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More air con does not have to overheat the planet
Protecting people against extreme temperatures is a profound public health, economic and educational imperative. Deadly and frequent heatwaves in the UK, Europe and around the world caused by underlying climate change have justifiably increased support for additional air conditioning for children, the elderly, hospitals, outdoor workers and for other vulnerable populations.
Editor’s note: the ultimate fool’s bargain
Protecting people against extreme temperatures is a profound public health, economic and educational imperative, say Bledsoe and Andersen. They highlight super-efficient cooling powered by low-carbon sources and using climate-friendly refrigerants as a solution. “The most efficient room air-con units sold in North America and Europe achieve twice the efficiency of a typical purchase and can lower emissions still further when powered by solar and other forms of clean energy,” they write.
Adley Rutschman trade is a painful loss for Orioles fans | GUEST COMMENTARY
Losing Adley Rutschman was like losing the heart of the Orioles team, writes Paul Bledsoe.
EU Methane Rules Can Benefit U.S. Industry and Cut Emissions
Last week, the irritatingly bureaucratic European Union Commission issued a surprisingly sensible new compromise regulation calling for methane limits on natural gas imports but allowing companies to comply…
UK’s Andy Burnham is Showing Democrats How to Defeat Trumpism
As America gets ready to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our independence from Britain, U.S. Democrats can ironically learn a lot from UK politics these days. New British political star Andy Burnham recently defeated a…
Low-Cost Energy Policies Can Fuel Democrats Defeat of MAGA
Donald Trump’s heedless war in Iran and his political crusade against clean energy have inflicted a devastating new affordability crisis on American consumers, directly causing the highest inflation levels in over three years and undermining…
Emergency brakes: How to limit temperatures long before the last resort of geoengineering
As global temperatures climb relentlessly past 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, risking immensely destructive climate tipping points, many have come to see solar geoengineering as a necessary fail-safe…
Electricity, Not Oil, Is the Real America-First Energy Strategy
Since President Donald Trump began attacking Iran, global oil prices and U.S. gasoline costs have risen dramatically, with negative repercussions on already hard-pressed consumers and a shaky American economy. Oil prices have…
U.S. Gas and Renewables Help Buffer Power Consumers From War Costs
As President Donald Trump and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu continue to prosecute a war against Iran, the energy narrative in many business outlets is that top U.S. gas exporters, already shipping near capacity, are unable…
Baseball needs reform to keep teams like Orioles competitive
Baseball is the only major American sport without a salary cap, a structural flaw that is allowing a few high-spending, big market teams to increasingly dominate the game while smaller market franchises become…
As the planet nears climate tipping points, Trump chooses denial
Climate disasters already cost US consumers and businesses more than $100bn a year. Earlier this month, the same day President Donald Trump ordered the US government to repeal the scientific determination that greenhouse gas…
Trump’s Arctic imperialism risks global climate meltdown
President Trump’s obsession with “owning” Greenland has been described as a massive threat to global security that undermines NATO and the trust of our closest allies in Europe, who have responded by sending additional troops to Greenland…
Appalachian Gas Is Key to Lowering Emissions and Prices Amid Rising Power
As demand for U.S. electricity has increased in the last few years, the role of natural gas in providing reliable baseload power has become more important to consumers, businesses, and to balancing the electrical grids that are also using more intermittent renewable…
Electricity costs are rising rapidly — there is a solution, but Trump keeps blocking it
President Trump is waging a political culture war against U.S. clean energy that is jacking up monthly electricity bills on already struggling American families — in many cases costing more than $200 more a year…
Climate priority is to curb near-term temperatures
Kudos to Pilita Clark (“Overshoot will make climate politics even harder”, Opinion, December 19) for having the courage to say what most climate experts know but will not utter — which is that fast-rising global temperatures, already 1.5°C above…
The Orioles’ World Series’ chances just heated up
Finally — after decades of seeing the Yankees, Red Sox, Blue Jays and other big market teams sign all the top free agents — the Orioles have done it: They’ve spent huge cash for…
We can still avoid irreversible climate catastrophe, but we must act now
Problems securing affordable accommodations in the remote host town of Belem, on the Amazon River in Brazil, have threatened vital COP 30 climate negotiations before they even begin. But lessons from…
How Orioles’ new manager can deliver playoff wins | GUEST COMMENTARY
With the Toronto Blue Jays losing a heartbreak Game 7 to the Dodgers, every AL East team has reached the World Series in the last decade — everyone, that is, except the Orioles. In fact, it’s been nearly two
Letter: Will this be the president’s most destructive legacy?
Two articles in the October 20 print edition illustrate how Donald Trump’s political culture war, aimed at undermining all possible US and global climate protections, may end up being his most devastatingly destructive long-term legacy…
Unmasking Climate Action at UN
As global climate leaders, including dozens of heads of state, gather at the UN in New York this week, it is time to admit that current climate approaches are failing. Already expensive and deadly climate impacts are increasingly…
More air con does not have to overheat the planet
Protecting people against extreme temperatures is a profound public health, economic and educational imperative. Deadly and frequent heatwaves in the UK, Europe and around the world caused by underlying climate change have justifiably increased support for additional air conditioning for children, the elderly, hospitals, outdoor workers and for other vulnerable populations.
Editor’s note: the ultimate fool’s bargain
Protecting people against extreme temperatures is a profound public health, economic and educational imperative, say Bledsoe and Andersen. They highlight super-efficient cooling powered by low-carbon sources and using climate-friendly refrigerants as a solution. “The most efficient room air-con units sold in North America and Europe achieve twice the efficiency of a typical purchase and can lower emissions still further when powered by solar and other forms of clean energy,” they write.
Adley Rutschman trade is a painful loss for Orioles fans | GUEST COMMENTARY
Losing Adley Rutschman was like losing the heart of the Orioles team, writes Paul Bledsoe.
EU Methane Rules Can Benefit U.S. Industry and Cut Emissions
Last week, the irritatingly bureaucratic European Union Commission issued a surprisingly sensible new compromise regulation calling for methane limits on natural gas imports but allowing companies to comply…
UK’s Andy Burnham is Showing Democrats How to Defeat Trumpism
As America gets ready to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our independence from Britain, U.S. Democrats can ironically learn a lot from UK politics these days. New British political star Andy Burnham recently defeated a…
Low-Cost Energy Policies Can Fuel Democrats Defeat of MAGA
Donald Trump’s heedless war in Iran and his political crusade against clean energy have inflicted a devastating new affordability crisis on American consumers, directly causing the highest inflation levels in over three years and undermining…
Emergency brakes: How to limit temperatures long before the last resort of geoengineering
As global temperatures climb relentlessly past 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, risking immensely destructive climate tipping points, many have come to see solar geoengineering as a necessary fail-safe…
Electricity, Not Oil, Is the Real America-First Energy Strategy
Since President Donald Trump began attacking Iran, global oil prices and U.S. gasoline costs have risen dramatically, with negative repercussions on already hard-pressed consumers and a shaky American economy. Oil prices have…
U.S. Gas and Renewables Help Buffer Power Consumers From War Costs
As President Donald Trump and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu continue to prosecute a war against Iran, the energy narrative in many business outlets is that top U.S. gas exporters, already shipping near capacity, are unable…
Baseball needs reform to keep teams like Orioles competitive
Baseball is the only major American sport without a salary cap, a structural flaw that is allowing a few high-spending, big market teams to increasingly dominate the game while smaller market franchises become…
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