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Obama’s First Term: Assessing Progress On Top Energy And Climate Priorities
by Daniel J. WeissBarack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign was built on “hope and change.” Millions of Americans went to the polls hoping that the federal government would change its approach to many of the nation’s challenges after eight years of...
General Motors Tripled Sales Of Chevy Volt In 2012, Selling One Million Vehicles Over 30 MPG
General Motors had a record-breaking year for fuel-efficient autos in 2012.The company became the first American auto manufacturer to sell more than one million vehicles with a 30-mpg fuel rating. And due to a surge in demand from Califorina, GM...
Bridge To Nowhere? NOAA Confirms High Methane Leakage Rate Up To 9% From Gas Fields, Gutting Climate Benefit
Photo by Walter DisneyResearchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have reconfirmed earlier findings of high rates of methane leakage from natural gas fields. If these findings are replicated elsewhere, they would...
Editor's Choice: Five Important U.S. Energy Stories Of 2012
The presidential and congressional elections dominated the American news cycle in 2012. And although climate change took a backseat during the campaign, energy played a surprisingly prominent role.The news cycle was dominated by energy: Republican...
West Antarctica Warming Three Times Faster Than Global Average, Threatening To Destabilize This Unstable Ice Sheet
This is a repost of a National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) news release (plus links and excerpts from other recent studies at the end). BOULDER—In a finding that raises further concerns about the future contribution of Antarctica to sea...
Top Ten U.S. Weather Events Of 2012
Guest post by Jeff Masters, via the WunderblogIt was another year of incredible weather extremes unparalleled in American history during 2012. Eleven billion-dollar weather disasters hit the U.S., a figure exceeded only by the fourteen such...
Climate Story Of The Year: Extreme Weather from Superstorms to Drought Emerges as Political, Scientific Gamechanger
Global Warming, Record Arctic Ice Loss Create Deadly ‘New Normal’ With Twenty-Five Billion-Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters In 2 YearsThis year brought staggering weather extremes, record loss of Arctic ice and a growing body of scientific analysis...
From Doha To Divestment: The Search For A Real Strategy To Combat Climate Change
by Jim ShultzIf you wanted to design a global crisis that the world’s political systems would be particularly incapable of solving, it would be hard to do better than climate change.Unlike a meltdown of the banking system or an attack from the sky,...
Obama To Name Climate Hawk John Kerry Secretary Of State
In the first serious indication Obama will focus on climate change in his second term, media outlets report the President will nominate Senator John Kerry (D-MA) to be Secretary of State.Kerry is one of the Senate’s leading climate hawks who has...
Cartoon of the Week: "Blind Faith of Climate Change Deniers Endangers Us All"
Opine away!Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner David Horsey had a cartoon and column in the L. A. Times this week, “Blind faith of climate change deniers endangers us all.” Here’s an excerpt:Great harm is what comes from denying scientific facts about...
Why China Is So Wary Of Ambitious International Climate Targets
China's chief climate negotiator, Su Weiby Melanie HartFrom many perspectives, China is a global powerhouse. China is the world’s second largest economy in terms of gross domestic product, the world’s largest energy consumer, and a global leader in...
What Are the Near-Term Climate Pearl Harbors?
“So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent…. Owing to past neglect, in the face of the plainest warnings, we have...
