Originally published on Gas2. Reprinted with permission. Don’t call it a carbon tax. Everybody hates the idea of taxes. But unless society addresses the damage done by burning fossil fuels, the world is on a collision course with reality. Cataclysmic changes are in the offing and those changes will impose … [continued]
In yet another reminder why we do what we do here on CleanTechnica and Important Media as a whole, here’s the intro to a new post on Climate Central: The calendar may have turned to 2016, but temperatures are picking up where 2015 left off. January was record warm, according to … [continued]
Originally published on Sustainnovate. Along with my own personal interview with Akon, the international superstar and solar entrepreneur was interviewed on stage during a student event in the midst of this year’s Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week. I was lucky enough to be there and film the whole thing — check … [continued]
New analysis from NASA and NOAA concludes that 2015 saw the Earth’s surface encounter its warmest temperatures since modern record keeping began. Independent analyses carried out by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) concluded that “globally-averaged temperatures in 2015 shattered the previous mark set in 2014 by … [continued]
Think Progress recently shared some great NASA charts, which were tweeted by Dr Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS), earlier this month. Here’s the first chart/tweet: 2015 will be a scorcher relative to all other years in the record. Even with sampling uncertainty: pic.twitter.com/wvTvzA1GC2 — Gavin Schmidt (@ClimateOfGavin) … [continued]
At the “Energy for Tomorrow” conference in Paris, last week, one of the core discussions in the energy industry was: is a low-carbon world a challenge of deployment or one of innovation? In other words: do we already have the technologies we need (e.g. solar, wind, grid management) and now just need to … [continued]
Top segment originally published on Planetsave.com. Releasing this exclusive freely in the public interest, best-selling author Dr. Nafeez Ahmed is offering a unique view of the critically significant impact that climate change is having on our lives, our livelihoods, and even our likelihood of survival on this planet. Dr Nafeez Ahmed is … [continued]
Many of us today might understand the relationship between carbon dioxide (CO2), the atmosphere, and climate change. However, we have been provided with little historic background on how the idea of global warming gained traction. Historian and physicist John Perlin joins me in an enlightening interview about this little-understood subject. … [continued]
Originally published on Thoughts of a Lapsed Physicist. By Allan R. Hoffman I admit to being concerned about global warming, its many impacts, present and future, on human welfare, and the insidious fact that those least responsible for global warming and the resultant climate change are likely to suffer the … [continued]
Many of us already believed solar power was one of our best options as a long-term energy solution. Now a massive study on solar power by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has come to two primary conclusions: solar energy holds the best potential for meeting the planet’s long-term energy … [continued]
