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
George Will gets one thing right in "Dark Green Doomsayers" published in Sunday's Washington Post. Scientific predictions aren't always right. But ironically his suggestion that scientists systematically overstate the risk of environmental harm in general, and global warming in particular,...continued→
Posted by Dan Lashof in Moving Beyond Oil
Some members of Congress are trying to lift the moratorium that protects parts of our Outer Continental Shelf and the Arctic Wildlife Refuge from harmful oil drilling. They are giving a token nod to the real solutions – energy efficiency...continued→
Posted by Dan Lashof in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
I know the NBA finals are still underway, but a football analogy seems much more apt.Legislation to cap and reduce global warming pollution didn’t get across the goal line after obstructionist tactics blocked serious consideration of the Climate Security Act,...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
We asked for your help coming up with seven words to save the planet and you responded: More than 100 entries here and 89 over at Grist, which picked up on the contest. (Some of these are duplicates and I...continued→
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
According to this week's New York Times Bestseller List, the number-one hardcover fiction book in the land this week is Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, which features a memorably terse distillation of its core message: Eat food. Not too...continued→
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
I can't remember a week that heralded so much progress.On Monday, Kevin Rudd, Australia's new prime minister ratified the Kyoto protocol, leaving the United States as the only industrial power outside the agreement.Monday night Peter Petrelli destroyed the Shanti virus,...continued→
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Jim Inhofe is feeling the heat. With growing bipartisan support for the Lieberman-Warner America’s Climate Security Act, the Oklahoma Senator is more isolated than ever. At a hearing in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Wednesday Montana Democrat...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→
