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Reposted from The Fabius Maximus website By Larry Kummer, Editor / 12 February 2020 Summary: The climate policy debate ran for 30 years but produced little action (it ranks #17 of the public’s top 18 concerns)...

Guest climate debating by David Middleton 4 inconvenient truths about climate change Noah Millman September 7, 2019 At this week’s climate symposium on CNN, Elizabeth Warren answered a question about whether the government...

From the Institute for Energy Research By Robert P. Murphy May 21, 2019 In the old Soviet Union, the Communists allegedly used[i] the term “useful idiot” to describe Westerners whose naïve political views furthered the...

2018 elections bring mixed messages and require climate and renewable energy reality check Paul Driessen The “Blue Wave” never really reached shore, the U.S. Senate is still in Republican hands, the House of Representatives...

Will President Donald Trump respect a climate deal finalized while Barack Obama was still president? After pulling the United States out of the 2015 Paris Agreement, and working to undo many of Obama's climate regulations,...

President Donald Trump is notorious for his ignorance on climate change. So instead of sitting by while his administration harms the planet, a British climate scientist, an American PhD candidate, and a French and Kiwi sustainable...

President Donald Trump is notorious for his ignorance on climate change. So instead of sitting by while his administration harms the planet, a British climate scientist, American PhD candidate, and French and Kiwi sustainable...

Who better to stand for the environment than a lawyer who represented BP after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon tragedy? At least, that appears to be President Donald Trump's logic...

China and the United States are two of the world's biggest carbon polluters, and when both entered the Paris Agreement the moves were seen as a win for the rest of the world...

President Donald Trump is set to withdraw from the historic 2015 Paris Agreement, according to several news outlets. It appears he'll stick with his ill-advised campaign promise after all, and favor nationalist voices like...

17 American states are pushing back after President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the environment last week. The New York-led coalition is legally challenging the Trump administration after the president's attempts...

President Donald Trump's onslaught on the environment continues. He is set to sign a new executive order today that would undo the Clean Power Plan and slash the Environmental Protection Agency's budget by one third. The...

President Donald Trump's main stance on climate change is usually denial, but if he does take action it could be with the controversial approach of geoengineering...

Last Friday, the island nation of Fiji became the first to ratify the UN climate deal reached in Paris last December. Climate change is an issue of major concern in Fiji and other pacific island nations, which are already...

This is a guest post by Dave Rutledge. Professor Rutledge is the Tomiyasu Professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech, and a former Chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science there. This post originally appeared...