Blog Profile / Climate Progress
| URL : | http://climateprogress.org/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Issues & Causes / Climate Change | |
| Posts on Regator: | 2155 | |
| Posts / Week: | 19.3 | |
| Archived Since: | April 4, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
Recent Warming Is Still Unprecedented In Speed, Scale And Cause: A Marcott Et Al. FAQ
Earlier this month, we reported on a new study by Marcott et al. in Science: Recent Warming Is ‘Amazing And Atypical’ And Poised To Destroy Stable Climate That Enabled Civilization. It was the source of most of the data in this popular, jaw-dropping graph: Temperature change over past 11,300 years (in blue, via Science, 2013) plus projected warming this century [...]
Must Read: Arctic Sea Ice Death Spiral And Cold Weather
The media are debating if the decrease in Arctic ice is related to this winter’s cold weather in Germany. This post discusses the most recent current research about this including the most important figures from relevant studies. Translated from an article by Stefan Rahmstorf [] are translation notes via Rabett Run First, what does the [...]
The Secret To Being Memorable And Persuasive
This is a piece I did for CAREEREALISM, which is an excellent website for anyone looking for a job or thinking of changing careers. Few skills are more important for success at work and life than the ability to be persuasive and memorable. And yet the tricks for effective speaking and writing, which have been known for twenty-five centuries [...]
Greener Brackets: Analysis Looks At Carbon Intensity To Pick March Madness Teams
Is your bracket busted? Perhaps you should have looked at that fourth seed’s carbon footprint instead of counting seniors and freshmen. There are dozens of methods to filling out a March Madness bracket. You can pick based on the combat abilities of team mascots. Or by colors, or your devotion to the schools, or how [...]
Wind Power In The UK And Ireland: Growing, Reliable And Making Donald Trump’s Hair Stand Up
While the U.S. wind market surged and GE Wind was the top producer last year, nations across the pond are finding success with wind turbines as well. Over the last 20 years in Ireland: More than 2,200 jobs have been created in developing wind power. The wind sector has contributed a total €83m to councils, [...]
Republican Mayor Leads City To First-Ever Solar Energy Mandate
On Tuesday, the City Council of Lancaster, California approved a mandate that most new homes must produce solar energy. This is the first such mandate in the nation. Lancaster is a suburb in northeast Los Angeles county, and this new rule had no bigger advocate that Mayor Rex Parris, who is a Republican. He has [...]
March 28 News: You May Take Our Shellfish, But You’ll Never Take… Our Coffee
Vast majorities of Americans want to prioritize the development of renewable energy, compared to minorities that was to prioritize fossil fuels. [Gallup] No fewer than two in three Americans want the U.S. to put more emphasis on producing domestic energy using solar power (76%), wind (71%), and natural gas (65%). Far fewer want to emphasize [...]
Different Kind Of Boom: Replacing Extracted Oil And Gas With Toxic Wastewater Causes Earthquakes
After pulling massive amounts of fossil fuels out of the Earth’s crust so we can burn it up into our atmosphere, we have a good sense of where the stuff goes. Our oceans. A global greenhouse. Our lungs. But what happens to the ground formerly occupied by those fossil fuels? It’s becoming increasingly clear that [...]
March 27 News: Melting Arctic Sea Ice Drives Extreme Weather, U.S Military Planning
Most of the Arctic sea ice that forms each year melts in the spring and summer, which affects global weather patterns and U.S. military planning. [NBC News] “There are tremendous two-way and multiple interactions between the Arctic and the rest of the world,” retired Rear Adm. David Titley said during the teleconference organized by Climate [...]
Today’s Quote, Via Jonathan Swift: ‘It Is Useless To Attempt To Reason A Man Out Of A Thing He Was Never Reasoned Into’
The great English satirist Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was, of course, not thinking of climate science deniers when he wrote: It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. This is of a kind with the Upton Sinclair quote, “It is difficult to get a man to [...]
Why We Must Put Nature Back to Work, Part 2
By Bill Becker, via Huffington Post In its new assessment of America’s infrastructure, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) found that much of it is aging and substandard. Among the systems needing repairs are dams, levees and storm water controls that are important to protecting the American people from the growing impacts of climate [...]
New Ultra-Thin Solar Cell Could Massively Boost Battery Life Of Personal Mobile Devices
A Silicon Valley solar company has developed a method for manufacturing light, ultra-thin, flexible, and durable solar cells that manage to convert a record 30.8 percent of the energy in light into electricity. The company, Alta Devices, previously set a record of 28.8 percent conversion efficiency with another form of solar cell. It hopes its [...]
Ice Breaking News: 2013 Arctic Freezing Season Not What Its Cracked Up To Be, Literally
Will Shattered Ice Cap Shatter Record This Year? By Neven Acropolis The sea ice cap on top of the Arctic Ocean is often imagined to be a monolithic, continuous sheet of ice floating on water. A closer look quickly shows it is rather a collection of larger and smaller pieces of sea ice. Of course, [...]
Obama Administration To Protect More Than 240,000 Acres Of American Treasures
President Obama plans to use his executive authority to permanently protect five new national monuments next week. This marks a significant step for the administration: It is now willing to step in and protect special places when Congress refuses to act. The new monuments will be: - Rio Grande del Norte, in New Mexico - [...]
GOP Voting For House Budget’s Big Oil Giveaway Receive $38 Million In Oil Cash
By a vote of 221-207, Republicans passed Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) budget for the third consecutive year. The House Republican budget slashes funding for poverty programs and dramatically transforms Medicare for seniors, all while it grants tax breaks to special interests like Big Oil. Ryan’s budget could mean a $2.3 billion additional tax break for [...]
GOP Congressman: ‘The Best Thing About The Earth Is If You Poke Holes In It Oil And Gas Come Out’
The planet we live on is valuable only as a repository for natural resources, according to Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX). Stockman, a lawmaker best known for bringing Ted Nugent to the State of the Union and opposing the Violence Against Women Act because it protected “change-gender” individuals, went on an extended Twitter rant Thursday afternoon [...]
Must-See TEDx Video: Climate Change Is Simple
So I’m using the excuse that I’m still recovering from pancreatic surgery to finish and update some old draft pieces. I never got around to posting a great Dave Roberts TEDx talk from, well, June, but in October, it was given a soundtrack and cool videos, so technically I’m only 5 months late. Plus, just [...]
How The EPA Could Help Cut Carbon Emissions 17 Percent By 2020
On Monday the Senate held a symposium under the auspices of Sen. Tom Carper’s (D-DE) office — “Climate Change Actions under the Clean Air Act: Reducing Power Plant Emissions without Harming the Economy” — bringing together representatives from both clean energy groups and the energy industry to explore how greenhouse gas emissions from new and [...]
Weather Extremes: Atmospheric Waves And Climate Change
By Vladimir Petoukhov and Stefan Rahmstorf, via The Conversation The northern hemisphere has experienced a spate of extreme weather in recent times. In 2012 there were destructive heat waves in the U.S. and southern Europe, accompanied by floods in China. This followed a heat wave in the U.S. in 2011 and one in Russia in [...]
John Kerry Says ‘The Science Is Screaming At Us’ But Would Approving Keystone Destroy His Climate Credibility?
Secretary of State John Kerry delivered another set of powerful remarks on climate change last night. But all his poignant words will come to nought — indeed, they’ll come back to haunt him — if he makes the wrong decision on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. How precisely could Kerry lobby other countries to [...]