The Third Carbon Age
When it comes to energy and economics in the climate-change era, nothing is what it seems.
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Sustainable Development Professionals: Does Your Flight Render Your Efforts Futile?
The Break Even Ecological Footprint (BEEF) concept provides a quantitative answer to the question of how long a Western IHE/SCD professional would have to live at a local, developing community Ecological Footprint level in order to offset the CO2 they emitted by air travel to the field.
Fracking News
This conversation with reporters covering fracking in California and in the US highlights the dangers and potential of the natural gas bonanza.
A Nation On Fire: Climate Change And The Burning Of America
“We never imagined we would be on a fire of a half million acres in the lower 48,” said Oltrogge. “Now they’re becoming commonplace.”
Climate, politics & money – headlines
•Voters think Republican climate dissenters ‘crazy’, bipartisan poll finds •A Republican Secretary of State Urges Action on Climate Change• US investors show climate clout •Can you be sceptical about GM but believe in climate change? •You’re Getting Warmer: Another Wall Street Journal Global Warming Article Misses the Target •Outbreak of global warming optimism is naive •Flood, Rebuild, Repeat: Are We Ready for a Superstorm Sandy Every Other Year? •urope Floods to China Quake Fuel $85 Billion in Economic Losses •France adopts soft energy proposals after business flexes muscles
The Crazy True Story Of How A Handful Of Climate Advocates Painted A Red Town Green
Knoxville’s experience shows how even staunchly conservative coal country can be sold on commonsense efforts to save the climate.
Never Again Enough: Field Notes from a drying West
The crucial question for Phoenix, for the Colorado, and for the greater part of the American West is this: How long will the water hold out?
Confessions of a climate change denier
I suppose it wasn’t really until I was standing on the west side of Hoboken, New Jersey, in water and oil up to my thigh, that climate change really made sense.
Why we all agree on the environment
Filmmaker Peter Byck believes that the issue of preserving the environment is truly non-partisan, that when you strip away all the political rhetoric and carefully-crafted media narratives, we all really want the same thing: clean air, clean water and cheap energy.
Climate headlines
•Reuters’ climate-change coverage ‘fell by nearly 50% with sceptic as editor’ •Polar Thaw Opens Shortcut for Russian Natural Gas •Arctic methane ‘time bomb’ could have huge economic costs
Leaving Our Descendants A Whopping Rise in Sea Levels
German scientist Anders Levermann and his colleagues have released research that warns of major sea level increases far into the future.
The high price of materialism
A war on climate change is a war on materialism, plain and simple.
