Climate Accord New York September 2014

Under the Obama administration, the U.S. has made some (small) progress limiting the amounts of greenhouse gases that states emit, e.g. thro...

Obama's Power Plant Rules: Too Little, Too Late, Too Ineffective

On June 2, 2014, the Obama administration through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)  announced that states must lower carbon dioxid...

President Obama, why don't you use your powers?

President Obama, why don't you use your powers to more effectively reduce the danger of catastrophic climate change? As an example, you ...

Methane Man

At the 2014 State of the Union address, President Obama said that the all-of-the-above energy strategy he announced a few years ago is worki...

Comprehensive and Effective Climate Plan

President Obama's Climate Action Plan doesn't look much like a shift to genuinely clean energy. As discussed in a recent post by P...

Remarks at the White House - by James Hansen

Remarks at the White House 1 15 January 2013 James Hansen, screenshot Let us return for a moment to election night 2008. As I sat in our far...

'Rising to Meet the Tide': A Letter to Obama on Climate Change

Gary Houser, long-time public interest writer, documentary producer currently working on  climate tipping points , and member of the  Arctic...