Climate Change

US Carbon Emissions Fall slightly

Seas Rising ever Faster as Humans burn more Fossil Fuels (NASA Image)

Image via NASA NASA’s Earth Observatory writes: “Global sea level rise has been accelerating in recent decades, according to a new study based on 25 years of NASA and European satellite data. This acceleration has been driven mainly by increased ice melting in Greenland and Antarctica, and it has the potential to double the total […]

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Sea Level Rise Speeding up as Humans burn more Fossil Fuels

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TeleSur | – – The rise in global sea levels has accelerated since the 1990s amid rising temperatures, with a thaw of Greenland’s ice sheet pouring ever more water into the oceans. Sea level rise is accelerating and could reach 66 centimeters by century’s end, in line with United Nations estimates and enough to cause […]

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Cheap German Green Energy, Decarbonization Laws, Pressuring Dirty Polish Coal

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By Bartłomiej Derski | Euractiv.com / WysokieNapiecie.pl | translated by Alexandra Brzozowski | – – Since 1990, the production of “green” electricity in Germany has increased by 1,000% and export rates, according to preliminary data for 2017, just smashed another record. EURACTIV Poland’s partner WysokieNapiecie.pl reports. When Germany was reunified, three electricity sources reigned supreme: […]

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Even conservatives are resisting Trump’s radical assault on the environment

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By Tan Copsey | (ChinaDialogue) | – – President Trump has been in power for just over a year and has enjoyed few policy successes. But one area where his administration’s radical, deregulatory agenda has been successful is in dismantling environmental protections. The Trump administration has not quite fulfilled a campaign promise to abolish the […]

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What Rapid Climate Change Looks Like: the Younger Dryas Comet

Juan Cole

Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – It has long puzzled scientists that the gradual ending of the last glacial maximum or ice age beginning about 20,000 before present, extending into the 13,000s, was interrupted in the 12,000s by another short period, of 1,200 years, of ice age. When that one receded, the earth […]

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No, Trump, Ice isn’t growing at Poles, and Yes, we are Boiling the Earth

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Associated Press did a useful fact check of Trump’s bizarre assertions on climate change in the interview with his friend Piers Morgan. Since Trump is not good with reading books and the like, it may be helpful to reply to his falsehoods with graphs. TRUMP: […]

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In the Age of Big Climate Change we have to stop Farting Carbon

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – This past year is what the era of Big Climate Change looks like. We are only at the beginning of the massive changes we are making to our environment by farting 41 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide (a heat-trapping gas) into our atmosphere every year, […]

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Defying Trump, Multinational Companies going to 100% Green Energy in Droves

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By Frédéric Simon | EURACTIV.com | – – Renewables are becoming the energy source of choice for corporate electricity users, according to a new report by The Climate Group published in Davos on Tuesday (23 January), which shows a growing number of multinationals lining up to meet 100% of their power needs from green power. […]