Tag Archives: Policy

Government & Business

Clear as Mud?

In case you missed the explanation that VP candidate Sarah Palin offered to ABC’s Charlie Gibson regarding her stand on anthropogenic climate change, this discussion and video clip at rawstory.com may be clarifying–or not. The governor may not literally be able to see Russia from her house, as her Tina Fey doppelganger suggested on Saturday Night Live but she’s certainly had a front-row seat on the effects of rapid warming in the higher latitudes.

Also under the heading of “in case you missed it,” worth hearing is the America Abroad special that aired last week on KQED Radio. Co-hosted by Ray Suarez and Deborah Amos, Feeling the Heat explores the positions of the two major candidates on climate change, as well as the history of climate science.

Government & Business

Climate Watch Blog Goes Live

We’ll begin our blog coverage on Monday, 9/8 from the annual Climate Change Science Conference in Sacramento. This is the first year that the entire conference will be available online via webcast. The focus for this conference is on the current science. Don’t expect major policy announcements to come out of it but the agenda does provide a comprehensive review of the latest climate science, from a California perspective. I’ll tag-team the three-day event with my colleague, Gretchen Weber, before she heads off to the Dana Glacier for an upcoming report on California’s glaciers. Listen for the first of our Climate Watch radio features when David Gorn reports on the solar power logjam (is that metaphor mixed?) on The California Report, on Monday morning, 9/15.