]> http://www.greenedia.com/latest Global Warming & Climate Change Sector - Latest Blog Articles at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/sustainablog/140899?rsstype=latest&cid=60 By Janet Larsenhttp://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/2008/Update76.htmStanding before the United Nations General Assembly in October 1987, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of the Maldives, made an appeal representing an endangered nation. That yea... Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:31:40 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/sustainablog/140899?rsstype=latest&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/inhabitat/140898?rsstype=latest&cid=60 Carbon Sciences recently announced a technological breakthrough that is capable of transforming CO2 emissions into fuel. The development utilizes a highly scalable bio-catalytic process to economically convert one of the most omnipresent causes of gl... Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:00:04 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/inhabitat/140898?rsstype=latest&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/greenpeace-weblogs/140866?rsstype=latest&cid=60 I'm not sure how I managed to persuade my superiors to release me from my normal London-based duties and travel to Indonesia to join the Esperanza for two months, but whatever I did, it worked. I'm here for the second leg of the Forests For Climate e... Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:37:26 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/greenpeace-weblogs/140866?rsstype=latest&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/140871?rsstype=latest&cid=60 A new study in Nature Geoscience (subs. req'd, abstract below) projects that a warming of 4 C causes a 40% loss of soil organic carbon from the shallow peat and 86% from the deep peat of Northern peatlands. And that amplifying carbon cycle f... Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:28:28 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/140871?rsstype=latest&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/the-green-skeptic/140913?rsstype=latest&cid=60 Image by Getty Images via DaylifeFor Canadian Thanksgiving (and because I'm busy with consulting work today and it's a holiday here in the States), I'm going to reblog one of my favorites Canadians Tyler Hamilton's assessment of the Canadian politica... Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:33:00 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/the-green-skeptic/140913?rsstype=latest&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/140864?rsstype=latest&cid=60 Grave warnings from climate scientists about the affects of global warming are abundant and forecasts of state specific impacts have been created. As ice caps melt and weather patterns shift, the million dollar question is how climate change will al... Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:13:17 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/140864?rsstype=latest&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-break/140804?rsstype=latest&cid=60 Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! The world can be a crazy place, but we do in the big picture have much to be thankful for. Enjoy the time with family and friends, and a week of turkey dinner leftovers.Today I'll just post a link to my Clean Break... Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:10:17 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-break/140804?rsstype=latest&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/140817?rsstype=latest&cid=60 Former oilman, corporate raider cum alternative energy proponent, T. Boone Pickens' highly, and largely self-promoted Pickens Plan only has it half-right as far as charting a course that will lead to a more secure, cleaner energy future for th... Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:00:00 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/triple-pundit/140817?rsstype=latest&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/140794?rsstype=latest&cid=60 By Kate SheppardOne of the most lively debates over energy and environmental policy is taking place in Colorado's Senate race this year, where Rep. Mark Udall (D) and former Rep. Bob Schaffer (R) are duking it out in the race to replace retiring U.S.... Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:04:31 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/140794?rsstype=latest&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/140771?rsstype=latest&cid=60 By Guest authorThe following is a guest post by Marianne Lavelle, a staff writer at the Center for Public Integrity. It was originally published there and is reposted on Grist with CPI's kind permission. ----- An advocacy group run by a political ... Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:06:59 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/140771?rsstype=latest&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/140770?rsstype=latest&cid=60 From the man who gave us the phrase eat food, not too much, mostly plants comes a memo to the next president on why food matters, and much more so than you'd think. Michael Pollan makes a compelling case for why food policy matters in making signi... Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:29:13 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/140770?rsstype=latest&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/greenpeace-weblogs/140710?rsstype=latest&cid=60 What do you call someone who yells that car emissions are putting the climate in danger? A visionary? Environmental activist? Concerned citizen? Captain Obvious? For French President Nicolas Sarkozy, it's none of the above - he likes to call them nut... Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:22:57 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/greenpeace-weblogs/140710?rsstype=latest&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/sustainablog/140723?rsstype=latest&cid=60 NASA and a pair of California universities have published the first global satellite maps of the key greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in Earth's mid-troposphere, an area about five miles above Earth.An article posted at NASA.gov says:A research team ... Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:57:07 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/sustainablog/140723?rsstype=latest&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/140714?rsstype=latest&cid=60 With dramatic video of melting arctic ice crashing into the ocean, including *insert metaphor* the fjord in Greenland that is believed to have produced the iceberg that sunk the Titanic, this BBC news package introduces the findings of the British go... Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:14:57 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/140714?rsstype=latest&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/140876?rsstype=latest&cid=60 With dramatic video of melting arctic ice crashing into the ocean, including *insert metaphor* the fjord in Greenland that is believed to have produced the iceberg that sunk the Titanic, this BBC news package introduces the findings of the British go... Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:14:57 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/140876?rsstype=latest&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/140715?rsstype=latest&cid=60 There is no question the recent uptick in hurricane number and intensity is at least partially influenced by climate change. Why and how much will be the subject of a new long-term study unveiled last week by the National Center for Atmospheric Resea... Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:00:00 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/140715?rsstype=latest&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/140877?rsstype=latest&cid=60 There is no question the recent uptick in hurricane number and intensity is at least partially influenced by climate change. Why and how much will be the subject of a new long-term study unveiled last week by the National Center for Atmospheric Resea... Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:00:00 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/140877?rsstype=latest&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/global-warming-accuweather/140659?rsstype=latest&cid=60 Blog written by Mark Paquette........ With the recent active hurricane seasons, a question one has to ponder is how would these tropical dynamos be affected if (notice I say if!!!) the temperature of the earth increases? Most people would assume...... Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:22:35 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/global-warming-accuweather/140659?rsstype=latest&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/140720?rsstype=latest&cid=60 Photo courtesy of Next NatureAmerican Climate Values Survey Views on global warming may be more strongly politically and economically influenced than many may have hoped. The recently released results of the American Climate Values Survey, conducted... Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/140720?rsstype=latest&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/140882?rsstype=latest&cid=60 Photo courtesy of Next NatureAmerican Climate Values Survey Views on global warming may be more strongly politically and economically influenced than many may have hoped. The recently released results of the American Climate Values Survey, conducted... 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