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Tipping toward disaster

At SEJ, doom and gloom without the sense of humor 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago Climate change panels at the annual Society for Environmental Journalists meeting are rarely cheerful events. But this afternoon's session on global warming as a national security issue was an even darker affair than usual.
Weather Channel expert on Georgia’s record-smashing global-warming-type deluge 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
the spiraling cost of inaction

Global warming triggers more disasters 4
Posted 3 months ago
The ferocity of tropical storms and spread of wildfires will increase as the planet warms. Nonetheless, House opponents of the American Clean Energy and Security Act, H.R. 2454, spoke during the bill's June debate as if there were little urgency for action or costs to delay reductions in global warming pollution.
A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS

The Climate Post: Smalls steps and giant leaps 3
Posted 4 months ago
Hillary Clinton visited India, which sees an increasing value in clean tech. Congress prepares for summer recess as Copenhagen climate talks loom ever closer, and George Will continues to test the limits of journalistic integrity. It's all in a week's worth of climate news.
Dust-Bowl-ification News

“Once-In-A-Century” droughts stunt crops and bring mental health problems 0
Posted 4 months ago
What’s going down, Down Under? 0
Posted 4 months ago
Are our closest allies -- namely, Australia -- who are ahead of us on addressing global warming in fact reversing their course and having second thoughts? That's the impression conveyed last week in the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal by Kimberly Strassel. This argument is as false as the claim that China is doing nothing.
A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS

The Climate Post: Pools of oil, plumes of gas 1
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
The Washington-to-Beijing diplomatic shuttle shows no sign of slowing down. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke visited China this week to prod collaboration on clean energy technology. Chu announced the U.S. would contribute $15 million to a partnership that will study how to capture carbon dioxide emissions and trap them underground. And that's just the beginning of this week's climate news.
The karma of coal?

Climate change hits Australia with a vengeance 2
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Climate change-driven drought in Australia is leaving depression, despair, and suicide in its wake. The U.S. doesn't get this. Yet.
Wash and Dry

Umbra on dishwashing and droughts 10
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago