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Timeline goes by so slowly

Climate talks timeline: From 350 to Kyoto to Copenhagen and beyond 0
Posted 1 day, 1 hour ago Whether you've been hitting snooze each time a global climate conference rolls around or you're looking for a refresher before the Copenhagen climate talks next month, Grist has an interactive timeline to bring you up to speed.
Climate Denial Crock of the Week

All wet on sea level rise—the remix [VIDEO] 2
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago My video series, Climate Denial Crock of the Week, has been slowly gaining an audience among people who need ammunition around the electronic water cooler.
A big day

Pachauri’s call for 350 ppm is breakthrough moment for climate movement 13
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Amazing news just arrived at 350.org headquarters. Rajendra Pachauri, the U.N.'s top climate scientist, has endorsed a target of 350 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Journalistic "balance"

NYT’s Revkin persists in selling spin from long-wrong deniers 1
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
On the front page of today's NYT's "Science Times" section is a piece titled, "Nobel Halo Fades Fast for Climate Change Panel," by our old friend Andy Revkin. Now, one can objectively accuse the IPCC of many things, but overestimating or overselling the threat of global warming is just not one of them.
Saving our asses at a profit

The good news about energy efficiency 3
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Conventional wisdom has it that the effort to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions is going to be long, expensive, and painful for consumers; efficiency can at best defray the costs. But economic models consistently underestimate energy efficiency. A batch of recent studies supports that argument -- studies that examine the potential for energy efficiency to reduce emissions at a negative cost, i.e., a profit.
The Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in the summer by 2030, or sooner.

Melting ice could lead to massive waves of climate refugees 0
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
The International Institute for Environment and Development has analyzed the effect of a 10-meter rise in sea level, providing a sense of what the melting of the world’s largest ice sheets could mean. The IIED study begins by pointing out that 634 million people live along coasts at or below 10 meters above sea level. This massive vulnerable group includes one eighth of the world’s urban population.
Dispatch from Bonn: Population Action International

Climate change is sexist 1
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
One of the under-reported issues about climate change is its dramatic affect on women. Women make up 70 percent of the world’s poorest people, and are more likely to die in weather-related natural disasters.
Evo's Crusade

Bolivia’s leader pushes rich nations for climate adaptation funds 1
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Evo Morales, the one-time coca farmer and llama herder who rose to become Bolivia's president, is now wading into the ring of global climate negotiations to embark on his grandest crusade to date.
Introduction to climate economics

Why even strong climate action has such a low total cost—one tenth of a penny on the dollar 0
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Since the nation is about to launch into a long debate about the costs of climate action versus the cost of inaction, here is an overview of the major cost analyses of global climate action.
Back at the table

Todd Stern’s speech cheers delegates at Bonn climate talks 0
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Letter from Europe

A mandarin’s plea for climate action 0
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Tom Burke, a longtime adviser to British leaders on climate issues, says the international conference to set a new treaty to combat climate change, set for December in Copenhagen, "will do more to shape human destiny for longer" than any previous meeting in the history of the world.
Conspiracy of silence

U.S. media largely ignores latest warning from climate scientists 0
Posted 8 months, 1 week ago
In the last two years, our scientific understanding of business-as-usual projections for global warming has changed dramatically. Yet our awareness has not ...
Now You Sea It ...

Sea levels to surge at least a metre by 2100, scientists warn at Copenhagen meeting 0
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago
The ideological tensions inside the IPCC gives its reports alarming credibility 2
Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Heading to Denmark in December? Book a room now 0
Posted 9 months ago
U.N. climate official clarifies remarks about near-term summit 0
Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Is U.N. secretary-general planning pre-Copenhagen gathering? 0
Posted 9 months, 4 weeks ago
Poll shows more Americans do not believe global warming is result of man-made activity 14
Posted 9 months, 4 weeks ago
We need to cut emissions faster than 80 percent by 2050, but how fast? 39
Posted 9 months, 4 weeks ago
IPCC chief challenges Obama to further cut U.S. emission targets 4
Posted 10 months, 1 week ago