by Bill McKibben Like all proper scandals, the #Exxonknew revelations have begun to spin off new dramas and lines of inquiry. Presidential candidates have begun to call for Department of Justice investigations, and company spokesmen have begun to dig themselves deeper… Read More ›
A global oil glut has tanked prices and cut profits—so why won’t Shell give up on the north? Surprise lurks in the Chukchi, whose frigid waters north of the Bering Strait span from Alaska to Siberia. Logistical and legal obstacles… Read More ›
Recently, we raised the question of how political journalists should deal with candidates for president who mouth the quackery of climate change denial. But the problem of how to write about pseudoscience goes much broader. In part that’s because quack science has penetrated… Read More ›
Average Number of Days above 95 degrees Along the coast, rising sea-levels will likely put billions of dollars of property and infrastructure at risk. Further inland, increasingly warm and dry conditions threaten the productivity of one of the richest agricultural… Read More ›
One of the biggest banks in the Middle East and the oil-rich Gulf countries says that fossil fuels can no longer compete with solar technologies on price, and says the vast bulk of the $US48 trillion needed to meet global… Read More ›
Bowing to pressure from Quaker environmentalists, PNC Bank announced yesterday that it will be restricting financing of mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia. The shift outlined in its 2015 Corporate Responsibility Report means PNC Bank will effectively cease its investment in this… Read More ›
Global warming to cause historic “megadrought” by century’s end. By Brian Clark Howard Large parts of the U.S. are in for a drought of epic proportions in the second half of this century, scientists warn in a new study that… Read More ›
We’ve heard most of the snippet PR that the Climate deniers put out so I won’t bore you with any of those. What was fairly much a summation by a guest on the Bill Maher’s show. Here is the video. The guest… Read More ›
Citing nuclear proliferation and climate change, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on Thursday set the clock to three minutes to midnight. January 22, 2015 It’s 2015, and Cold War fears of nuclear Armageddon have largely faded from public consciousness…. Read More ›
Delaware-sized gas plume over West illustrates the cost of leaking methane – The Washington Post/MSN News The country’s biggest methane “hot spot,” verified by NASA and University of Michigan scientists in October, is only the most dramatic example of what… Read More ›
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