Imagine this: A farmer spends months tending to his wheat field only to wake up one morning to find, in peak harvesting season, all of his precious wheat has burned to the ground. The culprit, as it turns out, is a stream of sparks from nearby train tracks.
The farmer More…
A new Pew Research Center poll gives us a clearer picture of where the country stands on global warming. According to the poll, the country’s stance on global warming has pretty much stayed the same during the last year. About 59 percent of Americans say there is “solid evidence” More…
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson announced today a series of “international priorities” for the agency, including working across borders to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. The announcement comes as EPA is stepping up its role in fighting climate change, given Congress’ failed attempt to pass legislation to address the More…
The Department of Energy announced today that it is planning to abandon a years-long effort to build a coal-fired power plant in Illinois that would release almost no greenhouse gas emissions. The poster child for “clean coal” projects, the plant faced years of delays and setbacks after it was first More…
The scientific consensus on geoengineering has come a long way in the past few years. As recently as 2006, it was unthinkable to many climate scientists that leaders in their field would seriously consider the idea of shooting reflective particles into the atmosphere or dumping massive quantities of iron into More…
Is this really the talking point Republicans want to use in their fight against climate change legislation? At a congressional hearing last week, Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) argued that we could afford to keep increasing the levels of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, since dinosaurs got by just fine More…
This morning, Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council unveiled a proposal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States 24 percent by 2020 and 85 percent by 2050. These targets are much more ambitious than President Obama’s plan to cut emissions 14 percent (back to their 1990 More…
Marc Morano, the communications guru for Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and his fellow Republicans on the Senate Environment Committee, passes along a piece of wonderful news: The increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide is nothing to worry about — in fact, it’s cause for celebration!
Morano cites Princeton University Physicist Will More…
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