PNAS published a paper today by nuclear and fossil fuel supporters, which is replete with false information for the sole purpose of criticizing a 2015 paper colleagues and I published in the same journal on the potential for the U.S. grid to stay...
Climate change is more than a tech problem, so we need more than a tech solution.
Who can forget the image? George W. Bush’s stupid, blank face staring out across the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln under a giant banner emblazoned with the words “mission accomplished”. The date was 1 May 2003 – a little over a...
Right after Donald Trump won the election, a number of observers worried that having a climate denier in the White House would be a crushing setback for efforts to tackle global warming. Here’s a sample hyperventilating headline from, uh, me:...
Wind and solar power generation is skyrocketing in China, but a large – and growing – proportion is going to waste, according to the latest data. In 2016, China’s wind curtailment rate – the amount of wind power that could have have been generated...
Is the World Really Moving Away from Fossil Fuels? Examining the Evidence. PDF available for download now. During 2015 and 2016, a number of significant public and political figures have made statements suggesting that the world is “moving away from...
The Paris Climate Agreement came into effect November 4th, 2016. More than 90 countries have ratified the deal, which is enough to turn it into international law. Unions all over the world are trying to anticipate the agreement’s likely impacts and...
In 2015, a major study of 24 indicators of human activity and environmental decline titled ‘The Great Acceleration’ concluded that, “The last 60 years have without doubt seen the most profound transformation of the human relationship with the...
On Nov. 18, the Obama administration banned oil and gas drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans for the next five years, while allowing drilling projects to go forward in the Cook Inlet (southwest of Anchorage, Alaska) and in the Gulf of Mexico...
The 22nd meeting of the United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP22) in Marrakesh Morrocco concluded on November 18, having made dogged progress despite the looming spectre of President Donald Trump . (see “7 things you missed at COP22 while...
