Last Friday evening, a “horde” of tornadoes, as the New York Times called it, tore through Kentucky, Illinois, Tennessee and Missouri. Kentucky was hit the hardest — struck by five twisters, one of which left a trail of destruction more than 200 miles long. At the time of this writing, ...
by Alan D. Bristow The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, was supposed to be the time when countries offered real solutions to honor the Paris Agreement, with firm proposals to halve emissions by 2030 and reach net-zero targets by ...
by Peter Kalmus The one thing the climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, made clear is that human society remains in business-as-usual mode, with no meaningful curb on fossil fuel use. The soft pledges made at COP26 might have been acceptable decades ago, but not now. The world needs ...
The 200 countries participating in COP26 (the 26th Conference of the Parties) in Glasglow, Scotland, hoped to have a final agreement on tackling climate change by the end of the day Friday. At the time of this writing, an agreement had not been finished or ratified, and it wouldn’t be ...