I love getting to feature another author and this week was particularly special because I have known Sherri Goodman for over 15 years and widely credit her with sparking the climate change interest of my old boss, Senator John Warner. By Chelsea Henderson EcoRight News/ RepublicEN She talked to us about her recently published book, Threat Multiplier: Climate. Military […]
Here we go again! It’s definitely spooky season, so get your candy bowls, carve your pumpkins, pull the costumes out. And if your state is open for early voting, get out and vote! By Chelsea Henderson EcoRight News/ RepublicEN This week’s must read: To Gen X, Gen Y, and Gen Z (The Laurel Outlook) I love seeing […]
Welcome to DeBriefed, an essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. By Ayesha Tandon Carbon Brief DEMAND SURGING: The International Energy Agency (IEA) published its annual World Energy Outlook report – a “comprehensive” summary of global energy trends – the New York Times reported. The outlet said, over the next decade, the world will […]
TGIF, readers! The nights are cooling. The leaves are turning a glorious plethora of hues. It’s time for social gatherings around the fire pit and sleeping with the windows open. Enjoy every moment of the most glorious season of all! By Chelsea Henderson EcoRight News/ RepublicEN But first, check out our updates. EcoRight Speaks, Season […]
Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the sky that bring heavy rain and storms to the U.S. West Coast and many other regions – are shifting toward higher latitudes, and that’s changing weather patterns around the world. The shift is worsening droughts in some regions, intensifying flooding in others, and […]
Welcome back to our ninth season of the EcoRight Speaks! We are mixing it up with this premiere episode. As you may have guessed, I’m the guest! And our engagement director, Angela Larck, is the host, putting me in the hot seat! By Chelsea Henderson EcoRight News/ RepublicEN Glacial: The Inside Story of Climate Politcs is the […]
Hello from Galveston, Texas! As you’re receiving this, I likely just landed and am on my way to the Citizens Climate Lobby Third Coast Regional Conference! It is my first time in Galveston and my first CCL conference. You know you’ll hear all about it next week. By Chelsea Henderson EcoRight News/ RepublicEN Quote of the […]
We’ve had so many “hottest months on record” over the last two years, it’s getting hard to keep up. As of this writing, the official hottest month on record happened just two months ago, in July 2024. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported July 2024’s temperatures were 0.03°C (0.05°F) higher than July 2023, […]
President Joe Biden – perhaps the greatest climate, clean energy and environment President in the history of the United States – spoke today at both the United Nations and at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum. Watch his remarks (or read the transcript, which we’ll post as soon as it becomes available). And if you’re serious […]
Climate Week NYC is the largest annual climate event of its kind, bringing together over 600 events and activities across the City of New York – in person, hybrid and online. Each year, business leaders, political change makers, local decision takers and civil society representatives of all ages and backgrounds, from all over the world, […]
July 22, 2024 was the hottest day in recorded human history, with a global average temperature of 17.16 C. This followed the hottest June ever recorded, which followed the hottest May ever recorded. This all follows 2023, which was the hottest year on record at 1.48 C warmer than the 1850-1900 average according to the […]
As a child growing up in the early 1990s, I remember learning in school about the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels traps heat near the Earth’s surface, like the glass of a greenhouse. I imagined myself on the playground, roasting inside a humid hothouse. Fast forward 30 years, and the terms […]
Summer 2024 was officially the Northern Hemisphere’s hottest on record. In the United States, fierce heat waves seemed to hit somewhere almost every day. Phoenix reached 100 degrees for more than 100 days straight. The 2024 Olympic Games started in the midst of a long-running heat wave in Europe that included the three hottest days […]
Levels of methane in the atmosphere have soared by record-breaking amounts since 2020, according to new research. Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, locks in around 80 times more warming over the course of two decades than CO2, but fades more quickly from the atmosphere. As a result, cutting methane emissions is widely viewed as a crucial part […]
August 2024 was Earth’s hottest August in NOAA’s 175-year climate record. The sweltering month was also the 15th month in a row of record-warm months and wrapped up the Northern Hemisphere’s warmest meteorological summer on record, according to scientists and data from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. By John Bateman NOAA Here are highlights from NOAA’s latest […]