Environment

Scientists have known for a long time that as climate change started to heat up the Earth, its effects would be most pronounced in the Arctic. This has many reasons, but climate feedbacks are key. As the Arctic warms, snow and ice melt, and the surface absorbs more of the sun’s energy instead of reflecting […]

China

China’s Climate Policies Could Save 94,000 People from Early Grave

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Beijing (AFP) – China could avoid nearly 94,000 premature deaths and save a whopping $339 billion in health costs over the next 12 years by honoring its carbon reduction commitments under the Paris climate accord, a study showed Monday. The country has pledged to reach peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 at the latest and […]

Climate Change

Man-Made Climate Change Will Give California Whiplash Between Drought, Floods

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By Mariëtte Le Roux | – – Paris (AFP) – California will zigzag between droughts and floods which will become more intense and more frequent in the coming decades unless global emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases are checked, researchers said Monday. The Golden State has already experienced a rapid rise in such “whiplash” events — […]

Featured

Could Saudi Plans for $100/ Barrel Oil Hugely Expand Electric Car Market and Save Tesla?

Juan Cole

Nick Cunningham at Oilprice.com points to the dilemmas implicit in the rumored Saudi plan to engineer a return to $100 a barrel oil. That price level translates into an average gasoline price in the US of $3.57, though in California, with a population of about 40 million. that price would be over $4.00 per gallon […]

Acidification of Oceans

Like Eating Fish? Then buy an electric Car and put up Solar Panels

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By Jefferson Keith Moore | (The Conversation) | – – Climate change is rapidly warming the Earth and altering ecosystems on land and at sea that produce our food. In the oceans, most added heat from climate warming is still near the surface and will take centuries to work down into deeper waters. But as […]

Climate Change

Sweden’s new Carbon Tax on Air Travel aims helping Environment

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By Valéry Laramée de Tannenberg | EURACTIV.fr | translated by Freya Kirk | – – Sweden has introduced a new carbon tax. From 1 April, all passengers boarding a flight departing from Sweden will be charged extra fees. EURACTIV’s partner le Journal de l’environnement reports. From 1 April, passengers boarding a flight departing from Swedish […]

Climate Change

Our burning of Fossil Fuels slowing down Atlantic Currents and Spelling TROUBLE

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TeleSur | – – The findings imply that models used to project global warming scenarios had likely underestimated the contribution of a weakening AMOC, said the teams. A system of Atlantic Ocean currents that regulates global weather is at its feeblest in 1,600 years after being weakened partly by climate change, prompting scientists to warn […]

Petroleum

Why Electric Cars are Better: Massive Keystone Pipeline Oil Leak Twice as bad as Thought

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TeleSur | – – The spill gave further ammunition to environmental groups and other U.S. opponents of another pipeline the company has proposed, the long-delayed Keystone XL. The Keystone crude oil pipeline leak in November in rural South Dakota was nearly double the original estimate, making it one of the largest U.S. inland spills since […]

Denialism

How Trump’s Gutting of Tailpipe Standards will make China Auto Leader Worldwide

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By Greg Dotson | (The Conversation) | – – The Trump administration on Monday, April 2, took steps to ease pollution and efficiency rules for new passenger cars and trucks, giving automakers a reprieve from more stringent Obama-era standards. But in the process, the move could yield global leadership in the auto sector to the […]