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That is so sad.

Not a good signal toward Cancun and the negotiating process

Survivaball stock: BUY. Obama stock: SELL.

Looks like the HOT summer is going to get a lot HOTTER now. I'm keeping track of the average summer temperatures on my electric and gas bills.. they are already off the charts.

Me too! Yes Men are brilliant.

thinks Don is correct. EPA does not like CO2 emitted from biomass and therefore will treat it the same as CO2 from coal and oil.

Ron G has it absolutely right. In addition to the subsidies (and the cost of petro-wars), the indirect costs of a fossil-fuel economy are not reflected in deaths from air pollution, mercury/selenium poisoning, mountaintop removal...

Bring back the fairness doctrine and increase disclosure requirements.

I'm in New Mexico this week and love all the homes/businesses with water coolers, aka. swamp coolers. Feels nice to have some moisture in this arid climate.

Hmmm. Seems like the storm is will enter the Gulf, pick up all of that BP oil floating around out there and throw it into Houston (aka the Petro Metro).

NOAA says:
What will the hurricane do to the oil slick in
the Gulf?
• The high winds and seas will mix and “weather”
the oil which can help accelerate the... See More
biodegradation process.
• The high winds may distribute oil over a wider
area, but it is difficult to model exactly where the
oil may be transported.
• Movement of oil would depend greatly on the
track of the hurricane.
• Storms’ surges may carry oil into the coastline
and inland as far as the surge reaches. Debris
resulting from the hurricane may be contaminated
by oil from the Deepwater Horizon incident, but
also from other oil releases that may occur during
the storm.

It is a worst case track but track error at 5 days out is about 300 nm. Alot of dry air and shear forecast across the gulf. Was surprised that the models don't bring it to hurrican strength at all. Of course a tropical storm is only somewhat less bad than a hurricane.

I wonder if the Chinese have really come up with significant new innovations in this field. Don't they usually just rip off others' ideas and produce on a massive scale, so how would they suddenly lead in energy innovation. Is there a patent count behind this claim or what?

Wasn't it journalists who just about killed any funding of deuterium research with their negative reports of researchers who said that energy could not be produced on a desktop using deuterium and palladium? Thank goodness some researchers continued even though the "consensus" was it could not be done!

Really not impressive. Much of the blip seems to be investment in CCS research. Remember what Vaclav Smil had to say about that? And now we know even more about leaks:(

Not only is a blip not a trend but, as Matti suggests, it isn't even much of a blip. Energy industries broadly are near the bottom of R&D investment as a share of total revenues. The argument made by Breakthrough Institute, ITIF, and others that a much higher level of investment in energy innovation is needed has yet to gain meaningful traction.

‎.would like to see an equivalent graph for industry research.