WASHINGTON from the New Your Times — Coal-country lawmakers moved Thursday to impose a two-year moratorium on potential federal regulation of carbon dioxide and other climate-altering gases.
Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, Democrat of West Virginia, said theEnvironmental Protection Agency should refrain from issuing any new rules on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other major [...]

A majority of the world’s nations signed up to the Copenhagen Accord and filed plans for emissions reductions, scraping over the UN deadline of 31st January for doing so. But the pledged actions fall far short of action needed to prevent global temperatures rising by 2 degrees C – the target adopted in the text [...]

A stirring if not confronting question from U2 on the state of our world and how we treat it.

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Environmental activists are attacking a $60 billion deal that will keep Chinese power stations supplied with Australian coal for at least the next two decades. Under the agreement announced last week, the Australian coal and iron ore mining company Resourcehouse will build a new mining complex to give China Power International Development 30 million tonnes [...]

In early February to little fanfare, President Obama created a task force on Carbon Capture and Storage. The purpose? A strategy to speed up clean coal development. The President hopes to have five to 10 commercial clean coal demonstration projects up and going by 2016. If you are the type that has thought clean coal [...]

The following is an excerpt for the best selling expose’ ZERO Greenhouse Emissions – The Day the Lights Went OUT. See the book here.
Looking at this time-lapse of a Coal Fired Power plant puts the 24/7 emissions from the worlds 50,000 power plants into a scary reality.
Coal is mostly used to produce electricity, and the world’s [...]

Planet Earth has warmed much less than expected during the industrial era based on current best estimates of Earth’s “climate sensitivity” — the amount of global temperature increase expected in response to a given rise in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2). In a study to be published in theJournal of Climate, a publication of [...]

The increase in temperature in the Arctic has already caused the sea-ice there to melt. According to research conducted by the University of Gothenburg, if the Arctic tundra also melts, vast amounts of organic material will be carried by the rivers straight into the Arctic Ocean, resulting in additional emissions of carbon dioxide.
Several Russian rivers [...]

Contrary to conventional belief, as the climate warms and growing seasons lengthen subalpine forests are likely to soak up less carbon dioxide, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study.
As a result, more of the greenhouse gas will be left to concentrate in the atmosphere.
“Our findings contradict studies of other ecosystems that conclude [...]

Some people still question whether Earth’s climate is changing as rapidly and profoundly as the majority of climate scientists suggest. But, what if the complexity of the Earth’s climate were distilled down to one number, in the same way that the Dow Jones Index condenses volumes of data into a single figure? What, then, would [...]