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• Jobs we can believe in

  Merkley wants Senate jobs bill to help finance building efficiency retrofits 4

  Posted 20 hours, 36 minutes ago by David Roberts

  Last week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid met with the chairs of six committees that might have some hand in developing the clean energy bill. The question at hand was whether the bill should be pushed back in favor of a short-term focus on finance reform, jobs, and the deficit. Though John Kerry argued vigorously that the clean energy is a jobs bill that won't grow the deficit, it looks like he lost out and there will be some kind of standalone jobs bill in the interim. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.)… Read More

• ClimateGate alert!

  FOX News and TrollCat agree: Global warming is BUNK! 3

  Posted 1 day, 6 hours ago by Brad Johnson

  Right-wing bloggers reacting to trumped up denier story have become indistinguishable from TrollCat. Read More

• ‘Heretic’ battles straw man 0

  Posted 1 day, 7 hours ago by Tom Konrad

  John Farrell has been promoting the Energy Self-Reliant States study as a "Heresy on Transmission." Rather than a heretic attacking misguided establishment shibboleths, this flawed study attacks a simplistic misunderstanding of why we need transmission. Farrell and his co-author David Morris are either intentionally promoting this misunderstanding, or they simply fail to grasp the reasons behind long distance transmission's necessity. Read More

• On thinner ice

  New photography project provides stark proof of melting glaciers on the roof of the world 1

  Posted 1 day, 8 hours ago by Joseph Romm

  Global warming is melting 18,000 Himalayan glaciers. Mountaineer and filmmaker David Breashears has a new video comparing glacier images from the “roof of the world.” Read More

• Muckraking for the planet

  Cast your vote for the best climate journalism 0

  Posted 1 day, 9 hours ago

  The good people at the Earth Journalism Awards have singled out 15 examples of the best reporting on climate and energy issues. They'd like you to cast your vote for the best of the best. Read More

• The tar sands blow 0

  Posted 1 day, 9 hours ago

  Dirty oil sands crude generates as much as five times greenhouse gas as conventional oil. Read More

• Eugene Mirman is doing what in Copenhagen? 0

  Posted 1 day, 10 hours ago

  The hilarious comedian Eugene Mirman makes an announcement to the world that he will be in Copenhagen covering the climate talks for Grist! Read More

• Forget Polar Bears and PPM

  Top 25 reasons to give a damn about climate change 19

  Posted 2 days, 2 hours ago

  So you're not moved by melting glaciers? Here are a few other reasons to pay attention to climate change, from supermodels to super-hungry rats. Read More

• CRASH COURSE

  Copenhagen 101: The essentials on the climate talks 2

  Posted 2 days, 3 hours ago by Jonathan Hiskes

  What is this whole Copenhagen thing? Can it really save the world in two weeks? We explain all -- without being boring. Really! Read More

• Inferno on Earth: Wildfires spreading as temperatures rise 1

  Posted 2 days, 4 hours ago by Lester Brown

  Future firefighters have their work cut out for them. Even as more people move into fire-prone wildlands around the world, the intense droughts and higher temperatures that come with global warming are likely to make fires more frequent and severe in many areas. Read More

• A Walk Through the Week's Climate News

  The Climate Post: You heard it here first—Copenhagen a success 0

  Posted 2 days, 4 hours ago by Eric Roston

  A week of anticlimaxes saw President Barack Obama conducting a less-than-exuberant swing through China, the international community conceding a binding climate treaty at the COP-15 negotiations in Copenhagen, and U.S. lawmakers postponing to the spring of 2010 consideration of climate policy -- even as talk of a legislative "plan B" surfaced. Read More

• thanks for nothing

  Global boiling declares war on Thanksgiving 3

  Posted 2 days, 5 hours ago by Brad Johnson

  Our increasingly extreme climate is devastating American agriculture. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, strengthened by global warming, caused $1.6 billion in agriculture damage in Louisiana alone. Now it appears that a Thanksgiving mainstay -- pumpkin pie -- is next on the global boiling hit list. Read More

• If Cousteau went to Copenhagen 0

  Posted 2 days, 7 hours ago by Brad Matsen

• NYT: U.S. Chamber has not expressed support for any proposals to cap emissions 0

  Posted 2 days, 8 hours ago by Peter Altman

• API and ACCCE spend the big bucks 0

  Posted 2 days, 8 hours ago by Peter Altman

• Reflecting on the lameness of my profession 9

  Posted 2 days, 19 hours ago by David Roberts

• Winning the clean energy race: a new strategy for American leadership 4

  Posted 3 days, 17 hours ago by Teryn Norris

• Climate Citizen: Wyclef Jean 0

  Posted 3 days, 3 hours ago

• Copenhagen is not Kyoto 0

  Posted 3 days, 4 hours ago by Ned Helme

• Make the kids pay: The economic effects of climate change on future generations 0

  Posted 3 days, 4 hours ago by Michael A. Livermore

• Hot planet to Obama: What’s your Plan B? 6

  Posted 3 days, 8 hours ago by Mike Tidwell

• The U.S. Chamber needs to get its story straight 0

  Posted 3 days, 7 hours ago by Peter Altman

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