From The Toronto Sun We pay to reduce our emissions, other nations hide theirs By Lorrie Goldstein, Toronto Sun First posted: Saturday, August 12, 2017 02:04 PM EDT | Updated: Saturday, August 12, 2017 02:06 PM EDT One thing you learn on the climate change beat is that the best journalism is done overseas. In…
Energy From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch President Donald Trump will rescind an Obama administration policy requiring government agencies to take into account global warming-induced flooding and sea level rise for federally-funded projects. Trump will repeal the climate order that President Barack Obama signed in 2015 as part of a broader effort to streamline infrastructure…
From The BBC. By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent Image copyright MARTIN BERNETTI Image caption Campaigners hope to plant enough trees to offset the climate impact of President Trump A campaign to plant trees to compensate for the impact of President Trump’s climate policies has 120,000 pledges. The project was started by campaigners upset at what…
A Quick Note from Kip Hansen A quick note for the amusement of the bored but curious. While in search of something else, I ran across this enlightening page from the folks at UCAR/NCAR [The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/The National Center for Atmospheric Research — see pdf here for more information]: “What is…
Guest post by David Middleton The current draft of the report can be found here: Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), Fifth-Order Draft (5OD) After a cursory review of the document, a few items are worth noting. Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) A third difference between the RCPs and previous scenarios is that while none of the SRES…
I received this email tip from reader Thomas Bakewell (HT, HT) who wrote: Pen Hadow, of the 2009 Caitlin Arctic Expedition is on the loose again! Here’s the link to the BBC story which is mostly a short video. Here is a quote: British explorer Pen Hadow and his crew have set sail from Alaska, in an attempt…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Pakistan has noticed their share of the $100 billion per annum climate cash they were promised has not started appearing in their bank accounts. Pakistan needs access to global funds to cope with climate change By Awais Umar Published: August 14, 2017 ISLAMABAD: The world’s geographical history shows that climate…
Public Release: 14-Aug-2017 American Geophysical Union From Eurekalert WASHINGTON D.C. — The Montreal Protocol, the international treaty adopted to restore Earth’s protective ozone layer in 1989, has significantly reduced emissions of ozone-depleting chemicals from the United States. In a twist, a new study shows the 30-year old treaty has had a major side benefit of…
Energy From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch 3:06 PM 08/14/2017 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Neil Chatterjee said he would look for ways to “properly compensate” coal plants for providing reliable electricity during his time as a top energy regulator. “These are essential to national security. And to that end, I believe baseload power…
From Climate Sceptism Posted on 13 Aug 17 by Paul Matthews In many ways, the climate debate has hardly changed since I got interested in it about ten years ago. Public opinion wobbles up and down with hardly any real change. The same tired arguments and claims come round again: every climate conference is the…
Both government and news media thrive on end-of-days narrative. Guest opinion by Chris Horner Another week of the Trump presidency, another bout of fevered reporting on claims promoted by the career (and holdover) federal employee “resistance.” But particularly when it comes to climate change, it seems the ordinary way of doing things is simply too…
By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: While we obsess about climate change and debate if we live in the Anthropocene, we prepare poorly or not at all for natural forces like volcanoes that can level cities. This is folly we can no longer afford. Experts recommend a simple first step to better…
