Seeking an Olympian achievement on climate change
Of mosquitoes and global warming
I’ve been re-reading “The Path Between the Seas,” David McCullough’s masterful history of the Panama Canal. In some ways, it’s less timely now than when it was published…
Climate change adds to the threat of invasive species.
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…
Global warming threatens American security.
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…
Blaine: U.N. climate group will force us to bike to work!
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…
The Indifference Point on global warming: $18.75 a month
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 time to address global warming is yesterday.
Remember all that talk about how global warming was going to change our lives? It already has.
A new federal report on the impact of climate change condenses the latest science from a variety of disciplines. Among the findings:
• Heavy downpours are…
False choice: Inaction on global warming is no option
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…
How do you celebrate Earth Day?
It’s Earth Day today, as we note in an editorial and a commentary today. Both pieces note how far we have to go as a society to become better stewards of the Earth. U.S. News and World Report had a neat list of 10…
Earth Day: Environmental challenges, and stakes, grow larger
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…
Clean coal isn’t clean enough
A world of difference on science and energy policy
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…
A last minute push to loosen federal rules
With most of the nation focused on a historic presidential campaign and election, Bush administration officials have been busy preparing parting gifts for their friends in private industry.
They’re scrambling to rewrite scores of federal regulations. Among the goals: to allow…
Energy exploration still yielding new discoveries
Most people probably believe that the age of exploration — at least on this planet — ended long ago. It’s tempting to assume that with today’s advanced technology, every corner of the earth has been mapped, scanned, and scoured for every…
Which candidate shares your views?
USA Today’s website has a “Candidate Match Game” which allows you to determine which presidential candidate most shares your views via a neat interactive tool.
There are twelve “statements,” in four separate categories, and for each you can use a slide rule…
Wednesday editorial: Global warming turns 20
Twenty years ago this week, a then-unknown NASA scientist named James E. Hansen ushered global warming from the realm of climatology into the hot house of public policy.
He did it in testimony before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, delivered…
An Inconvenient Truth (the opera)
Here’s how the Red State Update boys see global warming.
Sunday Editorial: Serious for a change
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…










