Latest Articles
-
![]()
![]()
Three trends that favor electric bikes
Photo: Sightline DailyIn part 1, I described the appeal of and demand for electric bikes, and mentioned that three trends bode well for them in the Pacific Northwest and the rest of North America. Battery-juiced two-wheelers could finally break out of their current status as transportation novelties, helping us rise to challenges as great as […]
-
Ending North Carolina's dependence on dirty coal
As a state that depends heavily on coal-fired power, North Carolina currently dumps more climate-disrupting carbon dioxide pollution into the environment from burning fossil fuels than 186 nations. But a new analysis [pdf] by a clean-energy advocacy group finds that it would be relatively easy to break the state’s dirty energy dependency — and eliminate […]
-
Open letter to U.S. government from over 250 U.S. scientists on climate change and the IPCC reports
[If you are a scientist wishing to sign the letter, please fill out the form on the this page.] It is our intention in offering this open letter to bring the focus back to credible science, rather than invented hyperbole, so that it can bear on the policy debate in the United States and throughout the […]
-
Howell Raines: "Why has our profession… helped Fox legitimize a style of journalism that is dishon
For the first time since the yellow journalism of a century ago, the United States hasa major news organization devoted to the promotion of one political party…. In a bygone era of fact-based commentary typified, left to right, by my late colleagues Scotty Reston and Bill Safire, these deceptions would have been given their proper […]
-
Sole "Strategic Partner" of landmark geo-engineering conference is Australia's "dirty coal" state of
Climate Progress is beginning a multipart series on what has been called the “Woodstock” of geo-engineering. This historic but controversial event will take place March 22 – 26 in Asilomar, CA. Details can be found here on the website of the conference “developer,” Dr. Margaret Leinen of the Climate Response Fund. I have been interviewing leading […]
-
How to be as persuasive as Abe Lincoln and Marc Antony, Part 2: Use irony, the twist we can't resist
I almost let the Ides of March slip by without reexamining Marc Antony’s “Friends, Romans, Countrymen” speech. It is a model of rhetorical brilliance — and a model for “The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President.” Both speeches were built around one of the most important figures of speech: irony Irony derives from the Greek eironeia (”dissimulation”), […]
-
EIA FAQ on CO2 emissions
I came across these answers to frequently asked questions from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. There’s some good information on emissions and conversion factors: How much carbon dioxide (CO2) is produced when different fuels are burned? How much CO2 does the United States emit? Is it more than other countries? What are the largest sources of total greenhouse […]
-
![]()
![]()
Jeff Goodell: ‘It’s a bad idea for geoengineering to be the equivalent of the Pompeii sex room’
Jeff Goodell.To head off the worst impacts of climate change, should human beings deliberately engineer the earth’s climate? Or rather, should they try, with uncertain odds of success and at least some chance of inadvertent catastrophe? Should they even learn how, or would the knowledge itself wreak havoc? These are the sorts of questions journalist […]
-
China and India to report their global warming pollution every two years
Both China and India have now reaffirmed that they will report their global warming emissions every two years. The framework of this was agreed in the Copenhagen Accord which outlined that every two years developing countries will report their national emissions inventories and emission reduction actions based upon internationally agreed guidelines (as I discussed here). […]
-
![]()
![]()
Time to bury cheap coal
In 2009, nearly 15,000 megawatts of proposed coal fired power plants were canceled. To put that in perspective, that would represent about a third of all electricity generating capacity of a state the size of California. This is not a consequence of a slow economy alone; eight years ago, 36,000 megawatts of new coal plants […]
