Climate Change

A group of scientists from the Atmospheric Measurement Research (ARM) Climate Research Facility won’t be looking for gold or oil this summer as they crisscross Alaska’s North Slope in an airplane. Instead, the ARM Airborne Carbon Measurements V (ARM-ACME V) team—led by Sebastien Biraud from U.S.

As California battles its worst drought in 1,000 years — and after massive wildfires swept across the state for two consecutive summers — a number of tribe members, scientists and U.S. Forest Service officials are working to revive traditional Native American land management practices that some believe could help contain the blazes and lessen effects of the drought. ...

A new report by Fellow Evan Hansen's company, Downstream Stratgies, and the WVU College of Law's Center for Energy & Sustainable Development focuses on West Virginia's proposed Clean Power Plan, which sets state-specific standards that would reduce carbon dioxide pollution from existing power plants. The proposed rule provides states flexibility in the design and implementation of state plans and broad discretion in selecting pollution reduction measures and market-based mechanisms to achieve the required reductions.

Linwood Pendleton was quoted in the French newspaper Le Monde on the effects of global warming on oceans. Read more (in French)

Like the tobacco industry in its past, fossil fuel giants have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into campaigns to convince us that climate science is not trustworthy. To understand why they would do so, we need to only look at two numbers. The first is $257 billion. This is the profit made in 2014 by Chevron, BP, ExxonMobil, Shell and others for extracting, transporting, refining, distributing and trading fossil fuels in the United States and in Canada alone.