Climate Science

09/12/15
Author: 
Lawrence Carter and Maeve McClenaghan

 Greenpeace undercover investigation has exposed how fossil fuel companies can secretly pay academics at leading American universities to write research that sows doubt about climate science and promotes the companies’ commercial interests.

Posing as representatives of oil and coal companies, reporters from Greenpeace UK asked academics from Princeton and Penn State to write papers promoting the benefits of CO2 and the use of coal in developing countries.

The professors agreed to write the reports and said they did not need to disclose the source of the funding.

27/11/15
Author: 
CBC staff
Flame leaps from a wildfire on a mountainside near Oliver, B.C., in August 2015. Alain Bourque, a top climate change scientist, says warmer summers could mean more forest fires in Canada. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press)

Canada's rate of warming is about twice the global rate, according to a climate change briefing presented to the country's premiers on Monday.

10/11/15
Author: 
Vicky Husband
Rolf Lyster, FortisBC director of gas plant operations, walks through FortisBC’s existing Tilbury LNG facility before the groundbreaking for an expansion project in Delta in October 2014. According to the company, the $400-million expansion south of Vancouver will add 1.1 million gigajoules of liquefied natural gas to storage and 34,000 gigajoules per day of liquefaction capacity. The existing LNG facility on the site opened in 1971.   (THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES)

In May, Premier Christy Clark named 19 people to a new Climate Leadership Team that included representatives from provincial and municipal governments, industry, academia, the environmental community and First Nations. She said the team was to “consider the best actions” to get a lagging B.C. back “on track” in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

November 30, the deadline for the committee to submit its recommendations, fast approaches. On that day, international climate change talks begin in Paris and Clark will likely be there boasting of B.C.’s green credentials.

29/10/15
Author: 
Bill McKibben
 A woman protests outside the building where the annual ExxonMobil shareholders’ meeting is held in Dallas. Photograph: LM Otero/AP

Like all proper scandals, the #Exxonknew revelations have begun to spin off new dramas and lines of inquiry. Presidential candidates have begun to call for Department of Justice investigations, and company spokesmen have begun to dig themselves deeper into the inevitable holes as they try to excuse the inexcusable.

(Worst idea: attack Pulitzer prize-winning reporters as “anti-oil and gas activists”)

29/10/15
Author: 
Marty Hart-Landsberg

If you believe press reports, governments are preparing for “serious” climate negotiations at the upcoming December UN climate conference in Paris.  I put quotes around serious because there is good reason to believe that most governments, at least the most powerful, care little about the outcome.  One indicator is their commitment to protecting the environment in two so-called free trade agreements.

29/10/15
Author: 
Coral Davenport, Josh Haner, Larry Buchanan and Derek Watkins

[Website editor's note: Amazing photos and video with this powerful essay]

On the Greenland Ice Sheet — The midnight sun still gleamed at 1 a.m. across the brilliant expanse of the Greenland ice sheet. Brandon Overstreet, a doctoral candidate in hydrology at the University of Wyoming, picked his way across the frozen landscape, clipped his climbing harness to an anchor in the ice and crept toward the edge of a river that rushed downstream toward an enormous sinkhole.

25/10/15

[Website editor's note: See the cautionary book review about such schemes that follows.]


Startups have figured out how to remove carbon from the air. Will anyone pay them to do it? 

Three startups, Carbon Engineering, Global Thermostat and Climeworks, are making strides with technology that can directly remove carbon dioxide from the air. What they need now is a viable business model

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