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• Spin me baby one more time

  On “climategate” 22

  Posted 1 day, 8 hours ago By David Roberts

  The Manufactured Doubt industry has been around for decades, working to thwart regulatory constraints on large corporations that make dangerous products. Not only are all the same techniques being used in the same way on climate change, in many cases they're being used by the same people and institutions that fought against tobacco, CFC, asbestos, and auto safety regulations. Read More

• We're with you. Really.

  Climate deniers, hold your fire! 16

  Posted 1 day, 20 hours ago By Andrée Zaleska

  As climate change skeptics ratchet up the rhetoric, climate activist Andree Zaleska has an urgent message for the deniers out there: we agree! Read More

• GoodGuide scanner makes healthy food shopping point and click 1

  Posted 1 day, 20 hours ago By Todd Woody

  Thanks to a new barcode scanner app, grocery shoppers can aim their iPhones at 63,000 different food products for details on the health, environmental, and social "performance" of the products and their makers. Read More

• China, India, U.S. commit to seal Copenhagen deal 2

  Posted 4 days, 1 hour ago By Keith Schneider

  With global allies pressing for a commitment to emissions reductions, the White House and Beijing announced critical steps in the last week that may move the world as close to a binding agreement on climate change as possible. Read More

• Don't mess with Texas (Ranger)

  Chuck Norris on Copenhagen 17

  Posted 4 days, 18 hours ago By Tom Athanasiou

  A lot of dreck comes across my desktop. I'm even on a list called "ennui mail," and some of it is utterly irredeemable. But still I took notice when Chuck Norris: Copenhagen Talks To Forge "One World Order" blew in. Read More

• The U.S.-India climate ‘partnership’ 0

  Posted 4 days, 20 hours ago By Jonathan Zasloff

  At least that’s what the White House is calling it. Does it mean anything? Maybe. Read More

• No More Communiques

  Obama headed to Copenhagen, sets the bar for success 39

  Posted 4 days, 23 hours ago By Bill Scher

  President Barack Obama will attend the climate summit in Copenhagen next month and offer to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 17 percent (from 2005) by 2020. Read More

• Citizen Martha

  Martha Stewart blisters meat industry in Thanksgiving show 7

  Posted 4 days, 23 hours ago By Tom Philpott

  Martha Stewart arrays her considerable popular appeal against factory meat farming by featuring Food Inc. director Robert Kenner and anti-meat polemicist Jonathan Safran Foer on her Thanksgiving show. Read More

• Maverick harms

  For McCain, it’s really all about the fake snow 1

  Posted 5 days ago By Tom Philpott

  Once a fighter on behalf of climate legislation, McCain has recently been mumbling Palinesque denialist platitudes. What gets his famous temper boiling these days? Two words: fake snow. As in, not enough of it. Read More

• Singin' in the rain

  What to make of the new climate poll 41

  Posted 5 days, 8 hours ago By David Roberts

  There's a new Washington Post-ABC News poll out on climate change; Juliet Eilperin's got a good piece up about it (despite the terrible headline, for which she is not responsible). Having watched this story bounce around, I'm frustrated yet again by how these polls are discussed. Here's how I would write the lede to the story. Read More

• Remembering People Power in Seattle in 1999 and Berlin in 1989

  Learning how to count to 350 0

  Posted 5 days, 16 hours ago By Rebecca Solnit

  Next month, at the climate change summit in Copenhagen, the wealthy nations that produce most of the excess carbon in our atmosphere will almost certainly fail to embrace measures adequate to ward off the devastation of our planet by heat and chaotic weather. Activists -- farmers, environmentalists, island-dwellers -- around the world will try to write a different future, a bolder one, and if anniversaries are an omen, then they have history on their side. Read More

• ‘Everybody’s Scared To Be A Skeptic’

  SuperFreak Dubner embraces ClimateGate conspiracy theories 24

  Posted 5 days, 16 hours ago By Brad Johnson

  Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of SuperFreakonomics, has embraced charges by the right wing that a handful of illegally obtained private emails means that the scientific consensus on climate change is actually a dangerous conspiracy. Read More

• Will Africa’s farmland become a ‘resource curse’? 8

  Posted 5 days, 16 hours ago By Tom Philpott

• Obama administration officials grateful for early spring 10

  Posted 5 days, 16 hours ago By Ashley Braun

• More NYC farmers markets accept food stamps and sales soar 1

  Posted 5 days, 19 hours ago By Tom Laskawy

• ‘Copenhagen Diagnosis’ offers a grim update to the IPCC’s climate science 36

  Posted 6 days, 1 hour ago By Jonathan Hiskes

• Kids just say no—to fossil fuels 0

  Posted 6 days, 1 hour ago By Osha Gray Davidson

• Making buildings more efficient: rationalizing retrofit markets 5

  Posted 6 days, 8 hours ago By David Roberts

• Capturing the massive social benefits of fuel efficiency requires regulation 6

  Posted 6 days, 16 hours ago By Michael A. Livermore

• Turn your turkey carcass into a spectacular gumbo 5

  Posted 6 days, 17 hours ago By April McGreger

• Copenhagen, U.S.A. December 7 2

  Posted 6 days, 21 hours ago By Jeff Biggers

• Obama administration may (finally) offer greenhouse-gas targets 4

  Posted 6 days, 20 hours ago By Jonathan Hiskes

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