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Any Report on a Storm

New study ties hurricane increase in Atlantic to climate change A new study has linked rising hurricane and tropical storm activity in the Atlantic Ocean to climate change. Noting that the average number of hurricanes and tropical storms in the Atlantic Ocean has more than doubled in the last century from an average of six […]

Organo Failure

California study suggests link between autism and pesticide exposure A “very preliminary” study from the California Department of Public Health suggests that higher rates of autism can be seen in children whose mothers were exposed to two organochlorine pesticides still in use in the United States, endosulfan and dicofol. Organochlorine pesticides, which take a long […]

Give a Hoot, Don’t Dilute

House leadership dilutes energy bill for easier passage As the U.S. House of Representatives edges ever closer to approving an energy bill, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has been orchestrating compromises to make it more palatable to the so-called “hydrocarbon Democrats.” Language that would have raised vehicle fuel-economy standards has been dropped. Dems are backing off […]

Not very well

As reaction to Sarah’s post showed (rather more rudely than strictly necessary, I might add), Grist readers are not big fans of "Project Phin," the online video series launched by the Center for American Progress to promote flex fuels — i.e., ethanol. Ben Affleck dressed as a corn cob proved particularly irksome. CAP clearly got […]

I’ve watched this video four times now and I can’t stop laughing

Yeeeessss. Because the only enemy of the human race greater than coal is … the human race. This video comes to us from filmmaker Jeremy Beiler of Brooklyn, who is also a Grist reader and fan.

Where did the comparison start?

Recently, CNN cable TV and syndicated radio host Glenn Beck said this: Al Gore’s not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. The goal is different. The goal is globalization. The goal is global carbon tax. The goal is the United Nations running the world. That is […]

Army brings blenders to figure out what’s killing off bees

Scientists have pondered whether cell phones are the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder, which has wiped out about a quarter of the North American honeybee population and poses a threat to a quarter of our food supply. They’ve also wondered if the cause could be a virus. Or pesticides. Or mites. Or all of the […]

Russia stakes claim to North Pole, and more

Read the news items highlighted in this week’s podcast: How Green Is Your Candidate? Will Santa Be Evicted? We Wouldn’t Kid About This Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Crappiness Pimp My Shrimp Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: How Green Is Your Candidate? Tide Died Take Me To Your Seeder

Two actions and two ‘tweaks’

Hansen offers his climate solution -- two important actions and two "tweaks":

Here are some

Last week I discussed the basic arithmetic associated with population and economic growth, which will make it impossible to dramatically reduce greenhouse-gas emissions without major improvements in technology. (Some commenters protested, saying that current technology is sufficient, but they are mistaking the ability to reduce emissions based on current levels of income and population and what emissions will be as countries grow and economies expand.)