Toward climate-change mitigation
The global population is 6 billion and our collective use of fossil fuels — coal, oil, and natural gas — releases to the atmosphere about 6 billion tons of carbon in the form of carbon dioxide every...
View ArticleThe climate won’t wait for an inadequate international agreement
Something will be agreed upon in Copenhagen…the real issue is whether or not it will be effective in dealing with the enormous threat to civilization posed by sea level rise, drought and famine,...
View ArticleThe Urgency of a Low-Carbon Economy
The world and the US need a victory on climate - but thankfully important innovations taking place in both the science and policy worlds offer hope that climate protection and economic productivity...
View ArticleWhat’s Next After Copenhagen?
A year or two ago, people expected Copenhagen to produce the equivalent of the Kyoto Protocol – a comprehensive climate roadmap for the next decade or more. It seems unlikely that the Copenhagen...
View ArticleA nation of Neros
We live like kings. At least that’s what most of the world thinks of Americans, economic downturn notwithstanding. And humanity throughout history would see us the same way. How did we get to the...
View ArticleToward climate-change mitigation
The global population is 6 billion and our collective use of fossil fuels — coal, oil, and natural gas — releases to the atmosphere about 6 billion tons of carbon in the form of carbon dioxide every...
View ArticleThe climate won’t wait for an inadequate international agreement
Something will be agreed upon in Copenhagen…the real issue is whether or not it will be effective in dealing with the enormous threat to civilization posed by sea level rise, drought and famine,...
View ArticleThe Urgency of a Low-Carbon Economy
The world and the US need a victory on climate - but thankfully important innovations taking place in both the science and policy worlds offer hope that climate protection and economic productivity...
View ArticleWhat’s Next After Copenhagen?
A year or two ago, people expected Copenhagen to produce the equivalent of the Kyoto Protocol – a comprehensive climate roadmap for the next decade or more. It seems unlikely that the Copenhagen...
View ArticleA nation of Neros
We live like kings. At least that’s what most of the world thinks of Americans, economic downturn notwithstanding. And humanity throughout history would see us the same way. How did we get to the...
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