The Endangered Species Act is under attack as the current Administration prepares to leave office. The proposed rule change seeks to limit the circumstances under which proposed actions would require consultation with the Fish and Wildlife Service, and would change the interpretation of the word ‘effect’ as defined in the Act (I’m not making [...]

Celsias is reporting this news, that amid the most important international conference on climate since Kyoto, the Bush administration together with Japan and Canada, are stonewalling efforts to establish pollution control limits for greenhouse gases.
We can no longer wait for our institutional leaders to affect change. Lets raise awareness of the climate [...]

This is all over the news today so I won’t belabor the point, but the Supreme Court’s decision that the EPA has authority to regulate green house gases from automobiles and other (coal) sources is a huge victory for the environment that can’t be understated. The EPA will be hard pressed to sidestep regulation [...]

Arctic explorer Will Steger has just started a 3 month ski and dog sled voyage across Baffin Island to promote awareness of climate changes taking place above the arctic circle. You can follow his adventure through this website. Among his crew are several Inuit guides who will use their natural history knowledge of [...]

In a smart move for the region and the nation, the governors of Oregon, California, Washington, New Mexico and Arizona have reached what may very well be a historic agreement to cap and trade greenhouse gas emissions. The move comes six months after California became the first state to cap carbon emissions.
The new [...]

This article from the UK Independent discusses how one UK firm is helping airline passengers to offset carbon emissions from their flights.
The article sites a promising example of a low-tech solution to a farmer’s troubles in India as a method for cutting carbon. Passenger’s carbon-offset fees go to replacing dirty and expensive diesel pumps [...]

The UK Guardian is reporting here that the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative thinktank sponsored in part by ExxonMobil, is offering a $10,000 dollar “honoraria” to scientists if they will agree to critique certain policy implications of the new UN report on climate change. Sounds suspiciously like a bribe.
Leaked by a professor who [...]

You’d have to be living under a rock to have not heard about this story- here’s my little contribution to getting it into the headlines.
Head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) proposes the convening of a global summit.
IPCC homepage, press conference web page, document downloads.

“The bay at Fort Point has risen 8 inches over the past century and could rise another 3 feet by the end of this century, according to the last assessment of international climate scientists.”
The San Francisco chronicle is running this story on the likely effect of rising sea levels in the city. Among the [...]