Environment | Climate Change
Ohio GOP Gov. John Kasich Goes Rogue, Believes Climate Change Is Real
11 April 2012I should not be writing this article because this should not be news. But conservatives have managed to change the public discourse on climate change to the point where it's shocking to find out a Republican governor actually believes climate change is real. I'm talking about Ohio Govern...
So Far 2012 Has Been A Year Of Record High Temperatures
09 April 2012The AP reports that it's not just March, but the entire start of 2012 that has seen high temperature records shattered. March was 8.6 degrees above normal for the lower 48 states and the first three months of 2012 combined were 6 degrees above normal, according to the National Oceanic ...
A Really Inconvenient Truth On The Limits Of Growth
05 April 2012Australian physicist Graham Turner says we could be heading for economic disaster and population decline by 2030. Turner revisited a study called 'The Limits to Growth', conducted 40 years ago by MIT. By using real-world data from 1970 to 2000, Tuner has shown that the study's origina...
Great Climate Change Article By A Republican Meteorologist
29 March 2012In a rare event from the conservative side of the aisle, a Republican meteorologist, Paul Douglas, penned a powerful article on t...
Use Less Plastic, Get Yourself A Bamboo Keyboard
29 March 2012Help reduce dependence on plastics made from foreign oil and get yourself a keyboard that is 92% bamboo. The iZen Bamboo Keyb...
Climate Change Isn't Real? Tell That To The People Of Kiribati
14 March 2012Climate change is forcing the relocation of entire communities due to rising sea levels and thawing permafrost and some of t...
Grist: Climate Change Q&A With Naomi Klein, 'The Market Is Not Going To Step Up To This Challenge'
12 March 2012On Grist, author Naomi Klein (No Logo, The Shock Doctrine) answers questions about climate change. In the Q&A, Klein talks...
Senator Inhofe Says Only God Can Change The Global Climate
09 March 2012James Inhofe, Oklahoma Senator (R) and self-anointed global warming and climate change denier, says only God has the power to ...
Acid Bath: Ocean pH Decrease Fastest In 300 Million Years
08 March 2012Columbia University scientists say increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere - due to carbon emissions from industrial activi...
One Year Later: Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster
28 February 2012The recent license approvals by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) have some, including myself, reflecting on the nuclear...
Leaked Documents Reveal Strategy Of Climate Change Deniers
18 February 2012It's no secret there is a coordinated effort to taint climate science by climate change deniers. Proof of their success is th...
Sustainable Capitalism: Can Long-Term Vision Oust Short-Term Gain?
16 February 2012I've written in the past about the core flaw in capitalism, infinite growth. This flaw makes capitalism fundamentally incomp...
NRC Approves First New Nuclear Reactors In Three Decades
10 February 2012The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved two licenses for nuclear reactors to be build at the Vogtle nuclear plant in Georgia...
The Keystone XL Pipeline Is Dead - Thanks Republicans!
18 January 2012Yeah, you read that correctly. And OK, this particular permit is dead, but not the idea for the pipeline. For anyone who o...
The Mind Of A Climate Change Denier
05 January 2012It's simply unlikely you will successfully change the mind of a climate change denier if they aren't open to changing their mind...
7 Billion and Counting...FAST
31 October 2011The human population of the planet officially reached 7 billion today. It was only 12 years ago that it topped 6 billion and th...
Save the Planet? Forget About the Planet
05 October 2011You say the planet has been here a long time. You say the planet has been here much longer than human beings. You say the pla...
Climate Reality - All 24 Hours
12 September 2011Al Gore's 24 Hours of Reality kicks off this Wednesday, September 14th at 8pm Eastern Time. How many will be paying attention? Wil...
Economic Growth On A Small Planet
14 August 2011With global population about to hit 7 billion our planet is looking smaller and smaller every day. Some might say that we have...
It's Because of Al Gore
09 August 2011The thing I've never understood is why the average right-leaning, possibly Fox News watching citizen does not understand that the ...
Cheap Oil Myths
24 March 2011The United States DOES NOT have large untapped reserves of "cheap" crude oil! It may be true that there are still large reserv...
