Carbon Offsets Are Unscalable, Unjust, & Unfixable — Joe Romm
Noted climate researcher Joe Romm has published a paper debunking carbon offsets as basically useless and holding back emissions reductions.
Joe Romm
Climate Central: Millennials Have Never Experienced A Cooler Than Average Month — And Probably Never…
Gavin Schmidt, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies at NASA, says 2017 is on pace to being the second hottest year since 1880. Climate Central says millentials have never experienced a cooler than average month.
“Unfit” & “Unhinged” — A Lesson In Messaging & How To Not Elect Batshit Crazy…
The best explanation I read of Trump’s rise wasn’t published this week. It wasn’t published last week. And it wasn’t even published in the last 6 months.
The Human Side of Cleantech
As many of you know (including the dozens or more of you who were in attendance), I was in Vancouver last week for the first-ever Renewable Cities forum, which for now I’ll briefly summarize as “the best conference I’ve ever attended.” I think my favorite presentation there (that I gave, that is) … [continued]
How Big A Deal Is Economy–Energy CO2 Decoupling?
We’ve heard some cautious rejoicing comes from scientists and media this weekend about the world economy and energy carbon dioxide emissions finally decoupling last year. World emissions of CO2 remained at 32.3 billion tons in 2014, while world GDP figures grew by 2.9%. Many analysts have hailed the change as … [continued]
What Should the Climate and Clean Energy Jobs Bill Include?
[social_buttons] In just a few days, the long-awaited climate and clean energy jobs bill from Senators Graham (R-SC), Kerry (D-MA), and Lieberman (I-CT) will be unveiled and all over the news. There has been a lot of speculation on what the bill will or won’t include, as well as a … [continued]
Who’s More Powerful than Obama?
Probably the biggest news piece this week was Obama’s State of the Union address. David Roberts of grist seemed to hate it. Whereas often like-minded and equally critical Joe Romm of Climate Progress actually seemed to love it. Dan Harding of CalFinder had mixed reactions, first “feeling passion stir … [continued]
