Germany
Hi, I’m Noah. I’m a journalist and consultant living in Berlin.
I write a column on climate + energy for Berlin Policy Journal, "Carbon Critical". I have also covered energy and foreign affairs for The Atlantic, The New Statesman, Clean Energy Wire, Euractiv, and the Centre for European Reform.
I am also part of the Climate Diplomacy Team at adelphi, the climate consultancy and think tank. Finally, I edit English and translate German to English for a number of corporate and individual clients.
I am from Washington DC and studied at the University of Michigan and then the London School of Economics.
If you'd like to get in touch, email me at: [email protected]
If humans manage to break their addiction to fossil fuels and avoid climate catastrophe, trade patterns will change profoundly. The new geopolitics of energy will reshape world power. Reducing net greenhouse gas emissions to zero is such a daunting task that one is disinclined to think about the side effects of success.
Some legislators want to wrest that decision away. The House has previously voted to approve the pipeline over the president's head. In May, Harry Reid actually offered Republicans a vote on a stand-alone Keystone bill if they passed a bipartisan energy-efficiency bill.
European leaders' aim to go carbon neutral by 2050 will not happen without much tougher emissions curbs by 2030, and a sizeable increase in research and development funding.
Aufstehen or "Stand Up" is the name of the movement and the rallying cry. The group's website tells supporters that they need only stand up to change their country.
The former East is fertile ground for scepticism about promises that renewable energy jobs are coming and support from Berlin and Brussels will make things better. The older coal miners lived through the "structural change" of the early 1990s, when the government of a reunified nation privatised, sold or closed scores of suddenly unprofitable eastern German firms; the economic chaos was only partly mitigated by the extension of the western safety net.
The FiveThirtyEight founder on broken-windows policing, Max Scherzer, and foxes in the Oval Office. Nate Silver's book, The Signal and the Noise, is about making predictions. It examines what leads people to get predictions wrong, and what leads people to get them right-like Silver did when his model correctly predicted the result of the 2012 presidential election in all 50 states.
After the debacle of the Iraq War, Democrats were suddenly the party Americans trusted to protect them. This midterm election suggests that's over. The Secret Service reels from blunder to blunder, the Ebola virus finds new victims, and the black masks of ISIS march across Iraq.
Critics enjoy pointing out the drawbacks of wind and solar power. Yet the history of hydropower shows that renewables have always had flaws. On April 21, the US filmmaker Michael Moore released his latest documentary, Planet of the Humans , on YouTube.
They are the EU's two largest member-states, the countries meant to drive European integration forward as the Franco-German motor. The problem is they don't agree on which fuel to use. France is a world leader in nuclear power, a low-carbon energy source. About 71 percent of its electricity comes from its 58 nuclear power plants.
Though the actions of Lee Harvey Oswald-who Colon calls "a perfect little twerp of a villain"-drive the narrative, the book is about more than just Kennedy's murder. It is about the tumult of the '60s. Boomer children gambol in a booming suburb.