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After a fractious and disappointing year in the struggle against human-forced climate change, perhaps a round of easy-to-do New Year's resolutions will renew our energies for what most certainly will be the fight of our lifetimes.
Grow. Perhaps the singl...
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This week the 21st Century enters its teens. By the end of this decade we will know with absolute certainty who was right, those of us who believe that human activity has lead to a global warming trend that in turn will spawn massive climate change or tho...
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Is it too late to prevent climate change? For millions of people that answer is already "Yes." Thanks to the unwillingness of China and the United States to adopt tough emissions reduction standards, the answer will be "Yes" for many millions more.
Alarm...
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Collective Action Is Still a Dream Not a Reality. The idea that 193 nations will get in a room together and agree on anything is the ultimate exercise in wishful thinking. And yet this is how we choose to deal with arguably the most important problem we f...
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Here is a post from this blog on September 22 of this year:
"As we get near crunch time at Copenhagen, it has become obvious that the United States is not poised to deliver the kind of leadership that other countries would like to see. ... As unfair as i...
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The high hopes of Hopenhagen have been supplanted by the grim realities of Nopenhagen. Am I surprised by that? Not in the least. Activists and idealists may propose, but politicians ultimately dispose.
And no politician is willing to sacrifice their coun...
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Each day I search for the latest news reports relating to global warming and climate change. Today's catch just struck me as especially interesting. Taken together they illustrate the complexity of the political and scientific context within which the bat...
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They say timing is everything. If that's true, then the timing for the Copenhagen Conference of Parties (Dec. 8 thru 18, 2009) couldn't be worse. Two events have served to undermine chances for a meaningful agreement.
First, there is the whole Climate-ga...
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I got into global warming and climate change partly because I was looking for something to believe in and write about besides politics. I thought that in the calm tranquil waters of science I would find refuge from the stormy seas of today's tendentious a...
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You might want to sit down for this one. The net results of the early going in Copenhagen has been to sharpen divides among the varying rival interests represented there.
Imagine that! An international conference where countries with conflicting national...
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Monday December 7, 2009, was a day that will live in infamy for the fossil fuels industry. While all the attention was focused on Copenhagen, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a finding that greenhouse gases (GHG) are a danger to publi...
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The release of thousands of e-mails written over many years by climate scientists at the Climate Research Unit (CRU) in East Anglia University provoked a fierce wave of reactions from climate change deniers. Now the dust is starting to settle and lo and b...
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If you asked the extreme believers and the extreme disbelievers if Copenhagen still matters you would get pretty much the same answer: Not really. That leaves it up to the middle-grounders to muddle through. So the real question becomes: "Can the center h...
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The days and weeks leading up to the big conference on climate change in Copenhagen next week have been dominated by the now infamous Climate-gate, the release of thousands of e-mails from East Anglia University's Climate Research Unit. The head of that u...
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