Here’s my latest monthly pick of the “Top 10” most compelling clean energy, climate, and environment-related news stories from last month. While some articles may impact you profoundly, at the very least, others are very interesting. Over a thousand articles were reviewed and 30+ were collected and sent to my … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy The International Energy Agency says the world will likely need to have around 48 per cent of total electricity generation sourced from renewable energy sources by 2035, if it is to meet the stated climate change goals of international governments. In its World Energy Outlook 2013 … [continued]
A version of this article was first published on 1Sun4All. Stanford University has released a new talk by Chris Field on thoughts about the changes in our climate which includes a debunking of 6 common climate change myths as well as numerous climate facts. Chris Field is the director of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global … [continued]
In an update of world climate greenhouse gas reductions in Panama this week, international reduction targets and pledges of individual countries were tallied to assess global chances of staying within the climate levels deemed safe. For the US, the news was not good.
The US pledge at Copenhagen, coming from the success in the House of the climate legislation needed to effect this, was for a 17% reduction below 2005 levels.
I decided to leave last week’s roundup of cleantech (or related) news that we didn’t already cover on Cleantechnica to today (for various reasons). So, now, here’s the roundup. China’s High-Speed Trains [VIDEOS] Why fly when you can travel the 1000km between Guangzhou (Canton) near Hong Kong to Wuhan – … [continued]
For the last 20 years, Republican Senators have been held to single standard of climate denial by the fossil industry which sends them there. But Republican Governors were left alone. [social_buttons] Thus California’s Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger has been synonymous with active support for clean energy. Likewise, Florida’s Republican Governor … [continued]
If the Republican party does succeed in filibustering landmark climate legislation that Majority Leader Senator Reid brings to a vote this month, we will end the world as we have known it. This Earth will become what Bill McKibben calls Eaarth, a unknown new planet, with temperature and other changes … [continued]
In encouraging news for species like ours faced with having to figure out how to survive the next centuries of unprecedentedly fast climate change, it appears that at least one evolutionary adaptation developed at breakneck speed. [social_buttons] Tibetans seem to have evolved their unique ability to breathe at high altitudes … [continued]
[social_buttons] Australian solar physicist John Cook of Skeptical Science has created a nifty little iPhone app that includes numerous climate skeptic arguments as well as the science-based counterarguments to those (since we are all tired of the misinformed myths about climate science but normally can’t cite scientific articles and data … [continued]
FERC is close to approving the Tres Amigas high-voltage interconnection hub project in Clovis, New Mexico, designed to be the first step in a renewable energy transmission superhighway. [social_buttons] But five groups are filing against the project. The largest, Occidental Petroleum; is asking FERC to dump the project. Occidental Petroleum’s … [continued]
