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What To Expect In Doha: An Overview Of This Year’s UN Climate Change Negotiations
The next high-level gathering of parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change started this week in Doha, Qatar, and will continue until December 7. In this column we provide an overview of the upcoming talks and discuss what the...
Oceans ’13: The Post-Election Future Of Ocean Policy
On November 7 the American people woke up to a post-election Washington, D.C., that looks an awful lot like pre-election Washington, D.C. President Barack Obama earned a four-year extension on his lease at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Sen. Harry Reid (...
Rotten Fruit: Why ‘Picking Low-Hanging Fruit’ Hurts Efficiency And How To Fix The Problem
Sometimes a failure can arrive disguised as a success. For example, DDT. The A-bomb. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” The Industrial Revolution (if it ends up destroying civilization with runaway climate change). Highly profitable energy efficiency.Wait—...
Eight Ways The Drought Is Influencing Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a time of plenty – or, maybe more accurately, of vast over-consumption — from the meal to the midnight shopping rampage afterward.But across the United States this year, “plenty” has not been enjoyed by many farmers. A historic...
Why President Obama Is Wrong To Separate The Economy And Climate
Obama can't keep pushing climate away.President Barack Obama raised expectations for climate action when he said in his election night acceptance speech that “we want our children to live in an America that isn’t threatened by the destructive power...
Shocking World Bank Climate Report: ‘Can a 4°C [7°F] World Be Avoided?
And So The Bank Must Stop Funding All New Fossil Fuel PlantsAnother day, another staid international organization reviews the latest climate science and rings the loudest possible alarm.The World Bank’s sobering new report, “Turn Down the Heat: Why...
Grantham to Climate Scientists: "Be Persuasive. Be Brave. Be Arrested (If Necessary)."
I have yet to meet a climate scientist who does not believe that global warming is a worse problem than they thought a few years ago. The seriousness of this change is not appreciated by politicians and the public.Uber-hedge fund manager Jeremy...
Voters Didn’t Buy TV Attack Ads From Fossil Fuel Interests
In four of the swing states President Obama swept, voters said energy was one of their top considerations in casting their ballot, according to a post-election poll released by the American Council on Renewable Energy and Advanced Energy Economy...
Fiscal Cliff Threatens Environmental Protections
by Frances Beinecke, via NRDC’s Switchboard Americans elected clean energy and clean air champions up and down the ticket last week. Even though oil, gas, and coal companies spent more than $270 million on campaign ads in the past two months, the...
Let’s Put Climate Change At The Top Of The Agenda
Credit: FEMAThe election is over—now what on the climate change issue? Hurricane Sandy, the nation’s fiscal situation, and the election results have combined to create three key things that I think compel Congress to action on climate...
Sen. Majority Leader Reid: ‘Climate Change Is An Extremely Important Issue For Me, And I Hope We Can Address It’
We are seeing a unique confluence of events put a carbon tax squarely back into the national debate: the debt crisis and fiscal cliff, Hurricane Sandy, and the results of the 2012 election.Sen. Majority Leader Reid said Wednesday:“Climate change is...
Yes, Climate Change Contributed To Superstorm Sandy
via PoliticoAs Hurricane Sandy battered the East Coast last week, meteorologists and climate scientists were repeatedly asked to explain what role climate change played in amplifying the storm.We did our best to answer: We know that a warming...
