From Sandy to Sandy Hook: The Moral Urgency For Action Even When It Appears ‘The Politics Are Too Hard’

From Sandy to Sandy Hook: The Moral Urgency For Action Even When It Appears ‘The Politics Are Too Hard’: pI have a daughter almost as old as those who were senselessly killed at Sandy Hook Elementary school, so my heart goes out to all the victims. She is also why I fight so hard for climate action. As Obama said in his powerful speech at the Sandy Hook interfaith prayer vigil: With their very first [...]/p

Obama To Name Climate Hawk John Kerry Secretary Of State

Obama To Name Climate Hawk John Kerry Secretary Of State: pIn the first serious indication Obama will focus on climate change in his second term, media outlets report the President will nominate Senator John Kerry (D-MA) to be Secretary of State. Kerry is one of the Senate’s leading climate hawks who has said he believes that climate change is the “biggest long term threat” to [...]/p

10 Of The Worst Natural Disasters Ever

10 Of The Worst Natural Disasters Ever

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Climate Change Is Killing The World’s Oldest Trees

Climate Change Is Killing The World’s Oldest Trees: pby Bob Berwyn, via Summit County Citizens Voice Colorado’s old lodgepoles aren’t the only forest giants that are dying. Around the world, the biggest, oldest trees that harbor and sustain countless birds and other wildlife, are meeting the same fate. Three of the world’s leading ecologists say they’ve documented an alarming increase in the death [...]/p

Van Jones: In 20 Years, ‘People Are Going To Be Asking This President Why He Didn’t Do Something On Climate’

Van Jones: In 20 Years, ‘People Are Going To Be Asking This President Why He Didn’t Do Something On Climate’: pPresident Obama’s legacy will be defined by a number of issues: the stimulus package; killing Osama bin Laden; his endless battles with Congress; his support for gay marriage. But arguably the biggest issue he’ll be judged on — one that is still rarely mentioned in Washington policy circles — is climate change. It is true [...]/p

December 14: Drought Expands In Kansas, Oklahoma, And Texas

December 14: Drought Expands In Kansas, Oklahoma, And Texas: pDrought continued to expand through many key farming states within the central United States in the past week, as scattered rainfall failed to replenish parched soils, according to a report issued Thursday by state and federal climatology experts. [Reuters] Congress isn’t planning to take action on climate change any time soon. But if the planet [...]/p

Ex-Im Bank: New Dirty, Controversial Coal Plant? Where Do We Sign Up?

Ex-Im Bank: New Dirty, Controversial Coal Plant? Where Do We Sign Up?: pby Justin Guay and Nicole Ghio, via the Sierra Club Continuing its efforts under Chairman Fred Hochberg to direct as much U.S. taxpayer money as possible to dirty climate destroying coal projects with devastating social and environmental impacts, the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Exim) Board of Directors discussed financing the controversial Oyu Tolgoi gold and copper [...]/p

Stop-Start Engines Stop Waste, Start Jobs

Stop-Start Engines Stop Waste, Start Jobs: pby Peter Lehner, via NRDC’s Switchboard The average American idles his or her engine about 16 minutes a day. That means we burn about 10.6 billion gallons of gas each year–nearly a month’s supply–to go absolutely nowhere. That gas is wasted. According to the automotive experts at Edmunds.com, “You can make a Corolla get the [...]/p

Carol Browner On The EPA’s Stricter Protections Against Soot Pollution

Carol Browner On The EPA’s Stricter Protections Against Soot Pollution: pThe Environmental Protection Agency today finalized tighter public health protections from soot pollution, an important action that will save lives. Carol M. Browner, a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a former agency administrator (from 1993 to 2001), released the following statement on the agency’s action: The Environmental Protection Agency’s air [...]/p

Over 10,000 Americans Tell Congress To Stop Pushing Us Over The Climate Cliff

Over 10,000 Americans Tell Congress To Stop Pushing Us Over The Climate Cliff: pby Brad Johnson “If our country goes over the fiscal cliff, we will be able to climb back up. But if our planet goes over the climate cliff, we will plunge into an abyss of impacts that we cannot reverse.” With these words, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) exposed the essential absurdity of the “fiscal cliff” [...]/p

GOP’s Latest Fiscal Cliff Offer: Permanent Extension Of Bush Tax Cuts For The Wealthy

GOP’s Latest Fiscal Cliff Offer: Permanent Extension Of Bush Tax Cuts For The Wealthy: pCNN’s Dana Bash is reporting that House Republicans have offered an untenable new deal to the White House in the ongoing negotiations to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, demanding, Democratic sources say, that the Bush tax cuts for the top 2 percent of Americans be made permanent. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) unveiled the GOP [...]/p

Why Boehner’s Bush Tax Cut Shenanigans Matter

Why Boehner’s Bush Tax Cut Shenanigans Matter: pThe House Republicans latest “counter offer” to President Obama’s plan for averting the so-called “fiscal cliff” reportedly includes a full extension of the Bush tax cuts, including those for the richest 2 percent of Americans. But an aide to Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) said that the rate on the rich does not [...]/p

What Moves Conservatives On The Environment? Show Them Pictures Of What Happens Without The EPA

What Moves Conservatives On The Environment? Show Them Pictures Of What Happens Without The EPA: pIf you’re a conservative, this image of Cleveland from 1973 taken before the Environmental Protection Agency started cleaning up our skies should make you care about the environment: That’s according to a new paper from UC Berkeley, anyway. In a study released this week, UC Berkeley researchers looked at how conservatives respond to messages about [...]/p

GOP’s Latest Fiscal Cliff Offer: Permanent Extension Of Bush Tax Cuts For The Wealthy

GOP’s Latest Fiscal Cliff Offer: Permanent Extension Of Bush Tax Cuts For The Wealthy: pCNN’s Dana Bash is reporting that House Republicans have offered an untenable new deal to the White House in the ongoing negotiations to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, demanding, Democratic sources say, that the Bush tax cuts for the top 2 percent of Americans be made permanent. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) unveiled the GOP [...]/p

GOP Energy Chair Received Last-Minute Big Oil Donations After Hinting Oil Subsidies Could End

GOP Energy Chair Received Last-Minute Big Oil Donations After Hinting Oil Subsidies Could End: pBig Oil subsidies have maintained a relatively low profile during fiscal showdown negotiations. But there is some chance the oil industry’s $4 billion annual subsidies could be on the chopping block in a deal. The first indication Republicans may possibly budge, after repeatedly blocking votes on the issue, came late in the election when House [...]/p

Deadlock In Doha: Is Qatar Going To Be The Place Where International Agreements Go To Die?

Deadlock In Doha: Is Qatar Going To Be The Place Where International Agreements Go To Die?: pby Rebecca Lefton and Andrew Light This year’s UN climate negotiations have once again deadlocked.  Negotiators and observers in the hall are concerned that this meeting could end with no outcome, much like the long-stalled Doha trade negotiations.  We’re tracking the major sticking points in the three tracks of the meeting and make recommendations on [...]/p

Deadlock In Doha: Is Qatar Going To Be The Place Where International Agreements Go To Die?

Deadlock In Doha: Is Qatar Going To Be The Place Where International Agreements Go To Die?: pby Rebecca Lefton and Andrew Light This year’s UN climate negotiations have once again deadlocked.  Negotiators and observers in the hall are concerned that this meeting could end with no outcome, much like the long-stalled Doha trade negotiations.  We’re tracking the major sticking points in the three tracks of the meeting and make recommendations on [...]/p

What Are the Near-Term Climate Pearl Harbors? What Will Take Us from Procrastination To Action?

What Are the Near-Term Climate Pearl Harbors? What Will Take Us from Procrastination To Action?: p“So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent…. Owing to past neglect, in the face of the plainest warnings, we have entered upon a period of danger….  The era of procrastination, of half measures, of [...]/p

Permafrost 101: Why We Need To Account For Thawing Ground In Climate Projections

Permafrost 101: Why We Need To Account For Thawing Ground In Climate Projections: pby Roz Pidcock, via Carbon Brief Melting permafrost in the Arctic could push the earth towards climate change that is “irreversible on human timescales”, according to a new report…. Here’s our quick guide to what you should know about melting permafrost. The report, by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), says billions of tonnes of [...]/p

Tainted Fracking Research: Three Strikes And Yer Out

Tainted Fracking Research: Three Strikes And Yer Out: pby Tom Kenworthy The oil and gas industry frequently claims there has never been a proven case of hydraulic fracturing contaminating ground water. But not even the fossil fuel barons can claim it hasn’t contaminated academia. Last week, an independent investigation found that a University of Texas study concluding hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, poses no [...]/p

Doha Climate Summit Ends, Marking Start Of A Long March To 2015

Doha Climate Summit Ends, Marking Start Of A Long March To 2015: pby Andrew Light, Rebecca Lefton, Adam James, Gwynne Taraska, and Katie Valentine After a 48-hour marathon negotiating session, largely held behind closed doors, this year’s UN climate negotiations Qatar ended at approximately 9:45pm Saturday Doha time.  Like last year’s Durban climate summit, three distinct negotiating streams produced three overlapping but independent agreements The Kyoto Protocol [...]/p

Vote For A Carbon Tax!

Vote For A Carbon Tax!: pVote at the online U.S. News poll, “Is a Carbon Tax a Good Idea?” My colleague, Richard Caperton, Director of Clean Energy Investment at the Center for American Progress, is part of a U.S. News debate. Readers know my basic feeling about online polls (see “Memo to media, science museums, homo ‘sapiens’: Enough with the [...]/p

2012 Is The Hottest, Most Extreme Year In U.S. History

2012 Is The Hottest, Most Extreme Year In U.S. History: pVery warm November and early December assures record-breaking 2012 A warm November and record-breaking early December means 2012 will be the warmest year ever for the U.S. As Jeff Masters reports: …the U.S. heated up considerably in November, notching its 20th warmest November since 1895, said NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in their latest [...]/p

Watch Personal Climate Stories: ‘It Seems Like Mother Nature Is Throwing Everything At Us That She Can’

Watch Personal Climate Stories: ‘It Seems Like Mother Nature Is Throwing Everything At Us That She Can’: pPolls show that people understand climate change when they are directly impacted by extreme weather. This year has been the warmest and most extreme for weather ever recorded in America; consequently, we’ve seen an increase in the number of Americans who say they are concerned about climate change. Ultimately, getting people interested in climate means [...]/p

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