What are negative emissions? Negative emissions are processes that take greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere, for good ideally. Unless an approach converts one greenhouse gas from a particularly potent form to another less potent one, the gas has to be stored somewhere other than the atmosphere. This could be through geological storage, in a... Continue Reading →
Remembering climate change…a message from the year 2071
Coming to us from 50 years in the future, legendary sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson tells the "history" of how humanity ended the climate crisis and restored the damage done to Earth's biosphere. A rousing vision of how we might unite to overcome the greatest challenge of our time. MORE...
This blog is part of a series on extreme weather. Click here to read about extreme heat and how public lands offer solutions. A 20-year-old living in the southwestern United States has essentially lived their entire life in a megadrought. A dry spell that's especially harsh in the summer has afflicted the region for two decades—and is... Continue Reading →
The climate crisis here & now: drought
The skyrocketing cost of fire insurance foreshadows a larger confrontation over so-called managed retreat. Stu Smith got an email from his insurance company last summer with some bad news: His premium was more than quadrupling. Smith is the co-owner of Smith Madrone, a wine operation in the mountains of California’s Sonoma Valley, and he had... Continue Reading →
As wildfires worsen, more California farms are deemed too risky to insure
The skyrocketing cost of fire insurance foreshadows a larger confrontation over so-called managed retreat. If America wants to fight climate change—or enjoy the benefits of a modern economy—it must get much better at building electricity transmission. Yikes. A terrible thing happened to me recently. I started to care about electricity-transmission policy. In energy circles, the... Continue Reading →
Unfortunately, I Care About Power Lines Now
Black is white and white is black HIV does not cause AIDS. The world was created in 4004 BCE. Smoking does not cause cancer. And if climate change is happening, it is nothing to do with man-made CO2 emissions. Few, if any, of the readers of this journal will believe any of these statements. Yet each... Continue Reading →
Denialism: what is it and how should scientists respond?
I am re-posting this because his message is so salient, crucial and of grave importance. It is a call to all of us and more importantly world leaders. It cannot be over-emphasized. We speak with leading climate scientist Michael Mann about the catastrophic impact of the climate crisis around the world. He says he and... Continue Reading →
Floods, Fires & Heat Waves: Michael Mann on “The New Climate War” & the Fight to Take Back the Planet
Dubai has come up with a genius way to combat its scorching 50C/122F temperature problem by creating ‘enhanced rain.’ The United Arab Emirates city has been going through hellish summers and in response, the National Center of Meteorology has started using drones that fire electrical charges into clouds, causing them to clump together and create... Continue Reading →
Dubai has come up with a genius way to combat its scorching 50C/122F temperature problem by creating ‘enhanced rain.’
Wildfires are threatening homes on the West Coast and in Canada, but their smoke is polluting air as far away as New York. From his uptown Manhattan home in Morningside Heights, Samir Kumar can usually see skyscrapers downtown. But this week, as smoke from wildfires raging in the western United States and Canada rode the jet... Continue Reading →
Wildfire smoke blowing across the U.S. is more toxic than we thought
It is unlikely that you know how much carbon was produced by making your driveway. But if you did, you might think about ways to build it better. That is the concept behind the “Buy Clean Colorado” legislation signed into law July 6 by Colorado Governor Jared Polis. Under the new law, future public construction... Continue Reading →
Colorado Passes Embodied Carbon Legislation — The Most Important Climate Solution You’ve Never Heard of
Just 2% of the Covid-19 stimulus funding promised by nations has been spent on clean energy, meaning that global emissions are likely to hit a record high in 2023 and continue rising thereafter. That is the key finding of the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Sustainable Recovery Tracker. Published today (20 July), the Tracker analyses more... Continue Reading →
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