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Book Your Guilt Trip Today!
British enviros curb flying to protest airplane emissions |
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31 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Book Your Guilt Trip Today! British enviros curb flying to protest airplane emissions A growing number of British enviros are quitting or cutting back on air travel, resisting the siren song of low-fare, no-frills airlines. "I just realized that all my other efforts to be green -- recycling, insulating the house, not driving a giant 4x4 -- would be totally wiped out by a couple of holidays by air," sai ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, placemaking, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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Billy-Come-Lately
Bill Clinton calls climate change public enemy No. 1 |
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30 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Billy-Come-Lately Bill Clinton calls climate change public enemy No. 1 In a Saturday speech to the assembled corporate bigwigs and governmental muckety-mucks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, former President Bill Clinton called global warming the single most pressing problem facing the world. "It's the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we ... |
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| Topics: Bill Clinton, climate, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Hush Hush, Keep It Down Now
Top NASA climate scientist says he's being censored by Bush admin |
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30 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Hush Hush, Keep It Down Now Top NASA climate scientist says he's being censored by Bush admin If Bush administration officials were trying to keep NASA's chief climate scientist quiet, as he charges, they failed spectacularly. Instead they got a front-page story in The New York Times. In it, James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, charges that since a lecture in early December in which h ... |
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| Topics: climate, James Hansen, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Good climate-change journalism: Revkin edition
A story on the suppression of climate scientist James Hansen |
David Roberts |
29 Jan 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Wow. Here it is only Saturday night and already the weekend's seen two stellar pieces of reporting on global warming, from two of environmental journalism's top stars, on page A1 of their respective newspapers. First up is Andy Revkin's latest revelation on the Bush administration's ongoing defensive maneuvers against, uh, reality. In this case, reality was being described by the closest thing climate science has to a wise man: James Hansen, director of NASA's Godda ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate science, James Hansen (all these topics) |
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Mass Backward
Mass. lawmakers pushing to join climate pact, despite Romney's objections |
Amanda Griscom Little |
26 Jan 2006 |
Muckraker |
| A handful of Massachusetts legislators are maneuvering to get their state into the most ambitious U.S. effort yet to fight global warming, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, launched in late December. If they succeed, it'll be a smarting wallop for Gov. Mitt Romney (R), who is widely expected to run for a spot on the GOP's 2008 presidential ticket. The pact, com ... |
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| Topics: climate, Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, Muckraker, politics (all these topics) |
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But It's Still Friggin' Raining in Seattle
2005 is hottest year on record, and 2006 weather is wacked |
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25 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| But It's Still Friggin' Raining in Seattle 2005 is hottest year on record, and 2006 weather is wacked We know you've been waiting with bated breath to hear the outcome of the competition between 1998 and 2005 for hottest year on record, and NASA's results are in: 2005 wins! 1998 had El Nino, but 2005 had a remarkably warm Arctic. Congratulations, 2005, on your Highest Annual Global Average Surface Temperatur ... |
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| Topics: Arctic, Canada, climate, European Union, news (all these topics) |
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Al's Well That Pens Well
Al Gore to publish new book on global warming |
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25 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Al's Well That Pens Well Al Gore to publish new book on global warming The self-proclaimed "former next president of the United States" -- currently at the Sundance Film Festival (and, may we point out, looking quite natty) to promote his new documentary about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth -- has announced that he'll soon be coming out with a new book on th ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, green living, movies, news, politics (all these topics) |
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A Greening Tide Lifts All Boats
Reports say cutting greenhouse gases will enhance California's economy |
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23 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| A Greening Tide Lifts All Boats Reports say cutting greenhouse gases will enhance California's economy Curbing greenhouse-gas emissions will massively boost California's economy, according to two independent analyses of the state's ambitious plans for fighting global warming. The Center for Clean Air Policy, a D.C.-based environmental think tank, found that California could meet its proposed 2010 emissions goals -- man ... |
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| Topics: business, California, climate, news (all these topics) |
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Walk the plankton
Global warming could wipe out the bottom of the food chain. |
Sarah K. Burkhalter |
19 Jan 2006 |
Gristmill |
| When you woke up this morning, did you thank [God, your lucky stars, the Big Bang] for plankton? If you didn't, consider adding it to your daily routine. Sure plankton are teeny-tiny and look like scary aliens, but they're also moderately important, in that sustaining-life sort of way. Sadly, global warming could kill them off. The Independent wins my nomination for 'Most Sinister Opening Paragraph o' the Day': The microscopic plants that underpin all life in ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, oceans (all these topics) |
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Johnson Left Hanging
Six former EPA chiefs tell Bush to cap and cut greenhouse gases |
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19 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Johnson Left Hanging Six former EPA chiefs tell Bush to cap and cut greenhouse gases Six former heads of the U.S. EPA -- including five Republicans -- have blasted the Bush administration for failing to act on global warming. In an unprecedented united front, the ex-chiefs, gathered yesterday to commemorate the agency's 35th anniversary, agreed that debating the extent to which climate change is a human-caused phenomenon ( ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Climb-It Science
An interview with swashbuckling climate scientist Lonnie Thompson |
Amanda Griscom Little |
19 Jan 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Lonnie Thompson has clocked more hours above 18,000 feet than any other person in history, and yet he doesn't exactly like climbing mountains. A masochist? No, just a hard-driving climate scientist. The iceman cometh. Photo: Courtesy Lonnie Thompson. Thompson treks up the highest peaks of the tropics -- including the Himalayas and Andes -- to extract ice-core samples. He the ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate science, interview (all these topics) |
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Keeping Up With the Bushes
Conservative Canadian politico vows to back out of Kyoto agreement |
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18 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Keeping Up With the Bushes Conservative Canadian politico vows to back out of Kyoto agreement As Canada's federal election looms -- yes, Canada is having an election -- Conservative leader Stephen Harper is campaigning on virtually abandoning the Kyoto accord on climate change. Harper, who proclaimed in 2004 that the treaty would never become international law (oops), says victorious Conservatives would jettison mandatory ... |
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| Topics: Canada, climate, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Plop, Plop, Biz, Biz
Dairy farmer earns bucks from herd's manure |
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17 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Plop, Plop, Biz, Biz Dairy farmer earns bucks from herd's manure Alert readers will note that we never pass up a chance to talk about cow poop. But cow poop that generates power? Pinch us! Minnesota dairy farmer Dennis Haubenschild uses an anaerobic digester to convert the methane-generating dookie of his 900-cow herd into electricity for a local utility, earning thousands of dollars a year while cutt ... |
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| Topics: climate, food and agriculture, news, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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No More Mr. Nice Guy
Climate change is pushing this easygoing enviro over the edge |
Bill McKibben |
12 Jan 2006 |
Soapbox |
| The one and only time I ever saw my mother become aggressive in public went like this. We were out as a family for a weekend leaf-peeping drive, an impulse apparently shared by most of the rest of New England, because the traffic along New Hampshire's Kancamagus Highway was endless 90-degree gridlock. Every once in a while, however, somebody would zoom happily by in the breakdown lane. ... |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, energy, Massachusetts, politics, wind power (all these topics) |
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It's a Floor Wax and a Dessert Topping!
Algae being harnessed to combat climate change and other eco-woes |
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12 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| It's a Floor Wax and a Dessert Topping! Algae being harnessed to combat climate change and other eco-woes Consider the algae. Three years ago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology rocket scientist Isaac Berzin had an idea: use the slimy plants to clean up emissions from power plants. Today, at a power plant next to MIT, tubes of healthy algae slurp up 40 percent of carbon dioxide and 86 perc ... |
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| Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Croak and Dagger
Mass frog die-offs linked to global warming |
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12 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Croak and Dagger Mass frog die-offs linked to global warming The mass disappearance of colorful harlequin frog species in Central and South America has long puzzled biologists, but research published in the latest issue of Nature fingers a culprit: global warming. (When in doubt ...) The deadly chytrid fungus that's killing off the tiny amphibians is flourishing in places where it's gotten warmer a ... |
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| Topics: Central America, climate, news, South America, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Damn You, Bush!
Plants are major methane producers, new research says |
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12 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Damn You, Bush! Plants are major methane producers, new research says Methane: it's not just from cow farts anymore. Apparently, ordinary plants emit significant amounts of the potent greenhouse gas. Clearly, all cows and plants must be killed. For the health of the planet! Ahem. Writing in Nature, German researchers suggest that the never-before-noted phenomenon -- which they stumbled on almost accidentally -- could account for 10 ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Doin' What Comes Dastardly
Not-Kyoto climate pact meeting ends with much hot air |
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12 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Doin' What Comes Dastardly Not-Kyoto climate pact meeting ends with much hot air The U.S. and Australia today marked the end of the Asia-Pacific climate summit in Sydney by pledging $127 million to support technology projects that would lower greenhouse-gas emissions. Climate activists derided the commitment from the two big polluters as laughably small; the Kyoto Protocol, which both the U.S. and Australia have sp ... |
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| Topics: Australia, climate, news, United States (all these topics) |
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Where There's Smokescreen There's Ire
U.S. and Asia-Pacific countries gear up for not-Kyoto climate meeting |
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09 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Where There's Smokescreen There's Ire U.S. and Asia-Pacific countries gear up for not-Kyoto climate meeting The first meeting of the Asia-Pacific climate partnership will kick off this Wednesday in Australia. The six participating nations -- Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. -- will emphasize the transfer of clean technologies to developing countries, in ... |
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| Topics: Australia, China, climate, India, Japan, news, South Korea, United States (all these topics) |
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Enviros call on RFK Jr. to support Cape Wind project
Over 150 activists send letter asking Kennedy to reconsider position |
Lisa Hymas |
06 Jan 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Cape Wind Associates' plan to build a big wind-power farm off the coast of Cape Cod has been dividing enviros for years, but the disagreement got a lot more heated last month when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ran a high-profile op-ed railing against the project in The New York Times. An excerpt: These turbines are less than six miles from shore and would be seen from Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Hundreds of flashing lights to warn airplanes away from the turbines ... |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change adaptation, energy, Massachusetts, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics) |
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Freeze Tibet
Global warming liquefying the glaciers of Tibet |
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04 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Freeze Tibet Global warming liquefying the glaciers of Tibet High-altitude Tibet is known as the "rooftop of the world," but lately the roof is a bit saggy. Global warming is rapidly melting glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau, water source for many of the region's rivers. This great melt -- already being felt in flooding -- could eventually cause water shortages and a variety of other troubles. Villagers in Miyon, who live near ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, Tibet (all these topics) |
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Forth by Northeast
Seven Northeastern states sign greenhouse-gas pact |
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03 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Forth by Northeast Seven Northeastern states sign greenhouse-gas pact Thumbing their noses -- or whatever states have where noses should be -- at the Bush administration, seven Northeastern states have committed to cut their planet-toasting carbon dioxide emissions 10 percent by the end of 2018. New York Gov. George Pataki (R) dreamed up the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and has been working since 2003 to get neighboring stat ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, Northeast (all these topics) |
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McKibben and Sierra Magazine
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David Roberts |
27 Dec 2005 |
Gristmill |
| Every column Bill McKibben writes on climate change becomes more dread-laden and portentous, but I never stop enjoying them. His latest is "Year One" in Sierra Magazine. The money clip: We will soon learn, for example, that what we've been calling 'global warming' is better thought of as excess energy trapped in the atmosphere, which will express itself in every possible way. Like the Bush administration's energy bill, these manifestations will also be ... |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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Is It Hot in Here, Or Is It Just Me?
2005 to be one of the hottest years recorded |
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16 Dec 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Is It Hot in Here, Or Is It Just Me? 2005 to be one of the hottest years recorded This year will go down as one of the hottest on record. NASA's Goddard Institute says 2005 will beat 1998, the current record-holder, while the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.K. Meteorological Office -- using the same land and ocean data as NASA, but crunching it in slightly different w ... |
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| Topics: climate, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, news (all these topics) |
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The Talk of the Drown
Polar bears drowning as Alaska sea ice disappears |
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15 Dec 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Talk of the Drown Polar bears drowning as Alaska sea ice disappears OK, we're trying to keep a positive outlook here, but ... drowning polar bears? Seriously? And just when therapy was starting to work. In September 2004 (the year the polar ice cap receded a record 160 miles from Alaska's north coast), federal researchers doing routine aerial surveys counted 10 bears swimming in the open ocean as far as 60 miles off Al ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, climate, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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