Green Lights May 5: Top stories this week
Green Lights May 5: Top stories this week
Don't miss a single story: The best from Callaway Climate Insights
. . . . Welcome to Green Lights, our weekly roundup of the best of Callaway Climate Insights. This week we begin with how the debt ceiling crisis could imperil climate laws, and end with the opportunities that await Charles, who could be the Green King. And check out the forecast for this year’s hurricane season. Here are the highlights in a simple and convenient format that makes it easy for our readers. It’s also easy to subscribe.
. . . . The debt ceiling crisis is set to create a volatile, politically driven May for President Joe Biden’s climate agenda and renewable energy stocks, after Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the country could run out of money as soon as June 1.
. . . . DroneSeed is now called Mast Reforestation, and moving into the bigger business of reseeding the planet, David Callaway writes in his Zeus column. As investor interest in biodiversity solutions surges this year, Mast is in a unique position as one of the early plays in an industry that is certain to, um, grow. . . .
. . . . The gas wars in New York are anything but natural, Matthew Diebel writes in his insights column this week. Gasoline, petrol, fossil gas, natural gas? He explains how the gas industry was handed a marketing gift. . . .
. . . . King Charles, who’s waited his entire life for the opportunity to be monarch, and who only has a small window of time in which to make a difference on environmental issues, won’t waste it on the advice of royal counsel, writes David Callaway. For the next decade or so he will be the leading climate celebrity in the world, at a time when the world will be literally screaming for leadership. . . .
. . . . El Niño has U.S. hurricane forecasters scratching their heads this year: The 2023 hurricane season, which begins June 1, has been a little difficult to predict. Current conditions make an El Niño more likely (which can decrease the number of storms), but Atlantic Ocean water is very warm in most areas (which could increase storms), according to the Weather Channel’s 2023 hurricane season outlook. . . .
. . . . We hear a lot about net zero emissions, but what exactly is that? In our Explain that feature this week, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change describes this as a case of “you make the mess, you clean it up.”. . .
More greenery . . . .
From Idaho (‘It’s really typical in Idaho’): 2,500 sheep cross the road to do their job, preventing forest fires and reinvigorating growth.
From the FT: 13 lessons from a climate change diplomat with months left to live
Opinion: How a misreading of the Bible fuels many Americans’ apathy about climate change
From Tampa Bay: Here’s why sea walls alone won’t save Florida from climate change
From financial think tank Carbon Tracker: Asset managers invest $400 billion in oil and gas despite climate commitments