The Problem With the ‘Warm’ in Global Warming: Most Like it Hot
“Warm” is not scary. That’s a problem.
Read more...“Warm” is not scary. That’s a problem.
Read more...Unicef reports diarrhea causes more childhood deaths in conflict zones than outright violence. Bangladesh’s recent history shows even the poorest countries can reduce fatalities from diarrheal disease.
Read more...Tropical cyclone Idai may be a harbinger of further catastrophic coastal storms; climate change projections suggest the number of intense hurricanes will rise.
Read more...Climate change is a tough topic to present to children. Some ideas.
Read more...Oil production as a source of political advantage will no doubt keep official US climate change denialism alive and well.
Read more...A high-level discussion of some of the operational issues posed by a Green New Deal.
Read more...The latest installment in Justin Mikulka’s excellent series on fracking. The industry continues to promote new and improved saviors – this time, it’s Microsoft – to rescue it from an inconvenient truth: no one’s making any money, despite the high environmental costs incurred.
Read more...The Green New Deal proposal has exposed widening rifts within the Democratic Party as presidential candidates begin fleshing out their 2020 platforms.
Read more...Kudos to India for banning plastics waste imports, to focus on solving its own waste management problem. Meanwhile, fossil fuel interests ramp up plans to produce more plastics.
Read more...Gail Tverberg extends her peak oil analysis to coal and finds a similar pattern.
Read more...The debate over the Green New Deal reinforces why government policy should focus on real resource constraints.
Read more...A discussion of carbon taxes, cap and trade, and why neither is adequate by itself to change behavior.
Read more...Not surprisingly, climate change, if not checked, will have catastrophic economic effects.
Read more...Renewables have become the low-cost fuel source for new power generation much faster than most anticipated, killing arguments to use natural gas as a bridge fuel away from coal-fired power generation. This is great news for the climate.
Read more...A review of the massive new study on insect population decline and its drivers.
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