Global Climate Change

The Energy Industry Gets Needled In Greedy Lying Bastards

Bloomberg Outlines Plans for Post-Sandy Rebuilding

In a speech this morning, Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised New York's official response to Hurricane Sandy, called for more action to control climate change, and laid out the next steps in the city's rebuilding process. "Even as our recovery operations remain our top priority, we now have enough per ... More >>

Climate Change Activists Project Hurricane Sandy Images Onto Gas Station

The Exxon Mobil station on 2nd Street and Avenue C became an impromptu movie theater last night, as a coalition of climate-change activists projected a short film about Hurricane Sandy recovery onto the wall above it. Josh Fox, one of the filmmakers behind the anti-fracking film Gasland, shot the 2 ... More >>

Chasing Ice

ManBearPig Resurrected: Is Global Warming To Blame For Sandy's Destruction?

As you know, weather happened in New York City this week, leaving dozens dead, millions without power, and pundits arguing about whether "Global Warming" is an actual thing.Mayor Mike Bloomberg appears to be on the side of Al Gore and the Inconvenient Truth-ers -- yesterday, the mayor endorsed Presi ... More >>

Flood Zone, NYC

Bloomberg's push for development in the wrong places

Here's Some Old-Timey Video of New York's 1938 Hurricane -- Which Was Not Caused By "Global Warming"

The Global Warming crowd is claiming that climate change is part of the reason that a hurricane is about absolutely crush New York City."Substantial evidence indicates that global warming may be responsible for the recent increasing intensity of Atlantic hurricanes, including increasing their size a ... More >>

Jake Gyllenhaal Stars in Nick Payne's Roundabout Play

Arctic Expert Predicts Final Collapse Of Sea Ice Within Four Years!

Around the same time that Obama's second term will be coming to an end, the world will become wetter than Axl Rose's arm pits during a reunion tour. What a ghastly moment that will be! And this isn't just hearsay. A noted expert swears that a global disaster is in the making, and the sea ice is a ... More >>

Q and A: Michael Lemonick On Global Weirdness, Climate Change, And How To Talk About Science

Michael Lemonick is a former senior science writer at Time Magazine, the senior staff writer at Climate Central, and the lead author of Global Weirdness, a new book that attempts to lay out, in simple terms, what scientists do and don't know about climate change. We spoke with him this week about c ... More >>

Democracy Then: Portrait of Ousted Mohamed Nasheed in The Island President

Lucy Lawless, Xena Warrior Princess, Captures Oil-Drilling Ship

Lucy Lawless -- of Xena, Warrior Princess and Spartacus -- has taken over an Artic-bound, oil-drilling ship along with several other Greenpeace activists today. Lawless and the Greenpeace members boarded the Shell-contracted ship this morning, in hopes that their protest would keep it from leaving ... More >>

Called Anti-Science, Rightbloggers Reply That Science is a Liberal Plot

With the ascension of Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and other GOP candidates who don't cotton to this evolution or climate change stuff, people have begun to ask if Republicans and conservatives are actually becoming hostile to science. It doesn't help that one of those people is Repu ... More >>

Bin Laden Book Club: Terrorist's Recordings Recommend More Than Killing Americans

​Sunday's New York Times includes a somewhat original, overlooked take on the most infamous terrorist in the world, the still-not-caught Osama bin Laden, who released two new audio recordings over the weekend. The article, instead of the standard "Where's Waldo?", focuses on bin Laden's "wide- ... More >>

Katie Couric's Weather Report: All Wet (When It Comes to Climate Change)

Couric: Partly cloudyOn Monday night, Katie Couric swung from CBS's coverage of the oil spill to the Tennessee floods by saying she was moving "from a man-made disaster to a natural one." That's one big and unproven assumption. How does Couric know that the worst Tennessee flooding in history has no ... More >>

John Mackey and Whole Foods Profiled in The New Yorker

Dan Winters for the New YorkerJohn Mackey eats his vegetables, denies global warming​ You might remember the brouhaha when Whole Foods co-founder and CEO John Mackey came out against government-backed health care reform this summer. You may also recall the incident about two years ago when it ... More >>

McCain weighs in on Sarah Palin's cap

​The ongoing pissing match over Sarah Palin's inked-up gimme cap has a new combatant, now that John McCain has taken a stand. If you managed to miss this earth-shaking controversy, the Senator's former running mate was photographed in Hawaii wearing a McCain campaign sun visor with the logo bl ... More >>

The Shake Shacking of America; The Big Plate Revolution of New York

​Dale Hemmerdinger, the ex-MTA chairman and current landlord, is evicting Shamsher Wadud, who for many years owned the Indian restaurant Nirvana on the roof of the building next door. Wadud is broke and a Parkinson's sufferer, and claims his apartment is overrun by rodents. [NY Post] The Shak ... More >>

Two New Perspectives: How Locavores Are Getting It Wrong

If you're among those trying to eat locally and sustainably, you may have to rethink your strategy. Two recent editorial pieces offer new perspectives on eating green. According to a National Post article, eating global may be less harmful to the earth than eating local: "Locally grown food, in many ... More >>

Robin Thicke

SOUND OF MELTING ICE

DJ Spooky gives a voice to Arctic glaciers

Daily Flog: Deregulate. Spread fear. Deregulate. Spread fear.

Columbia Ignores Peril

When Klaus Jacob talks, important people take action. Except the important people paying him.

Global Warming May Ruin NY's Super Delicious Tap Water: Report

Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff Steps Down

Everything's Cool

The Whole World in Our Hands

Activist fest takes on global warming, suburban sprawl and, as if war weren't enough, AIDS in Iraq

All Wet

Bloomberg's man Dan Doctoroff has an answer for rising seas: more coastal condos!

Gore and War Hawk Stump for Green Future

Al Gore and the Moral Imperative

Pledge Your Saturday Night to Al Gore

Nearly 100,000 promise to see 'An Inconvenient Truth'

Fahrenheit 2050

The man who would've been president warns of an imminent deep impact

'The Great Warming'

Horoscope

Storm Front

In global warming's kitchen, hurricanes love the heat

Follow the Money, Carefully

Polar Eclipse

Hey, remember when climate change was a swell idea? Coconuts were in the offing.

Bush's Mandate From Above

The November Surprises

After a year-long campaign, America now discovers what the election was really about

Don't Give a Hoot. Don't Say, 'Pollute.'

Divine Inspiration

The president blesses storm victims, calls forth wrath against Kerry

Stirring Up A Storm

Enviros hope 'The Day After Tomorrow' will change the climate regarding climate

Nation

The Climes They Are A-Changin'

The Indisputable Science of Global Warming

Smokestack Lightning

Online Trade in Greenhouse Gases Strikes Environment

Trading Gas

Polluters Fight Global Warming—and Government Regulation—With a New Market in Emissions Credits

Unnatural Disasters

How Humans Are Behind the Weather Weirdness

Greenwash