Latest News
courtesy Climate Progress
September 2nd
No, it’s not even close to BP redux, but the story is noteworthy — and not just for its irony, as TP makes clear:
The U.S. Coast Guard said this morning that a natural gas and oil drilling platform exploded 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana...
September 2nd
Banks Grow Wary of Environmental Risks
Blasting off mountaintops to reach coal in Appalachia or churning out millions of tons of carbon dioxide to extract oil from sand in Alberta are among environmentalists’ biggest industrial irritants. But they are als...
September 2nd
CAP’s Joshua Dorner exposes the latest Big Oil effort to dupe the public in this TP cross-post.
As ThinkProgress and others have reported, Koch Industries and its billionaire owners, Charles and David Koch, have played a leading role in the apparent...
September 2nd
UPDATE: Shockingly, Anthony Watts stands behind his offensive post and comments.
Today, a demented, violent individual held people hostage with a gun and bombs strapped to his body at the Discovery Communications building in Silver Spring, MD. He was u...
September 1st
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA, click to enlarge) has a widely used plot of sea ice area.
The notion that the Arctic sea ice was somehow on a long-term recovery trend based on a short-term two-dimensional analysis (i.e. sea ice area or ext...
September 1st
If one follows Bjorn Lomborg closely — not for the feint of heart — one can argue that his position has not changed drastically, as some commenters noted (see “Lomborg flip-flop: “Climate change is undoubtedly one of the chief concerns f...
September 1st
At first, I wasn’t going to blog on this because I thought it must be a hoax. Who could possibly ask such a question of candidates? Then again, the Tea Party have outsourced their thinking on climate to The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, which is...
September 1st
Energy Dept. says nationwide ‘smart meter’ army hits 2 million
The Energy Department said Tuesday more than 2 million “smart” electric meters have been installed nationwide, sped along by funding in the big 2009 stimulus law.
The devices help ...
September 1st
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska conceded late Tuesday in her Republican primary race against Joe Miller, a lawyer from Fairbanks who was backed by Tea Party activists, Sarah Palin and other conservatives.
Mr. Miller shocked the political establishment he...
August 31st
A unique ‘natural laboratory’ in the Mediterranean Sea is revealing the effects of rising carbon dioxide levels on life in the oceans. The results show a bleak future for marine life as ocean acidity rises, and suggest that similar lowering of ocean pH...