I’ve been working with Australia’s Peter B. on various aspects of the program he is developing which will allow anyone to quickly get the big picture (and drill down into many details) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s “gold standard” 4th Assessment Report (aka FAR aka AR4). My weekend challenge has been to…
Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri is a well-connected man of many hats, the weight of which has, perhaps, imbued him with a very short memory for his very own words. Writer of a “smutty” romance novel, Director of the Yale Climate and Energy Institute, Director-General of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), an India-based research organization,…
Courtesy of PJTV, I’ve just finished watching the opening of the 4th International Conference on Climate Change. Keynote speakers were geologist, former astronaut and former US Senator, Harrison Schmitt and Canada’s own Steve McIntyre. This conference is sponsored by the Heartland Institute (an admittedly conservative bastion of the non-catastrophic-alarmist kind); but as Anthony Watts has…
Back in the halcyon days of 1989, when “political correctness” was making its initial forays into our consciousness – and long before the purported perils of dreaded CO2 emissions had permeated and polluted political discourse – I became acquainted with the concept of “sustainability”. It seemed like a very good idea at the time: I…
The View From Here 