Not to let himself be outdone by his skeptic colleague in good standing, George Will, The Boston Globe’s Jeff Jacoby has penned an equally vacuous and misinformed column posing the thought-provoking question: “Where’s global warming?” It’s hard to know where to start. F...

Like a bad horror movie villain, global cooling is the skeptic meme that just won’t die. The latest “respectable” media figure to perpetrate that myth is Newsweek and The Washington Post columnist George F. Will, who wrote a global warming piece last Sunday that was roundly denounc...

The new face of the European Union also happens to be the old face of global warming skepticism. Vaclav Klaus, the president of the Czech Republic and, since January 1, the rotating president of the European Union, will give a keynote speech at the second annual International Conference on Climate C...

Just how ambitious will Barack Obama’s clean energy package be? During the campaign, he pledged to invest $150 billion in new projects over the next decade and create 5 million well-paying green-collar jobs. While there was some trepidation about whether Obama, facing an ever-worsening economi...

Today we'll look at two more of the (supposedly) bullet-proof points in Joanne Nova’s “The Skeptics Handbook.” "Professional Speaker" turned climate expert Nova rehashes two of the more common skeptic talking points, that: the world is no longer warming and the Vostok ice core reco...

He may only be part of a noisy minority, but Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) isn’t about to let his fringe status get in the way of his latest skeptic shtick. As he did last year, Inhofe, writing under the guise of the Minority on the Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, has penned ano...

While the jury is still out on whether President-elect Barack Obama will prove able to usher in meaningful “change� during his time in office, his campaign seems to have sparked a shift in voter sentiment toward clean energy and greater climate change awareness. An issue that received little att...

While it may be hard to stomach, there is no denying that John McCain has been leading the debate on energy policy. A number of recent polls has established a clear trend in favor of oil drilling and exploration and investment in nuclear power over conservation and regulation -- among both liberals ...

TechForward, one of several companies that sees opportunity in the market for reused consumer electronics, believes its guaranteed buyback plans are just the thing for people always lusting after the latest in high tech consumer electronics. Like fellow startups Flipswap, Turtle Wings and Second Rot...

Continuing its streak of recent renewable deals, California utility PG&E announced yesterday that it would purchase 106.8 megawatts of solar thermal-biofuel hybrid power from San Joaquin Solar, a subsidiary of Portugal’s Martifer Renewables. The two 53.4 megawatt plants combine the use of ...