Almost everyone in the media has taken a stab at summarizing, if not snap-judging, the results of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s one-day UN climate summit last week. The meeting had a real name, but Robert N. Stavins in his New York Times runup to the conference was the only writer I … [continued]
The record GHG figures the World Meteorological Organization reveals in its tenth annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin today are not cause for celebration. Atmospheric greenhouse gases rose even faster last year than in each of the 30 years before, according to the WMO’s Atmospheric Environment Research Division’s Research Department in Geneva. … [continued]
The powerful cable television series Years of Living Dangerously, a remarkable view of the human impacts of climate change that we reviewed several times earlier this year, returns to television in rerun form this weekend. If you missed the compelling series the first time, you really owe it to yourself (and … [continued]
Environment America Research and Policy Center recently released Lighting the Way, a fascinating hard numbers–based take on the US solar energy boom, the top states that fostered it last year, and what the others are up to. The research organization finds that the top 10 solar energy states—Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, … [continued]
CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) finds it encouraging that after years of denial, business uses carbon prices to plan ahead these days. The response of business and industry leaders to the problem of climate change is undergoing a major transformation, says the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions: “Just over … [continued]
Originally published on Planetsave. The subject of climate change and global warming is a divisive one, because while the science is sound, there seems to be no lack of climate deniers. However, a new TV series that started airing this Sunday aims to get a larger number of people connecting dots on climate change, and could … [continued]
With this week’s release of the latest IPCC report, over 300 scientists, citing 12,000 scholarly reports, determined that no one on the planet will be untouched by the damaging effects of global warming in coming decades. In fact, climate change impacts and risks are already becoming apparent as the report catalogues the present … [continued]
Originally published on Cost of Solar*. –> Take a few seconds, run a free solar report on your property, and find out how much solar will save you! The second definition of “insanity” in Google is, “Extreme foolishness or irrationality.” Unfortunately, that definition actually applies to more of what we do and don’t do than … [continued]
Originally published on Sustainablog. I have no doubt that climatology is a challenging field in and of itself, but climate scientists – particularly those focused on global warming – also have to deal with consistent attempts to undermine their credibility. They’re just following the “consensus” (which, ya know, didn’t actually result from … [continued]
Climate change is #1. When we say that, we don’t mean we’re all cheering for global warming. We mean the subject tops the list of the most important underreported issues in the world today—at least according to news aggregation site Upworthy. Joe Romm of ThinkProgress says the topic huge number … [continued]
