Readers here well understand the view of CPR Initiative and expert allies that current federal rules aiming to restrict greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions amount to an insufficient response to the…
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Global Warming Acceleration
On February 3, 2025, renowned climate scientist (and CPR Initiative Board Advisor) Dr. James E. Hansen and 17 colleagues published a remarkable study entitled “Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the…
Climate Fingerprints in the LA Burn
We need to understand more about the inordinately destructive Los Angeles firestorms. Better understanding, for instance, could induce rational changes in local, state and federal policy and planning, changes that…
Los Angeles, Burning
[Editor’s note: The following post is intended as a public service for readers in the Los Angeles region — and for CPR Initiative supporters who may be in touch with…
Four Critical Questions at Year’s End
On Saturday, December 14, 2024, in further reporting from The Hague, I was interviewed by Myanna Dellinger about the just-concluded oral proceedings before the International Court of Justice on the…
A Small Flame, Burning Bright
The international Court of Justice (ICJ), also known as the World Court, is housed at the Peace Palace in The Hague. Here I will just refer to it as “the…
What’s International Law Got to Do With It?
The World Court Takes On the Climate Crisis What difference would an Order from the World Court make to the domestic and international struggle to arrest dangerous climate change? We…
The American Way
On a cold, clear night in Washington D.C., some three years ago, I ended our first nation-wide speaking tour on the climate crisis. To mark the moment, I walked the…
Towards Effective U.S. Action to Protect and Restore Our Climate System
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Across a Hot, Bone-Dry Landscape
Update on my previous post, in which I mentioned the exploding Park Fire of Northern California: Earlier this week the New York Times reported that the Park Fire is rapidly…
The American West, and Canada, Burning
Increasingly our wild lands are ablaze. On Thursday, I used a fire mapping tool from NASA and the US Forest Service to garner a current image of active North American…
California, Burning: Is it time to cool down?
Speaking from the Oval Office in the wake of Saturday’s attempted assassination of Donald Trump, a cogent Joe Biden made the case that violence has no legitimate place in America.…