Growing up, I saw death, after death, after death, including both my parents, so that’s my real motivation…

-Chris Ategeka

BERKELEY — Tension-spoked wheels. Triangular metal frame. Crank-and-chain drivetrain. The bicycle is perhaps man’s simplest means of self-propelled transportation.

From IOP Science - Environmental Research Letters

Meeting the 2050 GHG target [80% reduction in California] is achievable, but requires dramatic changes in the way California produces, delivers, and uses energy

From Future Science

We've translated "science" into real language. Now how can we translate rhetoric into action?

Figure 1. Superposition of the state of climate science in three key datasets, and the dates of the First, Second, Third and Fourth Assessment Reports plotted as vertical lines.

The political and infrastructure challenges are immense, and the ecological and cultural impacts have barely been evaluated

image credit - Yvan Cohen, LightRocket/Getty Images

Most villages along the Baram River in Malaysia cannot count on round-the-clock electricity. Diesel generators hum at night near longhouses in the northwestern corner of the island of Borneo. Mobile and Internet coverage are almost nonexistent.

A plan to dam the Baram River would generate power far in excess of current demand in the rain forest state: At 1,000 megawatts, the hydropower project would be large enough to power 750,000 homes in the United States.

To:

Congressman Henry Waxman, Co-Chair

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Co-Chair

Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change

Dear Congressman Waxman and Senator Whitehouse,

We are delighted and honored to have been asked to reply to your thoughtful and critically important

request for recommendations as to:

1. What actions or policies could federal agencies adopt, using existing authorities, to reduce
emissions of heat-trapping pollution?

2. What actions or policies could federal agencies adopt, using existing authorities, to make our
nation more resilient to the effects of climate change?

3. What legislation would you recommend Congress enact to strengthen the ability of federal
agencies to prevent and respond to the effects of climate change?.

In framing recommended actions, we are mindful both of President Obama’s emphasis on climate

change in his second Inauguration Speech and the promise of legislative attention to these issues

reflected in the creation of your Bicameral Task Force.

The University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory advance climate

change research, energy innovation, and sustainability science, as well as economics, law and policy

scholarship, as key elements of our educational and research missions. In addition to this response to

your call for suggested federal action, we offer to engage with the Bicameral Task Force as an ongoing