indicate that a dramatic rise in the surface temperature in Indonesian waters has resulted in a large-scale bleaching event that has devastated coral populations.

WCS's Indonesia Program "Rapid Response Unit" of marine biologists was dispatched to investigate coral bleaching reported in May in Aceh — a province of Indonesia located on the northern tip of the...

GOP WI Sen. candidate Ron Johnson: "I absolutely do not believe in the science of man-caused climate change," claims "sunspot activity or just something in the geologic eons of time" is warming the planet - Republicans embrace pro-pollution, anti-science

GOP candidates for Senate are rushing to pander to their extremist anti-science Tea Party base by denying even our most basic understanding of climate science.  Most notably we've seen the dumbing down of Carly Fiorina.  The Politico has an article today that examines this trend:

Fueled by anti-Obama rhetoric and news articles purportedly showing scientists manipulating their own data, Republicans running for the House, Senate and governor's mansions have gotten bolder in stating their doubts...

GOP WI Sen. candidate Ron Johnson: "I absolutely do not believe in the science of man-caused climate change," claims "sunspot activity or just something in the geologic eons of time" is warming the planet - Republicans embrace pro-pollution, anti-science

GOP candidates for Senate are rushing to pander to their extremist anti-science Tea Party base by denying even our most basic understanding of climate science.  Most notably we've seen the dumbing down of Carly Fiorina.  The Politico has an article today that examines this trend:

Fueled by anti-Obama rhetoric and news articles purportedly showing scientists manipulating their own data, Republicans running for the House, Senate and governor's mansions have gotten bolder in stating their doubts...

GOP WI Sen. candidate Ron Johnson: "I absolutely do not believe in the science of man-caused climate change," claims "sunspot activity or just something in the geologic eons of time" is warming the planet - Republicans embrace pro-pollution, anti-science

GOP candidates for Senate are rushing to pander to their extremist anti-science Tea Party base by denying even our most basic understanding of climate science.  Most notably we've seen the dumbing down of Carly Fiorina.  The Politico has an article today that examines this trend:

Fueled by anti-Obama rhetoric and news articles purportedly showing scientists manipulating their own data, Republicans running for the House, Senate and governor's mansions have gotten bolder in stating their doubts...

GOP WI Sen. candidate Ron Johnson: "I absolutely do not believe in the science of man-caused climate change," claims "sunspot activity or just something in the geologic eons of time" is warming the planet - Republicans embrace pro-pollution, anti-science

GOP candidates for Senate are rushing to pander to their extremist anti-science Tea Party base by denying even our most basic understanding of climate science.  Most notably we've seen the dumbing down of Carly Fiorina.  The Politico has an article today that examines this trend:

Fueled by anti-Obama rhetoric and news articles purportedly showing scientists manipulating their own data, Republicans running for the House, Senate and governor's mansions have gotten bolder in stating their doubts...

GOP WI Sen. candidate Ron Johnson: "I absolutely do not believe in the science of man-caused climate change," claims "sunspot activity or just something in the geologic eons of time" is warming the planet - Republicans embrace pro-pollution, anti-science

GOP candidates for Senate are rushing to pander to their extremist anti-science Tea Party base by denying even our most basic understanding of climate science.  Most notably we've seen the dumbing down of Carly Fiorina.  The Politico has an article today that examines this trend:

Fueled by anti-Obama rhetoric and news articles purportedly showing scientists manipulating their own data, Republicans running for the House, Senate and governor's mansions have gotten bolder in stating their doubts...

GOP WI Sen. candidate Ron Johnson: "I absolutely do not believe in the science of man-caused climate change," claims "sunspot activity or just something in the geologic eons of time" is warming the planet - Republicans embrace pro-pollution, anti-science

GOP candidates for Senate are rushing to pander to their extremist anti-science Tea Party base by denying even our most basic understanding of climate science.  Most notably we've seen the dumbing down of Carly Fiorina.  The Politico has an article today that examines this trend:

Fueled by anti-Obama rhetoric and news articles purportedly showing scientists manipulating their own data, Republicans running for the House, Senate and governor's mansions have gotten bolder in stating their doubts...