By BILL ONASCH This year’s Earth Day, hosted by the UN, was staged to be all about climate change. The chosen venue came attached with some historical irony. The land for the New York City complex housing the United Nations Headquarters was donated by John D. Rockefeller. His father started him off as a director of … Continue reading Capitalism cannot solve the climate crisis
By CHRISTINE FRANK In a recent climate study published by James Hansen and 16 colleagues, the world was warned that two degrees of warming could lead to a rapid, catastrophic melting of land-based ice sheets and a sea-level rise of three meters or 10 feet in 50 years if fossil fuel combustion does not cease … Continue reading Scientists say: End fossil fuel use now!
By CHRISTINE FRANK Since 2008, chief climatologist and activist James Hansen has been proposing fee and dividend as a means to curtail fossil fuel use and draw down carbon in order to prevent catastrophic climate change—a very real prospect that is looming ever closer. He has advocated the plan as an alternative to market-based carbon trading … Continue reading An ineffective solution to climate change
