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By the time natural gas has a net climate benefit you’ll likely be dead
Natural gas is not a bridge fuel to a carbon-free economy and is likely to bring no net climate benefit on any worthwhile timescale.
Joe Romm

Feb 20, 2014

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Fox News chief revealed: Anti science and anti-clean energy
A new biography of Fox News Chief Roger Ailes suggests he firmly believes the anti-science, anti-clean energy nonsense he puts on the air.
Joe Romm

Jan 20, 2014

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60 Minutes hit job on clean energy ignores the facts
Clean technology appears to be booming, but you would never know that from an absurd 60 Minutes piece touting an imaginary “Cleantech Crash.”
Joe Romm

Jan 7, 2014

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Arctic warming drives more extreme summer weather
Study links past decade’s ‘exceptional’ number of extreme weather events in US and Europe summers with record declines in Arctic sea ice and snow cover.
Joe Romm

Dec 10, 2013

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Hanukkah: The festival of energy efficient lighting
World’s first solar-powered menorah reinforces the idea that Hanukkah is a celebration of renewable fuels and/or burning them very, very efficiently.
Joe Romm

Nov 28, 2013

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Shell Oil self-imposes carbon pollution tax high enough to crash coal
The $40 a metric ton price that Shell uses would – if widely adopted – reshape domestic and international energy consumption and investment trends.
Joe Romm

Nov 22, 2013

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Graph of the Day: If all the ice melted
Nat Geo’s map of the world’s coastlines after 216ft sea-level rise has been labeled scaremongering, but the science suggests it’s a conservative view.
Joe Romm

Nov 12, 2013

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Climate denial becomes wedge issue as hockey stick beats Tea Party
Pro-science Terry McAuliffe has been elected governor of Virginia over Ken Cuccinelli, the leader of a witch hunt against climatologist Michael Mann.
Joe Romm

Nov 7, 2013

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Major study projects no long-term climate benefit from shale gas revolution
Most claims that shale gas will significantly reduce US carbon emissions in the future are based on little more than hand-waving and wishful thinking.
Joe Romm

Oct 21, 2013

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Carbon capture and storage: One step forward, one step back
Survey shows why we shouldn’t expect large-scale deployment of carbon capture and storage pre-2030s – or see it as a solution to the CO2 problem.
Joe Romm

Oct 17, 2013

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Earth may have warmed 5C in 13 years when CO2 levels doubled
PETM and associated carbon pulse “are often touted as the best geologic analog for the current” manmade rise in CO2 levels, as a new study notes.
Joe Romm

Oct 14, 2013

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Graph of the Day: Solar’s 99% cost plunge to grid parity
Those who say we need decades more research or more breakthroughs before renewables are ready, are living in the past. The future is now.
Joe Romm

Oct 7, 2013

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