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The Climate Consequences of Arctic Oil Drilling
Kiley Kroh and Howard Marano via CAP.In order to avoid the catastrophic consequences of climate change, enormous fossil-fuel reserves will need to remain in the ground untouched.2012 was supposed to be a banner year for Royal Dutch Shell, as the...
How EPA Could Help Cut Carbon Emissions 17 Percent By 2020
On Monday the Senate held a symposium under the auspices of Sen. Tom Carper’s (D-DE) office — “Climate Change Actions under the Clean Air Act: Reducing Power Plant Emissions without Harming the Economy” — bringing together representatives from both...
Weather Extremes: Atmospheric Waves And Climate Change
By Vladimir Petoukhov and Stefan Rahmstorf, via The ConversationThe northern hemisphere has experienced a spate of extreme weather in recent times. In 2012 there were destructive heat waves in the U.S. and southern Europe, accompanied by floods in...
4th Graders Use Kickstarter, Fund Solar Array Multiple Times Over
Here’s a small story to warm the heart, via Clean Technica: At the start of March, a group of fourth graders from Central Park School in Durham, North Carolina — along with their teacher, Aaron Sebens — set up a Kickstarter campaign to raise $800 to...
Growth in China Wind Energy Production Exceeds Coal For First Time Ever
By Li ShuoAmid all the news about coal and pollution problems in China you might have missed this one: According to new statistics from the China Electricity Council, China’s wind power production actually increased more than coal power production...
Biofuels Suffering from High Corn Prices and Dropping Demand
According to a new report from the New York Times, the ongoing drought in the Midwest is causing the American biofuels industry to begin crumbling around the edges.The United States has mandated for several years that gasoline contain 10 percent...
The Dangerous Myth That Climate Change Is Reversible
The CMO (Chief Misinformation Officer) of the climate ignorati, Joe Nocera, has a new piece, “A Real Carbon Solution.” The biggest of its many errors comes in this line:A reduction of carbon emissions from Chinese power plants would do far more to...
Arctic Ice Loss Amplified Superstorm Sandy
We’ve written extensively about how global warming worsened the impact of Superstorm Sandy.Now a new article, “Superstorm Sandy: A Series of Unfortunate Events?” (PDF here) connects the dots even more explicitly:Cornell and Rutgers researchers...
US Solar Energy Broke Records Last Year and More Energy News
According to a new report, America broke records in terms of installed solar capacity last year, jumping to 11 percent of total global installations. [Greentech Media]It may not compare to the German solar market. But the U.S. is definitely becoming...
Coal’s True Cost in India: 100,000+ Deaths per Year
A report issued yesterday from Conservation Action Trust and Greenpeace India outlines the health cost of coal. Via ClimateWire:As many as 115,000 people die in India each year from coal-fired power plant pollution, costing the country about $4.6...
NY Times Editorial Makes The Climate Case Against Keystone
The March 11 editorial in the New York Times says the overriding reason President Obama should reject the Keystone XL pipeline is climate change. [New York Times]“The State Department’s latest environmental assessment of the controversial Keystone...
Clean Jobs Rising: New Report Finds Over 110,000 Jobs Announced In 2012
A new report by Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), flagged this past week by the San Antonio Business Journal, found that over 110,000 new clean energy jobs were announced in 2012. The group tracked over 300 project announcements across multiple...
