Climate News and Resources

The president-elect confirmed that he plans to stick to the aggressive targets he had set earlier for fighting climate change, saying, "delay is no longer an option."
By John M. Broder, courtesy of the New York Times

State regulators have award rights to build a offshore wind farm in the southern part of the state as part of its strategy to substantially increase energy from renewable sources.
By Ken Belson, , courtesy of the New York Times

From the plane flying over the Gulf Islands National Seashore, scientists from the United States Geological Survey were scanning the ocean, trying to find Ship Island. Their maps and G.P.S. system told them they were over its eastern end, but there was no sign of it.
By Cornelia Dean, courtesy of the New York Times

For years, the cows at Green Mountain Dairy here produced only milk and manure. But recently they have generated something else: electricity.
By Katie Zezima, courtesy of the New York Times

Coal the "dark fuel," may be the most visible villain of global warming, but its use is up and projected to go higher.
By Matthew L. Wald, courtesy of the New York Times

With the federal government offering the nuclear industry $18.5 billion in loan guarantees and billions more in production tax credits and insurance against bureaucratic delays, at least a few new reactors seem certain to be built.
By Matthew L. Wald, courtesy of the New York Times

On a strip of Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles, a futuristic experiment posing as an ordinary fuel station may be bringing the world one step closer to the hydrogen age.
By Jad Mouawad, courtesy of the New York Times

It is probably a good thing that the Mohonk Mountain House, the 19th-century resort, was built on Shawangunk conglomerate, a concrete-hard quartz rock. Otherwise, the path to the National Weather Service’s cooperative station here surely would have turned to dust by now.
By Anthony DePalma, courtesy of the New York Times

"The moment I read that paper," the wind entrepreneur Peter Mandelstam recalled, "I knew in my gut where my next wind project would be."
By Mark Svenvold, courtesy of the New York Times

Data showing Arctic sea ice may reach its lowest level on record this summer underscores the need for governments to speed up talks on a new climate pact, the Worldwide Fund for Nature said Monday.
From the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

Hot air at the United Nations has been so successful that more is on the way.
From the AP, courtesy of the New York Times

Tysons Corner exemplifies sprawl, but it could become a national model for smarter, greener development. With vision, thoughtful planning, superior design and careful steps to minimize adverse impacts on other communities, we could turn Tysons into one of the greenest communities in the country.
By Trip Pollard, courtesy of the Washington Post

Some homeowners in Frederick County, Md., may be among the first in the nation to receive text messages from their thermostats.
From the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

Federal researchers are warning that warming temperatures could soon cause California's giant sequoia trees to die off more quickly unless forest managers plan with an eye toward climate change and the impact of a longer, harsher wildfire season.
By Garance Burke of the Associated Press, courtesy of the Washington Post

Tom Friedman says Americans can prosper by "outgreening" everyone else.
Why We Need a Green Revolution -- And How It Can Renew America
A New York Times book review

One of the country’s largest builders of coal-fired power plants will give investors detailed warnings about the risks that global warming poses to its business under a deal with New York’s attorney general.
By Nicholas Confessore, courtesy of the New York Times

Leading ice experts in Europe and the United States for the first time have agreed that a ring of navigable waters has opened all around the fringes of the cap of sea ice drifting on the warming Arctic Ocean.
By Andrew C. Revkin, courtesy of the New York Times

Expanded version:
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/warming-waters-driving-arctic-ice-retreat/

One of the country’s largest builders of coal-fired power plants will give investors detailed warnings about the risks that global warming poses to its business under a deal with New York’s attorney general.
Nicholas Confessore, courtesy of the New York Times

Clean energy’s dirty secret is that while generating it is getting easier, moving it to market is not.
By Matthew L. Wald, courtesy of the New York Times

Climate change could profoundly alter the weather, animal life and even the very shape of Maryland over the next century, making heat waves deadlier and leaving one corner of the Eastern Shore under water, a state-appointed commission said yesterday.
By David A. Fahrenthold and Sandhya Somashekhar, courtesy of the Washington Post

Years ago, no one thought twice about felling the rainforest around this village in West Africa.
By Arthur Max of the Associated Press, courtesy of the Washington Post

American natural gas production is rising at a clip not seen in half a century, pushing down prices of the fuel and reversing conventional wisdom that domestic gas fields were in irreversible decline.
Clifford Krauss, courtesy of the New York Times

In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune from global warming, new satellite images show a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a major glacier, scientists said Thursday.
By Seth Borenstein of the Associated Press, courtesy of the Washington Post

Rapidly melting ice on Alaska's Arctic is opening up a new navigable ocean in the extreme north, allowing oil tankers, fishing vessels and even cruise ships to venture into a realm once trolled mostly by indigenous hunters.
By Rachel D'Oro of the Associated Press, courtesy of the Washington Post

Africa already is suffering from "climate shocks," the president of Ghana told a 160-nation climate conference Thursday, joining a chorus of calls to speed up the pace of talks on a new agreement to rein in carbon emissions.
By Arthur Max of the Associated Press, courtesy of the Washington Post

Oil production has begun falling at all of the major Western oil companies, and they are finding it harder than ever to find new prospects even though they are awash in profits and eager to expand.
By Jad Mouawad, courtesy of The New York Times

What will happen when America can't afford to fly?
by Bradford Plumer, courtesy of The New Republic

The imminence and severity of the problems posed by the accelerating changes in the global climate are becoming increasingly evident. Heat waves are becoming more severe, droughts and downpours are becoming more intense, the Greenland Ice Sheet is shrinking and sea level is rising, and the increasing acidification of the oceans is threatening calcifying organisms. The environment and the world’s societies are facing increasing stress.
Courtesy of the UN Foundation

Extreme temperatures around the world are likely to rise dramatically as a result of global warming, a new study finds. Some heavily populated parts of the world — including the American Midwest — could face heat waves in which the temperature soars above 120 degrees by the end of this century.
Courtesy of NPR

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce supports both public and private sector action to control greenhouse gas emissions. In order to be effective, such action must be based on sound science, rational debate and realistic solutions. Unfortunately, on climate change, this has not been the case.
By William Kovacs, courtesy of www.politico.com

While 47% of Americans say they are more likely to vote for a candidate who supports building more nuclear power plants, the 41% who say they are less likely is higher than the percentage for any of nine other energy strategies tested in a new USA Today/Gallup poll.
Courtesy of Gallup, Inc.

The wind industry has arrived in force in upstate New York, but some residents say the companies have brought with them an epidemic of corruption and intimidation.
By Nicholas Confessore, courtesy of the New York Times

Ringed by volcanic rock, sandy beaches and the blue swell of the Indian Ocean, France's Reunion island is hardly a major polluter. But hit by rising fuel costs and worried about the impact of global warming, particularly on its delicate flora and fauna, the small island nation has set itself the ambitious goal of cutting its greenhouse gas emissions to zero.
By Ed Harris of Reuters, courtesy of the Washington Post

Flooded subways. Bridges deteriorating in the hot sun. Rising seas nipping at the edges of Manhattan. Those scenarios are up for review by a panel of scientists, government officials and private sector representatives studying how the city's infrastructure will hold up to climate change.
By Sara Kugler of the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

Striking new research in the Southern California mountains suggests recent warming is behind a massive die-off and rapid migration to higher ground by nine different plants - from desert shrubs to white firs.
By Alicia Chang of the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

The Columbia Journalism Review has weighed in on the Rosenbaum critique of climate reporting (the Review was his main focus.] Boy, did Ron Rosenbaum ever do a selective reading of Dot Earth last week when he wrote a column for Slate on journalists’ responsibility to cover dissent on global warming (and other issues).
By Andrew C. Revkin, courtesy of the New York Times

Not only have they rebelled against the status quo by ripping out their gas-guzzling engines and replacing them with zero-emission electric motors, they say just about anyone can do it.
By Curt Merrill of CNN.com

The Environmental Protection Agency concluded, at least for now, that the national goal of reducing oil use trumps any effect on food prices from making fuel from corn.
By Matthew L. Wald, courtesy of the New York Times

With the inauguration of a new president in January come widespread expectations of a more aggressive federal approach to confronting global warming. Whoever wins the White House, he will not lack for advice on the topic. This October, the Presidential Climate Action Project (PCAP), based at the University of Colorado at Denver, is expected to offer up an exhaustive agenda for a president's first 100 and 1,000 days.

Sometimes the most logical, most obvious solutions are the most difficult to see.
An Editorial by Bob Herbert, courtesy of the New York Times

Barack Obama is once again betting that his eloquence can persuade price-weary consumers _ read that as voters _ to take the long view and not jump at a short-term fix when it comes to soaring energy prices.
By Mike Glover of the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

Second-Quarter Earnings Total $11.68 Billion
As political heat rises over high oil prices, Exxon Mobil yesterday announced the biggest quarterly profit of any corporation in U.S. history, breaking its own previous record with $11.68 billion in earnings during the second quarter.
By Steven Mufson, courtesy of the Washington Post

The skirmish over drilling is the opening to a much bigger fight over environmental policy.
By Paul Krugman, courtesy of the New York Times

If there's one thing to which the world of Democratic economics is utterly unaccustomed, it's agreement. Democrats fight with each other all the time on trade. They disagree about whether to push for balanced budgets or increased spending. Some emphasize growth; others call for greater distributional fairness.
By Harold Meyerson, courtesy of the Washington Post

Has anyone stopped to think about what political slogans really mean?
An Editorial by Thomas L. Friedman, courtesy of the New York Times

Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska was indicted on seven counts of falsely reporting income.
By David Johnston and David M. Herszenhorn, courtesy of the New York Times

Giant sheets of ice totaling almost eight square miles broke off an ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic last week and more could follow later this year, scientists said on Tuesday.
By David Ljunggren from Reuters, courtesy of the Washington Post

Will global warming give Greenland its independence?
By Stephan Faris, courtesy of the New York Times

Democratic senators called on Tuesday for the resignation of Stephen Johnson, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, saying he sided with polluters instead of fighting global warming and other ecological problems.
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent from Reuters, courtesy of the Washington Post

Two of the most interesting new clean electron wildcatters are T. Boone Pickens and Shai Agassi.
An Editorial, courtesy of the New York Times

Drilling or slapping Wall Street around are not quick and easy solutions to America’s energy woes. There aren’t any.
An Editorial, courtesy of the New York Times

Campaign contributions from oil industry executives to Sen. John McCain rose dramatically in the last half of June, after the senator from Arizona made a high-profile split with environmentalists and reversed his opposition to the federal ban on offshore drilling.
By Matthew Mosk, courtesy of the Washington Post

Climate change will carry a price tag of billions of dollars for a number of U.S. states, says a new series of reports from the University of Maryland's Center for Integrative Environmental Research (CIER). The researchers conclude that the costs have already begun to accrue and are likely to endure.
Courtesy of ScienceDaily

The Arctic may contain as much as a fifth of the world’s yet to-be-discovered oil and natural gas reserves, the United States Geological Survey said Wednesday as it unveiled the largest-ever survey of petroleum resources north of the Arctic Circle.
By Jad Mouawad, courtesy of the New York Times

There he is, the sound of money in a wizened Texas drawl, the tired realist looking a bit like the John Huston character from “Chinatown” as he warns in national television ads that we should just listen here and do as he says.
By Timothy Egan, courtesy of the New York Times

A sheen of oil coated the Mississippi River for nearly 100 miles from the center of this city to the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday following the worst oil spill here in nearly a decade. The fuel-laden barge that collided with a heavy tanker on Wednesday was still leaking.
By Adam Nossiter, courtesy of the New York Times

Environmental Protection Agency chief Stephen Johnson has declined to explain before Congress how a conclusion he made last year that global warming put the public in danger could lead to a decision not to regulate greenhouse gases.
By Dina Cappiello, courtesy of the Washington Post

Voluntary pollution-reduction programs touted by the Bush administration as part of the solution to global warming have "limited potential" to reduce greenhouse gases, according to an internal government watchdog.
By Dina Cappiello, courtesy of the Washington Post

Seven Western states are joining four Canadian provinces to propose a plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions through use of a "cap and trade" system.
By Brad Cain of the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

Under a subpoena threat from Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the Environmental Protection Agency late Wednesday sent the panel a copy of its Dec. 5 proposal to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act -- as a brief loan.
By Juliet Eilperin, courtesy of the Washington Post

A controversial British documentary called “The Great Global Warming Swindle” unfairly portrays several scientists and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Britain’s television watchdog agency ruled on Monday.
By Andrew C. Revkin, courtesy of the New York Times

Administration Ordered Calif. Emissions Plan Quashed, Former Deputy Testifies
A former Environmental Protection Agency official yesterday contradicted EPA administrator Stephen L. Johnson's congressional testimony on one of the administration's key global warming decisions, saying the White House ordered Johnson to block California's bid to regulate vehicles' tailpipe emissions.
By Juliet Eilperin, courtesy of the Washington Post

The Texas governor is leading a coalition seeking to waive the federal ethanol mandate because of costly grain.
By David Streitfeld, courtesy of the New York Times

For six decades since they loped across frozen Lake Superior to reach this rocky island, wolves have roamed 45-mile-long Isle Royale, the nation's least-visited national park.
By Kari Lydersen, courtesy of the Washington Post

In an election all about change, environmental groups are doing the usual - endorsing the Democratic presidential candidate.
By Dina Cappiello of the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

The Washington region needs to slash greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades, but without serious changes in the way residents live, the area's growing suburbs, teeming traffic and always-on laptops will combine to increase emissions, according to a new report.
By David A. Fahrenthold, courtesy of the Washington Post

The thing about visionaries like Al Gore is that they don't imagine what's easy. They imagine the benefits to be reaped once all the obstacles are overcome.
By Bob Herbert, courtesy of the New York Times

Former Vice President Al Gore said on Thursday that Americans must abandon electricity generated by fossil fuels within a decade and rely on the sun, the winds and other environmentally friendly sources of power, or risk losing their national security as well as their creature comforts.
By David Stout, courtesy of the New York Times

Shintaro Ishihara, 75, an outspoken nationalist and three-term governor of Tokyo, has pushed for mandatory limits on greenhouse-gas emissions in Japan's largest city in an effort to fight climate change.
By Blaine Harden, courtesy of the Washington Post

Climate change will pose "substantial" threats to human health in the coming decades, the Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday -- issuing its warnings about heat waves, hurricanes and pathogens just days after the agency declined to regulate the pollutants blamed for warming.
By David A. Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin, courtesy of the Washington Post

Just as John F. Kennedy set his sights on the moon, Al Gore is challenging the nation to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years, an audacious goal he hopes the next president will embrace.
By Ron Fournier and Dina Cappiello of the AP

President Bush’s decision on Monday to lift the moratorium on offshore oil drilling first imposed by his father 18 years ago is designed to ratchet up the pressure on Congress to do likewise. Congress should resist. Offshore drilling will not bring short-term relief from $4-a-gallon gasoline, nor can it play much more than a marginal role in any long-term strategy for energy independence. The oil companies already have access to substantial unexplored resources.
An Editorial, courtesy of the New York Times

Exelon, the electric company based in Chicago, will promise on Tuesday to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 by an amount larger than its total emissions in 2008, in a bid to shape the debate on carbon dioxide rules and to get a jump on compliance.
By Matthew L. Wald, courtesy of the New York Times

To hear Bush touting Western oil shale as the answer to $4 per gallon gasoline, as he did again yesterday in the Rose Garden, you would think it was 1908 . . . or 1920 . . . or 1945 . . . or 1974. Every couple of decades over the past century, the immense reserves of the oily rock under Colorado and Utah reemerge as the great hope for our energy future.
By Ken Salazar, courtesy of the Washington Post

Rising temperatures and increased dehydration linked to global warming will boost kidney stone rates in the United States and around the world, new research suggests.
By Alan Mozes, courtesy of the Washington Post

The Bush administration, dismissing the recommendations of its top experts, rejected regulating the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming Friday, saying it would cripple the U.S. economy.
By Dina Cappiello, courtesy of the Washington Post

New Mexico architect Edward Mazria has a proposal to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming. His target: buildings.
By Katherine Salant, courtesy of the Washington Post

The EPA's call for public input on greenhouse gas regulation continues a pattern of avoidance. CARBON DIOXIDE and other greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change are a danger to public health and welfare. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson could have come to that conclusion. The science certainly would have been on his side.
An Editorial, courtesy of the Washington Post

The Bush administration yesterday unveiled but immediately disparaged a proposal to seek public comment on whether the government should regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act, declaring at the outset that the proposed approach would be unworkable.
By Juliet Eilperin, courtesy of the Washington Post

Russian scientists are evacuating a research station built on an Arctic ice floe because global warming has melted the ice to a fraction of its original size, a spokesman said.
From the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

President Bush’s move is mostly symbolic because another ban on drilling enacted by Congress remains in place.
By Steven B. Myers, courtesy of the New York Times

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Sunday the Bush administration did not believe it should do anything about global warming and that any last-minute action before leaving office would be "bogus.".
From Reuters, courtesy of the New York Times

The Bush administration has decided not to take any new steps to regulate greenhouse gas emissions before the president leaves office, despite pressure from the Supreme Court and broad accord among senior federal officials that new regulation is appropriate now.
By Juliet Eilperin and R. Jeffrey Smith of the Washington Post

The sobering reality behind the G-8 summit was that it ended without an agreement on firm targets on reducing greenhouse gases, some experts said.
By Andrew C. Revkin, courtesy of the New York Times

Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, said anxiety over fuel oil costs is at crisis proportions in her state. Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota, said oil drilling advocates weighed in from the sidelines as she marched in a Fourth of July parade.
By Karl Hulse and David M. Herszenhorn, courtesy of the New York Times

Poorer countries are holding out until rich nations like the United States take more aggressive steps to cut pollution.
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg, courtesy of the New York Times

When the founding fathers declared our independence, they could not have imagined that, 232 years later, the United States would be so spectacularly dependent on foreign countries. It would be roughly eight more decades before oil gushed from a well in Titusville, Pa., marking the beginning of the global oil economy; it took eight decades more for the United States to become a net oil importer. But the republic's disastrous dependence on foreign oil has increased by leaps and bounds ever since.

By Gal Luft, courtesy of the Washington Post

Prospects that the G8 would reach a meaningful agreement to how best to fight global warming at their annual summit dimmed on Sunday as leaders began arriving in northern Japan with a raft of global problems on their minds.

By Linda Sieg and Chikafumi Hodo of Reuters, courtesy of the Washington Post

African leaders urged the Group of Eight rich nations on Monday to keep promises to help their continent and pleaded with them to remember that soaring oil and food prices were making their poverty worse.

From Reuters, courtesy of the New York Times

The U.S. has done the least among the world's eight largest economies to address global warming, a study released Thursday found.

By Patrick McGroarty, courtesy of the Washington Post

At Talks in Japan, President Faces Opposition on Goals, Role of Developing Nations

In his final months in office, President Bush is mounting a last-ditch effort to forge a new global deal to limit greenhouse-gas emissions but finds himself once again at odds with much of the rest of the world on how to address climate change.

By Michael Abramowitz and Blaine Harden, courtesy of the Washington Post

One of the most vivid symbols of global warming is the torrents of melt water that drain from the lakes that form each summer on Greenland’s ice sheet.

By Andrew C. Revkin, courtesy of the New York Times

With its towering furnaces and clanging conveyer belts carrying crushed rock, Taiheiyo Cement’s factory looks like an Industrial Revolution relic. But it is actually a model of modern energy efficiency, harnessing its waste heat to generate much of its own electricity.

By Martin Fackler, courtesy of the New York Times

Bjorn Lomborg's June 26 op-ed column, "A Better Way Than Cap and Trade," got it backward when it comes to solving climate change. He proposed massive, taxpayer-funded subsidies for government-selected technologies instead of rules that let the market find the best and cheapest way to solve the problem.

A letter to the Editor, courtesy of the Washington Post

Global investors plowed $148 billion into new wind, solar and other alternative energy assets last year, in what the United Nations describes as a "green energy gold rush" gaining speed the last several years.

By John Heilprin of the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

Oil prices are rising after the government reported U.S. crude oil supplies fell more than expected last week, although trading is volatile as the report also showed gasoline stockpiles unexpectedly grew.

From the AP, courtesy of the New York Times

Civic leader Scott Nelson says he is as worried as anyone about global warming, but that does not make him happy to be one of the first North Americans to pay a carbon tax to curb climate change.

From Reuters, courtesy of the New York Times

Congress has always had a soft spot for “experts” who tell members what they want to hear, whether it’s supply-side economists declaring that tax cuts increase revenue or climate-change skeptics insisting that global warming is a myth.

An Editorial by Paul Krugman, courtesy of the New York Times

The world already knows that global warming is a serious problem and the time has come for politicians and experts to come together to map out a practical solution, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Friday.

From the AP, courtesy of the New York Times

The bitter arguments in the Senate this month over the Lieberman-Warner climate change bill, which would have required major emitters to pay for the right to discharge greenhouse gases, proved that climate change caused by humans has come to the fore of U.S. policy debates.

By Bjorn Lomborg, courtesy of the Washington Post

Agency Was Responding to Ruling About Clean Air Act

White House officials last December sought to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from submitting a proposed rule that would limit greenhouse-gas emissions on the grounds they pose a threat to public welfare, agency sources said yesterday. And upon learning that EPA had hit the "send" button just minutes earlier, the White House called again to demand that the e-mail be recalled.

By Juliet Eilperin, courtesy of the Washington Post

One shudders to think about how much carbon dioxide was emitted into the atmosphere by members of the United States Congress yesterday as they bemoaned high gas prices.

By Dana Milbank, courtesy of the Washington Post

California on Thursday took a major step forward on its global warming fight by unveiling an ambitious plan for clean cars, renewable energy and stringent caps on big polluting industries.

From Reuters, courtesy of the New York Times

A federal appeals court refused Thursday to make a resistant Bush administration speed up a decision on whether greenhouse gases and global warming threaten public health and welfare.

From the AP, courtesy of the New York Times

Here's something to ponder as you park your Prius: What if gas guzzling isn't the problem?

By Dana Milbank, courtesy of the Washington Post

Has any phrase in the English language ever spread more quickly than “carbon footprint”? There are contenders — “hanging chad,” for instance — but they don’t reflect the potential revolution in consciousness that carbon footprint suggests. After all, carbon footprint captures something we’ve never really had a simple phrase for before: the measurable totality of your environmental impact, or, to put it more simply, what your way of life actually costs the planet. “Carbon footprint” is to your physical being what “soul” is to your spiritual being.

By Verlyn Klinkenborg, courtesy of the New York Times

20 Years Ago, a 98-Degree Day Illustrated Scientist's Warning

There have been hotter days on Capitol Hill, but few where the heat itself became a kind of congressional exhibit. It was 98 degrees on June 23, 1988, and the warmth leaked in through the three big windows in Dirksen 366, overpowered the air conditioner, and left the crowd sweating and in shirt sleeves.

By David A. Fahrenthold, courtesy of the Washington Post

In July 1893, 115 years ago, the historian Frederick Jackson Turner told an academic symposium that the American frontier was closed -- a shocking notion for a people who'd defined themselves by their steady expansion across the continent. This spring, something just as profound and defining has happened: Pulled back by the inescapable gravity of higher prices and the growing scarcity of fossil fuels, we're starting a slow recoil into more dense and compact regions and localities. The frontier of endless mobility that we've known our entire lives is closing.

By Bill McKibben, courtesy of the Washington Post

Like two rival filling-station owners across the highway in long-bygone price wars, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain keep putting up flashy signs and offering new incentives in hopes of attracting customers battered by $4 gas prices.

From the AP, courtesy of the New York Times

John McCain will push on Monday for car makers to build more environmentally friendly vehicles, threatening new legislation if they do not comply and proposing tax breaks to encourage consumers to buy "cleaner" cars.

From Reuters, courtesy of the New York Times

A hastily convened global energy summit meeting led by Saudi Arabia ended largely in disagreement on Sunday, with only a modest pledge of increased production by the Saudis and no resolution on what other practical steps should be taken to ease the crisis over soaring oil prices.

By Robert F. Worth and Jad Mouawad, courtesy of the New York Times

The world's major cities are also among the planet's worst polluters but they have the solutions to most of their problems at their fingertips, a leading environmental consultancy said on Monday.

From Reuters, courtesy of the New York Times

Twenty years ago Monday, James E. Hansen, a climate scientist at NASA, shook Washington and the world by telling a sweating crowd at a Senate hearing during a stifling heat wave that he was “99 percent” certain that humans were already warming the climate.

By Andrew C. Revkin, courtesy of the New York Times

As the United States moves toward taking action on global warming, practical experience with carbon markets in the European Union raises a critical question: Will such systems ever work?

By James Kanter, courtesy of the Washington Post

The world's developed countries should take the lead in the battle against global warming and push for halving global emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, a group of business leaders said Friday.

By Joseph Coleman of the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

Listening to the back and forth this week about oil drilling and energy prices, you have to wonder whether there's anyone in Washington who understands what leadership is about.

By Steven Pearlstein, courtesy of the Washington Post

More Droughts Likely in North America

As greenhouse-gas emissions rise, North America is likely to experience more droughts and excessive heat in some regions even as intense downpours and hurricanes pound others more often, according to a report issued yesterday by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program.

By Juliet Eilperin, courtesy of the Washington Post

Gov. Charlie Crist stepped on the third rail of Florida politics this week when he abandoned his opposition to drilling offshore for oil and natural gas. But surprise, surprise, he did not die.

By Damien Cave, courtesy of the New York Times

One was an oilman from Texas, the other a high-paid energy executive. Despite that, or perhaps because of it, for seven years George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have been unable to persuade Congress and the public that domestic oil drilling is an answer to America’s energy needs.

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg, courtesy of the New York Times

It was almost inevitable that a combination of $4-a-gallon gas, public anxiety and politicians eager to win votes or repair legacies would produce political pandering on an epic scale. So it has, the latest instance being President Bush’s decision to ask Congress to end the federal ban on offshore oil and gas drilling along much of America’s continental shelf.

An Editorial, courtesy of the New York Times

President Bush called on Congress today to lift a 26-year-old ban on oil drilling off the shores of the United States, arguing that the country needs more domestic energy production to alter the circumstances that are driving up oil prices.

By William Branigin and Michael Abramowitz, courtesy of the Washington Post

We all know that gasoline is at $4 a gallon and that oil is at $135 a barrel. But if you think that's the end of the story, don't talk to economist Jeffrey Rubin of CIBC World Markets.

By Robert J. Samuelson, courtesy of the Washington Post

While the Senate failed to make progress this month on legislation to address global warming, the stage is set for consideration next year ["Senate Leaders Pull Measure on Climate," news story, June 7]. Carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere are an important starting point. But climate change is a complex process that also includes the influence of ocean and terrestrial systems. In fact, most of the carbon emitted into the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels ultimately is stored in the oceans, which are the engines of the planetary climate system.

An Editorial, courtesy of the Washington Post

Sen. John McCain called yesterday for an end to the federal ban on offshore oil drilling, offering an aggressive response to high gasoline prices and immediately drawing the ire of environmental groups that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has courted for months.

By Michael D. Shear and Juliet Eilperin, courtesy of the Washington Post

It looks like an ordinary family sedan, costs more to build than a Ferrari and may have just moved the world one step closer to a future free of petroleum.

By Martin Fackler, courtesy of the New York Times

Republican presidential candidate John McCain will call on Tuesday for energy conservation and the lifting of a ban on oil and natural gas exploration as two ways to help address the nation's "dangerous" dependence on foreign oil.

From Reuters, courtesy of the New York Times

The United States and China must increase their cooperation on energy issues in the face of increased demand and record high oil prices, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Tuesday as he opened a meeting of high-level economic officials from the two countries.

From the AP, courtesy of the New York Times

It’s hard to convince most Americans that there is a silver lining to $4-a-gallon gasoline. But General Motors provided a nugget of good news when it announced that it would shutter much of its production of pickups and sport utility vehicles — and might even get rid of the Hummer, the relative of the Abrams tank unleashed on the streets in the cheap-gas days of the 1990s.

An Editorial, courtesy of the New York Times

"Another Failure on Climate Change," the June 11 editorial about the recent Senate debate on global warming legislation, was off the mark.

Questioning the scheduling of the debate because of high gas prices makes little sense. If gas prices don’t go down, should we never address global warming? Of course not.

A letter to the Editor, courtesy of the New York Times

Last month the Wall Street Journal accused me of advocating subsidies for food-based ethanol. I ought to "take a vow of embarrassed silence," it said, for claiming that ethanol's contribution to the food crisis is "overblown." The Journal's claims would be laughable if the stakes were not so high.

By Vinod Khosla, courtesy of the Washington Post

Another Call for U.S. Leadership on Climate change.

A29-MEMBER independent task force of the Council on Foreign Relations released a report Friday that adds another authoritative voice to the clamor for U.S. leadership on climate change. Co-chaired by former New York governor George E. Pataki (R) and former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack (D), the bipartisan document makes an argument that has fallen on deaf ears at the White House. "As the United States takes increasingly aggressive action at home," the authors correctly note, "it will be in a stronger position to ask more of others."

An Editorial, courtesy of the Washington Post

Honda's new zero-emission, hydrogen fuel cell car rolled off a Japanese production line Monday and is headed to Southern California, where Hollywood is already abuzz over the latest splash in green motoring.

From the AP, courtesy of the New York Times

The Senate can do something for global warming by approving a bill to extend vital tax credits for renewable fuel sources like wind and solar power.

An Editorial, courtesy of the New York Times

The European Union accused United States producers of biodiesel fuel of benefiting from subsidies that threaten to put European producers out of business.

By James Kantner, courtesy of the New York Times

One of Alaska's most eroded villages is getting more than $3 million in state aid to help it relocate to higher ground as Alaska tries to cope with the effects of global warming.

From the AP, courtesy of the New York Times

Finance ministers from the Group of Eight industrialized nations urged oil producers Saturday to boost output to help stabilize record-high oil and food prices, calling the situation a serious threat to global economic growth.

From the AP, courtesy of the New York Times

Helping developing nations fight global warming and sharing views on towering oil and food prices were among the topics on hand at a Group of Eight finance ministers' meeting opening Friday.

From the AP, courtesy of the New York Times

Vice President Cheney yesterday called for a substantial increase in domestic drilling for oil and other natural resources, including in environmentally sensitive areas, saying that only increased production -- and not new technology -- will satisfy the nation's demand for energy.

By Zachary A. Goldfarb, courtesy of the Washington Post

No one ever said that dealing with climate change would be easy or cost-free. But we expected better from the Senate.

A New York Times Editorial

Toyota is introducing a plug-in hybrid with next-generation lithium-ion batteries in Japan, the U.S. and Europe by 2010, under a widespread strategy to be green outlined Wednesday.

From the AP, courtesy of the New York Times

The scientific academies of 13 countries on Tuesday urged the world to act more forcefully to limit the threat posed by human-driven global warming.

By Andrew C. Revkin, courtesy of the New York Times

Toyota will start making the Camry gas-electric hybrid in Australia from early 2010, as part of the Japanese automaker's efforts to step up production of such green cars around the world, the company said Tuesday.

By Yuri Kageyama of the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

Gasoline prices, which shattered the $4-a-gallon mark on average in the Washington area Friday, ranged as high as $4.39 a gallon for regular yesterday amid signs that cash-strapped Americans are changing vacation plans, consolidating errands, and turning to carpools and mass transit.

By Steven Mufson and David Cho, courtesy of the Washington Post

Senate Republicans today blocked a proposal to eliminate tax breaks for the nation's biggest oil companies and tax their windfall profits, rejecting Democratic claims that the measure would help ease consumer anger over $4-a-gallon gasoline.

By Lori Montgomery and Steven Mufson, courtesy of the Washington Post

The Group of 8 countries, joined by China, India and South Korea, pledged greater investments in efficiency but also urged oil producers to increase output.

From the AP, courtesy of the New York Times

apan will cut its greenhouse gas emissions 60-80 percent by 2050 and can match or better European reduction levels over the next 12 years, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda announced Monday.

From the AP, courtesy of the New York Times

The world needs to invest $45 trillion in energy in coming decades, build some 1,400 nuclear power plants and vastly expand wind power in order to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to an energy study released Friday.

By Joseph Coleman of the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

Senate Republicans on Friday blocked a global warming bill that would have required major reductions in greenhouse gases, pushing debate over the world's biggest environmental concern to next year for a new Congress and president.

From the AP, courtesy of the New York Times

A Manhattan skyscraper that is home to The New York Times became the site of twin daredevil stunts Thursday, with two men scaling the 52-story office tower within a matter of hours.

From the AP, courtesy of the New York Times

A U.S. carbon-capping bill aimed at curbing climate change died on Friday in the Senate but its supporters looked to the next president to enact a global warming law as early as 2009.

From Reuters, courtesy of the New York Times

The United Nations urged the world on Thursday to kick the habit of producing carbon dioxide, saying everyone must act to fight climate change.

From Reuters, courtesy of the New York Times

About a day into the debate over legislation to combat global warming but before Republicans brought the discourse to a stop on Wednesday by insisting that the clerk read every word of the 492-page bill, Senator James M. Inhofe decided to get a few things off his chest.

By David Herzenhorn, courtesy of the New York Times

A Senate debate over global warming legislation turned into late-night drama Wednesday marked by an eight-hour reading of the 492-page bill and a call for senators to return -- some of them from their homes -- to cast a procedural vote not long before midnight.

From the AP, courtesy of the New York Times

The Bush administration has worked overtime to manipulate or conceal scientific evidence — and muzzled at least one prominent scientist — to justify its failure to address climate change.

An Editorial, courtesy of the New York Times

We'll have to discard the old adage "Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it." It is inoperative in this era of global warming, because the whole point of controlling greenhouse gas emissions is to do something about the weather. This promises to be hard and perhaps futile, but there are good and bad ways of attempting it. One of the bad ways is cap-and-trade. Unfortunately, it's the darling of environmental groups and their political allies.

By Robert J. Samuelson, courtesy of the Washington Post

Sadly, even having a debate is progress.

THE SENATE is scheduled to vote today on a motion to proceed to debate on the Climate Security Act of 2008. Given this nation's sluggish response to global warming, that will qualify as a big step. The chances of passage this year are worse than 50-50. But the markers being laid for the next president are worth pursuing.

Courtesy of the Washington Post

The White House on Monday slammed legislation the U.S. Senate will consider this week aimed at controlling climate change, arguing it would cut economic growth and lead to soaring gasoline prices.

From Reuters, courtesy of the New York Times

President Bush weighed in Monday against a Senate bill that would require dramatic cuts in climate-changing greenhouse pollution, cautioning senators "to be very careful about running up enormous costs for future generations of Americans".

From the AP, courtesy of the New York Times

The difficult bottom line in the negotiations is that dealing with climate change will almost certainly hurt some industries and enrich others.

By Jad Muawad, courtesy of the New York Times

A tax on airline tickets and an auction of pollution rights are just two ideas likely to be studied at a 162-nation conference examining ways of raising the billions of dollars needed every year to fight global warming.

From the AP, courtesy of the New York Times

Toyota said Friday that nothing had been decided yet on using its California joint venture plant with General Motors to produce its Prius hybrid _ a move that would mark the first North American plant for the hit "green" car.

By Yuri Kageyama of The Associated Press, courtesy of the Washington Post

Despite support, plans to take the carbon dioxide that spews from coal-burning power plants and pump it back into the ground have hit roadblocks.

By Matthew L. Wald, courtesy of the New York Times

The Bush administration, bowing to a court order, has released a fresh summary of research pointing to harmful impacts in the United States from human-caused global warming.

By Andrew C. Revkin, courtesy of the New York Times

At a Model United Nations Conference, Students Turn Into Diplomats for a Day

Courtesy of the Washington Post

A new federal report says the rise in levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide is influencing climate patterns and will produce an uneven national map of harms and benefits.

By Andrew C. Revkin, courtesy of the New York Times

After part of a cooling tower collapsed last August at Vermont’s only nuclear power plant, the company that runs it blamed rotting wooden timbers that it had failed to inspect properly. The uproar that followed rekindled environmental groups’ hopes of shutting down the aging plant.

By Kate Galbraith, courtesy of the New York Times

WILL the food crisis that is menacing the lives of millions ease up — or grow worse over time? The answer may be both. The recent rise in food prices has largely been caused by temporary problems like drought in Australia, Ukraine and elsewhere. Though the need for huge rescue operations is urgent, the present acute crisis will eventually end. But underlying it is a basic problem that will only intensify unless we recognize it and try to remedy it.

By Amartya Sen, courtesy of the New York Times

For seven long years, President Bush has refused to confront the challenge of climate change and provide the leadership that this country and the world needs to reduce greenhouse gases and avoid the destructive consequences of global warming.

A Washington Post Editrial

The international fight to control climate change heads to a new arena in June when the Senate is to debate a bill that could cut total U.S. global warming emissions by 66 percent by 2050.

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent for Reuters, courtesy of the Washington Post

Under pressure to boost talks on a new global warming pact, Group of Eight environment ministers on Monday endorsed halving greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century but failed to agree on much more contentious near-term targets.

By Joseph Coleman of the Associated Press, courtesy of the Washington Post

The Rockefeller family built one of the great American fortunes by supplying the nation with oil. Now history has come full circle: some family members say it is time to start moving beyond the oil age.

By Clifford Krausse, courtesy of the New York Times

Toyota Motor Corp. plans to build two plants in Japan to produce batteries for environmentally friendly gas-electric hybrid vehicles, a news report said Friday.

By Yuri Kageyame of The Associated Press, courtesy of the Washington Post

Prices fell back in the course of the day, closing at $130.81 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, down $2.36 from Wednesday’s close. But in a week that has seen the oil price rise by $4, the economic consequences of high fuel costs continued to mount.

By Graham Bowley and David Jolly, courtesy of the New York Times

The state of Alaska will sue to challenge the recent listing of polar bears as a threatened species, Gov. Sarah Palin announced Wednesday.

From the AP, courtesy of the New York Times

Chain saws scream in a northern Michigan forest, but it's not the familiar sound of lumberjacks. This time the tree killers are environmental researchers. They hope that years from now the aspens they remove will be replaced with a healthy mix of maples, oaks, beeches and pines -- which should soak up more carbon dioxide from an ever warmer world.

From the AP, courtesy of the New York Times

A coalition of conservative evangelical leaders wants to enlist 1 million Christians to sign a statement questioning whether human-caused global warming is a real threat and arguing that restrictive environmental policies harm poor people.

From the AP, courtesy of the New York Times

An analyst who heard scoffing when he predicted $100-a-barrel oil now expects the price to reach $200.

By Louise Story, courtesy of the New York Times

Many crops that could be used to make biofuels without driving up food prices are invasive species, scientists say.

By Elisabeth Rosenthal, courtesy of the New York Times

Conservation groups returned to court to challenge Bush administration efforts to help save the polar bear, saying federal officials' refusal to include steps against global warming violates the Endangered Species Act.

From the AP, courtesy of the New York Times

A climate bill will inch closer to the Senate floor tomorrow when Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) will propose changes including $800 billion in tax cuts through 2050 as well as an additional $911 billion through 2050 to protect consumers from utility bill increases by promoting energy efficiency and giving out rebates.

Courtesy of the Washington Post

The Energy Department reports that carbon dioxide emissions increased by 1.6 percent last year with most coming from residential and commercial energy use. Emissions from transportation and industrial sources were essentially flat, compared to 2006.

By H. Josef Hebert of the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson favored giving California some authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks last year before he consulted with the White House and reversed course, congressional investigators said yesterday.

By Juliet Eilperin, courtesy of the Washington Post

Global warming isn't to blame for the recent jump in hurricanes in the Atlantic, concludes a study by a prominent federal scientist whose position has shifted on the subject.

By Seth Borenstein of the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

A decision on whether carbon dioxide endangers public health as a greenhouse gas will probably be made by the next administration, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday.

By H. Josef Hebert, courtesy of the Washington Post

Over the weekend, a pair of very different climate studies — one physical, one social — illustrated two uncomfortable, and related, realities confronting society as it grapples with possible responses to human-driven global warming.

By Andrew C. Revkin, courtesy of the New York Times

Conservationists swoon at the possibility of it all. Here in Alaska, where melting arctic ice and eroding coastlines have made global warming an urgent threat, this little city has cut its electricity use by more than 30 percent in a matter of weeks, instantly establishing itself as a role model for how to go green, and fast.

By William Yardley, courtesy of the New York Times

The polar bear, whose summertime Arctic hunting grounds have been greatly reduced by a warming climate, will be placed under the protection of the Endangered Species Act, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced on Wednesday.

By Felicity Barringer, courtesy of the New York Times

John McCain has been engaged in the fight against global warming for years, even at the expense of breaking with Republican orthodoxy and with President Bush on the issue.

The planet is nearing a tipping point on climate change, and it gets much
worse, fast.

By Bill McKibben, courtesy of the Los Angeles Times

John McCain broke with the Bush administration and Republican Party orthodoxy Monday as he not only declared global warming real, but reached out to Democrats and independents with a free-market solution that includes capping carbon-fuel emissions.

By Glen Johnson of the AP

With the price of gas approaching $4 a gallon, more commuters are abandoning their cars and taking the train or bus instead.

By Clifford Krauss, courtesy of the New York Times

This just in from Climate Counts, the nonprofit group that scores consumer products companies on their green track records: consumer companies are getting greener, but they are still a pretty carbon-intensive lot.

By Claudia Deutsch, courtesy of the New York Times

Linked to global warming, these areas of the Pacific and Atlantic cannot sustain most marine life, a new study warns. Oxygen-starved waters are expanding in the Pacific and Atlantic as ocean temperatures increase with global warming, threatening fisheries and other marine life, a study published today concludes.

By Kenneth R. Weiss ~ Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

The McCain-Clinton energy proposal is a reminder that the biggest energy crisis we have in our country today is the energy to be serious.

A New York Times Editorial by Thomas Friedman

By Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Courtesy of Vanity Fair
May 2008 Issue

The usual chorus of environmentalists and editorial writers has chimed in to attack President Bush's recent speech on climate change. In his address of April 23, he put forth a goal of stopping the growth of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2025.

By Steven F. Hayward, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal.

European countries plan to use coal, generally the dirtiest fuel on earth, in new power plants.

By Elisabeth Rosenthal, courtesy of the New York Times

Biofuels are suddenly being blamed for every global ill. Most of this, to borrow a farm image, is hogwash and bilge.

By Roger Cohen - An Editorial, courtesy of the New York Times

As oil prices hit $117 a barrel this month, a forecast from Shell Oil outlines two very different possibilities for the future of the world's energy supply.

Courtesy of NPR

President Bush’s Rose Garden speech last week seemed cynically designed to prevent others from showing the leadership he refuses to provide.

An Editorial, courtesy of the New York Times

We Can Clean Up Our Act, But It'll Cost Us

By Steven Mufson, courtesy of the Washington Post

Nine years ago The Economist ran a big story on oil, which was then selling for $10 a barrel. The magazine warned that this might not last. Instead, it suggested, oil might well fall to $5 a barrel.

By Paul Krugman, courtesy of the New York Times

Oil’s future is murky. With China and India rising, the supply question looms.

By Jad Mouawad, courtesy of the New York Times

* A growing consensus within the world’s scientific community holds that the Earth is warming and that this trend is related to greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human activity. Alarm over the social and economic impact of global warming is making governments act to reduce these emissions.

* But what will the reductions entail, who will pay for them, and how much will they unsettle consumers and businesses?

* A significant McKinsey research study that comprehensively examined the cost and feasibility of hundreds of ways to reduce emissions in developed economies suggests some good news: we can reduce emissions significantly, at little or no cost, and with little impact on how we live.

Courtesy of The McKinsey Quarterly, login required.

Economist Jeffrey Sachs says that the world's population, climate change, poverty and resource use are all closely intertwined. In his book Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, Sachs discusses the intersection of economics and the environment and argues that humanity must address global problems on a global scale. Listen Now

Governors from across the United States who bypassed the Bush administration by introducing laws to cut greenhouse emissions are slated to meet this week to broaden their fight against climate change.

By Timothy Gardner of Reuters

The collapse of Australia's rice production may foretell some of the effects of global warming on agriculture.

By Keith Bradsher, courtesy of the New York Times

Solar power, the holy grail of renewable energy, has always faced the problem of how to store the energy captured from the sun’s rays so that demand for electricity can be met at night or whenever the sun is not shining.

By Matthew L. Wald, courtesy of the New York Times

The charged and complex debate over how to slow down global warming has become a lot more complicated.

By Andrew C. Revkin, courtesy of the New York Times

Economic slowdown normally tames prices, but these aren't normal times.

When the economy slows down, the resulting drop in demand normally takes some of the pressure off inflation. But these are not normal times: Even as the economy is slumping, oil prices are rising and food prices are jumping.

By John W. Schoen, Senior Producer, MSNBC

Environmental lawyers make a concentrated effort to stop new ones from being built; a coalition claims 65 victories in the last year. But industry groups are fighting back.

By Judy Pasternak, courtesy of the Los Angeles Times

The United States and other developed countries need to step up to the plate to help solve the problem of rising food prices.

An Editorial, courtesy of the New York Times

The surge in the price of energy couldn’t come at a worse time. The average price nationally of regular gasoline has shot up to a record $3.28 a gallon. Combine that with the collapse of the housing market and the seizing financial sector, and it is putting a boot to the gut of an economy that is either already in a recession or close to one.

A New York Times editorial

Some 3,000 scientific robots that are plying the ocean have sent home a puzzling message. These diving instruments suggest that the oceans have not warmed up at all over the past four or five years. That could mean global warming has taken a breather. Or it could mean scientists aren't quite understanding what their robots are telling them.

Courtesy if NPR Morning Edition

Energy companies and other business interests have launched a nationwide campaign to undermine climate change legislation pending in Congress, saying it could cost millions of jobs, drive gasoline prices sharply higher and suck thousands of dollars from household incomes.

The effort comes as the Senate prepares to take up in coming months a bill that would cut greenhouse emissions by up to 65 percent by 2050. The bill would create a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emissions, forcing companies to pay to pollute.

On a 17-state tour that began this week with stops in North Dakota and Montana, industry-funded economists said the legislation threatens to sacrifice three to four million jobs over the next two decades, as higher energy prices dampen industrial production.

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By Matthew Brown, courtesy of the Fort Mill Times

The amount of long-lasting sea ice in the Arctic -- thick enough to survive for as much as a decade -- declined sharply in the past year, even though the region had a cold winter and the thinner one-year ice cover grew substantially, federal officials said yesterday.

By Marc Kaufman, courtesy of the Washington Post

Arresting global warming won’t come cheap. Europe and Japan are already spending billions to meet the modest carbon emission cuts that they agreed to in Kyoto 10 years ago. And according to a recent United Nations report, switching to cleaner energy sources would require investments of up to $20 trillion over the next two decades. Add to that other economic costs, such as the rise in food prices attributable to the world’s embrace of renewable fuels.

By Eduardo Porter, courtesy of the New York Times

The sea of oil under Iraq is supposed to rebuild the nation, but fuel shipments often get diverted to the black market.
By Richard Oppel Jr., courtesy of the New York Times

When half a tank costs $505, rising fuel prices sting. While the price of gasoline may be on the verge of setting another record, diesel is already there.

By Christopher Maag, courtesy of the New York Times

Thou shall not pollute the Earth. Thou shall beware genetic manipulation. Modern times bring with them modern sins. So the Vatican has told the faithful that they should be aware of "new" sins such as causing environmental blight.

From Reuters, courtesy of the New York Times

Relatively barren stretches of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans around the tropics have expanded about 15 percent since 1998, according to a new satellite study.

Climate change will worsen tensions and instability between nations competing for arable land, water and other resources, according to a European Union report.

By Robert Wielaard of The Associated Press, courtesy of the Washington Post

In a major shift, a group of Southern Baptist leaders said their denomination has been "too timid" on environmental issues and has a biblical duty to stop global warming.

By Rachel Zoll of The Associated Press, courtesy of the Washington Post

The task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures may be far more difficult than previous research suggested, say scientists who have just published studies indicating that it would require the world to cease carbon emissions altogether within a matter of decades.

By Juliet Eilperin, courtesy of the Washington Post

The world appears to be on the verge of a boom in a little-known but promising type of solar power.

By Matthew L. Wald, courtesy of the New York Times

Record oil prices are suddenly creating the sharpest tensions in years between the oil cartel and the U.S.

By Jad Mouawad, courtesy of the New York Times

Several hundred people sat in a fifth-floor ballroom at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square on Monday eating pasta and trying hard to prove that they had unraveled the established science showing that humans are warming the world in potentially disruptive ways.

By Andrew Revkin, courtesy of the New York Times

Extraordinary winter conditions in many parts of the world have been seized on by those who challenge warnings about dangerous human-caused global warming.

By Andrew Revkin, courtesy of the New York Times

Congress will have to ensure that regulators design the tightest possible standards for ethanol production.

A New York Times Editorial

The wind turbines that recently went up on Louis Brooks’s ranch are twice as high as the Statue of Liberty, with blades that span as wide as the wingspan of a jumbo jet. More important from his point of view, he is paid $500 a month apiece to permit 78 of them on his land, with 76 more on the way.

By Clifford Krauss, courtesy of the New York Times

Business Groups Express Concern Over Expense
At the Maryland State House in Annapolis on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley met with environmental advocacy groups to discuss global warming solutions.

By Lisa Rein, courtesy of the Washington Post

No one doubts that human-induced climate change has been killing corals across the globe. The question is whether humans can help save them before the devastation is complete.

By Juliet Eilperin, courtesy of the Washington Post

The cancellation of a clean-coal project shows there's no silver bullet for climate change.

President Bush announced in 2004 and then continually promoted a public-private venture he hoped would usher in an era of clean coal and be a cornerstone of U.S. efforts to address global warming.

An Editorial, courtesy of the Washington Post

Human activities are affecting every square mile of the world's oceans, according to a study by a team of American, British and Canadian researchers who mapped the severity of the effects from pole to pole.

By Juliet Eilperin, courtesy of the Washington Post

Climate change may be causing sea levels to rise, but in some coastal areas the problem is worsened because the land is sinking as well. That’s the case in Louisiana, where subsidence has caused erosion and loss of wetlands. Without wetlands to act as buffers, the devastation of storms like Katrina is even greater.

By Henry Fountain, courtesy of the New York Times

For people who feel an acute unease about the future of the planet, a small but growing number of psychotherapists now offer a treatment designed to reduce worries as well as carbon footprints: ecopsychology.

By Gabrielle Glaser, courtesy of the New York Times

If two scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are correct, people will still be driving gasoline-powered cars 50 years from now, churning out heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — and yet that carbon dioxide will not contribute to global warming.

By Kenneth Chang, courtesy of the New York Times

What causes global warming and how to stop it.
An overview of climate change science and solutions.
From ABC News

ARLINGTON, Va. — This urban suburb of Washington seems well-prepared for a leading role in the green revolution embraced by hundreds of the nation’s cities, counties and towns.

By Felicity Barringer, courtesy of the New York Times

Defending his refusal to let California set limits on the greenhouse gas emissions of automobiles, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency insisted before a Senate committee Thursday that climate change posed no "compelling and extraordinary" risk to the state.

By Matthew L. Wald, courtesy of the New York Times

Lake Mead, the vast reservoir for the Colorado River water that sustains the fast-growing cities of Phoenix and Las Vegas, could lose water faster than previously thought and run dry within 13 years, according to a new study by scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

By Felicity Barringer, courtesy of the New York Times

The full emissions costs of producing biofuels are higher than those of producing of conventional fuels, scientists said.

By Elisabeth Rosenthal, courtesy of the New York Times

The persistent and dramatic decline in the snowpack of many mountains in the West is caused primarily by human-induced global warming and is not the result of natural variability in weather patterns, researchers reported yesterday.

By Marc Kaufman, courtesy of the Washington Post

Global warming ranks far down the concerns of the world's biggest companies, despite world leaders' hopes that they will pioneer solutions to the impending climate crisis, a startling survey will reveal this week.

By Tricia Holly Davis, Geoffrey Lean and Susie Mesure, courtesy of the UK Independent.

Green Energy Advocates urge sustained support through inclusion in stimulus package.

By Mark Clayton | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

The oil multinational is predicting that conventional supplies will not keep pace with soaring population growth and the rapid pace of economic development.

Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply power plants with the awesome amounts of cooling water they need to operate.

By Mitch Weiss of the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

The U.S. ranks at the bottom of the Group of 8 industrialized nations in the analysis conducted by researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities.

By Felicity Barringer, courtesy of the New York Times

You can flip off your widescreen TV with the remote control. Power down your computer to standby. Unplug your cellphone from its charger. But as you leave the room, the "wall warts" -- those small boxes plugged into the wall sockets that power your electronics -- stare with glowing diode eyes in accusation: You are still using power.

By Doug Struck, courtesy of The Washington Post

Eleven companies are teaming up to see how they can work with thousands of their suppliers to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

From Reuters, courtesy of the New York Times

Demand for biofuels has created tension between using land to produce fuel and using it for food.

By Keith Bradsher, courtesy of the New York Times

In the last year, the political winds on climate change have shifted dramatically. A cap on the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases is now widely seen as inevitable. But that just leads to another huge debate, over how the required reductions will be achieved. And into this debate comes an interesting new idea, a carbon dividend.

By John Carey, courtesy of Business Week

A talk by Steven W. Running, a Nobel laureate and climate researcher, was canceled in Choteau, Montana, a small farming and ranching town.

By Jim Robbins, courtesy of the New York Times

The rush to build power plants slows as worries grow over global warming, building costs and transportation.

By Judy Pasternak, courtesy of the Los Angeles Times

Each year, the Worldwatch Institute releases a report analyzing the year's environmental trends. This year's report focuses on the "greening" of industry. During today's OnPoint, Tom Prugh, co-director of Worldwatch's State of the World 2008 report, explains why environmental issues are driving the global economy. He discusses what lies ahead for carbon markets and also addresses how local governments can engage communities for a more sustainable world.
[Video ~ 9min]
Courtesy eenews.net

Sheets Melting in an Area Once Thought to Be Unaffected by Global Warming

Climatic changes appear to be destabilizing vast ice sheets of western Antarctica that had previously seemed relatively protected from global warming, researchers reported yesterday, raising the prospect of faster sea-level rise than current estimates.

By Marc Kaufman, courtesy of the Washington Post

The news of environmental traumas assails us from every side -- unseasonal storms, floods, fires, drought, melting ice caps, lost species of river dolphins and giant turtles, rising sea levels potentially displacing inhabitants of Arctic and Pacific islands and hundreds of thousands of people dying every year from air pollution.

By Michael Novacek, courtesy of the Washington Post

Ice, Ice Baby (Circa 90 Million Years Ago)

THE BIG IDEA: Scientists have long envisioned the Cretaceous "super-greenhouse" period, the era some 90 million years ago when crocodiles roamed the Arctic and the temperature of tropical oceans soared to 98 degrees Fahrenheit (14 degrees warmer than they are today), as a sort of anti-Ice Age.

Outside the headquarters of Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc, the pavement is iced over and workers arriving for the day are bundled up against the cold.

By Cary Gilliam of Reuters, courtesy of the Washington Post

Japan urged China to do more to fight global warming and pledged to help the country reduce runaway pollution during high-level talks in the Chinese capital on Friday.

By Joseph Kahn, courtesy of the New York Times

For generations of Maplewood residents, the coming of winter meant the return of a tableau worthy of the most clichéd Currier and Ives print. Magically, the township’s public works employees would throw a switch or turn a knob and suddenly water would begin to flow from a creek in Memorial Park into an adjacent low-lying field.

By Terry Golway, courtesy of the New York Times

By 2050 solar power could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and slash greenhouse gas emissions

By Ken Zweibel, James Mason and Vasilis Fthenakis, courtesy of Scientific American

Frozen in much the state it died some 37,500 years ago, a Siberian baby mammoth undergoing tests in Japan could finally explain why the beasts were driven to extinction _ and shed light on climate change, scientists said Friday.

By Hiroko Tabuchi of the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

California sued the federal government in its struggle to set the country's first greenhouse gas limits on cars, trucks and SUVs, asking the Environmental Protection Agency to review its decision to deny the state a waiver that would allow it and 16 other states to regulate emissions.

By Samantha Young of the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

There's more to the recent dramatic and alarming thawing of the Arctic region than can be explained by man-made global warming alone, a new study found. Nature is pushing the Arctic to the edge, too.

By Seth Borenstein, courtesy of the Washington Post

A Hampton University professor is shedding new light on night-shining clouds that might be affected by climate change. Jim Russell is the lead scientist for the NASA-funded AIM satellite, the first to study the wispy "noctilucent" clouds, which only appear above Earth's poles.

From the AP, courtesy of the Washington Post

Britain is expected to give the go-ahead to a new generation of nuclear power stations next week, sparking a frenzy of deal-making by nuclear firms as well as a fresh challenge from environmental campaigners.

By Pete Harrison of Reuters, courtesy of the Washington Post

In a workshop in the city's Mission District, Ally Beran's team of fashion designers is sprawled out over buttons and spools of thread, hoping to stem global warming by stitching new outfits from thrift store finds.

From the AP, courtesy of the New York Times

The Bush administration’s decision to deny California permission to regulate and reduce global warming emissions from cars and trucks is an indefensible act of executive arrogance that can only be explained as the product of ideological blindness and as a political payoff to the automobile industry.

An editorial, courtesy of the New York Times

With its plethora of gadgets that become outdated almost as soon as they are sold, the consumer electronics industry is an unlikely champion of the environment.

From Reuters, courtesy of the New York Times

LAST June, Jim Manzi, a longtime software executive, laid out a case in The National Review for the need for conservatives to accept the “reality” of global warming (nationalreview.com).

By Dan Mitchell, courtesy of the New York Times

I strongly believe that adding polar bears to the list under the Endangered Species Act is the wrong move at this time.

An editorial by Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, courtesy of the New York Times

It’s a very good bet that the biggest foreign policy issues for the next president will involve the Far East rather than the Middle East.

By Paul Krugman, an editorial courtesy of the New York Times

It is not yet clear to what extent Americans are willing to grapple with the implications of any serious strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

A New York Times Editorial

The world has serious consumption problems, but we can solve them if we choose to do so.

A New York Times Editorial by Jared Diamond