Cars worse than planes for climate change

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- A trip in a car increases global temperatures more than the same trip by airplane, although the flight has a more immediate impact, U.S. researchers say.

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NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center has published its monthly “State of the Climate Report.”

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N.A.S.A: Easily the hottest April -- and hottest Jan --April -- in temperature record.

Plus a new record 12-month global temperature, as predicted

May 16, 2010

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Prestigious Webby awards for 2010.

Webby Votes for Climate Change

Three top climate change campaigns of last year are up for prestigious Webby Awards in 2010. The TckTckTck campaign is nominated for Best Activism website. Greenpeace International is nominated for Best Green Site for their "Love Letters to the Future" project. The 350 campaign is nominated for Best Video in the Public Service and Activism category. Voting closes on Thursday, April 29th, so please if you have a minute, go there right now and cast your votes! Full disclosure: I was a consultant on the TckTckTck campaign and darn proud of it!

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With 20 million jobs at stake globally, China poured $440 billion into clean energy last year.

It is shaping up to be the Great Game of the 21st century. To top officials and business executives here at the World Economic Forum, Topic A this year was the race to develop greener, cleaner technology…. it is a battle for potentially millions of jobs and trillions of dollars in export revenues.


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Whether or not carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere.

There’s no denying that novelists are warming up to the subject. From Michael Crichton’s “State of Fear,” which claimed that we’re being hoodwinked by faulty data, to Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Fifty Degrees Below,” which imagined Washington encased in ice, popular fiction about climate change has been as nuanced and illuminating as a shouting match on Fox News.

Now I don’t know what’s sadder about this paragraph. Is it that Ron Charles, the fiction editor for the ever-shrinking “Book World” section of the Washington Post, is simply unaware of the single most established fact in the entire arena of climate science?

Or that not a single person associated with putting together the final product of the Washington Post print piece edition apparently knew this most basic of climate facts.

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USA falling behind China in Clean Energy investment

How China overtook the US in renewable energy

A new report shows that China is now the world's number one investor in renewable technology.

China renewable energy: An employee displays a solar panel at a workshop in a factory in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. Photograph: LANG LANG/REUTERS

China has overtaken the US for the first time in a league table of investments in low-carbon energy among the G-20, according to a new report by not for profit group the Pew Charitable Trusts published this week.

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