Unlike such fossil fuels, which release climate-changing carbon dioxide when burnt, nuclear power is "carbon free".
The idea behind the SCC is easy to understand and intuitively attractive: If we're not pricing climate change impacts into activities that release climate-forcing gases like CO2, then our decisions are economically inefficient and lead to more emissions.
Columbia GSAPP's Publications team is organizing the display Footnotes on Climate, on view in the Giardini's Book Pavilion for the duration of the biennale, and will host a book launch on May 27 for the new release Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City with Lars Müller Publishers).
The dangerous practice of fracking is known to contaminate drinking water for American communities and release climate-disrupting methane into the air.
The study's findings are particularly good news for renewable energy advocates, who say switching to solar and other alternative energy sources is necessary to reduce the world's reliance on fuels that release climate-warming carbon emissions. .
[The Stockton Record] Speculation persists about the identity and motives of the person who released climate scientists' private e-mails online just before a recent international climate conference.
Our climate and energy program continued its work on climate change and business initiative, and also released Climate Actions for California: Recommendations for Governor Jerry Brown's Final Term.
Environmentally, South American rainforests are being cleared – releasing climate change emissions – to grow animal feed and rear cattle for export to Europe.
In its recently released Climate Change Performance Index 2008, the nonprofit group Germanwatch, which is active on environmental issues, ranked Norway 16th out of 56 countries, tied with Indonesia, and well behind Sweden, Britain and Germany.
"Complex problems demand massive amounts of data to solve," said Conor Riffle, director of data product innovation at the Carbon Disclosure project, which has released climate change data on the world's 100 biggest cities. "We need to improve the free flow of climate change data so we can start to get a handle on protecting people and property from the coming impacts of a changing climate".
