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Vast Ice Shelf Tumbles Into Sea

System broken, warns expert

(Newser) - A 4,500-year-old, 19-square-mile Arctic ice shelf has broken off an island in Canada, Canada.com reports, making more than 75 square miles of Canadian ice shelves that have melted this summer. “These changes are irreversible under the present climate, and indicate that the environmental conditions that have kept...

Palin Pick Completes De-Greening of McCain
Palin Pick Completes De-Greening of McCain
OPINION
Sep 3, 2008 2:46 AM CDT

Palin Pick Completes De-Greening of McCain

Green voters left with one choice after McCain ceases being a maverick

(Newser) - John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin completes his transformation from the most green-leaning GOP candidate for years into just another mouthpiece for Big Oil, Thomas L. Friedman writes in the New York Times. Palin backs drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and she does not believe humans play any...

Next Prez Will Have to Save the Planet
Next Prez Will Have to Save
the Planet
OPINION
Aug 28, 2008 2:00 PM CDT

Next Prez Will Have to Save the Planet

Winner of election will immediately have to combat climate change

(Newser) - Whether it's John McCain or Barack Obama, the next US president will instantly face "the most momentous political challenge of all time"—saving the world from catastrophic climate change, Carlos Pascual and Strobe Talbott write in the Washington Post. We have 7 years to begin reducing greenhouse gas...

China's Power Pollution to Pass US

CO2 emissions will double over next 12 years, think tank predicts

(Newser) - Carbon emissions from China's mostly coal-fired electric power industry will exceed those of the US this year for the first time, the Washington Post reports. China's runaway economic growth means its power industry's carbon emissions will double by 2020, predicts the Center for Global Development, a Washington-based think tank. Power...

Rising Seas to Swallow Reserve
 Rising Seas to Swallow Reserve
Aug 25, 2008 1:46 PM CDT

Rising Seas to Swallow Reserve

Caretakers forced to retreat before rising waters

(Newser) - A portion of a major UK nature reserve is being abandoned to the rising tides, the Independent reports. In the face of eroding sea defenses, Titchwell Marsh has decided to make a “managed retreat” inland, giving up much on a substantial portion of the birdwatching hotspot. “The erosion...

Madonna Starts Tour, Draws Greenie Fire

To not-sold-out house

(Newser) - Madonna kicked off her 51-stop stage show in Cardiff today, a sprawling extravaganza featuring 20 songs, 250 crew members, and $2 million worth of jewelry, the BBC reports. A giant “M” loomed over the stage as Madonna worked through the show’s four sections, titled Pimp, Old School, Gypsy,...

Greenies Fight Religious Custom in Taiwan

Concern about global warming prompts attempt to change money-burning ritual

(Newser) - Taiwanese environmentalists are working to douse the flames of "Ghost Month," during which Taoists and Buddhists burn ritual paper money to honor ancestors. Setting one ton of money ablaze releases at least an equal amount carbon dioxide, the AFP reports; temples and households can now turn over their...

Seals Plunge for Climate Data
 Seals Plunge for Climate Data

Aug 17, 2008 1:29 PM CDT

Seals Plunge for Climate Data

Scientists use deep-diving creatures for Antarctic research

(Newser) - Giant seals living in the chilly waters of Antarctica are helping researchers gather important data on climate change, reports Popular Mechanics. The elephant seals, tagged with hat-like sensors, make frequent dives deep into the Southern Ocean and surface with valuable details about water temperature and salinity. The dense waters of...

Melting Greenland Bares Chilling View of Our Future

'Climate-speak' dominates conversation of troubled residents

(Newser) - Want to see what we’re in for as the planet keeps warming? Visit Greenland, where climate change has even created a new kind of language for its people, writes Thomas L. Friedman in the New York Times. Conversations on the melting island are now peppered with phrases expressing amazement...

Ice Reveals Climate History
 Ice Reveals Climate History
OPINION
Aug 3, 2008 12:19 PM CDT

Ice Reveals Climate History

Research offers window into changes

(Newser) - Over the next three summers in Greenland, a group of international scientists will unearth samples of the country’s ice core down to its very bedrock, in the hopes of painting a complete picture of Earth's changing climate. Each layer provides a dated mixture of water and air bubbles that...

Branson's Aircraft: Beyond Space Tourism

Applications include satelites, drones and studying climate change

(Newser) - Though space tourism is an exciting feat in itself, it’s just the beginning of the possibilities for Virgin Galactic’s White Knight Two, the Economist notes. The carbon-composite plane doubles as a spaceship’s first stage, and is capable of launching satellites, transporting replacement engines, and facilitating the study...

Don't Blame It All on Global Warming
 Don't Blame It All 
 on Global Warming
OPINION
Aug 3, 2008 7:57 AM CDT

Don't Blame It All on Global Warming

Some use it as excuse to ignore pressing local issues

(Newser) - Global warming is a serious issue—but it shouldn't blind us to other immediate environmental concerns, writes Joel Achenbach in the Washington Post. “Humans are environment-destroying creatures by nature" and ruining the earth in any number of ways—but instead of paying attention to pressing local issues, every disaster...

McCain, Aides Often Part Ways on Policy
McCain, Aides Often
Part Ways on Policy
ANALYSIS
Jul 31, 2008 2:10 PM CDT

McCain, Aides Often Part Ways on Policy

Politico documents the differences

(Newser) - Much has been made recently of John McCain’s difficulty in driving a message from his “eclectic and occasionally politically inconvenient hodgepodge of policy positions,” Politico says, but little has been said about how often the candidate’s top aides disagree with him. And while fewer public disagreements...

Seattle Starts 'Car-Free' Sundays
 Seattle Starts 'Car-Free' Sundays
Jul 31, 2008 2:07 AM CDT

Seattle Starts 'Car-Free' Sundays

City closes streets in three neighborhoods

(Newser) - Seattle is about to stage a series of "Car-Free Sundays" to encourage people to drive less, save money and combat global warming, reports the Seattle Post Intelligencer. The city will close streets in three neighborhoods in August and September, and the mayor aims to expand the program next summer...

Global Warming Didn't Cause New England Tornadoes

Scientists link extreme events to bad weather 'block'

(Newser) - Two tornadoes have ripped through New England in the last few days, killing a New Hampshire woman and doing serious property damage. But don’t blame global warming for the uncharacteristically violent climate: local climatologists tell the Boston Herald equally extreme weather struck the region in the ‘30s and...

Obama and Sarkozy Rendezvous in Paris

Dem attends press conference with French president in brief visit; London next

(Newser) - Barack Obama received an enthusiastic Paris reception today from President Nicolas Sarkozy, who said, “The French have been following him with passion”—and that the Democrat’s “adventure … rings true in the hearts in minds” of his country. The two men discussed cooperation on climate change,...

The Democratic Party: Is Civil War Brewing?
The Democratic Party: Is Civil War Brewing?
OPINION
Jul 24, 2008 5:05 PM CDT

The Democratic Party: Is Civil War Brewing?

Maybe there's not enough room for both elites and blue collars

(Newser) - Democrats are undoubtedly ascendant in the US, Joel Kotkin writes in the American, but the demographic shift that made it so may undermine the party in the near future. That’s because the working-class party of FDR is now chock-full of elites—two constituencies with different values. The richer Dems...

EPA Forecasts Longer, Smoggier Summers for US

Agency warns of effects from global warming

(Newser) - Climate change will bring longer, hotter, smoggier summers in the coming decades across the US, a new EPA reports says. Expect more wildfires and hurricanes, too, along with water problems in the West, the Washington Post reports. The federal report is noteworthy because it refutes the Bush administration's rosier outlook...

Lefty Kinda Still Likes This Guy
 Lefty Kinda Still Likes This Guy 
OPINION
Jul 17, 2008 2:23 PM CDT

Lefty Kinda Still Likes This Guy

Bush has 'lowered my standards'

(Newser) - “What can I say?” writes left-leaning Jonathan Chait in revealing his continued affection for John McCain. “Bush has lowered my standards.” Remember, McCain was once “the country’s foremost progressive champion”—battling the religious right and tax cuts while pushing immigration and anti-global warming advances....

'Clean Coal' Advocates Blowing Smoke
 'Clean Coal'
 Advocates 
 Blowing 
 Smoke 
analysis
Jul 17, 2008 11:31 AM CDT

'Clean Coal' Advocates Blowing Smoke

Investing in carbon sequestration "reckless"

(Newser) - “Clean coal” is the buzzword of the moment, with industry groups and presidential candidates swearing by a work-in-progress technique known as carbon capture and storage (CCS), which ultimately buries carbon dioxide emissions deep underground. But Jeff Goodell, writing in Yale Environment 360, doesn’t buy it. “We don’...

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