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Greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere reached record highs in 2008, with carbon dioxide levels increasing faster than previously, the U.N. weather agency said Monday.
Health care, a giant in the U.S. economy, may be a gentle giant when it comes to greenhouse gases.
President Barack Obama wants the federal government to set the example when it comes to global warming.
Proposed regulations would require power plants, factories and refineries to reduce greenhouse gases by installing the best available technology and improving energy efficiency whenever a facility is significantly changed or built.
Despite industry objections and threats of lawsuits, California air regulators on Friday approved the nation's first statewide carbon fee on utilities, oil refineries and other polluting industries.
California regulators on Thursday delayed a decision on whether to implement the nation's first statewide carbon fee on utilities, oil refineries and other polluting industries.
Organizers and participants in the nation's only working cap-and-trade program for carbon emissions called the fledgling attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions a success Wednesday.
The federal government wants to require companies for the first time to disclose the amount of greenhouse gases they're releasing into the atmosphere.
California air regulators on Thursday broadened their reach into Silicon Valley, implementing rules intended to cut greenhouse gas emissions from semiconductor plants.
California was handed a big environmental victory when President Barack Obama endorsed a key part of the state's greenhouse gas reduction plan.
President Barack Obama opened an ambitious, double-barreled assault on global warming and U.S. energy woes Monday, moving quickly toward rules requiring cleaner-running cars that guzzle less gas — a must, he said, for "our security, our economy and our planet."
California air regulators Thursday adopted a plan to cut the state's greenhouse gas emissions over the next 12 years. Some of the strategies in the plan:
Greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere have reached new record highs and show no sign of leveling off, the U.N. weather agency said Tuesday.
The European Union's 15 original member nations are on target to meet Kyoto treaty commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the bloc's environment agency said Thursday.
For decades, California cities and counties knew one way to grow — by sprawling outward.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has a storied place in California history.
Seven Western states are joining four Canadian provinces to propose a plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions through use of a "cap and trade" system.
A high-ranking political appointee resigned from the Environmental Protection Agency after concluding there was no more progress to be made on greenhouse gases under the Bush administration.
President Bush asserted executive privilege Friday to withhold documents from a congressional investigation into whether he pressured the Environmental Protection Agency to weaken decisions on smog and greenhouse gases.
Major greenhouse gases in the air are accumulating faster than in the past despite efforts to curtail their growth.
A House committee chairman issued a subpoena Wednesday seeking records of contacts between the White House and Environmental Protection Agency officials concerning California's tailpipe emissions law.
Officials of 18 states are taking the EPA back to court to try to force it to comply with a Supreme Court ruling that rebuked the Bush administration for inaction on global warming.
A House committee chairman on Monday accused the Environmental Protection Agency of withholding hundreds of communications about its refusal to let California regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday justified blocking California from cracking down on auto emissions by saying global warming isn't unique to the state.
Forget Global Warming - - Ominous Signs Are Already Here the Planet is Experiencing Dangerous Climate ChangeAs I write, the temperature outside is almost 40°C, and daily highs have exceeded 35°C for eight days straight. The old record for November was four days.
10 Tips for a Sustainable ThanksgivingI guarantee you that it will be more fun, tastier and make for a good conversation at your table.
Since 1997 Climate Change has Worsened & Accelerated Beyond the Grimmest of Predictions Made Back ThenAs the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened through the once frozen summer sea ice of the Arctic. In Greenland and Antarctica, ice sheets have lost trillions of tons of ice.
The CRU Hack: Much Ado About NothingMore interesting is what is not contained in the emails.
On Thinner Ice: Melting Glaciers Spell Looming Disaster for WorldGlobal warming is melting 18,000 Himalayan glaciers, the largest concentration of glaciers outside the polar ice sheets. Their melting spells trouble for not only 2 billion Asians but the whole world.
Don't bet on a hydrogen car anytime soon? Think again. Far from being a tailpipe dream, hydrogen may prove to be our savior from greenhouse gases, air pollution and dependence of foreign oil. Indeed, decades from now George W. Bush may be remembered primarily for his unflinching support for hydrogen.
Is Europe Really On Track To Meet Its Kyoto Goals?There's a fairly basic question about climate policy that gets asked a lot: Can a cap-and-trade program actually cut carbon-dioxide emissions? Set aside the question of cost and the endless debate over whether a mythical carbon tax would be sleeker.
Climate Change Threatens Our Livelihoods - - and Your'sThe effects of warming global temperatures are not theoretical. At Aspen, where our business depends on the climate, we already see a gradual increase in frost-free days and warmer nights.
Six Steps To HellBy the end of the century, the Earth could be more than 6C hotter than it is today, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
North Atlantic Fish Populations Shifting As Ocean Temperatures WarmJust more undeniable proof to add to the Mountains of Evidence that Gore's correct and the Deniers are Flat-Earthers.
Captured on Camera: 50 years of Climate Change in the Himalayas"Only five decades have passed between the old and the new photographs and the changes are dramatic," says Byers. "Many small glaciers at low altitudes have disappeared entirely and many larger ones have lost around half of their volume.
Carbon Dioxide irrelevant in climate debate says MIT ScientistProfessor Richard Lindzen of MIT's peer reviewed work states "we now know that the effect of CO2 on temperature is small, we know why it is small, and we know that it is having very little effect on the climate." The global surface temperature record, which we update and p …
Fight Over Global Warming Heats Up - WSJ.comTwo years ago, a United Nations scientific panel won the Nobel Peace Prize after concluding that global warming is "unequivocal" and is "very likely" caused by man. Then came a development unforeseen by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC: Data suggeste …
Climate Change In Our Own BackyardsNow, one of the things I realized during this trip was that this beetle epidemic really caught people off guard. And the scary part is all of this devastation was caused by a really small change in average temperatures.
NOAA: Second Hottest September on Record and A Virtual Tie With 1998 for Hottest Lower Troposphere from Satellite DataThe combined global land and ocean surface temperatures for September 2009 ranked as the second warmest September on record since records began in 1880.
Global Warming Wars: Water will become more precious than OilWater will become more valuable than oil in just a few decades and water scarcity will likely replace oil as the commodity future wars will be fought over.
Remember the Recent Attacks on the Yamal Hockey Stick? - Just More Industry PR Lies from an Ex Mining ExecutiveSo, what was the point, exactly, of McIntyre's intervention? He doesn't seem to be particularly committed to advancing science, or you would think that he would be offering his work up for peer-review and publishing.
Forget 2100AD! Expect 7.2 Fahrenheit Warming in as Little as Five Decades on Current Emissions PathRichard Betts of the Met Office Hadley Centre described himself as "shocked" that so much warming could occur within the lifetimes of people alive today. "If greenhouse gas emissions are not cut soon then we could see major climate changes within our own lifetimes," he said.
Despite Deepest Solar Minimum in Nearly a Century - Warmest Summer for the Oceans, & Second Warmest August on RecordNOAA reported the blockbuster news today:
8 Reasons You Should Stop Drinking Milk NowEnvironmental Reasons to Avoid Milk 1. Dairy cows produce waste. Lots of waste. In fact, your average dairy cow produces 120 pounds of waste every day -- equal to that of more than two dozen people, but without toilets, sewers, or treatment plants.
Cap-and-Trade: Run Over by the Healthcare Train?The bottom line is that the Senate is perfectly happy to kick cap-and-trade under the train. It's going to have a hard enough time recovering from the upcoming healthcare wreck.
The Fossil Record Support Evidence of Impending Mass ExtinctionThe largest mass extinction event of all, the end-Permian, occurred during one of the warmest ever climatic phases and saw the estimated extinction of 95 per cent of animal and plant species.
Signs of Rapid Change is Everywhere in the Arctic, Finds a New StudyPolar bear cubs, the Arctic fox and caribou herds are among the victims of dramatic changes in the Arctic due to climate change, a study published Thursday found.
Why Scientists Hate RepublicansThe Pew Research Center has come out with a poll comparing scientists' attitudes (on scientific and other matters) with those of the general public. Among its revelations was that Republicans comprise 6 percent of scientists. That's not a typo.
Climate Change Worsening Floods and Cyclones Causing Tens of Millions to Flee Each Year in South AsiaAs monsoons and cyclones worsen due to climate change in the South Asian country, many coastal peoples are migrating to drier cities.
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