ICSUSA Climate Science Research Library

Used in an ICSUSA column: It will buy the solar power for 5.9 cents/kilowatt hour [kwh] which is less than half the 12.8 cents/kwh for electricity from new coal plants according to Bloomberg [thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/17].

Used in an ICSUSA column: “Ontario’s policies have made them ... a North American leader in renewable energy and created a strong green energy manufacturing sector” [North American Windpower May 2014 Volume 11 No. 5.]

Used in an ICSUSA column: For many decades Ontario, the most populous Canadian province, burned large amounts of coal to generate electricity as well as to power their extensive mining industry. [According to Statistics Canada 2013-01-04, the Province of Quebec does not burn coal.]

Used in an ICSUSA column: In 2012 emissions are expected to be 2.6% over 2011. [Data reported in Nature Climate Change, Dec 2012].

Used in an ICSUSA column: Interesting correlation but more data are needed to validate this idea. [Climate Progress, Apr 28, 2013.]

Used in an ICSUSA column: In an interview with the New York Times [April 2013] he said climate change is “absolutely” a threat and that “I may be a Republican.

Used in an ICSUSA column: In fact, in an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times [12/13/12] we have a compelling case for a call to “photovoltaic” arms.

Used in an ICSUSA column: Of the almost 14,000 research papers on “global warming” or “global climate change,” only 24 could be found that reject global warming [Science Progress November 15th, 2012].

Used in an ICSUSA column: A final point to be made here is a recent paper in Geology [v. 40; p. 1003-1006; November 2012.]

Used in an ICSUSA column: One example is a recent paper by Kinnard et al. published in Nature [479,509-12, 24 Nov.2011] from

Used in an ICSUSA column: This graph is from a peer-reviewed paper in Science [Vol. 235, p.1236, 4 Sep 2009] by D.

Used in an ICSUSA column: But there is some silver lining to this cloud of GHG being emitted into our atmosphere and we can see this in the Energy Information Agency [EIA] bar chart here that was recently published [July 30, 2012].

Used in an ICSUSA column: The Republican Governor of Iowa, Terry Branstad, stated in a Wall Street Journal [5/15/12] article that wind energy is working well for Iowa.

Used in an ICSUSA column: According to Bloomberg [4/9/12], more than 15,000 daily temperature records were broken or tied in the U.S. in March, and the average temperature in the contiguous U.S. was 8.6 degrees above the 20th century average.

Used in an ICSUSA column: What is important to recognize is that not only temperature, but also precipitation [rain or snow], and extreme weather events of all kinds are becoming the norm [Nature470,378-381,2/17/11].

Used in an ICSUSA column: “March Madness’’ may no longer just refer to basketball, and Thomas Friedman [NYTimes February 17, 2010]

Used in an ICSUSA column: James Hansen, Director of the Goddard Institute of Space Studies [GISS], has shown that the Earth has an energy imbalance [Atmos.Chem.Phy.11,13421-13449,2011].

Used in an ICSUSA column: A photo from the Vancouver Sun newspaper [12/28/11] shows a pine beetle entering a small round hole in the bark, where it gains access to the tree’s nutrients.

Used in an ICSUSA column: This issue of ‘forces of growth and forces of death’ [NY Times page 1, October1, 2011] is very complex and full interpretation of the data is still incomplete.