Bill McKibben’s Campus Crusade for Climate
“ Bill McKibben is lanky, soft-spoken, scholarly and engaging. He may also be the closest thing the U.S. environmental movement has to a leader. And he's in show business now. Still soft-spoken, but very, very angry. On a crisp night earlier this month, a mostly-Gen Next crowd filled the University of Vermont's Allen Chapel to see the dress rehears… Read More
Gas Flaring is Wasting Fuel and Fueling Climate Change
Gas flaring in 20 of the world's leading oil-producing countries contributes as much to climate change as a major economy like Italy, new estimates show. While flaring has been cut by 30 percent since 2005, $50 billion worth of gas is still wasted annually, the World Bank said on Wednesday. New satellite analysis of the flares “ that are a by-pro… Read More
How Global Warming Made Hurricane Sandy Worse
There are three different ways climate change might have influenced Sandy: through the effects of sea level rise; through abnormally warm sea surface temperatures; and possibly through an unusual weather pattern that some scientists think bore the fingerprint of rapidly disappearing Arctic sea ice. If this were a criminal case, detectives would be… Read More
Hurricane Sandy Paralyzes New York, New Jersey
Hurricane Sandy knocked out power to more than 7.2 million people — 2.4 million of them in New Jersey alone — dumped up to a foot of rain in some places, and buried the higher elevations of West Virginia under two to three feet of snow. The storm was unparalleled in meteorological history for its immense geographical scope, the multitude of hazard… Read More
Climate Change ‘Footprint’ Cited in Disaster Loss Trends
The new and most controversial finding in the report is that the upward trend in weather-related disaster losses is being driven in part by manmade global warming, since previous studies have shown that socioeconomic factors, such as population growth and urban sprawl, are behind this trend. At the same time, however, studies have increasingly fou… Read More
Norway to Double Carbon Tax on Oil Industry
the damaging impacts of climate change in the developing world. In one of the most radical climate programs yet by an oil-producing nation, the Norwegian government has proposed increasing its carbon tax on offshore oil companies by $72 (Nkr410) per ton of CO2 and an $8 (Nkr50) per ton CO2 tax on its fishing industry. Norway will also plough an ex… Read More
Panel: Extreme Weather Adds Urgency on Climate Policy
The gathering of United Nations advisers, climate experts, and international students was billed as a snapshot of the “State of the Planet. As such, it did not paint a very rosy picture.… Read More
Global Warming May Shift Summer Weather Patterns
The study, which relies on climate model simulations as well as weather data for the past 40 years, shows that the Bermuda High has already expanded westward, which could be making summertime rainfall in the Central and Southeast U.S. much more variable.… Read More
