Let’s reiterate that the debate is primarily about causation: Warmists say it is mostly/solely caused by Mankind, especially our use of fossil fuels (which Warmists mostly refuse to give up themselves). Skeptics say the warming during the Modern Warm Period is mostly/solely natural. At that point we can get into the debate about Man’s contributions,…

We are constantly bombarded with the idea that fossil fuels are the number one cause of human induced climate change on the planet. Numerous organizations (Greenpeace for example) constantly fail to address the real number one cause of human induced climate change and environmental degradation, which is animal meat consumption by humans. Obviously, other human…

Helen O’Shea, Director, Western Renewable Energy Project, San Francisco Today, when the Department of Interior and the California Department of Natural Resources released a draft of the long-awaited Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP), the agencies set the stage for a first-of-its-kind project … in more ways than one. Not only does the DRECP have…

Oil spills are constantly occurring all over the planet, massive ones at that, many of which we do not hear about through the media. The deep water horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico on the other hand was so large that there was absolutely no hope of the petroleum giants keeping it out of…

By EDF Blogs (This post was written by Derek Sylvan of  the Institute for Policy Integrity, and first appeared on The Cost of Carbon Pollution. The Cost of Carbon Project is a joint project of the Environmental Defense Fund, the Institute for Policy Integrity, and the Natural Resource Defense Council.)  U.S. Forest Service photo by…

It’s been pretty big news for quite a few years now, the Honey Bee population has been dying off in very large numbers. At first the cause wasn’t so clear as it could have been for a number of reasons from environmental toxins to environmental changes. But evidence that has been coming forward over the…

Traditional methods for fighting global warming have proven fruitless. The politics of climate change are shifting. After decades of halfhearted government efforts to stop global warming, and the failure of the “Big Green” NGOs to do much of anything about it, new voices — and new strategies — have taken the lead in the war…