As smoke from Canadian wildfires descends on the Midwest and Northeast United States, visions of climate change catastrophe dance in activists’ heads. Reinforced with a dreaded “heat dome,” denizens of disaster may have found a new home from which to pester neighbors about the end of the world as we know it. The summertime combination […]
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The United States Global Change Research Program, or the USGCRP, was disbanded early last year. Created by an act of Congress in 1990, the goal of the USGCRP was to coordinate federal research and investments across fifteen federal member agencies to present a whole-of-government face to the federal government’s position on global environmental change. Now
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A free society should be judged less by who becomes wealthy than by how easily people can improve their circumstances under impartial rules. Who gets wealthy matters less than how. Income inequality is dominating a national news landscape primed for questions of affordability, contrasted with ever-growing private fortunes on the other. Socialists in the New
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Not long ago, Japan stood before the world pledging to become a paragon of decarbonization. Government papers were filled with talk of hydrogen corridors, offshore wind farms, and electric vehicle subsidies. To satisfy international climate lobbies, Japan planned for years to phase out coal. Operations at coal-fired power plants were restricted to only 50% capacity. Political leaders spoke solemnly of a “moral duty” to achieve “carbon neutrality” by
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During the Eastern heatwave in early July, I stumbled across an article on CNN entitled, “This heat wave would be ‘virtually impossible’ if not for fossil fuel pollution, study says.” (If you click on that, you’ll be redirected to a different article. I’ll tell you why in a moment.) The use of the term ‘virtually impossible’ together with the
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The following is a guest article by Xandra Grieme. As I held the coffee leaf in my hands, I felt useless. After long days of trekking through the Honduran jungles, I was tired. My feet had carried me to places that only ATVs or horses could reach—to the remotest mountain villages of the region. I was there to meet
Canada’s picturesque Sea to Sky Highway from Vancouver to Whistler, British Columbia, is 75 miles of soaring beauty. One of my favorites, the trip takes the traveler from sea level to an elevation of 2,200 feet with nearby peaks more than four times higher. Similarly inspiring in its economic rise was Canada towards the end of 20th century, remaining one of the world’s strongest economies through the global recession of 2009.
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The June G7 Summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, marked a major pivot. Driven by severe energy and commodity shocks stemming from the conflict in the Middle East—specifically transit disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz—G7 leaders overwhelmingly prioritized energy security, price insulation, and survival of the fossil fuel supply chain over aggressive timelines for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Who could have predicted that, rather than condemning
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For more than a decade, the Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5), the high-emissions climate-model scenario, dominated climate research and policy, treated as the “business-as-usual” pathway. It projected global temperatures to rise by 4.3℃ or more by 2100. Many climate researchers were on the record noting from the outset that RCP8.5 was “implausible” and shouldn’t be
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According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the Ogallala Aquifer, which provides about 30 percent of the groundwater used for irrigation in the United States, is being drained faster than it can recharge. As with many above-ground lakes, that means it could one day run dry. The USGS has reported that groundwater levels in some areas of the Ogallala
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