Climate Justice Requires a Lot More Than Another Plan
Your City Supports Climate Action? Define Action. Greg Harman and Marisol Cortez If there was any question as to what “America First” meant when it came to the subject of […]
Tag Archives: Global Warming
White House Pipeline Push a War on Treaty Rights, Climate
Trump claims Keystone XL represents 28,000 jobs, multiplying most likely impact by 10 times, in latest ‘alternative fact’ peddled to American people President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed executive orders […]
Trump ‘Catastrophe’ Could Spark Climate-Justice Surprise
Progress under Obama had been marginal, but the shock of this moment offers us a possible ‘slingshot.’ Tom Athanasiou/EcoEquity Trump’s election was a catastrophe. Coming on top of everything else, […]
Climate Deniers are Not Little Galileos. Here’s Why.
The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change: How is it measured and what it means. Ray Weymann/Central Coast Climate Science It is frequently said that “97 percent of climate scientists agree […]
Earth to Trump: Americans Still Want Climate Action
The incoming Trump administration may be packed to the gills with those who deny the fact or relevance of climate change—with Trump himself repeatedly tweeting that global warming is a […]
Trump: Erdogan-Style Purges & the New Deplorables
In the week’s following the unsuccessful summer coup seeking to unseat Turkey’s increasingly authoritarian regime, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched an aggressive purge seemingly targeting all those thought to be […]
COP22: From Marrakeck with Hope
Via Donald A. Brown, Ethics & Climate I arrived in Marrakech on Thursday am, November 10 just as the news of the election of Donald Trump was hitting the world […]
Cooking at the North Pole: ‘Freakishly’ Hot Arctic +20 Degrees Above Normal
Political people in the United States are watching the chaos in Washington in the moment. But some people in the science community are watching the chaos somewhere else — the Arctic. […]
Pipeline Wars: Voices of Texas Water Protectors
Voices Raised at Texas Park and Wildlife’s Meeting Against Kelcy Warren, Against Dakota Access, Against Trans-Pecos, Against Comanche Trail… More than 100 self-described “water protectors” sung, chanted, and prayed for […]
Rwanda FTW: ‘Supercharged’ Greenhouse Gas on Way Out
Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are considered a “supercharged” greenhouse gas–shorter lived than the carbon dioxide, the most prolific greenhouse, but nearly 4,000 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere when […]
Eavesdropping on ‘Global Weirding’
Climate Scientist, Dr. Katharine Hayhoe and KTTZ have partnered to bring you this new PBS Digital Studios series that will focus on exploring the arguments, science, religion, culture, and psychology […]
SXSW Eco: Encounters with Visionaries & Techno-Fetishists
AUSTIN, Texas—This week, at SXSW Eco, a prominent conference bringing together sustainable business leaders, planners, and others, there are innumerable sessions devoted to startup businesses, socially conscious consumption, “bio-based economies,” […]
Standing Rock: New Life to Old Struggles
The teeth marks of attack dogs and the pepper-sprayed faces of indigenous land defenders in North Dakota are fresh on the minds of dozens of dancers gathered on the stone […]
This is How Fast the Arctic is Melting
On September 10th, the Arctic hit its annual summertime ice minimum. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, it was the second lowest summertime low since satellite record-keeping […]
Driverless big rigs headed for the highway
In the opening of Steven Spielberg’s 1971 film Duel, an impatient salesman gets stuck behind a rattling, soot-belching tractor-trailer on a lonely stretch of California highway. Just before the truck’s […]
Climate Change: America’s Most Divisive Issue?
In US politics, global warming has grown more divisive than abortion, gun control, or the death penalty. Children in the US are traumatized by a school shooting roughly every week. […]
Global Warming Is Good For Us?
Even as climate change science has tightened to a certainty, we’re witnessing the return of denialist ‘zombie arguments.’ Just over a decade ago, US Senator James Inhofe helped derail early […]
Storm the Crossroads: How the Fracking ‘Revolution’ Gambles Our Already-Tenuous Future
We idle at a crossroads. It’s a harried intersection, to be sure, at a twilight hour. From one direction flow the rail cars of explosive oil, streams of latticed drilling […]