Governments worldwide are enforcing stricter…
The European Commission has issued…
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…
A man wearing a mask walks past trees shrouded with pollution haze in Beijing, China Thursday, March 27, 2014. Credit:…
Carbon Counterattack: How Big Oil Is Responding to the Anti-Carbon Moment Around the world, carbon-based fuels are under attack. Increasingly grim economic pressures, growing…
Many people, including more than a few prominent politicians, accept that global warming must be limited to no more than two degrees C above the pre-industrial mean, or a little…
The Lima climate talks have just ended. Predictably, no substantive agreement was reached. The nations of the world agreed for the umpteenth time that climate change needs to be fixed…