Two hearings worth watching this week: IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri and energy efficiency

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From Climate Progress:

Two hearings worth watching this week: IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri and energy efficiency

E&E Daily (subs. req’d) reports on two hearings worth tuning into because of the witnesses :

The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other scientists are expected to tell lawmakers this week that carbon dioxide emissions are outpacing scenarios laid out in climate models.

IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri will testify Wednesday <10 am> before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee at a hearing on the latest developments in climate science.

Pachauri is always worth listening to (see “IPCC chief challenges Obama to further cut U.S. emission targets“).

So is the second witness, Christopher Field, director of the global ecology department, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford University (see “AAAS: Climate change is coming much harder, much faster than predicted“).

The second hearing is on the key strategy of energy efficiency (see “Energy efficiency is THE core climate solution, Part 1: The biggest low-carbon resource by far“):

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1. Watch Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Steven Chu, John Podesta on how to build a smart, green grid

Missed this one - it was today - video is at http://nationalcleanenergyproject.org/

http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/23/bill-clinton-must-pursue-clean-energy-or-%E2%80%9Cend-vast-prospects-of-civilization-for-our-grandchildren%E2%80%9D/

I am here liveblogging the clean energy and green grid summit sponsored by the Center for American Progress Action Fund — see Watch Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Steven Chu, John Podesta on how to build a smart, green grid — 10 am EST Monday.

UPDATE: Hope you’re listening — it’s very heartening to hear so many top leaders and opinionmakers who are so knowledgeable about and committed to action on clean energy. And who get the need to focus on transmission.

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