Climate News and Resources

SEC has a Role in
Addressing Global Warming

By John Chiang, Mindy S. Lubber

A popular commercial asks, "what's in your wallet?" A similar question
should be asked of investors: Do you know what risks are lurking in your
portfolio?

Posted in Climate at 09:52:32 am MST on 04/30/07

Obama Offers Plan to Cut Gas Emissions

By Philip Elliot

Posted in Energy at 09:50:49 am MST on 04/30/07

Public Remains Split
on Response to Warming

Americans in large bipartisan numbers say the heating of the earth’s atmosphere is having serious effects on the environment now or will soon and think that it is necessary to take immediate steps to reduce its effects, the latest New York Times/CBS News poll finds.

Posted in Climate at 10:32:31 am MST on 04/27/07

Newt Gingrich says "The Evidence is Sufficient" on Global Warming

YouTube Link

Posted in Climate at 09:16:39 am MST on 04/27/07

New poll shows Americans think the issue of energy independence and global warming is one of the biggest priorities for our nation's leaders

Read more from the Center for American Progress at: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/04/environment_poll.html

Posted in Climate at 08:55:52 am MST on 04/27/07

Growing Number of Americans
See Warming as Leading Threat

By Juliet Eilperin and Jon Cohen
A third of Americans say global warming ranks as the world's single largest environmental problem, double the number who gave it top ranking last year, a nationwide poll shows.

Posted in Climate at 08:53:08 am MST on 04/27/07

Bloomberg Draws
a Blueprint for a Greener City

By THOMAS J. LUECK of the New York Times
The plan is intended to foster population growth and to reduce greenhouse gases.

Posted in Natural Resource Stewardship at 03:11:32 pm MST on 04/26/07

Russia Making
Floating Atom Plant

Russia has started building the world's first floating nuclear plant, designed to provide power for remote areas.

Posted in Energy, Natural Resource Stewardship at 10:54:43 am MST on 04/18/07

Climate Change Scenarios
Scare, and Motivate, Kids

Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, April 16, 2007;

The boy has drawn, in his third-grade class, a global warming timeline that is his equivalent of the mushroom cloud.

Posted in Climate at 08:40:03 am MST on 04/16/07

Military Sharpens
Focus on Climate Change

By Juliet Eilperin
The U.S. military is increasingly focused on a potential national security threat: climate change.

Posted in Climate at 08:38:00 am MST on 04/16/07

Upsetting the Balance
a New YorkTimes Editorial

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
It really is wrong that those least responsible for climate change should pay the most.

Posted in Climate at 03:33:31 pm MST on 04/11/07

Sea's Rise in India
Buries Islands and a Way of Life

By SOMINI SENGUPTA
Thirty-one square miles of river delta islands near the Bay of Bengal have vanished in the last 30 years.

Posted in Climate, Natural Resource Stewardship at 03:12:22 pm MST on 04/11/07

High Stakes:
Chávez Plays the Oil Card

By SIMON ROMERO and CLIFFORD KRAUSS
A showdown between President Hugo Chávez and U.S. and European companies over key oil projects could wind up with all sides losing.

Posted in Energy at 08:16:02 am MST on 04/10/07

U.S., China Got Climate
Warnings Toned Down

By Juliet Eilperin
Some sections of a grim scientific assessment of the impact of global warming on human, animal and plant life issued in Brussels yesterday were softened at the insistence of officials from China and the United States, participants in the negotiations said.

Posted in Climate at 08:49:33 am MST on 04/09/07

Experts Warn Warming
Will Harm Society, Nature

An international global warming conference approved a report Friday warning of dire threats to the Earth and to mankind - from increased hunger in Africa and Asia to the extinction of species - unless the world adapts to climate change and halts its progress.

Posted in Climate at 08:46:56 am MST on 04/09/07

Bush Splits With Congress
and States on Emissions

By FELICITY BARRINGER and WILLIAM YARDLEY
States are already using the Supreme Court’s decision to speed their own efforts to regulate gas emissions.

Posted in Climate at 10:49:36 am MST on 04/04/07

The Climate Divide:
Reports From Four Fronts
in the War on Warming

By ANDREW C. REVKIN
There is a growing consensus that the first world owes the third world a climate debt.

Posted in Climate at 10:43:52 am MST on 04/04/07

U.S. Supreme Court tells Bush
administration it has authority to
regulate greenhouse gas
emissions from cars

WASHINGTON: The U.S Supreme Court ordered the federal government Monday to take a fresh look at regulating carbon dioxide emissions from cars, a rebuke to Bush administration policy on global warming.

In a 5-4 decision, the court said the Clean Air Act gives the Environmental Protection Agency the authority to regulate the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from cars.

Greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the landmark environmental law, Justice John Paul Stevens said in his majority opinion.

The court's four conservative justices - Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas - dissented.

Many scientists believe that greenhouse gases, flowing into the atmosphere at an unprecedented rate, are leading to a warming of the Earth, rising sea levels and other marked ecological changes.

Posted in Climate at 10:09:38 am MST on 04/04/07

Poor Nations to Bear Brunt
as World Warms

By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Wealthy countries are spending far more to limit their own risks from global warming’s consequences than to help the world’s most vulnerable regions.

Posted in Climate at 09:54:19 am MST on 04/04/07

Tax on Carbon Emissions
Gains Support

By Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson
As lawmakers on Capitol Hill push for a cap-and-trade system to rein in the nation's greenhouse gas emissions, an unlikely alternative has emerged from an ideologically diverse group of economists and industry leaders: a carbon tax.

Posted in Energy at 09:53:17 am MST on 04/04/07