By Elisheva Mittelman As renewable energy costs continue to fall, the path toward a clean energy economy has never looked better. Price drops in the West have been particularly dramatic. From Texas to Arizona to Colorado, states across the southwestern U.S. are taking advantage and setting an example for the rest of the nation as […]
By Alex Carlin A recent New York Magazine article about the climate ruin we are facing, by David Wallace Wells, has caused a furor for describing the catastrophes that could happen to our planet by the end of the century if we do not mitigate the harms to our climate and reverse course. This op-ed […]
By Tim Radford One of the world’s most famous climate scientists has just calculated the financial burden that tomorrow’s young citizens will face to keep the globe at a habitable temperature and contain global warming and climate change—a $535 trillion bill. And much of that will go on expensive technologies engineered to suck 1,000 billion […]
By Michael Hiatt Colorado is now the 11th U.S. state to commit to the Paris climate agreement in a repudiation of the Trump administration’s decision to walk away from the deal. The growing revolt at the state level over Trump’s climate policies reflects unwillingness among policymakers to turn away from years of work transitioning to […]
By Julia Conley As the Trump administration attempts to deflect questions from the press regarding Donald Trump Jr.’s controversial meeting during last year’s campaign with a Russian lawyer, the president himself has kept a relatively low profile ahead of a scheduled trip to France this week—but the French aren’t expected to give him a warm […]
By Andy Rowell Donald Trump is so “isolated” on climate change that the U.S. will meet or even exceed its Paris agreement emission targets without him, according to former Vice President Al Gore. Speaking in Australia to promote his latest film on the subject, An Inconvenient Sequel, Gore said: He has isolated himself … The […]
By Tim Radford Two U.S. scientists have solved the hypothetical puzzle of the century: how to explain the reported climate “hiatus” and reconcile two different ways of predicting the global temperature by 2100. They say they now know why computer simulations and the forecasts made by a study of the historical record don’t seem to […]
At the conclusion of this year’s contentious G-20 summit, the countries released a communique on climate that placed Donald Trump starkly at odds with every other nation present. The communique noted that every country aside from the U.S. recognizes that the Paris agreement is “irreversible,” reaffirmed their “strong commitment” and will move “swiftly towards its […]
By Andy Rowell So the G20 summit is starting in Hamburg in Germany, after a day of angry protests which saw dozens arrested. As the talks commence, the new international “Climate Pariah,” Donald Trump, is going to come under intense pressure from the G20 to reconsider pulling out of the Paris agreement. German Chancellor Angela […]
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