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Will 2015 Be the Year of the Climate?

A Hot Topic: Climate Change Coming To Classrooms

Part I: How the Media Help the Koch Brothers and ExxonMobil Spread Climate Doubt

On Climate Change, Americans May Trust Politics Above Preachers

For civil disobedience to be justified, something must be so wrong that it compels the strongest defensible protest. Such a protest, if rendered thoughtfully and peacefully, is in fact a profound act of patriotism…. For us, [the wrong] is the possibility that the United States might surrender any hope of stabilizing our planet’s climate.

On October 2, I led a climate protest inside the offices of the Boston Globe.OK, it was really a meeting in a small conference room with editorial page editor Peter Canellos and members of his staff. But it was, in essence, a protest.I used to be a card-carrying member of the mainstream media; just a few years ago, I was the editor of the Globe's Ideas section. Peter is a former colleague.With me was Craig Altemose, founder and executive director of Better Future Project, a Cambridge-based non-profit dedicated to climate action, on whose working board I serve as a volunteer. We were joined by two members of BFP's advisory board: MIT's Kerry Emanuel, one of the country's leading climate scientists (and, until recently, a Republican); and Boston College's Juliet Schor, a sociologist and economist who is a respected thinker on climate and the economy. Last year, Altemose was arrested protesting the Keystone XL pipeline at the White House along with another advisory board member, Bill McKibben of 350.org, and 1251 other concerned citizens.

‘Neglected Topic’ Winner: Climate Change

This Is President Obama’s Plan To Get The World On Board The Fight Against Climate Change

Cost of climate change high on Davos agenda

A united call for action on climate change

As Poor Countries Walk Out of Climate Talks, Venezuela Calls on Industrial Nations to Take Action

Eight Pseudoscientific Climate Claims Debunked by Real Scientists

Shattering Myths to Help the Climate

Why Climate Deniers Have No Scientific Credibility - In One Pie Chart by James Lawrence Powell posted on November 25, 2012 08:45PM GMT Polls show that many members of the public believe that scientists substantially disagree about human-caused global warming. The gold standard of science is the peer-reviewed literature. If there is disagreement among scientists, based not on opinion but on hard evidence, it will be found in the peer-reviewed literature.

The second-largest public international financier of coal-fired power plants around the world is — you guessed it, the World Bank Group.

Editorial Time to Confront Climate Change