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  • Global warming set to intensify August heat, Climate Central study finds

    Climate Central’s analysis found that New York City will see a three-fold increase in the number of 90-degree-plus days in August by midcentury.Photo illustration by Tom Twigg / Grist By some measures, the Chicago and New York of tomorrow are likely to be hotter than the Atlanta of today — at least in August. Climate […]

    Grist staff Climate & Energy

  • Neighborhood stores: An overlooked strategy for fighting global warming

    Our new neighborhood fresh food market.What I find most striking about my mother-in-law’s memories of the neighborhood where I live, and where she spent her childhood in the 1940s, is how many businesses our little residential section of town once boasted. Back then, there was a grocery store, hardware store, barber shop, two drugstores, a […]

    Stacy Mitchell Cities

  • India says: Take this mine and shove it

    Last fall, Tom Zeller at the New York Times Green Inc. blog wrote an eye-opening piece on a possible Indian government and corporate venture in Appalachia’s coal mines. And as the Sierra Club’s Carl Pope pointed out, an even bigger coal story took place this week in India. Members of parliament from various political parties […]

    Jeff Biggers Climate & Energy

  • The top 10 sources for energy

    Jacobson the power-ful.stanford.eduI was disappointed when I discovered that the list of experts at last week’s Clean Energy Summit would not include Stanford University’s Mark Jacobson. Of course, no individual is indispensable at such a summit. But as the day went by I felt his absence more and more keenly. That’s because Jacobson is one […]

    Osha Gray Davidson Climate & Energy

  • Of car crashes and Snickers bars

    As my high school physics teacher once explained to me, energy comes in all sorts of different forms:  heat, light, motion, electricity, and even the “potential” energy in chemical bonds and bowling balls perched on top of a downward sloping ramp.  And yet, somehow, all of those different forms of energy were really all the […]

    Clark Williams-Derry Climate & Energy

  • Yvo de Boer of U.N. climate convention says 350 ppm is pipe dream

    “I don’t think there is a hope in hell that people will agree to 350 in Copenhagen. I think we’ll get 2 degrees.” — Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, speaking at a recent meeting with NGO officials. “350” refers to the goal of reducing the concentration […]

    Kate Sheppard Climate & Energy

  • News: Big coal juice down, plummets to 42.6%

    This interesting news arrived from Appalachian Voices, the North Carolina-based organization that is one of most creative and effective national leaders in the campaign to get beyond Big Coal: THE DECLINING POWER OF COAL: DOWN TO 42.6 % ELECTRICAL GENERATION The coal industry and their associated front groups like to claim that coal provides more than […]

    Jeff Biggers Climate & Energy

  • The computer has spoken: Copenhagen will be a failure

    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita uses game theory to predict all sorts of geopolitical and business outcomes. Don’t ask him about global warming…Courtesy NYUCancel your plans for flying to Denmark this December. Send the polar bear suits back to the costume shop, and quit boning up on all those U.N. acronyms (IPCC … UNFCCC … AWG-LCA […]

    Russ Walker Climate & Energy

  • New Study Finds $123 Billion in Savings From New Appliance Standards

    The Appliance Standards Awareness Project (ASAP) and the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) released a new report highlighting the opportunities for saving billions of dollars and huge amounts of energy through updated federal appliance standards. The full report can be found here, executive summary here, and a press release is here. Add […]

    Lane Burt Climate & Energy

  • NASA: Second hottest July on record

    Fast on the heels of the second hottest June on record, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies reports that July is also the second hottest on record. NASA just quietly updates its data set (here).  NASS GISS is much more low-key than NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center, which issues a major report on the climate […]

    Joseph Romm Climate & Energy