geoengineering

Obama turns an even lighter shade of green

Barack Obama sided with utility companies in a lawsuit trying to combat greenhouse gas pollution. This latest anti-green move baffles us, Mr President

Randy Rieland Politics

The Climate Post: Primaries move GOP to the right (on climate)

Read about the GOP primary results, new sources of green energy, upcoming climate change impacts, Dilbert, and more.

Christopher Mims Politics

Climate change found to be rapidly altering … the English language

The latest words added to the Oxford Dictionary of English show our panic-button solutions to global warming are changing the linguistic climate.

Ashley Braun Culture

Climate change: Four futures

As the debate over the climate bill heats up, there’s one rule of thumb that may help you keep your bearings as the rhetoric becomes more gaseous and the weeds grow ever higher around the facts. It’s this: There are, in the end, only four possible futures here. Future 1: Continuation More business as usual. […]

Sara Robinson Politics

My review of Jeff Goodell’s new book How to Cool the Planet

What seems like a thousand years ago (I’ll never get used to print media pacing), I wrote a review of Jeff Goodell’s new book for the American Prospect. It appears in the latest issue and has now been published on their website. Here’s how it begins: —— How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the […]

David Roberts Climate & Energy

Hey, Harry, thanks for pimping my book!

Dear Sen. Harry Reid, By derailing or delaying — or whatever it is you’re doing to — the introduction of a climate bill in the U.S. Senate, you have once again raised the question about whether the richest, most technologically sophisticated nation that has ever lived is capable of taking swift action to save itself […]

Jeff Goodell Climate & Energy

Whales bring up the rear in the fight against oceanic acidification

Photo courtesy nestor galina via FlickrAnti-whaling advocates can take a giant load off their shoulders. An article on Treehugger shares yet another reason not to whale on whales: They crap ecosystem gold. Ocean acidification, caused by seawater absorbing too much carbon dioxide, is a major problem facing marine ecosystems. As water’s pH drops, so does aquatic […]

Darby Minow Smith Culture

Building a better volcano

EyjafjallajokullPhoto courtesy Ludie Cochrane via FlickrIn America, we don’t care much about science. We care about sex and violence and money. That makes it hard to sustain a conversation about geoengineering, given that there is very little sex or money involved, and the only violence is likely to be brought on by future climate catastrophes. […]