The Climate Emergency: Time to Switch to Panic Mode?
The latest temperature data have broken all records…
climate change policy
Duality in Climate Science
The value of science is undermined when we adopt questionable assumptions and fine-tune our analysis to conform to dominant political and economic sensibilities.
As ‘This Changes Everything’ Debuts in US, Leave Your Climate Despair at the Door
‘People are ready for a deeper, much more systemic critique and much more grassroots, radical solutions,’ says film’s director Avi Lewis.
The Collapse of Western Civilization: Review
Collapse is a scenario of decline. The question is whether it is a useful one.
Inside Obama’s Clean Power Plan
This week on Sea Change Radio we talk with two environmental reporters, Alex Guillén from Politico and Tim McDonnell of Mother Jones. They provide an overview of the climate plan and its goals, discuss some political and legal responses, and talk about how it may be viewed globally as we anticipate the UN Climate Summit in Paris.
California First
California in the Great Drought is once again Exhibit A, a living diorama of how the future is going to look for a lot of us.
Energy Crunch – system failures
UK energy customers have been overcharged to the tune of £1.2bn a year, so says the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
Energy Crunch – six months to go
With fewer than six months to go until the UN climate summit in Paris, it’s worth asking: what’s been achieved in this very significant year for action on climate change? Recent news has certainly been positive, and from unusual suspects.
Sue for the Climate: Will a Dutch Court Kickstart a Wave of Action?
In 2011, the Dutch attorney and author of Revolution Justified published on why and how to sue the Dutch government for failing to combat climate change; a year later, the nonprofit Urgenda and 886 citizens said sure, let’s do that. The rest is for the history books—and June 24, 2015 will appear there in bold type.
It’s Time to ‘Do the Math’ Again
A new report released today explains why contemporary climate change policy-making should be characterised as increasingly delusional.
Moving Beyond Carbon Pricing to Tradable Energy Quotas
A proposal for reconciling climate reality with political realities.
The Carbon Divide
NYT’s Andrew Revkin on American attitudes about climate change and related policy.