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Posted 4 days ago
What has the federal government done over the last eight years to stop global warming? Sadly, not much, despite numerous, dire warnings. Our new interactive timeline gives an at-a-glance overview of t
Tags: global warming policy
Posted 5 days ago
What if, instead of reducing the greenhouse gas concentrations that hold excess heat in our atmosphere, we injected something in the atmosphere to reflect sunlight back into space? That's the idea beh
Posted 6 days ago
We frequently mention the IPCC reports on Climate 411 - often referencing them as the most trustworthy authority on global warming science. In fact, our very first blog post was titled What is the IP
Tags: global warming
Posted 6 days ago
This Sunday's New York Times Magazine had a cover story on green investment titled Capitalism to the Rescue . We've mentioned in other posts that venture capital investment in clean energy is on the
Posted 1 week ago
This Stephen Colbert clip on oil companies and the environment is fall-over funny and dead-on right. This post is by Sheryl Canter, an online writer and editorial manager at Environmental Defense Fund
Posted 1 week ago
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, has completed his transformation from Middle East specialist to green energy expert. He wants the United States to si
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Last week, the New York Times Dot Earth blog posted a sobering video of coastline erosion in Alaska. This is no simulation - it's a time-lapse video made from pictures taken two hours apart from late
Posted 2 weeks ago
Last Thursday, the Global Carbon Project released its annual report on the state of the carbon cycle, Carbon Budget 2007 [PDF]. It emphasizes (as we reported earlier this year) that CO2 levels are con
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Today we're launching a resource for people who want to enter the green job market. Our new Green Jobs Guidebook is a first of its kind, addressing everything from where to get training, to where to f
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The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is an agreement among 10 Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states to reduce global warming pollution from power plants by means of a cap-and-trade system. In
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