Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Minority members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) followed through on their threat to boycott the scheduled markup of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (S.1733) today, demanding more analysis of the bill before they...continued→
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
A group of prominent ecologists and climate scientists have an important article coming out in tomorrow's issue of Science, in which they call for "fixing a critical climate accounting error." The error is ignoring a significant source of global warming pollution...continued→
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Sunday's New York Times Op-Ed by Senators John Kerry (D-Ma) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) begins: CONVENTIONAL wisdom suggests that the prospect of Congress passing a comprehensive climate change bill soon is rapidly approaching zero. ...However, we refuse to accept the...continued→
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
It is vital to enact comprehensive energy and climate legislation this year - to help deliver economic, energy, and climate security. As President Obama has said, the choice is "between a slow decline and renewed prosperity; between the past and...continued→
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Jim Hansen, NASA’s top climate scientist, put global warming on the policy agenda with his 1988 Congressional testimony that he was 99% confident that a long term global warming trend was underway and that heat-trapping gases were probably to blame....continued→
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Gary Braasch has a nice photo essay up on Grist with highlights from his new book, Earth Under Fire. I have been privileged to work with Gary for several years. He is a talented photographer and journalist. NRDC sponsored his...continued→
Posted by Dan Lashof in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Late Friday afternoon the US Geological Survey (USGS) released a series of reports on the fate of polar bears in a warming world which Andrew Wetzler described in his post yesterday. The timing of the release may have been designed...continued→
Posted by Dan Lashof in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
How can a tiny beetle threaten the survival of Yellowstone's famed Grizzly bears? The answer was revealed at a meeting I attended this weekend at the beautiful B Bar ranch, situated on the northern border of Yellowstone National Park. The...continued→
