David Roberts with a sobering report on how our climate change plans are developed with the assumption of maximum economic growth, an impossible scenario if we want to do anything to halt the onslaught: The vast bulk of the reductions available in the near-term are...
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Before I retire from teaching, I wonder if I'll be able to teach a course called "Lost Environments," where I tell students about what were once coastal ecosystems that are.
In a beautifully produced book from University of North Carolina Press, Stanley Riggs and his associates review what they call "The Battle for North Carolina's Coast." By this, they mean.
Cara Pike at Climate Access has a good run-down of the reasons, outside of the broken legislative process which I think is a relatively small problem in dealing with climate change, why the United States is such a laggard nation in fighting global warming. In...
Elisabeth Rosenthal's good piece in the Times on why climate change has fallen off the radar screen has received a couple of interesting follow-up posts, including from Plumer. He points.
Wow: A study published in 2009 — with Matthew Salzer of the Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona as the lead author — found bristlecone ring-growth rates.
In what is being billed as the biggest act of climate change civil disobedience in history, a group of 70 environmental activists, including Bill McKibben and Dan Choi, are sitting-in near the White House and being arrested to protest the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline....