Concentration of CO2 in the Atmosphere

May 14: Estimating Big Polluters’ Sea Level Rise Responsibility

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) invites you to a virtual discussion next Wednesday to learn more about how the past emissions by the world’s biggest polluters are driving current global warming and future sea level rise.

There’s still time to register!

Nearly half of the increase in present-day average surface temperature and one-third of […]

York, ME Climate Action Fair, May 3

A Twin Challenge Demands a New Approach:

Tackling Climate Change and Threats to Our Republic

Republican and democrat mascots representing how each party is pushing against the other. (AdobeStock_736873512)

Dr. Beth Malow and Bruce Morlan

The United States, like much of the world, is confronting two colossal, interwoven challenges. On one hand, we are grappling with the increasingly urgent threat […]

Virtually Any City on Earth Can Burn Now

In the superheated 21st century, the old rules for wildfires no longer apply. John Vaillant, author of Fire Weather, explains.

Kiley Bense, Inside Climate News

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter at https://insideclimatenews.org/newsletter/.

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Local Climate Advocates Host Northeast Regional Conference

Members of Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) throughout New York and New England will be attending the Northeast Regional Conference at Union College in Schenectady, NY on April 4 and 5, 2025.

The event will include a variety of lectures, panels and workshops to build climate advocacy skills and collaborate other […]

Global Warming Has Accelerated

by James Hansen and Pushker Kharecha

Here we make available “Global Warming Has Accelerated,” including the Supplementary Material (SM), in one document and the webinar discussing the paper.

The SM shows that the rate of freshwater injection on the North Atlantic Ocean assumed in “Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise, and Superstorms” was realistic, averaged over […]

UK Electricity Reached a Record 58% From Low-Carbon Sources in 2024

The UK phases out the use of coal for electricity production. The generation of power from renewable sources has more than doubled in the last decade. (cato.org)

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes

Electricity in the United Kingdom was the cleanest ever in 2024, with solar and wind generating all-time highs, a new analysis […]

New York Joins Vermont with Climate Change Superfund Bill Firing

“A Shot Heard Round the World” Polluters to Help Pay for State’s Adaptation Measures

Martin Wahl

On December 26, 2024, New York Governor Hochul signed into law S.2129-B/A.3351-B, the Climate Change Superfund Act establishing a Climate Change Adaptation Cost Recovery Program to be funded by companies most responsible for pollution-caused climate change. Funds are to […]

Tackling Climate Change “The New Hampshire Way”

Is New Hampshire the Donut Hole of Climate Ambition (Courtesy images)

John Gage, Katharine Gage

While neighboring states are moving ahead with offshore energy plans, solar panel and EV charging station deployments, energy efficiency investments, and climate ambitions, New Hampshire is falling behind. As a result, the state has become known as the […]

World to Breach Warming Limit

What’s This Costing Us ($)?

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Martin Wahl

Well, Earth, we did it! Scientists have determined that 2024 likely exceeded the 1.5-degree Celsius (2.7 degree Fahrenheit) limit set for global warming above the average temperature between 1880 and 1900 at the 2015 Paris Agreement. While this breach is a landmark, it doesn’t […]