climate change

GDP/shutterstock

It isn’t about “Green GDP” or “green accounting.” It’s honest accounting. Every ton of coal, every barrel of oil causes more in external damages than it adds value to GDP. Properly measured GDP ought to reflect that fact.[read more]

hydropower in China

Reuters reports that China’s environmental ministry has okayed the construction of a new hydroelectric dam on the Dadu River in the Sichuan province, which when completed will be the country’s largest.[read more]

Nasa Climate projection video

In response to carbon dioxide-induced warming, the global water cycle undergoes a gigantic competition for moisture resulting in a global pattern of increased heavy rain, decreased moderate rain, and prolonged droughts.[read more]

CO2 emissions

The good news is that merely by extending existing energy policies, the United States could keep energy-related carbon dioxide emissions flat through 2040. That’s also the bad news — for two reasons.[read more]

fossil fuels divestment

 

Could the same movement that brought down Apartheid be the key tactic in convincing America to go fossil fuel free and preventing a new financial crisis?[read more]

smart communications/shutterstock

 

Machine-to-Machine technology is revolutionizing the energy industry, and helping reduce CO2 emissions. If a new report is correct, M2M could even be a savior for climate change.[read more]

global temperature study

Global average temperatures were the hottest in 1400 years in the 20th century, more specifically during the period 1971-2000, according to a first-of-its-kind scientific study.[read more]

renaming Earth Day?

Renaming Earth Day remains more relevant than ever in light of the world’s ongoing inaction on climate change, the over-running of Congress by climate zombies, and Obama’s multi-year fecklessness on this gravest of threats.[read more]

fashionably green/shutterstock

We desperately need to find the political skill and courage to impose a carbon tax on ourselves that covers enough of humanity to be effective and is painful enough to change our production and consumption behavior.[read more]

Keystone protest

 

As analysts committed to addressing climate change, we applaud the organizers’ show of strength against Keystone XL, but recommend they switch targets and address a carbon enemy more worthy of their army: U.S. coal.[read more]

peak oil?/shutterstock

The fact that oil demand may be flattening out is a positive sign for the climate; at least the near-term pressure to pull all the oil out of the ground as fast as possible has lessened.[read more]

climate change flooding

A new study from NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center confirms what climate scientists have long been saying about climate change’s effect on the hydrological cycle.[read more]

mixed messages?/shutterstock

There is a bewildering array of messages on climate change. It is little wonder that policy makers, the public, academia and NGOs are collectively at a loss as to how to take the climate issue forward.[read more]

wildfires

Wildfires in the U.S. will be at least twice as destructive by 2050, burning around 20 million acres nationwide each year, according to a federal report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.[read more]

roll of the dice?

Canadian politicians are betting a large chunk of the country’s economic future and national security on marine operations that will be ten times riskier in the future due to climate change.[read more]