A leaked draft report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change paints the starkest picture yet of the accelerating danger caused by human use of coal, oil, and gas. It warns of coming unlivable heat waves, widespread hunger and drought, rising sea levels and extinction. To understand the report's warnings, William Brangham turns... Continue Reading →
How We’re Accelerating Towards The Perilous 2 Degree Milestone
Climate Change: How We’re Accelerating Towards The Perilous 2 Degree Milestone | NBC News NOW The Paris Climate Agreement has a goal to limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures. On Earth Day, NBC News’ Al Roker explains how the road to that milestone is getting shorter and what the devastating... Continue Reading →
THE FUTURE OF SOLID STATE WIND ENERGY – NO MORE BLADES
"Wind power is one of the fastest-growing renewable sources that works well at scale, but it isn't perfect. What if we could scale down wind turbine power to something that could fit on your roof? And be self-contained with smaller moving parts ... or maybe no blades or moving parts at all? Let's look at... Continue Reading →
Ezra Klein and four environmental thinkers discuss the limits of politics in facing down the threat to the planet. Of late, I’ve been obsessing over a single question: What if political systems, in the United States and internationally, fail to curb climate change? It can seem an impolite question, even as it’s the path we’re... Continue Reading →
What if American Democracy Fails the Climate Crisis?
The Solar Energy Manufacturing for America Act would establish a tax credit for domestic solar manufacturers in an effort to boost the U.S. solar supply chain, create American clean energy jobs, compete with Chinese manufacturers, and support energy independence. Senator Jon Ossoff (D-Georgia) introduced a bill, dubbed the Solar Energy Manufacturing for America Act, which looks... Continue Reading →
Solar manufacturing tax credit is introduced in the Senate…
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Climate Breakdown – The Ecologist…
About RBGND The Red Black and Green New Deal (RBG New Deal), an initiative of the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), puts Black liberation at the center of the global climate struggle, and addresses the impact of climate change and environmental racism on Black communities. This RBG New Deal agenda proposes immediate actions policymakers, corporations,... Continue Reading →
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(G7) Tackle climate change and species destruction together, say scientists
For all the grand promises from world leaders to tackle climate change, actually meeting those pledges involves far more than planting a few million trees. A new report by 50 of the world's leading experts has warned that the rapid decline of natural ecosystems and climate change are not separate challenges, but must both be... Continue Reading →
Prince Charles tells G7 leaders to tackle climate change like the pandemic
In an address to the Group of Seven (G7) nations on Friday, Britain's Prince Charles urged the leaders to tackle climate change like they did the COVID-19 pandemic. Charles was speaking ahead of a reception hosted by his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, for the G7 and European Union leaders, their partners and guest nations at... Continue Reading →
Ban Ki-moon wants to solve the climate crisis with kindness
On video chat, Ban Ki-moon is almost preternaturally kind. “Thank you for your interest in my life story and my philosophy,” he says, smiling serenely. At 76, the former secretary-general of the United Nations — who completed his final term in December 2016 — still wears the rimless glasses familiar from thousands of news wire... Continue Reading →
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