Gangplank to a Warm Future
Fracking for Natural Gas: “a gangplank to more warming and away from clean energy investments” By Anthony R. Ingraffea, The New York Times, July 28, 2013 Many concerned about climate change, including...
View ArticleShale Gas Worse for Climate than Coal Over 20 Years
Two papers by Professor Robert Howarth of Cornell University, and others, show that shale gas produces more greenhouse gases than coal over a 20 year period. Assessment of the Greenhouse Gas Footprint...
View ArticleAction on Climate Change is a Moral Imperative
“The emergence of the global warming problem creates an imperative for action that cannot be ignored.” – The Environmental and Energy Study Institute’s Board of Directors’ unanimous statement, 1988....
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Fracking Away Our Air, Water and Land
Natural gas is not a “bridge fuel” to less hazardous energy sources, but a grave danger to communal resources and the global climate By Ruth Hardinger and Barbara Arrindell, Creative Time Reports,...
View ArticleA Real Plan to Reduce US Carbon Emissions
CTC Tells Senate Finance Committee: Carbon Tax Beats Clean-Energy Subsidies, Hands Down By Charles Komanoff, Carbon Tax Center, 1/31/14 The Carbon Tax Center told the U.S. Senate Finance Committee...
View ArticleIt’s he-e-e-re: National Assessment says climate change has arrived, and...
A recently issued National Climate Assessment, authored by a team of more than 300 experts guided by a 60-member Federal Advisory Committee, concludes that climate change is already here, and human...
View ArticleMore evidence: Gas drilling GHG emissions vastly exceed government estimates
A new study by a group from the University of Colorado – Boulder, published in the American Geophysical Union’s Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmosphere has found that the impact of natural gas...
View ArticleHowarth: methane must be controlled now
A study by Robert Howarth, a Cornell ecology professor, titled “Bridge to Nowhere,” warns that methane emissions must be controlled immediately if a climate-system tipping point is to be avoided. Among...
View ArticleFracking Study Finds New Gas Wells Leak More
The results suggest that leaks of methane could be a problem for drilling across the nation By Seth Borenstein, dailycomet.com, June 30, 2014 In Pennsylvania’s gas drilling boom, newer and...
View ArticleWishful Thinking About Natural Gas
Why Fossil Fuels Can’t Solve the Problems Created by Fossil Fuels By Naomi Oreskes, Huffington Post, July 28, 2014 Naomi Oreskes: Why We Should Trust Scientists (video) Albert Einstein is rumored to...
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People’s Climate March September 21
Join us in New York City for what is shaping up to be the biggest climate march in history. The first Earth Day. A million people at the 1982 No Nukes rally in Central Park. The March on Washington in...
View ArticleGroups Condemn Federal Ruling on Cove Point LNG Export Facility
FERC approves massive $3.8 billion source of pollution without a full Environmental Impact Statement By Kelly Trout, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, September 29, 2014 News Release: FERC Authorizes...
View ArticleThe Military Takes on Climate Change Deniers
The idea that climate change poses serious risks to U.S. national security is now an integral part of Pentagon planning By Mark Hertsgaard, Businessweek, October 23, 2014 Though most people do not know...
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DOD Climate Change ‘Roadmap': Bumpy Ride Ahead
Pentagon warns climate change will intensify conflict By Bruce Lieberman, Yale Climate Connections, October 28, 2014 Click to download report as a pdfThe image is arresting, a dramatic illustration of...
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The Oceans are Warming So Fast
they keep breaking scientists’ charts John Abraham, The Guardian, January 22, 2015 NOAA once again has to rescale its ocean heat chart to capture 2014 ocean warming Ocean heat content data to a depth...
View ArticleFossil Fuel Industry Must ‘Implode’ to Avoid Climate Disaster
‘The age of carbon is over’ and a transition to a greener economy is inevitable By Damian Carrington, The Guardian, July 10, 2015 An “induced implosion” of the fossil fuel industry must take place for...
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How the World’s Wetlands Can Help Stop Climate Change
swamp farming can provide valuable low-carbon energy, wildlife habitat and a means of depolluting waterways – and help reduce carbon emissions in the process By Arthur Neslen, The Guardian, July 20,...
View ArticleThe Climate Deception Dossiers
Internal fossil fuel industry memos reveal decades of disinformation — a deliberate campaign to deceive the public that continues even today By Union of Concerned Scientists For nearly three decades,...
View ArticleLandmark Paper Underestimated Methane Leaks from Gas Production
Since 2003, a commonly used methane detector has been underestimating leak rates By Lisa Song, InsideClimate News, August 4, 2015 A dispute between two environmental scientists is creating a...
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