Lead author of a new report from the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Program: Rising temperatures boost the probability of extreme weather that can "lead to the type of events we are seeing in the Midwest."
Describes new study (Nature, 5.15.08 issue) that assesses thousands of geologic and biologic phenomena and finds that about 90 percent of them are in sync with IPCC scientists' predictions about how global warming will alter the planet.
James Hansen, once again speaking truth to power.
Blogger A Siegel calls Drudge Report for (drumroll, please....) playing fast and loose with facts in service of fomenting denial re global warming. Sigh...
This SourceWatch wiki has become information central for advocates of a total moratorium on building new coal-fired electricity plants -- an idea that seems to be gathering adherents every day.
Few people can talk about global warming with the force and passion that writer Bill McKibben brings to the topic. Last year, as the public face of StepItUp2007.org, he helped spark a remarkably successful campaign. 350.org is this year's model.
Tireless blogger Joe Romm -- a high-level Clinton administration energy official now with the Center for American Progress -- is a go-to source of heavyweight analysis of news and issues relating to climate science, politics, and solutions.
Grist's David Roberts: "People think tackling climate change means pain. If we can change enough minds about that, the rest of the arguments will be rendered moot. If we can't, all else is for naught."
World leaders are gathered at the UN for global warming summit, but President Bush is skipping the talks. The Bush admin still touts a voluntary approach to emissions caps. This has never worked (see http://urltea.com/1kjg and http://urltea.com/1kjh)
AP story: "the leaders of some 80 nations converge on the U.N. on Monday for a summit on the warming Earth and what to do about it." NRDC's David Doniger is there.
Hard-hitting NY Times articles and multimedia examining the human toll, global impact and political challenge of China’s epic pollution crisis. Click on the video link entitled "The Real Cost" for a terrific video featuring NRDC's own Alex Wang.
The host of the "web2.0 show," a popular podcast about emerging web technologies, wonders if the Internet industry can go "carbon neutral." (In general, I've found technologists to be very receptive to greening their business practices. )
From Green Mountain Energy -- a large retailer of cleaner electricity -- BeGreen has a lot of information about reducing your carbon "footprint." There's a guide to carbon-neutral gifts, and BeGreen is doing a video contest on MySpace.
Jon Lebkowsky blogs for WorldChanging, among many other things, and tipped me to this Whole Foods initiative -- for Earth Day, the company is presenting its customers with a whole slate of ideas for reducing one's carbon footprint. Cool.
McKibben talks with OnEarth about StepItUp 2007, his seat-of-the-pants campaign that's knitting together -- very quickly -- a mass movement of global warming warriors. A really interesting conversation.
