Polar Bears and Climate Change (ActionBioscience)
This plain language article by an internationally recognized polar bear and global warming expert makes the threat to polar bears pretty clear: lose sea ice, lose the species.
This plain language article by an internationally recognized polar bear and global warming expert makes the threat to polar bears pretty clear: lose sea ice, lose the species.
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."
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Interesting post on the potential role for technological breakthroughs in the energy sector and why policy and deploying what we have now is more important.
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)