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Blog postThe goals of this Global Commission are laudable and essential. I wrote extensively for The New York Times about the glaring energy gaps impeding wellbeing for hundreds of millions of families and progress for enormous regions in developing countries (e.g., http://j.mp/energyandknifefights).
But it might be more realistic to acknowledge that electricity won’t come close to filling the energy gap for cooking and space heating — still the largest energy need in most deeply poor household -
Blog postThe only aspect of this story I take issue with is the word NEW. This #expandingbullseye of vulnerability has been building for decades. https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/12/04/will-california-ever-let-sierra-nevada-forests-burn/
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Blog postSeven years ago, my brain hinted to me that I might be having a stroke.
During a rare run in the woods on a hot Fourth of July weekend in 2011, my brain — which I hardly ever think about — gave me a strong hint something was seriously wrong with the inputs it was receiving from my eyes.
My left eye was telling my brain the world was paisley. My right eye was, “meh.”
Thank you, brain.
If it hadn’t been for you, I wouldn’t have scarfed down half a -
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Blog postThis story of mine, about the rapid retreat of iconic glaciers that long defined life in the Swiss Alps, was originally published in Conde Nast Traveler in May, 1995, but is — of course — as relevant as ever.
The Aletsch Glacier in 1979, 1991 and 2002 — Creative Commons In 1818, the farmers who ranged cattle on the steep mountainsides above Brig, a small town in southern Switzerland, organized a religious procession to deter a looming catastrophe. They marched from the church -
Blog postI first got to know the self-described “independent scholar” Bob Kates when I was working on the special “Managing Planet Earth” issue of The New York Times Science Times section in 2002. He was in the opening section of my core story and he was the kicker, as well — a sure sign that his ideas captured my imagination and held up after a lot of reporting. Here’s that closing poassage:
Managing Planet Earth, The New York Times, Aug. 20, 2002 Bob passed away peacefully on the day befo -
Blog postA user-friendly, spin-free, bite-size guide to global warming drawing on three decades of reports from the National Academy of Sciences and other peer-reviewed science.
Scientists gauging the hardness of tundra on Alaska’s North Slope, 2004 (A. Revkin) By Andrew Revkin
This is a summary of research pointing to a rising, long-lasting and consequential human influence on the climate system and resulting impacts on communities, resources and ecosystems, as well as science -
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Blog postThe Times has produced an excellent visual/story package on America’s aging dams, prompted by California’s close scrape as relentless rain from a series of atmospheric rivers strained the Oroville Dam and spillway.
Here’s one factoid:
By 2020, 70 percent of the dams in the United States will be more than 50 years old, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers.“It’s not like an expiration date for your milk, but the components that make up that dam do have a lifespan. -
Blog postFrom Twitter I’VE weighed in a lot in recent years on prospects for a creditable human path at this turbulent juncture on Earth, when our species’ surge has been so potent that it’s leaving a durable record in layered rock — prompting many Earth scientists to propose the dawn of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene.
The notion that any path in this century could be good has been challenged by some environmental analysts, and Donald J. Trump’s disruptive ascent to the White House co -
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Blog postWhen Elon Musk speaks, his spellbinding vision of an electrified planet with clean energy generation is always in the foreground.
Here, he casts progress in the broader context of the enduring need for oil (and natural gas). I’m posting this snippet of video because I’m thinking a lot these days about one of the “unusual suspects” in humanity’s intertwined climate and energy challenges — inertia.
https://medium.com/media/15f48d13a33c0a273c59bbccec332ff7/href The moment came when -
Blog postPresident George W. Bush and Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham (right), May, 2001 (White House photo) While tracking statements on climate change and energy policy by Trump cabinet nominees, with former Texas Governor Rick Perry in the spotlight on Thursday, I found myself sifting back to January, 2001, when the first-term administration of George W. Bush was taking shape.
On January 18, a Senate committee heard from Spencer Abraham, Bush’s proposed Secretary of Energy. Her -
Blog postAfter nine years and 2,810 posts, a blog seeking a sustainable path for humans on a finite planet comes to an end.
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Blog postIntensifying Indian protests prompted the Obama administration to block a pipeline's path in North Dakota.
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Blog postIn the Sierra Nevada, California's main forest fire problem lies in not letting forests burn.
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Blog postA tribute after the death of a young and innovative field researcher who used a scat-sniffing dog to help figure out polar bears' changing diets.
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Blog postTED's new curator of science, David Biello, explains why he sees hints of hope in Earth's emerging Anthropocene "age of us."
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Blog postAfter the murder of Chico Mendes in 1988, a new brand of green governance developed on Brazil's rain forest frontier, but political instability poses fresh threats.
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Blog postAdvisors to President-elect Trump see little merit in NASA emphasizing "Earth-centric" science.
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Blog postDrones, mainly associated with missiles, are poised to deliver medicines in Madagascar.
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Blog postA web-sifting exercise that helps students of all ages figure out how facts or fakery flow online.
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Blog postAndy Revkin argues that a first step toward a successful human journey is a little positive self regard.
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Blog postA look at the worst-case environmental outcomes under a Trump White House and Republican Congress.
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Blog postAndy Revkin shifts from blogging and teaching back to long-form in-depth reporting, at ProPublica.
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Blog postExploring prospects for the environment, and challenges for environmentalists, in a Trump presidency.
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Blog postHumans have become a planet-scale disruptive force. What next?
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Blog postThe core issue in the Dakota Access Pipeline fight is Sioux rights, not oil.
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Weather: An Illustrated History: From Cloud Atlases to Climate Change (Sterling Illustrated Histories)
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Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast
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The Burning Season: The Murder Of Chico Mendes^
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