Carbon Dioxide Emissions

News Corp. Begins Keeping Tabs of All Its CO2 Emissions

treehugger.com | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green


News Corp. - owner of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and numerous other media properties - is adding software to help manage its environmental impa...

Finally, Good News on Climate! US Carbon Emissions Drop

Patrick McCully | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green


Patrick McCully

The drop in emissions means that we are already more than halfway to the goal of the cap-and-trade bill passed by the House of Representatives of a 17% cut from 2005 to 2020.

Nuclear Renaissance? Not in the U.S.A.

Larry Coben | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green


Larry Coben

There is no nuclear renaissance -- at most a faint glimmer of hope for the end of a long nuclear dark age. Initial drafts of climate change and energy legislation do little to promote nuclear development.

In Support of 350, It's Myth Bustin' Time: "Carbon Dioxide is Just a Trace Gas, Big Deal"

Jeff Goldstein | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green


Jeff Goldstein

For all those that do not want to pay homage to CO2, I say -- stop eating. Or at least stop throwing around the expression "trace gas" so loosely.

China Accuses U.S. Of Sabotaging Kyoto

guardian.co.uk | John Vidal, Environment Editor in Bangkok | Posted 10.05.2009 | World


The US and other developed countries are attempting to "fundamentally sabotage" the Kyoto protocol and all-important international negotiations over i...

Unblock the Climate Debate: New Book is Required Reading for Climate Change Summit Leaders

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green


Jeff Biggers

Craven's book shatters the back-and-forth raillery and unending road blocks over the climate change debate with a breakthrough rationale for making decisions.

George Will Take Note: 1910 ≠ 2050

Bill Chameides | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green


Bill Chameides

Is George Will on the right side of history? Well, definitely on the right, but as for the history part? Not so much.

Green News Report - August 11, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green


Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

Is climate change a threat to national security?

Green News Report - July 23, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green


Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Honey, I shrunk the fish!; Off-shore drilling vs. California's budget; "Clean coal" vs. reality; Tourism vs. Safety in Misso...

Understanding Why Climate Change is Human-Induced: A Day in the Life of the Earth

Jeff Goldstein | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green


Jeff Goldstein

Every Geologic Day is absolutely inconsequential relative to Earth's lifetime. After all, Earth has 27,394 of them.

India To Reject Curbing CO2 Emissions

e360.yale.edu | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green


India will not accept limits on its greenhouse gas emissions at climate talks later this year and instead will focus on economic growth and lifting it...

How Will This Weekend's Fireworks Affect You?

Mother Nature Network | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green


Fourth of July fireworks unleash a shower of toxins into the soil and water, and scientists are only beginning to figure out what that means for human...

Tom Friedman: Climate Bill Is The First Step Towards Change

nytimes.com | THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green


Rejecting this bill would have been read in the world as America voting against the reality and urgency of climate change and would have undermined cl...

Obama Administration Proposes Tougher Clean Air Standards

AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green


WASHINGTON — (AP) _ The Obama administration is proposing to strengthen a key air pollution health standard. The Environmental Protection Agenc...

The Simple Arithmetic of Global Warming Supports the Economics of a Climate Change Bill

David Fiderer | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green


David Fiderer

One of the great ironies of our age is that skepticism of global warming is treated with greater respect than, say, Holocaust denial.

Climate Legislation: Countdown to the House Showdown

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green


Bill Chameides

wo recent polls show that a large majority of Americans want the United States to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Today the U.S. House of Representatives just might deliver.

Cap and Trade Part 5: What's With the Add-Ons?

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green


Bill Chameides

The Waxman-Markey climate bill is attracting a lot of criticism aimed at the non-cap-and-trade add-ons, which begs the question: are they really necessary?

Cap and Trade Part 4: Forests, Farms, and Offsets

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.18.2009 | Green


Bill Chameides

Many people have a hard time accepting that one can emit CO2 from a power plant in Ohio and offset those emissions by capturing methane on a North Carolina hog farm.

U.S. Climate Bill Part of Solution but Not the Whole Solution

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.16.2009 | Green


Bill Chameides

Co-written by Bill Chameides and Prasad KasibhatlaThe climate deniers have a new argument: don't pass climate legislation because it doesn't cut emiss...

Cap and Trade Part 2: Walking the International Tightrope

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green


Bill Chameides

Any international climate treaty that omits an eventual cap on China's emissions will be a treaty that fails to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference on the climate.

Cap and Trade Part 1: It's About the Cap, Stupid

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.09.2009 | Green


Bill Chameides

Where the climate is concerned, don't be fooled: it's ultimately about the "cap" not the "and trade" part.

Does Sen. Barrasso of Wyoming Really Want Science to Guide Him?

Todd Wilkinson | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green


Todd Wilkinson

Science should indeed be the foundation of public policy. To say so, but then to act otherwise, is political hypocrisy at its worst.

Staring Down the Double-Barrel Climate Shotgun

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.30.2009 | Green


Bill Chameides

Dr. Bill Chameides is the dean of Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He blogs regularly at th...

Obama's First 100 Days of Coal: A Few Honest Words, Please

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green


Jeff Biggers

Let's hope the next 100 days bring us a real green jobs package for the coalfields.