Search Results from beSpacific
News release: "Many of Asia’s glaciers are retreating as a result of climate change. This retreat impacts water supplies to millions of people, increases the likelihood of outburst floods that threaten life and property in nearby areas, and contributes to...
News release: "With more than 32,000 islands in its waters, the Great Lakes contain the world’s largest collection of freshwater islands, but these islands are dynamic, undergoing many changes that threaten the islands’ flora and fauna, including climate change, habitat...
Fyfe, J. C., N. P. Gillett, and D. W. J. Thompson (2010), Comparing variability and trends in observed and modelled global-mean surface temperature, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L16802, oi:10.1029/2010GL044255. "The observed evolution of the global-mean surface temperature over the twentieth...
Fyfe, J. C., N. P. Gillett, and D. W. J. Thompson (2010), Comparing variability and trends in observed and modelled global-mean surface temperature, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L16802, oi:10.1029/2010GL044255. "The observed evolution of the global-mean surface temperature over the twentieth...
Earth has done an ecological about-face: "Global plant productivity that once flourished under warming temperatures and a lengthened growing season is now on the decline, struck by the stress of drought. NASA-funded researchers Maosheng Zhao and Steven Running, of the...
Nature.com: "Marine phytoplankton — the vast range of tiny algae species accounting for roughly half of Earth's total photosynthetic biomass — have declined substantially in the world's oceans over the past century, researchers report in Nature this week. The findings...
News release: "President Obama’s Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), co-chaired by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy (DOE), delivered a series of recommendations to the president today on overcoming the barriers...
"A dramatic rise in the surface temperature of Indonesian waters has resulted in a large-scale bleaching event that has devastated local coral populations. Following a report of a bleaching incident in May, WCS-Indonesia dispatched a “Rapid Response Unit” of marine...
News release: "Could the sweltering summer of 2010 be considered mild compared to the typical summers of the future? It depends on whether America & nations around the world act now to curb our global warming pollution. That's the conclusion...
News release: "The combined global land and ocean surface temperature made this July the second warmest on record, behind 1998, and the warmest averaged January-July on record. The global average land surface temperature for July and January–July was warmest on...
Homeland Security: Addressing Weaknesses with Facility Security Committees Would Enhance Protection of Federal Facilities, GAO-10-901, August 05, 2010) Finanzas del Consumidor: Factores que Afectan la Educacion Financiera de las Personas con Conocimientos Limitados del Ingles, GAO-10-869, August 04, 2010 Climate...
News release: "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has named the 50 green power partners using the most renewable electricity. The Green Power Partnership’s top purchasers use more than 12 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually, equivalent to the...
Follow up to previous postings on climate change, this EPA news release "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today denied 10 petitions challenging its 2009 determination that climate change is real, is occurring due to emissions of greenhouse gases from...
Earth has been growing warmer for more than fifty years, July 28, 2010 "The 2009 State of the Climate report released today draws on data for 10 key climate indicators that all point to the same finding: the scientific evidence...
Evaluating Sustainability of Projected Water Demands in 2050, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): "Climate change will impact water supplies, exacerbating existing pressures on water resources caused by population and economic growth. Given the combination of these stressors, the sustainability of...
The National Academies: "Emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels have ushered in a new epoch where human activities will largely determine the evolution of Earth's climate. Because carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is long lived, it...
Executive Order, July 19, 2010: "Section 1. Purpose. The ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes provide jobs, food, energy resources, ecological services, recreation, and tourism opportunities, and play critical roles in our Nation's transportation, economy, and trade, as well...
Follow up to previous postings on climate change, UK Mail Online: "A Google Earth map that shows the potential impacts of global temperature rises of 4C was unveiled by scientists and ministers [from the Foreign Office (FCO) and the Department...
Follow up to postings on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), this news release: "The Independent Climate Change Email Review, undertaken by Sir Muir Russell and his team, has issued its report on issues arising from the publication of...
The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) is the national institute for strategic policy analysis in the field of environment, nature and spatial planning: "PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency found no errors that would undermine the main conclusions in the 2007...
News release: "Despite the continued economic crisis, global emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, have remained constant in 2009, as strong increases in CO2 emissions from fast-growing developing countries, such as China and India, have completely nullified CO2...
Environmental Satellites: Planning Required to Mitigate Near-term Risks and Ensure Long-term Continuity, GAO-10-858T, June 29, 2010 Military Training: Continued Actions Needed to Guide DOD's Efforts to Improve Language Skills and Regional Proficiency, GAO-10-879T, June 29, 2010 Warfighter Support: Cultural Change...
Follow up to postings on climate change, this news release: "Since Wolfram|Alpha launched in 2009, we’ve had numerous requests to add data on climate. As part of our one-year anniversary release, we recently added a vast set of historical climate...
News release: "The Department of State has submitted its fifth National Communication on U.S. climate change actions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Submission of this document, also called the U.S. Climate Action Report 2010, is a...
News release: "As part of its most comprehensive study of climate change to date, the National Research Council today issued three reports emphasizing why the U.S. should act now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and develop a national strategy to...
News release: "The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for both April and for the period from January-April, according to NOAA. Additionally, last month’s average ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for...
Congressional Budget Office: How Policies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Could Affect Employment, May 5, 2010 Economic and Budget Issue Brief "The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has analyzed the research on the effects that policies to reduce greenhouse gases would...
How Policies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Could Affect Employment, May 5, 2010 - Economic and Budget Issue Brief "The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has analyzed the research on the effects that policies to reduce greenhouse gases would have on...
News release: "The U.S. Commerce Department’s Economics and Statistics Administration today released two new reports: one that defines and measures the size and scope of the green economy and another that looks at the ways in which the American economy's...
News release: "A report released by a federal working group highlights 11 key categories of diseases and other health consequences that are occurring or will occur due to climate change. The report, A Human Health Perspective on Climate Change -...
DOD: Nuclear Posture Review Report (NPR), April 2010: "The 2010 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) outlines the Administration’s approach to promoting the President’s agenda for reducing nuclear dangers and pursuing the goal of a world without nuclear weapons, while simultaneously advancing...
News release: "The last decade in Glacier National Park saw exactly double the temperature increase for the planet as a whole. The effects of this warming threaten Glacier National Park’s resources, from glaciers and snow-capped mountains to wildlife and forests,...
Extended Range Forecast of Atlantic Seasonal Hurricane Activity and Landfall Strike Probability for 2010, by Philip J. Klotzbach and William M. Gray, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University "We continue to foresee above-average activity for the 2010 Atlantic hurricane...
Deforestation and Climate Change, Ross W. Gorte, Specialist in Natural Resources Policy, Pervaze A. Sheikh, Specialist in Natural Resources Policy - March 24, 2010 "Efforts to mitigate climate change have focused on reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into the atmosphere....
News release: "Responding to one of the first major directives of the Obama Administration, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today jointly established historic new federal rules that set the first-ever national greenhouse...
News release: "US EPA released a list of U.S. metropolitan areas with the largest number of energy efficient buildings that earned EPA’s Energy Star in 2009. The list is headed by Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Denver, Chicago, Houston,...
Federal Climate Change Programs: Funding History and Policy Issues, March 2010 "In recent years, the federal government has allocated several billion dollars annually for projects to expand the understanding of climate change or to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse-gas...
Bureau of the Public Debt: Areas for Improvement in Information Security Controls, GAO-10-517R, March 26, 2010 Nuclear Nonproliferation: DOE Needs to Address Uncertainties with and Strengthen Independent Safety Oversight of Its Plutonium Disposition Program, GAO-10-378, March 26, 2010 Unmanned Aircraft...
News release: "Last month’s combined global land and ocean surface temperature made it the sixth warmest February ever recorded. Additionally, the December 2009 – February 2010 period was the fifth warmest on record averaged for any similar three-month Northern Hemisphere...
News release: "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a list of U.S. metropolitan areas with the largest number of energy efficient buildings that earned EPA’s Energy Star in 2009. The list is headed by Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., San...
A Very Inconvenient Truth, By Charles H. Greene, D. James Baker, and Daniel H. Miller. Oceanography March 2010 Vol.23, No.1 "Studies conducted after those that contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (FAR) suggest that...
Climate Change: Preliminary Observations on Geoengineering Science, Federal Efforts, and Governance Issues, GAO-10-546T, March 18, 2010 Freedom of Information Act: Requirements and Implementation Continue to Evolve, GAO-10-537T, March 18, 2010 Secure Border Initiative: Testing and Problem Resolution Challenges Put Delivery...
News release {includes link to video and charts]: "Climate change and over-use of water will mean that nearly on in every two people will live in water-stressed areas by 2030. Households, industry and agriculture will increasingly compete for water, leaving...
News release: "Climate change threatens to further imperil hundreds of species of migratory birds, already under stress from habitat loss, invasive species and other environmental threats, a new report released today by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar concludes. The...
WSJ via Aransas Project: "A coalition of environmentalists, bird lovers and Gulf Coast municipalities sued Texas regulators in federal court this past week, accusing them of mismanaging waters necessary for the survival of the biggest flock of endangered whooping cranes,...
National Science Foundation: "A section of the Arctic Ocean seafloor that holds vast stores of frozen methane is showing signs of instability and widespread venting of the powerful greenhouse gas, according to the findings of an international research team led...
Lead in to this headline as follows: The Nation: The Attack on Climate-Change Science New York Times Op-Ed - Al Gore: We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change. See also related news from the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change: "The IPCC...
News release: "The Pew Environment Group released a report that for the first time quantifies the global cost of the Arctic’s declining ability to cool the climate, indicating that the rapid melting of the region could carry a minimum price...
"NOAA unveil[ed]... a new Web site – http://www.climate.gov – that serves as a single point-of-entry for NOAA’s extensive climate information, data, products and services. Known as the NOAA Climate Portal, the site addresses the needs of five broadly-defined user groups:...
New office would target nation’s fast-accelerating climate information needs "Individuals and decision-makers across widely diverse sectors – from agriculture to energy to transportation – increasingly are asking NOAA for information about climate change in order to make the best choices...
"On behalf of the National Science and Technology Council, the U.S. Global Change Research Program is pleased to transmit to the President and the Congress this state of knowledge report: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. This report...
"Every year, 20 million hectares of rainforest — an area the size of England, Wales and Scotland combined — are cut down, releasing millions of tons of carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Without action now, most of the world’s tropical...
News release: "A one-stop source for biogeographic information collected from U.S. waters and oceanic regions is now available from the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) Program. The OBIS-USA website offers a unique combination of tools, resources, and biodiversity information to...
Psychology and Global Climate Change Addressing a Multi-faceted Phenomenon and Set of Challenges - Report of the American Psychological Association Task Force on the Interface Between Psychology and Global Climate Change: "The task force’s report reviews a wide range of...
CRS - Displacing Coal with Generation from Existing Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants, Stan Mark Kaplan, Specialist in Energy and Environmental Policy, January 19, 2010 "Reducing carbon dioxide emissions from coal plants is a focus of many proposals for cutting greenhouse...
World Resources Institute: "On January 20th, sixty corporations begin measuring the greenhouse gas emissions of their products and supply chains by road testing a new global framework that is part of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative. Developed by the World...
News release: "The global ocean surface temperature was the second warmest on record for December, according to scientists at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. Based on records going back to 1880, the monthly NCDC analysis is part...
Global Risks 2010 - A Global Risk Network Report. A World Economic Forum Report in collaboration with Citi, Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC), Swiss Re, Wharton School Risk Center, Zurich Financial Services. January 2010. "This year’s report explores a set...
Cars and Climate: What Can EPA Do to Control Greenhouse Gases from Mobil Sources - James E. McCarthy, Specialist in Environmental Policy, December 9, 2009. "EPA has received 10 petitions asking that it make endangerment findings and proceed to regulate...
Green Protectionism in the European Union: How Europe’s Biofuels Policy and the Renewable Energy Directive Violate WTO Commitments, European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) "This paper examines the trade-policy consequences of current approaches to biofuels. The paper is not...
News release: "A combination of man-made global warming and a moderate warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean, a phenomenon known as El Niño, means it is very likely that 2010 will be a warmer year globally than 2009. Recently released...
Wired Science: "When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change meets in 2014, tipping points — or tipping elements, in academic vernacular — will get much more attention. Scientists still disagree about which planetary systems are extra-sensitive to climate shifts, but...
"Energy touches our lives in countless ways and its costs are felt when we fill up at the gas pump, pay our home heating bills, and keep businesses both large and small running. There are long-term costs as well: to...
Follow up to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: Draft of Global Climate Pact, today's White House announcement: A Meaningful and Unprecedented Breakthrough Here in Copenhagen - "In a much-anticipated United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, the...
S. 1733, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, December 16, 2009. Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on November 5, 2009. "In total, those changes would reduce budget...
New York City Community Air Survey: Results Winter 2008-2009, Prepublication version, December 15, 200 "Across the country and in New York City, air quality has improved in recent decades, due to measures implemented to meet U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
The Effects of Climate Change on U.S. Ecosystems, November 2009 "The Earth’s climate is changing. The Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date scientific assessment of this issue, stating...
"IEA released a new study on research, development and demonstration (RD&D) spending needs for the low-carbon technologies being targeted by the Major Economies Forum on Energy & Climate Change. The study finds that while public RD&D investments have increased recently...
Jose Antonio Vargas, Technology and Innovations editor, Huffington Post: "This is the transcript of a wide-ranging, two-part, three-hour interview with Al Gore, touching on the impact of technology and the Internet in politics, both in the U.S. and abroad; the...
The Mexican-Norwegian Proposal on Climate Change Financing - The Green Fund "The Joint Model - To achieve an ambitious outcome in Copenhagen financing will need to be scaled up significantly and urgently, starting fast and rising over time. Mexico and...
Melting snow and ice: a call for action, A report commissioned by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Al Gore and Norway’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre, Centre for Ice, Climate and Ecosystems, Norwegian Polar Institute, Polar Environmental Centre, NO–9296...
Google.org blog: "...at the International Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen we demonstrated a new technology prototype that enables online, global-scale observation and measurement of changes in the earth's forests. We hope this technology will help stop the destruction of...
Chair’s Proposed Draft Text on the Outcome of the Work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperative Action under the Convention, Version 11/12/09 Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto...
News release: "The year 2009 is likely to rank in the top 10 warmest on record since the beginning of instrumental climate records in 1850, according to data sources compiled by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The global combined sea...
"After a thorough examination of the scientific evidence and careful consideration of public comments, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that greenhouse gases (GHGs) threaten the public health and welfare of the American people." Press release | Administrator's...
Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2008 — Dec 3, 2009. Annual inventory of anthropogenic (human-caused) greenhouse gases in the United States. U.S. Energy Information Administration Office of Integrated Analysis and Forecasting U.S. Department of Energy. Energy-related CO2...
The Use of Agricultural Offsets to Reduce Greenhouse Gases, December 3, 2009. Testimony before the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research, Committee on Agriculture, U.S. House of Representatives. "Offsets used as a part of a cap-and-trade program for greenhouse-gas...
A Just and Sustainable Recovery: Bread for the World Institute’s 2010 Hunger Report "is now available online. This year’s report focuses on green jobs and domestic economy, but still includes international statistics on food security, poverty, and development. The 2010...
Port of Spain Climate Change Consensus: The Commonwealth Climate Change Declaration: "Climate change is the predominant global challenge. We convened a Special Session on Climate Change in Port of Spain to discuss our profound concern about the undisputed threat that...
UN: The State of World Population 2009 - Facing a Changing World: Women, Population and Climate "Women bear the disproportionate burden of climate change, but have so far been largely overlooked in the debate about how to address problems of...
CBO Economic and Policy Brief: The Costs of Reducing Greenhouse-Gas Emissions, November 23, 2009 "Human activities around the world are producing increasingly large quantities of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2) resulting from the consumption of fossil fuels and deforestation....
News release: "For the fifth consecutive year, EPA is reporting an increase in fuel efficiency with a corresponding decrease in average carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions for new cars and light duty trucks. This marks the first time that data for...
Wired: "The Navy’s Arctic Roadmap, written by the recently launched Navy Task Force Climate Change (TFCC), opens with an acknowledgment that worldwide temperatures are on the rise — especially up north. The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the...
News release: "Expanded action and increased accountability by the federal government are the focus of a draft strategy for restoring and protecting the Chesapeake Bay required by President Obama’s Executive Order. To accelerate efforts and track progress, federal agencies are...
World Resources Institute: Power, Responsibility, and Accountability: Re-Thinking the Legitimacy of Institutions for Climate Finance, Working Paper: November, 2009 by Maria Athena Ballesteros, Smita Nakhooda, Jake Werksman, with Kaija Hurlburt and Seema Kumar "This Working Paper seeks to ground the...
News release: "A recent Pew Research survey showing a sharp decline in the proportion of the public saying there is solid evidence of global warming has triggered considerable speculation about why these views are changing. The poll was released a...
Defense Critical Infrastructure: Actions Needed to Improve the Identification and Management of Electrical Power Risks and Vulnerabilities to DOD Critical Assets, GAO-10-147, October 23, 2009 Climate Change Adaptation: Strategic Federal Planning Could Help Officials Make More Informed Decisions, GAO-10-175T, October...
"Recent advances in air pollution monitoring and modeling capabilities have made it possible to show that air pollution can be transported long-distances, and that adverse impacts of emitted pollutants cannot be confined to one country or even one continent. Pollutants...
The Status and Distribution of Dragonflies of the Mediterranean Basin, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources: One fifth of Mediterranean dragonflies and damselflies are threatened with extinction at the regional level as a result of increasing freshwater...
UK Cybercrime Report 2009 "UK cybercrime has rebounded to worrying levels, not seen since 2006, as a result of the recession and consumer complacency, according to Garlik’s annual UK Cybercrime report, now in its third year. The report, which analyses...
News release: "Twenty five million more children will be malnourished in 2050 due to effects of climate change, according to a report by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). This study, the most comprehensive assessment of the impact of...
News release: "The Central Intelligence Agency is launching The Center on Climate Change and National Security as the focal point for its work on the subject. The Center is a small unit led by senior specialists from the Directorate of...
News release: "On January 1, 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will, for the first time, require large emitters of heat-trapping emissions to begin collecting greenhouse gas (GHG) data under a new reporting system. This new program will cover approximately...
September 21, 2009 - Social Networking and Constituent Communication: Member Use of Twitter During a Two-Week Period in the 111th Congress September 16, 2009 - FEMA Disaster Housing: From Sheltering to Permanent Housing September 16, 2009 - Wildfire Fuels and...
News release: "In Pittsburgh, the world’s major economies agreed to continue our effort to spur global demand to put our people back to work. We committed ourselves to economic growth that is balanced and sustained— so that we avoid the...
Follow up to August 23, 2009 posting - "Why Women's Rights Are The Cause of Our Time" - today's news release: "Millions of girls and women will have access to improved health care, better education, and increased economic opportunity because...
The Economic Effects of Legislation to Reduce Greenhouse-Gas Emissions, September 2009 "U.S. emissions currently account for roughly 20 percent of global emissions. As a result, substantially reducing global emissions would probably entail large reductions in U.S. emissions as well as...
How Regulatory Standards Can Affect a Cap-and-Trade Program for Greenhouse Gases, September 16, 2009 "Some legislation considered by the current and previous Congresses has proposed combining cap-and-trade programs with various regulatory standards to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Greenhouse gases increase the...
News release: "U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Ray LaHood and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson today jointly proposed a rule establishing an historic national program that would improve vehicle fuel economy and reduce greenhouse gases....
D.C. Air Quality 2008 vs. 2009, posted by Chris Naille, Meteorologist. More Code Red Days in 2008 than in 2009: "Much of the summer thus far has been noted by slightly cooler than average temperatures coupled with an active weather...
News release: "Researchers working with forest community groups and policy makers in ten countries in Africa and Asia have developed a novel way to improve the flow of social and environmental benefits from tropical forests, according to an independent evaluation...
News release: "Scientists led by a former co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will warn today that the UN negotiations aimed at tackling climate change are based on substantial underestimates of what it will cost to adapt to...
"The NABE Economic Policy Survey presents the consensus of a panel of 266 members of the National Association for Business Economics. Conducted semiannually, this survey was taken Aug. 3-18, 2009." "Economists surveyed earlier this month by the National Association for...
News release: "The American Bar Association, in partnership with the Alliance for Community Trees (ACT) and the Parks & People Foundation, will kick off the ABA’s One Million Trees Project in a public ceremony Sept. 23 at Franklin Square Elementary/Middle...
Global Warming Bringing More Extreme Heat Waves - More Extremely Hot Days Projected – 30 Large Cities Especially Vulnerable, Published August 25, 2009: "More extremely hot summer days are projected for every part of the country, detailed in a new...
America's Energy Future: Technology and Transformation, 2009. "Energy touches our lives in countless ways and its costs are felt when we fill up at the gas pump, pay our home heating bills, and keep businesses both large and small running....
News release: "U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke today approved a plan to prohibit the expansion of commercial fishing in federal Arctic waters until researchers gather sufficient information on fish and the Arctic marine environment to prevent adverse impacts of...
News release: "The planet’s ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for July, breaking the previous high mark established in 1998 according to an analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. The combined average global land...
U.S. Solar Energy Demand Dynamics - Financing Structures, Government Incentives, and Market Drivers for Solar Photovoltaics Projects: 2009-2015 "The United States has become one of the more aggressive nations in promoting alternative energy technologies, but at the federal level tax...
Rebuilding America - A National Policy Framework for Investment in Energy Efficiency Retrofits - Bracken Hendricks and Benjamin Goldstein, Center for American Progress - Reid Detchon and Kurt Shickman, Energy Future Coalition, August 2009. "This report is a detailed examination...
North American Leaders’ Declaration on Climate Change and Clean Energy, August 10, 2009 "We, the leaders of North America reaffirm the urgency and necessity of taking aggressive action on climate change. We stress that the experience developed during the last...
News release: "A report on long-term glacier measurements released today by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar shows that glaciers are dramatically changing in mass, length and thickness as a result of climate change. Over the past 50 years, U.S....
New York Times: Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security - "The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of...
Air Pollution: Air Quality and Permitting of New Coal-Burning, Electricity-Generating Units in Central Texas, GAO-09-787R, August 04, 2009 Climate Change Policy: Preliminary Observations on Options for Distributing Emissions Allowances and Revenue under a Cap-and-Trade Program, GAO-09-950T, August 04, 2009 Hurricane...
The Use of Offsets to Reduce Greenhouse Gases - August 3, 2009: "Discussions about reducing greenhouse gases often focus on limiting the use of fossil fuels to generate electricity or power cars and trucks, yet a variety of other actions—including...
Facts & Figures Handbook: How Does Your State Compare? (2009 mid-year update) Mark Robyn: "How do taxes in your state compare nationally? This convenient pocket-size booklet compares the 50 states on 37 different measures of taxing and spending, including individual...
"The report Sustaining California Agriculture in an Uncertain Future shows that California agriculture can flourish despite diminishing water supply and future uncertainty from climate change, but it will require great strides in increasing the water efficiency of the agricultural sector....
Preliminary Analysis Of the Effects of HR 2454 On U.S. Agriculture - Office of the Chief Economist Economic Research Service, U.S., Department of Agriculture, July 22, 2009 Executive Summary: "USDA performed a preliminary economic analysis of the impacts of House-passed...
Ira Flatow, NPR: "Replacing dark roofing and pavement with lighter, more reflective materials could reduce temperatures in cities and offset significant quantities of carbon dioxide emissions. In an article published in the journal Climatic Change [Global cooling: increasing world-wide urban...
Bottled Water: FDA Safety and Consumer Protections Are Often Less Stringent Than Comparable EPA Protections for Tap Water, GAO-09-861T, July 08, 2009 Climate Change Trade Measures: Considerations for U.S. Policy Makers, GAO-09-724R, July 08, 2009 Climate Change Trade Measures: Estimating...
June 23, 2009 - Homeland Security Department: FY2010 Appropriations: "This report describes the FY2010 appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Administration requested a net appropriation of $44.1 billion in budget authority for FY2010. This amounts to a...
Arctic Climate Change and Security Policy Conference: Final Report and Findings, Kenneth Yalowitz, James Collins, Ross Virginia Report, June 2009 "This final report summarizes the panel discussions from a conference on arctic climate change and security policy sponsored by the...
News release: "The most authoritative report providing a blueprint for how communities can tackle global warming was released by the California League of Conservation Voters Education Fund and the Natural Resources Defense Council. The report is a guide to California’s...
News release: "EPA released a first-of-its-kind guide to help states save money and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by adopting clean energy practices in their facilities, operations and vehicle fleets. States spend about 10 percent of their operating budgets on energy...
Final Report of Synthesis and Assessment Product 5.2 (Best practice approaches for characterizing, communicating, and incorporating scientific uncertainty in decisionmaking) is posted. See also press release from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). (posted 16 Jan 2009) Final Report...
Strengthening the Transatlantic Alliance: An Overview of the Obama Administration's Policies in Europe, Philip H. Gordon, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Statement before the Subcommittee on Europe of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Washington, DC, June 16,...
Responses to Questions About the Cost of a Cap-and-Trade Program, June 12, 2009 - Letter to the Honorable John F. Kerry "...under the illustrative cap-and-trade program that CBO analyzed, the government would create allowances (that is, rights to emit CO2)...
Aviation and Climate Change: Aircraft Emissions Expected to Grow, but Technological and Operational Improvements and Government Policies Can Help Control Emissions, GAO-09-554, June 08, 2009 Nuclear and Worker Safety: Limited Information Exists on Costs and Reasons for Work Stoppages at...
"H.R. 2454, American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, as ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on May 21, 2009 would make a number of changes in energy and environmental policies largely aimed at reducing...
News release: "Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today sent Congress his recommendations for a national program to help reduce greenhouse gases by selecting appropriate underground geological formations on public lands to inject and store carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired...
Remarks: "...While the United States makes up less than 5 percent of the world's population, we create roughly a quarter of the world's demand for oil. And this appetite comes at a tremendous price -- a price measured by our...
News release: "EPA will hold the first of two public hearings on Monday, May 18 regarding the agency’s proposed findings that greenhouse gases contribute to air pollution that may endanger public health or welfare. The proposed findings identify six greenhouse...
News release: "With summer and the high costs of cooling right around the corner, EPA is offering advice to help Americans reduce both energy bills and greenhouse gas emissions by one third through Energy Star. The energy used in an...
Monthly Budget Review, May 2009 - Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for March and the Daily Treasury Statements for April: "The federal government incurred a deficit of close to $800 billion for the first seven months of fiscal year...
Potential Impacts of Climate Change in the United States, May 2009 "This paper summarizes the current state of scientific understanding of the potential effects of projected changes in climate and related developments. The paper describes the wide range of potential...
National Science Foundation - Solving the Puzzle: Researching the Impacts of Climate Change Around the World, released May 1, 2009. "This report addresses some of the major questions facing climate change researchers, and how those puzzles are being addressed by...
"Air pollution continues to threaten the lives and health of millions of people in the United States despite great progress since the modern Clean Air Act was first passed in 1970. Even as the nation explores the complex challenges of...
Background Paper: How CBO Estimates the Costs of Reducing Greenhouse-Gas Emissions, April 2009 "Households and businesses in a modern industrial economy like that of the United States emit a number of different greenhouse gases through a wide variety of activities—any...
Gallup: "With Earth Day approaching, Americans still on balance believe the quality of the environment in the U.S. is getting worse rather than better; however, their outlook is significantly brighter now than a year ago...Americans show increased optimism about the...
News release: "After a thorough scientific review ordered in 2007 by the U.S. Supreme Court [Massachusetts v. EPA, 549 U.S. 497], the Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposed finding Friday that greenhouse gases contribute to air pollution that may endanger...
News release: "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a report on the potential impacts of climate change on regional U.S. air quality. The information contained in the report will enhance our ability as a nation to protect air quality...
Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2007 Although the Earth’s atmosphere consists mainly of oxygen and nitrogen, neither plays a significant role in enhancing the greenhouse effect because both are essentially transparent to terrestrial radiation. The greenhouse effect...
News release: "The threat of global warming can still be greatly diminished if nations cut emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases by 70 percent this century, according to a new analysis. While global temperatures would rise, the most dangerous potential aspects...
Tax Department Resource Shortages: Performing Under Pressure: "In today’s economic climate, a proactive, strategic view of your tax department’s capabilities is crucial to closing the gaps between current and expected performance. Yet, finance and tax department leaders are under significant...
An Assessment of the Potential Effects of the Reductions in Medicare's Payment Rates for Physicians Called for Under Current Law, March 27, 2009 Letter to the Honorable John M. Spratt Jr.: "This letter responds to your request for an assessment...
News release: "The United States Environmental Protection Agency has sent two letters to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expressing serious concerns about the need to reduce the potential harmful impacts on water quality caused by certain types of coal...
Fsct Sheet: Investing in Our Clean Energy Future: "Today, President Obama [met] with clean energy entrepreneurs and leaders of the research community to discuss his strategy for building a clean energy economy and creating the industries and jobs of the...
News release: "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is making available the most recent reporting on the amount of toxic chemicals released into the U.S. environment. According to the EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory, the latest data, from the calendar year 2007,...
National Institute on Money in State Politics: "As the climate change debate heats up in the states, those with a keen interest in the issue have turned up the pressure to make sure their voices are heard in the lawmaking...
"The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) is the independent and quasi-judicial control organ monitoring the implementation of the United Nations drug control conventions." Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2008: "The historical development of international drug control is...
Nuclear Loan Guarantees Another Taxpayer Bailout Ahead?, March 2009. Advocates of nuclear power are now promoting a “nuclear renaissance” based on claims that a new generation of reactors will produce relatively cheap electricity while solving threats posed by global climate...
CBO Testimony: Statement of Terry M. Dinan Senior Advisor - The Distributional Consequences of a Cap-and-Trade Program for CO2 Emissions before the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, U.S. House of Representatives, March 12, 2009. "One option for reducing...
News release: "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed the first comprehensive national system for reporting emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases produced by major sources in the United States...The new reporting requirements would apply to suppliers of...
Official Google Blog: "Do you leave your fridge door open after grabbing what you need? Do you leave your vacuum cleaner running when you aren't cleaning? Of course not. The idea of doing either of these things sounds silly, yet...
Information Technology: Census Bureau Testing of 2010 Decennial Systems Can Be Strengthened, GAO-09-262, March 05, 2009 Information Technology: Census Bureau Testing of 2010 Decennial Systems Can Be Strengthened, GAO-09-414T, March 05, 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: GAO's Role in...
Report: Green Jobs - A Pathway to a Strong Middle Class, Staff of the Middle Class Task Force for Vice President Joseph Biden "The White House Task Force on the Middle Class has a simple mandate: to find, highlight, and...
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Technical Paper VI- Climate Change and Water "The importance of freshwater to our life support system is widely recognised, as can be seen clearly in the international context. Freshwater is indispensable for all forms...
Older Workers: Enhanced Communication among Federal Agencies Could Improve Strategies for Hiring and Retaining Experienced Workers, GAO-09-206, February 24, 2009 Climate Change Science: High Quality Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data are a Cornerstone of Programs to Address Climate Change, GAO-09-423T, February...
Follow up to recent postings on the auto industry bailout, this news release: "Today, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and National Economic Council (NEC) Director Larry Summers convened official designees to the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry to discuss...
News release: "The combined global land and ocean surface average temperature for January 2009 was the seventh warmest since records began in 1880, according to a preliminary analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. The analyses in...
Climate Risk Information, New York City Panel on Climate Change, Release Version, February 17, 2009 "Climate change poses a range of hazards to New York City and its infrastructure. These changes suggest a need for the City to rethink the...
EPA does not have an overall plan to ensure developing consistent, compatible climate change strategies across the Agency. At a Glance | Report PDF "EPA does not have an overall plan to ensure developing consistent, compatible climate change strategies across...
From the journal Nature, via a New York Times article, this new fee based report, Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year, for which Figures and tables as well as Supplementary info are available to...
News release: "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in collaboration with other agencies, has released a report that discusses the impacts of sea level rise on the coast, coastal communities, and the habitats and species that depend on them. The report,...
The Clean Coal Smoke Screen by Daniel J. Weiss, Nick Kong, Sam Schiller, Alexandra Kougentakis | December 22, 2008. Data Analysis for Clean Coal Smoke Screen, by Daniel J. Weiss, Nick Kong, Sam Schiller, Alexandra Kougentakis | December 22, 2008...
U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey news release: "The United States faces the potential for abrupt climate change in the 21st century that could pose clear risks to society in terms of our ability to adapt. "Abrupt" changes...
Vandenbergh, Michael P. , Barkenbus, Jack and Gilligan, Jonathan M.,Individual Carbon Emissions: The Low-Hanging Fruit (July 16, 2008). UCLA Law Review, Vol. 55, 2008; Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 08-36. Available at SSRN. "The individual and household sector generates...
News release: "The team that I have assembled here today is uniquely suited to meet the great challenges of this defining moment. They are leading experts and accomplished managers, and they are ready to reform government and help transform our...
In following posting today, Interior Publishes Final Changes to Endangered Species Act Regs, this news release: "The announcement by the Interior Department of a new rule eliminating Congress’s authority to prevent new mining on public lands escalated concerns about the...
News release: "While progress is being made, consumer and technology companies still have more to do in confronting the business challenges posed by climate change, according to a report issued today by the Ceres investor coalition and authored by RiskMetrics...
News release: "The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) today outlined the key policies that President-elect Obama and the Congressional leadership must address to expand the use of solar energy and help put over 1 million Americans back to work by...
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing on investments in clean energy and natural resources projects and programs to create green jobs and to stimulate the economy: Testimony of Bracken Hendricks, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Action Fund,...
Remarks of President-elect Barack Obama Radio Address on the Economy, Saturday, December 6, 2008 [Watch the video on YouTube]: "Today, I am announcing a few key parts of my plan. First, we will launch a massive effort to make public...
News release: "Total U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were 7,282 million metric tons carbon dioxide equivalent (MMTCO 2e) in 2007, an increase of 1.4 percent from the 2006 level according to Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2007,...
News release: "The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy has unveiled its Transition Plan for Securing America's Energy Future, an energy policy roadmap with 88 concrete recommendations and detailed timelines for President-elect Barack Obama and the 111th...
International Climate Change Programs: Lessons Learned from the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme and the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism, GAO-09-151, November 18, 2008: "According to available information and experts, the ETS phase I established a functioning market for carbon...
Clean Energy 2030 Google's Proposal for reducing U.S. dependence on fossil fuels, by Jeffery Greenblatt, Climate and Energy Technology Manager: 'The energy team at Google has been analyzing how we could greatly reduce fossil fuel use by 2030. Our proposal...
Toolkit for Foundations and Individual Investors: Harnessing Your Investments to Help Solve the Climate Crisis, November 2008 "Climate change presents enormous risks and opportunities for investors. Climate risk is now embedded in all investment portfolios as companies worldwide face far-reaching...
House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, Final Staff Report for the 110th Congress Staff, October 21, 2008: "The scientific debate on the cause of climate change is over. A clear scientific consensus now holds that global warming...
Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World, November 2008 - "We prepared Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World to stimulate strategic thinking about the future by identifying key trends, the factors that drive them, where they seem to be headed, and...
News release: "The combined global land and ocean surface average temperature for October 2008 was the second warmest since records began in 1880, according to a preliminary analysis by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center....
News release: "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Energy are helping states lead the way in an effort to promote low cost energy efficiency. More than 60 energy, environmental and state policy leaders from across the country...
"During the 77 days from the election to the Inauguration, Brookings experts will offer twelve “Memos to the President” on these policy priorities, starting with climate change and expanding across the spectrum of domestic and global challenges. Weekly events will...
Washington Post: "Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies on climate change, stem cell research, reproductive rights and...
"Nearly 180 organizations representing the business, education and scientific communities have urged the next president to appoint a White House science adviser by January 20—Inauguration Day—and give the adviser cabinet rank." "Dear Senator Obama: The next President of the United...
U.S. Metro Economies - Current and Potential Green Jobs in the U.S. Economy - Green Jobs in U.S. Metro Areas, October 2008. Prepared for: The United States Conference of Mayors and the Mayors Climate Protection Center. "Dwindling natural resources, growing...
Preparing for Our Common Future: Policy Choices and the Economics of Climate Change, October 2008. CBO Director Peter Orszag's presentation for the Goldman Lecture in Economics, Wellesley College. "Global climate change represents one of our most serious long-term risks." Related...
News release: "Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, joined by Vice President Al Gore, today announced an agreement that requires a national energy company, Dynegy Inc. (“Dynegy”), to disclose timely and relevant information to investors about climate change risks...Under the agreement,...
News release: "Alternative sources of fossil fuels such as oil sands and coal-to-liquids have significant economic promise, but the environmental consequences must also be considered, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today. The study by RAND, a non-profit research...
News release: "The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) and the Center for Integrative Environmental Research (CIER) at the University of Maryland have worked together to develop State Economic and Environmental Costs of Climate Change reports. Four additional state economic...
News release: "Temperature increases, a near-record loss of summer sea ice, and a melting of surface ice in Greenland are among some of the evidence of continued warming in the Arctic, according to an annual review of conditions in the...
"A bipartisan report circulated today by House Committee on Oversight Chairman Henry A. Waxman and Ranking Member Tom Davis finds that President Bush made a “legally unprecedented and an inappropriate use of executive privilege” when he directed Attorney General Mukasey...
News release: "To assist in responding to potential effects of climate change, a new strategy focuses on 40 specific actions for the national water program to take to respond to climate change. EPA's National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate...
Global Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events: Understanding the Contributions to Infectious Disease Emergence: Workshop Summary, 2008. "Long before the germ theory of disease was described, late in the nineteenth century, humans knew that climatic conditions influence the appearance and...
NASA: Agency Faces Challenges Defining Scope and Costs of Space Shuttle Transition and Retirement, GAO-08-1096, September 30, 2008 Climate Change: Federal Actions Will Greatly Affect the Viability of Carbon Capture and Storage As a Key Mitigation Option, GAO-08-1080, September 30,...
United Nations Environment Programme: "A new, landmark study on the impact of an emerging global "green economy" on the world of work says efforts to tackle climate change could result in the creation of millions of new "green jobs" in...
"Freshwater Ecoregions of the World, (FEOW) provides a new global biogeographic regionalization of the Earth's freshwater biodiversity. Covering virtually all freshwater habitats on Earth, this first-ever ecoregion map, together with associated species data, is a useful tool for underpinning global...
Issues in Designing a Cap-and-Trade Program for Carbon Dioxide Emissions, September 18, 2008. Testimony before the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives Hearing on Policy Options to Prevent Climate Change....
Finance leaders seek to extend wind, solar, other incentives America's energy, economic future: "Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today unveiled energy tax legislation that they intend to bring to the Senate for...
Climate Projections Based on Emissions Scenarios for Long-Lived and Short-Lived Radiatively Active Gases and Aerosols, U.S. Climate Change Science Program, Synthesis and Assessment Product 3.2, September 2008. "This U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) Synthesis and Assessment Product provides a...
University of Florida News: "Permafrost blanketing the northern hemisphere contains more than twice the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, making it a potentially mammoth contributor to global climate change depending on how quickly it thaws. So concludes a group...
American Institute for Contemporary German Studies Policy Report #34: Overcoming the Lethargy: Climate Change, Energy Security, and the Case for a Third Industrial Revolution, by Alexander Ochs, August 2008. Related postings on climate change...
"The North Pole has become an island for the first time in human history as climate change has made it possible to circumnavigate the Arctic ice cap. The historic development was revealed by satellite images taken last week showing that...
News release: "Investors engaging with U.S. companies on the financial risks and opportunities from climate change achieved breakthrough results during the 2008 proxy season. A record 57 climate-related shareholder resolutions were filed with U.S. companies, of which nearly half were...
News release: "On the back of three years of consistent growth, the US wind market is poised for a record-breaking surge with cumulative installed wind capacity to surpass 150 gigawatts (GW) by 2020, according to a recent market study from...
Scientific American: "The amount of solar photovoltaics harnessing electricity from sunshine in the U.S. will more than double by 2013, thanks to plans to build 800 megawatts worth in California. The two vast solar farms—covering more than 12 square miles—will...
Immigration to the United States and World-Wide Greenhouse Gas Emissions, by Steven Camarota, Leon Kolankiewicz, August 2008 "The findings of this study indicate that future levels of immigration will have a significant impact on efforts to reduce global CO2 emissions....
Center for American Progress - A Global Imperative - A Progressive Approach to U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century, August 2008 "The next four years offer a critical window of opportunity to forge an innovative, durable, pragmatic, and effective approach...
Challenges for Nuclear Power Expansion, Toni Johnson, Staff Writer, August 11, 2008. "Global construction of nuclear reactors is rising after a decades-long decline. A number of factors account for this shift, including soaring energy demand in the developing world and...
ABC News/Planet Green/Stanford University Poll Finds Concern for Environment, Support for Drilling "High energy prices are double-teaming with environmental concerns to prompt broad conservation efforts, with seven in 10 Americans saying they're trying to reduce their "carbon footprint," chiefly by...
News release: "In response to Chairman Waxman’s inquiry, EPA provided analyses EPA had conducted of reductions that would be necessary from the transportation sector to meet a range of global warming goals." The Potential Energy and GHG Implications of Plug-in...
News release: "The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP)...announced the release of the report “Climate Models: An Assessment of Strengths and Limitations,” the 10th in a series of 21 Synthesis and Assessment Products (SAPs) managed by U.S. federal agencies. Developed...
Brookings Hamilton Project: An Economic Strategy for Investing in America’s Infrastructure, Manasi Deshpande, Douglas W. Elmendorf - July 2008. "Infrastructure investment has received more attention in recent years because of increased delays from road and air congestion, high-profile infrastructure failures,...
Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health and Welfare and Human Systems, Final Report, Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.6, U.S. Climate Change Science Program And the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, July 2008 [284 pages, PDF]. "This...
08-P-0206 Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Reduction Programs Have Limited Potential, [Report PDF - 40 pages], July 23, 2008. "The set of voluntary GHG programs we reviewed use outreach efforts to recruit program partners and reduce GHG emissions. We found the greatest...
News release: "A new collaborative study by World Resources Institute and other researchers finds that much of the world’s deforestation is isolated in a handful of “hotspots,” not spread out over many nations and many locations. In fact, this study...
News release: "IBM and the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a collaboration of 385 institutional investors with a combined asset base of $57 trillion, have undertaken an extensive joint research project into carbon management practices and compiled a Best Practice Guide....
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Technical Paper on Climate Change and Water, June 2008 (214 pages, PDF) "The Technical Paper addresses the issue of freshwater. Sealevel rise is dealt with only insofar as it can lead to impacts on freshwater...
Council on Foreign Relations Task Force Report: Confronting Climate Change - A Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy, June 2008- "Against the backdrop of increasing attention to energy and climate change in the presidential campaigns, recent failure of the Senate to...
News release: "Today EPA released an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) soliciting public input on the effects of climate change and the potential ramifications of the Clean Air Act in relation to greenhouse gas emissions. Today's action is in...
Declaration of Leaders Meeting of Major Economies on Energy Security and Climate Change, July 9, 2008: "We, the leaders of Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, South...
Aalok Mehta aboard the C.C.G.S. Amundsen, National Geographic News June 20, 2008: "Arctic warming has become so dramatic that the North Pole may melt this summer, report scientists studying the effects of climate change in the field. "We're actually projecting...
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, 25 June 2008. National Intelligence Assessment on the National Security Implications of Global Climate Change to 2030. Statement for the Record of Dr. Thomas Fingar,...
News release: "The U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research...released a scientific assessment that provides the first comprehensive analysis of observed and projected changes in weather and climate extremes in North America and U.S. territories....
News release: "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a report that can help reduce the potential impact of climate change on estuaries, forests, wetlands, coral reefs, and other sensitive ecosystems. The report, entitled Preliminary Review of Adaptation Options for...
Options for Offsetting the Economic Impact on Low-and Moderate-Income Households of a Cap-and-Trade Program for Carbon Dioxide Emissions, June 17, 2008. Letter to Jeff Bingaman, Chairman, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources The Long-Term Budget Outlook and Options for Slowing...
News release: "EPA is releasing a new resource, A Business Guide to U.S. EPA Climate Partnership Programs, for businesses committed to addressing the risks and opportunities associated with climate change. The guide features profiles on 35 EPA climate-change related partnership...
Climate Change: Expert Opinion on the Economics of Policy Options to Address Climate Change, GAO-08-605, May 09, 2008: "Elevated levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the resulting effects on the earth's climate could have significant environmental and economic...
News release: "A WRI [World Resources Institute] analysis of the complex challenges that investors would face when deploying carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies shows that until government policies support large-scale demonstrations it is unlikely that CCS will be able...
Shrinking the Carbon Footprint of Metropolitan America, Andrea Sarzynski, Senior Research Analyst, Metropolitan Policy Program, Marilyn A. Brown, Professor, School of Public Policy Georgia Institute of Technology, Frank Southworth, Principal Research Scientist, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Georgia Institute...
News release: "The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), together with the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), today announced the release of a scientific assessment of the effects of global change on the United States, with special emphasis on...
News release: "Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) introduced a revolutionary new global warming bill today that would reduce global warming pollution according to scientific targets, reinvest any revenue back to American workers and technology, and would re-establish America as a...
High-Level Conference on World Food Security: The Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy, Rome, 3 - 5 June 2008. Report: Soaring food prices: facts, perspectives, impacts and actions required (50 pages, PDF) "The world is experiencing a dramatic increase in...
"The Committee on Energy and Commerce and its Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality are issuing a series of Climate Change Legislative Design White Papers as the next step toward enactment of an economy-wide climate change program. The fourth White...
News release: "The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) today released Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.3 (SAP 4.3): The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity in the United States. The CCSP integrates the federal...
Public Health Impacts of Climate Change in California: Community Vulnerability Assessments and Adaptation Strategies. Report No. 1: Heat-Related Illness and Mortality Information for the Public Health Network in California. "The Public Health Institute (PHI) is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated...
World Bank - State and Trends of the Carbon Market 2008, May 2008 (78 pages, PDF): "The global carbon market grew to a whopping US$64 billion (€47 billion) in 2007, more than doubling over 2006, according to a new report...
Global Climate Change National Security Implications. Edited by Dr. Carolyn Pumphrey. 454 pages, PDF. Added May 1, 2008. "On March 29-31, 2007, the Strategic Studies Institute and the Triangle Institute for Security Studies conducted a colloquium on “Global Climate Change:...
News release: "Last year alone global levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, the primary driver of global climate change, increased by 0.6 percent, or 19 billion tons. Additionally methane rose by 27 million tons after nearly a decade with little or...
EPA: "On April 22, 1970, 20 million people across America celebrated the first Earth Day. It was a time when cities were buried under their own smog and polluted rivers caught fire. Now Earth Day is celebrated annually around the...
President Bush Discusses Climate Change, April 16, 2008 Fact Sheet: Taking Additional Action to Confront Climate Change - "Today, President Bush announced a new national goal to stop the growth in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2025." Related postings on...
News release: "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released the national greenhouse gas inventory, which finds that overall emissions during 2006 decreased by 1.1 percent from the previous year. The report, Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2006,...
"Chairman Henry A. Waxman today issued a subpoena to compel EPA to provide unredacted copies of documents involving the White House that have been improperly withheld from the Committee regarding EPA’s decision to reject California’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas...
James Randerson, science correspondent, The Guardian, Monday March 24 2008: "Soot produced by burning coal, diesel, wood and dung causes significantly more damage to the environment than previously thought, according to research published today. So-called "black carbon" could cause up...
News release: "On the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, a new report from Oil Change International, entitled A Climate of War - The war in Iraq and global warming, quantifies both the greenhouse gas emissions of the Iraq War...
"The Prime Minister has set out the Government's approach to dealing with threats to national security, ranging from war and terrorism to climate change, disease and poverty. Speaking to MP's in the House of Commons earlier today, Mr Brown said...
News release, March 12, 2008: "The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)...released a study on the potential impacts of climate changes and land subsidence, the natural sinking of an area’s land mass, on transportation infrastructure in the U.S. Gulf Coast region....
Follow up to previous postings on the status of protection for polar bears, this March 10, 2008 news release, "the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Center for Biological Diversity and Greenpeace sued the Bush administration for missing the legal...
Report Summary: "Potentially, the greatest impact of climate change on North America’s transportation system will be flooding of coastal roads, railways, transit systems, and runways because of a global rise in sea level coupled with storm surge and exacerbated in...
News release: "Solutions to the key environmental challenges are available, achievable and affordable, especially when compared to the expected economic growth and the costs and consequences of inaction", OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria said at the worldwide launch of the...
UN news release: "An emerging Green Economy is glimpsed in the latest United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) Year Book 2008 as growing numbers of companies embrace environmental policies and investors pump hundreds of billions of dollars into cleaner and renewable...
Press release: "Nearly 50 leading U.S. and European institutional investors managing over $1.75 trillion in assets...released a climate change action plan at the United Nations that will boost investments in energy efficiency and clean energy technologies and require tougher scrutiny...
National Wildlife Federation: "For thirty years the federal Clean Water Act broadly protected waters in the nation and across the Southwest. It sought, with a great deal of success, to safeguard important waters from pollution and destruction. Historically, it applied...
Press release: "Leading investors today published disclosure guidelines for the electric utilities sector which will make it easier for investors to assess and compare the risks and opportunities posed by climate change and climate policy to individual companies. The Global...
"You've heard about global warming with its subsequent impending ecological disasters, but what's the real story? By connecting you with scientists in the field, current news and visual representations of data from NOAA and NASA, Earth Live will explore climate...
Ice Melt Accelerates Around the World, Frances C. Moore: "With atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at new record highs and global average temperature now some 0.8 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the frozen regions of the earth are showing us just...
Ensuring a Sustainable Future: An Energy Management Guidebook for Wastewater and Water Utilities - "Reducing climate impacts, saving money, and saving water – these are the goals of projects and programs that exploit the nexus between energy use and water...
Committee on Energy and Commerce and its Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, Climate Change Legislation Design White Paper: Competitiveness Concerns/Engaging Developing Countries, January 31, 2008: "This White Paper discusses potential domestic legislative provisions that could encourage developing countries to...
"Environmental Capital provides daily news and analysis of the business of the environment. It tracks how growing green concern, particularly over climate change, is roiling established industries and spurring new ones – and how that shift is affecting investors, consumers...
Keeping America Safe By Fostering The Freedom Agenda - U.S. Is Promoting Liberty As A Hopeful Alternative To Violent Extremism, January 28, 2008 Increasing Our Energy Security And Confronting Climate Change - The Administration Is Taking Steps To Reduce U.S....
January 2008 - Part 2 of The United States Environmental Protection Agency's Analysis of Senate Bill S. 1766 in the 110th Congress, the Low Carbon Economy Act of 2007. The Low Carbon Economy Act of 2007 (S.1766) is designed to...
Follow up to previous posting on listing the polar bear as a threatened species, this January 18, 2008 press release: "Select Committee Chairman Rep. Edward Markey...sent a letter to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne reinforcing the message that the Secretary should...
Grants and Investments: "As of January 2008, Google.org has committed $75.4 million in grants and investments to further our five initiatives." WSJ: "Valued at about $2 billion, the assets currently set aside for the company's philanthropic arm, Google.org, make it...
Ceres press release: "While encouraging progress is being made, the banking sector still has a long way to go in confronting the business challenges posed by global climate change, according to a first-ever report issued today by the Ceres investor...
Press release: "The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working diligently to reach a final decision on the proposal to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. We expect to provide a final recommendation...
Mis-Information at the Heart of the University: Why Administrators Should Take Libraries More Seriously, by Stuart Basefsky Carpe Diem: Establish an Institutional Repository for Your Organization, by Carol A. Watson What's New in Cordless Mice? by Jeffrey J. Beard FOIA...
Mis-Information at the Heart of the University: Why Administrators Should Take Libraries More Seriously, by Stuart Basefsky Carpe Diem: Establish an Institutional Repository for Your Organization, by Carol A. Watson What's New in Cordless Mice? by Jeffrey J. Beard FOIA...
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: "The State of Food and Agriculture 2007 explores the potential for agriculture to provide enhanced levels of environmental services alongside the production of food and fi bre. The report concludes that demand...
NOAA: 2007 a Top Ten Warm Year for U.S. and Globe - "The year 2007 is on pace to become one of the 10 warmest years for the contiguous U.S., since national records began in 1895, according to preliminary data...
Side-by-Side Comparison of Climate Change Provisions in Omnibus Energy Legislation in the 110th Congress, updated December 14, 2007....
The Economist: "Energy efficiency is probably the most popular environmental panacea. While politicians discuss complicated global climate-change deals, economists tinker with intricate emissions-trading schemes and engineers design a new generation of nuclear-power plants, many greens advocate simpler steps: buying more...
Press release: (Bali, 15 December 2007) – Climate Change Conference in Bali - "The Conference, hosted by the Government of Indonesia, took place at the Bali International Convention Centre and brought together more than 10,000 participants, including representatives of over...
Nuclear Power in a Warming World - Findings and Recommendations in Brief: "Global warming demands a profound transformation in the ways we generate and consume energy. Because nuclear power results in few global warming emissions, an increase in nuclear power...
"For the past 16 months, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has been investigating allegations of political interference with government climate change science under the Bush Administration. During the course of this investigation, the Committee obtained over 27,000 pages...
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee: "For the past 16 months, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has been investigating allegations of political interference with government climate change science under the Bush Administration. During the course of this investigation,...
The Nobel Lecture given by The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2007, Al Gore (Oslo, December 10, 2007): "...In the last few months, it has been harder and harder to misinterpret the signs that our world is spinning out of kilter....
Press release: "A report released today by the Washington, DC-based National Environmental Trust demonstrates that many U.S. states individually emit more greenhouse gases than hundreds of developing nations combined. The report, Taking Responsibility: Why the United States Must Lead the...
Press release: "A coalition of environmental groups, states and regional governments filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today urging the agency to address the effects of vast amounts of global warming pollution from the world's aircraft fleet. The petitions...
Global climate change, war, and population decline in recent human history, Global climate change, war, and population decline in recent human history, David D. Zhang, Peter Brecke, Harry F. Lee, Yuan-Qing He, and Jane Zhang. Published online before print November...
"The Human Development Report 2007/2008 shows that climate change is not just a future scenario. Increased exposure to droughts, floods and storms is already destroying opportunity and reinforcing inequality. Meanwhile, there is now overwhelming scientific evidence that the world is...
CAFE and the U.S. Auto Industry - A Growing Auto Investor Issue, 2012-2020 October 2007 (36 pages, PDF): "In partnership with Ceres and the Investor Network on Climate Risk, [citi] along with industry experts at the Planning Edge, University of...
CBO Statement of Peter R. Orszag, Director, Issues in Climate Change, Presentation for the CBO Director’s Conference on Climate Change, November 16, 2007, November 16, 2007 "Global climate change is one of the nation’s most significant long-term policy challenges. Human...
"The IPCC has launched the first three volumes of its assessment report “Climate Change 2007” and is currently finalizing its Synthesis report [Fourth Assessment report ("AR4"]. The Synthesis Report [was] launched in Valencia, Spain, 17 November 2007 during a press...
US Climate Change Science Program - The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR): The North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on...
"We are pleased to announce the launch of the Carbon Monitoring for Action database at www.carma.org. CARMA provides the world’s most detailed and comprehensive information on carbon emissions resulting from the production of electricity. Power sector emissions make up 25%...
"The impact of climate change will make the poorest communities across the world poorer. Many of them are already affected by conflict and instability and thus face a dual risk. International Alert’s new research finds that the consequences of climate...
The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change, Kurt M. Campbell, Jay Gulledge, J.R. McNeill, John Podesta, Peter Ogden, leon Fuerth, R. James Woolsey, Alexander T.J. lennon, Julianne Smith, Richard Weitz, and Derek...
United States Conference of Mayors, 2007 Best Practices Guide "showcases a broad range of environmentally driven and energy efficiency projects in 50 U.S. cities." Related documents: C40 cities: "C40 is a group of the world's largest cities committed to tackling...
Government Accountability Project (GAP): "The White House is coming under fire for “watering down” Senate testimony from the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention delivered yesterday regarding the impact climate change is having on public health. Climate...
Ceres: "Global warming and the growing incidence of extreme weather events pose an enormous challenge to the insurance industry. This summer's devastating floods in Europe and wildfires in the West are only the latest reminder of why investors and consumers...
Boucher and Dingell Release First Climate Change Legislation Design White Paper, prepared by the Committee on Energy and Commerce committee staff, October 3, 2007 (22 pages, PDF): "This paper addresses the scope and coverage of the climate change program. It...
EPA press release: "Estimating the carbon footprint of commercial buildings has just become easier. Portfolio Manager, EPA's on-line energy rating system for commercial buildings, now includes greenhouse gas emission factors. The updated ratings show that Energy Star buildings, which use...
Fact Sheet: Toward a New Global Approach to Climate Change and Energy Security, September 28, 2007 Related postings on climate change...
"The American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Environment, Energy and Resources (SEER), in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is pleased to present the ABA-EPA Law Office Climate Challenge (Climate Challenge). The Climate Challenge is designed to encourage...
Committee on Strategic Advice on the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, National Research Council - U.S. Climate Change Science Program Making Good Progress In Documenting And Understanding Changes, But Study Of Impacts On Humans And Communication With Decision Makers Lag:...
Press release: "The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) today announced a 45-day public comment period for the second draft of a report on the effects of climate change. USDA is the lead agency preparing the report: "Synthesis and Assessment...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released the following reports, correspondence and testimony: Reports Department of Homeland Security: Progress Report on Implementation of Mission and Management Functions. GAO-07-454, August 17, 2007 Employer-Sponsored Benefits: Many Factors Affect the Treatment of Pension...
Press release, 31 August 2007, Vienna: "A round of climate change talks under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) concluded in Austria today with agreement on key elements for an effective international response to...
"Carbonfund.org is leading the fight against climate change, making it easy and affordable for any individual, business or organization to eliminate their climate impact and hastening the transformation to a clean energy and technology future. Carbonfund.org achieves its goals through:...
NPR: "European researchers are now warning that severe damage from desertification and intense rains could pose to a threat to cultural heritage sites such as the Tower of London, the historic center of Prague and the ancient temples of Greece."...
"The fourth CAR provides an update on key activities conducted by the U.S. since the third CAR, an inventory of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and sinks, an estimate of the effects of mitigation measures and policies on future emissions levels,...
"On June 18 Climate Science Watch published a white paper report criticizing the administration’s failure to address aviation’s contribution to global warming in the federal multiagency NextGen aviation planning and development program. The report highlights the administration’s inattention to quantifying...
"The G8 members are Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, the United States of America, Canada (since 1976) and Russia (since 1998). The European Commission is also represented at all the meetings." Press release, June 7, 2007: "The leading...
The Future of Oil: Energy Security, Climate Risks and Market Opportunities, June 2007, 29 pages, PDF: "The report from Ceres and the Civil Society Institute highlights key findings from an October 2006 oil analyst briefing at JPMorgan Chase in which...
Research Finds That Earth's Climate is Approaching 'Dangerous' Point, May 30, 2007: "NASA and Columbia University Earth Institute research finds that human-made greenhouse gases have brought the Earth’s climate close to critical tipping points, with potentially dangerous consequences for the...
Iran's Influence in Iraq, Updated May 22, 2007 Immigration Fraud: Policies, Investigations, and Issues, Updated May 17, 2007 Africa Command: U.S. Strategic Interests and the Role of the U.S. Military in Africa, May 16, 2007 Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy...
Immigration Reform: Brief Synthesis of Issue, Updated May 10, 2007 Iraq: Post-Saddam Governance and Security, Updated May 10, 2007 Iraq: Government Formation and Performance, Updated May 2, 2007 Israel: Background and Relations with the United States, Updated April 30, 2007...
Follow up on previous postings related to International Panel On Climate Change 2007 Assessment Report, see today's release of Mitigation of Climate Change, the third volume of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. Outline of the report Info about WG3 authors...
Press release: "The seventh annual World Bank carbon market intelligence study, released today at CARBON EXPO, shows that the global carbon market tripled in 2006—to US$30 billion from US$10 billion in 2005. The market was dominated by the sale and...
CRS Report: Greenhouse Gas Emission Drivers: Population, Economic Development and Growth, and Energy Use, April 24, 2007. (36 pages, PDF) "In the context of climate change and possible responses to the risk associated with it, three variables strongly influence the...
Legislative Branch: Energy Audits are Key to Strategy for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions GAO-07-516, April 25, 2007: "Legislative branch operations generated about 316,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions (expressed in carbon dioxide equivalents) in fiscal year 2006. The amount...
Press release: "The National Commission on Energy Policy, a bipartisan group of top energy experts from industry, government, labor, academia, and environmental and consumer groups, today released a series of new, sweeping recommendations to address the nation's leading energy challenges....
Press release: "...Total emissions of the six main greenhouse gases in 2005 were equivalent to 7,260 million metric tons of carbon dioxide. These gases include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride. The report indicates that overall...
Climate Change 2007: "The IPCC 4th Assessment Report (AR4) consists of four volumes that will be released in the course of 2007. Compared to the 2001 report, the AR4 pays greater attention to the integration of climate change with sustainable...
"Redacting the Science of Climate Change [details] the findings of a year-long investigation into political interference at federal climate science agencies. The report demonstrates how policies and practices have increasingly restricted the flow of scientific information emerging from publicly-funded climate...
Perspectives on Climate Change - Joint Hearing with Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, March 22, 2007. Related postings on climate change...
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Full Committee hearing to Examine Allegations of Political Interference with Government Climate Change Science (Part II) - [Link to Part 1]. "This hearing examined evidence and allegations of political interference with the work of...
Iraq: Tribal Structure, Social, and Political Activities, March 15, 2007 Iraq: Post-Saddam Governance and Security -- Updated, March 12, 2007 The Budget for Fiscal Year 2008, March 12, 2007 The Whistleblower Protection Act: An Overview, March 12, 2007 Iran's Nuclear...
Pew Center on Global Climate Change - What's Being Done in the States - "Across the country, states and regions are adopting policies to address climate change. These actions include increasing renewable energy generation, selling agricultural carbon sequestration credits, and...
Knowledge Discovery Resources 2007 - An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation, by Marcus P. Zillman LLRX.com Guide to State and Federal Legislative Research, by Sabrina I. Pacifici LawPro Links - An A to Z Directory of Web Resources, by Sabrina...
"The IPCC Working Group I Fourth Assessment Report Summary for Policymakers (SPM) is now available for download in PDF format. Note: Text, tables and figures given in the SPM are final but subject to checking and copy-editing and editorial adjustments...
Climate Risk Disclosure by the S&P 500, January 2007 (80 pages, PDF: "This report assesses how S&P 500 corporations from 11 key industries disclose the risks and opportunities they face from climate change. The report finds that over half of...
Release: "The Oversight Committee held a hearing on January 30 regarding political interference in the work of government climate change scientists. In preparation for the hearing, Chairman Waxman and Ranking Member Davis requested documents from the Council on Environmental Quality...
"The Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on January 30 regarding political interference in the work of government climate change scientists. In preparation for the hearing, Chairman Waxman and Ranking Member Davis have requested documents from the Council on Environmental...
Press release: "United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) urges lawmakers to enact a policy framework for mandatory reductions of GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions from major emitting sectors, including large stationary sources, transportation, and energy use in commercial and residential buildings....
"Chairman Dingell and Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality Chairman Boucher send a memorandum to Democratic Members of the Committee regarding the Committee's plan to hold hearings on the critical issue of global climate change," January 17, 2007....
Climate Change: Greater Clarity and Consistency Are Needed in Reporting Federal Climate Change Funding, Full-text GAO-06-1122T, and Highlights, September 21, 2006....
Rep. Waxman Releases Internal Commerce Department E-Mails on Climate Change, Tuesday, September 19, 2006 -- "Rep. Waxman requests Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez explain emails that appear to show that his office denied a media request to interview a NOAA scientist...
Government Reform Committee Legislative Hearing, Climate Change Technology Research: Do We Need a ‘Manhattan Project’ for the Environment?, September 21, 2006. Links to testimony and opening statement. Press release: "The Committee on Government Reform will hold an oversight hearing to...
From Ceres..."te largest coalition of investors, environmental and public interest organizations in North America," tbis new report, From Risk to Opportunity: How Insurers Can Proactively and Profitably Manage Climate Change, addresses how "...climate change poses unprecedented risks to the insurance...
Clean Energy Solutions - EJournal - U.S. Department of State, July 2006: "Projected dramatic increases in energy consumption in the coming decades, combined with a higher risk of climate change, require a massive global response based on technological innovation and...
"The following resources [Climate Change Panel and Country Papers] were presented in CD format to participants at the Baker & McKenzie two-day 2006 International Environment Conference, held in June in Chicago."...
Joint Statement [released June 22, 2006] of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman and Ranking Member on the Climate Change Conference Held on April 4, 2006 (PDF). "Joint Statement examines issues discussed and legislative policy ideas brought forth...
Follow-up to a series of recent postings on the growing controversy concerning NASA's policy to limit public access to accurate scientific documents on global warming. New York Times - Call for Openness at NASA Adds to Reports of Pressure: "Top...
Follow-up to Gov't Climate Change Expert Contends Censorship of Data and NASA Chief Calls for "Scientific Openness" Amidst Claims of Gov't Secrecy, today this report from the New York Times on the resignation of a presidential appointee at NASA responsible...
Follow-up to recent postings, Gov't Climate Change Expert Contends Censorship of Data, and Sen. Boxer Calls For Hearings on Censorship of Gov't Scientists, the New York Times reports that NASA Administrator Michael Griffin issued a "statement of scientific openness" to...
Follow-up to January 29, 2006 posting, Gov't Climate Change Expert Contends Censorship of Data - today Sen. Barbara Boxer issued a press release that included the text of her letters to ranking members of two Senate committees stating, "It has...
New York Times: Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him Editor & Publisher: Two Top Papers Ask: Is the Earth Heading for Doom--With an Assist from the White House?...
On June 9, I posted Questions Surround Editing of U.S. Report on Global Warming, linking to reports on, and documents related to, the "editing" of climate change research prior to publication of a government report on the issue. Another relevant...
On June, 2005 the New York Times published this article, Bush Aide Softened Greenhouse Gas Links to Global Warming, which states that Philip A. Cooney, White House Council on Environmental Quality's chief of staff, formerly with the American Petroleum Institute,...
New Scientist provides a roster of RSS feeds (in a choice of Atom, RSS, XML and RDF), on breaking news, topical areas including Info-Tech, Health, and Being Human, as well as a range of special reports such as Motoring Technology...
From a press release dated August 6, 2003: "The Competitive Enterprise Institute today filed suit in federal court against the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy for refusing to implement the Federal Data Quality Act in regard to...
From the US Climate Change Science Program: The US Climate Change Science Program. Vision for the Program and Highlights of the Scientific Strategic Plan. From the World Wildlife Foundation: "The ten year research proposal for the US Climate Change Science...