Environmental groups banded together for an unprecedented event outside the negotiating rooms at the Barcelona climate talks.

With alarm clocks ringing, and some alien visitors the group sent the message to country negotiators that the time is now for a climate deal and that we need world...

When I'm trying to unravel public relations spin, I frequently find myself asking WWFLD (What Would Frank Luntz Do)?

As you'll recall Frank Luntz is a chief Republican spin-doctor famous for his memo on climate change.

We have seen a lot of spindoctoring at the Barcelona climate...

Someone just sent one of the most ridiculous pieces of propaganda the coal lobby has produced to date.

Put out by the West Virginia Coal Association and their Friends of Coal front group, the "Let's Learn About Coal" coloring book, pretty much speaks for itself:

Is the Copenhagen climate change treaty dead? I'm not willing to say that yet, but it's pretty depressing here at the last pre-negotiation session underway in Barcelona.

Case in point: the head of the UN climate treaty process Yvo de Boer is now saying that, "It is physically impossible...

One year down and three to go in President's Obama's first term as the grand poohba and while there has been a lot of humming and hawing lately about his record to date on environmental issues, I remain blissfully optimistic with a touch of niggling cynicism.

I have always...

The biggest news coming out of the Barcelona climate talks being held this week is the re-framing of a successful climate change treaty as being one that is "politically binding" as opposed to "legally binding."

With all the long hours I've been putting into to covering these climate talks,...

I'm in Barcelona, Spain for the last round of climate negotiations prior to the big show set for mid-December in Copenhagen. I just touched down, so pardon any poor grammar, I'm a little bleary eyed at the moment.

The goal of the Barcelona meeting is to whittle down the...

I really don't know what to make of this video. At the least it's very entertaining, but I don't know if it will woo the likes of Laurie David to the altar!

Someone just sent me on of the best videos on climate action I've seen to date.

As they say in the video, if our children knew that our world's leaders were not taking the action they need to take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, they would rise up....

It has always baffled me as to why the renewable energy industry has never really pushed back on the fossil fuel sector's major lobby and misinformation efforts; but by the looks of a speech to be delivered tomorrow by the head of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), the...

"The PR stunt wasn't pulled off by the Yes Men," says author James Hoggan. "The PR stunt is being pulled off by the US Chamber of Commerce and its been going on for decades."

The same can be said for the American Petroleum Institute.

This morning on Democracy Now...

Prius owners are happy with their fuel-sipping cars, but are steaming at Toyota.

So far over 700 Toyota car owners have submitted photos to MoveOn.org's campaign calling for Toyota to withdraw its membership from the US Chamber of Commerce.

Here's a few of the photos to give...

The 'Stand Up Take Action' online campaign officially launched worldwide this week with events in Australia, New Zealand and New York, with many more to come this weekend.

The effort, created by the United Nations Millennium Campaign and the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP), seeks to...

My dad used to tell me that nothing ever gets done in a meeting that lasts more than a half hour. The latest round of international negotiations for a global climate change treaty have been underway for two years now. Some would argue that there's been more than ten years...

Watching the climate treaty negotiations here in Bangkok today is like watching a Congressional filibuster.

With only one week of negotiations left before the big show in Copenhagen, developed countries - led by the United States and the European Union - continue to waffle on the most important...

What a difference a day makes.

After filing a rather dismal story yesterday on the progress here in Bangkok at the United Nation's summit on climate change, there has been a significant development today with Norway set to announce that it is committing to a 40% reduction...

Damn the facts. Climate change is not happening, just like smoking doesn't cause cancer.

We all know the long history of Big Tobacco and their attempts to kill bans on second-hand smoke and their hire-a-scientist strategy to delay regulatory impact on their pocketbooks.

For those not in the know,...

I'm here at the the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC -- one of the many long-winded acronyms that only a UN meeting can produce) and I have to say I am rather disillusioned about the entire process.

Maybe it's just a combination of the heat...

I'm in Bangkok, Thailand this week covering the United Nations' meeting on climate change for the International Climate Action Network and as I'm going down to breakfast, I see thousands of everyday people filling the streets with colorful banners, costumes, megaphones and drums.

They were all there to...

As the old saying goes: "You can't have your cake and eat it too." Or in the case of Toyota: "You can't have your green and fight it too."

With a well-earned reputation as a leader in the development of fuel efficient cars it boggles my mind that Toyota continues...