Category Archives: Carbon Emissions

Got journalism? The New York Times spotlights methane emissions

The New York Times as a nice piece on methane emissions from oil and gas production facilities, complete with powerful infrared images. Holding the fossil fuel industry accountable starts with…

Climate reports paint a grim picture

A quartet of recent climate reports neatly frames the emergency humanity finds itself in: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Arctic Report Card documents carbon emissions from melting permafrost. Here’s…

McKibben: defund the fossil fuel industry

The latest climate reports (UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 1.5°C warming report, US Fourth National Climate Assessment, IPCC land use report), make it obvious that time is short for…

Local reporting on climate change: heartland edition

Now that the action on fighting climate change has shifted to state and local levels, much of the work on reporting about that action has fallen to local and regional…

How-to guide aims to grease the skids for climate legislation

If cities and states are shouldering much of the burden of fighting climate change, it’s important that they have all the resources they need to draft effective legislation for curbing…

Cities and states show the way on net-zero buildings

Vox’s David Roberts pointed out that the work of a key aspect of the Green New Deal – net-zero buildings – is already underway in several states and cities. Anyone…

The danger ahead and the Green New Deal

The Fourth National Climate Assessment is the latest in a drumbeat of bad news about climate change. The numbers are clear, climate change is going to cause increasing amounts of…

Doom and hope

It’s been difficult to think about climate change during this time of deeply counterproductive practices and policies. Then the IPCC’s latest report came out. The impacts and costs of 2.7…

Want negative carbon emissions? Keep older, diverse forests around

Growing and preserving forests is a more effective use of land for producing negative carbon emissions than Biomass Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS), according to a paper in…

The heat is rising – as is fossil fuel’s toll on fresh water

May, June and July were the hottest on record for the continental United States. No surprise to those of us living here. From Joe Romm’s summation of NOAA’s report on…