Energy and Climate Change

“Just when they started to succeed is when the plug got pulled.”

“In our society, the more the individual can do to reverse our energy use, or make it more efficient, the better it is for all of us.” Tim Crawford

“The problem with tipping elements is that if any of them tips, it will be a real catastrophe. None of them are small.”

"Climate Wizard is meant to make it easier to explore climate data in an interactive way," Girvetz says. "It makes the data accessible in ways that are more intuitive, even for people who are not climate scientists."

A new report shows that green roofs not only help by cooling the sun’s rays, they also are effective for carbon sequestration.

It’s an idea that experts say could be replicated in communities across the country.

We interrupt Dateline Earth’s relentless search for the 100 one-percent solutions to global warming for a special report on a sweeping new look at how we can give ourselves a lot more time to find those solutions.

The cuts that countries including the USA are proposing in greenhouse gas emissions are difficult to measure and highly susceptible to manipulation by government officials and companies.

Solar technology is going where it has never gone before: onto the shelves at retail stores where do-it-yourselfers can now plunk a panel into a shopping cart and bring it home to install.

A new program will develop novel approaches to renewable fuels.