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If a Solar Plant Uses Natural Gas, Is It Still Green?
The giant Ivanpah solar power plant in the California Mojave Desert recently detailed how much natural gas it burned to generate power when the sun wasn’t sufficient—the equivalent to 46,000 tons of...
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Will the Paris Agreement Be Legally Binding?
The inability of previous climate summits, notably Copenhagen in 2009, to deliver a legally binding agreement led some people to declare those negotiations a failure. But in practice, this should not...
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In Targeting Exxon on Climate, New York Puts All Corporations on Notice
In a move that is potentially transformative, the New York attorney general is investigating Exxon for financial fraud. The company made public statements questioning the science of climate change in...
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Canada’s New Environment Minister Must Open Discussions With Climate Experts
At first glance, it appears to be bad news that Canada’s new minister of Environment and Climate Change, rookie Ottawa Center Liberal MP Catherine McKenna, has no background in environment or climate...
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Millions of Us Could Be Underwater If Sea Levels Keep Rising (Video)
The upcoming climate talks in Paris have generated a lot of buzz lately. Multiple large organizations are coming out with reports on the climate’s future impact on humans, and the general consensus is...
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Tens of Billions Promised to Goose Clean Energy Tech
PARIS—Government and business leaders are banking on clean energy technology to fight global warming, kicking off this week’s high-stakes climate change negotiations by pledging tens of billions of...
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A Glossary for UN Climate Talks
PARIS—It sounds like English. Yet to the untrained ear the language used in the U.N. climate talks is about as comprehensible as Klingon. Sometimes you wonder whether the negotiators are trying on...
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Climate Change Talks Start in Paris
PARIS—The latest from the much-anticipated U.N. climate conference that gets underway in Paris on Monday (all times local): 7:30 p.m. France’s interior minister says that 208 people were detained after...
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Worldwide Climate Rallies Draw Hundreds of Thousands
PARIS—Hundreds of thousands of people have taken part in rallies around the world on Sunday, calling on leaders to halt climate change on the eve of a major conference in Paris. The nearly two-week...
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Leaders of Warming Earth Meet in Paris to Cut Emissions
LE BOURGET, France—Addressing the twin threats of global warming and extremist violence, 151 world leaders kicked off two weeks of high-stakes climate talks outside Paris on Monday, saying that by...
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Paris Climate Conference Is a Bad Deal for America
At the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, or COP21, President Obama plans to sign another bad deal for America. The United States will pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 26 percent to 28 percent by...
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Don’t Wait for Global Politics to Fix Climate Change—We Can Do It Ourselves
It’s now almost certain that 2015 will be the warmest year ever recorded. However, rather than reduce greenhouse gas emissions—something that has to happen quite urgently in order to avoid crashing...
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Obama Says Parts of Climate Deal Must Be Legally Binding
LE BOURGET, France—President Barack Obama said Tuesday that parts of the global warming deal being negotiated in Paris should be legally binding on the countries that sign on, setting up a potential...
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Is ‘Climate Change’ Really Science?
In this article, I question whether what is called “climate change” is consistent with science and social science. The effectiveness of mathematical and computer models has been questioned in a number...
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Developing Nations Shift Emissions Stance in Climate Talks
LE BOURGET, France—The once black-and-white world of climate negotiations for poorer countries has evolved into many shades of gray at talks this week in Paris. For years, many in the developing world...
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UN Officials Warn of Climate Disaster If Paris Pact Fails
LE BOURGET, France—Talks on a universal climate pact shifted to a higher gear Monday with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urging governments to set off an “energy revolution” to rein in...
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Worldwide Conflicts Threaten to Overshadow Paris Climate Summit
PARIS—A U.N.-sponsored climate change summit opened Monday, Nov. 30, amid gathering clouds of global conflict that threaten to overshadow the negotiations. More than 150 heads of state, including...
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Climate Change Requires Political Will
The mean annual temperature globally in 2014 was up about 0.7 degrees Celsius over the base year 1972, marking the 38th consecutive year since 1977 that the yearly global temperature was above average....
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Global Warming, Cooling, Whatever
The sun revolves around the earth. Undisputable. Those who thought differently were “heretics” and subject to punishment. Galileo switched belief and saved his hide. Material burned because a...
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Sleepless, Tense Climate Negotiators Haggle Over Paris Deal
LE BOURGET, France—Sleep-deprived and increasingly tense, diplomats and climate negotiators outside Paris struggled Thursday to narrow down a 29-page draft of an unprecedented deal to tackle climate...
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Nearly 200 Nations Pledge to Slow Global Warming
LE BOURGET, France—Nearly 200 nations adopted the first global pact to fight climate change on Saturday, calling on the world to collectively cut and then eliminate greenhouse gas pollution but...
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Regional Spats, ‘Climate Justice’ Hijack Paris Talks on Global Warming
PARIS—Competing national interests and even personal rivalries have cast a cloud over the international summit on climate change meeting here, and the issue of “climate justice” has proven to be a...
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Historic Pact to Slow Global Warming Is Celebrated in Paris
LE BOURGET, France—Nearly 200 nations adopted the first global pact to fight climate change on Saturday, calling on the world to collectively cut and then eliminate greenhouse gas pollution but...
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Now Comes the Tough Part: The World’s Carbon Diet Starts
PARIS—The world is about to go on a carbon diet. It won’t be easy—or cheap. Nearly 200 nations across the world on Saturday approved a first-of-its-kind universal agreement to wean Earth off fossil...
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In Climate Deal, Obama Sees Legacy He Hopes Won’t Be Undone
WASHINGTON—For President Barack Obama, many of his victories have been tempered by a harsh reality: what he’s built up, the next president or a future Congress could one day tear down. Obama is...
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India Worries It Compromised Too Much on Climate Treaty
NEW DELHI—As the world celebrates reaching an unprecedented global climate treaty, India is praising nations’ willingness to compromise for the good of the planet. But many in the country—which had...
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What North America Can Expect From El Niño
A major El Niño is under way now. It already has substantially influenced weather patterns around the globe, but could have even bigger impacts this winter. There have been only two “super” El Niños:...
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Time to Let the Climate Scare Die
2015 was the year the United Nations and governments around the world abandoned rational thought about climate change. Rather than focus on preparing for the very real problems of a continually...
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Revealed: How Giant Icebergs Breathe Life Into Remote Oceans
As giant icebergs bob across the open seas they leave behind a trail of nutrient-rich meltwater, sparking new life in the world’s remotest and least hospitable oceans. This in turn means more carbon is...
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NASA: 2015 Was Earth’s Hottest by a Wide Margin
WASHINGTON—Last year wasn’t just the Earth’s hottest year on record — it left a century of high temperature marks in the dust. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration and NASA announced...
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Stacey Dash Attacks Leonardo DiCaprio Because of Oscars Speech
Stacey Dash has done it again. In a blog post she wrote on Thursday, March 10, Dash let out her disapproval of Leonardo DiCaprio’s climate change awareness Oscars Speech. “Quit being Chicken...
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Climate Change—Assessing the Risks
Listening to government officials speak about climate change, one could easily assume that their plans were based on settled science. We know, with a high degree of certainty, they expect us to...
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US Survey Shows Climate Policy Is a Tough Sell
A survey of more than 1,600 Americans suggests there’s no magic formula for making it easier to “sell” climate policy. “We looked into the question of whether—and if so, to what extent—the public’s...
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Scientists Blame El Nino, Warming for ‘Gruesome’ Coral Death
The coral on the sea floor around the Pacific island of Kiritimati looked like a boneyard in November—stark, white and lifeless. But there was still some hope. This month, color returned with fuzzy...
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Climate Change Surveys Still Useless
Public opinion polls are regularly cited by politicians and activists to support government action on climate change. Yet these surveys rarely make meaningful contributions to the public policy debate...
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The Paris Agreement Signing Ceremony at a Glance
Leaders and diplomats from more than 160 countries are gathering at the United Nations’ New York headquarters on April 22 to sign the Paris Agreement—the landmark climate deal hammered out at the...
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Rising Carbon Dioxide Is Greening the Earth—but It’s Not All Good News
Dried lake beds, failed crops, flattened trees: when we think of global warming we often think of the impacts of droughts and extreme weather. While there is truth in this image, a rather different...
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Trump Energy Plan: Cut Funds for UN Global Warming Programs, Free Up Coal,...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump unveiled his energy plan. If he takes office, he will cut funding to the United Nations fund to reduce the effects of global warming, he said in a speech...
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[Photos] These Are Some of the World Heritage Sites in Peril Because of...
Some of Earth’s most iconic World Heritage Sites are in peril because of climate change, says a UN report released on May 26. The report revealed 31 natural and cultural sites in 29 countries that are...
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Climate Debate Dominated by ‘Duckspeakers’
In Oceania, the dystopian society of George Orwell’s novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” a new language was created by the government to control the thinking patterns of the populace. Officially labeled...
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Video: Breathtaking Performance by Italian Pianist as He Floats Among...
An acclaimed Italian pianist and composer performed a stunning concert, while floating in the Arctic surrounded by falling glaciers. Ludovico Einaudi, along with his grand piano, were taken by...
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Leaders Ignore Climate Change Controversy at Summit
In the “Leaders’ Statement on a North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership” on June 29, President Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, and Mexican President Pena Nieto agreed,...
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Excessive Climate Change Concerns Hurt Us All
The best answer to most of the claims by climate activists and their political allies is simply: so what? “Climate change is real,” they say. So what? Gravity and sunrise are also real. That doesn’t...
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Political Elite Out of Touch on Climate Change
In his Sept. 8 speech announcing California’s new greenhouse gas emission laws, Governor Jerry Brown said, “If we don’t stop climate change, it’s not going to be 110 [degrees] in Imperial County; it’s...
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By 2100 Lisbon, Portugal Could Be a Desert (Video)
Welcome to Lisbon, Portugal. Located near the Atlantic Ocean, the capital city is filled with lush, green grass and plenty of trees. But researchers warn this Mediterranean region, and other parts of...
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2016 Is ‘Very Likely’ to Be Hottest Year on Record (Video)
2016 has been hot. So hot in fact that it’s “very likely” it will be the hottest year on record. This is the third year in a row that we’ve had extreme highs — 2014 and 2015 also had record-breaking...
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Record-Low Sea Ice Levels in Arctic and Antarctic (Video)
Sea ice at both poles is at record lows for this time of year. That might not sound surprising, but it’s actually a first. While ice levels in the Arctic have been fairly consistently declining year...
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Melting Arctic Ice Could Have Major Consequences for Earth (Video)
Arctic sea ice is melting at such an alarming rate that scientists are warning it might trigger uncontrollable changes across the globe. The Arctic Resilience Report, published Friday following a...
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NASA Captures Alarming Image of Massive Antarctic Ice Shelf Rift (Video)
NASA’s Icebridge mission has captured an image of a significant rift in Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf. The situation shown in the photo, which was taken on November 10, is perhaps telling of the fate...
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NOAA Scientist Questions Fundamental Climate Change Data
Just ahead of the Paris climate talks in 2015, a groundbreaking paper was published by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It provided major support for the theory that...
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