When the tiniest bit of snow hits Washington, DC, area grocery stores can suddenly find their shelves (especially milk... ) depleted with the hordes of panic buyers terrified of being caught without the liquid for their morning cereal. Amid March Madness, with "mind-boggling" high temperature records outpacing...

Amid all the screaming signs about Global Warming's increasingly serious impact on the world around us and on human civilizations future prospects, the 'luxury' symbolic canaries in the coal mine always create mixed emotions. Global Warming's threat to skiing (and declining viable Winter Olympics locations), and to...

The Washington Post's front page March 9 of this year featured an article entitled "Affordability award goes to $50 light bulb" (and the online title: Government-subsidized green light bulb carries costly price tag). Reading like a partisan hit job against the Department of Energy's efforts to use 'prizes' to...

Some of the people pumping serious money into the Romney campaign believe, fundamentally, that Mitt Romney is lying (or, to be polite, misrepresenting himself) to Republican Party primary voters.

Simply put, there is no other reasonable conclusion to take from today's Politico article entitled "Green donors bet on Mitt...

Despite the panoply of Republican political elite suffering from acute anti-science syndrome (Santorum, Gingrich, Inhofe), a basic reality:

A majority of Americans (including a plurality of Republicans) understand that climate deniers are deceivers and disconnected from reality.

Earlier today, the Brookings...

There is a strong scientific consensus supporting the scientific Theory of Global Warming and these key points:

• There is warming.
• Humanity is contributing to that warming.
• This warming will create significant harm if left unchecked.

From the heartland, a group of Republicans have made an open call for a serious investigation of the leaked heartless Heartland Institute documents. In the press release (reproduced in full, absent specific contact information, here), they emphasize the need for conservatives and conservative institutions to engage in...

A major challenge exists: it is far easier to dispense truthiness (and outright deceit) than it is to have to run after and rebut it. When it comes to anti-science...

An oft-heard element of political debate is horror at government standard setting and regulations ... even if leads to an improved marketplace. Whether seatbelts for cars or speed limits or building standards or...

Human society being what it is, we live in a world filled with myths.

• Count Dracula lives forever and drinks blood.
• Monsters hide under the bed.
• NASA faked the Apollo missions and the astronauts were actually in a desert film studio rather than on the mooon.
• The

As the carbon count goes higher, inexorably, globally and the world community suffers from mounting challenges due to climate chaos, the value of incremental individual change can seem meaningless. So what if a household...

We know that the regulation leads to a safer society and that regulatory paths toward reducing pollution loads leads to a healthier society. These are simply facts. Those facts, however, can be difficult to translate from larger statistics to our personal lives. A new research paper from Nicholas...

While members of Congress are raising h-ll about the Solyndra bankruptcy along with many who are forgetting that they once touted Solyndra...

One of the nation's most important (and sadly too little discussed) intercollegiate competitions is about to open in Washington, DC: the biennial Solar Decathlon. For two weeks, 19 university teams from around the globe will compete across ten categories (thus, "decathlon") that show the house works (can they...

As the sun bursts through weeks of massive rain, the Washington, DC, area is entering into several hot solar weeks.

1. The Washington Redskins and

The DC Environmental Film Festival has, yet again, managed to pull together an impressive collection of films (documentaries, animated, archival, children's, etc.) looking at our energy, climate and environmental challenges and opportunities. From astoundingly beautiful vistas (how about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (America's Wildest Refuge) to the...

In the face of the winter storm that hit the nation, Texans suffered a series of rolling blackouts as some 50 fossil-fueled power plants (coal and natural gas) shut down due to frozen pipes and other problems. In the face of readily available information, including from Texas' own grid-managers...

Our combined energy and climate challenges and opportunities are incredibly complex and interrelated issues.

Throw in other resource challenges, economic challenges, and a myriad of other factors and, well, the complexity can overwhelm any and all.

Clarity of targets matter.

Ever more experts are endorsing the call to...

While falsehoods about "Climategate" -- supposedly undermining the scientific theory of global warming -- make headlines globally, it seems doubtful that too many of us will see the following on the front page of our local newspapers.

In the search for that silver lining, it turns out that global warming might boost drug company stock prices.

The National Wildlife Federation released Extreme Allergies and Global Warming earlier today. This (extremely) well documented summary report (pdf) starkly lays out the facts: global warming will make...