Global Warming: Taking a Look at the Partisan Divide Over the Evidence
Climate change is an economic crisis
Last week, a generic right-wing propagandist named S.E. Cupp appeared on Bill Maher's show, spewing what to a certain breed of climate denialist has become a favorite misdirection. They don't flat out deny the science, although they certainly don't acknowledge the gravity of what the science tells us; but they attempt to pretend that the...
Skepticize THIS: Record-breaking 113 degrees in Los Angeles
Yesterday, a late September day in what is officially autumn, the weather station in Downtown Los Angeles recorded a temperature of 113 degrees. This is the hottest temperature ever recorded since records started being kept in 1877, breaking the old record set in 1990.
But the jury is still out on climate change,...
NAS: Urgent Action Needed On Climate Change
At the behest of Congress, the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering just completed a series of comprehensive reports on Climate Change. The science is compelling. The warnings are ominous. The need for action is urgent. The Los Angeles Times explains:
In a...
Climate Scientists Urge 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.
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.
Carbon: the element of the Lord
Let's meet coal apologist Fred Palmer.
Mr. Palmer is currently the Vice-President for Government Relations of Peabody Coal. But go back a decade or so and Mr. Palmer was the head of the so-called Western Fuels Association, a front group for the coal industry. In that capacity, he said something in an interview...
Merkley Blasts Murkowski on EPA Resolution
If anything negative can be said about Sen. Jeff Merkley’s smackdown of Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s sponsorship of Senate Joint Resolution 26, what critics rightly call the "Dirty Air Act," it’s that he was too gentle. And he was too nice in not calling out Blanche Lincoln, Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson, the three...
Magical Thinking Prevails in Copenhagen
With demonstrators being arrested every day and non-traditional media, plus some mainstream media, being kept out of discussions, the climate change talks in Copenhagen are teetering on the precipice of outright failure. While some progress has been made, even the arrival of the chiefs of more than 100 governments Friday, including President Barack Obama, seems...
From Klimaforum: People’s Voices in Copenhagen
The Klimaforum is providing the views not of the movers and shakers at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen but rank-and-file humans from around the world who will be affected by what the governments in Denmark decide to do or not do.
Here are a couple of those voices:
"I...
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...
