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Tucson, Ariz.— Statement from the Center for Biological Diversity: Capping a week in which the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee overwhelmingly passed a weak global warming bill with no Republican support, Center for Biological...
Tags: EPA, Obama, Climate change, global warming, fossil fuels, pollution, Clean Air Act
As a city near the equator, it is normal if Jakarta is warm. The climates in Indonesia is actually tropical. But, does 33 celcius is normal? As I know, the normal temperature of Jakarta is 26-30 celcius. So it makes sense if we say that the increase in...
Tags: jakarta, global warming, hot, celcius
Europe has given up hope that a binding global treaty on climate change can be achieved at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen in December. On Thursday (5 November), EU leaders and officials bluntly briefed reporters in Barcelona at the last series of...
Tags: climate change, Copenhagen, climate talks, climate deals, Barcelona, U.N., legally binding, chairman boxer, United Nations, global warming
Updated 11/5/09. The question has been raised many times in the past few years: what makes some people so adamant about denying global warming and the resulting climate change, when the evidence is so overwhelming? On July 24, 2009 the White House released...
Tags: Climate change, global warming, White House, Obama, climate deniers, skeptics, psychology
African nations walked out of U.N. climate change talks in Barcelona, Spain, threatening to do so again unless wealthy nations commit to cutting carbon. This week's Barcelona meeting is the last gathering before the U.N. Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen,...
Tags: climate change, Copenhagen, United States, China-Africa, emissions cuts, legally binding, Spain, Barcelona, global warming, rich nations
I realized today that I've been too hard on Al Gore lately. Like here and here and then here again, and oh yeah this other time. Today it was brought to my attention that since the Internet turned 40 years old today, and Albert...
Tags: Al Gore, climate change, global warming, leonard kleinrock, internet, packet switching
In a concerted effort to alert consumers to the environmental impact of their food buying choices, Sweden has initiated labeling that reports the amount of carbon dioxide emitted during production. For example, a kilogram of hamburger label would read,...
Tags: Food labels, CO2 Emmissions, Global Warming
A Peruvian scientist has called on his country to help slow the melting of Andean glaciers by daubing white paint on the rock and earth left behind by receding ice so they will absorb less heat.
Tags: Whitewash, could slow, global warming, Peruvian, scientist
18% of all greenhouse gasses come from the growth and production of meat products. PETA really wants you to know this, but PETA really, really wants you to know that Al Gore- one of the leading environmentalists- eats meat. Today, Glenn Beck did a segment...
Tags: Glenn Beck, Al Gore, PETA, global warming
Developing countries said on Wednesday they risked "total destruction" unless the rich stepped up the fight against climate change to a level that even the United Nations says is out of reach. Keeping up pressure at U.N. climate talks in Barcelona, the...
Tags: climate talks, Barcelona, Spain, Kyoto Protocol, emissions cut, U.N., gas emissions, AM National Indonesian, global warming