The Senate's abandonment of climate legislation, confirmed last night, is not a victory of Republicans over Democrats, business over government, skeptics over believers. It's a failure of capitalism, above all, and a failure of capitalism's apprentice: democracy. In facing global warming, human beings have faced the unprecedented necessity--and the unprecedented possibility--of [...]

Don't believe in global warming? There's a backup disaster. Even without the threat of climate change, economic disaster looms for businesses that fail to switch from fossil fuels to alternative energy sources, the insurance giant Lloyd's of London warns. "Companies which are able to plan for and take advantage of this new [...]

Safe to say, nothing is so bad that a hurricane can’t make worse. Take an existing problem, toss it around in the wind and smack it with flying debris - it’s certainly not going to improve. Shoddy construction is made worse, communication concerns - made worse, a struggling economy - [...]

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—Around the clock, from a control room on the edge of the Everglades, technicians track water levels in the canals, lakes and marshes across the southern part of Florida. On their computer screens, they can see changes hundreds of miles away [...]

I read a passage today in the New York Times that reminded me of one of my favorite moments from The Simpsons.  The passage, and the corresponding quote, after the jump, without commentary. From the New York Times:

Overwhelmingly, Americans think the nation needs a fundamental overhaul of its [...]

KISUMU, Kenya—The rainy season in East Africa is also the malaria season. Rain water collects in puddles and old tires and gutters. It also accumulates in discarded tin cans and in the folds of plastic shopping bags in garbage heaps. Malarial mosquitoes [...]

UPDATED with tally of Gulf Coast senators. If you want to know why the United States has failed to act on climate change--a political failure that could precipiate a larger political failure for the world--here's one answer: Evan Bayh of Indiana, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Ben Nelson [...]

Yesterday, Kate Shepard over at Mother Jones attempted to figure out what the hell Lindsey Graham (R-SC) thinks about Climate Change this week.  She had, uh, very little luck, because his position is completely incoherent.  Here's further proof that we're a nation of children ruled by liars. You know what, before [...]

It comes in pretty green wrapping. Sen. Richard Lugar's "Practical Energy and Climate Plan" calls for increased energy efficiency in buildings and industry, increased vehicle efficiency, more choices in automotive fuels and more diverse domestic energy sources, all in the name of reduced dependence on foreign oil. The wrapper is [...]

FORT LAUDERDALE—Summer time. Hurricanes. This year, with a very busy hurricane season coming up – according to government and university experts—the National Weather Service wants to set a few things straight. For nearly 40 years, government forecasters have been describing hurricanes in the dispassionate, clinical terms of engineers [...]