Climate Change

For The Real News, I speak to Mary Anne Hitt, Director of the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” Campaign, about the Trump administration’s assault on environmental regulations [...]

How concerned should we be about the seepage of methane, an extremely powerful greenhouse gas, from the thawing Arctic permafrost? In this interview for The Real News, I discuss methane seepage [...]

Recently, Portland City Council adopted an historic zoning ordinance against new fossil fuels infrastructure, but an association of fossil fuel companies then persuaded Oregon’s Land Use [...]

For The Real News, I speak to Professor Gerardo Ceballos of the National Autonomus University of Mexico. Professor Ceballos has co-authored a new and vitally important study confirming that the [...]

In Texas, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency is making a mockery of laws and regulations designed to protect the public from air pollution. In this interview, I talk to environmental [...]

This week, the Supreme Court of Canada released two important decisions relating to indigenous rights. In one decision, the Court upheld a ruling by Canada’s controversial National Energy [...]

This is Part 2 of my most recent interview of leading climate scientist Michael Mann. In this part, we discuss some of the extreme weather events we have witnessed thus far in 2017. According to [...]

On July 9, New York Magazine published a lengthy article by David Wallace-Wells entitled “The Uninhabitable Earth”. The article painted an extremely dire picture of humanity’s [...]

For the Real News, I interview climate scientist Robert Kopp on the increasing threat of sea level rise. As Professor Kopp explains, the last time that the earth was as hot as our greenhouse gas [...]

During the recent G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, California Governor Jerry Brown announced that he would hold a climate summit in San Francisco in 2018. The announcement was clearly intended to [...]