Filed under: Environment, Climate Change
Scientists urged aggressive action to curb global warming, including a cap-and-trade program and taxes on carbon emissions.
Climate Scientists Urge Action to Curb Global Warming
Scientists urged aggressive action to curb global warming, including a cap-and-trade program and taxes on carbon emissions.
Climate Scientists Urge Aggressive Action to Curb Global Warming
Filed under: Environment, Climate Change
Scientists urged aggressive action to curb global warming, including a cap-and-trade program and taxes on carbon emissions.
Hillary’s Big Announcement in Copenhagen
Filed under: Barack Obama, Environment, Deep Background
COPENHAGEN -- As Bolivian President Evo Morales was thundering in the press briefing room of the Copenhagen climate summit on Wednesday-railing about the "guilt of the countries of the North" and denouncing President Barack Obama for...
Copenhagen: U.S., China Battling Over Emissions
Filed under: Environment, Foreign Policy
Tuesday afternoon brought a showdown between the world's largest polluters, the United States and China, at the climate summit in Copenhagen, the Associate Press reports. Each country refuses to budge from its position on carbon emissions, and China continues to accuse the United States and other...In Op-Ed, Sarah Palin Calls on Obama to Boycott Copenhagen Climate Summit
Filed under: Environment, Scandal, Sarah Palin
In an op-ed in Wednesday's Washington Post, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin calls on President Obama to boycott this week's international climate change summit in Copenhagen, saying the science surrounding the issue has become too politicized.Palin writes that...
E.P.A. Rules Greenhouse Gases Dangerous, Sets Up Carbon Regulation
Filed under: Environment
At a press event Monday afternoon in Washington, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it has ruled greenhouse gases are a threat to public health, opening the door for the regulation of carbon emissions from automobiles, power plants, and other sources."These...
John McCain Slams Lindsey Graham, Joe Lieberman for Climate Bill
Filed under: Senate, Republicans, John McCain, Environment
Sen. John McCain was once a "maverick" on climate change, so much so that he convinced one of his closest friends in the Senate, Lindsey Graham, to champion the issue. Now, as Graham and another McCain pal -- Joe Lieberman --...Paul Krugman Says He Feels ‘Despair’ Over Global Warming
Filed under: Environment, Media
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote Monday that he sometimes "feels despair over the state of the planet." He compared climate scientists who are making increasingly dire predictions to the cursed prophetess who foretold the downfall of Troy. "Climate scientists have, en masse, become Cassandras -...Boxer, Kerry Prepare to Introduce Senate Climate Bill
Filed under: Senate, Environment
Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) will introduce global warming legislation on Wednesday after nine months of closed-door deliberations. The pair said they expect hearings on the bill to start next month, admitting that it will be a "starting point"...Switzerland Takes a Little Piece of Italy, Courtesy of Melting Glaciers
Filed under: Environment, Woman Up, International
Due to global warming, Switzerland may be losing huge swaths of the glaciers that have long covered the Alps, but as of Wednesday it's also gained approximately 150 meters of Italian territory.Bloomberg reports that, after the Swiss...
Chamber of Commerce: Put Global Warming Claims on Trial
Filed under: Environment, Religion, Energy
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is taking on a new role: scientific skeptic.The L.A. Times reports that the organization is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to put climate change evidence up for a public hearing -- and says it...
John Warner Q&A: The Former Senator on Climate Change and National Security
Filed under: Environment, Energy
Virginia 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...Follow seriouslypolitics on Twitter!
