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  • A climate-news poem for the week of May 4

    Don’t miss last week’s dubious bit of doggerel. Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso with Obama earlier this year.White HouseMonday seemed so hopeful, when Aso came out strong: Japan and other powers must act before too long. “Hear, hear!” cried U.S. leaders, “We put it in this draft! To mumblemouth on climate would really be quite […]

    Katharine Wroth Climate & Energy

  • Bolivia’s 18,000 year-old Chacaltaya glacier is gone

    ”Chacaltaya has disappeared. It no longer exists,” said Dr. Edson Ramirez, head of an international team of scientists that has studied the glacier since 1991. Like the Wicked Witch of the West, the world is melting — and fast. The University of Zurich’s World Glacier Monitoring Service reported earlier this year, “The new data continues […]

    Joseph Romm Climate & Energy

  • Must-read (again) study: How the press bungles its coverage of climate economics

    [In January, I blogged on this study by a leading journalist who documented the media’s mistakes and biases during the Lieberman-Warner debate.  Yet the media is making the exact same mistakes in the current debate over the Waxman-Markey energy and climate bill (see “The New Yorker (!) parrots right-wing talking points” and “David Broder” and […]

    Joseph Romm Climate & Energy

  • Helping America’s national parks survive climate change

    Anyone who’s ever lived in a home with a leaky basement knows that during a rainstorm, preventing a flood is the first order of business. Too often, though, it’s easy to put off until later the investments necessary to protect your home from future storms that are sure to come. The same is true with […]

    Mark Wenzler Climate & Energy

  • Sierra Club parodies the worst song ever recorded about coal

    Don’t ever accuse the Sierra Club of being bad sports. After the West Virginia Coal Association released a series of the worst cellphone ringtone songs about coal ever recorded–I mean, as in the worst coal songs ever recorded since Thomas Edison pioneered the first coal-fired plant and phonograph in the late 19th century–the Sierra Club’s […]

    Jeff Biggers Climate & Energy

  • As seen on David Letterman! (In my defense, this is “Odd day”)

    If you saw the Late Show with David Letterman last night and are visiting this website for the first time, please click here:  “An Introduction to Climate Progress.” For regular readers, yes, this is me with a ventriloquist’s dummy, but I can explain… First off, it is now officially “Odd Day,” and everybody should do […]

    Joseph Romm Climate & Energy

  • Princes, frogs partner to save rainforests

    HRH Prince of Wales (that’s His Royal Highness to you peasants) has launched an international online campaign to save the rainforests, appropriately monikered the Prince’s Rainforests Project. Prince Charles is joined by his sons William and Harry, along with a few non-royal celebs like Daniel Craig, the Dalai Lama, and an animated frog, in connecting […]

    Ashley Braun Climate & Energy

  • I may be on the David Letterman show tonight

    No, I won’t be talking to Dave.  Alas. A segment called “Andy Kindler Talks to Climate Change experts” is scheduled to air tonight. Now, I’m told “there is always a small chance that the piece could get edited out between tape and air, but for now it’s in.” Plus, none of the people involved have […]

    Joseph Romm Climate & Energy

  • The greening of Sarko

    Think of Nicolas Sarkozy, and what springs to mind? Carla Bruni, of course. His platform heels, probably. A somewhat aggressive manner, naturellement. Napoleon Bonaparte, pourquoi non? Al Gore attended the October 2007 unveiling of the Sarkozy government’s green program, called “Grenelle de l’Environnment.”Courtesy Elysee.frIndeed the French president is often compared to the diminutive emperor with […]

    Geoffrey Lean Climate & Energy

  • Barack gives biofuels the big thumbs up

    [Update: While some may think this decision was a win for corn ethanol, House Ag Committee Chair Collin Peterson clearly does not. In fact, he is seriously ticked off about it. According to CongressDaily, Peterson responded to the indirect land use ruling as follows:  “You are going to kill the biofuels industry. You are in […]

    Tom Laskawy Climate & Energy