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Tick. Tick. Tick. Methane emissions from Siberian bogs are 'time bomb,' scientists warn		07 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Tick. Tick. Tick. Methane emissions from Siberian bogs are "time bomb," scientists warn Thawing Siberian bogs may be releasing up to five times more methane than previously thought, potentially creating a vicious cycle wherein more warming releases more methane, which causes more warming, which ... well, you get the picture. "It is a ticking time bomb," says Katey Walter, lead author of a study on the phenomenon in Nature. ...
Topics: climate, news (all these topics)

The Texas Planet Massacre Texas may approve 16 new coal-fired power plants		06 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
The Texas Planet Massacre Texas may approve 16 new coal-fired power plants The state of Texas, which spews more greenhouse gases than Canada or the U.K., is set to reduce its emissions. And by "reduce" we mean "massively increase." Texas may soon approve construction of 16 new coal-fired power plants. And not the fancy new "clean coal" kind, either -- the old-school dirty kind, which would ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, news, Texas (all these topics)

Hope and Glory Bill McKibben sends dispatches from a global-warming march		04 Sep 2006	Dispatches
Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature, published in 1989, the first book for a general audience on climate change. A scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College, his forthcoming book is titled Deep Economy. He's participating in a five-day walk calling for action to fight global warming -- From the Road Less Traveled: Vermonters Walking Toward a Clean Energy Future. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Monday, 04 Sep 2006 ...
Topics: climate, Dispatches, Vermont (all these topics)

Honk If You Care About the Climate Bill McKibben sends dispatches from a global-warming march		03 Sep 2006	Dispatches
Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature, published in 1989, the first book for a general audience on climate change. A scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College, his forthcoming book is titled Deep Economy. He's participating in a five-day walk calling for action to fight global warming -- From the Road Less Traveled: Vermonters Walking Toward a Clean Energy Future. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 ...
Topics: climate, Dispatches, Vermont (all these topics)

Bright Young Things Bill McKibben sends dispatches from a global-warming march		01 Sep 2006	Dispatches
Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature, published in 1989, the first book for a general audience on climate change. A scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College, his forthcoming book is titled Deep Economy. He's participating in a five-day walk calling for action to fight global warming -- From the Road Less Traveled: Vermonters Walking Toward a Clean Energy Future. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Friday, 01 Sep ...
Topics: climate, Dispatches, Vermont (all these topics)

They Should Eat Their Spinach Iron-deficient phytoplankton don't absorb as much CO2, study finds		31 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
They Should Eat Their Spinach Iron-deficient phytoplankton don't absorb as much CO2, study finds Phytoplankton's ability to absorb carbon dioxide is hindered by a lack of iron in their diet, according to a study in Nature. Climate models have estimated that phytoplankton in the world's oceans have absorbed about 55 billion tons of carbon dioxide, but the new research suggests that anemic Pacific Ocean phytoplankton have seques ...
Topics: climate, news, Pacific Ocean (all these topics)

California Dreamy California will shrink greenhouse-gas emissions under groundbreaking plan		31 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
California Dreamy California will shrink greenhouse-gas emissions under groundbreaking plan In arguably the biggest step ever taken in the U.S. to fight global warming, California's political leaders reached a deal yesterday to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in the state 25 percent by 2020. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) pledged to sign Assembly Bill 32, under which the California Air Resources Board will ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, climate, news (all these topics)

The Road Less Traveled Bill McKibben sends dispatches from a global-warming march		31 Aug 2006	Dispatches
Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature, published in 1989, the first book for a general audience on climate change. A scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College, his forthcoming book is titled Deep Economy. He's participating in a five-day walk calling for action to fight global warming -- From the Road Less Traveled: Vermonters Walking Toward a Clean Energy Future. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Thursday, 3 ...
Topics: climate, Dispatches, Vermont (all these topics)

Street Cred Bill McKibben sends dispatches from a global-warming march		30 Aug 2006	Dispatches
Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature, published in 1989, the first book for a general audience on climate change. A scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College, his forthcoming book is titled Deep Economy. He's participating in a five-day walk calling for action to fight global warming -- From the Road Less Traveled: Vermonters Walking Toward a Clean Energy Future. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Wednesday, 30 Aug 2006 ...
Topics: climate, Dispatches, Vermont (all these topics)

The Big Seep Global warming could lead to release of more methane from seafloor		29 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
The Big Seep Global warming could lead to release of more methane from seafloor A warming ocean could release more of the potent greenhouse gas methane in a vicious cycle that leads to more warming, says a new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Petroleum and methane seep consistently from small cracks in the seafloor, but a study of ocean sediments near Santa Barbara, Calif., found that during the last ...
Topics: California, climate, news (all these topics)

April Showers Bring April Flowers Spring is springing earlier in Europe, study finds		28 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
April Showers Bring April Flowers Spring is springing earlier in Europe, study finds Across Europe, spring is arriving an average of six to eight days earlier than it did 30 years ago, according to new research published in the journal Global Change Biology. Scientists studied 125,000 sets of observations of 542 plant and 19 animal species in 21 European countries, and found that nearly 80 percent of all le ...
Topics: climate, European Union, news, Spain, wildlife (all these topics)

Target Practice BP fires up carbon-offset program		24 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Target Practice BP fires up carbon-offset program Oil giant BP, eager to show that it's Beyond (all the) Petroleum (it's leaked on the Alaskan tundra), has launched a carbon-offset program for drivers in the U.K. The new "targetneutral" website lets drivers log on to estimate their car's annual carbon dioxide emissions, then calculate how much they should shell out to offset that output. Donations go ...
Topics: climate, energy, news, oil, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Is It Frogs Next, or Locusts? Warmer climate could lead to increased bubonic plague		23 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Is It Frogs Next, or Locusts? Warmer climate could lead to increased bubonic plague Ever feel like we live in End Times? Well, you may be right. Apparently, in coming years we can expect more bubonic plague -- yes, plague, as in "bring out your dead!" Researchers publishing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that a rise of just 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit in the springtime temperature led to a 59 pe ...
Topics: climate, Kazakhstan, news (all these topics)

Damned If ... OK, Just Damned CFC alternatives contribute to global warming		21 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Damned If ... OK, Just Damned CFC alternatives contribute to global warming When signatories to the 1989 Montreal Protocol phased out ozone-depleting, heat-trapping chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in foams and refrigerants, most replaced them with more-ozone-friendly-but-still-heat-trapping hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Too bad: HCFCs and HFCs will add the equivalent of 2 billion to 3 billion tons of CO2 t ...
Topics: climate, news, ozone (all these topics)

Yes, Virginia, There Is Global Warming Va. governor asks climate skeptic to avoid state climatologist title		21 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Yes, Virginia, There Is Global Warming Va. governor asks climate skeptic to avoid state climatologist title Patrick Michaels is a noted skeptic about global warming, cited frequently in the mainstream press and funded amply by fossil-fuel interests. He goes by the title of "Virginia state climatologist." That makes the commonwealth of Virginia uncomfortable, apparently, and it seems determined to distance itself from the ...
Topics: climate, news, Virginia (all these topics)

Capitalism v. environmentalism: a poll	Kit Stolz	17 Aug 2006	Gristmill
Don Boudreaux, an economist, argues that doing nothing is the best policy for global warming. As David, biodiversivist, Tim Lambert, and ThinkProgress point out, this argument has a lot of screws loose. (ThinkProgress also has a picture of Boudreaux, who looks slightly insane. He is also, by sheerest chance, with the Cato Institute, which according to a book by two University of Colorado law school scholars, "receives most of its financial support from entrepreneurs ...
Topics: celebrity, climate, insanity, politics (all these topics)

How's That Mars Exploration Going? News flash: as world warms, weather gets worse		15 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
How's That Mars Exploration Going? News flash: as world warms, weather gets worse As the globe warms, the risk of more frequent and severe forest fires, droughts, and floods rises. So says, well, the entire scientific community, forever. But a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is being billed as the most comprehensive look yet at the effects of climate change. With data from 52 climate simulation ...
Topics: climate, deforestation, news (all these topics)

Foot the Bill Getting a toehold on your company's climate footprint	Joel Makower	15 Aug 2006	Toiling Point
"What's your company's climate footprint?" It's a hot question these days -- one being asked increasingly of companies by customers, investors, activists, regulators, and others. OK, it may not be exactly that question, but it's probably in some form, like, "What's your company doing to reduce its climate impacts?" Or, "How do you call yourself environmentally responsible w ...
Topics: business, climate (all these topics)

Sheet Happens ... Faster Greenland melting faster than five years ago, study says		11 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Sheet Happens ... Faster Greenland melting faster than five years ago, study says We hate to give you bad news without some good, so here goes. The bad news from a study published this week in Science is that, by comparing satellite data from 2002-2005 to earlier data, researchers have determined that Greenland's ice sheet is melting about three times faster than it was five years ago. Put another way, about 57 cubic ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, Greenland, news (all these topics)

Tim Flannery on Big Picture TV	Chris Schults	11 Aug 2006	Gristmill
I don't know how they do it, but Big Picture TV has added author and Australian scientist Tim Flannery to their impressive list of talking heads. Tim Flannery wrote The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means For Life on Earth which was reviewed by Grist back in March. In this four-part series, Flannery chats about the carbon debt, action for solutions, the end of denial, and taxing carbon.
Topics: climate, TV (all these topics)

But 82 Percent Would Still Grab a Brewski With Him Poll finds growing disenchantment with Bush environmental policy		04 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
But 82 Percent Would Still Grab a Brewski With Him Poll finds growing disenchantment with Bush environmental policy A new poll finds a rise in the number of people who think President Bush is not doing enough to protect the environment -- 56 percent, according to a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg survey, up from 41 percent in 2001. Most want more action on environmental problems, and by a more than two-to-one margin, they think Democra ...
Topics: climate, news, politics (all these topics)

Will Evolution Be Next? Heat waves linked to climate change; even Pat Robertson is convinced		04 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Will Evolution Be Next? Heat waves linked to climate change; even Pat Robertson is convinced Experts agree: damn, it's hot! And you might as well get used to it. At the rate global temperatures are rising, blistering heat waves like the ones that have recently baked parts of the U.S. and Europe will become more frequent and severe, according to climate researchers. Of course, no individual weather event can definit ...
Topics: climate, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Bawh-Chikka-Baaawh Report accuses U.K. media of indulging in global-warming 'porn'		03 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Bawh-Chikka-Baaawh Report accuses U.K. media of indulging in global-warming "porn" The first comprehensive analysis of climate-change coverage in the U.K. media has deemed it "confusing, contradictory, and chaotic." Produced by the Institute for Public Policy Research, the report, "Warm Words," accuses media outlets of presenting apocalyptic pictures and portents as a kind of " ...
Topics: climate, green living, news, United Kingdom (all these topics)

The Bill Factor Bill Clinton teams with cities to fight climate change		02 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
The Bill Factor Bill Clinton teams with cities to fight climate change Yesterday, ex-Prez Bill Clinton announced a new international effort to fight climate change. The Clinton Climate Initiative is a partnership between the Large Cities Climate Leadership Group -- a group of 22 of the world's largest municipalities -- and the Clinton Foundation. The latter will help the former pool purchasing power to get l ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, climate, energy, news, politics (all these topics)

To Sir, with Exasperation On writing to reps about climate change	Umbra Fisk	02 Aug 2006	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I want to send a letter to my local representatives about global warming and how our whole city and state should take part in stopping it, but I don't know what to say or how to approach this. Please help! Hillary Schwartz Birmingham, Ala. Dearest Hillary, Hmm, I can think of a few things to say. But you might get escorted out of Alabama if you put them in a letter. Post haste. Photo: iStock ...
Topics: advice, Alabama, Ask Umbra, climate, politics (all these topics)

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