Representatives of the world's governments are in Bonn, Germany this week to begin negotiating what may be one of the most important deals of our times.

The Bonn climate talks are the first big step towards a very large and historical meeting that will take place in Copenhagen...

When it comes to the idea of clean coal author Jeff Goodell put it best: "Clean coal" is not an actual invention, a physical thing – it is an advertising slogan. Like "fat-free donuts" or "interest-free loans."

In other words, the idea that coal somehow fits the definition of...

As a Canadian I want to apologize to all my American friends on Huffington Post about what our policies up North are doing to the cute little chickadees and warblers you see in your backyard.

While those of us already familiar with the Canadian Boreal Forest are deeply aware of...

A new study sponsored by energy-intensive industries claims that the Obama administration's plan to impose a cap-and-trade system to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions would result in 1.9 million job losses and cost the average U.S. household $1,400 a year by 2020.

These...

As President Obama hosts the world's 17 largest economies to discuss a new desperately-needed global binding treaty on climate change, the oil, coal and gas companies are in overdrive trying to undermine the process and maintain their profits.

And Avaaz.org is calling out the worst of the bunch, ExxonMobil...

It's not too often when you see reporters openly slamming their colleagues in a newspaper - especially the Washington Post.

Washington Post reporters Juliet Eilperin and Mary Beth Sheridan have an article on the alarming decline of Arctic sea ice. In a stunningly unusual...

Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) went on the attack yesterday calling out a blatant falsehood being spread by Republican politicians about the proposed cap and trade legislation.

Earlier this week Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) incorrectly stated that the proposed green economy bill being considered by Congress will...

Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) are spreading outright lies in an attempt to oppose a new cap-and-trade plan being considered by Congress.

McConnell and Boehner are making the claim that the greenhouse gas reduction strategy will "cost every American family up to $3,100 per year...

What do you get when you take an ignorant Republican Congressman and cross it with a serious policy issue like climate change?

Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) shared a moment of sheer absurdity with Britain's stuffiest global warming denier Lord Christopher Monckton in last week's Energy & Commerce hearing...

My search for a suitable place to recognize the hard work of Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX) has finally come to an end. I just found out there's an official Moron Registry!

At Yesterday's hearing on climate change adaptation before the House Energy & Commerce Committee Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX)...

The coal industry's spin doctors have been droning on about the abudance of coal for the last year, but new research by Dave Rutledge, Chair of Caltech's engineering and Applied Sciences Division, calculates that the world's coal reserves may be much less "abundant" than the coal industry would...

"Clean coal" is not an actual invention, a physical thing - it is an advertising slogan. Like "fat-free donuts" or "interest-free loans." - Jeff Goodell

That was the money quote in an article by Jeff Goodell that he wrote as the first post of a new site I launched...

Elizabeth Kolbert, author of the 2006 global warming book Field Notes from a Catastrophe, has a piece in the New Yorker today titled "Donating to the Deniers," taking to task the corporate membership of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership for actively undermining the very goals the coalition claims to...

Spending by oil and gas companies lobbying politicians on Capitol Hill jumped a whopping 64% between 2007 and 2008.

The oil and gas sector paid out a total of $128.6 million in 2008, compared to only $82 million in 2007. According to research I've compiled using OpenSecrets.org's database, this...

The mass amounts of hot air spewed forth daily by self righteous right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh are probably a significant contribution to the warming of our planet. Someone should do a study to confirm this.

What's less doubtful is the effect Limbaugh's blustering babble has had on Republican...

In New York this week a group of so-called "experts" on climate change have convened a meeting to discuss their worn out theories on why they think climate change isn't happening or isn't as bad as scientists make it out to be.

It probably won't surprise you that the conference...

"Doubt is our product because its the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public" - 1969, Brown and Williamson tobacco strategy paper.

Doubt is a very powerful PR weapon when used properly and its a heck of a...

Long before the Heartland Institute was in the business of organizing events like the "International Climate Change Conference"being held next week in New York, they were hard at work trying to minimize the negative public perception that second-hand tobacco smoke was bad for your health.

With that kind of...

Canada's Environment Minister, Jim Prentice, lands in the US capital today to try and sell the new administration on George W. Bush's climate change inaction plan.

Sorry, Canada, but do you really think that Obama and his team aren't on to you?

While President Obama is actually planning...

Many would say that the $100 million DSCOVR climate satellite project was scrapped by Bush and Cheney because it was a project promoted by Al Gore - and I wouldn't disagree.

But all that changed yesterday when Congress passed Omnibus Appropriations Bill 1105, which states in tiny font...