Climate Pulse

Photo via LimJunYing It's been a couple months of seriously bad PR for climate science, both due to unfortunate errors made by scientists and (okay, mostly) a well-funded noise machine intent on preserving the status quo at any cost. So how can climate scientists dig themselves out of the negative... [continue]

Photo via FreeSpeech Ban Ki-moon has announced that a comprehensive, independent review of the IPCC is to be carried out, after calls from world governments were made to do so. The Secretary General for the UN said that scientists from academies around the world will take part in the review, which... [continue]

photo: chantrybee via flickr. Even if the sun entered a Grand Solar Minimum--like the one experienced in the late 17th century known as the Maunder Minimum, which brought about the Little Ice Age--it would still only offset less than a tenth of the warming caused by human release of greenhouse... [continue]

Guess who'll pay for the new energy tax? the ad reads, in lettering right above four portraits of hardworking Americans. Perhaps it's Getty Images, the stock photo company from which all four photos of supposedly 'real' Americans were taken? Or perhaps its actors and models, who posed for the... [continue]

photo: Mari Tefre/Svalbard Global Seed Vault The doomsday Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway--begun as protection against any potential future calamity that threatens global food production--just turned two years old and has also just passed the half million mark in terms of seed varieties saved.... [continue]

Photo via Whatson The so-called "conventional wisdom" has been pretty unremitting in deeming any sort of comprehensive energy reform legislation dead in the water this year. But that's still not looking to be the case--some rather unlikely champions, including GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham and... [continue]

Photo via Sheerman-Chase I can't wait to see the comments on this one. Really, I can't. But this is a concept that I think is important to think about, especially at a time when much of the media appears to be buying into the narrative that the science supporting climate change is being 'called... [continue]

photo: Quinn Dombrowski via flickr. We just passed two milemarkers which make this next one all the more poignant: First, two days ago was International Women's Day and, second, we've just been told that in many places women are going to be hit harder than men by climate change. Now, via our... [continue]

photo: BP Greenopia has updated their guide to the greenest oil companies--though it may seem like it, it's not entirely an oxymoron--and BP is still on top. The other positions have shifted a bit, with Sunoco and Hess taking second and third place:...Read the full story on TreeHugger [continue]

Image credit: Good Passing a strong climate bill, Good tells us in a recent editorial, is a necessity. Such a bill, they write, must be defined by what is good for the country, not what is easy for the Senate to agree upon....Read the full story on TreeHugger [continue]