CLIMATE SCIENCE
An elegant web video portrays chilling (or should we say warming?) satellite data about the declining volume of arctic sea ice. An ice free North Pole looks to be just around the corner.
OCEANS POLICY
Sound fisheries management requires sound science, and sound science costs money. With a major piece of fisheries legislation up for reauthorization, Congress is set to decide whether or not adequate funding is available to ensure America’s fisheries can be enjoyed by future generations.
ENERGY INDUSTRY
A major oil and gas company’s will spend $20 million per to run one of the world’s largest super computers. Why the great expense? Finding and squeezing oil out of the ground has never been harder or more expensive.
ENERGY INNOVATION
It may be time for clean energy advocates to drop the “either/or” rhetoric and focus on shared priorities.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
New scientific study confirms ‘Hockey Stick’: the rate of warming since 1900 is 50 times greater than the rate of cooling In previous 5000 years.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Climate change will hit South Carolina hard, says a study commissioned by the SC Department of Natural Resources. But the report was never published due to the agency’s “changing priorities.”
CLIMATE POLICY
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative has delivered such cost-effective results that the states involved plan to reduce the carbon emissions cap by an additional 45 percent.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
“The natural state of the Earth with present carbon dioxide levels is one with sea levels about 70 feet higher than now,” says the lead author of a National Science Foundation funded study on the earth’s ancient climate patterns.
FOSSIL FINANCE
A movement is growing on college campuses to divest from fossil fuel companies that contribute to climate change. A former president of several prestigious colleges and educational institutions, James L. Powell, responds to the 10 most common arguments against divestment.
The debate over fracking is like the duck-rabbit illusion: some see economic opportunity, others see environmental injustice.The question is: Who gets to write the rules – those who see ducks or those who see rabbits?
CLIMATE SCIENCE
You know things are bad when a global warming report titled “too late for two degrees?” isn’t written by an environmental organization, but a global financial services firm.
CLIMATE COMMUNICATIONS
Climate activist and scientist Bill MicKibben asks America to “get serious” about climate on his “Do The Math” tour. Keeping the global temperature increase below 2 degrees will require firm action to reduce the burning of fossil fuels.
CLIMATE CHANGE
We must take steps to protect middle- and lower-income households from the economic harms wrought by extreme weather events linked to climate change.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
The gold standard of science is the peer-reviewed literature. If there is disagreement among scientists, based not on opinion but on hard evidence, it will be found in the peer-reviewed literature.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Climate scientists have long warned that global warming can be linked to extreme weather events like hurricanes, droughts, and floods. After Hurricane Sandy and other recent weather disasters of the past two years, we cannot afford any more warnings.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Should we be surprised that little if any television coverage of this week’s multiple-record-breaking hurricane mentioned the relationship between climate change and stronger, more frequent storms?
CLIMATE CHANGE
Sea level rise isn’t a distant threat: it’s a real and pressing problem, says an open letter signed by 120 Floridian scientists and public officials.
CLIMATE COMMUNICATIONS
America is unique when it comes to giving a platform to climate deniers and skeptics. Stephen Lacey reviews a study that compares U.S. papers to their international counterparts, and finds a serious discrepancy in coverage for climate deniers.
OCEANS SCIENCE
A new primer from CAP’s ocean policy program explains the process and pitfalls in the science of accurate fish stock assessments and comments on policy to improve them.
INFORMATION TRANSPARENCY
As the EPA considers new rules to modernize water quality consumer confidence reports, it needs to make sure the information is accurate, accessible, easy to use, and easy to understand.
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