November 17, 2008

What's hot on energy policy's to-do list?

By: Mlive.com

Does it conjure up questions of national security and terrorism? Or is it more about promoting cheap, renewable fuels? Maybe your take is about climate change and reducing greenhouse gases?

November 16, 2008

Researchers Help To Improve Global Climate Studies

By: Redorbit.com

University of Iowa researchers and their colleagues have found a way to improve existing estimates of the amount of carbon absorbed by plants from the air, thereby improving the accuracy of global warming and land cover change...

November 12, 2008

Inspiration for climate change

By: The Boston Globe

AS PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Obama rightly claimed on election night, this is a defining moment in American history. For most Americans his election is an inspiring victory. The question is whether this inspiration will lead to...

November 10, 2008

Do you want to play corporate roulette with global warming?

By: Wisconsin Technology News

Imagine the following headline about your company: “First-ever binding and enforceable agreement requiring a company to detail financial liabilities related to climate change.” - Office of Attorney General, Andrew M. Cuomo

November 8, 2008

Obama and climate change -- does he have what it takes

By: Seattle PI.com

Bill McKibben is out with a bracing column basically arguing that President-elect Obama has to take some serious action -- that could be seriously unpopular -- on climate change. He suggests slapping a heavy tax on carbon, then...

November 7, 2008

'Aliens Cause Global Warming'

By: The Wall Street Journal

Cast your minds back to 1960. John F. Kennedy is president, commercial jet airplanes are just appearing, the biggest university mainframes have 12K of memory. And in Green Bank, West Virginia at the new National Radio Astronomy...

November 3, 2008

Humans are warming the poles: study

By: ASC Science

A new study has concluded that the recent rise in temperature near the earth's poles is directly attributable to human activity.

The international study of temperatures in the Arctic and Antarctic, appears in Nature Geoscience....

October 28, 2008

Report: Climate change affects Yellowstone

By: USA Today

From Walden Pond in Massachusetts to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, climate change has begun to dramatically affect the flora and fauna of these American treasures, according to two studies in Monday's Proceedings of the...

October 22, 2008

Authors reveal climate change survey results

By: THE CAVALIER DAILY

The results of the Report of the Virginia Climate Change Survey were released during a panel discussion held at the Miller Center of Public Affairs last night. The survey, which was conducted through telephone calls to more than...

October 10, 2008

Shell Deflects Responsibility To Governments; ENERGY: Governments Must Lead On Renewables, Says Shell CEO

By: IPS (Latin America)
Rahul Kumar

Shell CEO Jeroen Van der Veer told IPS in an interview at the IUCN World Conservation Congress that if governments wanted to fast-track the creation of sustainable energy, they must come up with long-term global standards to...