What Climate Change Will Do To The American Economy In 7 Charts – Risky Business
By Jeff Spross, Climate Progress
Put together by a research team headed up by the likes of former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer, “Risky Business” is a sweeping analysis of climate change’s economic impacts on the United States.
The Impact Of Climate Change On The Midwest: More Heat, More Droughts, More Floods, Fewer Crops
By Jeff Spross, Climate Progress
The 2014 National Climate Assessment, the single largest attempt to compile the science and data concerning climate change’s impact on the United States, was released on Tuesday.
Study: Wind Turbines Are Much More Durable Than Previously Thought
By Jeff Spross, Climate Progress
Wind turbines can produce electricity for 25 years before needing an upgrade, according to new research out of the United Kingdom.
Breaking Down The Numbers On Ethanol: Inside The Associated Press Biofuels Report
By Jeff Spross, Climate Progress
The Associated Press released a scathing new report on environmental degradation driven by American biofuel policy on Tuesday — which promptly got it into an online brawl with Fuels America, a group representing much of the U.S. biofuel industry.
Local Businesses Need Not Fear New Bike Lanes, Seattle Study Suggests
By Jeff Spross, Climate Progress
Businesses often fret that installing bike lanes on their streets will cut down customer traffic, but a new study published at Seattle Transit Blog found no evidence to back up that worry.
Solar report stunner: Unsubsidized ‘Grid Parity Has Been Reached In India’, Italy–With More Countries Coming in 2014
By Jeff Spross, Climate Progress
Deutsche Bank just released new analyses concluding that global solar market will become sustainable on its own terms by the end of 2014, no longer needing subsidies to continue performing.
Study: Climate change may dry up important U.S. reservoirs like Lake Powell and Lake Mead
By Jeff Spross, Climate Progress
As climate change makes the regions of the West, Southwest, and Great Plains warmer and drier, water demand will continue to increase, and the combined effect will place an ever greater burden on the country’s fresh water supplies — possibly completely draining important reservoirs in those areas, under some scenarios. That’s according to a new study authored by researchers with Colorado State University, Princeton and the U.S. Forest Service, and flagged yesterday by Summit County Citizens Voice.
‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ fails: Why gasoline prices remain high despite oil boom
By Jeff Spross, Climate Progress
On Monday, USA Today reported that the price of gasoline hit $3.60 a gallon for the first time since October — an early start in comparison to the usual price rise seen in the spring. The increase occurred despite world oil production climbing to 88.8 million barrels per day in 2012, about 2 million barrels higher than two years ago according to the Washington Post’s Brad Plumer. And about half of that increased production is due to an oil boom in the United States that’s driven imported oil to its lowest level since 1987.