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Archives

• 01 Sep, 2010: Jack Frost's underground workshop
• 01 Sep, 2010: Peak Oil from a Security Studies Perspective
• 30 Aug, 2010: Commentary: Public perceptions of energy consumption and savings
• 28 Aug, 2010: Floating offshore wind ideas
• 23 Aug, 2010: Maritime glaciers and continental glaciers
• 20 Aug, 2010: Only connect: CSP/supergrid issue
• 16 Aug, 2010: Strange and beautiful ice
• 14 Aug, 2010: 2050 and all that
• 09 Aug, 2010: The snowline: it's not a line (still less an isotherm)
• 07 Aug, 2010: Fusion: funding problems and choices
• 02 Aug, 2010: Vanishing glaciers, and some that are hanging on
• 01 Aug, 2010: Current economic difficulties are not the fault of single decisions or decision-makers; it's energy, stupid!
• 31 Jul, 2010: Factor five - your beach read?
• 29 Jul, 2010: Tour de France with benefits
• 26 Jul, 2010: A storm in a polder? Or a water tower?
• 23 Jul, 2010: Wind scam
• 19 Jul, 2010: The Zwally effect: it won't go away
• 19 Jul, 2010: CO2 emissions from tar sands and oil infrastructure investments
• 17 Jul, 2010: The Hartwell initiative
• 12 Jul, 2010: Ups and downs of glaciers
• 10 Jul, 2010: The Gates perception
• 05 Jul, 2010: Exploring ice shelves
• 03 Jul, 2010: Farming solar energy
• 28 Jun, 2010: Drift pumice, ice sheets and toothpaste
• 26 Jun, 2010: Zero-carbon Britain 2030
• 21 Jun, 2010: How grounding lines work
• 19 Jun, 2010: Who wants nuclear power? (Part 2)
• 14 Jun, 2010: Glaciers and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
• 12 Jun, 2010: Maui as a microcosm of modern water and energy pressures
• 12 Jun, 2010: China's real-estate tax may reduce GHG emissions
• 12 Jun, 2010: Who wants nuclear power? (Part 1)
• 11 Jun, 2010: Oslo: Seals unlock Wilkins Ice Shelf mystery
• 10 Jun, 2010: Oslo: frost flowers create a mercury bouquet
• 09 Jun, 2010: Oslo: how castration can help climate change
• 08 Jun, 2010: Oslo: Polar vision meets Eurovision
• 07 Jun, 2010: How calving works
• 05 Jun, 2010: Going offshore (part 2)
• 31 May, 2010: Giving glaciers the full-Stokes treatment
• 29 May, 2010: Going offshore (part 1)
• 27 May, 2010: Virtual innovation vs. reality innovation: science and engineering from sitcoms to renewables
• 24 May, 2010: How hard is snow?
• 22 May, 2010: The cost of nuclear
• 17 May, 2010: In praise of grey literature
• 15 May, 2010: Too much cheap wind?!
• 13 May, 2010: Delhi congestion delimited
• 10 May, 2010: Glaciological classics
• 08 May, 2010: Renewable breeders
• 03 May, 2010: Settled science with a vengeance
• 01 May, 2010: 2050: an all-electric future?
• 30 Apr, 2010: Can the government get a return on risky energy technologies?
• 26 Apr, 2010: A more disconcerting cold snap
• 24 Apr, 2010: 100% renewables by 2050 or earlier?
• 19 Apr, 2010: Smoothness and fidelity on glaciers
• 17 Apr, 2010: Beyond baseload
• 14 Apr, 2010: Panel rules out malpractice by climate scientists
• 12 Apr, 2010: Glaciers and wiggle room
• 10 Apr, 2010: Does extracting power from the wind change the climate?
• 05 Apr, 2010: Yukon glaciers in bad shape too
• 03 Apr, 2010: Prosperity without growth
• 29 Mar, 2010: Glacier holes you can crawl into
• 24 Mar, 2010: Book review: Climate Cover-Up
• 23 Mar, 2010: Clean coal
• 22 Mar, 2010: Really the first ice in Antarctica?
• 15 Mar, 2010: Energy-water nexus podcast/interview
• 15 Mar, 2010: Holes in glaciers
• 15 Mar, 2010: The US government needs to understand marginal returns on complexity and the role of energy
• 13 Mar, 2010: Selling green power
• 09 Mar, 2010: The smallprint of the RFS2 renewable fuel standard
• 08 Mar, 2010: Ice arches and positive feedback
• 06 Mar, 2010: FiT for purpose?
• 01 Mar, 2010: The first ice in Antarctica
• 27 Feb, 2010: Water-footprint measure can be locally and temporally specific, but isn't used that way
• 27 Feb, 2010: Tides come in
• 22 Feb, 2010: Can volcanoes trigger ice ages?
• 20 Feb, 2010: Radiative-forcing analysis: more mitigation effort in road transport
• 20 Feb, 2010: Green energy for China
• 18 Feb, 2010: Energy for global water cycle - we already use a lot of sun...what more do we want?
• 15 Feb, 2010: The oldest ideas about glaciers
• 14 Feb, 2010: Coarse-grained systemic sciences
• 13 Feb, 2010: Integrating renewables: optimal mixes
• 08 Feb, 2010: Less snowmelt in Antarctica
• 06 Feb, 2010: Energy for complexity: big government vs big business - it doesn't really matter which you hate
• 06 Feb, 2010: Wind-turbine noise impacts
• 01 Feb, 2010: Glaciers and global warming
• 31 Jan, 2010: The Chinese economics of renewable-energy supply
• 30 Jan, 2010: The wrong FIT?
• 25 Jan, 2010: Himalayan glaciers: there's a mouse in the room
• 25 Jan, 2010: Zero-carbon heat and power
• 19 Jan, 2010: On road towards sustainability? Inverse the factor 4 in financing
• 19 Jan, 2010: Ice sheets and baskets of eggs
• 18 Jan, 2010: Banking energy vs. banking money: you can't finance energy
• 16 Jan, 2010: Variable truths on wind
• 11 Jan, 2010: Soot and glaciers
• 09 Jan, 2010: Science in politics and politics in science: a New Year's thought
• 04 Jan, 2010: Ernst Sorge and glaciological ingenuity
• 02 Jan, 2010: Going off the deep end in 2010
• 28 Dec, 2009: Glaciological blunders
• 26 Dec, 2009: Christmas cracker: crocs and nukes
• 23 Dec, 2009: To limit is to be human, to proliferate is to be natural
• 21 Dec, 2009: The most surprising glacierized country
• 19 Dec, 2009: A Copenhagen wrap-up: blame and options
• 19 Dec, 2009: Wave and tidal power - which will win?
• 14 Dec, 2009: Meltwater and MAT (mutually assured thirst)
• 13 Dec, 2009: Economists not connecting the dots on new energy economy
• 12 Dec, 2009: Nuclear out of luck
• 11 Dec, 2009: Copenhagen update: climate-change mitigation and transport
• 07 Dec, 2009: Sorge's law: the conversion of snow to ice
• 05 Dec, 2009: Classic empire talk: marginal returns on investment
• 05 Dec, 2009: Environmental compensation
• 30 Nov, 2009: War and glaciers: the world's highest battlefields
• 30 Nov, 2009: Pneumatic cars and belief systems
• 28 Nov, 2009: New Europe - new energy
• 23 Nov, 2009: Self-help and Himalayan glaciers
• 22 Nov, 2009: Energy return on investment and economic stimulus spending
• 21 Nov, 2009: Renewable-energy skills, education and training
• 16 Nov, 2009: Greenland: snowier than we thought
• 15 Nov, 2009: Commercial viability of CO2 capture and storage – of course not (under the historical paradigm)
• 14 Nov, 2009: Nuclear waste moved off the agenda
• 09 Nov, 2009: The ASTER global digital elevation model
• 07 Nov, 2009: Energy, land and power
• 02 Nov, 2009: Hannibal's brush with the cryosphere
• 01 Nov, 2009: Complexity, energy return on energy invested, and employment
• 31 Oct, 2009: UK tries to get FIT
• 26 Oct, 2009: Glaciers and the Atlantic
• 25 Oct, 2009: 350, and save the sea otters, too
• 24 Oct, 2009: Animal stories 2 - birds, bats and wind turbines
• 20 Oct, 2009: Brazil trying to mix social with environmental sustainability
• 19 Oct, 2009: Out-of-the-way glaciers
• 17 Oct, 2009: Radioactive animal stories
• 12 Oct, 2009: Dynamic thinning: just add warm water?
• 10 Oct, 2009: Rationing energy rebound
• 05 Oct, 2009: Things that live in glaciers
• 03 Oct, 2009: The biochar debate
• 28 Sep, 2009: Peak ice: the dance of the ice sheets
• 26 Sep, 2009: Texas: the US leading CO2 emitter has significantly decreased emissions, but not by design
• 26 Sep, 2009: Underground energy
• 21 Sep, 2009: Death and glaciers
• 21 Sep, 2009: Net energy, bank reserve ratio, and jobs
• 19 Sep, 2009: Geoengineering - a last ditch response to climate change?
• 18 Sep, 2009: Atlantic oscillation makes global warming a tougher sell
• 14 Sep, 2009: Fiords and unstable glacier behaviour
• 12 Sep, 2009: Nuclear power - dead end or in with a chance?
• 11 Sep, 2009: Too hot to handle
• 11 Sep, 2009: Update from Beijing
• 10 Sep, 2009: Energy efficiency, conservation and "sacrifice" revisited
• 07 Sep, 2009: Listening to Glaciers
• 07 Sep, 2009: Green pricing issues - how long can a few carry all?
• 05 Sep, 2009: Nuclear or Solar Hydrogen?
• 03 Sep, 2009: The dangerous vagary in 'geoengineering'
• 31 Aug, 2009: My Favourite Glaciological Word
• 24 Aug, 2009: A Disconcerting Cold Snap
• 21 Aug, 2009: Sounding off on Wind turbines
• 19 Aug, 2009: The good and the bad of the Asian car boom
• 17 Aug, 2009: Glacier Mass Balance: May the Force Be Beneath You
• 15 Aug, 2009: Beyond NIMBYism
• 12 Aug, 2009: The Nexus of Radioisotopes (that could be used for energy) and Health Care
• 10 Aug, 2009: Greenhouse Gas and the Gamburtsev Mountains
• 08 Aug, 2009: Hydro - a big future?
• 03 Aug, 2009: What Does "Abrupt" Mean?
• 03 Aug, 2009: Envisioning the US with 69% solar electricity
• 01 Aug, 2009: Can wind work?
• 28 Jul, 2009: Clotheslines: The Energy-Climate-Privacy-Security Nexus ... at Home
• 27 Jul, 2009: Basal Lubrication - Just Use Water
• 25 Jul, 2009: Pipe Dreams
• 20 Jul, 2009: What Does "Glacier" Mean?
• 20 Jul, 2009: Austin Energy (leading green power program in US) struggles with costs of more renewables
• 19 Jul, 2009: Reprocessing dies?
• 13 Jul, 2009: Wood Pellets - Does a Resurgence in an old fuel Signal that Technological Innovation is Failing?
• 11 Jul, 2009: Wind, birds and bats
• 06 Jul, 2009: PDFs, Fat Tails and Collapsing Ice Sheets
• 06 Jul, 2009: The Future of Arctic Sea Ice
• 04 Jul, 2009: Why fusion?
• 02 Jul, 2009: High Debt and Energy Return on Energy Invested Don't Mix
• 29 Jun, 2009: Putting One Thing on Top of Another
• 27 Jun, 2009: Climate Targets
• 24 Jun, 2009: The spirit of Waxman-Markey
• 22 Jun, 2009: Glaciers Online
• 20 Jun, 2009: Climate change to hit energy projects?
• 15 Jun, 2009: Energy-Water-Climate Nexus (Brussels Workshop Summary)
• 15 Jun, 2009: Did We Get It Wrong Last Time?
• 13 Jun, 2009: Offshore wind grids: Share or compete?
• 08 Jun, 2009: AAR? Decoding the glaciobabble
• 08 Jun, 2009: The Algebra of Algae ... to Biodiesel
• 06 Jun, 2009: The limits to renewables - what can be done?
• 01 Jun, 2009: One of Glaciology's Bigger Surprises
• 01 Jun, 2009: The Meaning of "Government Motors" in Energy and Economic Policy - Example of a larger tale
• 30 May, 2009: Nuclear - or solar?
• 27 May, 2009: Cool cities
• 27 May, 2009: Why We Should be "Flip-Floppers" ... with regard to the Cost of Electricity
• 25 May, 2009: Counting Glaciers
• 24 May, 2009: Bigging-up Renewables
• 18 May, 2009: Disintegrating Ice Shelves
• 18 May, 2009: Texas Wind Power in 2008 reaches 3.6%, and is set up well for the Future
• 15 May, 2009: Lunar Race
• 14 May, 2009: California: The weird business of solar thermal energy
• 11 May, 2009: Earth to Exxon: "Be a Mammal, not a Dinosaur"
• 11 May, 2009: More Water-Energy Nexus: Biofuels Dominate US Water for Transportation
• 09 May, 2009: An EU Supergrid
• 07 May, 2009: Weight matters - on fuel efficiency and vehicle weight
• 06 May, 2009: Water and Transportation Nexus: US Domestic Water for Imported Oil?
• 02 May, 2009: Wind versus nuclear
• 24 Apr, 2009: Bleak outlook for ice
• 23 Apr, 2009: Europe's Aurora - a dreamboat for drilling in the cold
• 23 Apr, 2009: Reporting climate fuzziness - the wheel of fortune
• 23 Apr, 2009: Coal clean-up goes underground
• 23 Apr, 2009: Biofilms protect nuclear waste
• 22 Apr, 2009: Climate feedback confusion leads to "don't panic" video
• 21 Apr, 2009: Simplifying the carbon emissions - temperature link
• 21 Apr, 2009: Snowman-based forecasting system proves unreliable
• 20 Apr, 2009: The ozone patient: recovery not set to start for 20 years
• 17 Apr, 2009: EGU Assembly: coming soon!
• 12 Mar, 2009: Climate Change Congress: Scientists and prime minister go head to head
• 12 Mar, 2009: Climate Change Congress: Stern words
• 12 Mar, 2009: Climate Change Congress: can you help cut carbon emissions from aviation and shipping?
• 11 Mar, 2009: Climate Change Congress: Climate change likely to reduce tropical rainforest carbon storage
• 11 Mar, 2009: Climate Change Congress: threshold for Greenland melt could be double previous figure
• 11 Mar, 2009: Climate Change Congress: Raj Pachauri heads to Yale
• 10 Mar, 2009: Climate Change Congress: Is it all a British plot?
• 10 Mar, 2009: Climate Change Congress: from art to gloom
• 06 Mar, 2009: Coming soon: Climate Change Congress
• 17 Feb, 2009: Sea level rise flies high
• 16 Feb, 2009: Lawyer versus climate scientist
• 16 Feb, 2009: Fluctuating temperatures affect malaria transmission
• 15 Feb, 2009: Is there "weird life" on Earth?
• 15 Feb, 2009: IPCC fourth assessment was too optimistic
• 14 Feb, 2009: Drs Doom and Gloom change their tune
• 14 Feb, 2009: Gore calls for scientists to take up politics
• 13 Feb, 2009: Penguins "vote with their feet"
• 12 Feb, 2009: AAAS: From Darwin to Obama
• 10 Feb, 2009: Coming soon: AAAS Meeting!
• 19 Dec, 2008: AGU Fall Meeting: Spying on carbon
• 19 Dec, 2008: AGU Meeting: To geoengineer or not to geoengineer
• 19 Dec, 2008: AGU Meeting: Jim Hansen on pacts with the devil
• 18 Dec, 2008: AGU Meeting: City stores
• 17 Dec, 2008: AGU Meeting: Taking a peek at oil
• 17 Dec, 2008: AGU Meeting: Taking the atmosphere's pulse
• 17 Dec, 2008: AGU: Cold outlook
• 17 Dec, 2008: AGU Meeting: Ocean view
• 16 Dec, 2008: AGU: Adapt and thrive
• 16 Dec, 2008: AGU Fall Meeting kicks off
• 27 Jun, 2008: Shipping out
• 25 Jun, 2008: Taking the waters
• 24 Jun, 2008: Missing wildlife
• 24 Jun, 2008: Open water
• 23 Jun, 2008: Fuelling up
• 22 Jun, 2008: Wading through melt pools
• 21 Jun, 2008: Breaking the ice
• 20 Jun, 2008: Heading north
• 13 Jun, 2008: Coming soon