The Oil Industry Faces A ‘Crisis Of Confidence’
The oil industry is starting to feel the pressure of climate change. Oil executives, by and large, have not been swayed to change their business practices despite years of warnings Continue Reading
Shell aims to become world’s largest electricity company
Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world’s biggest oil and gas groups, is aiming to become the largest electricity company by the 2030s, as it prepares for a fundamental shift Continue Reading
Top Oil Execs Call for Change as Climate, Technology Concerns Threaten Industry
Some of the world’s top oil executives plan a call to action at a premier industry conference this week, arguing that companies need to actively address climate change and technology Continue Reading
Nuclear Is Not A Catch-All Solution To Climate Change
Polling shows that the majority of United States citizens want the Trump administration to honor the country’s Obama-era commitment to the Paris Agreement to combat global climate change. Under the Continue Reading
Extreme storm in the central U.S. may generate blizzard, flooding and severe storms midweek
European model storm forecast for 8 p.m. Wednesday. (PivotalWeather.com) An unusually strong late-winter storm is predicted to explosively intensify in the western Plains on Tuesday into Wednesday, unleashing flooding rains, Continue Reading
CERAWeek: Equinor sees need for greater cooperation in oil, gas industry to fight climate change: Saetre
Norway’s state-led energy company Equinor sees the need for significant cooperation from the oil and gas industry to fight climate change, and lead the transition away from fossil fuels, the Continue Reading
Top BP Manager: We Should Take Climate Change Seriously
The world and the oil and gas industry need to start tackling in earnest climate change, Spencer Dale, group chief economist at supermajor BP, told The Washington Post in an Continue Reading
Oil lobby group opposes carbon tax backed by biggest members
Proposals to tax greenhouse gas emissions have been attacked by the head of the US oil refinery trade group even though the idea has support from some of his largest Continue Reading
Activist Investors Force Change In The Oil Industry
The oil industry is kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. Investors are growing impatient with even the largest oil companies, as the FT reported. In the Continue Reading
A brutal Arctic air mass is about to take over the United States
Temperatures as much as 30 to 50 degrees below normal are entering the Northern Plains as we close out the workweek. Through the weekend, brutal conditions you might expect in Continue Reading
More than 80 vessels queued in and outside of the Mississippi River due to high water
High water on the Mississippi River has slammed the brakes on coal and petcoke loadings in the US Gulf, with more than 80 vessels queued, according to S&P Global Platts’ Continue Reading
The World Is Losing Fish to Eat as Oceans Warm, Study Finds
Fish populations are declining as oceans warm, putting a key source of food and income at risk for millions of people around the world, according to new research published Thursday. Continue Reading
With Climate Science on the March, an Isolated Trump Hunkers Down
New efforts by President Trump and his staff to question or undermine the established science of climate change have created a widening rift between the White House on one side, Continue Reading
Evidence for man-made global warming hits ‘gold standard’: scientists
Evidence for man-made global warming has reached a “gold standard” level of certainty, adding pressure for cuts in greenhouse gases to limit rising temperatures, scientists said on Monday. “Humanity cannot Continue Reading
Exxon Tries To Block Investor Push For Emission Reduction
Exxon is trying to block an investor initiative seeking to force the supermajor to commit to a reduction in harmful emissions, two of these investors told Reuters. The company, the Continue Reading
The Road To 10 Billion: Where Is Global Population Actually Headed?
It was a girl. On Sunday, October 30, 2011, just before midnight, Danica May Camacho entered the world in a crowded Manila hospital, bringing the human population of our planet Continue Reading
China customs testing coal imports for environmental reasons: foreign ministry
China’s customs administration is testing coal imports for reasons including environmental protection, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Thursday. Spokesman Geng Shuang made the comment at a regular press briefing Continue Reading
Trump team to scrap talks with California on auto emissions: official
U.S. federal officials have decided to end negotiations with California over the Trump administration’s plans to roll back fuel economy rules designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a government official Continue Reading
Trump-California rift widens as auto emissions talks fail
U.S. federal officials have decided to end negotiations with California over the Trump administration’s plans to roll back fuel economy rules designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a government official Continue Reading
Revealed: How the Tobacco and Fossil Fuel Industries Fund Disinformation Campaigns Around the World
Fossil fuel companies have a long history of adopting public relations strategies straight from the tobacco industry’s playbook. But a new analysis shows the two industries’ relationship goes much deeper Continue Reading
Europe set for warmer than usual temperatures in Mar-May:
London — Almost all of Europe is set for warmer than normal temperatures through March, April and into May, the Weather Company said in its latest medium-range forecast Tuesday. Receive Continue Reading
Surge in US economists’ support for carbon tax to tackle emissions
US economists led by former US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen are uniting in record numbers to back the idea of a carbon tax as the most effective and immediate Continue Reading
The Net-Zero Energy Housing Boom Is Starting Here
California, which has ambitious targets to cut its carbon footprint and boost renewable energy use, is a U.S. leader in the construction of zero net energy buildings—homes that produce as Continue Reading
Green New Deal Critics See Red
The Green New Deal, (GND) a catch-all composite of environmental and social welfare programs, led by Member of Congress Alexandra Ocasio-Cortes (D-NY) and Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) calls for “a Continue Reading
The last five years have been Earth’s warmest ever
2018 was the fourth warmest year since records began in 1880, according to a new analysis by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Record-breaking: Earth’s global surface temperature Continue Reading
The Southern Hemisphere is scorching: Unprecedented heat in Chile, Argentina and Australia
Temperatures earlier this week were much higher than normal in parts of Argentina and Chile. This map shows how much warmer than normal in degrees Fahrenheit. (weatherbell.com) It’s summer in Continue Reading
Democrats float ‘Green New Deal’ to end fossil fuel era
Democrats on Thursday laid out a “Green New Deal” that would eliminate U.S. greenhouse gas emissions within a decade, an effort to make climate change a central issue in the Continue Reading
Hurricanes are strengthening faster in the Atlantic, and climate change is a big reason why, scientists say
A group of top hurricane experts, including several federal researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, published striking new research Thursday suggesting that hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean have Continue Reading
Climate change: World heading for warmest decade, says Met Office
The world is in the middle of what is likely to be the warmest 10 years since records began in 1850, say scientists. The Met Office is forecasting that temperatures Continue Reading
A terrifying assessment of Himalayan melting
By now everyone, except die-hard climate deniers, know that the Earth’s surface is warming rapidly and this is going to have a catastrophic effect on the Himalayan mountains. But it Continue Reading
Along the Coasts, Communities Gird for Rising Seas
State officials along the East and Gulf Coasts are pushing for projects worth billions of dollars to protect populous coastal regions from rising oceans and extreme weather, write the Journal’s Continue Reading
Analysis: Why the UK’s CO2 emissions have fallen 38% since 1990
The UK’s CO2 emissions peaked in the year 1973 and have declined by around 38% since 1990, faster than any other major developed country. Here, Carbon Brief presents detailed analysis Continue Reading
150 Congressional Republicans Represent Fossil Fuel Companies Instead of Their Communities
Last week, we mocked the fossil fuel industry’s use of an outlet it owns to brag about perverting democracy — but we didn’t actually call out the politicians in the Continue Reading
Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Climate Denial Efforts Target Media, Cities Filing Liability Suits
The conservative think tank Competitive Enterprise Institute has been busily pressing forward with its mission to promote climate denial, using high-profile tactics like full-page ads in major newspapers. But it Continue Reading
A climate problem even California can’t fix: tailpipe pollution
For three decades, California has led the fight to control tailpipe pollution, with countless policies promoting cleaner gasoline, carpooling, public transportation and its signature strategy – the electric vehicle. Californians Continue Reading
Gone in a Generation
Across America, climate change is already disrupting lives. The continental United States is 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than it was a century ago. Seas at the coasts are nine inches Continue Reading
Australia’s rolling blackouts may provide lessons for Texas grid operator
Troubles in an Australian power grid facing record summer heat may provide a cautionary tale for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas as it faces a high probability of a Continue Reading
BP to be more transparent about climate efforts amid investor concerns
BP on Friday announced it has accepted one of two shareholder proposals for greater transparency of the company’s efforts to combat climate change. Photo courtesy of BP Feb. 1 (UPI) Continue Reading
Senate Democrats Seek Better Oversight of Financial Sector’s Climate Risks
Some Senate Democrats want U.S. regulators to assess banks’ and other financial institutions’ preparedness for climate change. Led by Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii, the group of 20 senators—19 Democrats Continue Reading
How This Oil Refiners Group Rallied GOP Governors’ Support for Trump’s Rollback of Auto Standards
As the Trump administration worked to revise and relax federal fuel economy and emissions standards for cars and light trucks, an oil refiners trade group worked connections with Republican governors Continue Reading
Trump Takes Aim At California Emissions Laws
President Trump’s efforts to change California’s longstanding, but stringent low carbon fuel standards could get even tougher. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday Continue Reading
The non-stop waste of water
Every year, water shortages affect more than one-third of the world’s population. In 2017, even Rome — ancient pioneer of urban water provision — saw its myriad public drinking fountains Continue Reading
Climate Advocates Underestimate Power of Fossil Fueled Misinformation Campaigns Say Top Researchers
Climate action advocates have underestimated the strength and sophistication of decades-long fossil fuel-funded misinformation campaigns and need a coordinated set of strategies to fight back, say leading academics. Among those Continue Reading
Satellites saw rapid Greenland ice loss
The south of Greenland viewed from the International Space Station Greenland has gone through an “unprecedented” period of ice loss within the last two decades. The Grace satellites revealed a Continue Reading
EU plans 2019 global carbon market meeting to determine trading rules
The European Commission wants to help broker an accord on global carbon market mechanisms to achieve the emission reductions needed to meet Paris climate agreement commitments, EU climate action and Continue Reading
The Most Dangerous Climate Feedback Loop is Speeding Up
The carbon-rich permafrost warmed “in all permafrost zones on Earth” from 2007 to 2016, according to a new study. Most ominously, Siberian permafrost at depths of up to 30 feet Continue Reading
State of the Climate: How the World Warmed in 2018
The climate data for 2018 is now mostly in, though the ongoing shutdown of the US government has caused some datasets to be delayed. In this article, Carbon Brief explains Continue Reading
Greenland’s Melting Ice Nears a ‘Tipping Point,’ Scientists Say
Greenland’s enormous ice sheet is melting at such an accelerated rate that it may have reached a “tipping point,” and could become a major factor in sea-level rise around the Continue Reading
Can U.S. Utilities Weather the Storm
Climate change is challenging the utility industry’s traditional risk management assumptions. Many of the most costly natural disasters have occurred over the past decade. While there are solutions to address Continue Reading
Australia swelters through record-breaking heatwave
Australians have flocked to beaches and watering holes to cool off Australia has just sweltered through at least five of its 10 warmest days on record, authorities estimate. An extreme Continue Reading