Trenberth: Global Warming Is Here To Stay, Whichever Way You Look At It
While the overall warming is about 0.16°C per decade, there are three ten-year periods where there was a hiatus in warming, as the graph above shows, from 1977 to 1986, from 1987 ...
Open Thread Plus 400 PPM Cartoon
Opine away. Via cartoonist Stephanie McMillan
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Infographic: Memorial Day Driving By The Numbers
Following CAP’s piece yesterday that details exactly what it means to use gasoline to travel this Memorial Day weekend, here is an infographic that shows the cost of Big Oil. ...
Offshore Drilling In Virginia Would Threaten Coastal Economy, Environment, And Naval Operations
Shiva Polefka is a Research Associate for Ocean Policy at the Center for American Progress where Michael Conathan is the Director of Ocean Policy. Fleet Composite Squadron 6 conducts ...
Poll Finds Strong Support For Clean Energy, 68% Of Independents Want To Regulate CO2 As A Pollutant
The Yale Project on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University released their most recent survey this week: The Yale survey, “Public Support for Climate and Energy ...
Exclusive: New York Sandy ‘Climate Resilience’ Plan Won’t Address Climate Pollution
by Brad Johnson, campaign manager for Forecast the Facts The nearly $300 million climate-resiliency initiative established by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg using Sandy relief ...
May 24 News: Autsch! Fracking Threatens The German Beer Industry.
(Credit: Andreas Gebert/EPA/Corbis) German brewers are sounding the alarm that allowing fracking could pollute water and ruin German beer. [Telegraph] German brewers have warned Chancellor ...
Kolbert: Keystone XL is ‘Just Another Step On The March To Disaster’
Elizabeth Kolbert is one of the most thoughtful climate journalists. Her terrific 2006 book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, famously ends, “It may seem impossible to imagine that ...
The Congressional Budget Office Says We Need A Price On Carbon Emissions
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) thinks putting off efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions risks “catastrophic” losses for the United States’ economy and ...
Why Champions Of Climate Legislation Must Also Be Champions Of Job Creation
It’s probably fair, if crude, to talk about national societies as having “moods,” or going through particular psychological states — especially in economic ...
The True Cost Of Gasoline: Memorial Day Driving By The Numbers
Washington, D.C. — As AAA estimates that nearly 35 million Americans are preparing to travel 50 miles or more this weekend, with nearly 90 percent of travelers filling up their ...
Former NY Army Corps Commander On Post-Sandy Reality: ‘Climate Change Is Real,’ ‘We’ve Got To Stop Ignoring It’
At a May 16 televised forum on the recovery from Superstorm Sandy, a former top military infrastructure official called on Americans to “stop ignoring” climate change and ...
Former NY Army Corps Commander On Post-Sandy Reality: ‘Climate Change Is Real,’ ‘We’ve Got To Stop Ignoring It’
At a May 16 televised forum on the recovery from Superstorm Sandy, a former top military infrastructure official called on Americans to “stop ignoring” climate change and ...
Oil Rigs Make Bad Neighbors: Americans Harmed By Oil And Gas Drilling, Seek To Be Heard
A coalition of people who live and work near the drilling rigs that have allowed the U.S. to see incredible booms in oil and gas production is in Washington, D.C. this week demanding ...
May 23 News: A Battle Over Appeals Court Vacancies Could Seriously Affect New Carbon Regulations
Whether Obama and the Democrats can fill vacancies in the Federal Appeals Court in Washington D.C. could decide the fate of the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulation of ...
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