On AlterNet: global warming
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "global warming"
Joss Garman, Independent UK. December 21, 2009.
There is nothing in this deal that would persuade an energy utility that the era of dirty coal is over. And the implications for humanity of that simple fact are profound.
Brad Johnson, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. December 21, 2009.
Conservatives are claiming intense winter storms belie climate science. They are very wrong.
AlterNetDecember 19, 2009.
'The governments which moved so swiftly to save the banks have bickered and filibustered while the biosphere burns.'
Tara Lohan, AlterNet AlterNet: Environment. December 18, 2009.
Even when you are expecting this, it still sucks.
Barack Obama, AlterNet. December 18, 2009.
"America has made our choice. We have charted our course, we have made our commitments, and we will do what we say."
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. December 18, 2009.
We face losing everything from 50,000 species a year to the world's best wines. How to put it all in perspective?
Allison Hamm, The Media Consortium AlterNet: Environment. December 16, 2009.
The chaos outside reflects the increasing pressure inside as delegates turn to the U.S. and China for leadership in the final days of the summit.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet AlterNet: Environment. December 16, 2009.
"The US has lowered the bar and set goals so low, it's been destructive."
George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. December 15, 2009.
Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. December 15, 2009.
There was a time, not so very long ago, that Palin actually saw the merits of science.
Robert S. Eshelman, The Nation. December 15, 2009.
"Basically the trees that Barack Obama is talking about planting are meant to fuel U.S. cars."
Yifat Susskind, MADRE. December 15, 2009.
Unless we control global climate change, caused in part by industrial farming, agricultural output across the world is likely to plummet.
Matthew McDermott, TreeHugger. December 14, 2009.
"I am here to tell you that we refuse to give up hope. We refuse to be quiet. We refuse to believe that a better world isn't possible."
AFPDecember 14, 2009.
At UN climate talks Monday, he warned that record melting of Polar and Himalayan ice could deprive deprive more than a billion people of access to clean water.
Lee Camp, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. December 14, 2009.
Do people give a sh*t about climate change?
Bill McKibben, Mother Jones AlterNet: PEEK. December 13, 2009.
It's got the same kind of joyful spontaneity that marked the first hours of the WTO protests.
Karen Orenstein, Open Left AlterNet: Environment. December 11, 2009.
Tuvalu has a plan it hopes may keep the country above water.
Faiz Shakir, The Progress Report. December 10, 2009.
There is plenty of reporting to be done in Copenhagen, but instead the media is playing into deniers' conspiracy theories.
* Staff, WebEcoist. December 10, 2009.
Twelve prototype habitats are making a convincing argument for mankind's offshore living.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Politics. December 8, 2009.
Obstructionism is an art form. A really annoying art form.
Walden Bello, Foreign Policy in Focus. December 8, 2009.
Unless we re-think the export-oriented capitalism that's causing all of our climate problems, the Copenhagen conference will be nothing more than a Band-Aid.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. December 7, 2009.
It's not too late to get out there for part of the meeting.
Johann Hari, Independent UK. December 7, 2009.
We can make history -- or we can commit suicide. The choice really is that stark.
Lee Fang, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. December 7, 2009.
David Koch, co-owner of an oil and gas empire, has funded all of the major organizations dedicated to debunking the facts of global warming.
AFPDecember 7, 2009.
Glaciers in the Himalayas provide headwaters for Asia's nine largest rivers, lifelines for the 1.3 billion people who live downstream.
