The UN Climate Process Still Doesn't Understand the Assignment
The original sin of the UN's work was to fail to center coal, oil, and gas as the primary villains in the entire enterprise.
The original sin of the UN's work was to fail to center coal, oil, and gas as the primary villains in the entire enterprise.
It's a schoolyard friend saying "I promise not to tell anyone your secret" and then shouting it from on top of the jungle gym, claiming he didn't tell "anyone," he told "the sky."
A recording of the new director's first town hall reveals how he is trying to walk a difficult line between optimism and clear-eyed realism.
Some new analysis from activists sheds some light on just how deep into the international climate negotiations process Big Oil has managed to burrow.
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."
Looking back, and ahead, on the anniversary of a White House warning.
A growing body of research has demonstrated that hits from tropical cyclones leave more than just damaged rooftops in their wake, in fact raising mortality rates through a likely wide variety of mechanisms for years.
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The fact is, more people care about this than the authors suggest. More people will care even more as the years pass because the problem is not only not going away but actively getting worse.
We already have plenty of evidence of what happens when things better left to governments — which in this case might decide to never flip the switch at all — are ceded to private industry.
A reasonable accounting of the major policies enacted in one way or another in the nine months of the Trump administration resembles, essentially, a series of weeping voids in the sides of various figurative edifices, now given corporeal form within view of the Treasury building.
"I can't just sit back and watch things fall apart."
The lemonade stand owner releasing a report on the increasing demand for lemonade is, at best, wishful thinking, and at worst, active market manipulation.
Some of the scariest climate thresholds are approaching fast. But so are some potential ways out.
Multiple people at multiple agencies said their bosses have told them to email up the chain if they hear about RIFs, because, per one source, "they probably won't be told if people are fired."
It has long been convenient for people opposed to any given protest movement to characterize it as being far more violent and lawless than it actually is. It's just that usually we can be relatively sure that the people doing the characterizing know that they are lying.
For the first time, renewable energy generated more electricity globally than coal. We're not going back.
That's what the "library" will be in this case: a legal-on-its-face way for a lifetime scam artist to continue scamming the American public even after he, hopefully, leaves office.
A Commerce Department employee called it a "wild" message to come from agency leadership. "It's crazy."
Every week there is some cabinet member or other official or striving red state governor laying bare their grotesque yearnings to the world, or more likely to the television they hope the big guy is currently watching.