New York Times - Climate Section
A Climate Summit Begins With Fossil Fuels, and Frustration, Going Strong
After decades of meetings, nations still haven’t agreed to curb the main driver of global warming. David Gelles is part of the team covering COP28 in Dubai. As leaders from nearly every nation on the planet gather on Thursday in the United Arab Emirates to confront global warming, many are...
Carriers want to replace jet fuel with ethanol to fight global warming. That would require lots of corn, and lots of water. Part of a series on the causes and consequences of disappearing water. Vast stretches of America are dominated by corn, nearly 100 million acres of it, stretching from Ohio...
Announced at COP28 Climate Talks: This Year Is Hottest in Recorded History
Scientists confirmed another year of extreme temperatures as world leaders gathered in Dubai for a U.N. summit on global warming. This year is “virtually certain” to be the hottest year in recorded history, the World Meteorological Organization announced on Thursday at COP28, the United Nations...
PHYS.ORG - Earth
Climate change worsened Chinese extreme heat and flooding event in 2020: Study
Man-made global warming exacerbated an incident of extreme flooding and heat in eastern China in 2020, according to a study released Wednesday, which highlighted the need to prepare for increasingly intense episodes of such weather in the country. Researchers said that warming created by human...
Climate Change News - Politics
UN climate change head Simon Stiell walks around the Expo City venue (Photo credit: Kiara Worth/UNFCCC) Dubai airport is filling up with Cop delegates, who are passing quickly through immigration without having to show their visas. Their Uber rides are taking them along highways flanked by...
Washington Post - Climate and Environment
Annual global climate talks are beginning Thursday in Dubai with the backdrop of fractured global unity and concern about the influence of the fossil fuel industry as countries face a narrowing window to divert the planet from its disastrous path. For the U.N. Climate Change Conference, known...
Due to a high concentration of people and activities in cities, they are at the forefront of battle against climate change (Ayyoob Sharifi/Hiroshima University). With the world projected to be highly urbanized by 2050, cities are encouraged to take urgent climate actions to mitigate and adapt to...
How Dominion Energy is creating a $9.8 billion road map for offshore wind
Close to $22 billion in U.S. offshore wind projects have been delayed or canceled, but the Virginia utility is moving forward with the largest facility in U.S. waters. The first turbines for Dominion’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project, located 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach....
Live moment: Bowen warns climate extremes a threat to national security
Chris Bowen delivers annual climate change statement to federal parliament Australian government climate policies are yet to translate into the outcomes needed, with greenhouse gas emissions rising in the 12 months to June, according to the Climate Change Authority’s annual progress report. But...
PHYS.ORG - Technology
The vehicle was originally billed with a starting price of $39,900 and first production to come in 2021. Musk has stayed effusive on the design but has sought to limit expectations as to the vehicle's commercial potential, saying, "we dug our own grave with Cybertruck" last month. "Cybertruck is...
Nations will navigate a range of thorny issues between November 30 and December 12, and experts say geopolitical tensions and building trust could be a huge challenge. Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas may cross paths on Friday, as they are scheduled...
Skeptical Science
From this week's government/NGO section, longitudinal data is gold and Leisorowitz, Maibachi et al. continue to mine ore from the US public with Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics & Policy, Fall 2023: Drawing on a representative sample of the U.S. adult population, the authors...
Two years behind schedule, the electric model has an unusual design that sets it apart from rival pickups, which could limit its sales. Tesla plans to begin delivering its much delayed, highly anticipated Cybertruck pickup to customers on Thursday, entering one of the most lucrative but...
VOX -Environment
There’s less meat at this year’s climate talks. But there’s plenty of bull.
Meat and dairy are driving the climate crisis. Why won’t world leaders at COP28 do anything about it? Over the next two weeks, an estimated 70,000 people will gather in Dubai for the United Nations COP28 summit. It’s the world’s largest and highest-stakes climate conference, where world leaders...
Emissions from electricity and transportation are projected to fall over time, a new report finds, but industry remains a major climate challenge. How global emissions are projected to change 50 gigatons CO2-eq. 40 Historical emissions Projected emissions Likely range 30 20 10 1990 2020 2050...
Union of Concerned Scientists - Global Warming
“In the eye of a hurricaneThere is quietFor just a momentA yellow sky When I was seventeen a hurricaneDestroyed my townI didn’t drownI couldn’t seem to die” The above lyrics written by Lin-Manuel Miranda from the musical Hamilton, bring out feelings - and facts - about hurricanes....
You are going to be hearing a lot about COP28 over the next two weeks. The world's most important climate meeting, beginning on Thursday, is being hosted in Dubai by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) - one of the world's top ten oil producers. COP28 will be the biggest gathering of world...
The system, 100 light years away, has six planets, all about the same size. They've barely changed since its formation up to 12 billion years ago. These undisturbed conditions make it ideal for learning how these worlds formed and whether they host life. The creation of our own solar system...
The president of the COP28 climate summit in Dubai has denied that his country is using the meeting to make oil and gas deals. The BBC reported on Monday that leaked briefing documents revealed plans by the United Arab Emirates to discuss fossil fuel deals with 15 nations. COP28 President Sultan...
To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Matt Simon If you had lived some 50 million years ago and taken a trip to the poles, you would have found lush forests and creatures like crocodiles instead of miles-thick ice sheets. That’s because during the Eocene, greenhouse...