Several researchers recently warned that 2007 may be the warmest year ever recorded, due to a combination of "global warming and El Nino" (check out the Independent article). The announcement comes as January temperature records are being broken across the United States,  oil prices have dropped 12% since the beginning of the year in response to ( Read more... )

As I was preparing my nose for its reacquaintance with Ye Olde Grindestone(e), I was greeted this morning by a rather alarming article on my New York Times homepage:

Congressional Budget Delay Stymies Scientific Research

It was honestly like a train wreck; as horrified as I was, I couldn't look away. The fact that last year's Congress saw fit to ( Read more... )

I recently stumbled upon Coby Beck's How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic (not to be confused with World-Changing's in-progress Universal Climate Change Skeptic Response), and I was floored by the level of attention to detail and thoroughness of research that Beck has done to create his "Layman's Guide" to the anthopogenic global warming debate. Beck ( Read more... )

"Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

As of now that lamp, held by the Statue of Liberty for over a century, will be illuminated by lights powered with wind energy. Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, which use enough electricity each yeat to power 1,000 homes, will be purchasing green power ( Read more... )

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I was really disappointed to see this op-ed in Vermont's Burlington Free Press, given that I like to credit my former home state with a lot of environtmental savvyness. It's such a naive and misinformed perspective, and one I thought we'd long gotten over a decade or so ago (at least before the data started coming in). Essentially the author, Mr. ( Read more... )

Nicholas Stern, former World Bank chief economist, is issuing the findings of a commissioned report to the top twenty polluters in the world today, which essentially states that addressing global warming now will cost much less than it will in the future. This comes as no surprise, given the old adage that "a stitch in time saves nine." Climate ( Read more... )

Senators Request Inquiry Into White House Global Warming Activities

This may be too little too late as far as the Bush Administration is concerned (given everything else on the nation's plate), but it's good news none-the-less. Fourteen senators have called for an investigation into the suppression, manipulation, and limitation of global warming ( Read more... )

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