The analysis of hundreds of scientific studies – the most comprehensive to date – shows beyond doubt how humanity’s carbon emissions are forcing the climate to disastrous new extremes. Most worryingly, all this is happening with a rise of just 1C in the planet’s average temperature.
from RMI: In country after country, sector after sector, fossil fuel demand has peaked and now faces a future of decline. This report develops a new framework, The Peak, Plateau, and Decline, to chart the shape of change.
Hertz, one of the biggest car rental companies globally, recently reported that it’s making significant savings on maintenance costs with its recently acquired Tesla fleet compared to its average Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles.
Posted on August 5, 2022 at 4:35 PM Peter Joseph Dana’s presentation last night said it all, but here’s a compilation of articles and taking points (quotes) from a wide variety of sources, including…
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 may be the single most important piece of climate legislation in American history. It represents our best chance to build an energy future … . Although it appears the legislation will pass, success is not guaranteed, so it’s critical to keep pushing for it. Let me explain why.
Collectively we three authors of this article must have spent more than 80 years thinking about climate change. Why has it taken us so long to speak out about the obvious dangers of the concept of net zero? In our defence, the premise of net zero is deceptively simple – and we admit that it deceived us.
from NSF Research News More of the world’s coastal glaciers are melting faster than ever August 1, 2022 More of the world’s coastal glaciers are melting faster than ever, but exactly what’s triggering the large-scale…
In the wake of Sen. Joe Manchin’s surprise decision announced Wednesday, agreeing (finally) to the first significant federal legislation on climate in three decades, McKibben has written a short commentary at his substack, The Crucial Years.
Editor Note: Normally I don’t recommend 10-minute videos, but this TED Talk makes a compelling case for VIABLE paths to 1.5º C. I believe some of these numbers come from Project Drawdown, a respected non-partisan…
The recent pileup of very hot heat waves does have some scientists wondering whether models could be underestimating the frequency and intensity of such events, and what it all may mean for our climate conditions in the coming decades. Let’s address these issues point by point.
Note: Here is a call to action for ALL Las Vegas community leaders! We need to avoid headlines like this throughout Europe so we don’t dampen tourism.
Since 1970, summer temperatures in Reno, Nevada, have risen 10.9 degrees, making it the nation’s fastest-warming city, according to Climate Central, a nonprofit research group.
Ranked second is Las Vegas, Nevada, which has seen an increase of 5.8 degrees. Boise, Idaho, follows in third at 5.6 degrees.
