Larry Schweiger’s Archive

Since energy from the sun and wind comes to us for free and is accessible to anyone willing to invest the capital to capture it, why do we continue to … Read more

Yesterday’s The Washington Post article Arctic sea ice drops to second lowest level on record highlights how important it is that we act now to confront the climate crisis. Arctic … Read more

A recent study led by Chien-Lu Ping of University of Alaska-Fairbanks and published in Nature Geoscience estimates that organic carbon stored in the North American Arctic Region is considerably higher … Read more

To our leaders: It’s time we stopped chasing the last barrel of oil and began pursuing a clean energy future. We must rebuild our economy, free ourselves from our addiction … Read more

A recent study by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the National Snow and Ice Data Center found that in periods of rapid sea ice retreat, Arctic land … Read more

Today former Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore laid out an ambitious call to action to transform the way we generate and use electricity.  He challenged America to commit … Read more

Peter Darbee, CEO of Pacific Gas and Electric, has given a great online interview. Peter highlights that the utilities like PG&E that have reversed the paradigm of how they reach … Read more

Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the Nobel-Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said Friday that "only seven years remained for stabilising emissions of global-warming gases at a level widely … Read more

When he first appeared before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Dr. James E. Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, brought alarming findings from a three-dimensional … Read more