House Republicans disband global warming committee
During a House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming hearing today on energy security and climate change, ranking member Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) announced that it would be...
View ArticleFinal hearing of the House global warming committee: "a fight that is far...
In the final hearing of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming on December 1, witnesses Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn, Dr. Peter Gleick, Richard L. Kauffman, Dr. Kenneth...
View ArticleMacCracken federal court Declaration defending EPA Endangerment Finding
Many of the legal challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulation of greenhouse gases have sought to undermine EPA’s reliance in its Endangerment Finding on the Intergovernmental Panel...
View ArticleArctic seals listed as threatened by climate change; polar bears get critical...
The Obama Administration cited habitat disruption primarily due to climate change as the reason for its proposed listing of six subspecies of Arctic seals as ‘threatened’ under the Endangered Species...
View ArticleDC District Court of Appeals rejects bid to stay EPA GHG regulations
On Friday, December 10, the DC District Court of Appeals rejected a bid by business groups, right-wing legal organizations, and the state of Texas to delay EPA greenhouse gas rules until legal...
View ArticleU.S. climate envoy Jonathan Pershing: in implementing the Cancun Agreements,...
On January 5, Jonathan Pershing, the U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change, told an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies that the framework established by the Cancun...
View ArticleHouse Republicans prepare to attack EPA greenhouse gas rules
The new Republican majority in the House is making moves in its plan to hamstring EPA regulations, particularly of greenhouse gases. EPA is currently moving forward with GHG regulations for fossil...
View ArticleThe national security frame: a path forward for climate change communication?
After a spike in late 2009 propelled by the Copenhagen climate conference, mainstream media coverage of climate change dropped off steeply. One dimension of the issue, the intersection of climate...
View ArticleRepublican deficit demagogue threatens to de-fund CIA climate monitoring and...
Republican deficit demagoguery and aversion to supporting the climate science enterprise may jeopardize the future of the CIA Center on Climate Change and National Security, a small unit launched in...
View ArticleHot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
Mark Hertsgaard’s powerful new book Hot examines what the rapidly warming planet means for humankind over the next fifty years. His focus is on what he terms “Generation Hot” – those who will live...
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