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A Summer of Extremes Signifies the New Normal
Posted by Yale Environment 360: Bill Mckibben on September 4th, 2012
Yale Environment 360: Just as the baseball season now stretches nearly into November, and the National Football League keeps adding games, so the summer season is in danger of extending on both ends, a kind of megalomaniac power grab fueled by the carbon pouring into the atmosphere.
In fact, you could argue that the North American summer actually started two days before the official end of winter this year, when the town of Winner, South Dakota turned in a 94-degree temperature reading. It was part of that wild July-in-March...
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With the Keystone Pipeline, Drawing a Line in the Tar Sands
Posted by Yale Environment 360: Bill Mckibben on October 6th, 2011
Yale Environment 360: In the last three years, three things have happened to the climate movement, one political, one meteorological, and one geological. Taken together, they explain why 1,253 people were arrested outside the White House in late summer protesting the Keystone XL pipeline -- and why that protest may be the start of something big and desperate.
Here’s the political thing: When Barack Obama was elected, he carried with him the hopes of people the world around that something might finally happen to break...