Senate Committee Approves Climate Treaty
The pact will phase down the use of HFC coolants.
The pact will phase down the use of HFC coolants.
But only if politicians 30 years from now keep promises made by politicians today.
Global temperature to rise to around 2.2°C above the pre-industrial average by 2100.
Teutonic carbon dioxide emissions and electricity prices are projected to increase as a result.
Accelerating market and technological trends will fortuitously keep many COP26 promises.
The policies and technologies they reject as "false solutions" would actually work to mitigate climate change.
Planting trees as a partial solution to climate change has broad bipartisan appeal.
Meanwhile, the U.S.-China Joint Glasgow Declaration is "a stage-managed nothingburger."
Top-down mandates will only slow down the energy transition.
China and Russia aren’t interested in bigger emissions cuts.
The plan would require a substantial retirement of machines that run on fossil fuels.
Parsing technology trends, policy proposals, and clean tax cuts
A doubling of carbon dioxide all but guarantees warming of more than 2 degrees Celsius, says a new study.
A real plan or just a "climate messaging exercise"?
Emissions reductions in rich countries are being offset by increases in developing countries.
"Stop using the worst-case scenario for climate warming as the most likely outcome"
The Breakthrough Institute's Ted Nordhaus urges Americans to reject both doomism and denialism.
Hope, despair, diplomatic equivocation
The "New World Energy Outlook" report by the International Energy Agency suggests global warming is here to stay.
Or, will global leaders ignore them just like they did the People's Climate March in 2014?
It also protects and restores imperiled biodiversity.
"We're working hard, maybe harder than all previous administrations, maybe almost all of them."
No, our kids will not be doomed in 12 years if we don't adopt her Green New Deal.
Using climate change as an excuse to pursue other social and economic goals.
Raising the price of gasoline, heat, and electricity is a steep political hill to climb.
Very little carbon reduction, lots of political patronage.
Meanwhile U.S. carbon dioxide emissions continue to fall
Carbon-neutral transportation fuels might be possible.
Skip renewables for zero-carbon electricity and go directly to nuclear
Despite the E.U.'s carbon markets and vast renewable energy subsidies
Funny: These cities didn't disclose any concerns about climate change in their bond issues.
Is the plan actually necessary for bringing emissions down?
A Nature Geoscience study finds that humanity has more time to avert dangerous man-made warming.
"Only nuclear can lift all humans out of poverty while saving the natural environment."
Instead, submit the Paris agreement as a treaty to Senate for a vote
But it will not bring back a lot of coal mining jobs.
Global emissions flat for 3rd year in a row despite strong economic growth
'We're going to work on the CAFE standards so you can make cars in America again'
Fatally flawed metric or the most important number that you've never heard of?
Underpins 80 federal regulations purportedly worth one trillion dollars
Paris climate agreement will reduce global warming by 0.2 degrees Celsius by 2100
"Another year. Another record. The high temperatures we saw in 2015 are set to be beaten in 2016."
Leading environmentalist groups hated its revenue neutrality
Would it be worth doing in the absence of a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade market?
And that was one year before the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change was negotiated.
U.S. not on track to meet Obama's promised greenhouse gas cuts