Who wants a drumstick? The six-foot-tall phorusrhacos longissimus roamed what is now Argentina during the Middle Miocene.
People often talk as if warming temperatures are the only evidence of human-induced global climate change. But the amount of carbon dioxide in the…
A home destroyed by beach erosion in the Alaskan village of Shishmaref. It was evacuated because of global warming.
When President Barack Obama was in Copenhagen on Oct. 2, he was trying to attract an Olympic Games for Chicago.
Next time, he…
Close up view of a Chinese mystery snail.
As threats go, being overrun by an invasive snail species is about as frightening as, say, being run over by a glacier.
But that — the snail invasion, not the runaway glacier — is…
Climate change is an urgent national security issue. So says a recent National Intelligence Assessment and an influential group of retired military officers and defense experts at the Center for Naval Analysis, a nonprofit policy analysis group.
Left unchecked, they say, global…
The future according to Blaine
Our new favorite member of Congress, Blaine Luetkemeyer, is warning that “the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. . .receives millions of dollars a year in your taxes to promote a liberal agenda of taxing…
U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer
Last year’s global average temperature was the 10th warmest since 1850. In fact, eight of the past 10 years, and 13 of the last 14, are among the warmest on record.
So naturally, Blaine Luetkemeyer, a Republican…
For the first time, someone has put a price on what Americans are willing to pay to protect their children and grandchildren from the effects of global warming: $18.75 a month.
The effort began with a Washington Post/ABC News poll last week…
The House Energy and Commerce Committee last week took a major step toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It approved a bill that would cap releases of heat-trapping gases and create a national market to trade pollution credits.
The bill comes on the…
Today is Earth Day. But you already knew that.
You knew it because Earth Day has become Earth Week — a hybrid of selfless environmental activism and shameless marketing opportunism. If the original was a media sensation, this latest version is an…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency seems poised to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, and possibly also from vehicles. New EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson asked her staff last week to prepare a document that clears the way for new rules…
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President Barack Obama is moving swiftly to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He cleared the way this week for California to set strict new carbon-dioxide standards for cars and trucks. A dozen other states are poised to adopt the standards once…
Illinois sits atop the nation’s second-largest coal reserves. Whether that fuel represents the nation’s energy future or its past is the subject of an increasingly bitter debate playing out over the nation’s airwaves.
Industry groups have been working hard to sell…
Steven Chu
On Monday, President-elect Barack Obama named Steven Chu, winner of the Nobel Prize for physics, as his choice to lead the Department of Energy. It’s hard to imagine a greater contrast between Mr. Chu and the man he probably…
Weird: Texas jury indicts Alberto Gonzales and Dick Cheney. Seriously. I am not making this up.
Joe Lieberman uses his get-out-of-jail-free card to escape serious retribution from the Democrats in the Senate over his campaign-season antics.
President-elect Barack Obama is serious about change.
Someone fell for…
The U.S. Senate Monday is scheduled to begin debating a bill to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Known as the Climate Security Act, it is a serious response to global warming that is long overdue.
The Senate debate comes on the heels…
Caught between a federal judge’s order and a mountain of accumulating scientific evidence, the Bush administration reluctantly listed polar bears as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. But the administration pointedly refuses to address the threat that imperils the bears and…
President George W. Bush clings to his belief in free markets the way a drowning man clings to a potential rescuer.
Most of the time, that’s good — or at least it’s not bad. Markets are the best way to encourage…
