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Friedman Fighter An interview with New York Times columnist and 'geo-green' advocate Thomas Friedman	Amanda Griscom Little	05 Apr 2005	Main Dish
An interview with New York Times columnist and "geo-green" advocate Thomas Friedman By Amanda Griscom Little 05 Apr 2005 Thomas Friedman. Photo: Greg Martin. As the green movement fends off accusations of impotence, Thomas Friedman has hatched an idea that could make a man out of environmentalism. In January, the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times debuted his "geo-green" strategy, a powerful proposal for reframing America's ...
Topics: climate, energy, interview, oil, politics (all these topics)

Everybody's a Critic New voices join chorus pushing Bush to act on climate change		07 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Everybody's a Critic New voices join chorus pushing Bush to act on climate change At this point it's getting hard to keep track, but a couple more notable folks have joined the ranks of those calling on the Bush administration, either implicitly or explicitly, to act on global warming. Perhaps most unexpected is James Baker, former secretary of state and Bush family consigliere, who helped President Bush triumph in Florida in 2000 ...
Topics: climate, news, politics (all these topics)

The Chuck Stops Here An interview with Sen. Chuck Hagel, Republican from Nebraska, on his new climate bills	Amanda Griscom Little	01 Mar 2005	Main Dish
Sen. Chuck Hagel. A possible GOP presidential contender in 2008, Nebraskan Sen. Chuck Hagel has lately sprung to the public stage as one of the leading Republican voices on climate change. In mid-February, he introduced three bills designed to be economic jumper cables that would boost the development of clean-energy technologies -- one focusing on inte ...
Topics: climate, interview, legislation, politics, United States (all these topics)

Operation Squander As Kyoto goes live, U.S. green groups offer tepid response	Amanda Griscom Little	16 Feb 2005	Muckraker
It's an action-packed week on the climate front: The Kyoto Protocol finally goes into effect today throughout the vast majority of the industrialized world (the U.S. conspicuously not included), and Capitol Hill is awash in climate-related assaults and initiatives. As Kyoto and climate bills heat up, greens' response is tepid. Congress is facing a double whammy of President Bush's m ...
Topics: climate, Environmental Defense Fund, Greenpeace, Kyoto Protocol, legislation, Muckraker, National Environmental Trust, NRDC, politics, United States (all these topics)

Sign Here to Save the Planet Join a people's campaign to ratify the Kyoto Protocol	Ross Gelbspan	16 Feb 2005	Soapbox
The much-discussed Kyoto Protocol takes effect today, Feb. 16. In the face of the United States' continuing refusal to ratify the international agreement, a group of progressive activists is launching a drive to gather millions of signatures from U.S. citizens for a "People's Ratification of the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty." Ross Gelbspan, a Grist contributor and author of tw ...
Topics: climate, politics, United States (all these topics)

On the Right Track New Republican leaders emerging in battle against climate change	Amanda Griscom Little	04 Feb 2005	Muckraker
Last week, an international task force co-chaired by Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine) predicted a fast-approaching "point of no return" for climate change -- possibly in as few as 10 years -- after which the crisis and its symptoms will be irreversible. Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine). You probably didn't read about it in the U.S. papers, which largely ignored the ...
Topics: climate, energy, Muckraker, NRDC, politics (all these topics)

Exeter Stage Left Climate eggheads conclude we're toast, not sure when we'll hear the ding		03 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Exeter Stage Left Climate eggheads conclude we're toast, not sure when we'll hear the ding A three-day scientific conference on global warming in Exeter, U.K., that wrapped up today vividly illustrates the frustrating current state of the climate-change debate. There was a palpable sense of urgency among the scientists in attendance, as various studies predicted that global warming will yield rising sea levels, outbreaks ...
Topics: climate, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Crichton Mad A review of the distorted plot and politics in Michael Crichton's State of Fear	David Roberts	01 Feb 2005	Arts and Minds
Michael Crichton, author of State of Fear. Photo: HarperCollins Publishers. Michael Crichton's State of Fear is an attempt to meld serious politico-scientific critique with a modern techno-thriller. It's an ambitious undertaking, but to paraphrase Thomas Edison, success is 1 percent ambition and 99 percent not writing an awful book. Crichton's novel, alas, is unilluminating ...
Topics: books, celebrity, climate, climate change skepticism, green living, politics (all these topics)

Pretty Pleas At Davos, Blair pushes U.S. for climate-change action		27 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Pretty Pleas At Davos, Blair pushes U.S. for climate-change action Addressing the annual World Economic Forum powwow in Davos, Switzerland, yesterday, British Prime Minister Tony Blair had what observers called unusually sharp words for the Bush administration, saying the U.S. should join the global battle against climate change if it seeks global cooperation in its battle against terrorism. "If America wants the re ...
Topics: climate, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Where Do We Go, Where Do We Go Now? Bill McKibben sends dispatches from a conference on winning the climate-change fight		27 Jan 2005	Dispatches
Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature and a member of Grist's board of directors. His latest book is Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 Thursday, 27 Jan 2005 MIDDLEBURY, Vt. Here's the different thing about this conference. Although participants spanned the generations, it was organized in large measure by 20 students here at Middlebury ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change impacts, Death of Environmentalism, Dispatches, environmental movement, politics, United States (all these topics)

The Lion, the Switch, and the ... Oh, Forget It Neoconservatives and greens find common cause on energy conservation		26 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
The Lion, the Switch, and the ... Oh, Forget It Neoconservatives and greens find common cause on energy conservation And the lion shall lie down with the lamb indeed. A strange political alliance is taking shape in Washington, D.C., as neoconservatives anxious to sap political strength from their Middle Eastern nemeses form common cause with enviros anxious to slow global warming. What unites them? A desire to reduce oi ...
Topics: climate, politics, United States (all these topics)

Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do? Bill McKibben sends dispatches from a conference on winning the climate-change fight		26 Jan 2005	Dispatches
Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature and a member of Grist's board of directors. His latest book is Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 Wednesday, 26 Jan 2005 MIDDLEBURY, Vt. The bad boys of American environmentalism made their case this morning, and they made it well. By the time Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus had finished pre ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change impacts, Death of Environmentalism, Dispatches, environmental movement, politics, United States (all these topics)

Two Degrees of Separation Report warns of major climate catastrophe in as few as 10 years		25 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Two Degrees of Separation Report warns of major climate catastrophe in as few as 10 years A task force of leading politicians, academics, and business leaders from around the world has quantified global warming's so-called "point of no return." And it's bloody soon! In as little as 10 years, says a report by the task force, the global average temperature could rise 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit from its pre-ind ...
Topics: climate, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Changing the Climate-Change Climate Bill McKibben sends dispatches from a conference on winning the climate-change fight		25 Jan 2005	Dispatches
Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature and a member of Grist's board of directors. His latest book is Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 Tuesday, 25 Jan 2005 MIDDLEBURY, Vt. A crisp, cold, blue-sky New England day, fresh snow on the ground, and everything right with the world. Except that last night, as I was preparing to attend a thre ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change impacts, Death of Environmentalism, Dispatches, environmental movement, politics, United States (all these topics)

The Axis of Intransigence U.S. pushes to remove global-warming references from disaster talks		19 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
The Axis of Intransigence U.S. pushes to remove global-warming references from disaster talks The U.S. delegation to an upcoming global conference on natural disasters is pushing to have references to global warming removed from the U.N. action plan to be ratified there. The document cites global warming as one factor among many leading to "a future where disasters could increasingly threaten the wor ...
Topics: climate, politics, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

Receding Blair Line Blair government tried to weaken E.U. climate-change targets		18 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Receding Blair Line Blair government tried to weaken E.U. climate-change targets The U.K. environmental community is all atwitter over revelations that senior officials in Prime Minister Tony Blair's government tried to remove tough greenhouse-gas reduction targets from the E.U.'s official climate policy. Specifically, they asked that language calling for 50 to 80 percent reductions (from 1990 levels, by ...
Topics: climate, European Union, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics)

And Now for Something Completely Different An in-depth response to 'The Death of Environmentalism'	Carl Pope	13 Jan 2005	Main Dish
An in-depth response to "The Death of Environmentalism" By Carl Pope 13 Jan 2005 In December 2004, Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope distributed this response to the essay "The Death of Environmentalism." Get the backstory here. There Is Something Different About Global Warming Dear Environmental Grant-Maker: You may have recently received a memorandum entitled "The Death of Environmentalism" by Michael Shellenber ...
Topics: climate, politics, United States (all these topics)

You're a Shadowboxer, Baby Right-wingers exploit tsunami by accusing enviros of exploiting tsunami	Amanda Griscom Little	06 Jan 2005	Muckraker
Was global warming behind the recent catastrophic tsunami in the Indian Ocean? Of course not. Nor did it cause the Iraqi insurgency, the national debt, or Ashley Simpson's lip-synching episode. A devastated village in India. Photo: USAID. Global warming is an atmospheric phenomenon caused by a buildup of airborne greenhouse gases, and though it's expected to i ...
Topics: climate, Indian Ocean, Muckraker, oceans, politics (all these topics)

It Was a Dark and Stormy Year ... 2004 sets records for heat and natural disasters		17 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
It Was a Dark and Stormy Year ... 2004 sets records for heat and natural disasters 2004 may be the fourth warmest year on record and the most expensive to date for insurance companies stuck with the tab for cleaning up after natural disasters, according to new data released this week. Extreme weather conditions in many parts of the world, including a record 10 typhoons in Japan and the first-ever hurricane in South America, are being bla ...
Topics: climate, politics (all these topics)

Hagelian Dialectic Kyoto opponent Hagel may ally with Blair for new climate agreement		16 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Hagelian Dialectic Kyoto opponent Hagel may ally with Blair for new climate agreement U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair's efforts to cajole the U.S. into doing something about climate change -- and shake off his rep as a Bush "poodle" -- may have found an ally in Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.). Hagel met with Blair this week in London at the PM's request to discuss the kinds of initiatives the countries ...
Topics: climate, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Dude, Where's the After Party? U.N. negotiators begin talking about post-Kyoto actions		15 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Dude, Where's the After Party? U.N. negotiators begin talking about post-Kyoto actions Two months before the Kyoto Protocol even takes effect, representatives meeting in Buenos Aires for the annual U.N. conference on climate change are already discussing plans for reducing emissions post-Kyoto. So far, says Eliot Diringer of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, participants have agreed that any future plans need to i ...
Topics: climate, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

License to Bill Clinton, late convert to climate-change cause, now preaching up a storm	Amanda Griscom Little	13 Dec 2004	Muckraker
He wasn't known as the eco-warrior president. Nor was he a visionary on energy independence. But Bill Clinton is now using his legendary charisma and silver tongue to help mobilize the shift away from fossil fuels. Bill gets heated up over climate. Photo: Clinton Presidential Foundation. "[T]he decisions we make or fail to make in this area may have a bigger impact on ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, climate, energy, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Putting the 'Pact' in 'No Impact' Tony Blair trying to entice U.S. into 'Kyoto-lite' climate treaty		10 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Putting the "Pact" in "No Impact" Tony Blair trying to entice U.S. into "Kyoto-lite" climate treaty With much of the industrialized world heaping scorn on the U.S. for spurning the recently ratified Kyoto Protocol, the Bush administration may soon get a chance to regain a smidgeon of international cred on the climate-change issue. British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in an effo ...
Topics: climate, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Buenos Hot Aires U.S. professes bafflement at international ire over climate change		08 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Buenos Hot Aires U.S. professes bafflement at international ire over climate change "I'm not sure why we're considered the 'bad boys'," said puzzled U.S. climate negotiator Harlan Watson at this week's U.N. climate change convention in Buenos Aires. The conference -- the last such meeting to take place before the Kyoto Protocol goes into effect in February -- has featured sharp criticism of U.S. ...
Topics: climate, politics, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

Calling Africa to action on climate	Lisa Hymas	02 Dec 2004	Gristmill
Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai and George W. Bush agree on one thing: developing nations need to do more to curb the threat of climate change. (Of course, they don't agree on the much more vexing question of whether overdeveloped nations -- one highly overdeveloped nation in particular -- should do anything to address the ballooning problem ...)Speaking last week at a UNEP climate workshop, Maathai, who presently serves as Kenya's deputy environment minister, t ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, politics (all these topics)

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