Climate Change

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Ciplet discusses power dynamics and climate negotiations

With an interesting research and career portfolio that blends social movements and climate change, David Ciplet joined the Environmental Studies Departmentat the University of Colorado Boulder earlier this academic year bringing with him a focus on power and inequality in climate change and global politics.
February 23, 2016
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Climate Science Alliance under Pairis wins NOAA Resilience Grant

The Climate Science Alliance under Fellow Amber Pairis has won a competitive NOAA Coastal Resilience grant with its partners.
February 22, 2016
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The key to halting climate change: admit we can't save everything

The best use of resources is to adopt a triage approach to climate change – deal with the direst circumstances first, and work from there, says Ayana Elizabeth Johnson.
February 22, 2016
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Micheli and Pepperwood Preserve part of USDA-funded collaboration for climate resiliency

A regional collaboration of resource agencies learned today that it will receive an $8 million grant to protect agricultural lands and ecosystems for drought and climate resiliency.
February 15, 2016
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Shi says adapting to climate change in cities may require a major rethink

Around the world, urbanization and climate change are transforming societies and environments, and the stakes could not be higher for the poor and marginalized. The 2015 UN climate conference in Paris (COP-21) highlighted the need for coordinated action to address the profound injustice of the world’s most disadvantaged people bearing the greatest costs of climate impacts. Among those at the COP were mayors from around the world advocating for the important role of cities in these efforts.
February 15, 2016
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Berger letter on clean energy revolution published in The New York Times

To the Editor: In “Wind, Sun and Fire” (column, Feb. 1), Paul Krugman, concluding that we can have the energy revolution we need “even if the crazies retain control of the House,” ignores some important realities.
February 12, 2016
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Hansen on weakening West Virginia as coal severance crumbles

County by county, West Virginia’s coalfield communities are being forced to cut jobs, eliminate programs and slash benefits as they steadily collapse alongside the Mountain State’s plummeting coal severance tax revenue. ... But Evan Hansen, president of Downstream Strategies and one author of the white paper, said diversifying the economy might be the only way out.
February 9, 2016
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Hesse quoted on northeast's rapidly warming ocean water

The ocean off Cape Cod is warming at a rate more than double what prior modeling predicted, according to a report released Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The finding by researchers at the federal agency matches what has already been recognized locally over the past ten years, said the report's lead author, fisheries scientist Vincent Saba.
February 9, 2016
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Connecticut powering up alternative energy initiative under Klee

When Robert Klee took over as Connecticut's Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection in 2014, he viewed his role as that of an implementer. As he indicated when he took over, it was his job to take the innovations proposed by his predecessor, Daniel Esty, and move them from concept to reality. As 2015 drew to a close, however, it was clear that Klee has implemented those plans and is now looking to innovate and tackle new, bigger ideas. The energy and environmental spheres in Connecticut appear ripe for major change as 2016 begins.
February 5, 2016
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Sims Gallagher quoted on Republican vow to torpedo Obama's Paris climate agenda

I asked Kelly Sims Gallagher, director of the Center for International Environment & Resource Policy at Tuft University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, what a Republican president — one who opposes action on climate change — could mean for any progress reached in Paris this week.
February 2, 2016