“Blow wind and crack your cheeks”: introducing a month on living with climate change
This month our theme is "living with climate change". We’ll be exploring that from a variety of angles…
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Climate change: Evidence and Policy
Reports on climate change evidence and causes, legislation, and geoengineering.
Living with Climate Change: Joanne Poyourow in Los Angeles
No water. That pretty much sums up living with climate change around here, in Los Angeles.
The Energy Crisis
Like many others who preceded us, our "civilisation" faces an Energy Crisis of megawattic proportions, which threatens to bring an end to our brief joyride.
Apocalypse Not: The Oscars, The Media And The Myth Of ‘Constant Repetition Of Doomsday Messages’ On Climate
Since this was Oscar night, it seems appropriate to update my post on what messages the public are exposed to in popular culture and the media.
State Senator’s Proposal Moves from Cap & Trade to Fee & Rebate
A win in California for a new fuel tax could shift the national conversation, encourage other states to try it, and give major boost to the "fee and dividend" position at the national level.
Climate politics: a melting glacier…
The great floods across parts of southern England may have abated, but questions over their linkage to climate change are among the most powerful residues.
Coal gasification, fracking, and natural gas headlines
•Fire in the hole: After fracking comes coal •Triple Divide Interview: Mark Ruffalo Fracking Documentary •Colorado First State to Clamp Down on Fracking Methane Pollution •Are we underestimating natural gas emissions? •China’s Plan to Clean Up Air in Cities Will Doom the Climate, Scientists Say •The CEO of Exxon loves fracking, as long as it doesn’t spoil his view •This artist creates fracking scenes with vintage figurines and postcards
Is Weird Winter Weather Related to Climate Change?
Scientists are trying to understand if the unusual weather in the Northern Hemisphere this winter — from record heat in Alaska to unprecedented flooding in Britain — is linked to climate change.
Can Austin survive the current Texas drought? Part 1
There is sound science that says there is likely to be big trouble, even in supplying Austin’s current population with enough water.
Energy Crunch: A new political consensus on climate change?
Climate change is back in the headlines in the US and also in the UK.
The rising of the waters
For the last few weeks, the south of England has been flooded, to a degree that hasn’t been seen for years – even though ‘the floods’ have become, quietly unacknowledged, an annual event now.
