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The weak El Niño appears to be strengthening

Two weeks ago I blogged that NASA reports hottest June to September on record; NOAA says “weak” El Niño “expected to strengthen and last through” winter. NOAA’s National Weather Service […]

Obama announces $3.4 billion in smart grid investments

The President said today that we’re having a debate “between those who are ready to seize the future and those who are afraid of the future.” ARCADIA, FLORIDA – Speaking […]

Sen. Kerry downplays prospect of floor debate this year

  E&E News (subs. req’d) reports this morning: International attention on the Senate’s progress on the issue is heightened given the major U.N. climate summit to be held this December […]

CNN Poll: 6 in 10 independents support cap-and-trade

“Six in 10 Americans support a cap and trade” proposal to cut pollution, according to a new national poll,” CNN reports (details at the end).  The recent Pew Research poll […]

Rural Electric Cooperatives: Efficiency measures more important

Here’s a  stunner from Climate Wire (subs. req’d) today: Rural electric cooperatives, which represent many small, coal-dependent utilities in the Midwest and raised a ruckus in the House debate, are […]

Statisticians reject global cooling

A terrific story by the AP’s Seth Borenstein, “Statisticians reject global cooling,” not only debunks that myth — it will make your head spin once again on error-riddled Superfreakonomics (coauthored […]

Nature: “Dynamic thinning of Greenland and Antarctic ice-sheet"

The most detailed satellite information available shows that ice sheets in Greenland and western Antarctica are shrinking faster than scientists thought and in some places are already in runaway melt […]

Caldeira on Yale e360

Yale Environment 360: I want to start with this little dust-up over SuperFreakonomics. In the book, you are quoted as saying, when it comes to global warming, “Carbon dioxide is […]

DeLong and Deltoid on Roger Peilke Jr. "train wreck"

Roger Pielke Jr. has written the most Titanic whine in the history of the climate blogosphere, “Giant Fish, Big Fish and Minnows of the Liberal Blogosphere.”  And I do mean […]

Obama speaks on climate action from MIT

The naysayers, the folks who would pretend that this is not an issue, they are being marginalized. But I think it’s important to understand that the closer we get, the […]