Ones that got away
"We're slogging ahead...I'm not going to kid anybody; I don't think it's easy. But I do think that we will get there."
After two days of high-level talks in Washington, US climate envoy Todd Stern predicts an American-Chinese climate agreement will be forged before Copenhagen.
Jellyfish study raises "bizarre ancillary questions" for climate modellers
If swimming jellyfish significantly affect ocean mixing, as a new study suggests, "the modelling community is going to have to pay attention", comments MIT's Carl Wunsch.
"To claim that global temperatures have cooled since 1998 and therefore that man-made climate change isn't happening is a bit like saying spring has gone away when you have a mild week after a scorching Easter."
Bob Henson of NCAR says this perennial skeptics' argument is refuted in a forthcoming paper by US Navy and NASA scientists (Geophysical Research Letters subscription required).
"If employees are on the road 20 percent less, and office buildings are only powered four days a week, the energy savings ... would be enormous."
John Langmaid is organizing the Connecticut Law Review's upcoming symposium on the benefits of taking Friday off. The state of Utah has estimated it could save 12,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year by putting its employees on the 4-day, 40-hour workweek.
