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During his election campaign, Donald Trump announced a break with the policy of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which in his view adversely affects business in the United States. Among his…
The COP21 agreement to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius, signed in Paris last year by nearly 200 countries, finally came into effect this month. Along…
In a world of post-truth democracy, it is fitting that President-Elect Donald Trump's new Director of the centre for Energy and Environment “is not a climate scientist. I'm just...the informed…
It isn’t easy to diet and it may be even harder to reduce the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). A new study from Lawrence Berkeley Labs, published in Nature Climate…
For all of the discussion around the dangers of climate change, one issue is often forgotten – the cost of fixing the problem. Cutting carbon emissions enough to…
In a surprise turn of events, the IEA reported that global greenhouse gas emissions may have stayed flat in 2015, the second year in a row.…
As the future of the Clean Power Plan (CPP) hangs in the balance, so too do billions of dollars in savings. Actually, to unlock the big bucks, we’ll have to…
On August 18 the U.S. EPA announced new regulations to control methane emissions from oil and gas sites.The EPA has already proposed limits on carbon emissions from…
This is the first of several posts I will do on Global Collapse. I am not saying, right here anyway, that civilization as we know it…
Global momentum towards action on climate change is building in the lead up to international negotiations, set to take place later this year in Paris. With the writing on the…
California is not participating in the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) – at least not independently – but that won’t stop the state from setting an example. On…
In 2014 global carbon emissions totaled 32 gigatonnes (Gt). If you’re counting, that’s roughly 32 Gt too many. Yes, zero, near-zero, or net-zero is what…
Everyone loves a courtroom drama--especially one that pits a feisty, but a determined criminal defense attorney against the awesome power of a prosecutor who has the…
The United Nations Climate Change Conference – or Paris 2015 – is just around the corner, seven months to be exact. The goal is ambitious: to develop a viable, and…
Water is perhaps the world’s most important resource, and one of the most common resources. For decades water was regarded as a common good, and it…
The move by California to require mandatory cuts in water use for the first time in its history has highlighted the world’s looming water crisis and…
Last week we learned that maybe, just maybe, global carbon emissions were flat in 2014 even though the global economy supposedly grew by 3 percent.…
China is in the midst of a historic transformation, and the surprising progress the country has made at energy efficiency has raised hopes that the world…
A new study concludes that climate change played a role in sparking the civil war in Syria, adding to the body of research showing a climate…
A report from the National Academy of Sciences concluded that experiments in blotting out the sun in order to reduce the amount of the sun’s…