Deep Sea Mining: A Climate Disaster Waiting to Happen
Deep sea mining is a climate story. It’s a disaster waiting to happen. If undersea mining destroys poorly understood ecosystems,…
Author: George Ropes
Senior Editor and CY contributor
Time’s Up. Cities must go Green now Despite Opposition
New Yorkers can rejoice: Chippy, or known formally as the Champlain Hudson Power Express (CHPE) is the city’s big but…
Oil Industry Cuts IPCC Climate Report
That the fossil fuel industry has unleashed its egregious influence to delegitimatize the serious threat of climate change is nothing…
Is Buffett Putting Profit before Earth’s Livability?
Warren Buffett wants steady, reliable profits. He stands to do handsomely in the short term, given the current price of…
Biden is Right to push for Climate Agenda on Economic grounds
In Biden’s 1st SOTU, he doubled down on his climate agenda, asserting that it would save Americans $500/year in energy…
OUR TAKE: Extreme Weather/Kicking The Fossil Fuel Habit By ClimateYou Senior Editors George Ropes & Abby Luby
The American West, especially California, has always been subject to droughts, fires, and floods. But human-induced climate heating tipped the…
Q&A: ClimateYou.org Senior Editor George Ropes on COP 26 & Climate Future
ClimateYou.org Senior Editor George Ropes discussed his own evolution in learning about and formulating views on climate change, his thoughts…
OurTake: COP26 — the Most Important UN Climate Summit Since COP21
COP26 is the most important UN climate summit since COP21 in 2015 when the Paris Agreement was signed. At that…
Our Take: An Empty-handed Biden Will Bereave us all
A piece in The Guardian titled “Is Joe Biden about to show up at COP26 empty-handed?”, by climate activist and…
OUR TAKE: The Four Tasks
No matter what happens at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties in Glasgow, Scotland…
OurTake: Our Last Chance Just Went — Glasgow Will be a Fiasco
For years the climate crisis was “long”. Now it’s here. For months the Glasgow Climate Summit has been a looming…
Update: Investor Summits on Climate Risk: Advancing the Clean Trillion
Key players in the financial world came together in 2016 to learn how to invest trillions of dollars in the…
