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Key Points from U.S. Climate Action Report
The U.S. Climate Action Report is one of the most significantdocuments on U.S. policy initiatives and actions to address climatechange. It also provides a review of federal efforts “…to increasescientific understanding of climate change, and provide foreignassistance to help other nations mitigate and adapt to the effects ofclimate change.” This is the fifth climate action [...]
Roadmap 2050 – European Climate Study
The EuropeanClimate Foundation (ECF) has just published a ground-breaking study put forth by McKinsey. Conducted in consultation with corporations andother organizations from the renewable and electricity sectors, itexplores options for a carbon-free European power sector by 2050. Thestudy outlines plausible ways to achieve an 80% emissions reductiontarget compared with 1990 levels from a broad European [...]
Koch Industries Destroys the Environment and Funds Climate Denial
Koch Industries is the second largest privately heldcompany in America and as revealed by Greenpeace they are guilty ofcrimes against the environment as well as being a leading supporter ofclimate denial groups. Koch industries has a dismal environmental record and to add insult to injury, they are pouring almost $50 million dollars per year into [...]
Freeing Energy Policy From the Climate Change Debate
Environmentalists have long sought to usethe threat of catastrophic global warming to persuade the public toembrace a low-carbon economy. But recent events, including the tainting of some climate research, have shown the risks of trying to link energy policy toclimate science. The 20-year effort by environmentalists to establish climate science as the primary basis for [...]
Explosion in U.S. Funded Climate Technology Research
From 1998 to 2009, appropriations for agencies’ work related toclimate change totaled about $99 billion; more than a third of that sumwas provided in fiscal year 2009. In addition, climate-related taxpreferences reduced tax revenues, by a much smaller amount, from whatwould have been collected in their absence. For most of that period,federal resources devoted to [...]
U.S. Scientists Propose New Procedures for U.N. Climate Panel
More than 235 U.S. scientists,including some of the nation’s most prominent climate researchers, arerecommending new procedures for the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel onClimate Change (IPCC), including acknowledging errors on theorganization’s website as soon as they are known. Inan open letter, the scientists, some of whom have contributed toIPCC reports, defend the quality and transparency of the [...]
Is Climate Change Getting in the Way of Energy Reform?
The fight over the legitimacy of climate change science in the U.S.Congress has resulted in other equally pressing concerns (regarding theuse of fossil fuels) being largely ignored. It has caused the debateover energy reform to center largely upon greenhouse gases; but whatabout the extraction and refining process as well as some the otherenvironmental problems our [...]
What’s Better? Climate Change OR Climate Disruption?
A couple years ago global warming was the hot term to describe how our earth atmosphere was getting filled up with too much CO2. Then, the liberals/progressive or whatever they want to be calledthought that global warming might be the incorrect term, becausealthough the temperature of the earth on average is increasing, in someplaces the [...]
Climate, Energy and the Olympics’ Future
Vancouver will never host another Olympics. Okay, another WinterOlympics. They could’ve much more easily held the Summer Olympicsthere these last two weeks. In uncertain economic times the key toaffordably hosting future Olympic games will be to use existinginfrastructure and host them again as has happened in St. Moritz,Innsbruck, Lake Placid and Los Angeles. Global warming [...]