Krugman: Soon Solar Will Be Cheaper Than Coal
Take a look at what economist Paul Krugman had to say about the solar industry in today’s column: © 2008 Flickr/Oregon DOT cc by 2.0These days, mention solar power and you’ll probably hear cries of...
View Article5.9%: The scariest number you’ll see this week
© 2010 Flickr/krapow CC BY-NC-SA 2.0First: The bad news. An analysis released over the weekend tells us that global carbon emissions leaped 5.9% in 2010, the largest absolute jump since the Industrial...
View ArticleThis holiday season, choose people over things
© 2008 Flickr/Mahdi Abdulrazak CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Still trying to find that perfect gift for the impossible-to-shop-for relative/friend/mailman in your life, but nothing seems right? I always tell myself...
View ArticleDoubt creation
What does a climate denier group do when the science isn’t on their side? Perhaps they use fossil fuel money to foment doubt about the reality of climate change in American classrooms? Earlier this...
View ArticlePaying twice for the climate crisis
© 2008 Flickr/Libelul CC by 2.0Were you watching C-SPAN around noon today? I know it doesn’t sound like riveting television, but something happened – or rather didn’t happen – that affects all of us...
View ArticleWhat do corporations really think about climate change?
Corporations talk about being “green” and caring about climate change more now than they ever have before. But how can you tell if a company is walking the walk when you hear them talk the talk? This...
View ArticleOil companies that caused climate change now fear its financial impacts
© 2008 flickr/Libelul cc by 2.0We all know oil companies make an amazing amount of money ($33.5 billion in 2012 first quarter profits by the Big Five alone) selling gasoline and other petroleum...
View ArticleFossil fuel companies are doing [redacted] to prepare for climate change
Two months ago, I looked into how fossil fuel companies explicitly acknowledge the financial costs that climate change poses to their profits. Because it’s largely their product that causes global...
View ArticleIs an oil rig afraid of climate change?
© 2009 Dean Terry/Flickr cc by nc nd 2.0 As Hurricane Isaac exited the Gulf of Mexico and passed over Louisiana, more than 600,000 customers in the state lost power and tens of thousands of people...
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