ICSUSA Climate Science Research Library

Used in an ICSUSA column: Is nature’s carbon sink failing?[The Guardian, October 14, 2024].

Used in an ICSUSA column: World Court rules[November 12, 2025]that the U. S. is legally obligated to curb climate change.[Earth Justice].

Used in an ICSUSA column: Head of IRENA [International Renewable Energy Agency], Francesco La Camera, stated at a conference in Singapore “ … the unprecedented dominance of renewables in new energy projects … is accelerating, not faltering.” [CleanTechnica 11/3/25].

Used in an ICSUSA column: China built a 162 square mile solar farm on the Tibetan Plateau at 10,000 feet where the sunlight is brighter, and the air is thin and the solar energy gain higher.[The New York Times, 10/10/2025].

Used in an ICSUSA column: The U.S. expects to add on non-federal lands 32 more gigawatts of solar power in next 12 months. [CleanTechnica 11/12/25].

Used in an ICSUSA column: More wind turbines and solar panels were installed in China last year[2024]than the rest of the world combined.[The Daily, 11/18/25, Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times.]

Used in an ICSUSA column: World population was 8.09 billion on January 1, 2025; an increase of 71 million in 2024.[The New York Times, 12/31/24].

Used in an ICSUSA column: David Gelles, writes in an article in the New York Times[October 9, 2025], that King Edward I of England in 1306 prohibited the burning of coal in London.

Used in an ICSUSA column: She left behind a legacy of conservation and research with chimpanzees that opened "the way people see, think about and engage with primates – including human primates." [Today's Climate, 10/7/2025].

Used in an ICSUSA column: Battery-electric buses make direct use of electricity, while hydrogen requires a multi -step process involving production, storage, transportation, and then conversion back into electricity ” with enormous energy losses. [CleanTechnica, March 2025].

Used in an ICSUSA column: *The U. S. endured 15-billion-dollar weather disasters in 1st half 2025.[Climate Connections, July 16, 2025].

Used in an ICSUSA column: *Ireland ends coal power generation at Moneypoint. [Carbon Brief 6/15/2025].

Used in an ICSUSA column: Banks on Fossil Fuels, China Pulls Away in Green Energy[page 1, NYTimes 7/5/2025].

Used in an ICSUSA column: “The courts top judge made clear that states can be held to account if they damage the Earth’s climate – and people’s rights – by allowing the ongoing production and use of fossil fuels.” [Climate Home News, July 25, 2025].

Used in an ICSUSA column: A meteorologist at the National Weather Service office, she had the dubious honor of issuing the state’s first-ever official heat advisory as temperatures were expected to hit the mid-80s.” [Grist: June 16, 2025].

Used in an ICSUSA column: Of the first 25 of 100 leading institutions in energy research and development globally, 23 are in China. [Nature, Vol 639, 20 March 2025].

Used in an ICSUSA column: “The Institute for Local Self-Reliance advocates for locally owned energy systems, community choices, and protection from being financially abused by utility companies.” [Inside Clean Energy. Newsletter, 2/27/25.]

Used in an ICSUSA column: As she went over the data she noted “that older women died at much higher rates during that disaster, and they are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.” [Nature, p554, Vol 636, 19/26 December 2024 and Photo].

Used in an ICSUSA column: Lots of people “don’t have rooftops where they can install solar panels and generate some of the electricity they use.” [CleanTechnica.com/2024/12/21].

Used in an ICSUSA column: A recent publication [Science, Vol. 386, 11 October 2024], using a newly developed microscope out on the open ocean, has observed this mechanism in detail and found some surprising results.