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On a cold winter’s night, storms outside, wrapped in a blanket by a crackling fire, whiling away the hours reading a good book. Well, there are an increasing number of great books that suggest that blanket and fire will be required fewer and fewer evenings in the coming years. The genre of Global Warming literature […]

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Amid the discussions of Global Warming today and in the years to come, vigilance to language, to framing, to nuance is and will remain an imperative as we seek a path forward to a sustainable and prosperous energy future (Energize America). The Washington Post, today, had perhaps its most extensive discussion of Global Warming, to […]

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Making Green by going Green has many faces.  Cameron Diaz has added hers to the mix, offering a path for budding environmentally-oriented advertising types to compete for public service announcements about climate change.  It is not surprising to see Diaz as a spokeswoman for something like this, as she is a Climate Project trainee and […]

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As a parent, one real challenge is how to deal with the most serious issues, how to communicate the world’s ills without terrifying and creating utter despair while remaining honest.   Might it be surprising that the dinner table conversation in my household can range from Constitutional violations to terrorism to national debt to health […]

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The obfuscation effort, the campaign to confuse the globe on Global Warming continues unabated despite Exxon’s well-publicized claims to cut off funding for their campaign.  A coming cold day for a warm globe, in that stalwart of rational journalism — The Washington Times, is another shot in the battle to confuse on facts to inhibit […]

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On May 16th, The U.S. National Academy of Sciences joined 12 other national science academies … in calling on world leaders — particularly G8 leaders who will meet in June — to address global climate change and energy-access issues by promoting low carbon-emission energy systems and more efficient use of energy. The academies also urged […]

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The tide is coming in fast with companies ‘jumping on’ the green bandwagon. Grist got an advance copy of Rupert Murdoch’s speech where he announced that a News Corporation (parent of Fox News, 20th Century Fox, HarperCollins, MySpace.com, etc…) climate change plan to reduce the News Corporation’s emissions and, even more importantly, “to weave climate […]

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“As sea levels rise, salt in the ground water is slowly transforming Bangladesh’s breadbasket into a vast shrimp farm. Yet what may be good for the farmers is bad for everyone else. A visit to the front lines of climate change.” So begins SpiegelOnline International‘s article The Salty Taste of Global Warming.

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On 1 May 2007, the online edition of Geophysical Research Letters will publish a study by a combined team from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado’s National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).  This study report will show, in yet another way, how the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) […]

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For me, Ecotality has a valuable, diverse, and expanding blogroll.  Perhaps, however, this blogroll simply overwhelms and changes/additions to it are opaque rather than illuminating. Thus, a few words about an addtion today to the blogroll:  EarthPortal.

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