Tag: climate change
New study confirms findings of faster global warming, despite what the...
After publishing their results in 2015, the NOAA became under attack from GOP members of the House. Now their findings are being validated.
The Chinese solar juggernaut that Donald Trump can’t stop (video)
India is now the third-largest solar market after China and the US. Will it use Chinese panels and other technology? Or American?
How America’s ego could save the planet
We need some of America’s ego now, just like 60 years ago, when the Soviet accomplishments in space drove us toward a singular world-changing goal.
How to save $23 trillion per year: 100% renewable energy for...
Political obstacles would make this plan difficult to implement, but a solution to global warming is technically and economically feasible.
2017 – A thunderous clash of politics, economies and policies
The Paris agreement may face a major test and even an existential challenge in 2017, if Trump fulfils his election promise to pull the US out.
10 most important environmental stories of 2016
No matter how much ink and airtime they earned, all of these stories revealed some larger trend about the state of the environment and environmental advocacy.
Online calculator cuts farms’ greenhouse emissions
An internet tool is now available which helps to quantify and control farms’ greenhouse emissions released during the crop production cycle.
2016: A year in photos, from climate change devastation to the...
The year ended with the election of a president and vice president who don't embrace the scientific consensus that climate change is real and caused by humans.
5 tips on how to talk climate change this holiday season
The trick is to use patience, tolerance, an optimistic tone – and last, but not least, a keen understanding of your audience – to nudge your climate-skeptic sister or father-in-law.
Eleven cities showing what bold climate action looks like
“The winning projects show that great progress is being made on every continent, and they serve as an inspiration to other cities.”
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.