climate change mitigation
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The Climate Post: Cancun climate talks limp to a compromise at close of hottest year on record
It's official, at least according to NASA: worldwide, 2010 was the hottest year on record.
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World Bank President Zoellick on the need for REDD: "We don’t want silent forests"
Robert Zoellick has been pushing hard on a REDD agreement, primarily as a vehicle to fund impoverished programs to preserve biodiversity.
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The Climate Post: Scientific papers paint most accurate portrait of Earth’s future yet
Just in time for the ongoing talks in Cancun, Mexico, the U.K.'s Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research has rounded up a trove of cutting-edge scientific research that paints what may be the most accurate portrait of Earth's future to date. Plus, how to blame extreme weather on climate change (without having to apologize for doing so) and what Tea Partiers and environmentalists agree on.
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Climate realism: too late for what?
The elections earlier this month saw the breaching of the 2016 deadline set by NASA's Jim Hansen for global CO2 stabilization, and also moved us well beyond IPCC Chair Rajendra Pauchuari's statement that action beyond 2012 "will be too late". So where does this leave us? For what are we now, officially, too late?
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What to expect (or not) from the Cancun climate talks
This year's U.N. talks could be our last chance to slow climate change. So will world leaders finally get it right in Cancun?
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Bjorn Lomborg's mostly unoriginal, kind-of-dishonest new movie is worth thinking about anyway
'Cool It' is a movie by a lying liar who lies, but that doesn't mean Lomborg doesn't have a point: we should be spending more money on clean energy.
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The failed presidency of Barack Obama, post-election edition
Future generations will judge us with unimaginable harshness for our failure to address the coming global catastrophe, and justifiably so.
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The Climate Post: Earth will take 100,000 years to recover from the midterms' effects on climate
Nothing ruins the opportunity of stopping climate change like Speaker of the House John Boehner. Plus, the Leaf's batteries and Alaska's gas problem.
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Putting the midterm elections in the context of the latest climate science (and life as we know it)
The election results mean it is now virtually impossible to avoid exceeding the targets set forth by the U.N. for "safe" levels of climate change.