greenhouse gases

emissions by state/EIA

A lot of the debate over energy and climate change has focused on changing how people live. But in a lot of ways, where someone lives is as important as how they live.[read more]

greenhouse gas emissions

Reducing emissions of carbon dioxide is critical to long-term efforts. But curbing greenhouse gases with shorter atmospheric lifetimes will have significant near-term climate benefits.[read more]

Thawing permafrost

Recent research from a team of Russian scientists reports that a 1.5°C rise in global temperature is enough to melt permafrost in Siberia and throughout the Arctic.[read more]

On February 16, 2012, U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and environment ministers from five other countries introduced the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants. The Coalition’s members are the governments of Bangladesh, Canada, Ghana, Mexico, Sweden, and the United States, with the United Nations...[read more]

So I finally finished my article about the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) plan to regulate under the Clean Air Act (CAA) greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources. This is very timely given that agency published its final rule yesterday (and my deadline is this week). Here's a little bit of a snapshot of the GHG rule....[read more]

This decade will largely determine whether humanity gets on the path to a low-carbon economy fast enough to avert catastrophic climate change.  And the single biggest obstacle to action today is the same as it’s been for two decades — anti-science conservatives. As Revkin explained in 2008 piece about a major conference of...[read more]

NOAA Methane and carbon dioxide, two of the most important and potent heat-trapping greenhouse gases increased last year, according to a preliminary analysis for NOAA’s annual greenhouse gas index, which tracks data from 60 sites around the world. The increase in the two gases came despite a downturn in the major economic indices....[read more]

I would be badly remiss if I didn't comment on yesterday's announcement by President Obama of a comprehensive framework for vehicle fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions. While I'm not sure I'd go quite as far as one Congressman, who compared it to solving the "energy and economic policy equivalent of a Rubik's Cube", this...[read more]

And then there are those articles I just don’t know how to interpret. A perfect example crossed my screen this morning, about new evidence that suggests Antarctic ice [is] close to melting tipping point-study: A large part of the ice covering West Antarctica could be lost if greenhouse gases in the atmosphere increase only slightly...[read more]

McKinsey & Co. published a really interesting, if geeky, report today on what it will cost to curb greenhouse gases in the U.S. It’s dense and complicated and 83 pages long, and I have to be honest and say I haven’t had time to read it all carefully yet. But I have written about it! That’s how Internet journalism works. My first...[read more]