Tag: Global Warming Solutions - Page 3
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New York Governor Pledges to Lead on Climate Change - But What About on Fracking?
Andrew Cuomo pens an impassioned piece on the importance of reinforcing New York's infrastructure against extreme weather, but fails to mention how we can help slow climate change itself.
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Exxon Is Actually Entirely Correct: A Carbon Tax is Better Than Cap-and-Trade
I'm actually kind of giddy over all the recent talk of the virtues of a carbon tax, versus those of cap-and-trade.
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President Obama Mentions Climate Change! But Says the Wrong Things
In the President's first press conference since the election he's asked about climate change, and still fails to show enough urgency in addressing the problem, or even really get the solutions right.
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California's New Cap-and-Trade Emissions Trading Program is Second Largest in World
Results of the first auction of pollution permits will be announced next Monday.
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EU Grounds Airline Emissions Trading Program
Is it really progress on a global airline emissions deal or objections from powerful nations that have halted the program?
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Why Bipartisanship Might Destroy the Planet
A climate of compromise is all well and good. But the climate doesn't compromise.
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Keeping Warming Below 4°C Rise Requires 400% Increase in Decarbonization
A new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers is unambiguous: We are hugely off track in decarbonizing the economy and are heading straight past 4°C temperature rise.
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What if New York City Invested in Climate Adaptation Like it Has in Combating Terrorism?
New York has turned the NYPD into a small army and spying operation. What if that energy was put into combating a longer term and less dramatic, but more existential threat to the city?
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World's Most Powerful Supercomputer Devoted to Climate Change Turns On
The superfast behemoth called Yellowstone will run models and experiments to help find solutions to various climate change issues.
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Will We Vote Our Values or Fears? TreeHugger Interviews Green Party Presidential Hopeful Jill Stein
TreeHugger talks with the Green Party candidate for president, Dr Jill Stein about her Green New Deal, energy, climate, agriculture, and health policy, and more.
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Climate Week NYC Highlights: Warming, Health, Faith & Cleantech Investment (Video)
If you can't be in New York this week for Climate Week, make sure to check out these videos to stay up to date with the tone of this year's events.
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Whose Climate Policy Proposals Are the Greenest? Obama, Romney, Stein, or Johnson
As with energy policy the Green Party is way out in front, with the Romney platform virtually ensuring climate disaster.
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UN Clean Development Mechanism in "Dire Need of Rescue"
Collapsing carbon credit prices mean fewer projects are financially viable. And then there are those projects which don't actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions at all.
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Scientists Propose Creating Clouds to Slow Warming
Researchers are hoping their artificially-produced clouds will have a silver lining, for Earth's sake.
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Harry Reid: "It's Time to Stop Acting Like Climate Deniers Have a Valid Point of View—They Don't"
The Senate Majority Leader offers up some strong words for global warming naysayers.
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We Can Reforest the Earth
Protecting the 10 billion acres of remaining forests on earth and replanting many of those already lost are both essential for restoring the earth’s health.
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Norway Cuts Palm Oil Consumption 64% to Protect Rainforest
An incredible amount of progress has been made in a very short time. But we must not stop in Norway. The whole world needs to wake up to the rainforest destruction caused by palm oil.
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Breakthrough Material for Carbon Capture Developed
A novel material discovered at the University of Nottingham could "filter" carbon dioxide from combustion emissions
