(slightly dated, but now almost everything is valid...) The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued its gravest and most stark warning yet: climate change is here and might be irreversible. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/tyt/live Source site.
Incremental gains are no longer good enough if the goal is to get carbon dioxide emissions to zero, a researcher argues. For decades, some of the most effective ways of cutting carbon dioxide emissions have been to find ways to burn less fuel. Think of the Honda Civic in your garage that can go for... Continue Reading →
Inside Clean Energy: The Idea of Energy Efficiency Needs to Be Reinvented
The truth about carbon neutral fuels
The car industry is trying to save the combustion engine. Their best bet: synthetic fuels. They're hailed as being carbon neutral and the quickest way to get old cars off fossil fuels. Sounds great? Well, if you look closer, synthetic fuels are the worst way to decarbonize individual transport. Source...
I wanted to sound the alarm about oil exploration and the climate crisis, but Good Morning Britain just didn’t want to hear I hadn’t seen the 2021 satirical film Don’t Look Up when I went on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday. I was there on behalf of Just Stop Oil – a group that has... Continue Reading →
I went on TV to explain Just Stop Oil – and it became a parody of Don’t Look Up
As other countries make "net zero" pledges — these three nations are leading the way. By Laurie Goering GLASGOW, Nov 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — The heavily forested Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan — which measures its success in "Gross National Happiness" — hasn't made a net zero pledge, like a growing number of nations. That's... Continue Reading →
A Small Group of Countries Are Actually ‘Carbon Negative’. Here’s How They’re Doing It.
If you want to trigger a conservative, just suggest nationalizing the US gas and oil industry. “Venezuela!” they’ll scream hysterically, perhaps adding a few, “Iran!” squeals. (Somehow, they always forget to yell about Norway…) Within minutes they’ll be croaking about that time back in 2008 when Maxine Waters — a Black woman with power and... Continue Reading →
‘It’s about saving the world’: Thom Hartmann calls on POTUS to ‘nationalize the fossil fuel industry’
Shuli Goodman talks a lot about building the next generation of clean energy, but she doesn’t just mean erecting fields of solar panels and wind turbines. As the director of Linux Foundation Energy (LF Energy), launched by the nonprofit Linux Foundation in 2018, she’s interested in another kind of infrastructure that she says will be... Continue Reading →
This Tech Leader is Harnessing Collective Action to Green the Grid
With time running out to head off the worst damage from climate change, the United States government is starting to quantify the cost of inaction – for taxpayers. The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released the first ever accounting of how unchecked global warming would impact the federal budget, looking at its... Continue Reading →
The future cost of climate inaction? $2 trillion a year, says the government
InfluenceMap analysis says 11 large U.S. utilities are ‘obstructive’ to climate policy. Almost half of the largest investor-owned utilities in the U.S. are actively pushing back against climate policy, slowing government efforts to combat global warming, according to a report by climate research group InfluenceMap. Eleven of the 25 biggest U.S. utilities are viewed by InfluenceMap as “obstructionist” to... Continue Reading →
Big U.S. Utilities Are Undermining Climate Goals, Study Says
The planet has already warmed by 1.1 degrees C (2 degrees F) due to human-induced climate change, and millions of people are today facing the real-life consequences of higher temperatures, rising seas, fiercer storms and unpredictable rainfall. Rapidly reducing emissions is essential to limit temperature rise and secure a safer future for us all, as... Continue Reading →
What Is “Loss and Damage” from Climate Change? 6 Key Questions, Answered
Fossil Fuel Finance Report 2022 See for yourself which banks are saying one thing and doing another. How much they are funding the fossil fuel. Amazing site! Continued at BankingonClimateChaos.org
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