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The Environment

International Climate Talks Are Progressing, But Very Slowly

May 31, 2012 at 17:30 | Environmental Finance

The climate negotiations are proceeding at an “unacceptable” pace, said UN climate chief Christiana Figueres today, but progress is being made.Speaking in Cologne at the opening of the…

Shareholders Urge Chevron to Accept $18 Billion Ecuadorian Court Judgement

May 25, 2012 at 16:44 | Energy Digital

New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli joined with 39 other investors from the United States, Canada and Europe, with a combined total of $580 billion in assets under management,…

The Effects of Global Warming being Felt in the US

May 17, 2012 at 17:28 | Climate Progress

In a recent PBS documentary, the mayor of Norfolk, Virginia, Paul Fraim, talks about how flooding has become a monthly occurrence in his town, and how global warming and…

Carbon Isotopes Prove Humans Have Caused Global Warming

Apr 25, 2012 at 16:10 | Climate Progress

The earth is warming. But can we be sure that humans are the cause? Yes. The same way cycling officials were sure that biker Floyd Landis doped with synthetic testosterone…

Never Mind Earth Day, Carbon Emissions are still too High

Apr 23, 2012 at 17:13 | Juan Cole

The first observance of Earth Day was March 21, 1970. I was 17, and along with other students at Broad Run High School, went out with garbage bags to clean…

Catastrophic Climate Change to Hit Africa and the Middle East within a Decade

Mar 26, 2012 at 17:12 | Juan Cole

A new study just published in Nature Geoscience has found it plausible for the first time that the world’s average surface temperature could rise by as much as 5…

Even Keel Needed off Coast of Brazil

Mar 25, 2012 at 10:44 | Daniel J. Graeber

An oil spill off the coast of Brazil has sparked a political firestorm in what may one day be a global production leader. The Brazilian government is throwing the books…

Scrapping all Coal Plants Would have no Significant Effect for 100 Years

Mar 08, 2012 at 16:50 | Robert Rapier

Who could have dreamed solving climate change would be so easy? A new paper in Environmental Research Letters called “Greenhouse gases, climate change and the transition from coal to…

How Severe an Impact Would the Keystone XL Pipeline have on the Environment?

Mar 05, 2012 at 17:59 | MasterResource

Last month, a group of 15 climate scientists (included the now disgraced Peter Gleick) sent a letter to Congress expressing their displeasure over the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline. President…

Energy Pragmatism Dies in New Zealand

Feb 27, 2012 at 17:04 | Daniel J. Graeber

Shell won approval from the U.S. government for its oil spill response plan for work the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska. Washington said it welcomed the "science-based" approach…

The Climate Change Controversy Continues

Feb 22, 2012 at 17:19 | Dave Summers

There are a couple of controversial items that have made it into the mainstream press recently that seem to have stirred a little controversy, and which are worth at least…

Chevron's Underhand Tactics to Avoid Paying for Worlds Worst Oil Disaster

Feb 15, 2012 at 16:51 | Energy Digital

The Andean Commission of Jurists and five prestigious international law experts from around the world have joined a growing chorus of criticism targeting Chevron's attempt to use a secret investor…

Why Oil Companies Don't Want Us Talking About Climate Change

Feb 08, 2012 at 17:50 | Post Carbon

If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting…

We are not Thinking Big Enough with our Solutions to Climate Change

Jan 30, 2012 at 17:36 | Judith Curry

Climate change presents us with a pressing challenge. A global consensus accepts that human activity is responsible for climate change and its associated dangers. However, there is disagreement on how…

Global Warming - Fact or "Fuzzy Science"?

Jan 10, 2012 at 17:07 | John Daly

Perhaps no environmental issue arouses more fierce partisan debate than global warming. On the one side are environmentalists and many scientists, on the other many governments and businessmen, who…

Interstellar Energy Cloud may be as much to Blame for Climate Change as CO2 Emissions

Jan 10, 2012 at 17:02 | James Burgess

For years climate change has been blamed on global warming, which has in turn been blamed on green-house gases produced from the combustion of fossil fuels. However there is another…

In Warning to Polluters, Brazil to Impose Record Fine on Chevron and Transocean

Dec 21, 2011 at 12:16 | John Daly

On 8 November oil began leaking from well 9-FR-50DP-RJS in 3,930 feet of water in Brazil’s Campo de Frade offshore field, 230 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro state in…

Startling the Global Community, Canada Withdraws from the Kyoto Convention

Dec 14, 2011 at 18:01 | John Daly

Canada has announced its intention to withdraw from the Kyoto treaty on greenhouse gas emissions (GGE), sandbagging the other signatories to the convention. The Kyoto protocol, initially adopted in Kyoto,…

A Look at Why the Durban Climate Talks Failed

Dec 12, 2011 at 20:21 | Post Carbon

Why did the Durban climate talks fail? Ultimately, the culprit is the near-universal pursuit of economic growth. All the major players want growth: the US, because it’s still pulling out…

Insurance Companies Feeling the Effects of Climate Change

Dec 12, 2011 at 07:46 | Peter Sinclair

Environmentalists are not the only ones who worry as projections about climate change keep getting worse and worse. So do insurance companies, which feel the effects financially as the pace…

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