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Bush ready to pass global warming legislation?
The Washington Times shockingly reports this morning that President Bush decided to to announce early this week that he wants Congress to pass legislation to combat global warming. Key members of the Republican Party seem confused on the sudden shift...
Al Gore's new Slideshow
Al Gore has a new slideshow, focused on how climate change is worse than we expected, more of an emphasis on the oil situation, and a challenge to think "generationally" by becoming super-active citizens and getting laws changed. Check it......
New study states no link between cosmic rays and climate change
I believe climate change is happening. When you look at the glacial and Arctic melts and the global temperature trend, it's pretty hard to argue with climate change as fact. I do try, however, to keep an open mind as......
What does E.P.A. stand for? A fable.
Once upon a time in a far away land (or rather, July 1970 in Washington DC) the people and their leaders looked around and started to get worried about the mess they were making of the land, and the resulting......
The American West is heating up nearly twice as fast as the world
A recent report by the NRDC indicates that the American West has experienced average temperature increases at a rate of 70% greater than the rest of the world. This is resulting in loss of snowpack in the Rocky Mountains, which......
Celebrating the 50-year-old Keeling Curve
If you've spent any time reading about greenhouse gases and climate change, or if you've watched Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, this is a graph you should be extremely familiar with. This week marks 50 years ago that Charles David “Dave”......
Shock and Awe: Watching the Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse
You've likely heard the news by now that a chunk of ice the size of Connecticut dramatically and unexpectedly broke from Antarctica yesterday. I don't want to spend too much time on the details of the news: there are many......
Interesting climate change rationalization
I thought I'd share a video that pretty much sums up my views on why even though I still have doubt about the validity of climate change theory, I am still taking action on reducing my footprint. Warning: the guy......
Arctic and Glacial Ice melting like Igloos in the Sahara
It's always a little bit difficult to tell whether odd weather can be attributed to climate change, or just nature being weird. Ice, however, has been a consistent canary in the proverbial coal mine for climate change scientists. Two major......
801 U.S. mayors pledge to fight climate change
801 mayors of cities across the United States have signed the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ (USCM) Climate Protection Agreement. The Agreement came to pass in 2005 when the United States failed to sign the Kyoto Treaty. Several cities, citing the......
Genetic Engineering becoming pivotal weapon in war on emissions
Two recent breakthroughs in agricultural genetics demonstrate how genetic engineering is becoming an increasingly important tool in the struggle to reduce emissions. In California, Arcadia Biosciences announces a new genetically-modified form of rice...
Green News Round-Up
A sampling of important green news from across the web: The world's largest solar plant has been announced for Arizona in 2011. While the infrastructure is impressive, it's still only enough to power 70,000 homes. To get a better idea......
A 'stinging' Doomsday scenario
When I was ten years old, I read a sci-fi book with a plot somewhere along these lines: Aliens wanted kill mankind and claim Earth for their own purposes. But these weren't the kinds of aliens that showed up in......
Do you know your area's climate change plan?
As I've been greening my own life, it's become increasingly important to me to understand how my city, county, state, and nation are addressing the issues of peaking oil and climate change. Most of the information for my local government......
Why Australia needs to care a lot about global warming
Australia is about the size of the continental US, but only has 7% of the population. Over 60% of their population lives in five coastal cities. The reason for both of these facts is that Australia is by far the......
Climate change will bring disease, food shortages, and...pythons?
The US Geological Survey released maps yesterday stating that as the nation warms, giant pythons are going to start taking up residence in up to one third of the country. Yes, giant pythons. Apparently, the giant pythons are the cockroaches......
Cap and Trade Programs Explained
There's a tremendous amount of talk lately about Emissions Cap and Trade programs. All of the major presidential candidates have a national program at the center of their environmental proposals. But the concept is new to most US citizens. How......
Green News Round-Up: Making Oil from CO2, Sky Sails, and Paris Hilton?
Lots of interesting green news out in the last few days: Los Alamos Laboratories (yes, the guys that do the nukes) says that it has figured out how to suck CO2 out of the air, mix it with water, and......
Oprah's Green Episode
I watched Oprah's "Going Green 101" episode today. It was pretty good: many of the practices that I've been implementing in our own lives were discussed, and many of the product recommendations were extremely useful. What struck me the most......
Buying Green Power
At this point in my eco-makeover, I've been able to reduce my energy consumption significantly through a few simple projects. This has reduced my monthly energy bill enough that it is time for me to purchase some green power. What......
The Energy Audit: Part Two -- Which household appliances draw the most power?
This article is part 2 of a series. Read previous article. The next question to answer in my power audit was what things in our home are using what level of power. In order to answer this, I spent $20......
