Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
•Climate Change 2013: the Physical Science Basis •Carbon Brief’s guide to the IPCC report •Climate Panel Says Upper Limit on Emissions Is Nearing •Is global warming in a hiatus? Not if you measure global heat content •Global warming: why is IPCC report so certain about the influence of humans? •Climate Skeptic Groups Launch Global Anti-Science Campaign •Big business funds effort to discredit climate science, warns UN official
•Dealing in Doubt: Greenpeace Report Exposes Fossil Fuel Funded Climate Denial Machine •Abbottalypse Now •Naomi Klein: Green groups may be more damaging than climate change deniers •VIEWPOINT: Naomi Klein’s Criticism Of Environmental Groups Missed The Mark •The Fossil Fuels War
Energy round-up: breaking through the government’s fracking mantra
•Voters think Republican climate dissenters ‘crazy’, bipartisan poll finds •A Republican Secretary of State Urges Action on Climate Change• US investors show climate clout •Can you be sceptical about GM but believe in climate change? •You’re Getting Warmer: Another Wall Street Journal Global Warming Article Misses the Target •Outbreak of global warming optimism is naive •Flood, Rebuild, Repeat: Are We Ready for a Superstorm Sandy Every Other Year? •urope Floods to China Quake Fuel $85 Billion in Economic Losses •France adopts soft energy proposals after business flexes muscles
The turmoil in the Middle East shows little sign of ending, and the potential lack of enough cheap fuel for the population is a warning that the levels of unrest may continue and even get worse. There is, however, some hope for enough local supply in the near term to help with some of the indigenous problems. Consider, for example, Egypt, which has the largest population of the countries in its immediate vicinity.
•The World Bank cuts off funding for coal. How big an impact will that have? •Unprecedented extremes and warmest decade since modern measurements: grim report from World Meteorological Organisation •Recessions make climate change costlier, Hope family research finds •Can Republicans Take the Lead on Climate Change? •Reuters Exposed: Publication Openly Hostile To Climate Coverage, Top Editor Doubts Climate Science •Australian Leader Scraps Tax on Carbon EmissionsSeas may rise 2.3 meters per degree of global warming: report •Old Tactic in New Climate Campaign
•Chevron granted access to environmental activists’ email accounts •Peak Oil and Energy Independence: Myth and Reality •As Fracking Rises, Peak Oil Theory Slowly Dies •Polish minister denies shale gas exodus by US firms •French President insists shale gas ban is staying put •US to begin exporting ‘fracked’ gas •Shale Skeptics Take On Pickens as Gas Fuels Policies •Interior chief defends ‘fracking’ rules amid GOP, industry attacks
A conversation with two former state chief executives on bridging the partisan divide and adapting to climate change.
•Big Oil’s Big Lies About Alternative •Peak Oil and the New Carbon Boom •Did Global Oil Consumption Slow in 2012? •Elephant in the room: How OPEC sets oil prices and limits carbon emissions
The Thompson Divide has some of the best recreational opportunities in the country. It’s also an important headwaters, but that may not be enough to save it.
•White House warned on imminent Arctic ice death spiral •Animation of Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Volume 1979-2012 •San Francisco city council asks pension fund to divest its oil shares •The giants of the green world that profit from the planet’s destruction •Even A Moderate Price For Carbon Pollution Has a Big Impact On U.S. Emissions •How climate scientists are being framed
There have been a lot of talks about banks lately in France, both because of the Cypriot debacle and because the minister in charge of the French IRS has been caught red-handed hiding a substantial amount of money in some Swiss bank.
