Renewables ‘Have Won the Race’ against Coal and Are Starting to Beat Natural Gas
By Joe Romm, Climate Progress
The rapidly dropping cost of renewable energy has upended energy economics in recent years, with new solar and wind plants now significantly cheaper than coal power.
‘Spectacular’ Price Drops for Clean Energy Obliterate the Cost Arguments against Green New Deal
By Joe Romm, Climate Progress
Modernizing and decarbonizing the country’s aging energy infrastructure now has so many economic, environmental, and health benefits that the overall benefit of strong climate action would be enormous.
Scientists Find that We are Living Through a Record-Setting ‘Period of Significant Warmth’
By Joe Romm, Climate Progress
In 2018, a remarkable 29 countries plus Antarctica set individual records for the hottest year ever. Meanwhile, no country saw a record cold year.
The Most Dangerous Climate Feedback Loop is Speeding Up
By Joe Romm, Climate Progress
Thawing permafrost is an especially dangerous amplifying feedback loop because the global permafrost contains twice as much carbon as the atmosphere does today .
The Midterms were Good for Climate Candidates but Disastrous for the Climate
By Joe Romm, Climate Progress
Democrats campaigning on climate action and clean energy did very well around the country election night. It’s clearly a winning issue, as the polls have long said. But two key results of the election are bad news for the climate — and together they pose a very difficult challenge to the kind of near-term climate action that’s needed to avoid catastrophic climate change.
Florence is Not the ‘New Normal’. We’ve Destroyed Normal Forever.
By Joe Romm, Climate Progress
You’ve probably seen the term “new normal” used to describe how human caused climate change has forever changed the kind of weather we can expect.
The U.S. Just Suffered the Hottest May-June-July on Record
By Joe Romm, Climate Progress
For the three-month period of May to July, the entire contiguous United States (CONUS) “ranked hottest on record,” as the National Weather Service in Los Angeles, California tweeted out Wednesday, adding that “records go back to 1895.”
New Study on the Collapse of Mayan Civilization Should be Climate Wake-up Call
By Joe Romm, Climate Progress
A new study finds that it was a severe and long-lasting megadrought that destroyed the great Mayan civilization a thousand years ago. But the research has ominous relevance for us today...