by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Fossil fuels
Big Oil Companies Want a Price on Carbon. Here’s Why. [link]
EPA study: Fracking hasn’t widely harmed our drinking water — but it does pose risks [link] …
Thanks to data analytics the U.S. is fracking smarter, not harder. [link]:
Methane emissions raise doubts about gas industry’s #climate credentials: [link]
Adapt or die – how US #shale #oil producers are getting more efficient since the last big #OPEC meeting: [link]
Alternative energy
Subsidy for the environmentally-devastating Drax biomass power plant will soon reach about £0.5 billion a year: Drax is increasing GHG emissions and electricity bills [link] …
How Europe’s climate policies have led to more trees being cut down in the U.S. [link]
After more than a year of delays the EPA just released biofuel quotas…for 2014. This policy is hopelessly broken [link] …
Corn #ethanol causes more carbon emissions than Keystone XL would. [link]
Weekly news from the World Nuclear Association [link]
Daimler Enters the Market for Stationary Energy Storage [link]
New research aims to turbo-charge lithium-ion battery technology [link]
Energy analysis and policy
Energy efficiency’s problem with tracking savings [link]
Why China’s Energy Consumption Will Keep Rising [link]
Next on Obama’s #climate change agenda: regulating Mack trucks. [link]
Obama expands his regulatory reach on climate change to the skies: new regulations coming on airplane emissions. [link] …
Climate policy analysis
Carbon Prices Around the World are Consistently Too Low [link]
Private sector must pay more into $100bn global climate fund, says report |link]
Adapting to #climate change is going to be a lot messier than we think – not only in the U.S. [link] …
WorldBank Report: Investing in resilience yields a triple dividend. [link]
Paging Paul Ehrlich: “Will Western Civilization Survive The Coming Population Crash?” [link] …
A really good piece on providing energy to the world’s poor [link]
Defining Climate Change Goal Could Be Headed To Its Grave [link]
The Population Bomb, revisited:[link]
Filed under: Week in review