2023 REPORTS AND PAPERS
REPORTS AND PAPERS
2023 REPORTS & PAPERS
First Street Foundation - 09/20/23
How climate change is impacting home insurance premiums
The devastation from natural disasters has skyrocketed the cost of insurance for homeowners and businesses. NBC’s Chase Cain dives into America’s housing crisis fueled by…
NBC News - 09/21/23
US Home Insurance ‘Bubble’ Closer to Popping as Climate Risks Mount
By Leslie Kaufman
Home insurance costs that have soared in much of the US may get even higher. Tens of millions of properties around the country are insured…
Bloomberg - 09/20/23
New study warns of ‘climate insurance bubble.’ Is that driving costs up in Florida?
By Alex Harris and Nicolás Rivero
Florida already has deep property insurance problems. Rates are skyrocketing for tens of thousands of homeowners. Four private companies have abandoned the state this year,…
Miami Herald - 09/20/23
Homeowners face rising insurance rates as climate change makes wildfires, storms more common
By Ken Sweet
A growing number of Americans are finding it difficult to afford insurance on their homes, a problem only expected to worsen because insurers and lawmakers…
AP News - 09/20/23
Homes in parts of the U.S. are “essentially uninsurable” due to rising climate change risks
By Aimee Picchi
Millions of American homeowners like Mary Morse find themselves stuck in a financial bind, facing mounting risks from wildfires and floods linked to climate change…
CBS News - 09/20/23
39 million properties are significantly overvalued due to artificially suppressed home insurance costs
Today First Street Foundation has released a report, entitled “The 9th National Risk Assessment: The Climate Insurance Bubble”, highlighting the contribution of underpriced insurance, driven…
First Street Foundation - 09/20/23
1 big thing: China says no fossil fuel “phaseout” at COP28
By Ben Geman and Andrew Freedman
China's chief climate diplomat, Xie Zhenhua, has laid out that country's climate positions in advance of the UN climate summit in Dubai later this year,…
AXIOS - 09/25/23
NOAA - 09/11/23
U.S. has seen a record number of weather disasters this year. It’s only September.
By Brady Dennis
Hurricane Idalia, which barreled through the Big Bend region of Florida late last month before battering other communities in Georgia and the Carolinas, thankfully wasn’t…
The Washington Post - 09/12/23
NOAA: 2023 worst year on record for billion-dollar disasters
By Rebecca Falconer
The U.S. experienced 23 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the first eight months of 2023 — the largest number since records began. Driving…
Axios - 09/12/23
U.S. sets record for billion-dollar weather disasters in a year — with 4 months still to go
By Seth Borenstein
The deadly fires in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia’s watery storm surge helped push the U.S. to a record for the number of weather disasters that…
Los Angeles Times - 09/12/23
2023 Worst Year On Record For Billion-Dollar Climate Disasters, NOAA Says
By Robert Hart
This year is already the worst year on record for billion-dollar climate disasters in the U.S., a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…
Forbes - 09/12/23
Summer 2023 broke dozens of all-time monthly heat records
By Bob Henson
Dozens of places from Arizona to Florida had their hottest months on record during one of the most scorching stretches in U.S. history, a disaster…
Yale Climate Connections - 09/11/23
US sets new record for billion-dollar climate disasters in single year
By Gloria Oladipo
With four months of 2023 still left, the US has set a record for the most natural disasters in a single year that have cost…
The Guardian - 09/11/23
15 Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Hit The US This Year, A Record Pace, NOAA Says
By Jonathan Erdman
The count of billion-dollar weather disasters in the United States so far in 2023 has already reached 15, according to a new government report, and…
Weather Underground - 08/09/23
Climate Report Card Says Countries Are Trying, but Urgently Need Improvement
By Brad Plumer
Eight years after world leaders approved a landmark agreement in Paris to fight climate change, countries have made only limited progress in staving off the…
The New York Times - 09/08/23
Unlock the Endangered Species Act to address GHG emissions
By Steven C. Amstrup and Cecilia M. Bitz
Science - 08/31/23
Scientists were sure climate change was bad for polar bears. Now they know how bad.
By Doyle Rice
There is a link between global warming and polar bears after all. And it's not a good one. According to a new study released Thursday,…
USA TODAY - 09/01/23
The Global Drivers of Chronic Coastal Flood Hazards Under Sea-Level Rise
By Ben S. Hague, Shayne McGregor and Others
AGU Journals - 08/26/23
Rapid increase in the risk of heat-related mortality
By Samuel Lüthi, Christopher Fairless and Others
Nature - 08/24/23
Risk of heat-related deaths has ‘increased rapidly’ over past 20 years
By Ayesha Tandon
Spikes in temperature-related deaths during extreme summer heatwaves “will eventually become commonplace” if societies do not adapt to the dangerous impacts of extreme heat, new…
Carbon Brief - 08/24/23
Short-term excess mortality following tropical cyclones in the United States
By Robbie M. Parks, Vasilis Kontis and Others
Science - 08/16/23
U.S. hurricane deaths concentrated in vulnerable counties, research finds
By Nidhi Sharma
People in socially vulnerable counties have accounted for the vast majority of deaths from hurricanes in the U.S. over the past 30 years, according to…
NBC News - 08/17/23
New study finds far more hurricane-related deaths in US, especially among poor and vulnerable
By Seth Borenstein
Hurricanes in the U.S. the last few decades killed thousands more people than meteorologists traditionally calculate and a disproportionate number of those victims are poor,…
AP News - 08/16/23
Hurricanes have become deadlier in recent decades, study shows
By Kasha Patel
Hurricanes have become deadlier and have disproportionately affected the most socially vulnerable communities, according to a study released Wednesday in Science Advances. The study estimated…
The Washington Post - 08/16/23
The Washington Post - 08/01/23
Biden touts Inflation Reduction Act on first anniversary
By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jarrett Renshaw
U.S President Joe Biden on Wednesday used the first anniversary of his signature Inflation Reduction Act to pitch the landmark clean-energy law as an economic…
Reuters - 08/17/23
Celebrating the Investment Reverberation Act
Sure, inflation has been reduced from 8.3% to 3.2% since the passage a year ago of the “Inflation Reduction Act” (IRA). But the intended purpose…
CAPWA - 08/16/23
Why John Podesta thinks the Inflation Reduction Act is the next Obamacare
By Zoya Teirstein and Jake Bittle
One year ago, President Joe Biden inked the largest investment in fighting climate change in United States history. That law, called the Inflation Reduction Act…
Grist - 08/16/23
First on CNN: Some of America’s poorest communities are landing clean energy projects worth billions
By Matt Egan
Rural Mingo County, West Virginia, is one of America’s poorest counties. Nearly one-third of its residents live below the poverty line, only a third of…
CNN Business - 08/16/23
The IRA Turned One. What’s Happened Since and What’s Next?
One year ago today, President Biden and Congress ushered in a new era of U.S. climate progress with the passage and signing of the Inflation…
Evergreen Action - 08/16/23
Guest post: How the Inflation Reduction Act narrows the gap to US climate goals
By Alicia Zhao and Haewon McJeon
The US has an important role to play in limiting climate change as the world’s second-largest emitter and the country with the greatest historical responsibility…
Carbon Brief - 08/16/23
The IRA turns 1. Many Democrats are already talking about the next climate law.
By Emma Dumain
President Joe Biden and his Cabinet are celebrating the first year of their massive climate law. But his party’s climate hawks are just as worried…
POLITICO - 08/16/23
Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act Spurs Historic Climate Action
One year ago, on August 16, 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law - the largest investment in clean energy and climate…
Mirage News - 08/16/23
How to Decarbonize Your Home With the Inflation Reduction Act
By Emily Pontecorvo
Today marks the one year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act, the biggest investment in tackling climate change the United States has ever made. The…
Heatmap News - 08/16/23
A Prosperous Year for the Inflation Reduction Act
By Janet L. Yellen
When I gave my first major climate speech in the late 1990s, many still regarded the effects of climate change to be abstract and remote.…
WSJ - 08/15/23
Investing In America
For decades, the U.S. exported jobs and imported products, while other countries surpassed us in critical sectors like infrastructure, clean energy, semiconductors, and biotechnology. Thanks…
The White House - 08/15/23
The new climate law is upending the solar landscape
By Ben Geman
The year since passage of the big climate law has brought over $100 billion in U.S. solar and storage company investments. Why it matters: New…
Axios - 08/14/23
I Turned My House Into a Zero-Carbon Utopia
By Leah C. Stokes
Last April, I decided to break up with my gas company. It wasn’t me; it was them. Like so many other fossil-fuel companies, SoCalGas was…
The Atlantic - 08/14/23
Clean Economy Works | IRA One-Year Review
One year after the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law on August 16, 2022, private industry has announced at least 210 major new…
E2 - 08/14/23
Biden, Yellen Lead Blitz to Celebrate Inflation Reduction Act
By Justin Sink
Joe Biden is leading an administration-wide effort to mark the one-year anniversary of the Democrats’ landmark climate and drug pricing legislation whose implementation officials are…
The Washington Post - 08/14/23
Remarks by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen on the Economy Ahead of Inflation Reduction Act Anniversary in Las Vegas, Nevada
As Prepared for Delivery. Thank you. It’s great to be here in Las Vegas with all of you. I want to especially thank Lamar for…
treasury.gov - 08/14/23
How the Inflation Reduction Act Has Reshaped the U.S.—and The World
By Justin Worland
In late July, I visited a steel mill in Gallatin, Ky., operated by the company Nucor. During my visit, I watched as the facility churned…
TIME - 08/11/23
Green investment boom and electric car sales: six key things about Biden’s climate bill
By Oliver Milman
The US’ first serious legislative attempt to tackle the climate crisis, the Inflation Reduction Act, is hitting its first anniversary both lauded for turbocharging a…
The Guardian - 08/11/23
One Year Of Our Clean Energy Boom
Since the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)'s landmark climate and clean energy investments became law in August 2022, companies have been racing forward with massive investments…
Climate Power - 07/25/23
Emissions and energy impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act
By John Bistline , Geoffrey Blanford and Others
If goals set under the Paris Agreement are met, the world may hold warming well below 2°C; however, parties are not on track to deliver…
Science - 06/29/23
Heat waves in U.S., Europe ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change, study finds
By Brady Dennis
The analysis by the World Weather Attribution network, a coalition of scientists that conducts rapid analyses to determine how the warming atmosphere influences extreme weather…
The Washington post - 07/25/23
Some July Heat: ‘Virtually Impossible’ Without Climate Change, Analysis Finds
By Delger Erdenesanaa
Some of the extreme temperatures recorded in the Southwestern United States, southern Europe and northern Mexico at the beginning of the month would have been…
The New York Times - 07/25/23
Report: Record heat “virtually impossible” without climate change
By Andrew Freedman
Record-breaking, deadly heat in the U.S. and Europe would have been "virtually impossible" in a world without human-driven climate change, according to new data published…
AXIOS - 07/25/23
Taking Stock 2023: US Emissions Projections after the Inflation Reduction Act
By Ben King, Hannah Kolus and Others
Rhodium Group - 07/20/23
How Biden’s climate law will — and won’t — transform America
By Maxine Joselow
Almost a year ago, President Biden signed into law the most ambitious climate bill in the nation’s history. Now, as a blistering heat wave bakes…
The Washington Post - 07/20/23
Deglaciation of northwestern Greenland during Marine Isotope Stage 11
By Andrew J. Christ, Tammy M. Rittenour and Others
Science - 07/20/23
Ancient soil shows part of Greenland was ice-free — and could soon melt again, scientists say
By Sarah Kaplan
As soon as Andrew Christ peered at the sample inside his microscope, he knew he had found something special. Bits of tiny twigs, moss and…
The Washington Post - 07/20/23
A multimillion-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century
By Andrew J. Christ, Paul R. Bierman and Others
Understanding the history of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) is critical for determining its sensitivity to warming and contribution to sea level; however, that history…
PNAS - 03/15/21
Turning Climate Commitments Into Results
By Katie Schneer, and Alex DeGolia
Environmental Defense Fund - 07/01/23
Chart: The US can’t meet its climate goals unless states step up
By Maria Virginia Olano
Two things are true about the Inflation Reduction Act: It is the biggest piece of climate legislation in U.S. history — and it’s likely not…
Canary Media - 08/18/23
The places in the U.S. most at risk for extreme rainfall
By Kevin Crowe, John Muyskens and Brady Dennis
Kim Schultz still struggles to describe how hard and fast the rain fell in her corner of southern Indiana that afternoon last September. “I’ve never…
The Washington Post - 06/26/23
Drift of Earth’s Pole Confirms Groundwater Depletion as a Significant Contributor to Global Sea Level Rise 1993–2010
By Ki-Weon Seo, Dongryeol Ryu and Others
AGU - 06/15/23
Something Was Messing With Earth’s Axis. The Answer Has to Do With Us.
By Raymond Zhong
Around the turn of the millennium, Earth’s spin started going off-kilter, and nobody could quite say why. For decades, scientists had been watching the average…
The New York Times - 06/28/23
Humans pump so much groundwater that Earth’s axis has shifted, study finds
By Mindy Weisberger
Humans’ unquenchable thirst for groundwater has sucked so much liquid from subsurface reserves that it’s affecting Earth’s tilt, according to a new study. Groundwater provides…
CNN - 06/26/23
We’ve changed Earth’s spin by pumping groundwater
By Kelly Kizer Whitt
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) made a surprising announcement on June 15, 2023. It said that Earth’s 8 billion humans have pumped so much groundwater…
EarthSky - 06/18/23
Humanity’s groundwater pumping has altered Earth’s tilt
By Warren Cornwall
While spinning on its axis, Earth wobbles like an off-kilter top. Sloshing molten iron in Earth’s core, melting ice, ocean currents, and even hurricanes can…
Science - 06/16/23
Air quality hits hazardous levels Wednesday from Canadian wildfire smoke
By Andrew Jeong, Victoria Bisset and Others
Smoke and haze from the wildfires ravaging Canadian forests probably will continue to blanket buildings and residents in the Northeast, the Ohio Valley and the…
The Washington Post - 06/07/23
As Smoke Darkens the Sky, the Future Becomes Clear
By David Wallace-Wells
My father, who died of lung cancer, used to say that as soon as people inhaled their first cigarette, they immediately knew, if they weren’t…
The New York Times - 06/07/23
We Can See Clearly Now
By Bill MCKibben
I live in Vermont, where the scent of woodsmoke on a late fall afternoon is an iconic smell. It’s not like that here today—it’s more…
The Crucial Years - 06/07/23
Safe and just Earth system boundaries
By Johan Rockström, Joyeeta Gupta and Others
Nature - 05/31/23
Earth is ‘really quite sick now’ and in danger zone in nearly all ecological ways, study says
By Seth Borenstein
Earth has pushed past seven out of eight scientifically established safety limits and into “the danger zone,” not just for an overheating planet that’s losing…
AP NEWS - 06/01/23
If climate goals are meant to protect us from ‘significant harm,’ then they aren’t good enough, scientists say
By Rachel Ramirez
For years, the world has been focusing on a key climate change threshold: limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. But even…
CNN - 05/31/23
‘Safe and just’ climate boundary has already been breached, says contested study
By Ayesha Tandon
Almost all global thresholds for a “safe and just” planet have already been breached, including for the climate, ecosystems and freshwater, according to new research.…
Carbon Brief - 05/31/23
Earth’s health failing in seven out of eight key measures, say scientists
By Jonathan Watts
Human activity has pushed the world into the danger zone in seven out of eight newly demarcated indicators of planetary safety and justice, according to…
The Guardian - 05/31/23
Humans Have Blown Past Key Limits for Earth’s Stability, Scientists Say
By Eric Roston
A team of scientists first introduced the concept “planetary boundaries” almost 15 years ago to identify major Earth systems that were at risk of instability…
Bloomberg - 05/31/23
Climate and Readiness: Understanding Climate Vulnerability of U.S. Joint Force Readiness
By Katharina Ley Best, Scott R. Stephenson and Others
RAND - 05/24/23
Military must focus on short- and long-term challenges of climate change, report finds
By Denise Chow
Climate change may imperil the U.S. military's ability to train troops, maintain equipment and facilities and operate effectively both at home and abroad, according to…
NBC News - 05/25/23
U.S. Military Sees Growing Threat in Thawing Permafrost
By Daniel Cusick
Fox, Alaska, is a tiny town, but on Monday it hosted one of the Pentagon’s senior officials for a unique tour. Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen…
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN - 05/24/23
Time to pay the piper: Fossil fuel companies’ reparations for climate damages
By Marco Grasso and Richard Heede
One Earth - 05/19/23
Fossil fuel firms owe climate reparations of $209bn a year, says study
By Nina Lakhani
Groundbreaking analysis by One Earth is first to quantify economic burden caused by individual companies. The world’s top fossil fuel companies owe at least $209bn…
The Guardian - 05/19/23
Persistent effect of El Niño on global economic growth
By Christopher W. Callahan and Justin S. Mankin
SCIENCE - 05/18/23
El Niño is getting stronger. That could cost the global economy trillions.
By Kasha Patel
With an El Niño expected to develop in coming months, new research shows the naturally occurring climate pattern could cost the global economy trillions of…
The Washington Post - 05/18/23
El Ninos are far costlier than once thought, in the trillions, study says — and one’s brewing now
By Seth Borenstein
The natural burst of El Nino warming that changes weather worldwide is far costlier with longer-lasting expenses than experts had thought, averaging trillions of dollars…
AP NEWS - 05/18/23
El Niño could cost the global economy $3 trillion
By Zoya Teirstein
Forecasters are predicting the formation of an El Niño later this summer, a natural weather phenomenon that fuels above-average global heat and more intense natural…
Grist - 05/18/23
The Weight of New York City: Possible Contributions to Subsidence From Anthropogenic Sources
By Tom Parsons, Pei-Chin Wu and Others
AGU - 05/08/23
Sea Level Rise in New York City
Over the last year, the Department of City Planning met with you and other community members from across the floodplain to discuss strategies to make…
NYC - 05/25/23
New York’s skyscrapers are causing it to sink – what can be done about it?
By Tom Ough
On 27 September 1889, workers put the finishing touches to the Tower Building. It was an 11-storey building that, thanks to its steel skeleton structure,…
BBC - 05/24/23
New York City is sinking due to its million-plus buildings, study says
By Jacopo Prisco
New York City is sinking under the collective weight of all of its buildings, a new study has found. This gradual process could spell trouble…
CNN - 05/23/23
New York City Is Sinking. It’s Far From Alone
By Matt Simon
Add up the million or so buildings in New York City, and you get something on the order of 1.7 trillion pounds of weight pressing…
WIRED - 05/23/23
The (relatively) cheap opportunity to cut oil and gas emissions
There's good news and bad about the climate impact of oil and gas operations, Ben writes. Driving the news: A new International Energy Agency report…
AXIOS - 05/04/23
Abyssal ocean overturning slowdown and warming driven by Antarctic meltwater
By Qian Li, Matthew H. England and Others
NATURE - 03/29/23
Truly ‘Uncharted Territory.’
By Bill McKibben
Sadly, Trump's arrest was not the biggest news story of the week. Last Thursday’s big news story was the indictment of Donald Trump, with banner…
The Crucial Years - 04/02/23
Melting Antarctic ice predicted to cause rapid slowdown of deep ocean current by 2050
By Graham Readfearn
Melting ice around Antarctica will cause a rapid slowdown of a major global deep ocean current by 2050 that could alter the world’s climate for…
The Guardian - 03/29/23
Economists would like a word
By Manuela Andreoni
A high-profile World Bank report warned that the global economy is expected to slow to a pace we haven’t seen in 30 years. The reasons…
The New York Times - 03/31/23
World Bank Warns of ‘Lost Decade’ for Global Economic Potential
By Alan Rappeport
The World Bank warned on Monday that the coronavirus pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine had contributed to a decline in the global economy’s long-term…
The New York Times - 03/27/23
AR6 Synthesis Report Climate Change 2023
By Andrés Alegría, Kyle Armour and Others
IPCC - 03/20/23
Corporate interests ‘watered down’ the latest IPCC climate report, investigations find
By Kristoffer Tigue
References to fossil fuels and meat consumption were removed from the report summary, while language bolstering controversial carbon removal technologies were added.
Inside Climate News - 03/28/23
Carbon Brief’s definitive guide to the entire IPCC sixth assessment cycle
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has now published the synthesis report of its sixth assessment report (AR6). This forms the final part of…
Carbon Brief - 03/24/23
Why Optimism Can’t Fix Our Climate Politics
By Kate Aronoff
The release of a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change this week has provoked a new round of discussion about how best…
TNR - 03/24/23
Q&A: IPCC wraps up its most in-depth assessment of climate change
By Aruna Chandrasekhar and others
The final part of the world’s most comprehensive assessment of climate change – which details the “unequivocal” role of humans, its impacts on “every region”…
Carbon Brief - 03/23/23
Climate Change Is Speeding Toward Catastrophe. The Next Decade Is Crucial, U.N. Panel Says
By Brad Plumer
Earth is likely to cross a critical threshold for global warming within the next decade, and nations will need to make an immediate and drastic…
The New York Times - 03/21/23
A clear message from science
By Somini Sengupta
“There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all (very high confidence).” This is the most striking…
The New York Times - 03/20/23
Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late
By Fiona Harvey
Scientists have delivered a “final warning” on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that…
The Guradian - 03/20/23
‘It can be done. It must be done’: IPCC delivers definitive report on climate change, and where to now
By Frank Jotzo and Mark Howden
The world is in deep trouble on climate change, but if we really put our shoulder to the wheel we can turn things around. Loosely,…
The Conversation - 03/20/23
IPCC report: Climate solutions exist, but humanity has to break from the status quo and embrace innovation
By Robert Lempert and Elisabeth Gilmore
It’s easy to feel pessimistic when scientists around the world are warning that climate change has advanced so far, it’s now inevitable that societies will…
The Conversation - 03/20/23
World is on brink of catastrophic warming, U.N. climate change report says
By Sarah Kaplan
The world is likely to pass a dangerous temperature threshold within the next 10 years, pushing the planet past the point of catastrophic warming —…
The Washington Post - 03/20/23
Summary report, 13–19 March 2023
“Human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases, have unequivocally caused global warming, with global surface temperature reaching 1.1°C above 1850-1900 in 2011-2020. Global greenhouse…
IISD - 03/19/23
Climate change will impact everything everywhere all at once
By Christa Avampato
Over the weekend, I read a disturbing article that quoted a potential presidential candidate who wrote, “We will keep fighting until we put a stop…
Medium - 03/06/23
Latest IPCC Report Demonstrates Urgency & Opportunity of Reaching Net Zero
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released the third and final part of its sixth assessment report, Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate…
moodys.com - 04/15/22
The Latest IPCC Report: What is it and why does it matter?
The IPCC has released a new climate report, building on the findings of a previous report released in February. But what exactly is the IPCC?…
The Nature Conservancy - 04/04/22
Energy agency chief warns transition to renewables is way off track, issues warning on stranded assets
By Sam Meredith
The global energy transition is off track to prevent the worst impact of the climate emergency, according to the head of the International Renewable Energy…
CNBC - 03/28/23
Report: Renewable energy growth falls short of climate goal
Deployment of new wind and solar power plants needs to be drastically ramped up by the end of the decade to meet the world’s climate…
AP NEWS - 03/28/23
Global energy transition investments must quadruple to $5T to reach climate targets: IRENA
By Diana DiGangi
The energy transition needs a “fundamental course correction” to reach the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping global warming under a 2°C increase, including a quadrupling…
UTILITY DIVE - 03/28/23
Investments in renewable energies must quadruple to meet climate target -IRENA
Global investments in energy transition technologies must more than quadruple annually to stay in line with commitments made under the Paris climate accord, the International…
REUTERS - 03/28/23
THE WHITE HOUSE - 03/01/23
Climate change could spur severe economic losses, Biden administration says
By Zoya Teirstein
Climate change is generating major economic problems in the United States, the Biden administration said in an annual report published this week. The assumptions that…
Grist - 03/22/23
The Impact of Climate Change on U.S. Subnational Economies
By Adam Kamins
MOODYS ANALYTICS - 02/01/23
Long Island fourth nationally in potential risks due to climate change, Moody’s report says
By Robert Brodsky
Long Island ranks fourth among major American population centers for exposure to the physical and economic risks of climate change, behind only San Francisco, Cape…
Newsday - 02/27/23
Need to rethink retirement? These areas face the biggest climate-change risk.
By Rachel Koning Beals
Moody’s Analytics report reveals which U.S. cities and metro areas are most at risk to sea rise, extreme heat and water stress. And, researchers suggest…
MarketWatch - 02/25/23
Here are the U.S. cities most vulnerable to climate change, according to Moody’s
By Emma Newburger
Climate change poses a significant threat to the economies of U.S. cities, with metro areas like San Francisco, New York City and Phoenix among the…
CNBC - 02/24/23
NYC, LI among metropolitan areas most likely to feel negative impacts of climate change, study says
A new study shows some parts of our area are at risk of facing negative impacts of climate change. Here's a list of the top…
abc7ny - 02/24/23
Which U.S. cities will fare best in a warming world — and which will be hit hardest?
By Michael Birnbaum
A new report by Moody’s Analytics looks at the cities in the United States that are most vulnerable and resilient to climate change. Global warming…
The Washington Post - 02/23/23
Preliminary US Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimates for 2022
By Alfredo Rivera, Ben King and Others
RHG - 01/10/23
U.S. emissions rose slightly in 2022. They need to be falling rapidly.
By Maxine Joselow
Biden has pledged to cut U.S. emissions 50 to 52 percent by the end of the decade compared with 2005 levels. And humanity must significantly…
The Washington Post - 01/10/23
Global glacier change in the 21st century: Every increase in temperature matters
By David R. Rounce, Regine Hock and Others
SCIENCE - 01/05/23
Half of Earth’s glaciers could melt even if key warming goal is met, study says
By Chris Mooney
A sweeping study of all the world’s glaciers outside of the Greenland and the Antarctic ice sheets has found that nearly half of them will…
The Washington Post - 01/05/23
The good news about climate tipping points
By Joel Makower
A recent landmark report on the climate crisis pointed out some near-term tipping points that could mean the difference between a habitable planet and an…
GREENBIZ - 03/27/23
Population Attributable Fraction of Gas Stoves and Childhood Asthma in the United States
By Talor Gruenwald, Brady A. Seals and Others
MDPI - 12/21/22
Why gas stoves actually matter
By Emily Atkin
In last week’s HEATED chat, paid subscribers and I were discussing (what else?) gas stoves, when a reader chimed in to express frustration. “I yearn…
HEAT - 01/19/23
Gas stove talk gets weird
Scientists have been calling attention to the health risks associated with gas stoves since the 1970s. But a new study prodded a government agency to…
climate solutions - 01/19/23
Are gas stoves really dangerous? What we know about the science
By Brian Kahn
Gas stoves are a hot topic. A new study linked them to one in eight childhood asthma cases, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission said…
The Guardian - 01/15/23
May the Best Stove Win
By Jacob Stern
Somehow, in a few short days, gas stoves have gone from a thing that some people cook with to, depending on your politics, either a…
The Atlantic - 01/14/23
Chef Alison Roman loves her induction stove. Twitter has so many questions
By Catherine Boudreau
Electric-induction stoves got celebrity-chef endorsements following a controversy over gas stoves. nduction stoves are popular in Europe, but unfamiliar to many Americans. "Can you toast…
business insider - 01/14/23
What the right’s gas stove freakout was really about
By Alex Guillén and Ben Lefebvre
No, President Joe Biden isn’t coming for your gas stove. Republicans and conservative pundits have spent the past week nonetheless expressing alarm about the fate…
Politico - 01/14/23
Push to phase out gas stoves over health concerns met with online anger
By Matthew Smith
The push to electrify kitchens is not new. Scientists have sounded the alarm on the dangers of gas stoves for years. In the mid-80s, the…
Fox 13 - 01/14/23
About That Gas Stove
By Somini Sengupta
My grandmother in India cooked for many years with coal, then with a tank of liquid petroleum gas. As a child in California, I lived…
The New York Times - 01/13/23
U.S. regulators hinted at a possible ban on gas stoves. The debate boiled over
By John McCracken
Seemingly overnight, the gas stove in nearly one of three homes in the country became an appliance of controversy, bringing possible comparisons to cigarettes on…
Grist - 01/12/23
Induction Cooktops and Ranges Are So Good You May Not Miss Your Gas Appliance
By Paul Hope
Gas cooktops and ranges have had a rough couple of years. They have been the de facto choice for chefs and serious home cooks for…
Consumer Reports - 01/12/23
The gas stove regulation uproar, explained
By Rebecca Leber
When the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced in mid-December it would consider its first-ever health regulations on gas stoves, it was the start…
VOX - 01/11/23
Are Gas Stoves Unsafe? Here’s What to Know About the Gas vs. Induction Debate
By Ali Francis
On Monday, US Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. told Bloomberg that the federal agency would consider a nationwide ban on the installation of…
Bonappetit - 01/11/23
U.S. agency examines secret pollution from gas stoves
By Shannon Osaka
For years, scientists and health advocates have tried to bring attention to a secret source of air pollution sitting in 40 million homes around the…
The Washington Post - 01/10/23
US Safety Agency to Consider Ban on Gas Stoves Amid Health Fears
By Ari Natter
A federal agency says a ban on gas stoves is on the table amid rising concern about harmful indoor air pollutants emitted by the appliances.
Bloomberg News - 01/09/23
How Michelin 3-Star Chef Eric Ripert Designed His Own Home Kitchen
By Janice O'Leary
At New York’s Michelin three-star Le Bernardin, that lone lobster claw sitting in a lime-green remoulade upon a sea of porcelain might seem the essence…
Robb Report - 03/19/22