Posts Tagged ‘ climate change ’

New information suggests that a report criticizing data for climate change prepared and presented at the highest legislative levels may have been grossly and covertly influenced by the energy industry: The purportedly independent report that Dr. Edward Wegman prepared in 2006 for the Congressional Committee on Energy and Commerce was actually a...
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Filed under: Environment, EnergyVirginia Republican John Warner, a former Navy secretary, former senator and former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is trying to build grass-roots support for congressional action to limit global warming. Ethics laws do not permit him to lobby his former colleagues in the Senate. But he is traveling the...
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Filed under: Environment, EnergyIf you want to see glaciers in Glacier National Park, you had better hurry. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that within 20 years, the park will be empty of glaciers. As temperatures rise and politicians debate how to respond to climate change, the national parks already seem to be feeling the...
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Filed under: Environment, Energy, Woman Up, InternationalAs global climate change intensifies, the negative effects will fall more and more disproportionately onto women, according to State of World Population 2009, a report released by the United Nations' Population Fund last week. Women will need to work longer and harder as food and energy become...
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Filed under: Environment, Obama Administration, Deep BackgroundWho needs a binding global climate treaty? That was essentially the message delivered by Jonathan Pershing, the Obama administration's deputy special climate change envoy, when he held an off-the-record briefing for US nongovernmental outfits at the Copenhagen climate summit on Tuesday. Speaking to about 200 people from...
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Filed under: Environment, Sarah PalinNot since Emile Zola electrified France in 1898 by publishing his open letter on the Dreyfus Affair that began, "J'accuse" has there been an op-ed to equal Sarah Palin's Washington Post screed against the U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen. Okay, this is a slight exaggeration. But nothing that Lloyd...
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Filed under: Environment, Deep BackgroundAt the Copenhagen summit, there isn't a negotiating process to reach a climate pact. There are two. And that's a problem--perhaps big enough to pose a threat to the entire effort to reach an international deal. Climate diplomacy is a complicated business. Here's the backstory. In 1992, at the Earth Summit...
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Filed under: Environment, Energy, Woman UpIn his second week in Copenhagen covering the climate change talks, the BBC's Richard Black posed a question on his blog: "Why are virtually all climate 'sceptics' men?"Well, not all of them, he goes on to say, but the most prominent ones (minus a few notable exceptions). "You...
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Filed under: John McCain, Environment, Energy, The CapitolistSen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) Tuesday derided as "a joke" a bipartisan proposal being crafted by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), and John Kerry (D-Mass.) to address climate change since it does not spell out what to do with toxic waste that would be generated by...
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