Global Warming

Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich is a candidate to represent Alaska in the U.S. Senate

If you'd asked me four years ago, I would have said global warming wasn't a big issue. I would have said that the evidence isn't conclusive. Now that couldn't be further from the truth.

It's good (and also unusual) that the Bush administration has yielded to the scientists and declared the polar bear a threatened species. But it's clear from the press release that the Interior Department has little sympathy for the plight of beleaguered bear populations.

In making the announcement, Kempthorne...

You could design a takeoff on Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego while trying to sort out where Senator McCain really stands on energy and global warming issues as he moves towards his general-election showdown with Obama/Clinton.

A couple of weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal asked me...

I have been meaning to write about whom I support in the Democratic primary. In January I backed all three main candidates. Basically, it was a case of any good Democrat being infinitely better than Bush. After John Edwards dropped out, I supported the two remaining.

As it came...

Sen. John McCain announced his long-awaited climate plan today. Ironically, he made the announcement at a Danish wind turbine company in Oregon -- ironic because like so many conservatives before him, he has worked hard to kill off the domestic wind industry (see here).

Much worse, though, his plan's...

The latest news suggests that the Lieberman-Warner Coal Subsidy Act (also known as the Climate InSecurity Act, CISA) has moved from critical condition to the morgue. As it will require 60 votes to get past any threatened filibuster (not that the Senate Democratic Party leadership could...

The Democratic presidential campaign began with remarkable unity from the candidates regarding what needs to be done to revitalize the economy and restore America's moral authority -- and their populist themes even spilled over into the Republican primary.

That does not simply speak to the candidates' position papers...

Hello. You and I probably do not know each other but I'm sure if we sat down and had a beer together, we would become friends. It's an interesting phenomenon...that if we were all able to spend some quality time together, most of us would become friends. Sure we would...

I have been accused of being angry and I would like to say this for myself.

I'm angry.

I'm angry that our party has no leaders, zero, none, nada. And I'm really angry that those in leadership positions seem intent on reaching across the aisle, playing it safe, not choosing...

How should environmental organizations and prominent "environmental" politicians speak to supporters when it comes to environmental issues and when it comes to the Lieberman-Warner Climate (In)Security Act? This is a serious issue that can get some blood boiling. Privately, some have sent complaints that Plumbing Lieberman-Warner's Shortfalls Doesn't...

Moshiur Rahman, like so many businessmen today, is a weary fellow, striving to keep his head above the troubled economic waters of our time. But as the obviously exhausted Rahman strives to keep his several companies afloat in Dhaka, Bangladesh, he faces an emerging confluence of crises: bird flu, climate...