Cooler North Pacific waters cited as reason; rest of world warmed
WASHINGTON - Cooler temperatures in North America last year do not mean global warming is easing, according to a new study announced Friday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The study comes just days before President Barack Obama heads to [...]
In a move sure to anger the Lets-do-nothing-about-climate-change-till-China-and-India-do crowd, President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India launched a secret Green Partnership to do something about climate change. [...]
Prominent climate scientist James Hansen on Monday dismissed President Barack Obama's recent pledge that the United States would cut its carbon dioxide emissions as completely ineffectual.
Hansen said Congress, which is considering a cap-and-trade bill to lower greenhouse gas emissions, and the president, who pledged a provisional target of reducing greenhouse [...]
CEO Ghosn stresses coolness factor, tries new model to bring down price
President Barack Obama has set an ambitious goal of putting at least 1 million battery-powered cars on the road by the middle of the coming decade.
Many in the auto industry have charitably called that target ambitious. Others are less [...]
President Barack Obama will pledge to reduce America's greenhouse gas emissions "in the range of 17 per cent below 2005 levels" by 2020 when he attends next month's climate change summit in Copenhagen, the White House said Wednesday. [...]
In Beijing, US President Barack Obama and China President Hu Jintao announced a package of seven measures to strengthen cooperation between the United States and China on clean energy, including: a Clean Energy Research Center; Electric Vehicles Initiative; Energy Efficiency Action Plan; Renewable Energy Partnership; 21st Century Coal; Shale [...]
Stimulus funds, consumer backlash, and intelligent thermostats
by Adam Stein
Lotsa smart grid news these days:
Barack Obama announced $3.4 billion in stimulus funding for smart grid projects. A good chunk of that goes to smart meter deployment and demand response programs. Another huge chunk goes to grid [...]
The Burmese junta is one of the most loathed regimes in the world -- a posse [...]
With the clock ticking on the high-stakes Copenhagen climate summit, US President Barack Obama will try to salvage fading hopes for a deal as he meets this month with the leaders of China and India.
Obama on Sunday starts his closely watched debut trip to China. A week later, Prime Minister [...]
A key global treaty to stop global warming almost collapsed last week after poorer nations threatened to walk out unless rich countries like America agree to cut their emissions.
However President Obama said he thinks a deal can still be done and he will go to Denmark in mid-December to make [...]
Chavez told his supporters that President Barack Obama holds sway over Colombia's government, [...]
Al Gore has sought to inject fresh momentum into the Copenhagen build-up, saying he is certain Barack Obama will attend and predicting a rise in civil disobedience against fossil-fuel polluters unless drastic action [...]
