NASA Archives - Renew Economy

Policy & Planning

Nowhere for polluters to hide: Satellites track power station emissions in real-time
With big polluters in Australia severely underreporting their emissions, the country is in need of this kind of independent data.
Rachel Williamson

Nov 2, 2022

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Policy & Planning

2020 among the top three warmest years on record, along with 2016 and 2019
2020 confirmed as another year ranking amongst the hottest on record. The urgency of reducing emissions only gets higher every day.
Ketan Joshi

Jan 15, 2021

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Coal

Ageing coal plants put Australia on map of global air pollution hotspots
NASA data reveals global toxic air pollution hotspots over Victoria’s Latrobe Valley and Lake Macquarie and the Hunter Valley in NSW – homes to Australia’s old coal plants.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 19, 2019

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Commentary

Factcheck for Andrew Bolt: Climate models have not ‘exaggerated’ global warming
How Andrew Bolt and other right wing commentators picked up a new climate study published in the Nature Geosciences journal and got it hopelessly wrong.
Zeke Hausfather

Sep 22, 2017

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Other Good Stuff

Trump names climate science denier to run NASA
Republican Congressman named to head NASA had demanded Obama apologize for funding climate change research.
Joe Romm

Sep 5, 2017

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Policy & Planning

This graphic puts global warming in full perspective
March was 1.3°C above pre-industrial average temperatures. If you were born after December 1964, you’ve never experienced a month cooler than average on this planet.
Brian Kahn

Apr 20, 2017

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Other Good Stuff

This is what 4 million solar panels look like from space
The installation oatthe Longyangxia Dam Solar Park currently has the capacity to generate 850 megawatts of electricity, or enough to power roughly 140,000 U.S. homes.
Brian Kahn

Feb 23, 2017

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Policy & Planning

Turnbull Government is wrong to pretend we can burn our way to climate safety
We are in the midst of experiencing the impacts of dangerous global warming, which made it all the more jarring when the Federal Government came out championing the big polluters that are driving global warming.
Shane Rattenbury

Jan 19, 2017

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Policy & Planning

2016 officially declared hottest year on record
The hottest year in 137 years, a mark of how much the world has warmed over the last century because of human activities, says U.S. government scientists.
Andrea Thompson

Jan 19, 2017

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Policy & Planning

August ties july as hottest month ever on record
NASA data released on Monday means August marks the 11th record-setting month in a row.
Andrew Thomson

Sep 13, 2016

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Policy & Planning

Scorching July is world’s hottest month on record
The reign of record hot months in 2016 continues, with last month claiming the title of hottest July on record globally, according to data released by NASA on Monday.
Andrea Thompson

Aug 16, 2016

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Policy & Planning

First half of 2016 blows away temp records
While 2016 has gotten a boost from an exceptionally strong El Niño, the record temps are mostly the result of accumulating greenhouse gases.
Andrea Thompson

Jul 20, 2016

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