2008 Tropical Temperatures « Climate Audit

The blog world is jump starting discussion of 2008 annual temperatures. Yesterday at 1:56 pm Eastern, NASA employee Gavin Schmidt and climate modeler, purely in his "private" capacity, posted an article arguing that the results were consistent with climate models - an activity that lesser minds might think relates to his employment.

Make Climate Justice History - Mass civil disobedience March 2nd, 2009 in DC « It’s Getting Hot In Here

In late February 2009, the Energy Action Coalition will host over 10,000 climate activists focusing generally on making climate change, clean energy, and green jobs a priority for the new administration. Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network, the Ruckus Society, Chesapeake Climate Action Network and a host of others are planning a mass non-violent civil disobedience, with a goal of organizing over 1,000 people, to cross the line and sit-in at the Capital Coal Plant.

The Capital Coal Plant is a mixed-burning facility that provides heat/steam/refrigeration to the entire Capitol Complex, including Congress. As part of the Greening The Capitol initiative, the House of Representatives has opted to replace their share of usage of the plant with natural gas and implement broad efficiency measures, the Senate has refused to do so, and continues to use coal. But our goal is not just to clean up this plant alone - it’s to demand a complete transformation in our national energy policies and priorities.

What, specifically, are the logistics of powering the House with natural gas and the Senate with coal? Why is the House allegedly powered by natural gas, a fossil fuel, instead of with sun, wind, waves, or algae?