About This Blog
I'm Liam Moriarty.
I’m a veteran journalist in news- papers, magazines, public radio and on the web. I have dual US/EU citizenship and I divide my time between Seattle and Normandy, France.
The more I report on climate change, energy, transportation, resource consumption and related issues, the more I see connections and commonalities between how Europeans are tackling these problems and how we’re going about it in the Pacific Northwest.
This blog is my effort to connect those dots in ways that might help us all find ways of living that leave a green, healthy planet for our grandchildren.
To learn more about me and my work, please visit www.liammoriarty.com.
Tag Archives: climate change
On the Ground in Cancun: Global Warming’s Evil Twin
The focus of attention at the U.N. climate summit in Cancun, Mexico is global warming caused by too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But there’s another impact of high carbon levels that poses a whole different set of problems: … Continue reading
On the Ground in Cancun: Youth Activists Throw Down the Gauntlet
Nearly 200 countries are represented at the U.N. climate summit this week in Cancun, Mexico. There are also caucuses speaking up for the interests of women, indigenous people, and others whose voices often haven’t been heard. Today I spent some … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Uncategorized
Tagged Cancun, climate change, climate conference, climate negotiations, climate treaty
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The Road to Cancun, Part 4: An American in Brussels
There are times and places where being an American can make you the center of attention, and not always in a fun way. When your country does things that the rest of the world sees as selfish, short-sighted, ignorant, arrogant … Continue reading
The Road to Cancun, Part 3: There’s Something About Connie
The EU’s top climate official is the Mick Jagger of eurocrats. Connie Hedegaard has a reputation for being whip smart, politically savvy and intensely passionate about the need to move forward on dealing with climate change. And when the Danish … Continue reading
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Tagged Brussels, Cancun, cap and trade, carbon market, climate change, climate conference, climate negotiations, climate treaty, Connie Hedegaard, Copenhagen, DG climate action, EU, European union, hedegaard, kyoto, Liam Moriarty, Moriarty
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The Road to Cancun, Part 2: The View from Brussels
The planet is sliding down a rapidly deteriorating path toward a global climate catastrophe, and unless the rest of the world starts acting a lot more like Europe — and fast — we’re all toast. That’s a very condensed, highly … Continue reading
The Road to Cancun: Europe and the Next Climate Conference
It’s 4 a.m. and I’m jet-lagging in a hotel room in Brussels. Italian soccer highlights on the muted TV, ragged graffiti scrawled on the nearly 200-year-old walls of the Jardin Botanique just outside my window. I’m here with nearly 100 … Continue reading
Not Even a Mouse …
The proverb about an elephant laboring mightily and bringing forth a mouse comes to mind … But the fact is that when the U.S. Senate gave up last week on trying to pass even a stripped-down, no-climate-stuff kind of energy bill, … Continue reading
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