http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/ News and Analysis from the World of Science Policy en Copyright 2009 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:32:41 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification The new idea of a scaled-back climate bill to focus just on the power sector is a bad idea, said White House climate czar Carol Browner. A historic two-story building at Los Alamos National Laboratory that was part of the... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/roundup-1120-wi.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/roundup-1120-wi.html Environment/Climate Space Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:32:41 -0500 by Eli Kintisch Hackers who breached East Anglia's Climate Research Unit servers have provided explosive new fuel in the climate data wars. The data exposed in hundreds of megabytes stolen from the research center include more than a thousand e-mails... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/data-breach-emb.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/data-breach-emb.html Environment/Climate Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:14:14 -0500 Paul Alivisatos has been named director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. Experts told a congressional panel today that the United States is losing its lead in spaceflight. The Senate Energy Committee will explore the economics of the climate... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/roundup-1119-wo.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/roundup-1119-wo.html Energy Environment/Climate Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:10:51 -0500 by Eli Kintisch On 18 December, the last day of the Copenhagen climate meeting, what will President Barack Obama tell the world that the United States is prepared to do? With a month to go, that's the challenge. We already... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/can-obama-bring.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/can-obama-bring.html Asia Environment/Climate Europe Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:47:02 -0500 by Eli Kintisch Nations have now officially decided that the Copenhagen meeting will yield little more than a few political promises and they are now looking for a comprehensive deal in Bonn in June next year or a later 2010... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/its-official-no.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/its-official-no.html Environment/Climate Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:16:29 -0500 by Antonio Regalado In a potential boost to climate negotiators meeting next month in Copenhagen, Brazil’s government today said it would aggressively cut the pace of growth of its greenhouse-gas emissions. Brazil’s plan, announced in Brasilia by chief minister Dilma... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/brazil-announce.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/brazil-announce.html Environment/Climate Top Story Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:37:18 -0500 by Achintya Rao Without drastic measures, the United Kingdom will fail to meet its carbon dioxide reduction targets for 2050 until the next century, says a new report from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. The authors recommend forming a new... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/uk-engineering.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/uk-engineering.html Environment/Climate Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:56:37 -0500 by Eli Kintisch Activists in polar bear suits or protesters standing outside of coal plants might get the public message on climate change across, but might there be more personal choices that activists can make to convey their point? Say,... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/the-new-carbon.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/the-new-carbon.html Energy Environment/Climate Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:53:33 -0500 by Eli Kintisch A petition submitted earlier this year to the American Physical Society's leadership council to change the society's official statement in 2007 on climate change has gone down in (carbon neutral) flames: The Council of the American Physical... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/aps-council-rej.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/aps-council-rej.html Environment/Climate Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:29:07 -0500 by Eli Kintisch Scientists and policy experts will meet in March next year for a 5 day meeting to hash out rules for conducting field experiments on the controversial topic of geoengineering, ScienceInsider has learned. Styled after the landmark 1975... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/march-geoengine.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/march-geoengine.html Environment/Climate Top Story geoengineering Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:08:41 -0500 by Eli Kintisch At an otherwise fairly pedestrian House of Representatives hearing on geoengineering today—the first of its kind in the United States—science committee chair Representative Bart Gordon (D–TN) announced a new partnership with the U.K. House of Commons to... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/house-science-p.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/house-science-p.html Environment/Climate Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:24:06 -0500 by Eli Kintisch One wonders if it's unlikely that a comprehensive climate deal will happen in Copenhagen—as U.N. Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon said yesterday—how much china the Democrats are willing to break as they push the Senate to act on climate... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/senate-lurches.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/senate-lurches.html Environment/Climate climate bill Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:47:32 -0500 Less than 2 years ago, Princeton agriculture expert Tim Searchinger published a paper in Science that sought to quantify how growing biofuels on cropland in the United States could lead to deforestation abroad. He estimated in some cases that... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/sheehan-searchi.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/sheehan-searchi.html Energy Environment/Climate Top Story Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:57:23 -0500 by Erik Stokstad Congress wants the Department of Interior to figure out what it doesn't know about Arctic ecosystems in order to better plan for oil and gas exploration. Tucked into a House-Senate conference report (pdf) for the fiscal year... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/interior-depart.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/interior-depart.html Budget Environment/Climate Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:30:41 -0500 by Antonio Regalado Brazilian Environment Minister Carlos Minc this week floated an ambitious proposal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Reuters reports. The plan calls for Brazil to cut emissions by 2020 to 40% below a business-as-usual scenario. Under Minc's plan,... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/brazil-weighs-c.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/brazil-weighs-c.html Environment/Climate Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:45:31 -0500