Tag: Global Warming Solutions - Page 9
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World's Largest Investors Urge Government Action on Climate
While the US is the only developed nation ed by people who either deny climate change exists or feel that bringing it up will lose them too many votes, large investors are going in another direction.
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If Kyoto Protocol Dies At COP17 Climate Talks, So Does Our Climate
Not only is the Kyoto Protocol the only binding international climate law we've got, it's fair and actually working. TckTckTck's Kelly Rigg makes a compelling case that if we let Kyoto die at COP17, it's the death knell for our climate.
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Australian Carbon Tax Passes Lower House of Parliament
One of the world's major greenhouse gas emitters, both per capita and nationally, and one of the largest exporters of coal, Australia has a rocky road in regards to climate policy. Now, the lower house of parliament has passed a
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Palau Asks International Court to Weigh Whether Polluting Nations Have Obligation to Curb Emissions
The low-lying Pacific island nation of Palau is trying an interesting, if long shot, way of ensuring its survival by forcing high-emitting nations to rein in their climate impact. New York Times reports, Palau asked the International Court of Justice
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Good May Be Practical But Is It Good Enough? James Hansen Pitches Fee-and-Dividend Carbon Pricing
With Climate Week NYC drawing to a close (there's still the global Moving Planet action, organized by 350.org, on Saturday though...) I headed over to the New School to hear Dr James Hansen from NASA's Goddard Institute
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New Home Biochar Kits From re:char Also Support Kenyan Farmers
A quick nod to biochar and the DIY spirit: You can now get a home pyrolyzer from re:char. Full disclosure: re:char's Jason Aramburu has been a guest poster for TreeHugger.
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Odds Are Better For Winning The Lottery Than Being Poisoned By A Leaking Carbon Capture Project
Of all the potential problems with carbon capture and storage projects (financial viability, scaling them to the level necessary to actually capture enough our prodigious carbon emissions to make a difference, being just two), a new study says that
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Nauru Wonders About Climate Role Reversal As Emerging Powers Continue Backing Kyoto Protocol
As the US east coast and New England deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, some updates on progress towards addressing climate change at the global policy level: Adopt a Negotiator reports on climate change debated in
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East Coast Cities' Hurricane Prep Also Good Climate Change Adaptation
With Hurricane Irene set to blaze a path of destruction up the East Coast (and this author right in the path in lower Manhattan), NRDC has a good overview of how cities right in the path have been preparing (or not) for this sort of massive storm--and
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Copenhagen Ranked As World's Most Climate-Resilient City - US Cities Come In 7th & 8th
A couple weeks ago we learned about the most climate resilient cities in the US. Now, Triple Pundit has some global rankings have been released for those cities best working towards using low-carbon energy and avert the
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Global Climate Talks "Dead in the Water": Former UN Climate Chief
In case you had any hopes of the deep political divisions being bridged by the time COP17 rolls around in six months time and a global deal to aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions being reached this time around, new analysis over at Reuters
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And The Most Climate-Ready US City Is... San Francisco (Big Surprise)
photo: http2007/Creative Commons Triple Pundit has a top 10 list of the most climate-ready US cities that's worth checking out. It's not that there are many surprises on the list (just a few), certainly not that San Francisco tops it, Portland and
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Pulling CO2 From Atmosphere Technically Possible But Unfeasibly, Wildly Expensive
Another viewpoint on how scrubbing CO2 from the atmosphere--as opposed to at the point of generation at power plants or (better yet) reducing emissions in the first place--is a hugely expensive undertaking: A new study by the American Physical Society
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Injecting Aerosols Into Atmosphere to Slow Global Warming Environmentally & Economically Risky
Another report on another geoengineering method that is likely too risky to try and utterly not cost-effective: Injecting aerosols into the atmosphere to slow warming (which would do absolutely nothing about ocean acidification, by the way).
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Both India & China Enacting Carbon Trading Programs
A laborer is seen working at a deisel powered crusher infont of a wind turbine. This is a 17.5 MW wind project, consisting of eighteen wind farm sites in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Karnataka. The eighteen sites have been
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House Votes Yes For Polluters, No To A Clean Environment For The American People
The Senate voted against this yesterday: As expected, the House of Representatives voted yesterday (255-172) to prevent the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act--something which was
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Scrap Subsidies For Fossil Fuels & Support Renewables, CCS to Cut Emissions: IEA
The latest report from the International Energy Agency on renewable energy is out and in many ways it's a hard splash of cold water across the face. Among many things, the Clean Energy
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Whitening Clouds To Stop Climate Change Might Actually Increase Warming
One of the more invasive geoengineering methods that's been proposed to avert global warming is spraying clouds with seawater to whiten them, reflecting solar radiation. New research presented at the European Geosciences Union meeting urges caution
