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The consensus among the global warming deniers is that the war is over. Thanks to a handful of e-mails we now know that global warming is a gigantic hoax foisted upon an unsuspecting public by a cabal of climate scientists bent on garnering grant money to...
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The great e-mail kerfluffle continues to roil the climate change community. Words like "hoax," "scam," "scandal" and "fraud" abound in the blogosphere when you search Google for global warming news. Why?
Because of a few phrases cherry-picked out of thou...
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Here's what I think. Global average temperatures have risen sharply, mostly due to carbon emissions from industrial activities over the last 150 years. This has in turn led to climate change, which expresses itself in many different ways depending on wher...
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The climate change community is abuzz over the now confirmed hacking of thousands of e-mails from the servers at The Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, a leading climate research center and strong proponent of anthropogenic gl...
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Senator James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) has a declared a great victory in the wars against health care reform and the cap and trade portions of the energy reform bill: "I proudly declare 2009 as the 'Year of the Skeptic,' the year in which scientists who questi...
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Politics has been defined as the art of the possible. Well, apparently the politicians have decided what is not possible, namely a binding treaty on dealing with climate change. Instead, we will have to be satisfied with half measures like the ones announ...
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I firmly believe that global warming as a result of excess greenhouse gas emissions caused by from human activities is happening right now. I further believe that this global warming is triggering a series of events cumulatively referred to as climate cha...
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The news that Copenhagen will not produce a binding treaty should come as no surprise to regular readers of Planet Restart. The signs were pretty much there for all to see back in July when the G8 failed to take any concrete actions on climate change, a l...
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I was born in 1945 near Boston. In 1963 I came to Washington D.C. to attend Georgetown University and really have never left this area except for a couple of years in the Army, where I got my first taste of global warming in the tropics of Vietnam.
My me...
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Is global warming bad for us? I found this question on a weblog hosted by author Thomas. P. M. Barnett. A commenter named Brian asked: "One of the questions people fail to ask in the whole global warming issue, is that even if human activity is the root c...
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Bjorn Lomborg is what I guess you could call a non-denier denier of climate change. His position seems to be that climate change is real but not all that big a deal, a problem easily dealt with through geo-engineering, leaving plenty of time and money to ...
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The U.S. Congress is dealing with two massive issues at once: Health care and climate change. The House has produced and passed legislation on health care; a draft bill on climate change has also come out of the House.
The Senate has produced a draft hea...
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Anyone who follows PlanetRestart knows that our hopes for a good outcome from the Copenhagen talks have never been all that great. Why? Because we live in a world dominated by nation-states, a world where global institutions are still in their infancy. Qu...
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Most folks get that global warming causes climate change. What they don't always understand is that these changes can be one thing where you live, another thing somewhere else. Here it gets hotter, there it gets colder. Here the rains come, there they don...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel stood before both houses of Congress and urged action on climate change. Republicans walked out of a key committee meeting and forced a 5-week delay. That pretty much nutshells the current state of affairs.
On the one hand...
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The recently concluded European Union (EU) negotiations on funding the climate change for developing nations illustrates the opportunities and the frustrations that come with leaving climate change in the hands of the political process.
For people who ha...
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