US Natural Gas Prices Continue Freefall This Winter
The cold weather has simply not arrived. After the lowest summer U.S. natural gas prices since 1998, the market has continued to fall this winter 2019-2020. The cold weather has Continue Reading
Are Republicans coming out of ‘the closet’ on climate change?
Young climate activists outside the White House in September. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) Bruce Westerman, a Republican congressman from Arkansas, has a plan to help save the planet — one Continue Reading
Steven Mnuchin is wrong about climate economics
US Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin has often been seen as a moderating influence, even a voice of reason, inside Donald Trump’s administration. The American economy has generally performed well under Continue Reading
LLNL report lays out technology pathways for California to become carbon-neutral and then -negative by 2045; 3 pillars of negative emissions
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists have identified a suite of technologies to help California to become carbon-neutral—and ultimately carbon-negative —by 2045. To achieve the goal of carbon-neutrality, California will Continue Reading
U.S. environmental groups plan to sue Trump administration on airplane emissions
Environmental groups said on Thursday they planned to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to regulate aircraft emissions after a 2016 agency determination that those emissions pose a Continue Reading
Worst climate scenario probably won’t happen, scientists say
One of the most fundamental questions in climate research asks the following: What will the world look like when we reach a certain point of warming? How will it change Continue Reading
Temperatures at a Florida-Size Glacier in Antarctica Alarm Scientists
Scientists in Antarctica have recorded, for the first time, unusually warm water beneath a glacier the size of Florida that is already melting and contributing to a rise in sea Continue Reading
Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows
Further loss of land to rising waters there “threatens to drive further social and political instability in the region, which could reignite armed conflict and increase the likelihood of terrorism,” Continue Reading
New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding
Driven by climate change, global mean sea level rose 11–16 cm in the twentieth century1,2. Even with sharp, immediate cuts to carbon emissions, it could rise another 0.5 m this century3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12. Under Continue Reading
Weathercasters are talking about climate change — and how we can solve it
Elisa Raffa, the morning meteorologist at KOLR 10 in Springfield, Missouri, presents a climate solutions segment. For many years, as the science of human-caused climate change grew ever clearer, TV Continue Reading