John Kerry tells advocates for clean air and clean energy to get as angry as Tea Partiers

NASA makes it official: 2000s were the hottest decade on record, 2009 tied for second warmest year - "In total, average global temperatures have increased by about 0.8°C (1.5°F) since 1880."

Is progressive messaging a “massive botch”? - Part 3: How bad messaging creates a self-fulfillling failure of will.

Hansen wants your feedback on “If It’s That Warm, How Come It’s So Damned Cold?” - Essay by four NASA scientists explains why 2005 (not 1998) was the hottest year, what caused recent cold snap, and the source of the "gullibility" of those "so readily convinced of a false conclusion, that the world is really experiencing a cooling trend"

In 3-2 Vote, SEC requires companies to disclose climate risks to investors

Exclusive: Dr. Mojib Latif sets the record straight on what his work says about global warming and what it doesn’t say about global cooling - Warming might or might not stall for "several years" but we risk "an unprecedented warming in the history of mankind if no measures are taken to cut global carbon dioxide emissions"

Energy and Global Warming News for January 19: Even plants may not like a warmer world

Sen. Lisa “dirty air” Murkowski now top fundraiser from utility industry - Plus the NY Times on "Ms. Murkowski’s Mischief"

US News whispers: “Obama to Say Climate Change Bill Will Create Jobs in State of the Union Speech”

Energy and Global Warming News for December 18

Energy and Global Warming News for January 15: Investors urge governments to act on climate change; California adopts mandatory green building code

Politico: “Lobbyists led meeting on Murkowski EPA amendment” - What her "Dirty Air Act" would mean for Alaska

Energy and Global Warming News for January 29: Modified E Coli could make diesel directly from crops; Iberdrola to invest $3 billion in the U.S. each year

Energy and Global Warming News for January 27: Stimulus provided big boost for geothermal industry, capacity expected to triple to nearly 10 GW in 5 years

Bill Gates disses energy efficiency, renewables, and near-term climate action while embracing the magical thinking of Bjorn Lomborg (and George Bush) - Coincidentally, Gates is funding geoengineering research

The Dirty Air Dem Revealed: Mary Landrieu of Katrina-ravaged, sea-rise-threatened Louisiana

Limbaugh, Fox News suckered by Bin Laden into repeating his disinformation and message of hatred

Is there going to be a bipartisan climate, energy security, clean air and clean energy jobs bill this year? - Graham remains "hopeful after discussing this matter with conservation groups, businesses, and Senate colleagues we can be successful this year." Nelson and Landrieu (!) open to comprehensive bill

Voters in Ohio, Michigan and Missouri overwhelmingly support action on clean energy and global warming

Australian Scientists: Contrary to media reports (and tweets), “our paper does not discount climate change as playing a role in this most recent drought, the ‘Big Dry’. In fact, there are indications that climate change has worsened this recent drought.” - "The severity of the 'Big Dry' has been exacerbated by recent warmer air temperatures over the past few decades.... In a warmer world, the severity of droughts would likely become far worse." (Duh)

Energy and Global Warming News for January 21: Over 80 U.S. companies call on Obama & Congress to enact comprehensive climate and energy legislation; Toyota secures long-term lithium supply for batteries

Paging Neil Cavuto: UAH global satellite data has record WARMEST day for January - "It’s almost certain by now that January 2010 will also be the globally warmest January on the UAH record"

Wind power makes record gains in 2009

Obama orders 28% reduction of government-wide GHGs, which will cut energy costs $10 billion a year

NASA’s James Hansen on hacked emails: “The contrarians or deniers do not have a scientific leg to stand on. Their aim is to win a public relations battle, or at least get a draw, which may be enough to stymie the actions that are needed to stabilize climate.”

The Dirty Air Act - The Senate needs to kill this polluter-funded, polluter-crafted pro-pollution amendment

It’s all about Independents — and Independence - Unlike health care reform, the clean air, clean energy jobs bill that cuts oil use and pollution is a bipartisan political winner in every poll.

Breaking: EPA sends C02 endangerment finding to White House

Sen. Jeff Merkley argues against Lisa “Dirty Air” Murkowski’s radical attempt to overrule science - Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) cosponsors Dirty Air Act

Energy and Global Warming News for November 4: Economists see threat in global warming

Are meteorologists climate experts? - Columbia Journalism Review asks "Why don’t TV weathermen believe in climate change?"

Energy and Global Warming News for January 25: How the stimulus bill saved renewable energy; Sites to refuel electric cars gain a big dose of funds

Pseudo-science begets pseudo-insurance — and another phony attack on the IPCC is debunked - Climate change is the greatest risk facing the insurance industry

Energy and Global Warming News for January 26: General Motors to make its own electric motors in 2013; Coke introduces plant-based bottles

Climatologist Michael Mann responds to Palin’s anti-science op-ed

Energy and Global Warming News for October 29: Report slams low-carbon tar sands ‘myth’

Preparing For Frankenstorms: “The most powerful low pressure system in 140 years of record keeping” slams the Southwest.

Energy and Global Warming News for July 7th: Power plant sulfur emissions plummet 24% ahead of 2010 regulations; Coral reefs face imminent destruction from climate change

Nature editorial: “Nothing in the e-mails undermines the scientific case that global warming is real — or that human activities are almost certainly the cause.”

Is Ed Wallace’s Business Week column a “Crock of S*%t”?

MA Senate candidate Scott Brown pushes anti-science nonsense, flip-flops on clean energy action

“Election energizes climate bill talks” - Graham, Kerry, Lieberman meet with Rahm Emanuel -- and then Chamber of Commerce, whose VP of Gov't Affairs said, “generally we were in synch"!

Green talk vs. green action: Sen. Feinstein’s scuttling of solar, wind projects a baffling mistake

Senate Majority Leader expects to pass bipartisan energy and climate bill this spring: It “may be the most important policy we will ever pass.” - Reid: "Finally – and perhaps most importantly – Congress needs to send the market a clear signal on the costs of global warming pollution to drive far greater investments into geothermal and every other form of renewable energy and energy efficiency."

Watts not to love: New study finds the poor U.S. weather stations tend to have a slight COOL bias, not a warm one - Analysis of actual data disagrees with Anthony Watts' primary conclusion.

Climate Crock video on cold snap vs. global warming

GOP, Dem polls show climate and clean energy jobs legislation has strong bipartisan support - Even Frank Luntz sees it as a winning message

Lindzen debunked again: New scientific study finds his paper downplaying dangers of human-caused warming is “seriously in error”

Palin urges America to stay addicted to oil - Even Bush wanted to "move beyond a petroleum-based economy," but not Sarah 'Four Pinocchios' Palin

Anti-science disinformers to media: Please make case for something that isn’t true using data we don’t believe.

The year climate science caught up with what top scientists have been saying privately for years

Opinion: Energy and Global Warming News for April 27: CSP, politics of Waxman-Markey

Opinion: Debunking Misinformation About Stolen Climate Emails

Opinion: Energy and Global Warming News for November 3: Yet another coal plant to be replaced by a ‘plant’ plant!

Opinion: Energy and Global Warming News for April 16

Opinion: Energy and Global Warming News for June 27th: Dust-Bowl-ification spreads to southern Italy; Clean energy by Nobel Prize-wining Grameen Bank; DC Metro crash symptom of crumbling infrastructure

Opinion: Weather Channel expert on Georgia’s record-smashing global-warming-type deluge

Opinion: Energy and Global Warming News for September 18th: UN Secretary General calls for immediate action

Opinion: Energy and Global Warming News for January 5: Study finds Michigan’s plan to fight climate change would also boost state economy; Wind farms could create thousands of new Nebraska jobs — NREL

Opinion: A Stormy Forecast for U.S. Agriculture

Opinion: Energy and Global Warming News for September 10: Nukes will be part of Senate energy bill, Boxer says

Opinion: Sen. Reid: “Health care is easier than this global warming stuff.” Las Vegas odds on bill in 2009 now longer shot than Mine That Bird. Obama, the horse whisperer of U.S. politics, finally weighs in.

Opinion: Energy and Global Warming News for December 8: ABB on “The Efficiency Fix For Climate Change”; U.S. Patent Office to Speed Clean-Energy Technologies

Opinion: WattsUpWithThat labels people who advocate putting a price on global warming pollution as “criminal,” the same as “murdering people”

Opinion: Energy and Global Warming News for June 16: ConocoPhillips chief warns of impending oil crisis, says we must keep destroying a livable climate

Opinion: A summary of the climate bill plus a drinking game for the House mark-up today at 1 pm on C-SPAN3

Opinion: Error-riddled ‘Superfreakonomics’: New book pushes global cooling myths, sheer illogic, and “patent nonsense” — and the primary climatologist it relies on, Ken Caldeira, says “it is an inaccurate portrayal of me” and “misleading” in “many” places.

Opinion: Energy and Global Warming News for January 13: U.S. Chamber pledges to stop Obama agenda, play big role in Nov. elections; What would failure to combat climate change quickly mean?

Opinion: Caldeira tells Yale e360: “Thinking of geoengineering as a substitute for emissions reduction is analogous to saying, ‘Now that I’ve got the seatbelts on, I can just take my hands off the wheel and turn around and talk to people in the back seat.’ It’s crazy…. If I had to wager, I would wager that we would never deploy any geoengineering system.”

Opinion: Energy and Global Warming News for January 20th: Abu Dhabi tries saltwater farming for aviation fuels; Fisker raises $115M for electric cars; CA solar power advocates hopeful for 2010

Opinion: “Can you PROVE to me that global warming is being caused by mankind?”*

Opinion: Was the “Blizzard of 2009″ a “global warming type” of record snowfall — or an opportunity for the media to blow the extreme weather story (again)?

Opinion: Energy and Global Warming News for January 22: Samsung signs $6.6 billion deal to build wind and solar power in Ontario; UAE’s Masdar, Spanish partner secure $760M for solar projects; FERC seeks better grid integration for renewables

Opinion: Energy and Global Warming News for November 17: South Korea confirms strictist CO2 cuts for 2020; Concentrated solar thermal goes dry (cooling)

Opinion: Energy and Global Warming News for December 3: Kerry see ‘definite Republican votes’ for climate change bill; Vilsack: Climate bill to be boon to farmers

Opinion: Superfreakonomics authors abandon climate science

Opinion: How the world can (and will) stabilize at 350 to 450 ppm: The full global warming solution (updated)

Opinion: Energy and Global Warming News for June 10th: Hotter planet means more underweight babies; China aims for 20% renewables by 2020

Opinion: An introduction to global warming impacts: Hell and High Water

Opinion: The Age of (small) Tradeoffs

Opinion: “Experts: Cold snap doesn’t disprove global warming”

Opinion: Energy and Global Warming News for April 21: Coal is [cough, cough] clean

Opinion: Energy and Global Warming News for October 19: Lower water tables in Africa; Cost of climate bill not so dire — Stanford Business School; Minister seeks unconditional CO2 curbs for India

Opinion: Energy and Global Warming News for May 6th: China to triple wind goal to 100,000 MW by 2020

Podcast: Exclusive audio of press call today with Michael Mann, Gavin Schmidt, and Michael Oppenheimer on “Climate Science: Setting the Record Straight”

Podcast: “Global Warming Is A Medical Emergency”: Hellish heatwaves to harm health of millions

Podcast: Big oil made over $600 billion during Bush years, but invested bupkis in clean energy, Part 1

Podcast: Energy and Global Warming News for May 28th: Exxon Mobil says transition from fossil fuel is century away, China plans tougher fuel standards than U.S.

Podcast: Oil Dependence Is a Dangerous Habit

Podcast: The real Patriot Act, Part 1

Podcast: UK Met Office: Catastrophic climate change, 13-18°F over most of U.S. and 27°F in the Arctic, could happen in 50 years, but “we do have time to stop it if we cut greenhouse gas emissions soon.”

Good post by James Fallows

CLIMATE CHANGES SINCE THE LAST ICE AGE

News From Mother Jones: Felons Taming Mustangs, 5-Handi-Wipe Showers, Do Americans Believe in Climate Change?

What NASA has to Say about Global Temperatures

NASA makes it official: 2000s were the hottest decade on record, 2009 tied for second warmest year - "In total, average global temperatures have increased by about 0.8°C (1.5°F) since 1880."