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The watchdog organization Media Matters has uncovered disturbing new internal emails from the Washington bureau of Fox News. The emails suggest Fox News’ slanted coverage of climate science isn’t the result of a subtle bias, but of a deliberate directive from Fox News management to falsely represent science: In the midst of global climate change […]
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Spirit of working together rules the day in Cancun climate talks: Let's hope it continues
The international climate agreement reached in Cancun, Mexico established a foundation from which to build greater international action on global warming. But a key sub-story is also the spirit that countries brought to Cancun. Countries came to Cancun, with a desire to work together and find common ground on the greatest challenge that faces humanity […]
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Cancun agreements: A foundation from which to build greater international action on global warming
The Cancun Agreements are a detailed set of visionary yet pragmatic principles that make important strides to begin implementing the agreement reached in Copenhagen last year. The countries gathered in Cancun made progress on emissions reductions, greater transparency, forest preservation, and the creation of the green fund to help mobilize much needed investments throughout the world.
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States and cities are already preparing for climate change
Many states aren’t waiting for the federal government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions — they’re taking matters into their own hands. And according to the speakers at a COP16 side event I attended on Wednesday, the same is true for climate-change adaptation efforts. The event — “Moving Forward with Climate Change Adaptation in the United […]
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How the West is winning against coal
The past month across the western U.S. has been filled with victories against coal.
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Support Clean Development to Save Ourselves
Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed is no stranger to using blunt tactics and messages when it comes to climate change. Last fall, he held a cabinet meeting underwater to drive home the threat rising sea levels pose to his low-lying island nation. A team of scientists in 2008 predicted average sea levels would rise between 2’5” […]
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China plans to continue expanding renewable energy production
China has firmly established itself as a key player in the clean energy sector. The country is significantly ramping up its renewable energy capacity, increasing energy efficiency, investing in research and development, and shutting down some of its least efficient coal plants. These encouraging trends are likely to continue or accelerate in the years to come.
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Colorado is Poised to Actually Close Coal Plants
The holy grail of solving climate change, according to climate scientists like Jim Hansen, is shutting down coal plants. That’s easier said than done, of course, because each year we run these old, dirty civilization destroyers gives us anoother year of cheap power. But Colorado, showing world leadership, is actually working on closing plants. In fact […]
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SF to Cancun: Social movements bring hope as COP 16 falters
Thousands of community activists around the world take action to promote Local Solutions to the Climate Crisis The tone inside the conference center at the U.N. Climate Negotiations in Cancun has been a bit dismal this past week. Yet despite the reduced expectations inside, this morning the international peasant movement La Via Campesina gave us […]
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States aren’t waiting for the federal government to address climate change
Down in Cancun, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson talked about how states like his are stepping up to embrace clean energy even if the U.S. government is not.
