Weekly Climate Review for November 16, 2018: “Take a good look, America. This is what the reckoning looks like,” warned Wired in a Tuesday headline about the hellscape of California’s wildfires and their link to climate change. As of midweek, the Camp Fire north of Sacramento ranked as the deadliest […]
Daily Archives: December 10, 2018
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For weeks, smoky, unhealthy air from large wildfires has plagued much of the West Coast and beyond. What’s the public health impact of an increase of urban wildfires, in which homes and other structures burn? Special correspondent Cat Wise meets some of the researchers studying the risks for people from […]
Though it was published at the beginning of October, Global Warming of 1.5°C, a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is a document with its origins in another era, one not so distant from ours but politically an age apart. To read it makes you weep not […]
Average costs for wind and solar energy can undercut existing coal generation even without subsidies, according to analysis from the research firm Lazard. The latest version of Lazard’s levelized cost of energy (LCOE) analysis finds that U.S. onshore wind energy costs average between $26/MWh and $56/MWh without subsidies, while utility-scale […]
Sean Casten’s win in Illinois’s 6th Congressional District is a lesson for the Democratic Party. If Sean Casten had talked about climate change once during his campaign, that would have been more than most Democrats running for Congress. But Casten didn’t talk about climate change just once, or even merely […]
WASHINGTON — As the Trump administration has moved aggressively to roll back environmental protections and speed up oil and coal projects, it has repeatedly been blocked by courts finding that the administration did not follow longstanding rules in making its sweeping changes. Now, a federal judge has issued a repudiation […]
America’s midterms reveal a country on the fence about climate action “With Democratic majority, climate change is back on U.S. House agenda,” an InsideClimate News headline declaredafter Tuesday’s midterm elections. “America voted. The climate lost,” The New Republic countered. The full truth of the matter will unfold once Democrats retake […]