The Politics of Danger

Heather Taylor-Miesle, 12.08.2009

Director of the NRDC Action Fund

On Tuesday, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said the agency has determined that global warming pollution is a danger to human health and public welfare...

ClimateGate is Watergate redux

Richard Graves, 12.08.2009

Blogger/Online Campaigner, Global Campaign for Climate Action

Some environmental leaders have been working to minimize the scandal of ClimateGate, by focusing on the fact the hacked email archive of East Anglia's...

Glenn Beck Proves Carbon Dioxide Is Safe

Matthew Filipowicz, 12.07.2009

Comedian, Cartoonist, Satirist

With the Copenhagen climate talks under way, Glenn Beck wants America to know that he is not happy with Barack Obama or the Environmental Protection A...

The Incredible Hulk in Copenhagen

Mike Signer, 12.07.2009

Chair, E3 Initiative, Progressive Policy Institute

Among some members of the chattering class, it's become something of a meme to assert that the Obama administration is too deferential to its opponent...

Message To Congress, Copenhagen: America Is Cutting Carbon, One Way Or Another

Bill Scher, 12.07.2009

OurFuture.org, LiberalOasis.com, WHMP, author of “Wait! Don’t Move To Canada!”

The Environmental Protection Agency formally declared that greenhouse gases are a pollutant that it can regulate under the existing Clean Air Act. And...

And How Good Is India's Offer?

Carl Pope, 12.07.2009

Executive Director of the Sierra Club

Last week I took a look at China's offer for Copenhagen, and a few days later India laid down its own proposal. How bold is the Manmohan Singh governm...

Letter To President Obama From Business Leaders

Deepak Chopra, 12.07.2009

Author, Sirius/XM radio host

FULL PAGE AD IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2009   Dear President Obama & The United States Congress,  Tomorrow leaders from...

Obama on His Own

Dan Becker and James Gerstenzang, 12.07.2009

Using his executive authority, President Barack Obama can instruct power plants to slash emissions and order new efficiency standards to cut the energy used by consumer and commercial appliances.

New York City Must Act Like a Global Leader on Climate Change

John Petro, 12.07.2009

John Petro is an Urban Policy Analyst at the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy

Mayor Bloomberg is backing away from a key component of a plan that would have reduced greenhouse gas emissions from the city's buildings.

Please Do Not Forget Us at Copenhagen!

Saad Khan, 12.07.2009

Freelance journalist and activist from Islamabad

The ultimate tragedy is the fact that the richer countries that are actually responsible for the global mayhem of climate change are still unable to get their act together.

Nuclear Power's Second Act?

Michael Rose, 12.07.2009

Documentary filmmaker based in Los Angeles

Let's hope the delegates heading to Copenhagen to create a new energy future remember the problems of the past.

Coal River Mountain Comes to Town: Copenhagen Summit Video to Charleston Rally

Jeff Biggers, 12.07.2009

Author, forthcoming "Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland"

Note: As Google Earth takes world leaders at the Copenhagen Climate Summit on a virtual flyover of Coal River Mountain today, besieged residents and c...

Climate Change: How Come US Newspapers Don't Like This Issue?

Michael Wolff, 12.07.2009

Author of Newser.com's Off the Grid column

My friend Ian Katz, a senior editorial figure at the Guardian newspaper in London, and a prime mover of an initiative to create one editorial on clima...

The Mulch: What's at Stake in Copenhagen?

The Media Consortium, 12.07.2009

Network of Leading Progressive Independent Journalism Organizations

By Alison Hamm, Media Consortium Blogger Over 15,000 people from 192 countries began to work towards an international climate deal today in Copenhage...

Copenhagen Meets 2012 With Purple Oceans and Green Skies

Mike Sandler, 12.07.2009

Co-founder of the Climate Protection Campaign based in Sonoma County, California

The Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012, and if we don't do something BIG to really start reducing greenhouse gas emissions after that, we are screwed in a big, Emmerich-movie-like way.

Krugman Endorses The Next Great Bubble Machine: Cap And Trade

Allison Kilkenny, 12.08.2009

Radio host, writer, allisonkilkenny.com

I was very sad to see Paul Krugman hawking the cap and trade system in his column today. Krugs is very popular among liberals right now, namely becaus...

Universal Environmental Rights

Diane Perlman, 12.07.2009

Clinical and Political Psychologist dealing with enmity, conflict transformation, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, climate change, media, messaging and framing

Next week, on December 10, 2009 UNIVERSAL ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS In Honor of the 2009 UN Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change © Diane Perlman, PhD...

Ex-Bush Staffers Still Influencing Debate on Climate Change

Melanie Sloan, 12.07.2009

Executive Director, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

World leaders, scientists and activists have gathered in Copenhagen this week to discuss global efforts to address the challenges posed by climate cha...

Renewables and Grid Depend on Consumers

Mike Smith, 12.07.2009

http://www.mikesmithpa.com

When consumers make reductions at home, at work, at school, the actions become more endemic and natural. GEO believes we must move away from the engineering factoids to give energy a human face.

Coal and Copenhagen

Armond Cohen, 12.07.2009

Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Clean Air Task Force

Technology that is ready to go today can strip the carbon dioxide out of coal for safe underground storage. That's what's being demonstrated in West Virginia today.

Water Is The New Oil

Steven Solomon, 12.07.2009

With the impending freshwater scarcity crisis, world politics and human civilization is undergoing another turbulent sea change. Alarmingly societies are bifurcating into those with enough water and those without.