Today at 10 am ET, the House Subcommittees on Environment and Oversight will hold a hearing on the social cost of carbon (SCC). The SCC is a figure that represents the damage done to public health and the environment by the …
Denial is not a specific position, it is the act of rejection. In the case of climate, while Trump’s cabinet does not appear to reject the most basic science of the greenhouse effect, they do still reject the well-established body …
The U.S. coal industry is declining in the face of lower-cost natural gas, renewable energy and regulations designed to protect public health.
The social cost of carbon” (SCC) estimates the monetary cost to society from the damage caused by each additional metric ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) released into the atmosphere, due to climate change impacts.
Crops and Climate Climate change threatens the global food supply as certain crops become more expensive and scarce, with implications ranging from more chronic hunger to changes in common cuisine. Many crops will see negative impacts from the extreme weather, …
Reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is essential to solving climate change. However, another group of gases, known as short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), have a particularly powerful role in raising temperatures in the short-term. SLCPs include: black carbon, methane, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) …
Sources Cumulative National Emissions Rankings (2014) 6 Graphs Explain the World’s Top 10 Emitters, World Resources Institute GHG per capita rankings, GHG per capita (2011) CAIT 2.0, World Resources Institute CO2 per capita rankings, CO2 per capita (2013) Global Carbon Atlas China has made several announcements this …
Coal use across the U.S. has declined, causing large coal companies to declare bankruptcy. In light of this, environmental groups have joined community organizations living near mines to hold coal companies accountable for the cost and cleanup of closed sites to …
As one of the world’s most populous major emerging economies, Brazil has been the fifth largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to date with per capita emissions roughly equal to the world average but shared highly unequally across its …
Montana is vulnerable to increasing heat, melting snowpack and glaciers, reduced water availability and wildfires Montana’s climate is already changing. The state has warmed two degrees Fahrenheit in the last century. Montana recorded its all time wettest spring in 2014, …