Don’t Plant Trees, Grow Forests!
Forests are far superior to tree plantations at carbon removal. Unfortunately, the world is planning for tree plantations.
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Climate Activists Target Banks’ Greenwashing in Nationwide #DefundLine3 Protests
Banks fund new oil pipelines that will generate climate pollution for decades. They are greenswahing their loans as ‘sustainability’ measures
Read more...How a National Infrastructure Program Would Protect Americans From Hurricanes
Biden’s infrastructure plan includes defending flood and hurricane vulnerable areas, when saving all of them may not be the right answer.
Read more...The Oil & Gas Inflation Trap That No One Wants To Talk About
So much for concerns about climate change. The Biden Administration is doing what it can to lower oil and gas prices.
Read more...Key Takeaways From the New IPCC Report
A data-oriented overview of the IPCC report.
Read more...Pessimism, Cynicism & Realism, or the Edge of the Volcano
Accusations of pessimism (and why is pessimism bad anyhow?) is a cheap shot at well-founded criticism of Team Dem.
Read more...Florida Red Tide: Who Will Fix This Mess?
Environmentalists decry the role of corporate polluters and the state of Florida in the state’s red tide mess.
Read more...IPCC Climate Report: Profound Changes Are Underway in Earth’s Oceans and Ice – A Lead Author Explains What the Warnings Mean
The latest IPCC report gives a Defcon 1 climate emergency alarm. But are any of the right people paying attention?
Read more...Biden Moves to Protect the Tongass, North America’s Largest Rainforest, from Logging and Road Building
The Biden administration recently announced new policies to protect the Tongass National Forest, the largest intact temperate rainforest in the world.
Read more...‘Unimaginably Catastrophic’: Researchers Fear Gulf Stream System Could Collapse
The Gulf Stream is already slowing, and its breakdown would be an umitigated climate disaster. Yet as always, complacency reigns.
Read more...Often Overlooked, New Building Codes Could Buffer Climate Change
Yves here. It’s nice to see a discussion of a concrete measure (pun not intended) to slow climate change. We need way more approaches that can be executed at a local level. By Emma Foehringer Merchant. Originally published at Undark On September 9, 2020, California Energy Commission Chair David Hochschild opened a scheduled meeting with […]
Read more...‘The Economist’ Notices the Climate
A prominent example of Serious People giving lip service to the disastrous consequences of climate change, with no urgent call to action.
Read more...Hoisted from Comments: What Climate Change Reformers Get Wrong
Climate change activists too often wind up bypassing core issues. Here are a couple of them.
Read more...A 20-Foot Sea Wall Won’t Save Miami – But Living Structures Can
How to rescue Miami…and other coastal cities that will otherwise be largely under water.
Read more...Andreas Malm Versus Property: ‘Because Nothing Else Has Worked’
Is going after property the only viable option for containing climate damage? Andreas Malm thinks so.
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