Are climate scientists being too cautious when linking extreme weather to climate change?
Climate science has focused on avoiding false alarms when linking extreme events to climate change. But it could learn from how weather forecasters warn the public of hazardous events to include a second key metric: the probability of detection.
Are climate scientists being too cautious when linking extreme weather to climate change?
Climate science has focused on avoiding false alarms when linking extreme events to climate change. But it could learn from how weather forecasters warn the public of hazardous events to include a second key metric: the probability of detection.
Energy system 2050: Solutions for the energy transition
To contribute to global climate protection, Germany has to rapidly and comprehensively minimize the use of fossil energy sources and to transform the energy system accordingly.
CAMPAIGN 2020: A Biden win wouldn’t mean a slam-dunk for climate — experts
Joe Biden would face huge obstacles as president in taking steps to slow climate change because Republicans in states and Congress would move aggressively to stop such efforts, an expert climate panel said yesterday.
How Biden would use trade agreements to fight global warming – POLITICO
“The U.S. is in a globally unique position,” said Todd Tucker, a trade and climate researcher at the Roosevelt Institute, a progressive think tank. “It’s got the largest consumer market in the world and with that comes a lot of…
POLITICS: Coal is gone, or almost, in areas that made Trump president
Donald Trump seized large victories four years ago in areas where coal plants had closed. But the industry’s collapse accelerated under his presidency, making counties in Pennsylvania and other states more competitive.
The Biden-Harris Energy Plan Is About Hoodwinking Voters
Last year, the Democratic Party’s elective brain transplant edged toward the first incision. On the operating table lay the party’s establishment, its skull encircled neatly with cut-here lines. The donor’s brain was that of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), connecting the…
CAMPAIGN 2020: Pence warned of lost energy jobs. But they’re rising
If a Democrat and Republican met to debate energy and climate issues in the last two decades, there is a good chance the encounter went something like this.
Battling with neighbors could make animals smarter
From ants to primates, ‘Napoleonic’ intelligence has evolved to help animals contend with the myriad cognitive challenges arising from interactions with rival outsiders, suggest researchers.
CAMPAIGN 2020: Biden sets his first climate ad in Trump country
The Biden campaign is targeting Trump country with its first climate-centric TV ad.
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