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Trump’s executive order puts the world on the road to climate catastrophe
It’s so egregious, it no longer really matters if he doesn’t formally opt out of the Paris climate deal.
Joe Romm

Mar 29, 2017

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Trump budget cuts on climate science ‘an all-out assault on Earth’
Trumps announcement to defund NOAA’s satellites will also hurt weather forecasts, jeopardizing public safety, experts warn.
Joe Romm

Mar 6, 2017

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Tesla drops ‘Motors’ from name in bid for clean energy supremacy
Elon Musk is now at sweet spot of 3 big trillion-dollar energy ‘tsunamis’ that team Trump hopes to stop.
Joe Romm

Feb 6, 2017

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Trump, Putin, and ExxonMobil team up to destroy the planet
Pick of Exxon CEO for Secretary of State clarifies why Putin wanted Trump elected: a $500 billion oil deal killed by sanctions.
Joe Romm

Dec 13, 2016

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Trump fools the New York Times on climate change
Memo to media: Ignore what Trump says, focus on what he does and who he appoints.
Joe Romm

Nov 25, 2016

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Electric Vehicles

Electric car revolution may drive ‘investor death spiral’ for oil industry
The multi-trillion-dollar ‘big crash’ could start as soon as 2023, Bloomberg warns, and ratings agency Fitch agrees it could happen sooner than anyone expected.
Joe Romm

Oct 25, 2016

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Renewables

Chart of the year: ‘Incredible’ price drops jumpstart clean energy revolution
New DOE report details latest advances in solar, wind, LED lights, batteries, and electric cars.
Joe Romm

Sep 30, 2016

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How can global CO2 levels soar when emissions are flat?
Last year saw the biggest jump in global CO2 levels ever, yet in 2015 energy-related CO2 emissions were flat. So what’s going on?
Joe Romm

Mar 23, 2016

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No Bill Gates, we don’t need ‘energy miracles’ to solve climate change
For six years, Bill Gates has been arguing that we need “energy miracles” to avoid catastrophic climate change. For six years, he has been wrong.
Joe Romm

Feb 25, 2016

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Rupert Murdoch is marrying a climate hawk
On Tuesday, climate activist Jerry Hall and climate super-denier Rupert Murdoch announced their impending nuptials in one of his many newspapers.
Joe Romm

Jan 19, 2016

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Ocean warming now off the charts
The oceans — where over 90% of global warming heat ends up — have literally warmed up off the charts.
Joe Romm

Jan 27, 2015

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‘The collapse of western civilization’ – a view from year 2393
How would a historian in 2393 write about this century if we continue self-destructively ignoring climate science – and modern civilization as we know it had collapsed 300 years earlier?
Joe Romm

Jul 18, 2014

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