By Rev. Jim Conn
Despite the conventional wisdom that Southern California only has one season, some wag suggested it does indeed have four: Fires, floods, earthquakes and riots. So far this year we’ve had none of those, for which I am grateful, and I h…
By Alan Kandel
Houston: We (California) have a problem, a Texas-sized problem.
With the climate change debate front-page news, the fight to combat air pollution is every bit as important in my book; perhaps even more so. If not, what is this saying?
Ca…
By David Dayen
Here’s a story at the intersection of catastrophic climate change and austerity.
Because of the constant burning of carbon into the atmosphere and the resulting changes to the weather and climate, the US has experienced more and more wil…
By David Dayen
This news from the Berkeley Earth Project should get more attention. Richard Muller, the head of the project, was a confirmed climate skeptic, and he got plenty of attention from the right side of the spectrum for his views. In fact he …
By Madhavi Colton and Gretchen Hofmann
The ocean may seem timeless and impervious. Yet we are increasingly seeing that in the sea, as in the natural world as a whole, the only thing that is constant is change.
While some changes–like habitat loss or …
By Robert Cruickshank
Climate activist Bill McKibben has a new article out in Rolling Stone that has been generating much discussion and debate lately. Titled Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math, it shows how humanity is on pace to produce carbon e…
By Peter Schrag So was it a threat or just a statement of hard facts? The “it” here was the Field Poll’s finding last week that 72 percent of voters don’t approve of the school budget cuts that would automatically follow failure of Gov. Je…