When I first became concerned with climate change and clean air and water it seemed - at least to me - that only liberals were concerned about the impact that a slowly warming planet will have on life. I should also qualify liberals to mean progressive liberals or people that tended to politically be more left of center. There were at one time ( Read more... )

In case you have been sleeping under a rock or have been in a coma for the past few years you may be unaware that the Arctic is the next battle zone in the quest for cheap fossil fuels.  Maybe, like me, you get memos from the desk of Leonardo DiCaprio about the plight of the polar bears who are the unwitting victims of the effects of climate change ( Read more... )

True or False: Cars are the number one contributor to green house gas emissions in the United States?

False: Believe it or not the raising of livestock creates more greenhouse gas emissions than those of you still stubbornly insisting on paying half a weeks pay to fill your tanks.

According to a 2006 study United Nations Food and Agriculture ( Read more... )

 
Your Global Warming Factoid of the Day is brought to you by Environmental Defense.

According to the environmental defense website, the year 2006 was the hottest year on record. This fact posted on their website first on January 2007 and then again in August lists this as one of the many reasons why congress needs to concern itself with climate ( Read more... )

A potential ice age is one of the paradoxes of global warming or, more accurately, global climate change.

Your Global Warming Factoid of the Day is brought to you by Our Civilization. This particular article is of the conservative "the global warming scare" is a myth variety. I don't agree with most conversvative viewpoints but in the spirit of ( Read more... )

 
Your Global Warming Factoid of the Day is brought to you by JSTOR.

The oceans and the South American Rain Forests are well known to be the largest producers of the oxygen that we breathe. What many people don’t realize is that the sub-artic forests, the alpine forests that border the artic tundra, in places such as Siberia also play a ( Read more... )