Jonathan Koomey

2 Mar 2015 • 1 min read

Online class, starting September 14th, 2015: Management essentials for transforming enterprise IT

Photo credit: By Hugovanmeijeren (Own work) [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons Update: This class was originally scheduled for March 9th, 2015, but we haven’t met our student signup goals, so we’re postponing the class to Sept 14th

2 Mar 2015 • 1 min read

Climate academic probed by Congress falsely charges colleagues with Conflict of Interest

Some colleagues and I wrote an article that appeared on the Huffington Post yesterday, responding to unfounded charges by one of the scientists from whom Congress has requested more information about his funding. The short summary: Don’t impugn the integrity of other researchers when you haven’t done your

26 Feb 2015 • 1 min read

Our new oil-climate index will be released in Washington, DC on March 11, 2015

Oil is changing. Tight shale oil, oil sands, heavy oils, ultra-deep oils, depleting oils, oil shale, and an expanding array of hydrocarbons are vying for market share. Consumers may not notice the transformation—aside from recent price fluctuations, little appears to have changed at the gas pump. But behind-

22 Jan 2015 • 1 min read

New data on ocean warming: it keeps getting hotter

John Abraham has a summary post on the Guardian website describing the recent data on ocean temperatures, and it’s a doozy. Here’s the graph of ocean heat content since before 1960, and it shows substantial increases since 1990. About 90% of recent warming is stored in the oceans,

16 Jan 2015 • 2 min read

Big (but not surprising) news: 2014 was the hottest year on record, according to NASA and NOAA

Climate Progress gives a useful summary of today’s big news, which is that 2014 has just been declared the hottest year on record by NASA and NOAA. A post on Climate Nexus also gives deep and important context about the new temperature record. I hope this development finally puts

12 Nov 2014 • 6 min read

My oped, out this week: "On climate we're in a hole. Let's stop digging"

I just had an oped on climate accepted by the McClatchy-Tribune News service, and it was picked up by at least 15 regional papers, including the Sacramento Bee (California), The Wichita Eagle and Kansas.com (Kansas), The Charlotte Observer (North Carolina), News OK (Oklahoma), Kentucky.com (Kentucky), Albany Times

8 Oct 2014 • 10 min read

The Case for the 2 C Warming Limit

On October 1, 2014, David G. Victor and Charles F. Kennel wrote an opinion piece that appeared in the journal Nature, titled “Ditch the 2 C warming goal” [1]. The provocative title, which accurately conveyed the point of view of the authors, led to several responses, two from Joe Romm

25 Sep 2014 • 2 min read

Google ditches ALEC, finally. Facebook, Yahoo, and Yelp follow suit

Google just quit ALEC, and Chairman Eric Schmidt explained why, in very forthright terms: Google’s controversial decision to fund the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) was a “mistake,” company chairman Eric Schmidt admitted on Monday, saying the group is spreading lies about global warming and “making the world a

5 Sep 2014 • 3 min read

Our new article analyzing downloading console games versus shipping them on discs

Photo credit: John McCullough. Licensed through Creative Commons. The Journal of Industrial Ecology just published our article titled “The carbon footprint of games distribution”. It’s freely downloadable. Here’s the summary: Summary This research investigates the carbon footprint of the lifecycle of console games, using the example of PlayStation®

29 Aug 2014 • 3 min read

One key issue missing from a recent Dot Earth blog post on the carbon commitment from electricity investments

Yesterday Andy Revkin posted a very useful discussion among high level experts about the issue of “climate commitment”, as discussed in a recent article in Environmental Research Letters by Davis and Socolow. Both the blog post and the journal article are worth a read to get a sense for the

25 Jul 2014 • 1 min read

Upcoming class: Data center essentials for executives

Photo credit: By Hugovanmeijeren (Own work) [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons I’ve been struggling for years to convince executives in large enterprises to fix the incentive, reporting, and other structural problems in data centers. The folks in the

3 Jul 2014 • 3 min read

A short discussion of academic integrity and what it means

I taught a class called Energy and Society as a visiting professor at UC Berkeley back in Fall 2011. It was a kind of homecoming for me as I had taken the graduate version of that class at the Energy and Resources Group from John Holdren and the late Mark

1 Jul 2014 • 1 min read

My podcast interview with Tom Bowman titled "How Can We Accelerate Carbon Reductions?"

My interview with Tom Bowman about “the unique role entrepreneurs play in climate action” was posted this past Saturday. It turned out very nicely and required little or no editing, so I guess I was on a roll. Please listen, send comments, and spread the word! In the interview I

25 Jun 2014 • 1 min read

A closer look at funding for Bjorn Lomborg

Graham Readfearn over at Desmogblog.com has done the most detailed exposition to date of the various ways that one of the most famous “luke warmists”, Bjorn Lomborg, gets his money (read more about the luke warmists). Students of misinformation know well that Lomborg is a prolific producer of half

24 Jun 2014 • 1 min read

Risky Business: Documenting the economic risks associated with climate change

The new Risky Business report was released today. Worth a read. Here a paragraph motivating the report’s conclusions: Climate Change: Nature’s Interest-Only Loan Our research focuses on climate impacts from today out to the year 2100, which may seem far off to many investors and policymakers. But