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One of the riskiest and most destructive extreme energy oil exploration projects on the planet is moving toward implementation without scientific understanding or technical preparedness -- Shell's oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean of Alaska.

On August 4, the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management,...

Often we focus on a single act -- more heroic the act is, more attention we pay. We also focus on a single result -- more it tends toward either end of a good-bad spectrum, more attention we pay. Along the way, we skip the journey that led to the...

Exactly a week ago on March 3, young climate change activist Tim DeChristopher was convicted for disrupting oil and gas lease sales on public lands in southern Utah. He is an international celebrity right now. Hundreds of articles have come out on this story: you can read news stories

Recently I watched an old Bollywood classic Sholay during a long flight to India to see my ailing parents. I've seen this film before, but this time the familiar macho-masala plot with song-and-dance entertainment helped me think about climate change activism afresh. Retired policeman Thakur Baldev Singh wants...

On Thursday Rep. Darrell Issa (R-California), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, is starting a series of hearings to deregulate the U.S. Before I get to his initiative I'd like to say a few words about climate change deniers.

I'm sure it is no surprise to...

People across half of the US just experienced unprecedented cold, snow and ice brought in by a record setting winter storm. Climate deniers have been wondering, we thought it's gonna be warm with global warming, so why is it so cold? The climate scientists, on the other hand, have been...

This January, the House Rhetoricians of the 112th Congress started their climate denialist work with great passion. Representative Fred Upton (R-Michigan), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, told Fox News that the GOP-led House won't "let this administration regulate what they've been unable to legislate." This...

When you hear -- "We have the technology, let's go" -- you might perhaps think the statement came from a stately presidential announcement, like when President John F. Kennedy announced that we'll now go to the moon (with space technology) or when President George W. Bush announced that we'll now...

I'll tell you a fictional story 'After The Arctic Spill,' but first some announcements from the real world. Last week was filled with news about offshore oil drilling in the U.S. and it came in all flavors -- "the good, the bad, the ugly."

First, 'the good' -- Last Wednesday...

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) COP16 opens this week in Cancún, Mexico, to discuss green business (November 29 - December 10, 2010). No one is expecting any global climate treaty to be signed at this conference. However there is hope that some progress could...

On Wednesday, November 24, the Obama administration designated 187,157 square miles (approximately 120 million acres) in Arctic Alaska as a 'critical habitat' for polar bears threatened by disappearing sea ice due to climate change. Let us take a moment to give thanks to those who made this significant...

Soon I will tell you about five Godzilla-scale fossil-digging projects in North America that if approved will set us on a course to repeat our past with grave implications for the future of our planet. You may have already heard about some of these projects individually, but the urgency to...

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I recently urged young people to start a climate revolution in a post titled "Letter to Young Americans." Here are some of the comments that were posted in the blogosphere ^{1 | 2} in response to that post: "Your...

Last Sunday, after I posted my most recent blog, "Climate Educators Wanted," I visited the Green page in HuffPost. My eyes lit up. Before my eyes, the GREENscape slowly turned into a story. Stories are nothing but fragments from life put together. Here's how this story came together.

We'll look back at 2010 as a critical crossroad for climate campaign. The new U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres has made it clear that an International Climate Treaty is basically dead while at the same time she is urging the world leaders to take some practical...

You're young. You may have just started or returned to college for fall semester; maybe you're starting senior year in high school; maybe you finished college last spring but haven't been able to find a job yet; maybe you already have a job; maybe you have nothing to do with...

Wednesday evening was the first (and perhaps the only) debate between Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) and her Republican challenger Carly Fiorina.

I'm not a guru of politics. I'm not a pundit of policy debates. I'm not a Beltway lobbyist. My knowledge of politics does not go beyond 101, those classes...

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Imagine you live in New York City, and one fine morning you awake to the realization that 90 percent of all the buildings that were more than five stories tall have been destroyed. You will hardly have the words to talk about this devastation, but...

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Bear with me.  I’ll get to the oil.  But first you have to understand where I’ve been and where you undoubtedly won’t go, but Shell’s drilling rigs surely will -- unless someone stops them.

Over the last decade, I’ve come to know Arctic Alaska about...