Having done the Year End Review, I’ve been looking a bit at some of the end of year/beginning of year lists lately and thought I’d share some of these. (Sorry to have been off the air for so long, but I had final papers to evaluate, had shopping to do, letters to write, helped out […]
On New Year’s Eve, I took a look back at 2010 and a look ahead too. Jonathan Lash and the venerable World Resources Institute are pretty clued in, so you might like to have their perspective too. His presentation covers the gamut, from EPA’s authority, to food and water issues, to transportation, deforestation, and the […]
UN Climate Change Conference in Cancún delivers balanced package of decisions, restores faith in multilateral process is the official word. The UNFCCC delegates, without all the hoopla of Copenhagen, appear to have materially advanced the cause of saving the planet – and all its people, now and for the future – from the depredations of […]
The Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) is an information and analysis tool on global climate change developed by the World Resources Institute. It contains a truly impressive array of databases and graphics, excellent for delving deeply into questions of who, what, when, where and why greenhouse gases are being produced. It has data for the […]
So now it’s four months after the meetings in Copenhagen. I’m in the group who thinks that more was accomplished than meets the eye and that it was an important way station to achieving more international agreement on stemming the tide of greenhouse gases we confront and adapting to the massive impacts they’ve already caused […]
The venerable World Resources Institute has a terrific new source for data and information – EarthTrends. I’ve been using some of their charts in my class on climate change at NYU. Further to my posts from Andalusia and the Algarve on concentrated solar power (here and here), EarthTrends has a terrific graphic on solar radiation […]
Senatus Populusque Romanus – The Senate and the People of Rome. The old Roman Senate was, on paper, representative of the people. Because the US is a representative democracy, the US Senate was meant, up to a certain point, to perpetuate this same principle. It was, however, certainly less representative, from Day One, than its […]