Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Almost all Top US employers [Allegedly] Want to Fight Climate Change
everyone except Berkshire Hathaway, a holding company, has strategies to lower their carbon footprints and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

...MediaMatters found that climate change coverage on network Sunday morning and nightly news shows in 2011 was down 90 percent and 72 percent, respectively, compared to 2009. In 2012, they found only 8.7 percent of stories about the record heat wave put the extreme weather in context of climate change.
California climate change law faces legal test | Marketplace.org
California's so-called "climate change law" goes to federal court today. Fuel companies outside of the state say the law puts their products at an illegal disadvantage. Part of that law would allow the state to tax fuels differently, based on their carbon footprint.
Climate change research gets petascale supercomputer
Yellowstone is running in a new $70 million data center. The value of the supercomputer contract was put at $25 to $35 million. It has 100 racks, with 72,288 compute cores from Intel Sandy Bridge processors.
Excluding Air, Sea CO2 From U.K. Budgets Messy, Panel Says - Businessweek
Excluding emissions from shipping and aviation from U.K. government budgets for carbon-dioxide output would lower the nation’s climate protection ambition, according to the nation’s Committee on Climate Change.

“We are trying to keep these very dangerous climate change probabilities at very low levels,” David Kennedy, chief executive of the committee, said today at a meeting of the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee.
Duelling Arctic Sea Ice Area « sunshine hours
Calculating Arctic Sea Ice Area seems to be inconsistent.

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