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Polar Party Polar bears in open water prompt more worries about climate change		25 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 2:48 PM on 25 Aug 2008 Ten polar bears were recently spotted swimming in open water off of the northwest coast of Alaska, federal officials confirmed on Friday. Polar bears were not often spotted in open water until about 2004, said Susanne Miller, who heads up the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's polar bear project. She and other biologists worry that the bears could exhaust themselves with long swims, wh ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, endangered species, news, polar bears (all these topics)

Green shrinking feet Seven in 10 Americans reducing carbon footprint	Joseph Romm	25 Aug 2008	Gristmill
The following post is by Ken Levenson, guest blogger at Climate Progress. ----- At least 7 in 10 say say they are trying to reduce their carbon footprint. That's according to a new ABC News/Planet Green/Stanford University poll released this month. Yes, this headline appears very much a result of higher gasoline prices: 59 percent say they're using less gasoline -- driving less, using smaller, more fuel-efficient cars, carpooling, taking mass transit and the ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, energy, green living (all these topics)

Inside WCI: Federal pre-emption What happens with a new president?	Eric de Place	22 Aug 2008	Gristmill
This is part of a short series of posts that explain some important but often overlooked policy issues in the Western Climate Initiative -- the West's regional cap-and-trade system. (Much to readers' delight, this is the last installment I'm planning to write.) You can't talk about regional cap-and-trade very long before someone brings up the subject of pre-emption. What happens if the federal government creates a national cap-and-trade program? Would the regional p ...
Topics: cap-and-dividend, carbon trading, climate, elections, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

On the Brink of Disaster Report identifies areas where natural disasters could hit hardest		22 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 1:51 PM on 22 Aug 2008 Natural disasters made more severe by climate change will hit especially hard in regions with shaky political, economic, and security situations, says a new report from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and relief agency CARE International. Vulnerable areas include central Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the Sahel; Afghanistan, the Casp ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, severe weather, United Nations (all these topics)

Obama's energy and climate advisors	Joseph Romm	22 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Greenwire ($ub. req'd) has published a detailed list of who is advising Obama on energy and environment policies, which I am reprinting below the fold. Obama, an Illinois Democrat, has a notably deep bench of experts to help him answer key questions on energy prices, oil drilling and global warming I know most of them well, and they are A-listers with deep experience in and out of government. During the Clinton administration, I had the pleasure to work with both ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, elections, energy, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Ghana But Not Forgotten Nations gather in Ghana to talk shop on next climate-change accord		22 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 12:12 PM on 22 Aug 2008 Some 1,600 delegates from 160 nations are moving forward on negotiations for a successor to the Kyoto Protocol as they gather this week in Accra, Ghana. The meeting is the third in a series of eight that will culminate in the adoption of a new global climate-change accord in Dec. 2009. "The negotiations need to speed up and become more concrete if governments are to m ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Ghana, greenhouse-gas emissions, international treaties, news, United Nations (all these topics)

McKinney on the Record Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney talks to Grist	Kate Sheppard	22 Aug 2008	Grist Feature
Cynthia McKinney. Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney sums up her energy policy with a simple, memorable rhyme: "Leave the oil in the soil." "Right now we've got two energy policies in this country," McKinney told Grist. "One is war, the other is drilling. And neither one of them works." It's a message she hopes will win over vot ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, interview, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

In hot water Ocean temperture levels indicate planet has kept warming since 1998	Joseph Romm	21 Aug 2008	Gristmill
As part of their climate myth series, New Scientist cuts through the nonsense on what's happened globally in the last decade: In fact, the planet as a whole has warmed since 1998, even in the years when surface temperatures have fallen.According to the dataset of the UK Met Office Hadley Centre (see figure, right), 1998 was the warmest year by far since records began, but since 2003 there has been slight cooling.But according to the dataset of NASA's Goddard Inst ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, oceans, scientific research (all these topics)

At Least Buy Us All Umbrellas Science orgs plead for more funding for severe-weather preparation		21 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 8:30 AM on 21 Aug 2008 More floods, storms, and droughts are a-comin', and the U.S. lacks funding to predict and prepare for 'em, say eight scientific organizations. The groups, including the American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society, made a plea Wednesday for Congress and the next U.S. president to double the current budget for climate research and forecasting between ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate science, news, severe weather (all these topics)

Is Obama's energy plan change we can believe in? Toward a sensible energy plan	Jon Rynn	20 Aug 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest post by Ted Glick, the policy director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network/U.S. Climate Emergency Council. He can be reached at usajointheworld@igc.org. He is author of 'Past Future Hope' columns. ----- On August 4, the Barack Obama presidential campaign released a comprehensive program for reform of the U.S. energy system. In the words of Obama supporter, climate blogger, and author Joe Romm, it was 'easily the best energy plan ever put forward by a ...
Topics: Barack Obama, carbon sequestration, climate, climate science, energy, nuclear power, presidential race 08, renewable energy (all these topics)

Can't see the forest with the trees IPCC needs to update projections to include deforestation feedbacks	Joseph Romm	20 Aug 2008	Gristmill
The following post is by Ken Levenson, guest blogger at Climate Progress. ----- As deforestation accelerates and grows ever more concentrated the climate change consequences appear even greater than previously thought. As reported in New Scientist: Pristine temperate forest stores three times more carbon than currently estimated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and 60% more than plantation forests, according to research in Australia. T ...
Topics: climate, climate science, deforestation, IPCC (all these topics)

Pickled Pikas Climate change endangers American pika, say groups		20 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 12:50 PM on 20 Aug 2008 The American pika should be listed as an endangered species because climate change could cause its extinction, say Earthjustice and the Center for Biological Diversity in a lawsuit filed Tuesday against California and the federal government. The pika, a rabbit cousin characterized by inordinate cuteness and a squeaky call, is "the polar bear of the Lower 48," says Greg Loarie of Earthjust ...
Topics: California, climate, climate change impacts, endangered species, litigation, news, wildlife (all these topics)

The doomed fate of climate change legislation In either an Obama or McCain adminstration, climate legislation will be back-burnered	Jason D Scorse	19 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Just months ago there was a palpable sense of optimism that no matter who is elected president this November that the U.S. would soon embark on serious climate change legislation. I think recent events have shown that the chances of that happening are slim to none. Let's start with if McCain is elected. Today the senator from Arizona is going to do a photo-op on an oil rig because he has become the biggest champion of increased drilling this side of the Middle ...
Topics: Barack Obama, carbon trading, climate, John McCain, legislation, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Hedging hog Note to media: Enough with the multiple hedges on climate science!	Joseph Romm	19 Aug 2008	Gristmill
In an otherwise fascinating story on the growing 'icebreaker gap' in the rapidly defrosting Arctic Ocean, NYT reporter Andy Revkin writes: Even with the increasing summer retreats of sea ice, which many polar scientists say probably are being driven in part by global warming caused by humans, there will always be enough ice in certain parts of the Arctic to require icebreakers. I do not view a quadruple-hedged climate impact attribution as acceptable for a major me ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate science, mainstream media, oceans (all these topics)

Like water and oil McCain suggests renegotiating Colorado River compact to benefit Ariz., Nev., and Calif.	Joseph Romm	19 Aug 2008	Gristmill
What epic gaffe could unite Colorado's Democratic Senator Ken Salazar -- 'over my dead body' -- and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer -- 'Over my cold, dead, political carcass'? That would be Arizona Senator John McCain telling The Pueblo Chieftan on Thursady that he wants to renegotiate the famous 1922 Colorado River compact to take water from the so-called upper basin states, including Colo. and N.M., where the river originates and give it to lower b ...
Topics: climate, Colorado, elections, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, water conflicts (all these topics)

How would you spend $10 billion? House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says he'd invest in clean energy	Kate Sheppard	18 Aug 2008	Gristmill
The Wall Street Journal asked House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) how he would spend $10 billion of the country's monetary resources. He says it should be spent on clean energy: A dramatic investment in clean energy would be the most effective check on aggressive petroregimes from Moscow to Tehran. It would be the best long-term solution to global warming. And energy independence is the most effective step we can take for American families staggering under t ...
Topics: climate, energy, Muckraker, news, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Brit's Eye View: Summer skirmishes A roundup of energy and climate news from the U.K.	Ben Tuxworth	18 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Ben Tuxworth, communications director at Forum for the Future, writes a monthly column for Gristmill on sustainability in the U.K. and Europe. ----- Like pretty much every other English person I know, I'm currently on holiday in France. The Vendee region makes for a pleasant alternative to Britain at this time of year, and just down the road is La Rochelle, which was part of England until, oh, about 500 years ago. The two nations are deep in a classic love-ha ...
Topics: climate, energy, France, nuclear power, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Climate whiplash	Andrew Dessler	18 Aug 2008	Gristmill
In a recent article in The New York Times, Andy Revkin talks about the whiplash effect: When science is testing new ideas, the result is often a two-papers-forward-one-paper-back intellectual tussle among competing research teams. When the work touches on issues that worry the public, affect the economy or polarize politics, the news media and advocates of all stripes dive in. Under nonstop scrutiny, conflicting findings can make news coverage veer from one extreme ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, mainstream media, scientific research (all these topics)

Climate forecast: Hot and then even hotter NOAA says July 08 was fifth warmest on record	Joseph Romm	18 Aug 2008	Gristmill
I know we're supposed to be going into a period of cooling, at least according to people who don't believe in the scientific method. For those who do however, NOAA's National Climatic Data Center reports in its 'Climate of 2008 July in Historical Perspective': Based on preliminary data, the globally averaged combined land and sea surface temperature was the fifth warmest on record for July and the ninth warmest for the January-July year-to-date period. It is worth ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, severe weather (all these topics)

Chamber cheap shot Study claims shareholder and climate activism are bad for stock prices	Erik Hoffner	18 Aug 2008	Gristmill
You know that an organizing tactic which targets business practices is effective when the U.S. Chamber of Commerce opens its big yap about it. Recent actions getting these guys' attention include activist shareholders at a recent Bank of America shareholder meeting decrying its coal investments, including mountaintop removal, and a resolution supported by Dow Chemical shareholder heavies like TIAA-CREF and NYC Pension Funds (in part thanks to their members and Amnesty ...
Topics: business, climate, economy, investing (all these topics)

Riau wow Indonesian province puts moratorium on rainforest destruction	Glenn Hurowitz	18 Aug 2008	Gristmill
I just started as Greenpeace's media director, in part because I wanted to help Greenpeace save the world's rainforests, a topic I've written a lot about at Grist and elsewhere. Within a week of starting the job, I knew I'd made a good decision when I got this news release from our Southeast Asian office: Indonesian province of Riau has pledged to halt the destruction of its forests and peatlands; a move that will prevent billions of tonnes of carbon from enterin ...
Topics: climate, deforestation, food, Indonesia, wildlife (all these topics)

Contra Manzi The argument for action on climate change	David Roberts	18 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Jim Manzi summarizes his case against action on global warming on the Cato website. Cato also published responses from Joe Romm and Indur Goklany; a response is pending from Shellenberger & Nordhaus. On American Prospect, Ryan Avent also weighs in, saying that Manzi's argument is the "most sophisticated argument against comprehensive carbon regulation that you'll ever see" (though Avent disagrees with it obviously). Manzi's work on this subject is cer ...
Topics: climate, economy, greenhouse-gas emissions, regulation (all these topics)

Demergy Energy in the Democratic platform	David Roberts	18 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Here's a selection from the Democratic platform (PDF), final draft released Friday. What do you think? --- New American Energy In the local platform hearings, Americans talked about the importance of energy to the economy, to national security and to the health of our planet. Speaking loud and clear, they said that America needs a new bold and sustainable energy policy to meet the challenges of our time. In the past, America has been stirred to ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, energy, fuel efficiency, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

To achieve maximum technologically feasible GHG reductions, or not to, that is the question EarthJustice challenges the legality of the draft plan for California's A.B. 32	David Roberts	17 Aug 2008	Gristmill
EarthJustice is challenging the legality of the draft release of California's climate change program, A.B. 32. They say it fails to follow all of the statutory requirements. Specifically: This letter focuses on three primary deficiencies in the Draft Scoping Plan: first, the Draft Scoping Plan uses the 2020 greenhouse gas emission limit as a ceiling on the amount of greenhouse gas emission reductions required, when in reality the emissions limit is the minimu ...
Topics: California, carbon trading, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, state politics (all these topics)

Make a Rudd for It Australia continues to deal with epic drought		15 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 1:46 PM on 15 Aug 2008 Longstanding drought has wreaked havoc across Australia, drying up lakes into shallow, acidic puddles and threatening drinking-water supplies. Unable to coax rain from the sky, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has fast-tracked a plan to buy back water entitlements from the heaviest irrigators in the Murray-Darling basin, an agricultural stronghold which produces all of the country's rice, nearly all of it ...
Topics: agriculture, Australia, climate, climate change impacts, news, water conflicts, water crisis (all these topics)

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