Next Generation Energy is managed and written entirely by Seed editors and expert guest bloggers. Read more about them The Next Generation Bloggers come from both within the ScienceBlogs community and without—from journalism, marine biology, banking, and engineering. What they all share is an interest in alternative energy, as a growing field which must be pursued for the sake of a sustainable future.
William Connolley is a software engineer and former climate modeller with the British Antarctic Survey. He writes about climate issues at Stoat. He may be reached at: wmconnolley@gmail.com.
James Hrynyshyn is a freelance science journalist. He writes about energy and climate issues, conservation and marine biology at The Island of Doubt. He may be reached at: jamesh@cyamid.net.
Solomon Hsiang is a Ph.D. Student in Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He may be reached at: solhsiang@gmail.com.
Erin Johnson is the ScienceBlogs editorial assistant. She may be reached at: erinjohnson@scienceblogs.com.
Sheril Kirshenbaum is a marine biologist at Duke University. She writes about environmental policy, energy, and science communication at The Intersection with Chris Mooney, and has also worked as a congressional adviser on environmental issues. She may be reached at: srkirshenbaum@yahoo.com.
Scott Mackenzie is research assistant at the Global Roundtable on Climate Change at Columbia University's Earth Institute and an intern at Seed Magazine. He may be reached at: mackenzie@seedmediagroup.com.
Joseph Romm is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he also manages the blog Climate Progress. During the 1990s he served as Acting Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy. He is an expert on green technologies, and the author of Hell and High Water: Global Warming—The Solution and The Politics. He may be reached at: jromm@americanprogress.org.
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What is Connolley crouching on? A rock? It looks like a deformed, upholstered, black leather chair floating in a pond.
Posted by: JoJo | July 9, 2008 1:57 PM
Joe, say it ain't so! Over on climate progress you frequently point out that you aren't keen on biofuels, or Big Oil. It is strange to see you participating in a blog sponsored by Shell. Be sure to write some posts about efficiency (including bikes and public transit).
Posted by: Ben | July 9, 2008 2:25 PM
Ben: I agreed to this since there was no editorial oversight by Shell. Actually, Royal Dutch/Shell used to be a very progressive company -- for an oil company that is -- but they have certainly backtracked a great deal with high oil prices.
This is not a pro-biofuels effort nor is it an anti-biofuels effort. Obviously, the levels of corn-based ethanol mandated in the 2005 and 2007 energy bill are on unmitigated catastrophe, as I have said many times. Cellulosic ethanol remains promising, even more so than when I was helping to fund it back in the mid-1990s. But the future is efficiency, conservation, and plug ins.
Posted by: Joseph Romm (ClimateProgress) | July 9, 2008 3:40 PM
Joe, take a look at footnote 17, of Exxon v. Baker (US Supreme Court, June 25th)
"Because this research was funded in part by Exxon, we decline to rely on it."
That's why people worry.
Plus stuff like they have on the blog front page claiming that biofuels "reduce carbon emissions" -- that would be carbon "emissions" that are "emitted" out of the ground via pumping and digging, right?
Didn't any of you folks have your eyebrows go up when you read that up there in the top left corner of the page? Carbon "emissions" indeed.
No offense, they've I'm sure been convincing.
But once they start supporting Seed financially, merely suggesting going away will be leverage.
Posted by: Hank Roberts | July 10, 2008 8:55 PM