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Climate Change

It's getting hot in here

Is the planet really warming? It's "unequivocal," a major international panel concluded earlier this year, warning that the world's poor would be hit the hardest. While some continue to doubt the science, others are rushing forward toward solutions: from pushing recycled deep-fry oil as gasoline to advocating a return to clean-burning nuclear energy. But will it be too little, too late?

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July 2008
- Global Warming Didn't Cause New England Tornadoes
  
  newser | Boston Herald | 3 hours, 37 minutes ago
  
  Two tornadoes have ripped through New England in the last few days, killing a New Hampshire woman and doing serious property damage. But don’t blame global warming for the uncharacteristically violent climate: local climatologists tell the Boston Herald equally extreme weather struck the region in the ‘30s and ‘60s, resulting from “blocks” of bad weather patterns that last up to 3 months. More »
- Energy Crisis Requires a Global Agency
  
  newser | Financial Times (UK) | Jul 24, 08 4:08 PM CDT
  
  A global agency is needed to deal with the developing energy crisis, Mohamed ElBaradei, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, writes in the Financial Times . Demand for energy is rising fast and alternatives to fossil fuels remain largely hypothetical, and though there are international organizations to deal with everything from health to aviation, energy “is dealt with in a fragmented, piecemeal way.” More »
- 8 Signs the Animal Kingdom Is in Trouble
  
  newser | LiveScience | Jul 21, 08 3:20 PM CDT
  
  Biologists have mounting evidence that human activity is causing real damage to the natural world. LiveScience lists overlooked indications that things are seriously out of whack. Earlier migration: Several bird species are getting their timing wrong. Jellyfish rule: The creatures are hitching rides on ships. More »
- Gore Pounds Pols on Energy Plan
  
  newser | MSNBC | Jul 20, 08 4:13 PM CDT
  
  Al Gore made his first appearance on Meet the Press since he sought the presidency 8 years ago, Politico reports, this time pushing his agenda as the nation's self-appointed energy czar. "My own best role is to try to bring about a sea change in public opinion" on environmental issues, he said, following a Thursday speech in which he called for a switch to 100% renewable energy sources by 2018. "Incremental baby steps are no longer responsible proposals." More »
- Gore Wows Bloggers at Austin Show
  
  newser | Austin American-Statesman | Jul 19, 08 6:54 PM CDT
  
  Al Gore surprised a crowd of liberal bloggers today by showing up at the Netroots Nation conference in Austin, Texas. He wowed the 3,000 progressives by emerging after Nancy Pelosi and giving a speech on the importance of grassroots organization for green issues. When asked about sharing a spot on the Obama ticket, he once again demurred, the Austin-American Statesman reports. More »
- McCain Flips on Emissions Standards
  
  newser | Detroit News | Jul 18, 08 3:37 PM CDT
  
  John McCain seemed to flip-flop on auto-emissions standards today, telling a group of General Motors engineers he supported states’ rights to set their own levels, the Detroit News reports. McCain told the newspaper last month he supported a nationwide standard. Automakers support a national standard because they fear the expense of catering to different restrictions in different states. More »
- EPA Forecasts Longer, Smoggier Summers for US
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 17, 08 4:46 PM CDT
  
  Climate change will bring longer, hotter, smoggier summers in the coming decades across the US, a new EPA reports says. Expect more wildfires and hurricanes, too, along with water problems in the West, the Washington Post reports. The federal report is noteworthy because it refutes the Bush administration's rosier outlook on global warming, the Post notes. More »
- 'Clean Coal' Advocates Blowing Smoke
  
  newser | Yale Environment 360 | Jul 17, 08 11:31 AM CDT
  
  “Clean coal” is the buzzword of the moment, with industry groups and presidential candidates swearing by a work-in-progress technique known as carbon capture and storage (CCS), which ultimately buries carbon dioxide emissions deep underground. But Jeff Goodell, writing in Yale Environment 360 , doesn’t buy it. “We don’t need to bury our problems,” Goodell writes. “We need to reinvent our world.” More »
- Gore Challenge: 100% Clean Electricity by 2018
  
  newser | Time | Jul 17, 08 10:20 AM CDT
  
  Al Gore is challenging the US to produce all its electricity through wind, sun, and other clean sources by 2018. Speaking to the AP ahead of a major address today, the Nobel laureate compared the goal to JFK’s 1961 pledge to make it to the moon—and said that both Barack Obama and John McCain are “way ahead” of most politicians on the climate change issue. More »
- The World's Greenest Venture Capitalist
  
  newser | Fast Company | Jul 16, 08 11:59 AM CDT
  
  Vinod Khosla isn’t just smarter and richer than the average venture capitalist—he’s greener, too. Khosla has sunk $450 million into what he calls “imprudent science experiments" over the past 4 years, financing 45 enviro-tech startups. “We've funded an incredible number of things that would make no sense at all for a traditional venture fund,” the 53-year-old tells Fast Company. More »
- Today's Drilling Rush Looks as Crude as Whale Oil Folly
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 16, 08 10:37 AM CDT
  
  On an otherwise deserted patch of Arctic ice stands an abandoned settlement, proof that humans once lived here. Nearby lies a reminder of why they came: dozens of massive whale skulls, still bleeding oil into the ground. Men once flocked to this land for whale oil, Michael Gerson writes in the Washington Post; now our dependence on a different kind of oil might change it forever. More »
- Green Housing: From Good Idea to Good Business
  
  newser | Fast Company | Jul 15, 08 11:56 AM CDT
  
  With US homes on average twice as large as they were 50 years ago—and, of course, dwarfing those in all other developed countries—rethinking our idea of "home" is as crucial to cutting global warming as switching to a smaller car, says architect Edward Mazria in Fast Company . Half of all greenhouse gas emissions are building-related; residential buildings make up 21% of national energy consumption—almost as much as transportation. More »
- 'Go Green,' Pope Urges Youth
  
  newser | Sydney Morning Herald | Jul 14, 08 4:35 AM CDT
  
  The Pope yesterday called on the world—particularly young people—to combat global warming with "a style of life that eases problems caused to the environment," reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Pope Benedict issued his plea just minutes before touching down in Australia for an official visit. The Vatican is going green with a new solar power system. More »
- Bush, EPA Won't Touch Emissions
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 11, 08 2:24 PM CDT
  
  Regulation of greenhouse gas emissions will have to wait until President Bush is out of office, the EPA announced today. Instead, the agency will say it needs months of further public comment to make any decision. The statement is the end result of a protracted White House effort to tone down the agency’s findings, the Washington Post reports. More »
- Why $8 Gas Would Be Awesome
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jul 11, 08 11:17 AM CDT
  
  Gas, as you may have heard, has topped $4 a gallon, and Joel Stein of the LA Times loves it. "Cheap gas is unfair," he argues, tongue mostly in cheek. Heck, why not make it $8 or even $10 a gallon, as in Europe, "where they have fewer road deaths even though they drive like complete idiots"? More »
- Global Warming Caused by ... Cleaner Skies: Study
  
  newser | New Scientist | Jul 10, 08 4:45 PM CDT
  
  Reducing aerosols and other pollutants has been a major part of Europe’s campaign to reduce global warming, but a new study turns conventional thinking on its head, New Scientist reports. "The decrease in aerosols probably accounts for at least half of the warming over Europe in the last 30 years," says a co-author of the study. More »
- Arctic Boom Awash in Green Risk
  
  newser | Yale Environment 360 | Jul 10, 08 1:42 PM CDT
  
  As the Arctic sea ice melts, it’s uncovering vast resources, leading to an international energy and mining rush. Companies are lining up to explore the region, and nations are reviving Arctic border disputes in hopes of tapping its wealth. But the exploitation of the area’s resources could have dire environmental consequences, Ed Struzik writes on Yale Environment 360. More »
- China, India Reject G8 Carbon Plan
  
  newser | Financial Times (UK) | Jul 9, 08 8:40 AM CDT
  
  Neither China nor India agreed to adopt the G8's targets for cutting carbon emissions by 2050 at their joint meeting today. Asia's two big developing economies, joined by Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa, said carbon reductions would endanger their growth and exacerbate poverty, and that rich nations should clean up the mess they had created. The emerging economies' holdout was only one of many signs that the G8 is losing clout, reports the Financial Times. More »
- Vague G8 Goals Deflate Green Hopes
  
  newser | Time | Jul 9, 08 2:08 AM CDT
  
  G8 leaders are hailing an agreement to cut carbon emissions in half by 2050 as "major progress" in combating climate change—but their failure to come up with concrete shorter-term goals is a major letdown, Bryan Walsh writes in Time . The agreement, so vague it doesn't even say which year is to be used as a starting point, is unlikely to spur the immediate changes needed to avert possible catastrophe. More »
- Cheney's Staff Cut Testimony on Climate: EPA Official
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 8, 08 3:28 PM CDT
  
  Aides to Vice President Dick Cheney censored congressional testimony on climate change by a top government official, a former official at the Environmental Protection Agency charges. Jason Burnett claims Cheney’s office, fearing testimony would lead to greater regulation of greenhouse gases, excised six pages of text regarding the health risks of global warming by the director of the Centers for Disease Control last fall, the AP reports. More »

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Background

Climate Change
Wikipedia

In recent usage, especially in the context of environmental policy, the term "climate change" often refers only to changes in modern climate, including the rise in average surface temperature known as global warming. In some cases, the term is also used with a presumption of human causation, as in the...

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global warming
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

global warming the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution . The temperature of the atmosphere near the earth's surface is warmed through a natural process called the greenhouse effect. ...

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Earth Day
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Earth Day Apr. 22, a day to celebrate the environment. The first Earth Day was organized in 1970 to promote the ideas of ecology, encourage respect for life on earth, and highlight growing concern over pollution of the soil, air, and water. ...

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