Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel Our View: Solar bill remains best path forwardKennebec Journal & Morning SentinelIn the meantime, there have been attempts to make the bill appear to be something it is not, but L.D. 1504 remains exactly what it has been since it reached its final form — a modest bill that provides…

Electrek EGEB: Minnesota social cost of carbon, Texas wind, Vermont solar+PowerWall, moreElectrekOne goal of the power company is to build demand response, energy storage and solar power into the grid – starting on a house by house level – to limit transmission costs (moving electricity over long distances) – Recently, Green Mountain used this ……

Washington Post We only have a 5 percent chance of avoiding ‘dangerous’ global warming, a study findsWashington PostIn recent years, it has become increasingly common to frame the climate change problem as a kind of countdown — each year we emit more carbon dioxide, narrowing the window for fixing the problem, but not quite closing…

The Guardian 2017 is so far the second-hottest year on record thanks to global warmingThe GuardianThat’s remarkable because 2017 hasn’t had the warming influence of an El Niño event. El Niños bring warm ocean water to the surface, temporarily causing average global surface temperatures to rise. 2016 – including the first six months of the…

SYFY WIRE (blog) Rep. Lamar Smith thinks global warming is awesomeSYFY WIRE (blog)The Arctic is particularly vulnerable to global warming; temperatures there are rising twice as fast as they do globally, for example. Insects are showing up in the region that weren’t there just a few years before. There have been big heat waves as…

ABC Online BOM says global warming behind Northern Territory’s hottest July on recordABC OnlineMr Browning said last July’s above-average temperatures were explained by a nearby El Nino, but this year’s even warmer temperatures could not be explained in the same way. “What is particularly interesting is last year we were coming out of a very…

Newsweek Does Global Warming Help Us Live Longer, Fitter Lives?NewsweekThe impact of global warming on temperature-induced human mortality has long been a concern, where it has been hypothesized that rising temperatures will lead to an increase in the number of deaths due to an increase in the frequency and intensity of …

Forbes Climate Change Linked To Surge In India SuicidesForbesNew research seems to confirm what some have suspected: climate change is behind a surge in suicides in India over the last four decades, particularly of farmers. Human-caused global warming has led to 59,000 suicides in India since 1980, according to …Climate Change Linked to 59300 Farmer Suicides…

CBS News Air pollution deaths expected to rise because of climate changeCBS NewsNew research predicts that air pollution worsened by climate change will cost tens of thousands of lives if changes are not made. The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, estimates that if current trends continue, climate change will …Here’s where climate…

The Guardian We’ll never tackle climate change if academics keep the focus on consensusThe GuardianIn a democracy, we hope that science helps to inform the public about its problems. In the case of climate change, believe it or not, the evidence suggests this is going relatively well. Climate science is a vast, sprawling field of…