2011 will be the tenth or eleventh warmest year on record, depending on who you ask. All but one of the nine or ten warmer years were in the last decade. (The only exception is 1998.)

The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs is required to approve renewable energy projects on Native American-owned land, unless it has a “compelling” reason why it shouldn’t. Thanksgiving might be a good time for the Bureau to point out that this is ALL in some sense Native American-owned land, so we can be expecting a whole lot of renewables projects.

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Canada's threatening to drop out of Kyoto. (More evidence that Canadians aren't as nice as we assume.)

Dams could exacerbate climate change.

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Check out the green wall just installed at a London tube station.