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Despite Clean Energy Use, Global Warming is Still Projected to Continue
The world's use of clean energy "is rapidly growing", reports the Washington Post, "but not fast enough to keep temperatures in check..." Many experts say it will be the economics of clean energy that defines the future of the planet — and how developing countries choose to meet their growin...
"What happens in emerging and developing economies in the next decade in some sense is the whole ballgame," said Jason Bordoff, founding director of the Center for Global Energy Policy at Columbia University. The Greenland ice sheet might tip into irreversible collapse, according to the IPCC, threatening cities from New York to Shanghai, while extreme heat and humidity could make large swaths of the world effectively uninhabitable. [Much of the progress on curbing emissions] has come from the United States' switch from coal to natural gas and renewables, and the European Union's rapid embrace of wind and solar power...
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