Saturday’s snow in South Carolina and other states not accustomed to seeing the white stuff in early November probably resulted in climate-change deniers making silly comments about the unusual weather being proof that there is no such thing as global warming. But Sunday’s AR5 report (Synthesis Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) released […]
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The Sun News had a nice story today about the progress the folks in North Myrtle Beach are making in pursuing offshore wind energy. Yesterday I gave you a Bloomberg story on how electricity from solar energy is now competitive with traditional sources. All this is good news for the effort to cut carbon pollution
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Bloomberg October 29, 2014 By Tom Randall Every time fossil fuels get cheaper, people lose interest in solar deployment. That may be about to change. After years of struggling against cheap natural gas prices and variable subsidies, solar electricity is on track to be as cheap or cheaper than average electricity-bill prices in 47 U.S. states
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If there is one community that understands what it means to have local drinking water contaminated, it’s Charleston, West Virginia. In January of this year, a chemical leak from an above ground storage tank allowing a toxic chemical into the Elk River. Approximately 300,000 citizens lost their clean drinking water. Small businesses in 9 counties
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The Union of Concerned Scientists have produced this extensive report on the probably impact of rising seas on many of our nation’s coastal communities including Charleston. To see the section specifically about Charleston go to page 29 of the full report. Here is an excerpt: “By 2045, under the same mid-range scenario, Charleston would see
One of the frustrating things for those of us who believe science when it tells us that the earth is warming and is resulting in more extreme weather events is the resistance of climate scientists to pin any specific dramatic weather event on climate change. This has always given fodder to the climate deniers. From
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Small business owners want our country to transition to a clean energy economy. That was the overwhelming response we heard from the small businesses we contacted up and down the South Carolina coast during our sea level rise education project (South Carolina Businesses Acting on Rising Seas, SCBARS.org). In a national poll of small business
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“Everyone understands climate change is occurring and the people who oppose it are really hurting our children and our grandchildren and making the world a much worse place. And so we should not be aligned with such people — they’re just, they’re just literally lying.”– (September 22, 2014, NPR’s “The Diane Rehm Show.”)
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Excerpts from the first in a series of Reuters’ article on sea level rise. Click here to read the full article below. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— By Ryan McNeill, Deborah J. Nelson and Duff Wilson Sept. 4, 2014 …For this article, Reuters analyzed millions of data entries and spent months reporting from affected communities to show that, while
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Yesterday I presented on a coastal resiliency panel at the Governors’ South Atlantic Alliance in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. The panel was moderated by Jeff Payne, Acting Director of NOAA’s Coastal Services Center. The other panelists were Courtney Hackney, Director of Coastal Biology at the University of North Florida; James Murley, Executive Director of the
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