News: Archive for August, 2015
‘Last Thursday’s bankruptcy filing of Alpha Natural Resources, one of the largest coal companies in America, includes line items for all of the corporation’s contractors and grant recipients. Among them are Horner individually at his home address, as well as the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic, where he is a senior staff attorney.’
via Attorney Hounding Climate Scientists Is Covertly Funded By Coal Industry.
‘The former European commissioner for climate action Connie Hedegaard has urged countries to acknowledge the cost of reducing emissions to fight climate change, and called on politicians to shift away from short-term thinking.’
‘Moniz said advances in technology are the main reason that he is optimistic about the results of the December meeting in Paris hosted by the United Nations, where world leaders hope to come to a deal on reducing greenhouse gases.’
‘In a move that has some environmentalists up in arms, a group of retired Silicon Valley engineers and scientists are proposing a new approach to fighting climate change. They want to brighten clouds.’
Sounds fishy?
‘…it is now time to test how successfully their machine can shoot tiny seawater droplets into the atmosphere’
via Controversial Climate-Change Solution May Be In The Clouds | TechCrunch.
‘Less than a third of governments seeking a global climate agreement have submitted plans for reducing emissions, raising concerns over developing countries’ commitment to a deal months before talks are meant to culminate in Paris.’
via Countries Slow to Pledge Emissions Cuts Ahead of Paris Climate Talks – WSJ.
‘NEW DELHI: India will not announce its peaking (peak emission) year, unlike China, in its ‘climate action plan’ which is to be submitted by the country to the UN body on climate change in September. Instead of specifying any timeline to cap its emission of greenhouse gases, the country will, rather, focus more comprehensively on all five key elements which are identified as vital components of global efforts to fight adverse impacts of climate change’
‘The vast majority of carbon credits generated by Russia and Ukraine did not represent cuts in emissions, according to a new study.’
via Carbon credits undercut climate change actions says report – BBC News.
‘WASHINGTON — President Obama will log more than 14,000 miles on Air Force One over the next 11 days in a climate change tour that will take him from the desert West to the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Circle.’
‘…Of all the jobs in the world, Figueres’s may possess the very highest ratio of responsibility (preventing global collapse) to authority (practically none). The role entails convincing a hundred and ninety-five countries—many of which rely on selling fossil fuels for their national income and almost all of which depend on burning them for the bulk of their energy—that giving up such fuels is a good idea.’
via The Woman Who Could Stop Climate Change – The New Yorker.
‘Katie Couric recently interviewed Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, and the subject of climate change came up. They discussed it for over four minutes, likely marking the longest any national GOP political figure has spent talking about climate change in the past five years.’
via Carly Fiorina did a 4-minute riff on climate change. Everything she said was wrong. – Vox.