Warren Buffet’s utility subsidiary, MidAmerican Energy Holdings, has made a number of large investments in renewable energy over the past few years. But the famed investor doesn’t exactly make environmentalists jump for joy. Buffett’s take on cli ... [read more]

by Rebecca Leber Chevron Corp. announced fourth-quarter earnings today of $5.1 billion, falling from $5.3 billion a year earlier. However, the second-largest U.S. energy company had a record year-end profit of $26.9 billion, a 23.3 percent jump s ... [read more]

Let’s make a fake prediction. We’ll use ocean heat content data. Here’s the data for the global oceans: Here are the residuals from the smoothed curve: Note that there’s a decided hot fluctuation in 2003. So we’ll “predict” the time … Continue re ... [read more]

Early in January Sustainable Brands published an article by Raphael Bemporad that addressed five trends that he believes will shape sustainable brands in 2012. Bemporad is the founding partner and Chief Strategy Officer of BBMG, he is a passionat ... [read more]

 Recently I had jury duty, and during jury selection something remarkable occurred. Early in the proceedings, the judge posed a hypothetical question to the 60 or so potential jurors in the room: "If I were to send you out now and ask you to rend ... [read more]

The blog is on hiatus for maternity leave. For current news and updates about Diet for a Hot Planet, Anna Lappé, and other Small Planet news, please visit www.smallplanet.org. [read more]

From our friends at Environmental Working Group, posted 12/16/11: Making sense of the complex farm bill is the first step in bringing much-needed change to America’s badly broken food and farm system. Advocates for good food get fed a Washingto ... [read more]

Dan Pengburn has been commented several times, so I think that he deserves a post of his own. anom(Y) = calculated temperature anomaly in year Y N(i) = average daily Brussels International sunspot number in year i Y = number of years that have pa ... [read more]

Click for a visual summary of what's contributing to manmade CO2 by sector and source. Global Warning Climate Change Energy [read more]

I post a video presentation that provides accessible (and hopefully entertaining) summary of current research into the psychology of climate change- in particular the key question explored by this blog: why it is so hard to accept ? It covers a l ... [read more]

It seems that everyone but global warming skeptics is gravely concerned about polar ice cap melting. I certainly am. For more than a decade, scientists have been warning about the cataclysm of melting ice, particularly polar ice cap melting. I ... [read more]

Well, last week Marc Morano posted my email on his climatedepot website and his email blast, in the process of comparing me to the Stasi (secret police of the former East German one-party-rule Communist regime.) Over the past week I've had a stre ... [read more]

[For the first-timers: As the name suggests, this blog is about islands of the world heritage site of the Sunderbans -- a vast archipelago in the eastern India -- which are gradually getting wiped out because of certain geomorphological reasons. ... [read more]