Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
•New IPCC Report: Climatologists More Certain Global Warming Is Caused By Humans, Impacts Are Speeding Up •European forests near ‘carbon saturation point’ •Scientists have a moral obligation to take action on climate change •Study: Watching Fox News Makes You Distrust Climate Scientists
The history we grow up with shapes our sense of reality — it’s hard to shake.
Climate scientists and humanitarian relief workers need to collaborate far more closely to prepare for a future of increased extreme weather events.
One point of the campaign is simply to say: these are now rogue industries. We don’t want to be associated with them.
George Osborne, the newly appointed minister for shale gas development, might have expected some rough headlines this week, but he could hardly have guessed who would supply the fuel.
Last week I relearned an important lesson: life is a force to be reckoned with.
When it comes to energy and economics in the climate-change era, nothing is what it seems.
The Break Even Ecological Footprint (BEEF) concept provides a quantitative answer to the question of how long a Western IHE/SCD professional would have to live at a local, developing community Ecological Footprint level in order to offset the CO2 they emitted by air travel to the field.
This conversation with reporters covering fracking in California and in the US highlights the dangers and potential of the natural gas bonanza.
“We never imagined we would be on a fire of a half million acres in the lower 48,” said Oltrogge. “Now they’re becoming commonplace.”
•Voters think Republican climate dissenters ‘crazy’, bipartisan poll finds •A Republican Secretary of State Urges Action on Climate Change• US investors show climate clout •Can you be sceptical about GM but believe in climate change? •You’re Getting Warmer: Another Wall Street Journal Global Warming Article Misses the Target •Outbreak of global warming optimism is naive •Flood, Rebuild, Repeat: Are We Ready for a Superstorm Sandy Every Other Year? •urope Floods to China Quake Fuel $85 Billion in Economic Losses •France adopts soft energy proposals after business flexes muscles
Knoxville’s experience shows how even staunchly conservative coal country can be sold on commonsense efforts to save the climate.
