The Problem With the ‘Warm’ in Global Warming: Most Like it Hot
“Warm” is not scary. That’s a problem.
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Clean Water: UNICEF Shows More Children Die from Diarrhea than Direct Violence in Conflict Zones
Unicef reports diarrhea causes more childhood deaths in conflict zones than outright violence. Bangladesh’s recent history shows even the poorest countries can reduce fatalities from diarrheal disease.
Read more...Second Roundup Decision: Jury Finds Weedkiller a “Substantial Cause” of Plantiff’s Cancer
A San Francisco jury found last Tuesday that Roundup – the glyphosate-based weedkiller – was “a substantial cause “ of the plaintiff Edwin Hardeman’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, in the first of a three-stage process, which focused only on scientific evidence.
Read more...Five Ways to Talk to Kids About Climate Change (and Have Fun Too)
Climate change is a tough topic to present to children. Some ideas.
Read more...U.S. ‘’Oil Weapon’’ Could Change Geopolitics Forever
Oil production as a source of political advantage will no doubt keep official US climate change denialism alive and well.
Read more...Who’s Behind Trump’s Claim the Green New Deal Will Cost $100 Trillion?
President Trump’s claim that the Green New Deal would cost $100 trillion can be traced back to the Manhattan Institute, a think tank backed by fossil fuel investor Paul Singer and companies like ExxonMobil.
Read more...Of Course We Can Pay for a Green New Deal, but We Can’t Escape Hard Choices
A high-level discussion of some of the operational issues posed by a Green New Deal.
Read more...Fracking 2.0 Was a Financial Disaster, Will Fracking 3.0 Be Different?
The latest installment in Justin Mikulka’s excellent series on fracking. The industry continues to promote new and improved saviors – this time, it’s Microsoft – to rescue it from an inconvenient truth: no one’s making any money, despite the high environmental costs incurred.
Read more...The 2020 Democrats of the ‘Anti-Green New Deal Coalition’
The Green New Deal proposal has exposed widening rifts within the Democratic Party as presidential candidates begin fleshing out their 2020 platforms.
Read more...India Bans Plastics Waste Imports, While Fossil Fuel Plastics Pushers in US and China Ramp Up to Party On
Kudos to India for banning plastics waste imports, to focus on solving its own waste management problem. Meanwhile, fossil fuel interests ramp up plans to produce more plastics.
Read more...The Green New Deal: Just Focus on What We Do, Not How We Pay for It
The debate over the Green New Deal reinforces why government policy should focus on real resource constraints.
Read more...Why Carbon Prices Are Not Enough
A discussion of carbon taxes, cap and trade, and why neither is adequate by itself to change behavior.
Read more...How Much Will It Cost to Address Climate Change? Pennies Compared to the Alternative
Not surprisingly, climate change, if not checked, will have catastrophic economic effects.
Read more...The Inevitable Death of Natural Gas as a ‘Bridge Fuel’
Renewables have become the low-cost fuel source for new power generation much faster than most anticipated, killing arguments to use natural gas as a bridge fuel away from coal-fired power generation. This is great news for the climate.
Read more...Plastic & Health: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet
New report by Center for International Environmental Law warns: “Plastic is a Global Health Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight.”
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