Climate Change

A scientific hack job that won’t cripple climate talks 0
Posted 5 days, 10 hours ago Once again, the opponents of climate action are relying on spurious, deceptive, dishonest, and possibly illegal practices to disrupt the world’s steady march to achieving a solution to a warming planet.
Don't Miss Climate Change Ground Zero Showdown

Copenhagen, U.S.A. December 7 2
Posted 5 days, 10 hours ago On Dec. 7, the opening day of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Americans from around the country will converge for a historic protest at climate change ground zero for our nation -- the Appalachian coalfields.
thanks for nothing

Global boiling declares war on Thanksgiving 4
Posted 1 week, 2 days ago 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.
Climate Citizen: Wyclef Jean 0
Posted 1 week, 3 days ago
Make the kids pay: The economic effects of climate change on future generations 0
Posted 1 week, 3 days ago The debate over the economics of climate change boils down to that very calculation: how much are we willing to pay today to avoid climate risks in the future? The simple fact is that as we continue to use fuels that contribute to global warming today, we place major economic burdens on our kids and grandkids tomorrow.
Life Magazine ad breaks my brain

Oil: enough energy to melt glaciers! 14
Posted 1 week, 3 days ago The greatest oil ad of all time, from 1962.
Time: “The science of climate change grows more dire.” 0
Posted 1 week, 3 days ago
Voters in Ohio, Michigan and Missouri support climate action 0
Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Given the high value of the morning brew you can bet that this commodity will soon have carbon insurance percolating around somewhere.

Would You Like Carbon Insurance With That Latte? 0
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago
“We are almost out of multiyear sea ice in the northern hemisphere.”

Arctic ice reaches historic seasonal low 0
Posted 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Grace, Dignity, Climate and a New Book on Warming in the West

Climate change and God 0
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago
There's a great new book out called How the West Was Warmed about responding to climate change in the Rockies.
MORE FALSE SOLUTIONS! OH MY!

Geoengineering: Plan B for when Copenhagen fails? eek! 0
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago
if they african do it, why can't we?

Why the climate movement needs more Ethiopian-style activists 10
Posted 3 weeks, 4 days ago Of all the amazing stories that emerged from last month’s historic International Day of Climate Action, the one that really caught Keith Harrington's eye was that of 15,000 Ethiopian students swarming though the streets of Addis Ababa brandishing 350 signs and whooping it up big time in support of bold global climate solutions.
Fashion for the Forests

Gucci Group commits to saving Indonesia’s rainforests 1
Posted 3 weeks, 4 days ago There’s a new fashion trend this fall: saving rainforests and preserving a livable climate.
...reducing carbon will be very good for our economy overall...

Why Does Oklahoma Want To Drown New York? 0
Posted 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Now you see it now you don't

Disappearing beaches in Gambia 0
Posted 1 month ago Hotel managers in Gambia say without the beach the tourists will not come but the beach in front of the country’s two landmark hotels is disappearing pretty fast. It is a very serious state of affairs for a country that derives a major percentage of its income from tourism.
Climate cover-up

Blockbuster new book exposes anatomy of denial 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago James Hoggan and his DeSmogBlog.com posse might be our nation's most important sleuths -- and they ain't even from the United States.
Calling all conspiracy theorists

So what if global warming is a hoax? 35
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago As the evidence mounts that global warming is accelerating at an alarming pace, it is equally evident that progressives have done a terrible job of getting people to care about it.
Psych 350

The genesis of the climate change stalemate 4
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago Most people have strong feelings about climate change, but where do those feelings come from, and why are they so hard to change? A look at egalitarians, individualists, and how the twain shall catfight.
Lester Brown on his must-read new book “Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization” 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago