Will Steger has led historic expeditions to both poles, traveled tens of thousands of miles through the arctic and antarctic by kayak and dogsled over the past 45 years, and earned a Lifetime Achievement Award from National Geographic Adventure Magazine. But he insists he’s as much an educator as an adventurer. As one of the world’s leading...
Jeff Masters is a founder of and Director of Meteorology for the internet’s oldest– and my favorite– weather website. But before creating the The Weather Underground with a handful of classmates in University of Michigan’s meteorology Ph.D. program, he was flying through Category 5 storms as a Hurricane Hunter. In the middle of one of the...
Attack the process and the truth doesn't matter. This is the tactic currently being employed by the climate denying flacks of fossil fuels. With a clever analogy in this week's TomDispatch, Bill McKibben reminds us all of where we've seen this before. With the Honorable Judge Ito presiding:
The Dream Team of lawyers assembled for Simpson’s...
HOME STAR, also known as Cash for Caulkers, would pay you money for retrofitting your home. It's a win for jobs, energy savings, and emissions reductions, so why is it stuck in red tape?
Right now, nearly one in four American construction workers is unemployed. Meanwhile, tens of millions of American homes leak heat and waste...
Something’s different about the latest climate action road trip barnstorming the country in a biodiesel bus, holding clean energy rallies in cities and towns along the way. Camouflage has replaced the polar bear costumes. There’s less “Save Gaia” and more “Semper Fi.” Less dreadlocks and more buzzcuts. That’s because the volunteers in Operation...
Climate activists often wonder what future generations will think about our inability (or unwillingness) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the past few decades. We hear the voices of future generations asking…What were they thinking? Why didn’t they do something? Spencer Weart, a physicist and climate historian, carried out this thought...
During his TED speech on Friday, Bill Gates took on climate change, saying the world needs serious breakthroughs in energy technology. “What we’re going to have to do at a global scale is create a new system… So we need energy miracles,” Gates said, suggesting that we use the next 20 years to develop these breakthrough technologies…and the...
When Henry David Thoreau was meticulously cataloging the variety of species he observed during his famous Walden Pond retreat, he never would have known how this “Concord data set” would be used 150 years later to study climate change and biodiversity loss. John Platt has a fascinating, if melancholy, piece up on his SciAm Extinction Countdown...
Late last week, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders introduced an awfully ambitious bill, one that aims to put solar panels on the roofs of 10 million American homes and businesses, not to mention 200,000 solar water heaters, all within ten years. Sanders aims with the creatively titled “10 Million Solar Roofs & 10 Million Gallons of Solar Hot...
Yes, the middle Atlantic is getting socked with snow yet again. And, yes, here in New York City, we’re just about to get wallopped as well. No, that doesn’t mean that global warming is a sham, as plenty of delighted climate deniers have suggested through tweets and blog posts and signs atop of igloos.
I like Juliet Elperin’s take best...
