New York Times Tries To Catch up with the Energy News of the Last Decade

These stories may be welcome news to someone who has been in the jungles of New Guinea for the past decade, but for those who get their news solely from the New York Times, all this catching up at once with the reality that a new age of fossil fuels has begun may be a nasty shock. It will be interesting to see how the Times’s columnists, Paul Krugman and Thomas L. Friedman, will handle the news.

For Climate Scientists, a Dive Into Alphabet Soup - NYTimes.com

Yet the alphabet soup of initials and acronyms associated with the field makes things even more daunting, as some noted this week in Denver at the World Climate Research Program’s Open Science Conference, a gathering of some 1,600 international climate researchers.

I.P.C.C., S.S.M.I., Gewex, Gruan, C.C.S.M.4 — so many have been bandied about that one speaker, Peter H. Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute in Oakland, Calif., screened a PowerPoint presentation on Tuesday morning that featured an alphabetic array of the ones he had heard on Monday.

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Gavin Schmidt:- Manhattan-project style modeling effort would replace current approach with mono-culture. May not work. #WCRP11

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