Climate Science
All Stories
-
Critical List: A small fracking victory; fracking still sucks
In New York, government officials are extending the public comment period on fracking rules. In Pennsylvania, a judge gave Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. permission to stop supplying fresh water to families whose well water was tainted by fracking operations. And the Chesapeake Bay Foundation used infrared video to document emissions pouring out of natural […]
-
Critical List: Solar will go on military housing; U.S. net petroleum imports
Who needs government loan guarantees? SolarCity is going to put solar panels on 120,000 military houses with financing from Bank of America-owned Merrill Lynch. (Er, down with the banks?) Environmental regulations have "benefits and costs." They do kill jobs, but they also create new ones. The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. is close […]
-
![]()
![]()
Global warming hates the Ohio State Buckeyes
Cross-posted from ThinkProgress Green. This Saturday’s Crankshaft cartoon took on global warming, noting that climate change is threatening Ohio’s iconic buckeye trees, the namesake of the Ohio State Buckeyes. “Once it starts to affect football, they’ll get moving on climate change,” one character says: As greenhouse pollution from oil and coal continues to build, the […]
-
Documentary on end of world as we know it is surprisingly uplifting
The new documentary The Crisis of Civilization is the most user-friendly exploration of imminent doom you’ll ever see. Through interviews, found footage, and animation, the film actually manages to make the unwinding of our conventional, fossil-fueled, more-is-more industrial civilization accessible. And importantly, it pays just as much attention to solutions as to problems. Nafeez Ahmed, […]
-
![]()
![]()
This video of science-lab dogs being set free will make you bawl
I have complicated feelings about animal testing, at least when it comes to science. But I have very uncomplicated feelings about dogs, and this video of nine beagles being set free made me blubber unattractively. These dogs have lived in cages their entire lives, testing medicines, cosmetics, and household products (which does not qualify as […]
-
![]()
![]()
Climate change gives creepy, bat-carried disease a boost
In Australia, a virus called Hendra, which has had a 60 percent mortality rate in humans, is on the rise. There were 18 outbreaks of the disease this year, more than in the 16 previous years combined, and scientists suspect that climate change had a hand in this year's surge. An animal-borne disease like West […]
-
Critical List: 2011 was pretty darn warm; dams could exacerbate climate change
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 […]
-
![]()
![]()
Mitt vs. Mitt, flip-flopping on climate change and much else
A new ad from the Democratic National Committee is pummeling Mitt Romney for his extensive record of flip-floppery on global warming and so much more:
-
![]()
![]()
Newt Gingrich will never be president; I will never stop loving this video
Remember Al Gore’s “We” campaign on climate change? Boy that was a game-changer, wasn’t it? Sigh. However, it did leave us with at least one delightful cultural curio, namely this commercial with Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich sitting on a couch, talking nice about climate change: I never get tired of it! Newt Gingrich will […]
-
![]()
![]()
Eco-shocking the airwaves
For his podcast, Radio Ecoshock, Alex Smith interviews mostly off-the-radar authors, scientists, and activists about the climate crisis.
