Author Archives for Robin Kraft
View CARMA in Google Earth!
Browsing power plant emissions just got easier, thanks to a new version of CARMA that you can explore using Google Earth. According to Google’s site, “Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings and even explore galaxies in the Sky.” This bird’s-eye view is great for comparing […]
International coverage of CARMA 2.0 update
News of the CARMA 2.0 update appeared in US media and abroad, including in Taiwan and India. CGD Web and Media Assistant Ben Edwards collects a few excerpts in “CGD Coverage from the CARMA 2.0 Media Launch.”
CARMA 2.0 has arrived! Power sector still stuck on fossil fuel
CARMA 2.0 has arrived! And our analysis of the latest data shows that the world still has a long way to go on curbing emissions growth.
Last week’s Washington Post feature on CARMA focuses on massive growth in Chinese emissions. Although pollution wasn’t big news once the Olympics started, this year China’s power sector will emit […]
Carbon Capture “Vaporware” No Alternative to Real Clean Energy Technology
In the software industry, vaporware is a great new product announced by a developer, but is never released or is seriously delayed. Besides getting users’ hopes up, it can make potential customers hold off purchases of alternative solutions as they wait for the latest and greatest, which the developer swears is just around the corner. […]
CARMA and CGD research in the wild
The Confronting Climate Change team at CGD is always interested to see what happens to our work once it leaves our desktops and joins the “marketplace of ideas,” fighting to make it to the top of a mountain of information on environmental issues. So we thought we’d quickly share two recent sightings from two very […]





