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Renewable Energy: Senator Carper Cites Climate, Economic Benefits
By Michael ConathanDuring an hour-long conversation about offshore wind energy hosted by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) repeatedly channeled Stephen Stills and his Buffalo Springfield bandmates when talking...
Interview On Climate, Obama, Keystone, and More [VIDEO]
I routinely repost climate de-crocks from Peter Sinclair. But last week, the uber-videographer turned the camera on me:It is amazing how much more persuasive anyone sounds when they get professionally edited with graphs and clips thrown in. Which...
New Mexico To Purchase Solar Energy At a Lower Price Than Coal
The economic viability of solar power is advancing rapidly. It’s actually already more then competitive within certain markets, and the price of solar panels saw a precipitous decline over the last four years.In fact, solar technology has been...
Our Potential is Greater: Filling the Sails of Offshore Wind Energy
As America has stood on the sidelines, other countries such as Denmark, the United Kingdom, Germany, and even China have leapt ahead of us in developing offshore wind. Here a speed boat passes by Danish offshore windmills in the North...
Will Climate Change Hawk Kerry Kill Keystone XL?
The Senate confirmed John Kerry as a Secretary of State by a vote of 94 to 3. I believe this is a turning point in the fight to stop the Keystone XL pipeline.Once again, I do not think that a man who had dedicated his Senate career to fighting...
Nicholas Stern: I Got It Wrong On Climate Change–It’s Far, Far Worse
Another day, another climate expert explains the deadly combination of inaction and faster-than-expected impacts.This time the man ringing the bell is Lord Nicholas Stern, the author of the famous Stern Review on the Economics of Climate...
Media Bias in Covering Obama Climate Change Policy?
This Washington Post headline sums up so much that is wrong with the media and politics today: I understand why fossil-fuel-funded conservatives assert that climate change is “liberal.” By why do the Associated Press and Washington Post fall into...
14 “Carbon Bombs” Threatening To Blow The Global Carbon Budget & Exacerbate Climate Change
The general scientific consensus is that the average global temperature cannot be allowed to warm more than two degrees Celsius [3.6°F] in order to avoid catastrophic climate change. In fact, a two degree rise alone would threaten the water supplies...
Obama Makes Climate Change a Priority in Inaugural Speech
Obama went all climate hawk on America in his second inaugural address (full text here).These are, I believe, his longest and strongest remarks on the subject in any major national speech, let alone one of this import:We, the people, still believe...
Climate Change-Driven Megadroughts Jeopardizing Amazon Forest
An area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California continues to suffer from the effects of a megadrought that began in 2005, finds a new NASA-led study. These results, together with observed recurrences of droughts every few years and...
Draft Climate Change Assessment Warns Of 9°-15°F Warming for Most Of U.S.
The rule in Washington, DC is if you want to bury news, release it late on a Friday afternoon. So one can only assume the climate silence crowd prevailed in the release this afternoon of the draft U.S. Climate Assessment.Perhaps it’s this chart they...
Weathering The Coming Storms: Governor Cuomo's Climate Panel Offers Smart Plan For Adaptation And Mitigation
by Andy Darrell, via the Environmental Defense FundExtreme weather and aging infrastructure came together with a vengeance in Sandy, showing the fragility of the basic systems that sustain this vibrant city and region. Like so many others, my family...
