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Solar challenge draws cars built neither for comfort nor for speed

If you’re travelling any part of the 3000km stretch between Darwin andAdelaide in the next few days, don’t be alarmed if you see what appears to be alien reconnaissance craft cruising the roads. An array of futuristic vehicles with the sunlight dancing upon their saucer-like tops are taking part in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, a marathon north-south trek across the red heart of Australiaundertaken by 40 teams.

Climate Science Politics At Full Speed

Are governments working to protect the political consensus around climate change at the expense of truth?

By Theo Vermaelen, INSEAD Professor of Finance

The difference between science and religion is that science is supposed to make testable predictions. Simply showing that carbon emissions are correlated with global temperatures using historical data proves nothing. The stock market is also correlated with global temperatures (it went up a lot in the 20th century and then flattened out this century) but that does not mean that bringing down the stock market will reduce global warming (although I bet some people would love this idea). Also having a strong theory that the two variables should be correlated is not sufficient if the goal is to show that one variable iscompletely explained by the other. For example, every finance professor accepts that, ceteris paribus, when interest rates rise, stock prices should fall. But that does not mean that the stock market is only driven by interest rates.

Coal to Surpass Gas in Southeast Asia Power Boom, IEA Says

Coal will replace natural gas as the dominant fuel for producing electricity in Southeast Asia as the region almost doubles its energy consumption in the next two decades, according to the International Energy Agency.

The 10 members of ASEAN, with energy demand growing at more than twice the global average, will get 49 percent of their power from coal by 2035, up from 31 percent in 2011, the IEA said today in its Southeast Asia Energy Outlook. The share from gas will drop to 28 percent from 44 percent.

Skanska sees cheap shale gas boosting U.S. construction market

The size of construction group Skanska’s (SKAb.ST) business in the Americas could overtake that of its Nordic home markets, as it sees a surge in work on industrial plants as a result of the U.S. shale gas boom, its chief executive said on Tuesday.

Johan Karlstrom, speaking at Reuters Nordic Investment Summit, said spending on infrastructure, new hospitals and facilities for high tech industries would contribute to its growth in the United States in the coming years.

Green economy, un’occasione per l’Italia: “Infrastrutture verdi”, sviluppo post-cemento

La natura come alleato nella battaglia contro il caos climatico. L’economia italiana può ripartire da qui. Anzi è già ripartita da qui: pochi se ne sono accorti perché, nel quadro generale di crisi, questa spinta positiva per ora è riuscita a ridurre la misura della recessione, non ad annullarla. Ma, per dirla con le cifre del segretario di Unioncamere Claudio Gagliardi, un’impresa su 4 fa già investimenti green ed è in questo gruppo che si trovano punte di eccellenza nell’export e una capacità d’innovazione più che doppia rispetto alla media delle aziende.

L’IPCC conferma: stiamo cambiando il clima del pianeta

Secondo il nuovo rapporto dell’Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, frutto del lavoro di quasi 2500 esperti, il riscaldamento del clima della Terra è inequivocabile e i cambiamenti non hanno precedenti su una scala temporale che va dalle decine di anni ai millenni. Il rapporto, presentato oggi a Stoccolma, conferma inoltre le responsabilità delle attività umane. La nostra specie sta modificando il clima della Terra in modo evidente. Questa frase lapidaria ha annunciato la presentazione a Stoccolma del V Assessment Report (AR5) dell’Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) che ha aggiornato le basi scientifiche del cambiamento climatico.