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Jabs Chicago Think Tank For Offering To Drive Him To Airport After Climate Talk
2016-06-04 23:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everything.When it came time for Tübingen Mayor Boris Palmer to return to Germany Friday after speaking at the Chicago Forum on Global Cities, he bought a $5 ticket to the Blue Line, an electric train that zips up the middle of the Dan Ryan Expressway to OHare Airport. And then I had to turn down the very, very polite offer of the organizers of this conference to take me to...
Climate Change Does Have A Face, We Just Need To Open Our Eyes
2016-06-04 22:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: As floods consume Paris, in Ethiopia the wind is again blowing dust into the sky. El Nino has dealt the country a vicious blow, with more than 10 million people now requiring food assistance. It is not only in Ethiopia. The strongest El Nino in more than 50 years, triggering severe droughts and floods, has cut a devastating swathe through South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Angola, Lesotho, Tanzania, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo. The UN predicts that food will start running...
Norway becomes first country in the world to commit to zero deforestation
2016-06-04 16:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Norway has become the first country in the world to commit to zero deforestation. The Norwegian parliament pledged the governments public procurement policy will become deforestation-free after a committee of MPs recommended imposing regulations to ensure the state did "not contribute to deforestation of the rainforest". Norway funds forest conservation projects worldwide and also supports human rights programmes for forest communities. Nils Hermann Ranum, the head of Policy and Campaign...
The federal government should buy coal plants, shut them down and pay to retrain their employees
2016-06-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The Supreme Courts decision in February to stay President Obamas Clean Power Plan may lead to a protracted legal battle over aging, unprofitable and environmentally unsound coal plants. But instead of litigating our way out of the problem, there is a simpler solution: The federal government could buy the plants and close them. The courts move threatens to not only derail the presidents initiative to curb greenhouse-gas emissions at U.S. coal-fired power plants but also unravel the progress...
Coal could have innovated and iterated to a greener future
2016-06-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Slate: Coal is getting killed in the U.S. That's largely because its main customer, the electricity industry, is switching to fuels or sources that are either cheaper or cleaner (or both), like natural gas and renewables. In March, for example, coal accounted for only 24 percent of electricity generated down in the U.S.--that's down from 33 percent in March 2015 and from 41 percent in March 2014. So far this year, U.S. coal production is just two-thirds of what is was last year. Coal is being massacred...
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