‘Climate’ Archives
I Helped Put World Population Over 3 Billion. How About You? Plus Powerful Video of Women, Families and Climate Change
Population Action International asks “What’s Your Number?” Climate Progress hasn’t focused on population, for reasons explained here: “Consumption dwarfs population as main global warming threat.” But now that it seems that population growth trends are not stabilizing as quickly as had been widely projected just a few years [...]
Berkeley earthquake called off
Anybody expecting earthshaking news from Berkeley, now that the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature group being led by Richard Muller has released its results, had to be content with a barely perceptible quiver. As far as the basic science goes, the results could not have been less surprising if the press release had said “Man Finds Sun Rises [...]
Greenland Ice Sheet “Could Undergo a Self-Amplifying Cycle of Melting and Warming … Difficult to Halt,” Scientists Find
Greenland Ice Sheet Ties Record for Mass Loss in 2011 Another day, another amplifying feedback or vicious cycle. The Greenland ice sheet can experience extreme melting even when temperatures don’t hit record highs, according to a new analysis by Dr. Marco Tedesco, assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at The [...]
China Aims to Dominate U.S. in Smart Grid Investments Just As It Has With Renewables
by Melanie Hart There is no way to get around this fact—China aims to modernize its energy infrastructure at home and dominate clean energy technology markets abroad. At the 2011 Smart Grid World Forum in Beijing late last month, China’s State Grid Corporation announced plans to invest $250 billion in electric power infrastructure upgrades [...]
RFK, Jr. Abandons Natural Gas Optimism Thanks to “Fracking Industry’s War On The New York Times — And The Truth”
– Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, in a HuffPost repost I confess to being an early optimist on natural gas. In July of 2009, I wrote a widely circulated op-ed for the Financial Times predicting that newly accessible deposits of natural gas had the potential to rapidly relieve our country of its deadly addiction to Appalachian coal and end forever [...]
“What Should a Ski Company that Cares About Sustainability Be Doing?”*
*No, shutting down isn’t an option. Auden Schendler, Vice President of Sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company and a board member of Protect Our Winters wants to hear answers to that question from Climate Progress readers. He acknowledges that skiing has “limited redeeming value from a sustainability perspective.” I would add [...]
Utility Fights Dirty in Colorado’s Battle For Clean, Local Energy
by John Farrell, in a Grist cross-post In just three weeks, citizens of Boulder, Colo., will vote on whether to begin a big, formal process to unplug from Xcel Energy’s system and plug into local energy self-reliance. The vote to form a municipal electric utility could set a precedent for communities across the United States to keep [...]
October 21 News: California Becomes First State to Adopt Cap and Trade Program
Other key stories below: Wind Power Record Set in Texas — 15.2% of Demand; EPA Plans to Regulate Water from Fracking California Becomes First State to Adopt Cap-and-Trade Program The California Air Resources Board on Thursday unanimously adopted the nation’s first state-administered cap-and-trade regulations, a landmark set of air [...]
USGS Expert Explains How Global Warming Likely Contributes to East Africa’s Brutal Drought
Somalia’s “mis-government” has turned a brutal drought into a horrific famine. But “if it weren’t in drought, it wouldn’t be in famine,” as Dr. Chris Funk, one of the world’s foremost authorities on East African drought explained to me in an exclusive interview today. And Funk’s work provides strong evidence that global [...]
Solar Trade War? Accusations of China’s Illegal Solar Subsidies Stirring Debate in the Solar Industry
Concerns about China’s support of domestic solar companies have been brewing for years. But they have finally come to a boiling point — and it’s causing some in the solar industry to feel burned. The German solar manufacturer SolarWorld, along with six other unnamed companies, filed a petition to the U.S. Department of Commerce and [...]
