Since 2000, more than 20 countries have successfully decoupled (both curbed their greenhouse gas emissions and boosted their gross domestic product), says World Resources Institute analyst Nate Aden. Aden’s research took off from a recent International Energy Agency report on how energy-related emissions have “decoupled” from economic growth over the last … [continued]
Major news on the climate change front over the past few days: the US, China, and India—largest projected emitters into the next several decades—have each agreed to sign the Paris Agreement on climate change on April 22, the first day they can do so. More than 190 countries agreed in … [continued]
Now that Americans are finally talking about climate change, media producers seem to salivate at every whisper of earth science news. The scarier, the better. But not so with Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Climate Change… and are afraid to ask. Here’s the video. It’s a deceptively little … [continued]
It’s corporate annual meeting time again. Last year marked the start of some corporate responsibility and pro-renewable action in oil and gas company stockholder gatherings. This spring, green shareholders of ExxonMobil, arguably the most contrary of the petro-giants, have just won a victory for clean energy and transparency in the … [continued]
In the upcoming US election, independent voters in the key swing states—the most influential of influential voting sectors—will be more likely to vote for a Republican candidate who vocally supports solar energy, according to a new poll by Public Opinion Strategies. When asked the question “If a Republican candidate for … [continued]
A new study in Nature Geoscience, led by Richard Zeebe of the University of Hawaii, looked at an anomalous time period called the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM. This phenomenon occurred about 56 million years ago, about ten million years following the beginning of the Cenozoic era (Age of Mammals), just about when … [continued]
Deployment of utility-scale PV power in the United States in recent years has been rapid and noteworthy. It has resulted very dissimilar photovoltaic operating projects whose empirical AC capacity factors differ by more than a factor of two, however. Understanding the performance of utility-scale PV power is important because profitability depends directly on … [continued]
Total, Europe’s third largest oil and gas company, has just announced a huge boost in future for the clean energy sector. The 2015 annual report indicates a growing share of PV production in the company’s income. In the 2015 report, Total had a net income in marketing and services segment … [continued]
The current headline on the Los Angeles Times reads “Supreme Court deals blow to Obama by putting his climate change rules on hold.” Wrong interpretation again, young ostriches of the media. Today’s 5–4 decision by the Supreme Court to put the Clean Power Plan on ice while coal producers and … [continued]
As shown in numerous polls, most people in the US and elsewhere are concerned about the ecological effects of anthropogenic climate change. However, another aspect of the phenomenon will impact the stability of human systems around the globe more immediately than profound environmental changes. That is the economics of climate … [continued]
