]> http://www.greenedia.com/popular/articles/climate-change Global Warming & Climate Change - Today's Popular Articles at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/inhabitat/78592?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 In a hurry? Need to get from Sydney to Brussels in a dash? Not too far in the future you may be able to travel that entire distance in less than 4 hours - emissions free - thanks to an amazing hypersonic hydrogen jet project called LAPCAT. LAPCAT st... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:00:06 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/inhabitat/78592?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/78750?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 By Andrew DesslerI have recently been thinking about the parallels between climate change and the obesity epidemic facing the United States and other industrialized countries. Both are the result of our society's desire to consume, and there are simi... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:33:01 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/78750?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/78766?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 The story is at ThinkProgress. Money can't buy you happiness, but apparently it can buy you silence, which, apparently, is sometimes just as good.Share This... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:12:15 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/78766?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/inhabitat/78681?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 One of the biggest announcements at this years CES was the introduction of the hydrogen-powered Cadillac Provoq concept vehicle by General Motors. The Provoq is another one of GM's efforts to develop vehicles that will reduce their fuel consumption a... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:00:31 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/inhabitat/78681?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78771?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 Photo credit: solangelemPellet and corn-burning stoves and furnaces are a hot (ha!) topic here at TreeHugger, for good reason; they can provide an alternative to gas or electric heating, and generally have fewer particulate emissions than burning woo... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:37:31 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78771?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/78793?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 If you're in the Toronto area you might be interested in attending this great event put together by the Royal St. George's College Parent's Guild Speaker Series, called Icebergs to Sand Dunes Our Changing Planet. The event will feature Canad... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:13:25 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/78793?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78680?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 The bottled water controversy: We can tell you the shocking fossil fuel and greenhouse gas figures, ponder the ethics, and give you a million reasons to ditch it. But right now, it is still out there, filling up our landfills. So do we compromise? Ut... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:20:11 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78680?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/global-warming-accuweather/78671?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 Paul Yeager and the Global Warming comment section received a tremendous amount of feedback recently in response to Paul's Global Warming Debate column from last week. In response to some of that feedback, Paul offers some observations and clarificat... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:26:58 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/global-warming-accuweather/78671?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/dateline-earth/78763?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 A recent piece by Dateline Earth's Robert McClure explains how blogging works at his paper for the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:16:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/dateline-earth/78763?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-bulletin/78605?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 Staff, Energy Bulletin. Warning on rising Med Sea levelsWater crisis: Turkey's disappearing lakes German farmers and global warming... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:34:22 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-bulletin/78605?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-bulletin/78578?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 Ronald R. Cooke, Energy Bulletin. Discussion of global warming seldom makes any connection between the ecology of temperature change and pending fuel shortages. This is a really bad error.... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:40:53 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-bulletin/78578?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/78547?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 I meant to blog on this earlier, but lost track of it after failing to find the original study (for reasons that will become clear). The bottom line is:Global warming could cut the rate at which trees in tropical rainforests grow by as much as half,... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:15:46 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/78547?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78513?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 What secrets to life and climate change could lie hidden beneath the surface of Antarctica's ice sheets? Andy Smith from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) - who believes an ancient lake there could reveal new insights on future sea-level rises and t... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:30:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78513?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/sustainablog/78479?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Energy Information Administration (EIA) have both published analyses of Senators Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Jeff Bingaman's (D-NM) proposed Low Carbon Economy Act of 2007 (S. 1766)Using a cap... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:12:39 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/sustainablog/78479?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/earth-blog/78470?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 Despite 80% growth in carbon trading [ark] in the past year, including windfall profits [ark] for some, carbon markets have yet to lead to actual emission reductions. Indeed, carbon and other emissions continue to soar [ark search]. As I have writt... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:49:40 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/earth-blog/78470?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78439?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 (Picture by goneforawander, from Flick) A recent article published by Tierramerica warns about the growth of the so called climate tourism,' describing it as, A mix of legitimate interest in protecting nature, the desire to see rare wildlife o... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:30:21 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78439?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-bulletin/78402?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 Staff, Energy Bulletin. Slower boats to China as ship owners save fuel Transportation's effects on global warming NC researcher details freight emissionsCycling the way to go in Sydney A community car share hits the road... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:58:11 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-bulletin/78402?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/78395?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 It's time again for the Canadian Blog Awards, and DeSmogBlog has been nominated in three categories. Voting for the first round ends this Wednesday, so if you haven't got your votes in yet, please do so. And if you just so happened to want to vote f... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:00:37 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/78395?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/78342?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 Nature Geoscience has concluded that changes in water temperature and wind patterns due to global warming are melting ice sheets in western Antarctica at a much faster rate than previously detected. Using measurements from satellites that scanned ab... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:20:20 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/78342?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78325?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 Toronto Star photographer Lucas Oleniuk shot twenty thousand images in twenty days and splced them into a single message about the issue of global warming. ::The StarPart of an entire section of meditations on the environment, with essays from Margar... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:46:09 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78325?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-bulletin/78278?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 Dmitry Orlov, ClubOrlov. Due to Global Warming, the Mason-Dixon line is moving further and further north every year. It now runs through New Jersey. In another decade or two, it will be running through New England. (satire)... Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:20:44 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-bulletin/78278?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78258?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 Berliners have barely started showing the new emissions badge required for driving into the city center, and the air is getting thick. Thick with accusations. The popular gearhead weekly, AutoBild, has thrown down the gauntlet: The Soot is Gone scr... Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:25:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78258?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/global-warming-accuweather/78131?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 Earth observing satellite under construction A high-level meeting hosted by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) last week garnered unanimous support for the enhanced use of satellites to monitor climate change and weather. Space agencies from... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:10:50 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/global-warming-accuweather/78131?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/78106?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 By Sarah van SchagenIn a partnership with Live Earth (yes, they're still doing stuff), Absolut Vodka has launched a Global Cooling campaign that encourages consumers to reduce the effects of global warming by offering simple steps they can implement... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:47:31 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/78106?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/78111?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 By David RobertsYou know, there's something I don't get about these kabuki major economies meetings Bush is holding. Obviously, in reality it's about creating the illusion that Bush is doing something on climate. But usually when something is done ... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:40:11 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/78111?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78082?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 Image courtesy of jimg944 via flickrWhile the U.S. continues to drag its feet in committing to firm emissions cuts, European countries have seemingly been enmeshed in a protracted race to determine which will assert the greenest bona fides. Norway - ... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:05:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/78082?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/78039?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 Sarkozy attacks EU carbon targets - Financial Times. The fact that France opted decades ago to stake its future energy needs on carbon-free nuclear power - which today provides almost 80 per cent of French electricity needs - should be taken into... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:14:52 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/78039?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/77958?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 By David RobertsWhy aren't Republicans being asked about climate change? ... Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:05:20 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/77958?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-bulletin/77974?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 Staff, Energy Bulletin. CERA v. peak oil World not running out of oil, say experts Bush acknowledges peak oil The coal question revisited Climate change (and PO) force car manufacturing rethink... Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:47:44 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-bulletin/77974?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/77933?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 Under the auspices of a new $4 million, 3-year program organized by New York's Energy Research and Development Authority and several energy companies, geologists from the State Museum will spend the upcoming summer studying old natural gas wells and ... Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:40:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/77933?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/77929?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 By David RobertsAccording to AP, at least 48 coal plants are being contested in 29 states: From lawsuits and administrative appeals against the companies, to lobbying pressure on federal and state regulators, the coordinated offensive against co... Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:05:42 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/77929?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-bulletin/77916?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 David Strahan, The Last Oil Shock / New Scientist. A number of recent reports suggest that coal reserves may be hugely inflated, a possibility that has profound implications for both global energy supply and climate change.... Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:34:33 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-bulletin/77916?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-bulletin/77781?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 Staff, Energy Bulletin. BP says world oil demand to peakBenchmarks mark our likely advance to PO Astyk: Making the case for PO and climate change Kunstler and Kathy McMahon of PeakOilBlues... Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:17:07 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-bulletin/77781?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/78311?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 Rajendra Pachauri an Indian economist and a vegetarian, said the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) highlights the importance of lifestyle changes, and the need for people around the world to curb their carnivorous... Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:04:28 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/78311?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/77692?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 The folks at Terrapass have just unveiled their latest product aimed at making carbon offsetting accessible and easy for the masses. The Carbon Balanced Business is, in fact, an extension of work the company has already been doing with businesses and... Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:03:13 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/77692?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/78312?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 MoveOn.Org reports that top TV reporters have asked presidential candidates 2,679 questions in the last year, of which three were about UFOs, and three were about climate change.It would be tempting to dismiss this as Fox News vacuousness, but for t... Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:30:47 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/78312?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/77659?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 MoveOn.Org reports that top TV reporters have asked presidential candidates 2,679 questions in the last year, of which three were about UFOs, and three were about climate change.It would be tempting to dismiss this as Fox News vacuousness, but for t... Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:30:47 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/77659?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/77642?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 I have previously debunked the absurd list of Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) with over 400 names of supposedly prominent scientists who supposedly recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called consensus' on man-made glob... Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:26:40 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/77642?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/77597?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 Allen Schaeffer is the executive director of the Diesel Technology Forum. We spoke about the benefits, and surprising attributes, of clean diesel, and the role it has to play in dealing with climate change.Treehugger: Tell us about the Diesel Techno... Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:37:22 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/77597?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-balance/77579?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 New energy legislation disallows any US federal agencies to buy fuel for vehicles that is made from unconventional sources if its life-cycle production of greenhouse gas emissions is not the same, or less than that derived from conventional oil. This... Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:45:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-balance/77579?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/77567?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 By Andrew DesslerIn previous editions of the Inhofe 400, we found some skeptics who were completely unqualified and others who are qualified but not actually skeptical. Today's skeptic falls into the latter category. He is meteorologist Geor... Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:40:42 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/77567?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/77552?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 Not the best state for the climate/fuel economy message, obviously. Still, a bad sign for those who want this issue discussed intelligently in the campaign.I was watching Fox news coverage of the GOP primary why not? and I think it was Bill ... Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:15:42 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/77552?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-bulletin/77585?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 Sharon Astyk, Casaubon's Book. What would be required to start neighborhood groups that might engage people within our existing communities, and enable those communities to start preparing for climate change and peak oil?... Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:34:18 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/energy-bulletin/77585?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/sierra-club/77556?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 San Francisco -- If a planet fried in a greenhouse, and no one came to the press conference, would it still sizzle? You have to wonder, watching the national political press ignore climate change even while candidates and voters bore in on it as one ... Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:29:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/sierra-club/77556?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/77510?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 By Joseph RommThe global warming deniers (and the rest of us) just can't catch a break: Vast areas of the Antarctic ice sheet -- which has 10 times as much ice as Greenland -- is losing mass much faster than anyone expected. And the rate of ice los... Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:00:05 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/77510?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/77520?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 JUON has developed CopyEthanol, a generator that makes ethanol from your leftover and used copier paper. CopyEthanol produces zero CO2 emissions and is gentle on the environment. In addition, plant derived ethanol is not converted into CO2 emission ... Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:23:55 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/77520?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/77409?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 If you are one of those people who loves the quiet communion of hiking in the high-country forests of Colorado, you'd better get there fast. In three years, those forests may be gone.The Rocky Mountain News reported this week that every large, mature... Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:05:01 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/77409?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/watchdog-earth/77407?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 Consumers of news on science and the environment may want to check in from time to time with a new critique by Columbia Journalism Rewiew.In announcing The Observatory, CJR today wrote the following:In 2007, climate change and, by extension, the na... Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:08:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/watchdog-earth/77407?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/terrablog/77547?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 At this week's North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) there has been news of a hybrid truck, a hybrid Jeep, and even a hybrid sports car, but none of them comes close to 100mpg. Not yet.The new Dodge Ram (introduced alongside 120 steer, which... Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:18:42 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/terrablog/77547?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/77430?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60 It can't be easy to get a massive 19-ton glass squash court into New York's Grand Central Terminal. And out again. Nor is it simple to host what is tagged as the world's largest spectator Squash event' over a seven-day (10-16 Jan '08) tournament w... Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:22:37 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/77430?rsstype=populararticles&cid=60