Environment

When the last assessment of climate change by the world’s scientists (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report 2013/14) came out, the report handed climate change deniers a gift.  The report concluded that global warming had slowed down from 1998-2012. This “hiatus” was enough for opponents of actions to curb carbon pollution to […]

Charleston Post and Courier March 31, 2015 BY CHIP CAMPSEN, a Republican and an Isle of Palms resident, representing District 43, in the S.C. Senate. The Senate District I represent is a long coastal district covering more than 80 miles of South Carolina’s coast. It runs from Bulls Bay in Charleston County, to Port Royal

Last week the South Carolina Public Service Commission (PSC) approved a Settlement Agreement reached by parties to the recent net metering case.  Small businesses have a substantial interest in being able to affordably use solar panels to reduce their energy bills and contribute to the important renewable energy effort. As an individual I intervened in

Tomorrow (January 20th) the U.S. Senate will start debating and voting on a bill to force the Obama Administration to approve the construction of the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline that would carry ¾ million barrels of tar sands crude oil a day from Canada to the Gulf.  The pipeline won’t create but 50 permanent jobs

“Drillers around the world have already begun to trim exploration budgets and delay new projects as a result of low prices, but production from existing fields will continue and keep supplies high.” You can find gas in South Carolina below $2 a gallon and experts predict it will get lower.  As the above line from

Charleston Post and Courier December 25, 2014 By David Slade Nuisance flooding in Charleston has increased fourfold since the 1960s, and it’s going to get worse as sea levels continue to rise, according to NOAA. The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration says Charleston is among coastal cities that will have at least 30 days of

My New Year’s prediction is that 2015 will be the year that the danger of rising sea levels as a result of climate change will become a more prominent issue. Below is a message I received today from a small business person in Charleston.  The business is located on Church Street in Charleston’s historic Market.  The

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

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