Jon Shenk’s award-winning documentary The Island President is ostensibly and foremost a film about global warming’s effects on one nation, the Maldives, a chain of islands in the Indian Ocean, best known until recently as a enclave for wealthy tourists who enjoyed the white sand beaches and clear ocean waters, and now as a nation in the grips of civil unrest and facing complete annihilation by rising sea water levels caused by carbon emissions.

We experienced unexpected jobs growth earlier this year, partly from unseasonably warm winter weather. But the catch-up growth just moved some economic activity forward, and the same seasonal adjustment models that didn’t catch job growth in January and February, according to this theory, caught too much in March

William DeBuys’ A Great Aridness is a love song and keening lament for the American Southwest in our era of man-made climate change. He manages to capture the romantic allure and the scientific observations of the desert, transcending both perspectives in a fiercely living narrative. His search for wisdom takes him from reservations to mountaintops, from university halls to boom-and-bust exurbs.

Paul Douglas, a nationally-respected meteorologist,put out a stunning blog post this week at neorenaissance, in which called on his GOP friends to give up the anti-science bluster, and face facts.

Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher, who was given a two-year sentence in prison for making fake bids in a Utah public land auction that was later found to be corrupt, has been moved out of solitary confinement. He has been put back in the minimum security camp where he was being held before a member of Congress had him moved.

Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher, who was given a two-year sentence in prison for making fake bids in a Utah public land auction that was later found to be corrupt, has reportedly been moved to solitary confinement after a member of Congress contacted the Bureau of Prisons.

While phasing out coal is not at all a bad thing, it’s not really being accomplished by the new EPA rule as much as by market forces. Which means that we’re looking at what amounts to a status quo as far as emissions goes. That’s not only inadequate to stop climate change in the future, but we may be at the tipping point of irreversible damage, according to Scientific American.

After years of study, the EPA will finally release their initial greenhouse gas emissions rules for power plants, which are likely to end the construction of any coal-fired plants from this point forward. The rules have a delay and do not apply to existing coal-fired plants, but they will change how utilities and generation companies plan for the future.

The major difference between this situation and “Climategate,” as far as I can see, is that Gleick admitted to the conduct, while the hackers who stole the Climategate emails haven’t. So the focus was kept on the emails in Climategate (or their mischaracterization by climate change deniers), but the focus is only on the acquisition of the emails in the Heartland Institute affair.

The New York Times Andy Revkin laments the fact that a whistleblower at Heartland Institute misled colleagues to gather and release internal documents showing the Institute was planning to obfuscate climate science in school rooms in support of climate change deniers. But all that’s happened is that another set of climate denial shills has bee exposed, so now they want to draft Revkin to help continue the shilling.