By Jacques Leslie, Los Angeles Times Highlights California’s cap-and-trade program alone won’t be sufficient to reach the state’s goals, including its mandate to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. Energy Innovation, a San Francisco think tank, spent more than two years developing a computer model called an Energy Policy Simulator to … Read more
by Rebecca Klar, The Hill Highlights In a report released by the National Security, Military and Intelligence Panel of the Center of Climate and Security, a nonpartisan security policy institute, national security and intelligence experts warn that climate change could become a “catastrophic” threat to security and recommended quick action to be taken to mitigate … Read more
by Ann Hancock, Chief Strategist and Co-founder, The Climate Center Imagine that we tackle the climate crisis in a way that actually turns things around fast. Averting climate disaster depends on the climate movement becoming much more powerful and effective, and this depends on climate advocates and leaders aligning and collaborating around an overarching strategy. … Read more
Below are several selected upcoming committee hearings and several, but not all, of the key bills we are tracking. For a complete list of the roughly 16 bills we are currently tracking in 2020, click HERE. We do expect many more bills relating to Community Choice, electricity system resilience, microgrids, the climate crisis, and other … Read more
By Paul Voosen, Science Magazine And see here, The world’s oceans are speeding up — another mega-scale consequence of climate change Highlights: Ocean currents have been increasing in energy for the last few decades, which can affect jet streams, weather patterns, marine wildlife and the amount of heat stored in the ocean’s depths. Three-quarters of the … Read more
By Rachel Becker, Cal Matters Highlights: California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the Climate Catalyst Loan Fund in his state budget proposal. The fund would offer low-interest loans to climate-related projects that would otherwise struggle to attract loans, but policy analyst Brian Weatherford believes that the administration may not be able to determine the best projects … Read more
By Brandon Specktor, Live Science Highlights: Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, broke off chunks of ice in an event known as “calving,” just days after the region hit it’s all-time highest temperature. Calving, the breaking of ice away from the edge of glaciers, has become a nearly annual occurrence for the … Read more
By Sophie Bethune, American Psychological Association Highlights: A new study shows more than half of American adults worry about climate change. Adults who are concerned about the climate crisis are making lifestyle changes that address waste reduction, energy efficiency, flying less, and using more renewable energy The climate crisis is considered important enough to cause … Read more
By Matt Mace, edie.net Highlights: 121 nations with a collective $39 trillion in GDP have created net-zero emissions (carbon neutrality) targets in response to the 2018 IPCC 1.5C report. These nations are mobilizing to address the climate crisis 18 months after the IPCC 1.5C report was released Analysis found that only 16% of GDP was … Read more
By Jonathan Watts, The Guardian Highlights: Seymore Island along the Antarctic Peninsula reached an all-time high temperature of nearly 70 degrees Fahrenheit. The high temperature was recorded by Terrantar, a Brazilian government project monitoring climate change impacts throughout Antarctica The increasing temperatures may be due to El Niño weather events and shifts in ocean currents … Read more
