Philip Warburg
Philip Warburg
is a senior fellow at Boston University’s Institute for Sustainable Energy. He is the author of “Harness the Sun: America’s Quest for a Solar Powered Future.”
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Originally published on April 8, 2021 9:41 am
Boston University biology professor Pamela Templer is a real-life Lorax. She studies the effects of climate change on trees across New England: from the White Mountains of New Hampshire to the Harvard Forest in central Massachusetts, and in urban areas like the campus at Boston University along Commonwealth Avenue.
“I love working with trees,” Templer said. “I mean, if you look at them, it’s like looking at history.”
History, in this case, is a small, leafless hardwood tree. It looks like it might blow over if a good gust of wind struck it just right. But according to a small silver band wrapped around the tree to measure its trunk size, this one is actually growing pretty fast.
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Winter Storms Offer a Taste of the Climate Chaos Ahead If We Donât Cut Emissions
People work to dig out their car along a residential street on February 16, 2021, in Chicago, Illinois.
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The frigid air mass that is blanketing much of the lower 48 states and Mexico in subzero temperatures is set to linger across much of the continent until Saturday, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA). The sudden spate of extreme weather has already produced record snowfall, tornadoes and thundersnow.
So far, the death toll from Winter Storm Uri includes six people killed in a 133-car pileup near Fort Worth, Texas; at least three people crushed by debris in 160 mph wind in North Carolina; and a mother and daughter poisoned by carbon monoxide inside their car, where they huddled to stay warm overnight as the majority of Houston remained without power. Given the three-year continued national rise in people experiencing homelessness in c
Published: Wednesday, February 10, 2021
President Biden. Photo credit: Pete Marovich/UPI/Newscom
President Biden has ordered federal agencies to prepare a governmentwide plan for buying electric vehicles and other clean energy procurements. He s shown here at a meeting with business leaders yesterday in the Oval Office. Pete Marovich/UPI/Newscom
A landmark executive order issued by President Biden last month seeks to use the federal government s purchasing power for vehicles and electricity as a way to stoke massive demand for clean energy but some say it may run up against a brick wall.
The Jan. 27 order on climate change gives the heads of three federal agencies the Council on Environmental Quality, General Services Administration, and Office of Management and Budget 90 days to develop a new governmentwide plan for clean energy procurements. The strategy is meant to facilitate Biden s goal of a 100% carbon-free power sector by 2035 and provide a jolt of demand for zero