In an exclusive interview published today on Nature Reports Climate Change, climate scientist James Hansen talks about his forthcoming book, Storms of My Grandchildren.
Arguably the world’s most famous climate scientist, and Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies in New York, Hansen’s conviction [...]
Daniel Cressey; cross-posted from The Great Beyond
China has announced it will reduce its carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP by between 40 and 45% of 2005 levels by 2020.
“Appropriate handling of the climate change issue is of vital interest to [...]
A long-standing controversy regarding climate change is the United States’ lack of participation with the Kyoto Protocol. During the current discussions regarding Copenhagen, many nations have declined to participate in binding climate agreements because the United States had not committed to emission reductions. As the second [...]
by Jack Rosebro
A team of 26 climate scientists from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States have published the “Copenhagen Diagnosis”, an interim synthesis report on developments in climate change science from mid-2006 to the present day. The report points out that many key [...]
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The New York TimesThe White House announced today that President Obama will travel to Copenhagen on December 9 to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference. The White House press release says: “Based on the President’s work on climate change over the past 10 months—in the Major Economies Forum, the G20, bilateral [...]
The world’s forests are a critical piece of the climate change puzzle. Covering over 30 percent of the Earth’s land surface, forests play a huge role in regulating weather patterns and absorbing the carbon that we release into the atmosphere. Not to mention, global deforestation is a huge contributor to [...]
Keith Kloor
Less than three weeks before more than 60 world leaders will gather in Copenhagen for a historic climate change summit, the Obama Administration is saying don’t count them out. According to the Guardian, White House officials have told reporters that President Obama will soon announce a U.S. [...]
Itâs going to be a nuclear ârenaissanceâ, theyâve told us. A dormant (or dying) and discredited nuclear industry was going to spring back to life, provide cheap, safe, reliable and clean electricity, and save us from catastrophic climate change. But thenâ¦
Turkeyâs government announced over the weekend that [...]
Due to the upcoming climate change talks in Copenhagen this December, many participants of the Kyoto Protocol are discussing the changes since 1997 when Kyoto took place. Many United Nations scientists are amongst those incredulous to the changes in just the last twelve years.
In 1997, [...]
Here's a new criteria for ranking research universities; who on your faculty has thought about the broad issue of 