Climate News and Resources

By CORNELIA DEAN
Witnesses spoke about how the Bush administration had delayed, altered or watered down the findings of government scientists on the issue of global warming.

By Juliet Eilperin
As 600 scientists meet this week in Paris to finalize the first worldwide assessment in six years of the evidence on global warming, lawmakers on Capitol Hill searched for a political consensus yesterday on how to address climate change.

By Peter Baker and Steven Mufson
It was just a couple of dozen words out of more than 5,000, uttered so fast that many in the audience missed them at first. But President Bush's commitment to fight global warming in his State of the Union address this week has echoed around the world and provoked debate about whether he is shifting...

Where might 20 billion alternative-fuel gallons come from?

ANTICIPATING Tuesday's State of the Union speech, Al Hubbard, President Bush's national economic adviser, spoke of "headlines above the fold that will knock your socks off in terms of our commitment to energy independence." The address that Mr. Bush delivered certainly was bold. But by choosing energy independence as his main policy target, Mr. Bush missed opportunities to improve energy security and to combat climate change...

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
I would love to see Democrats put something better on President Bush’s desk — regarding both energy and Iraq.
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By Blaine Harden
FEDERAL WAY, Wash., Jan. 24 -- Frosty E. Hardiman is neither impressed nor surprised that "An Inconvenient Truth," the global-warming movie narrated by former vice president Al Gore, received an Oscar nomination this week for best documentary.
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Once again, we have heard this president make big promises about energy independence.
Once again, we fear that very little will change.

A coalition of business, climate and environmental organizations, called the United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), is calling on the federal
government to enact legislation requiring significant reductions of
greenhouse gas emissions. For more information visit:
http://www.pewclimate.org/uscap.cfm

The Investment Implications of a Changing Climate
A report from Citigroup [PDF / 2.7MB]

By Sholnn Freeman
The Department of Energy announced yesterday $17 million in grants to support the development of battery technology for plug-in hybrid vehicles and ethanol, two areas in the energy debate where officials in Washington and Detroit are closely aligned.

By EDMUND L. ANDREWS and FELICITY BARRINGER
President Bush called for a huge government-mandated increase in renewable fuels, mainly ethanol.

By Sholnn Freeman
The Ford Edge gliding along the George Washington Memorial Parkway doesn't have spinning rims or a booming sound system. The bling in this SUV is the technology. The vehicle runs almost silently. It needs no gas and releases no polluting exhaust.

By Juliet Eilperin and Michael Grunwald
The House Democrats had not quite finished their "100 hours" agenda when they met in the Capitol basement Thursday morning, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) was already looking ahead. As her colleagues ate bagels and turkey sausage, she warned that their next challenge would be a lot tougher.

By CARL ZIMMER
Assisted migration triggers strong, mixed feelings from conservation biologists but it may be the only way to save some of the world’s biodiversity.

The new chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee says his committee will act on climate change. He has invited Al Gore to testify. [PDF / 175KB]

By FELICITY BARRINGER
Ten companies have banded with environmental groups to call for a nationwide cap on carbon dioxide emissions.

Check out www.stepitup07.org to learn about the National Day of Climate Action, this April 14. Author Bill McKibben and colleagues are hoping to spark hundreds and hundreds of rallies on that day – in every state and in many of America’s most iconic places, from the levees in New Orleans to the top of the melting glaciers on Mt. Rainier. Sign up, pitch in.

By FELICITY BARRINGER and ANDREW C. REVKIN
Democrats are increasingly determined to impose mandatory controls on carbon dioxide emissions.