We're At 400 PPM - Last Time THAT Happened, the Arctic was 14oF Warmer, says a new study, reports Joe Romm at Climate Progress, indicating the planet is far more sensitive to carbon dioxide levels than once thought - and that it might be far warmer for...

By 2050, California & Southwest Could Have 100% Dry Years NASA Says, reports Climate Progress, according to a NASA analysis, which basically lays out the scenario of wet places getting wetter, and dry places drier. Imagine, no rain for an entire year or more, in California...gotta change...

US Gets Weather Whiplash With Climate Change notes Andrew Freedman at Climate Central. Warming air and oceans mean more moisture in the air, and the jet stream, altered by a warming Arctic, now ensures it goes away and comes down far more intensely -- and disastrously. Don't forget...

Solar Grew 5x Faster Than Rest of US Economy in 2012, reports Joe Romm at Climate Progress, adding 14,000 new jobs in California, Arizona, New Jersey and elsewhere, totalling over 100,000 US jobs now. Imagine how many more jobs could be created if Congress increased support for solar!...

Fossil Fuels Investments A $6 Trillion Mistake, if the world addresses climate change, says a London School of Economics study, reports Sally Bakewell at Bloomberg News, since most of the fossil fuel reserves would have to remain unburned, if humanity is to limit global warming to the UN...

The Renewable Energy Kids - Solar, Wind, Geo and Wave (wave to the folks, honey!) - are all growing up at different rates, having been nurtured in very different ways. Wave and Geo are pretty much still toddlers (although Geo has grown up in Iceland!). The bigger Kids, Solar and...

Invest In Clean Energy To Reap Enormous Health Benefits says the UN, reports Alister Doyle at Reuters News, and help slow climate change. Fossil fuel burning pollution kills nearly 7 million annually, more than HIV or malaria combined. Hey, I'm game - how about you, Congress?

It's Melting, Melting: 1600 Years Worth of Andean Ice Melted in 25, says a new study, reports Justin Gillis at the New York Times. Researchers studying the largest tropical ice sheet found this out by dating ancient plants uncovered along the path of the retreating ice. And you...

China's Choice: Cut Coal Or Dry Up says a new report highlighting how coal mining and combustion technologies there are drinking up scarcer water supplies, reports Coco Liu at ClimateWire via Scientific American. Coal burning is a vicious double whammy, spurring the climate change that is drying out...

You Know That Big Bad US Drought of 2012? It Will Likely Worsen in 2013, says NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as it continues through this spring, reports Suzanne Goldenber at the UK Guardian. Which means, of course, higher food prices are on the way.......

Global Warming Gases Spike in 2012, packing in the second highest yearly amount recorded yet, reports Alex Kirby at Climate News Network, while fellow CNN colleague Paul Brown noted that no one seems to have noticed it, or its grave implications .... Earth year...

Just How Fast is Earth Warming? About 50x Faster Than Before, a new study that reconstructs the fine grained climate history since the Ice Age 11,000+ years ago says, reports Tim Radford at the Climate News Network. By 2100, Earth will also be warmer than anytime since then....

Yo, O, Say It Ain't So: State Department Analysis Says XL pipeline harmless since the Canadian tar sands oil would be mined and drilled anyway, reports Sierra Club President Michael Brune at the HuffingtonPost. That's just plain wrong: the oilies need the transport capacity before they extract...Hey,...

U.S. Winters Warming Faster, says a new report by Climate Central, an online scientific journalism organization. Before you snow shovelers start cheering, just remember that this is a marker of human-driven climate change - you know, the process that brings more extreme weather, like mega storms, blizzards,...

Stop the XL Pipeline, Mr. President! said over 40,000 people concerned about climate change at the February 17th Washington DC Forward On Climate Rally, reports Jamies Henn at 350.org. Many thousands more turned out at several other rallies across the US. If you still have your signs, plant...

Obviously, the New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, and other US mainstream newspapers, as well as broadcast NPR, believes it's more important for the public to know about the girlfriend killing involving a South African athlete than the coalescing US protests against governmental inaction on climate change. Does it...

What Do This Week's Big Blizzard and Hurricane Sandy Have in Common? Climate Change! reports Andrew Freedman at Climate Central. In both cases, increased moisture from warmer coastal ocean temperatures helped create torrential precipitation, while increased sea levels and storm power created destructive...

And Now, FINALLY, Some Good News: US Cut Carbon in 2012! reports Suzanne Goldenberg at the UK Guardian, to 1994 levels by increasing energy efficiency and doubling its clean energy capacity. Okay, it wasn't much: 13% in the past five years - but hey, you gotta start...

China, Australia, Are Carbon Bombers -- And Bombing Themselves with Climate Change, as are others, says a new analysis commissioned by Greenpeace, reports Oliver Milman at the UK Guardian. Indeed, what good will money from selling coal do, if they AND we destroy our environments, and futures, in...

Browning Dragon, Heating Planet: China's exploding fossil fuel use threatens far more climate change, reports Lucia Green-Weiskel at the Nation. Coal use is increasing much faster than clean energy, while new shale sources lessen incentives to go clean. And the new leadership is promoting consumption in a world...