At a meeting in Exxon Corporation’s headquarters, a senior company scientist named James F. Black addressed an audience of powerful oilmen. Speaking without a text as he flipped through detailed slides, Black delivered a sobering message: carbon dioxide from the world’s use of fossil fuels would warm the planet and could eventually endanger humanity.
The Halley Professor of Physics at Oxford asks whether humanity is capable of applying the patient and creative investment of brain power and money to curtailing climate change that it invested in finding ripples in spacetime.
Source: Oxford’s Halley Professor on How the Climate Challenge Could Derail a Brilliant Human Destiny – The New York […]
When the mosquito now infamous for spreading the Zika virus suddenly showed up thousands of miles from anywhere it would usually call home, a California insect abatement officer was confounded. Steve Mulligan and his equally puzzled colleagues first encountered the Aedes aegypti mosquito in 2013, in their work for the Consolidated Mosquito Abatement District in […]
Following this week’s surprising blow by the Supreme Court to the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, how will the court’s decision to stay the rule impact pending litigation and state action on compliance? During today’s OnPoint, David Doniger, director and senior attorney of the Climate and Clean Air Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, […]
