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Our solution to climate change? Democracy.
2022
NY Times (10/28/22), Opinion | Where My Climate Doubts began to Melt
NY Times (10/26/22), Beyond Catastrophe: A New Climate Reality is Coming into View
NY Times (10/26/22), The New World: Envisioning Life After Climate Change
Electrek.co (8/19/22), How New US Tax Credits, Rebates Will Work for Clean Energy Home Upgrades
Post Carbon Institute (8/31/22), Museletter: Introducing TREES
SciAM (8/31/22), This Hot Summer Is One of the Coolest of the Rest of Our Lives
NY Times (8/27/22), You Want an Electric Car With a 300-Mile Range? When Was the Last Time You Drove 300 Miles?
NY Times (8/26/22), The Way to Slow Climate Change Is as Close as Your City Hall or School Board
Rocky Mountain Institute (8/3/22), How the New Climate Bill Promises to Cut Inflation, Upgrade the Economy, and Slash Emissions
NY Times (7/8/22), Air Pollution Kills 10 Million People a Year. Why Do We Accept That as Normal?
SciAm (July 2022 Issue), Subverting Climate Science in the Classroom
SciAm (5/6/22), Rechargeable Molten Salt Battery Freezes Energy in Place for Long-Term Storage
E&E News and SciAm (4/11/22), Scientists Risk Arrest to Demand Climate Action
Richard Heinberg (3/2022), Museletter #349: After the Ukraine Invasion
NY Times (3/22/22), 'OK Doomer' and the Climate Advocates Who Say It's Not Too Late
Inside Climate News (2/9/22), To Counter Global Warming, Focus Far More on Methane, ...
SciAm (2/2/22), U.S. Project Reaches Major Milestone toward Practical Fusion Power
Deseret News (1/13/22), Opinion: America needs leaders who can unite the nation on climate change
Wash Post (1/5/22), France says car ads must come with a caveat: Walk, bike or take public transit instead
Wash Post (1/4/22), These homes are off-grid and climate resilient. They’re also built out of trash
2021
Cipher by Breakthrough Energy (12/15/21), Looking back and ahead: climate tech trends in 2021 and 2022
From the NYTimes (11/4/21), Film Club: "Greta Thunberg Has Given Up on Politicians"
From SciAm (10/27/21), There's Still Time to Fix Climate - About 11 Years
From Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute (9/17/21), The Only Long-Range Solution to Climate Change
From SciAm (10/1/21), Massively Reducing Food Waste Could Feed the World
From Inside Climate News (4/17/21), Ecocide: Should Destruction of the Planet Be a Crime?
From Vox (9/12/21), How to end the American obsession with driving
From Vox (9/10/21), What’s the worst that could happen?
From Undark (9/9/21), Opinion: The Messy Truth About Carbon Footprints
From The Guardian (9/8/21), Vast majority of fossil fuels 'must stay in the ground' to stem climate crisis
From Reuters (8/19/21), Sweden's HYBRIT delivers world's first fossil-free steel
SciAm's (8/18/21), Earth and Environment Weekly
From Inside Climate News (8/15/21), The Repercussions of a Changing Climate, in 5 Devastating Charts
SciAm's (8/11/21), Earth & Environment Weekly
From the IPCC and The NY Times (8/9/21), 1.5°C Temperature Rise Is Inevitable...
From Inside Climate News (7/21/21), Do Leaked Climate Reports Help or Hurt Public Understanding of Global Warming?
From the NY Times (7/21/21), America in 2090: The Impact of Extreme Heat, in Maps
SciAm's (7/21/21), Earth & Environment weekly
An Opinion by Ezra Klein of the NY Times (7/15/21), It Seems Odd That We Would Just Let the World Burn
From SciAm (6/20/21), The Delusion of Infinite Economic Growth
From the NY Times (6/14/21), Our Response to Climate Change Is Missing Something Big, Scientists Say
From Yale Climate Connections (6/8/21), Geoengineering: A worst-case Plan B? Or a fuse not to be lit?
From the NYT (5/18/21), International Energy Agency issues warning to nations to drop fossil fuels, fast
From the NYT (5/6/21), The Lithium Gold Rush: Inside the Race to Power Electric Vehicles
From Scientific American (4/14/21), Climate Risks Bill Could Spark Shift to Truly Green Economy
From the NYT (4/24/21), Halting the Vast Release of Methane Is Critical for Climate, U.N. Says
From The Seattle Times (4/16/21), Clean Hydrogen Energy in Washington State
Inside Climate News (3/31/21) - Nine Ways Biden’s $2 Trillion Plan Will Tackle Climate Change
Offshore Wind Power: Poised (finally) to Take Off on the East Coast?, from The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (3/6/21)
From InvestigateWest (INVW) (2/24/21), Visualizing Climate-Vulnerable Communities
Terra Carta, For Nature, People & Planet (1/11/21)
2020
From Our World in Data, Why did renewables become so cheap so fast?
United Nations Environment Program, Emissions Gap Report 2020
From SciAm, On Climate, Biden Must Do More than Undo Trump's Damage
Good News from Australia, from the Climate Council
NYT article, Belching Cows and Endless Feedlots
SciAm's October 14, 2020 Earth and Environment weekly
It’s not magic: Scientists are trying to reflect outer space to cool the Earth, from the Wash Post.
From Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute, What If Preventing Collapse Isn't Profitable?
A New Gold Standard for Green Architecture, from the Wash Post
From the Wash Post, 'Unprecedented' climate change is fueling wildfire crisis
Commentary from Erin Brockovich, The US is in a water crisis far worse than most people imagine
From The NY Times, U.S. Flood Strategy Shifts to ‘Unavoidable’ Relocation of Entire Neighborhoods. Is climate change finally starting to sink in?
SciAm's August 12, 2020 Earth & Environment weekly
From SciAm, Will 2020 Be the Hottest Year on Record?
Revealed: how the gas industry is waging war against climate action, from The Guardian
An older op-ed from The Guardian by Bill McKibben regarding the Keystone pipeline
Science Denial, from Scientific American
From the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, A dirty battle for a nuclear bailout in Ohio
The Great Climate Migration Has Begun, from The NY Times
From Scientific American, methane's upward trend
CO2 in Earth's atmosphere nearing levels of 15 million years ago, from The Guardian
How to fight climate change: Spread rock dust on farmland, from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
From The Guardian, North Atlantic right whales near extinction
I've Seen a Future Without Cars, and It's Amazing, an op-ed from The NY Times
From the Wash Post and Nature Communications, Anti-climatic. Even if we start to fix climate change, the proof may not show up for 30 years
From Scientific American, rolling back environmental protections...
Good news on renewable energy, from The Guardian
From Inside Climate News, the EPA claims victory in Wisconsin
From The Washington Post, poll says most Americans want more from the government on climate change
From The Guardian, IEA chief issues warning
Review of movie 2040, from the NY Times
From Scientific American, setting a price on carbon pollution