Honoring Steve Schneider: Climate Scientist, Communicator, Advocate
I’ve just returned from the Stephen H. Schneider Symposium in Boulder, Colorado, a three-day, live-webcast conference that commemorated the remarkable life and legacy of the Stanford-based climate...
View ArticleDismal Science at the Wall Street Journal
UPDATE January 30th 2:50 PM (see at bottom of post) The Wall Street Journal today published an opinion piece from 16 scientists urging candidates for public office to ignore the looming threat of...
View ArticleShare This Video: Finding Common Ground for Our Common Atmosphere
In his Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), James Boswell famously quotes Dr. Johnson as remarking that second marriages are the “triumph of hope over experience.” Today the same might be said of a second...
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How Might History Judge President Obama’s Climate Plan?
The sweltering heat of a summer day in our nation’s capital makes for a powerful backdrop to historic statements on climate change. This post is part of a series on President Obama’s Climate Action...
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2° C or Not 2° C: Insights from the Latest IPCC Climate Report
In his “To Be or Not to Be” soliloquy, Shakespeare’s Hamlet eloquently presents each of us with an opportunity to wrestle with the timeless question of how to respond to the slings and arrows of life’s...
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Who Is Responsible for Climate Change? New Study Identifies the Top 90...
Today’s publication in the journal Climatic Change by Richard Heede on Tracing anthropogenic carbon dioxide and methane emissions to fossil fuel and cement producers, 1854–2010 provides a robust...
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Reconciling the Local Wildlife Risks of Wind Energy with its Global Climate...
If you care deeply about the natural world, how should you view the growing number of wind turbines across the American landscape? Peetz Table Wind Farm, Photo By Marguerite Kelly, NREL 14112. Two...
View ArticleThe IPCC’s New Climate Science Guide for the Perplexed Policymaker
It is remarkable how many U.S. elected officials appear to be baffled about climate change these days. Despite the long scientific consensus that emissions of heat-trapping gases from burning fossil...
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Global Warming Fact: More than Half of All Industrial CO2 Pollution Has Been...
By the end of this year, more than half of all industrial emissions of carbon dioxide since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution will have been released since 1988 — the year it became widely known...
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Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth: The NAS Weighs Controversial Measures in...
The president’s science advisor John P. Holdren has often observed that humanity has three basic options for dealing with climate change: Mitigation (reducing heat-trapping emissions), adaptation...
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Fossil Fuel Firms Are Still Bankrolling Climate Denial Lobby Groups
BP has withdrawn support to ALEC, a group known for misrepresenting climate science, but appearances can be deceptive. Oil, gas and coal companies remain firmly behind climate disinformation campaigns....
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Exxon’s Early Knowledge of Climate Risks, Their Long Campaign of Climate...
Internal Exxon memos recently brought to light through meticulous investigative reporting by Inside Climate News (ICN) show that senior company executives knew by 1978 that emissions of carbon dioxide...
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Energy, Climate Experts Call on Presidential Candidates to Lay Out Their...
I’m writing from the Paris climate negotiations to share with you some exciting news: Today, 74 of our nation’s leading clean energy and climate experts have released a letter urging U.S. presidential...
View ArticleHolding the Fossil Fuel Industry Accountable: What We’ve Done and Must Do in...
As we celebrate the landmark Paris Agreement and the momentum it creates for accelerating the pace of clean energy adoption and climate preparedness in the U.S. and internationally, the Union of...
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Scientists, Legal Scholars Brief State Prosecutors on Fossil Fuel Companies’...
Efforts to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their contributions to climate change have gained both momentum and traction as attorneys general in Massachusetts and the US Virgin Islands...
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Farewell to Edward L. Miles (1939-2016): Friend, Colleague, Force for...
I was saddened this week to learn of the passing of the remarkable Ed Miles, who died on May 7 at his home in Seattle, Washington. I first came to know Ed in the late 1990s, when we were both...
View ArticleThe Heat is on Fossil Fuel Companies for Decades of Climate Deception
As I pointed out in a recent blog, my colleagues and I at the Union of Concerned Scientists have been researching and calling attention to climate disinformation by leading fossil fuel companies for...
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Why the American Geophysical Union Should Reject Corporate Sponsorship from...
Faced with important choices about maintaining and enhancing revenue in an era of tight budgets, the Board of the American Geophysical Union (AGU)–the world’s largest society of earth and space...
View ArticleHow the Trump Administration and Congress Should Use Science to Govern
The election of Donald Trump raises many questions about the future role of science and evidence in policy making. Many of us are deeply troubled that some transition team members, senior...
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Standing Up to Pernicious New Attacks on Federal Climate Scientists
UPDATE (February 10, 2017): A draft version of a manuscript on NOAA’s ERSSTv5 climate dataset has been leaked while it is undergoing peer-review. As submitted, the paper’s findings are consistent with...
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