Low Cost for Saving Climate
Friday, June 26th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments Offby Lisa Stiffler New analyses of Waxman-Markey say saving the climate won't cost consumers much coin. Two new analyses on the economics of Waxman-Markey -- the ever-expanding legislation tackling US greenhouse gas emissions through a cap-and-trade program ...
Low Cost for Saving Climate
Friday, June 26th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments Offby Lisa Stiffler New analyses of Waxman-Markey say saving the climate won't cost consumers much coin. Two new analyses on the economics of Waxman-Markey -- the ever-expanding legislation tackling US greenhouse gas emissions through a cap-and-trade program ...
Large Majority in U.S. Supports Regulation of CO2, Poll Shows
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffThree-quarters of Americans believe that the government should regulate greenhouse gas emissions, with a majority supporting restrictions on carbon even if they raise the price of goods and lead to higher utility bills, according to a ...
Large Majority in U.S. Supports Regulation of CO2, Poll Shows
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffThree-quarters of Americans believe that the government should regulate greenhouse gas emissions, with a majority supporting restrictions on carbon even if they raise the price of goods and lead to higher utility bills, according to a ...
Climate Activists are Realists, Says Krugman
Monday, June 22nd, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffNobel prize-winning NYT columnist Paul Krugman has been doing some terrific writing on the economics of climate action (see Climate action “now might actually help the economy recover from its current slump” by giving “businesses a ...
Closing the Climate Change Accounting Loophole — With a Billboard
Monday, June 22nd, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments Offby Mindy S. Lubber Flashy billboards are usually not my thing, but it's hard not to be grabbed by the 67-by-32-foot billboard that was unveiled on June 18, outside New York City's Penn Station. Deutsche Bank has ...
Blame Games On Climate Change
Friday, June 12th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffBy Nick Mabey and Malini Mehra If nations can rise above past conflicts, why can't they work together at the climate change talks in Bonn? This year was meant to be the year of climate change. Yet UN ...
Energy and Global Warming News for June 9th: Drinking Water From Air Humidity; Greens Gain in EU Parliament Vote
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffCompiled by Austin Davis Facilities “producing large quantities of drinking water from moisture in the air could look like this” — and it looks to me this could be powered by the waste heat from concentrated ...
Barack Obama Seeks US-Chinese Deal on Global Warming
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments Offby Suzanne Goldenberg The Obama administration said yesterday that it was pursuing a joint US-Chinese deal on action against global warming to help push the rest of the world towards a global agreement on cutting greenhouse ...
Captured On Camera: 50 Years Of Climate Change In The Himalayas
Friday, June 5th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffBy Felicity Carus A very deep layer of ice covered the Imja glacier in the 1950s (top photo). Over the next 50 years, small meltwater ponds continued to grow and merge, and by the mid 1970s had ...
Energy and Global Warming News for June 4th: Clean energy funding trumps fossil fuels for first time, Climate change threatens Mideast stability
Thursday, June 4th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffCompiled by Austin Davis Clean Energy Funding Trumps Fossil Fuels Global investors spent about $250 billion building new power capacity in 2008, and for the first time the lion’s share of that money went to renewable sources, according ...
Europe Poised To Meet Kyoto Target: Does This Mean The Much-Maligned European Trading System Is A Success?
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffEurope made a major commitment under the Kyoto protocol that U.S. conservatives have been telling us for years they would never achieve. It now seems clear Europeans will meet their commitment under the terms of the ...
Designing Effective Policy Before Copenhagen: A Conversation With Denis Hayes
Monday, June 1st, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffGlobal leaders have a limited window of time to enact effective policy that will greatly decrease the amount of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere. And that window is shrinking rapidly. In November, world leaders will meet ...
Designing Effective Policy Before Copenhagen: A Conversation With Denis Hayes
Monday, June 1st, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffGlobal leaders have a limited window of time to enact effective policy that will greatly decrease the amount of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere. And that window is shrinking rapidly. In November, world leaders will meet ...
Why Future Katrinas And Gustavs Will Be MUCH Worse At Landfall, Part 2
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffPart 1 discussed why global warming means killer storms worse than Katrina and Gustav. This post looks in more detail at Katrina and Gustav, and why they weren’t as strong and hence as devastating at ...
Why Global Warming Means Killer Storms Worse Than Katrina And Gustav, Part 1
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffHurricane season officially begins June 1 -- though global warming will ultimately move that date up just as it is moving up the spring snowmelt. Indeed, some evidence suggests the hurricane season has been getting ...
M.I.T. Doubles Its 2095 Warming Projection To 10°F — With 866 Ppm And Arctic Warming of 20°F
Thursday, May 21st, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffToday's question: How the heck does the Greenland ice sheet survive accelerated disintegration from projected 20°F warming by the 2090s? I previously blogged on how the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program on the Science and ...
Latest to Sound the Climate Alarm: Doctors, Lawyers, Generals, Bankers and Diplomats
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffLatest people freaking out about the steadily worsening news on climate change? Doctors, soldiers, diplomats, lawyers and insurance bankers. A major study by the renowned British medical journal the Lancet and University College London calls on ...
Dealing With Climate Trauma and Global Warming Burnout
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffI’d be very interested in hearing what coping mechanisms readers have developed for dealing with “climate trauma.”The knowledge that humanity is headed pell-mell toward self-destruction is tough to deal with. I am fortunate that I get ...
The Secret to Low-Water-Use, High-Efficiency Concentrating Solar Power
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 Posted in Climate Change, Green News | Comments OffMany readers have expressed interest in learning more about the water consumption of concentrating solar power and how measures to reduce it might impact system efficiency and cost. After my recent CSP post, “World’s largest solar ...