News
Ethanol’s Contrasting Carbon Footprints
DAILY CLIMATE - Feds conclude corn-based biofuels help reduce emissions, in contrast to California regulators, who said they don't. Who's right? Oddly enough, both may be.
Studies Predict Fewer But Stronger Hurricanes
TIME - The relationship between climate change and hurricanes is anything but settled.
Climate Change: How Fast Is the Earth Shifting?
CLIMATE CENTRAL - A new study calculates the physical velocity of climate change.
Predictions of Sea Level Rise Are Increasing
CLIMATE CENTRAL - A new study in Nature suggests that the conventional wisdom on long-term sea-level rise in a warmer world is too low.
Solar Power from Space: Moving Beyond Science Fiction
YALE E360 - For more than 40 years, scientists have dreamed of collecting the sun’s energy in space and beaming it back to Earth. Now, a host of technological advances, coupled with interest from the U.S. military, may be bringing that vision close to reality.
Report Gives Sobering View of Warming’s Impact on US
YALE E360 - A new US government report paints a disturbing picture of the current and future effects of climate change and offers a glimpse of what the nation’s climate will be like by century’s end.
Freeman Dyson Takes on the Climate Establishment
YALE E360 - Princeton physicist Freeman Dyson has been roundly criticized for insisting global warming is not an urgent problem, with many climate scientists dismissing him as woefully ill-informed. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Dyson explains his iconoclastic views and why he believes they have stirred such controversy.
As Effects of Warming Grow, U.N. Report is Quickly Dated
YALE E360 - Issued less than two years ago, the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was a voluminous and impressive document. Yet key portions of the report are already out of date, as evidence shows the impacts of warming intensifying from the Arctic to Antarctica.
Featured Research
