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...Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which indicated that even if we managed to stabilize carbon concentration levels in the atmosphere between 450 and 600 parts per million, up from 385 p.p.m. today - a target that would be politically challenging - we would still suffer rising sea levels, worsened droughts and more, for centuries to come. "The scientists are practically screaming from the rooftops," said Gore. (See the top 10 green ideas...
...Evaporation and rainfall are increasing; glaciers are retreating; sea ice is shrinking; sea level is rising; permafrost is melting; wildfires are increasing; storm and flood damage is soaring. The canary in the coal mine is singing for all she's worth." - on reading the signs of climate change (Center for American Progress...
...there," says Aymad. "Many times, when we're digging, we'll run into another tunnel." Aymad once brought his 2-year-old boy into the tunnel, he says, "so he can see what his father is forced to do for a living. We Gazans like the open sky, the sea. Not this. We don't like going into the ground." He keeps a photo in his cell phone of himself and his bawling son crouched together in a narrow tunnel. "He stopped crying once we got back under the sky," Aymad reassures...
...despite short-term forecasts that could leave their balance sheets a sea of red, the general mood in Abu Dhabi was as sunny as the weather. That's because in the long term, developers of renewables know they'll win. Climate change aside, the simple fact that energy demand will continue growing rapidly once the downturn has ended means that new supplies will be needed. And no one - including oil giants of the Middle East - believe that fossil fuels alone will meet that gap. "This is absolutely going to scale big," says Frank Mastiaux, the CEO of the E.ON...
Look at any old photo of Herbert Hoover's 1929 Inauguration, and all you'll see in the crowd stretching out in front of the U.S. Capitol is a sea of fedora hats - the must-have accessory for men at the time. For yesterday's Inaugural ceremony, photos of the crowd bracing against the cold reveal a lot of knit caps and bare heads. But closer to the epicenter of power, on the podium where President Barack Obama delivered his Inaugural Address, there was a noticeable flurry of fedoras - a nod, perhaps, to a bygone era when wearing...