James Hansen
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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.
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The Climate Post: Everybody loves clean energy, but nobody wants to pay for it
Utilities don't want to pay to meet renewable energy standards, so it's a good thing the Department of Energy is attempting to lead the clean revolution
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Obama is 'committed' to using 'whole weight of the presidency' to address climate change
In a Rolling Stone interview, President Obama addressed the collapse of climate legislation in the Senate and the future of cap-and-trade.
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Meet Generation Hot
Every child born after 6/23/88 belongs to what I call Generation Hot. They will spend the rest of their lives confronting global warming's impacts.
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Dust Bowl 2: Drought detective predicts drier future for American Southwest
If you’re one of the tens of millions of people who live in the southwestern United States, get ready for drier weather. That’s the message from Richard Seager, a climate scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observa
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How will you celebrate global warming's 35th birthday?
Global warming will get a whopping 35 candles on its birthday cake on Aug. 8. It was in 1975 that the phrase first appeared in scientific literature.
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Math whiz tackles the big carbon sink puzzle
Inez Fung is on a mission to find and account for every gram of heat-trapping carbon dioxide on the planet. And she knows where most of it is hiding.
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The good news about the very bad news (about climate change)
Cross-posted from TomDispatch. These days, I see how optimistic and positive disaster and apocalypse movies were. Remember how, when those giant asteroids or alien space ships headed directly for Earth, everyone rallied and acted as one while our leaders led? We’re in a movie like that now, except that there’s not a lot of rallying or […]
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Hansen calls climate change "predominant moral issue of the 21st century," slams Congress
UPDATE: Hansen just won The Sophie Prize (see below). The country’s top climatologist, NASA’s James Hansen, writes in HuffPost: The predominant moral issue of the 21st century, almost surely, will be climate change, comparable to Nazism faced by Churchill in the 20th century and slavery faced by Lincoln in the 19th century. Our fossil fuel […]