Itâs going to be a nuclear ârenaissanceâ, theyâve told us. A dormant (or dying) and discredited nuclear industry was going to spring back to life, provide cheap, safe, reliable and clean electricity, and save us from catastrophic climate change. But thenâ¦
Turkeyâs government announced over the weekend that [...]
Due to the upcoming climate change talks in Copenhagen this December, many participants of the Kyoto Protocol are discussing the changes since 1997 when Kyoto took place. Many United Nations scientists are amongst those incredulous to the changes in just the last twelve years.
In 1997, [...]
Bill McKibben in the November 22 Washington Post: “Imagine an American president who would take the press corps to Glacier National Park so they could hike the dwindling ice fields, then fly them above the millions of acres of dead lodgepole pines covering much of the West, and then take [...]
November 20th, 2009
Published in the Huffington Post
By Trudie Styler Actress, director, producer, and humanitarian
The following post was originally delivered at the UN General Assembly’s meeting on climate change on Thursday, November 19th.
It has been 20 years since Sting and I first visited Brazil, [...]
Here are a couple of great articles by lefty author Naomi Klein about the anti-corporate movement of movements which converged in Seattle in 1999 at the shutdown of the World Trade Organization are re-converging around climate change in Copenhagen.
In both, Klein talks about how anti-establishment direct [...]
Everyone's talking about the CRU data hack. Quirin Schiermeier reports on Nature News:
One of Britain's leading climate-research centres has had more than 1,000 files stolen from its computers and republished on the Internet. The cyber-attack is apparently aimed at damaging the reputations of prominent climate scientists.
The full story is [...]
Sens. Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman have been working overtime to craft a climate bill that can attract significant GOP support. But they aren’t exactly scoring points with their mutual best friend in the Senate, John McCain.
“Their start has been horrendous,” McCain said Thursday. “Obviously, they’re going nowhere.”
McCain has [...]
Keith Kloor
While many are feeling pessimistic about the prospects for a deal at Copenhagen, Geoffrey Lean at Grist believes the big climate summit still has a pulse. He reports that “environment ministers from 40 key countries—assembled this week for a two-day preparatory meeting in Copenhagen—made good progress towards [...]
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An inspiring new video from smartMeme with leaders from frontline communities and allies talking about the Copenhagen moment.
Posted in Carbon Trading, Copenhagen 2009, United States [...] 
