global warming
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Putting the US in a Strong Position to Secure an International Climate Agreement: Waxman-Markey Bill
The Waxman-Markey “American Clean Energy and Security Act” (HR 2454) is now out (see here for the full bill and here for NRDC’s top line summary of the entire bill). The House Energy and Commerce Committee is focused this week on intensive sessions to pass the bill (you can watch it all live on the […]
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MIT doubles its 2095 warming projection to 10°F
Today’s question: How the heck does the Greenland ice sheet survive accelerated disintegration from projected 20°F warming by the 2090s? I previously blogged on how the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Climate Change has joined the climate realists — the growing group of scientists who understand that the […]
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Climate math: How the “Chicken Littles” cook the numbers
The transition to clean energy, reducing our dependence on dangerous foreign oil and protecting our environment will cost less than some would have you think. In April, the EPA estimated that the American Clean Energy and Security Act would cost households less than the cost of a postage stamp each day, roughly $100-$140 per year. […]
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Broad and diverse support for Waxman-Markey’s American Clean Energy and Security Act
Support for the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 is coming in from a broad and diverse range of constituencies, including businesses, unions, elected officials, environmental groups, organizations representing low-income Americans and people of faith and coalitions combining some of those constituencies. Here are excerpts from letters that have been sent to the […]
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NOAA: Fifth warmest April on record
NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center reported last month: Based on preliminary data, the globally-averaged combined land and sea surface temperature was the fifth warmest on record for April, and the January-April year-to-date period tied with 2003 as the sixth warmest on record. lt is worth noting “the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) transitioned from a cold […]
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Bolivia’s 18,000 year-old Chacaltaya glacier is gone
”Chacaltaya has disappeared. It no longer exists,” said Dr. Edson Ramirez, head of an international team of scientists that has studied the glacier since 1991. Like the Wicked Witch of the West, the world is melting — and fast. The University of Zurich’s World Glacier Monitoring Service reported earlier this year, “The new data continues […]
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Environmental Organizing as Solution to Family Discord
This weekend, The New York Times Magazine ran as its cover story an article entitled “Why Isn’t the Brain Green?” (i.e. why humans don’t generally make environmental choices automatically, even though it’s good for us in the long term). And a front page Monday story in The Washington Post, chronicled how “going green” could lead […]
