Category: Climate & Energy

Oy vey. Continue reading Cuomo links Boston Marathon bombing to global warming

“Failing to act or delaying action may put pressure on EU cohesion. Climate change impacts are also expected to widen social differences across the EU.” Continue reading EU Document: Failure to act on global warming reducing EU ‘cohesion’

“The six trillion dollar bet is that this calculation remains entirely theoretical, and that fossil-fuel companies will be allowed to keep pumping up the carbon bubble by investing more cash to turn resources into reserves, and continue booking them at full value, assuming zero risk of devaluation.” Continue reading McKibben-think: Fear of climate agreement will force pension funds to abandon $6 trillion in fossil fuel investments

Earth to Al: First, the industrial revolution is not over — but much of it has moved to China. Second, the IR has not peaked. We may burn much more coal today than 100 years ago, but we create much more wealth with the coal we burn. Continue reading Why Al Gore is wrong about us burning 80x more coal than at the peak of the Industrial Revolution

“U.S. construction workers, environmentalists and company executives squared off on Thursday at a raucous meeting on the Keystone XL oil pipeline, but it was unclear the gathering changed any minds on the controversial project.” Continue reading Enviros decry Keystone XL as ‘global genocide’ at public hearings in Nebraska

No one alive today will see the end of fossil fuel use. Continue reading New Scare: The Carbon Bubble — Are $6 trillion in fossil fuel investment really going to go ‘poof’ because there is no global warming?

The New York Times reports. Bill McKibben takes it from there. Continue reading McKibben already blaming next week’s potential Mississippi flooding on global warming

Some really funny material from Andrew McKillop. Continue reading Former EU Energy analyst rips failed Kyoto carbon trading system

“An Environment Canada document leaked to the Climate Action Network states that ‘media coverage of climate change science, our most high-profile issue, has been reduced by over 80 per cent.'” Continue reading What’s really melting — Media coverage of global warming: Down 80%, according to Canadian government

“Britain’s Met Office has fingered climate change as a possible factor in the bitterly cold start to spring that froze newborn lambs to death and scared shoppers from windswept high streets.” Continue reading UK Met Office: ‘Too early to be sure’ global warming to blame for second coldest March since 1910

Reason #2: The National Journal says there are no electoral consequences to Congressional Republicans for opposing action on climate. Continue reading House Energy Committee Chair Fred Upton: ‘Frankly, a lot of us believe Republicans are in the majority because of cap-and-trade’

One of the National Journal’s reasons for climate change going nowhere in Congress. Continue reading National Journal: No strong scientific consensus on how global warming will affect people