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Tag Archives: Climate

Who Killed the Electric Car?

I finally got around to watching Who Killed the Electric Car?. It is a very good documentary. I have been reading about electric vehicles the past few months, and the movie inspired me to start looking again.

Venus

Todays RealClimate post about Venus and Venus Express is very interesting.

Cool It by Bjorn Lomborg

This is a brief review of Cool It by Bjorn Lomborg.
In chapter one, Lomborg lists four points:

“Global warming is real and man-made.” Very few people argue this point anymore.
“Statements about the strong, ominous, and immediate consequences of global warming are often wildly exaggerated . . .” This is very dependent on one’s source of information. [...]

White Christmas?

I found an interesting NOAA NCDC page about snow: Will we have a white Christmas? There is also a basic map:

This map defines ‘white’ as one inch of snow. The pdf includes better information. I don’t count a white Christmas unless I can ski.