Earth News: More than News of the World “Let’s Think in Terms of the Next One Hundred Months”
The challenge is greater than preparing individuals and groups to fight back.
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Big Banks Finance Water-Damaging, Climate-Warming Energy Projects
Some 338 gigawatts of new coal-fired electrical generation are under construction around the world, principally in Asia, according to a March study by CoalSwarm, a global network of researchers.
Methane Hydrates, The Next Shale Gas?
Governments, expolration companies, and even the U.N. are striving for the next fossil fuel technological leap – accessing the huge gas reserves in methane hydrates. If they are successful, shale gas may pale in comparison.
Climate change begins now (even if we are unprepared)
Right now humanity is like a patient without medical insurance or a doctor, one who visits the emergency room every time something serious goes wrong.
Clean Energy Revolution in Philadelphia: A Photo Essay
On Sunday, July 24, a day before the opening of the Democratic National Convention amid turmoil in Philadelphia, the U.S. climate justice movement seized the moment to convene and march in large numbers for a clean energy revolution.
Not Quite Enough
It’s no secret that the Presidential election has narrowed down to major candidates who are each distrusted or even loathed by a substantial portion of the electorate.
Cold and Calculating: What the two Different Types of Ice do to Sea Levels
It was back in 250ʙⅽ when Archimedes reportedly stepped into his bathtub and had the world’s first Eureka moment – realising that putting himself in the water made its level rise.
State of The Transition, June 2016: A Long List of Advances, a Short List of Setbacks – including Brexit
The list of main setbacks for the global energy transition in June includes a potentially big one: Brexit.
BP: Global Coal Use Fell by Largest Recorded Margin in 2015
Global coal use fell by more than 70 million tonnes of oil equivalent (Mtoe) – a 1.8% decline – in 2015, the largest annual reduction in records going back half a century, according to BP.
A Brief History of Climate Denial
The fossil fuel industry has spent many millions of dollars on confusing the public about climate change. But the role of vested interests in climate science denial is only half the picture.
The Dithering Age: Holocene, Anthropocene, and Chthlucene
If people just hear that humans are destroying the environment, they aren’t given much incentive to act or even think much.
What Would a Global Warming Increase of 1.5 Degrees Be Like?
The Paris climate conference set the ambitious goal of finding ways to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, rather than the previous threshold of 2 degrees. But what would be the difference between a 1.5 and 2 degree world? And how realistic is such a target?
