Global warming pollution increased in all but two states nationwide between 1990 and 2004, according to “The Carbon Boom,” a new analysis of state fossil fuel consumption data released earlier this month by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S....
Next Friday a new report from the IPCC will underline the growing “climate divide” that is growing across the globe. The world’s richest countries, which have contributed the most to climate change, are already spending billions of dollars to limit...
A report released this week by the Government Accountability Project (GAP), a whistleblower protection organization based in Washington D.C., demonstrates the politicization of climate science. According to GAP, political policies and practices "have increasingly restricted the flow of scientific information...
Ok so there is a raging peak oil debate out there. The Peak oil pundits say we are in real trouble, the oil industry say that there is enough oil for the meantime not to worry. But now the US...
Vermont is famous for its maple trees. But for how much longer? Climate change is pushing the North American maple zone gradually but inexorably northwards towards Canada. According to Rupert Cornwell in the Independent, one day soon the maple may...
The top honchos at BP will be sweating as they await today’s publication of the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board’s report into the Texas fire. By all accounts it will not make for comfortable reading. The ante has...
Four years ago this week, American tanks headed into Baghdad. At the time critics of the war said it was about oil. But those voices were dismissed. Then came Iraq's Oil Law which essentially hands control of much of its...
The United States is stepping up its involvement in the Nigeria to counter growing violence in the Niger Delta. Theresa Whelan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, told a conference sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies that the...
Oh dear, Channel Four’s reputation is now in freefall after more revelations on its supposedly ground-breaking programme, “The Great Global Warming Swindle.” On Monday we blogged how Carl Wunsch, who had been interviewed for the programme, now complained that “I...
Suddenly every British political leader wants to be green. David Cameron, yesterday announced a new set of "environmental taxes" intended to curb air travel. In retaliation, Gordon Brown, the Chancellor will call today for a "new world order" to address...
