A new, comprehensive report on global warming, prepared by the top climate change agency in the world, doesn’t contain much in the way of good news. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change bluntly warns that humanity has just over a decade to slash carbon emissions dramatically if it wants to avoid the worst impacts of […]
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Victory over climate change
James Hansen sat in front of members of the US Senate and told them that the Earth is warming and that human-generated greenhouse gas emissions are to blame. Back in 1988. Hansen was director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies at the time and had been studying global warming and the greenhouse effect since […]
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Report: substantial fossil fuel reserves must remain untapped to avoid worst of climate change
Countries worldwide have massive oil, natural gas, and coal reserves that they could tap. But much of those reserves must remain unused in order to keep global warming under 2 degrees through the end of the century — an important tipping point, according to scientists. A new study published in Nature breaks down the reserves […]
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Heroes and cowards in the climate-change war
I would so love to know what really goes on in the mind of Mitch McConnell. Anybody with any sense knows what’s coming if we don’t do something about climate change – quickly. And yet late last week, there was the Kentucky senator, helping lead the resistance. This is the man who may very well […]
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Making climate a career
Susan Spencer, a Rochester Institute of Technology Ph.D. student, wants people to understand that climate change is a serious problem and that workable solutions exist.
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Coalition recruits climate marchers
On September 21, hundreds of thousands of people will march through Manhattan to show leaders from around the world, particularly US politicians, that the American public supports and demands action on climate change. The People’s Climate March, which is being organized by 350.org, is timed to coincide with a UN climate summit in the city. […]
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Climate change panel issues blunt warning on carbon emissions
Over the past few months, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued a series of reports containing stern warnings about global warming. The panel’s scientists have clearly stated that climate change is here, it’s creating a long list of harms and risks, and governments need to act on greenhouse gas emissions to avert the […]
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The ‘war on coal’ and the war on the planet
Americans have grown stupefyingly good at denying reality, no matter how strong the scientific and medical evidence. And special interests have become experts at obscuring the evidence with a thick smog of catchy phrases and deceitful ads. So we now have the latest attack on Barack Obama: the charge that he’s conducting a War on […]
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Send comments to themail@rochester-citynews.com, or post them on our website, rochestercitynewspaper.com, our Facebook page, or our Twitter feed, @roccitynews. For our print edition, we select comments from all three sources, and we edit selections for publication in print. Climate change and Rochester An article in Rolling Stone Magazine last summer, “Goodbye Miami,” stated that in […]
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Enviro group says cap and trade program is paying off
This week, New York officials are holding public hearings on new rules that would lower the state’s cap on power plant carbon emissions. (One of those hearings is at 2 p.m. this afternoon at Department of Environmental Conservation Region 8 Headquarters, 6274 East Avon-Lima Road, Avon.) Simultaneously, Environmental Advocates of New York has released a report citing […]
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Cornell prof says shale gas is a ‘gangplank to more warming’
Cornell University Professor Anthony Ingraffea has consistently argued that natural gas from high-volume hydraulic fracturing is not as clean as its supporters make it out to be. This week, an editorial by Ingraffea ran in the New York Times and it’s worth a read (if the Times paywall blocks you, just Google “Gangplank to a […]
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Hansen’s retirement from NASA could be climate movement’s gain
A development at NASA yesterday may prove to be a pivotal event in the fight against the Keystone XL oil pipeline: high-profile NASA climate scientist James Hansen announced his retirement. Why? He says he wants to devote more time to climate change activism. And news reports say that may include an active role in legal […]
