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Rich Lechner Sept ‘09 on “Global Electric Utilities – the adaptation challenge” report

by Tom Raftery on September 22, 2009 · 4 comments

in climate change, video

Rich Lechner is IBM’s VP Energy and Environment and comes on GreenMonk TV every month.
This month we discussed a report IBM sponsored and which was written by Acclimatise called Global Electric Utilities – the adaptation challenge
Some points to note from the report:

87% of businesses in the FTSE 350 acknowledge that their business is at risk [...]

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Do you take your sick child to a gerontologist?

by Tom Raftery on June 8, 2009 · 1 comment

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Dennis Howlett is a good friend. He writes about enterprise software over on ZDNet and is a regular viewer and commenter on the GreenMonk Energy and Sustainability show.
You can imagine my dismay then when in his latest post he discusses climate change and asks if we are being hoodwinked! Dennis trots out the old one [...]

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Enough of the half-measures

by Tom Raftery on June 5, 2009 · 76 comments

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I’m worried. I’m very worried.
The recent report by MIT on Climate Change was the
most comprehensive modeling yet carried out on the likelihood of how much hotter the Earth’s climate will get in this century
It found that
without rapid and massive action, the problem will be about twice as severe as previously estimated six years ago [...]

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What will it take for America to wake up to the threat of climate change?

by Tom Raftery on March 27, 2009 · 7 comments

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President Obama hosted an interesting experiment yesterday. On his Open For Questions site, he requested people to submit questions to him and vote on submitted questions. Subsequently, in a special online Town Hall, he answered several of the most popular questions – fabulous stuff.
However, despite hurricane Katrina devastating New Orleans, one of the US’s best [...]

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John Holdren on Global Climatic Disruption

by Tom Raftery on January 19, 2009 · 65 comments

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John Holdren has been appointed by Barack Obama as as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
From his bio on Wikipedia
Holdren earned a bachelor’s degree from MIT in 1965 and [...]

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Climate Change: It’s The Economy, Stupid. Half a Bail-out.

by monkchips on October 8, 2008 · 1 comment

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photo credit: Flying Kites
I read a headline in the FT this morning, and then twittered it, planning to blog it later. The headline in question was Climate groups’ revenue hits $300bn. I think the number was so big I didn’t really take the implications in. I mean – what is $300bn after all, other [...]

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Small island nations petition to the UN

by Tom Raftery on September 3, 2008 · 2 comments

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Photo Credit Sir Mervs
I received the following email this afternoon – it is a request by small island nations for the UN to address the international climate crisis with at least as much urgency as it gives to matters of war and peace.
I think it is worth reproducing here:
Dear friends,
Imagine the sea rising [...]

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The sooner oil hits $200 per barrel, the better!

by Tom Raftery on May 9, 2008 · 13 comments

in climate change, oil

photo credit: johnmarkos
Back in 2004 the government’s worst case scenarios had oil reaching $26 per barrel by 2025. This afternoon oil reached $125.98, the fifth day this week we had a record high price for oil. And we are not even halfway through 2008 yet.
Goldman Sachs recently pronounced that oil may soon reach $200 [...]

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