Tag: greenhouse gases
With Air Conditioning, Have We Passed the Point of No Return?
June 17, 2024
Consider it the feedback loop from hell: The greenhouse gas emissions air conditioning releases ensure that we will continue to rely on it.
Paige Avila cools off her brother Eric Avila in Massachusetts in a 2012 heatwave.
(Peter Pereira / Standard Times via AP Photo)
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The odds are that the entire
What Is the Opposite of Oil Drilling?
Monte Markley, a geologist who lives on a farm near Wichita, Kansas, describes his job as “putting things underground and keeping them there.” As an environmental consultant, he specializes in disposing of industrial waste in subterranean rock formations. “All through my career, I’ve helped industries deal with the things that come out of the back side of a plant that nobody wants to talk about,” he told me. In early 2020, he got a call from Shaun Kinetic, a co-founder
The EU’s Secret to Slashing Emissions
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April 10, 2024
Europe proves that putting a price on carbon can dramatically transform fossil fuel–based economies.
A man demonstrates in front of the school where a dialogue event with citizens is taking place about the future of lignite mining in Erkelenz, a midsize town in the state of North Rhine–Westphalia in Germany on March 11, 2023. He holds the number 1.5, signifying a global goal to limit Earth’s warming.
(Marius Becker / Picture Alliance via
I Saw the Future of Climate Technology—and Its Big-Oil Investors
“The world does not end at 2 degrees C,” Bill Gates told the British podcast The Rest Is Politics in an episode that aired in January. Gates, one of the strongest and earliest supporters of tech as a tool to address the climate crisis, has spoken before about his belief that we’ll blow past 1.5 degrees—but his more recent assertions that 2 degrees C is unavoidable took many by surprise.
“There’s no stopping us passing 2C,” he said. “In temperate … Read more
The Pacific Northwest Is Experiencing an Atomic Energy Renaissance
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On a Rapidly Warming Planet, Home Is a Luxury
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A Security Camera for the Planet
When his phone rang, Berrien Moore III, the dean of the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences at the University of Oklahoma, was fumbling with his bow tie, preparing for a formal ceremony honoring a colleague. He glanced down at the number and recognized it as NASA headquarters. This was a bad sign, he thought. In Moore’s experience, bureaucrats never called after hours with good news.
For roughly six years, Moore and his colleagues had been working on a space-based
Why Has the Right Become Obsessed With Climate-Friendly Banking?
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The Planet Will Warm Past 1.5°C. What Now?
The End of the World Has Always Been Just Around the Corner
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Indulge me for a moment. This is how “The Prophecy” in my 1962 high school yearbook began. It was written by some of my classmates in the year we graduated from Friends Seminary