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Friday, Jan 29
Migratory Birds Leaving Earlier in Spring Because of Climate Change Still Arriving on Time
photo: Sébastien Bertu via flickr. Some migrating birds may be more able to adapt to changing climate that previously thought. Writing in Current Biology researchers studying the migration patterns of pied flycatchers say that changing climatic conditions are indeed causing them to b...
Thursday, Jan 28
Iceland Leads World in Environmental Performance - US in 61st Place Narrowly Beating Venezuela
Gullfloss waterfall, Iceland. Photo: O Palsson via flickr. A new survey of how well nations are meeting their environmental policy goals has been presented at the World Economic Forum and Iceland comes out on top. Produced by Yale University and Columbia University, the Environmental Pe...
News From Mother Jones: Felons Taming Mustangs, 5-Handi-Wipe Showers, Do Americans Believe in Climate Change?
Hi TreeHuggers! Today, news about skeptics, showers, and mustangs. Read on! Warmer temperatures are making waves bigger. The last decade was the warmest on record. Himalayan glaciers are melting fast (though not as fast as the IPCC predicted). What with all the mounting evidence of global...
Wednesday, Jan 27
Is Lindsey Graham Wavering on His Climate Change Commitment?
There is one person in the "Party of No" who has been saying "Yes" on climate and energy legislation--Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. Graham has been working Sens. Kerry and Lieberman on a climate bill but today he said something very troubling to the NY Times: "What is dead is some mass...
The End is Nigh: How the Religious Language of Global Warming is Failing
Photo via Circlemp Okay, okay, we've heard them all by know. Because we're trying to address the threat of climate change, we're blind Al Gore followers. Cultists. 'Alarmists'. And perhaps the most loaded: we're followers of the religion of global warming. To all that, I say . . . fair enough. ...Read t...
Tuesday, Jan 26
Americans' Attitudes Cool Towards Global Warming - Less Than Half Now Think Humans Responsible
photo: James Jordan via flickr. Yale University has just released an updated survey about the attitudes of the people in the United States about climate change which quantifies what I'm sure many people in green community have been sensing: Americans are becoming notably more skeptica...
Thursday, Jan 21
Television Weathermen Aren't Climatologists, Tell Your Friends
photo: Mr. T in DC via flickr. Continuing on the climate is not weather theme: If you read only one thing over the next two days on climate change make it this piece from Columbia Journalism Review entitled Hot Air: Why don't TV weatherman believe in climate change?. In case you didn't know, it t...
Monday, Jan 18
London Event: Sustainable Fashion at Cape Farewell's SHIFT Festival
Image courtesy of Cape Farewell, Via Centre for Sustainable Fashion. Southbank Centre is hosting Cape Farewell's SHIFT festival, a series of events engaging artists, architects, scientists, and the general public in a discussion about climate change inspired by Cape Farwwell's exp...
Thursday, Jan 14
Climate & Energy Quick Takes: US Wants Diminished UN Climate Roll, Madagascar Sanctions Illegal Logging, Hindu Epic Recitation Helps Plant Trees
photo: Julian Rotela via flickr. Lots of newsworthy stuff coming through in that last 48 hours, so here's a quick recap: US Says Diminished UN Climate Roll Would Help The Guardian and others have reported that US climate negotiator John Pershing has said that the UN should relinquish its c...
Monday, Jan 11
Rolling Stone Calls Out the 17 Worst 'Climate Killers' in the US
The grandaddy of music culture mags and the one-time hotbed for gonzo journalism, Rolling Stone is still courageous and trailblazing in much of its investigative reporting. Age be damned. Take climate change, for instance--few media giants are willing to recognize and stand behind the...
Sunday, Jan 10
Rainbows: Nature's Ephemeral Illusions (Slideshow)
Image credit: Nicholas_T/Flickr If you follow a rainbow to its end, the story goes, you will be rewarded with a leprechaun's hidden pot of gold. Though a more natural path could not be imagined, following such a multicolored-arc to its source may prove to be impossible. With climate change...
Coral Can Recover from Climate Change Damage... In Marine Reserves
photo: Marc via flickr. Ocean acidification is only likely to be a growing problem in the coming years as the world's oceans continue to warm. One severe effect is the bleaching and death of coral reefs, one of the most biodiverse and economically important ecosystems on the planet. ...Read the...
Saturday, Jan 9
San Francisco To Vote on Plan to Halve GHG Emissions
photo via flickr Sometime living in the Bay Area is a source of green pride. San Francisco has some of the most progressive environmental regulations in the country, and now the city is getting ready to tackle climate change. The Bay Area's air quality agency will vote in April on standards t...
Fair Trade Farmers Spearhead Climate Adaptation Efforts
Image credit: AdapCC One of the stranger memes to come from the recent influx of climate skeptic/denialist commenters on this blog has been the idea that the developing world can't afford robust action to cut emissions. Yet the evidence keeps on mounting that the poor will be hit hardest b...
EPA Puts Methane Mitigation on its To-Do List
photo: J. Novak The EPA is taking steps toward climate change mitigation by requesting grant applications for activities that promote methane emission reductions. Five million dollars in grant money was recently made available to U.S. and international organizations to promote climat...
Wednesday, Jan 6
Hannity, Ever Wrong, Says CIA Is Diverting Resources For Climate Change
photo via flickr Did you know that the CIA is distracted by climate change and is diverting resources on global warming that should be spent on counter terrorism? It's true. Ask Sean Hannity and ExxonMobil. Said Hannity last night on his TV program: "The CIA director redirects manpower to m...
Two-Ton Al Gore Ice Sculpture Stirs Controversy
Photos via Compeaus The second giant ice sculpture of Al Gore to be erected in Fairbanks, Alaska in as many years is stirring up another controversy. The first "frozen Gore" statue debuted this time last year, and received generous coverage from conservative media outlets like Fox and th...
Tuesday, Jan 5
Watch Frank Capra's 1958 Film on Global Warming (Video)
Yes, there were movies being made about climate change as early as the 1950s. Dave Roberts has a great column in Grist today about the short memory we have in American political culture, and how this applies especially to climate 'scandals' and 'controversies'. He points out that though oi...
Recession Struck Michigan Will Create 130,000 Jobs, $25 Billion with Climate Action Plan
Wind power on the Great Lakes. Photo via Wind Power Ninja Michigan has one of the bolder plans to fight climate change out of any state in the nation--drawn up last year, it looks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions a solid 20% below 1990 levels. That's far, far more than the climate bill that pa...
Wednesday, Dec 30
Brazil Signs Into Law Bill to Cut CO2 Emissions 39%
Photo via fredonia Strengthening the pledges made on the heals of COP15 earlier this month, Brazilian President Lula signed a bill into law on Tuesday that require his nation's greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced 39 percent by 2020--called the National Policy on Climate Change. Desp...
Tuesday, Dec 29
Best and Worst of 2009: The Year in Climate Change Politics (Slideshow)
photo: Julie G via flickr. It's been a roller-coaster ride of a year in climate change politics, all speeding towards the COP15 conference in December, where with only a bit of hyperbole, the fate of humanity would be decided. From Obama's election bringing hope and a genuine shift in US cli...
Monday, Dec 21
Associated Press Launches Interactive Map of Climate Emissions & Pledges
Images via AP The Associated Press has put out an AP">interesting interactive map of climate change data, including the emission trends from countries in the northern hemisphere, graphs of the various indicators of global warming such as glacier melts and global temperatures, an...
Sunday, Dec 20
Reforesting 20 Million Square Kilometers by 2020 (Video)
Image credit: WeForest It looks like a global anti-deforestation deal may be the most positive thing to come out of the Copenhagen climate talks. And while cuts to fossil fuel use and other emissions are still vital, there's no doubt that tackling deforestation is key to reversing climat...
Friday, Dec 18
Copenhagen FAIL
Not to Be President Obama has announced a "meaningful" climate deal. But the document's only meaning is "let's keep discussing." Suddenly, the most important climate summit -- the most critical and closely-watched meeting in the history of the United Nations -- seems to have evaporated...
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to +3°C or the Year in Climate Change Politics
On Thursday night about 500 people gathered in a Vigil for Survival, placing their hopes for the world in 2050 under candles at the end of the service. Photo: Matthew McDermott When Barack Obama was elected I, like many people in the United States, placed many hopes in him in terms of climate...
What Would You Do To Stop Climate Change? (Video)
With COP15 in its final hours and world leaders now in Copenhagen to try to agree to some sort of global climate deal -- and at this point what's on the table is on track to create 3°C of global warming; bad news -- I suspect many people who attended are going to be engaging in some soul searching....
Thursday, Dec 17
Video Q&A: Optimistic, Thom Yorke Comes to Copenhagen to Ask World Leaders to "Get Their Shit Together"
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke is no tourist in the climate activism world -- he's defended fair trade, campaigned for Friends of the Earth, edited a climate change edition of the Observer, and sought to make Radiohead's tours low carbon affairs. And now he's come to Copenhagen, just hour...
US Revives Copenhagen Talks With $100 Billion Pledge to Developing Nations
flickr/marcn Delegates, NGOs Respond Just as climate talks hit their lowest point, Hillary Clinton descended on Copenhagen like a deus ex machina, putting on the table $100 billion in climate aid for developing nations per year through 2020, provided that a deal can be reached with Chi...
