June 5, 2014
West Coast Floating Wind Turbine Plan Gains Momentum, Funding
By Benjamin Romano, Xconomy Seattle Seafarers and beachgoers know ocean winds blow strong and often. Wind energy developers know it, too. Hundreds of massive wind turbines already dot the seas around the U.K., Denmark, Germany and other countries—and developers are preparing to install the first U.S. offshore turbines in New England waters. That’s bringing a […]

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June 4, 2014
China plan to cap CO2 emissions seen turning point in climate talks
BY KATHY CHEN AND STIAN REKLEV, REUTERS Original article here. China said on Tuesday it will set an absolute cap on its CO2 emissions from 2016 just a day after the United States announced new targets for its power sector, signalling a potential breakthrough in tough U.N. climate talks. Progress in global climate negotiations has often […]

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May 6, 2014
Report – Global Warming is Increasingly Disruptive Across US
By Matt McGrath, Environment correspondent, BBC News Climate change is having significant financial, ecological and human health impacts across the US, according to a new report. The third National Climate Assessment, released by the White House, says the number and strength of extreme weather events have increased over the past 50 years. Infrastructure is being damaged by […]

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May 2, 2014
What Happens When Washington State Attempts Major Climate Action?
Originally published by CleanTechnica If climate hawk Governor Jay Inslee gets his way, Washington State may have just taken the next major step toward America’s clean energy and low-carbon future. Citing already-apparent climate change impacts to his state’s economy and environment, Inslee last week signed an executive order designed to cut fossil fuel emissions and boost renewable […]

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April 17, 2014
Mitigation of Climate Change – Part 3 of the new IPCC report
By Brigitte Knopf, published on Real Climate Global emissions continue to rise further and this is in the first place due to economic growth and to a lesser extent to population growth. To achieve climate protection, fossil power generation without CCS has to be phased out almost entirely by the end of the century. The […]

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December 16, 2013
Guest: Decarbonizing Our Future
By Sid Morrison and K.C. Golden, Originally published by The Seattle Times. WE have met the enemy, and it is not us. It is not civilization. It is not energy production per se. It is carbon. It’s our excessive reliance on energy systems that dig ancient carbon — fossil fuels — out of the ground and release it […]

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September 27, 2013
It's Official, the Debate is Over and Climate Change is a Man-Made Threat
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report today ending the debate of human influence on our climate. “It is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century. The evidence for this has grown, thanks to more and better observations, an improved understanding of the climate […]

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May 21, 2012
Global Warming: Pollution Warms Through Thunderclouds
New research led by Jiwen Fan of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory suggests that pollution is warming the atmosphere through summer thunderstorm clouds.  The computational study was published May 10 in Geophysical Research Letters. Pollution strengthens thunderstorm clouds, which causes the tops of the clouds to spread out high in the atmosphere and capture heat, […]

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