Last Friday I was a guest on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday”, answering questions about carbon trading. You can listen to the broadcast here.
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Too-Warm Winter Haiku
Apple blossoms bloom
On too-warm winter days, then
Frost, dead. No apples.
Yesterday was the first day of spring, so it’s a good time to look back on the winter we just had. For most of the United States, it was really crazy. It started off with balmy, record-breaking temperatures in December and January, then turned bitter cold in February and March with some memorable and deadly snow storms.
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Cheat Offsetting?
Climate change can be a gloomy topic – sometimes you need a laugh! So I thought I’d share a funny item that caught my eye this week.
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Part 3 of 4: U.S. Emissions Target
This is the third installment of a four-part series to be published each Wednesday on Action Needed to Stop Global Warming.
1. How Warm is Too Warm?
2. Worldwide Emissions Target
3. U.S. Emissions Target
4. Technologies to Get Us There
In Part 1 of this series, I defined the global tipping point as the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, which could cause sea levels to rise 20 feet. In Part 2, I showed by how much global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) must drop to avoid this tipping point. They must start to decline around 2020, drop 50 percent by 2050, and drop at least 75 percent by the end of the century.
Meeting these global emissions targets will require a global effort. Even if the U.S. and other developed countries were to cut their emissions to zero, global emissions would likely exceed the targets by mid-century. This is because of the rapid rise in emissions from China and other developing countries.
The Carbon Footprint of… Everything
How do you know that concern about climate change has reached the mainstream? When a product’s carbon footprint is a factor in every buying decision.
And how do you know the carbon footprint of a product? Through eco-labeling – a label disclosing the amount of energy used to produce the product, or the amount of CO2 that producing the product released into the atmosphere. The idea is similar to nutrition labeling – give consumers the knowledge they need to make informed choices.
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A Climate Change Reading List
Hopefully my posts have sparked your curiosity about global warming and climate change. Here is a short list of user-friendly books and other resources that may interest you.
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