Climate Change

CLIMATE CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN

Bangkok: rich countries try to kill Kyoto, youth declare 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Climate and hydrogen car advocate gets almost everything wrong 3
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Weather Channel expert on Georgia’s record-smashing global-warming-type deluge 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
These boots were made for cutting carbon

Timberland CEO Jeff Swartz on the new corporate push for climate action 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago Jeff Swartz belongs to a coalition of businesses that is lobbying congress and the administration to pass climate legislation.
Our parks in peril 6
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago New report calls climate change a clear and present danger to 25 of America's most beloved national parks.
A fishy business in Morocco

Sardines head south 0
Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago
13-18°F over most of U.S. and 27°F in the Arctic

UK Met Office: Catastrophic climate change 0
Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Interview with Author on Climate Change Summit

Greg Craven’s new book retools the climate debate 1
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago In his speech at the U.N. Summit on Climate Change today, President Barack Obama admonished world leaders that their nations "cannot allow the old divisions that have characterized the climate debate for so many years to block our progress."
It Could Be Verse

Climate-news poem: Shush edition 1
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
Are U.S. climate convictions crumbling? And what's with all those spokesmen mumbling? An ode to good intentions and global confusion.
E&E: Reid says cap-and-trade bill may wait until 2010 0
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said the Senate may not act on comprehensive energy and climate change legislation until next year, given the chamber’s busy fall schedule.
Are Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue’s Ties to Union Pacific Railroading the Companie 0
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
FAQ YOU

Ask Umbra on combating climate denial 55
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
This summer's cool weather has some people scratching their heads and wondering if climate change is real. Umbra explains the difference between one crazy summer and a global trend, and offers resources for understanding the finer points of the climate "debate."
the new green deal

Sure Obama got off to a good start, but what has the green FDR done lately? 2
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Obama’s record so far on clean energy and the most important environmental issue — global warming — may not be politically radical, but it is unparalleled in U.S. history.
Choice nuggets

From Big Ag’s climate problem to Whole Foods’ latest snafu, tasty morsels from around the Web 5
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Grist's food editor serves up a brief rundown of interesting food/agriculture journalism from around the web.
Beginning the Great Leap

Four ways the U.S. & China can start cooperating now to tackle climate change 0
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
The recent high-profile visits to China by leading members of Congress and the Obama administration have made it clear that China and the U.S. are taking climate change seriously and recognize the importance of working closely together to find ways to reduce global warming pollution.
Show Me the Money!

U.N. climate chief: $300B needed each year in global climate fight 3
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
The global community should be investing $300 billion annually to combat global warming, according to U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer.
King Corn speaks

An ‘agri-intellectual’ talks back 49
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
A lot of folks have asked what I think of the essay "The Omnivore's Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals," by Missouri corn-soy farmer Blake Hurst...
drilling democracy

Big Oil holding ‘town halls’ on climate bill 0
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Following in the footsteps of the corporate-backed protest movement against health care reform, a group founded and funded by business interests opposed to regulating greenhouse gas pollution is planning a series of rallies to oppose the climate legislation being considered by Congress.
security blanket

NYT: Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security 0
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
"The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades," reported Saturday's NY Times.
Everyone's got a lobbyist

Tally of interests on climate bill tops a thousand 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
More than 460 new businesses and interest groups jumped into lobbying Congress on global warming in the weeks before the House neared its historic vote on climate change legislation, a Center for Public Integrity analysis of just-disclosed lobbying records shows.