160 Human Cost of Climate Change
Electric Cars are for Girls
OCTOBER 26, 2019
Polar bears aside, what is the human cost of climate change? Do you ever think about how climate change will affect you and me
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Report: 50 years ago, GM and Ford understood climate change was an issue
Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 27, 2020
General Motors and Ford knew about the possible impact of climate change as far back as 50 years ago, according to a new report from E&E News.
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Study: Crop relocation can help buffer US agriculture from climate change but southern states may face massive loss of productive land
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Projected extreme temperatures under climate change are predicted to reduce average yields for several of the United States’ major crops. These changes in productivity would drive farmers to change crops and move into new areas. Climate Change Forecasts Market Background
Study: 25% EV adoption would save US $17B annually from avoided climate change & pollution damages
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 18, 2020
A new study led by researchers from Northwestern University projects that if electric vehicles replaced 25% of combustion engine cars currently on the road, the United States would save approximately $17 billion annually by avoiding damages from climate change and air pollution. This highlights the potential of co-beneficial solutions to climate change that not only curb greenhouse gas emissions but also reduce the health burden of harmful air pollution.
Stop Climate Change Before It Changes YOU
Creative Greenius
SEPTEMBER 20, 2009
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@LATimes How Bad Does The Climate Crisis Have To Get Before @DrPatSoonShiong Hires A Climate Change Editor?
Creative Greenius
NOVEMBER 17, 2018
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@LATimes Editorial On Smog Never Mentions Climate Change As El Segundo Paper Gets Into Bed With Chevron #JoeTakesOnTheNews
Creative Greenius
JULY 4, 2019
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Most Americans plan action to alleviate climate change
Green Car Reports
JANUARY 24, 2019
After a year of record fires in California and floods in Texas and on the East Coast, more Americans are taking climate change seriously—and significant portions are willing to take financial steps to combat it. global warming greenhouse gas climate changeThere's nothing like hitting people where they live to goad them into action.
@evanhalper Gets The Climate Crisis But @LATimes Still Clueless & Desperately Needs To Hire A Climate Change Editor Who Groks Reality #JoeTakesOnTheNews
Creative Greenius
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
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@LAT DID Have A Second Climate Change Piece In Sunday’s Paper – Buried In The “Science File” Instead Of Being Front Page News #JoeTakesOnTheNews
Creative Greenius
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
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Climate change presents $1 trillion in risk, but more in reward: study
Green Car Reports
JUNE 7, 2019
The latest climate study, released Tuesday, doesn't look at sea level rise, carbon counts, or government policy—at least not directly. global warming climate changeInstead, it takes a strictly capitalist approach. The study, by CDP, sent questionnaires to more than 200 of the largest global companies about their forecasts for how much money they're budgeting to lose to.
Study suggests future climate changes to worsen air quality for >85% of China’s population; ~20k+ additional deaths each year
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 19, 2019
A study by a team of researchers from China, the US and Germany suggests that future climate change may worsen air quality for more than 85% of China’s population, leading to an additional 20,000 deaths each year. The team used a combination of climate, air quality, and epidemiological models to assess future air pollution deaths in a changing climate under Representative Concentration Pathway 4.5 (RCP Projected changes in mean annual PM 2.5
Clueless El Segundo Newspaper @LATimes Continues To Ballwash Oil Industry By Deleting #ClimateEmergency From PR Piece For Chevron. @DrPatSoonShiong Desperately Needs A Climate Change Editor #JoeTakesOnTheNews
Creative Greenius
APRIL 13, 2019
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Why Exxon Is Attacking The Media Over Climate Change Research
Green Car Reports
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
Beginning in the 1970s, Exxon conducted research that confirmed the occurrence of climate change, and that the burning of fossil fuels is a major contributor to it. Then it spent the better part of two decades funding groups that denied the science of climate. emissions oil research climate change Exxon science
Climate Change #Liar-Deniers Are The New Racists
Creative Greenius
AUGUST 11, 2013
And the way the Greenius sees it, it’s a nano-thin intellectual line between choosing to believe black people or brown people are inferior and not equal to you and yours and believing that 100+ years of burning fossil fuels is not the cause of global warming and that climate scientists are lying and part of a cabal perpetrating a vast left wing conspiracy.
Methane from livestock nearing worst-case scenario for climate change: scientist
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 14, 2016
Exhaust emissions from gasoline and diesel cars get a lot of attention from policymakers attempting to combat climate change. Environmental emissions greenhouse gas climate change Methane foodBut another very large source of carbon emissions has nothing to do with transportation. Emissions of methane have increased dramatically over the past few years, with livestock raised for human food as the largest source.
Cross-Border Carbon: Mexico Sets Limit On Climate-Change Emissions
Green Car Reports
APRIL 13, 2015
Mexico is officially joining the cadre of nations seeking to limit climate change, with a formal promise to cut its greenhouse-gas emissions. global warming energy policy mexico greenhouse gas climate change The country is one of the first to issue a plan for emissions reduction as part of a cooperative international effort that is being coordinated by the United Nations. MORE: U.S. And China Agree To Curb.
Exxon knew climate change was real, ads told public it wasn't
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 29, 2017
Almost two years ago, Inside Climate News published a significant expose that confirmed Exxon's own scientists had agreed that human carbon emissions contributed to global warming as early as July 1977. global warming climate change carbon dioxide Exxon fossil fuelsSometimes it's best not to dare the public to do the research, especially if you're trying to persuade them of something that isn't true.
California Approves Aggressive New Plans To Combat Climate Change
Green Car Reports
JUNE 5, 2015
emissions Politics California climate change state lawsCalifornia continues to lead the way in all things green, now with new legislation that calls for dramatic cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions over the next few decades. Bills passed by the state Senate seek to formalize energy-efficiency goals set by Governor Jerry Brown in his inaugural address earlier this year. They include targets for reductions.
Is 'Drawdown' the climate-change action map the world needs?
Green Car Reports
JANUARY 4, 2018
We often speak of methods and technologies we can employ as a society to curb climate change, either by reducing carbon emissions or through other means. global warming climate change carbon dioxideBut less frequently do we talk about them in real terms, including how much excess carbon these methods and technologies can pratically remove from the atmosphere. That's where Drawdown, a.
Coal-country voters laugh at politicians who deny climate change
Green Car Reports
JUNE 8, 2017
global warming energy policy natural gas jobs climate change fossil fuelsThe "war on coal" has long been a talking point of politicians running for elected office in the state of Kentucky. The state was once home to a booming coal industry that has floundered over the years as cheaper fracked natural gas has supplanted coal for electricity generation. The state's coal industry job losses have thus been due to the surge.
Clean energy won't happen, climate change will be bad: a contrarian perspective
Green Car Reports
MARCH 2, 2018
The most recent detailed studies on the likely warming of Planet Earth are grim indeed, suggesting that we are collectively at "very high risk" for the most extreme effects of climate change. emissions global warming climate change carbon dioxide scienceTo stem that, mankind collectively will have to reduce its ongoing emissions of carbon dioxide radically and immediately. Now, one longtime advocate of.
The Climate Change Caravan
Revenge of the Electric Car
JANUARY 15, 2009
Say Hello to Guest Blogger Alexis Ringwald - with this first dispatch from the Climate Change Caravan in India. On January 3, 2009, a group of passionate individuals launched the Climate Solutions Road Tour : an epic month-long 3,500 km journey from Chennai to New Delhi, India to demonstrate that clean transportation solutions do exist and call upon automakers globally to build them. More soon … Follow our Climate Solutions Road Tour at: [link].
Rio Tinto to invest $1 billion over 5 years to help meet new climate change targets
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Mining giant Rio Tinto will invest around $1 billion over the next five years to support the delivery of its new climate change targets and a company objective for net zero emissions from operations by 2050. Enhance resilience to physical climate risks. Rio Tinto considers climate-related risks over the life of its operations from design to closure and beyond. Rio Tinto’s new 2030 climate targets are linked to executive remuneration.
CA Climate-Change Bill Passed, Electric Utilities To Target Oil Industry
Green Car Reports
SEPTEMBER 14, 2015
On Friday, September 11, the California Senate approved SB 350, the Clean Energy and Reduction Act--by far the most far-reaching climate change legislation enacted in the U.S. oil California climate change electric utilities state lawsLet's call this one a good news, bad news, good news story. The bill's provisions codify Governor Jerry Brown's goals of generating half the energy used in the state from.
Climate change: GM mulls an electric Hummer revival
Green Car Reports
JUNE 17, 2019
The idea of bringing back the Hummer brand is on the table at General Motors. Yes, that’s the brand that was much maligned by environmentalists in the ‘00s, for becoming a plus-sized piece of hypocrisy on wheels, a fashion statement of American excess riffing off the Humvee, a vehicle that helped fight the war (in part) to secure the
U of Toronto study finds US electrification of LDV fleet not a silver bullet for tackling climate change in vehicle sector
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 1, 2020
The paper is published in the journal Nature Climate Change. A lot of people think that a large-scale shift to EVs will mostly solve our climate problems in the passenger vehicle sector. Tackling climate change is not a one-country, one-sector or one-technology job.
How optimistic are you on efforts to address climate-change impacts? Twitter poll results
Green Car Reports
JANUARY 10, 2018
That's the level at which scientists say the most dire effects of climate change may be lessened or averted. global warming climate change carbon dioxide science PollsIt remains entirely unclear if the world as a whole will be able to cut its emissions of carbon dioxide fast enough to keep the global temperature rise below 2 degrees C over the next few decades. Recent news has been both positive and.
Thomas Friedman Explains Climate Change Action For You
Creative Greenius
DECEMBER 9, 2009
From Today’s, December 9, New York Times: Thomas Friedman, “If we prepare for climate change by building a clean-power economy, but climate change turns out to be a hoax, what would be the result? But if we don’t prepare, and climate change turns out to be real, life on this planet could become a living hell.&#.
Report finds says “negative emissions technologies” need to play a large role in mitigating climate change
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 29, 2018
To achieve goals for climate and economic growth, “negative emissions technologies” (NETs) that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the air will need to play a significant role in mitigating climate change, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Most climate mitigation efforts are intended to decrease the rate at which people add carbon from fossil fuel reservoirs to the atmosphere.
Effects Of Climate Change Could Last 10,000 Years Or More: Scientists
Green Car Reports
FEBRUARY 11, 2016
But science has shown that continuing to do so on a large scale for even a short while longer could bring on disastrous climate change. And now a new study suggests the effects of climate change could last much longer than. Environmental emissions oil climate change fossil fuelsCompared to the lifespan of Planet Earth, human beings have burned fossil fuels for only an extremely brief period of time.
Exxon and climate change: two lawsuits, in opposite directions, on same grounds
Green Car Reports
JANUARY 26, 2018
One of the world's largest oil producers is about to enter a tit-for-tat battle over climate change with government officials from multiple states. global warming climate change carbon dioxide Exxon fossil fuelsNew York, Massachusetts, New York City, and a slew of cities in California have brought multiple lawsuits against oil producers for a lack of disclosure of potential liabilities they may face. Those.
Electric-car and climate-change tipping points, Prius details, Audi e-tron drive: The Week in Reverse
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 8, 2018
global warming climate change RivianWhich automaker made a commitment to end gas engine production (eventually)? What electric car may finally have gotten a name? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending Dec. 7, 2018. This week our news came mostly from follow-up insights from the LA Auto Show as well as mainly.
Audi Super Bowl ad: “Frozen” song, electric vehicles, and climate change
Green Car Reports
JANUARY 31, 2020
Audi is making a pitch for its fully electric E-Tron SUV and E-Tron Sportback this Super Bowl with a very “Frozen” song. The spot features Maisie Williams, of Game of Thrones, Doctor Who, and various films, singing the song as if in a musical. “Today’s high temperature is 8 degrees above normal,” says a radio voice. youtube
EPA head: new report that climate change is manmade has 'no bearing' on plans to end climate action
Green Car Reports
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
scientists released the fourth National Climate Assessment, it spelled out one blunt conclusion: human activity in releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere caused the climate change that has warmed the globe. emissions Politics government EPA global warming CO2 climate changeWhen top U.S.
DOE launches major 10-year project to use high performance computing for climate change research; ACME
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 24, 2014
Eight national laboratories—Lawrence Livermore, Argonne, Brookhaven, Lawrence Berkeley, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Pacific Northwest and Sandia—are combining forces with the National Center for Atmospheric Research, four academic institutions and one private-sector company in a 10-year project to use high performance computing (HPC) to develop and to apply the most complete climate and Earth system model. Climate Change Climate models High Performance Computing
Are you optimistic about efforts to address climate change? Take our Twitter poll
Green Car Reports
JANUARY 5, 2018
policymakers as climate change. Scientists agree that the effects of manmade climate change, on the other hand. emissions global warming CO2 climate change carbon dioxide science PollsTen years ago, energy security may have been as much a driving force behind electric cars for U.S. Now, with continuous growth in domestic oil and gas production over that period, you just don't hear energy security discussed as much.
PCAST suggests 6 key components for climate change strategy to President Obama; adaptation and mitigation
Green Car Congress
MARCH 23, 2013
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a letter to President Obama describing six key components the advisory group believes should be central to the Administration’s strategy for addressing climate change. The first component aims to reduce the damage resulting from changes in climate (“adaptation”), while the last five aim to reduce the pace and magnitude of these changes (“mitigation”).
Nissan CEO Ghosn: Climate Change Must Be Corporate Humanitarian Cause
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 1, 2014
But the need to curtail climate change is at the root of many of these There are many reasons that automakers sell electric cars. Cars that plug in to travel on batteries charged from the electric grid respond to perceived customer demand for more-efficient transportation, and they help companies comply with tightening global emissions standards.
OECD: governments should make better use of energy taxation to address climate change; “meaningful” increases limited to road sector
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
Tax rates were below the low-end estimate of climate costs (EUR 30/tCO 2 ) for 97% of emissions. The report assesses the magnitude and coverage of taxes on energy use in 2015, and considers change between 2012 and 2015. The report found that the share of emissions taxed above climate costs increased from 46% in 2012 to 50% in 2015, and rates exceed €50 per tCO 2 for 47% of emissions in 2015, compared to 37% in 2012. Climate Change Emissions Policy
Government of Québec unveils $2.7B climate change action plan; 63% of spending targeting transport
Green Car Congress
JUNE 5, 2012
The Premier of Québec, Jean Charest; the Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks, Pierre Arcand; and the Minister of Transport Pierre Moreau unveiled the Canadian province’s 2013-2020 Action Plan on Climate Change (PACC 2020). The planned actions are intended to contribute significantly to achieving the objective of Québec’s climate change to reduce GHG emissions 20% below 1990 levels by 2020.
America’s LEAST Credible Newspaper On #ClimateCrisis News, @LATimes, Sounds Desperate To Deny #JoeTakesOnTheNews
Creative Greenius
MAY 30, 2019
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Electric Company Too Scared To Tell Truth About Climate Change
Creative Greenius
JUNE 26, 2009
If SCE Won’t Tell The Truth About Climate Change Why Should We Trust Them About Anything? But it’s too bad Javier was too afraid to tell the truth about climate change to the people who came to his presentation hoping to get the facts and the straight story. I’d bet they’re up on the climate change news and the proven science on this topic that’s vital to their industry and the work they do.
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