A couple decades ago, there were few, if any, family-focused environmental organizations, let alone the kind of parent-led climate justice groups now confronting polluters …. In the U.S., Mothers […]
New research suggests the massive ice sheet is already set to lose more than 3 percent of its mass, even if the world stopped emitting greenhouse gases today
More than 1,000 have died since mid-June from flooding that a senior official called a “climate-induced humanitarian disaster.”
Electricity from fossil fuels used to be far cheaper than renewables. This has dramatically changed within the last decade. The fundamental driver of this change is that renewable energy technologies follow learning curves, which means …
In this 5-min video from TED-Ed, Iceland shows how they extract low-GHG geothermal energy from the Earth. Harnessing geothermal energy with heat pumps is something that can be done around the world.
Here are the latest stats from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communications. The preconditions for “creating political will for climate change solutions” are there.
Labor and environmental organizations gathered with Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto on Friday to tout the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act and how it will benefit the state’s clean energy sector.
Five weeks. Five instances of 1,000-year rain events. If it seems like the weather across the Lower 48 as of late has been bonkers, you’re not imagining things. It’s been a maelstrom of weather extremes, a seesaw fluctuating wildly from significantly dry to record wet conditions.
Perhaps more exciting [than this startup explosion] is the expected impact on Fortune 500s. Thousands of big companies are moving slower owing to the downturn. The climate policy will reverse that trend, spurring activity from the very companies that might buy from or acquire startups.
Air-conditioning contributes a lot of CO2 and other GHGs, and as the earth heats, there will be more AC used. Tom Steyer, founder of NexGen America, endowed a $1m price for 5x more efficient AC, won by 3 companies this year. “These technology breakthroughs exemplify incredible progress made when innovators and the right incentives are mobilized.”
The early verdicts have arrived: Investors are confident the Democrats’ climate deal will translate into expanded real-world deployment of low-carbon energy.
Dr. Hansen reviews the political history of climate policy that urges the Biden Administration to press for carbon fee and dividend and reform the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
