Will we rewire the world with clean energy — or descend into political chaos, social disruption, and climate hell? And will Washington get with the program?
Ross Gelbspan
Ross Gelbspan, a 30-year veteran journalist, is author of The Heat Is On (1998) and Boiling Point (2004), which contains more detail on his ideas for an energy transition. He maintains the Web site www.heatisonline.org.
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Global Denial
As floodwaters recede and bodies emerge, Americans are belatedly making some terrible connections about the Bush administration, which has a contempt for public planning matched only by its habit of subordinating reality to public relations. One aspect, of course, is Iraq. The other is the needless tragedy in New Orleans. The Hurricane Katrina disaster is […]
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Global Denial
As floodwaters recede and bodies emerge, Americans are belatedly making some terrible connections about the Bush administration, which has a contempt for public planning matched only by its habit of subordinating reality to public relations. One aspect, of course, is Iraq. The other is the needless tragedy in New Orleans. The Hurricane Katrina disaster is […]
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Beyond Kyoto Lite:
At the end of the hottest October on record, delegates from 165 countries met in Marrakech last fall to finalize the Kyoto Protocol on global climate change. At first glance, the Kyoto goals seem negligible: By 2012, greenhouse gases must be cut to slightly below 1990 levels–a reduction to be realized through a loophole-ridden system […]
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Bush’s Climate Follies
By withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol–the attempt by 160nations to forge a treaty that will reduce worldwide emissions from coalcombustion and oil burning, thus averting a global-warming catastrophe–PresidentGeorge W. Bush trashed years of work by European negotiators just as he was aboutto make his European diplomatic debut. By declaring climate science “unsettled” and calling on […]
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A Global Warning
Less developed countries are spewing dangerous emissions that will lead to global warming. But it will take money to change that–money that the wealthier, more developed nations are reluctant to spend.
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Earth Tones
This summer’s melting of the nine-foot-deep ice cap at the North Pole into a mile-wide lake shocked the public out of its long-standing denial about the reality of global warming. According to new findings released in September by researchers at the National Climatic Data Center, the pace of climate change is accelerating. The world can […]
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Rx for a Planetary Fever
As the earth’s temperature rises faster than at any time in the past 10,000 years, the efforts of the world’s policy makers to deal with global warming are withering into paralysis. With our oil and coal burning and the resulting carbon emissions in the atmosphere, we have heated the deep oceans. We have altered the […]
