A stunning report came out in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS): "The importance of the Montreal Protocol in protecting climate." The Montreal Protocol, signed in 1987 by virtually every nation on the planet, including the U.S., sought curbs on the production of stratospheric ozone-destroying chemicals such as the chlorofluorocarbons that […]
I will touch on the economics of climate change a lot in the coming months, and also how businesses, large and small, are driving so much of the action. For openers, I want to refer to a really terrific special section of the "NY Times" that came out on March 7: Business of Green. What […]
I've got bad news and I've got good news. The bad news is that we have managed over the past 250 years or so to begin to dangerously overheat our planet, primarily by the burning of fossil fuels: coal, oil, and natural gas. What's worse is that we have accelerated this process as industrial civilization […]