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Story Archives of 'climate change'
an update on climategate
By Matt McGraw on Tuesday, February 9, 2010.
After computers at a leading Climate Research Unit were hacked, journalists and climate change skeptics discovered leaked emails questioning, and possibly inflating the pace of glacial melting.
Climate Change Spy
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, January 12, 2010.
Meet Untersteiner, Norbert Untersteiner. He isn’t your typical spy. He doesn’t wear a tuxedo, drive a sports car, or go swimming with babes in white bikinis (as far as we know).
He receives top secret data from the CIA, not the other way around, and instead of stopping evil villains, he studies icebergs. Norbert Untersteiner is a spy for climate change. He’s part of a recently resurrected CIA program that uses high-tech CIA satellites to track the effects of climate change.
It’s a controversial program that has left some lawmakers scratching their heads as to why the CIA is spending time and resources on arctic sea ice. As part of our “next green thing” series, we’re joined now by our very own international man of mystery, Norbert Untersteiner.
New York Times: C.I.A. Is Sharing Data With Climate Scientists
Climate Change Images Collected by the CIA
(photo by redteam via Flickr/Creative Commons)
What's being done to help animals on islands threatened by global warming?
By EarthTalk on Sunday, January 10, 2010.
EarthTalk®
From the Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine
Dear EarthTalk: Are there any conservation efforts focused on animal species endemic to islands likely to be submerged by rising sea levels? -- H. Wyeth, Anahola, HI
Christmas Bird Count
By Chris Martin on Friday, January 8, 2010.Climate change affects the natural world in many and myriad ways, Chris says we only know about the most apparent ways.
New Hampshire Reflects on the Copenhagen Talks
By Laura Knoy on Friday, December 18, 2009.The United Nations Weather Agency reports this will be the hottest decade in the historical record. We talk with Granite State pundits about the climate change summit in Copenhagen - what it accomplished, what it didn’t, and what changes to our global warming policy would mean to New Hampshire.
Guests
- Dick Ober, Vice President of Civic Leadership and Communication for the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation and chairman of the New Hampshire Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Energy Board; he's been working closely with the state on environmental policy
- Jim Rubens, former New Hampshire state senator, member of the Granite State Angels at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and consultant for the Union of Concerned Scientists
- Scott Ollinger, associate professor of Natural Resources and Earth System Science at the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space at the University of New Hampshire
Protests Rock Copenhagen
By Robin Respaut on Monday, December 14, 2009.What were peaceful talks in Copenhagen last week turned hostile over the weekend as protesters descended upon the Danish capital.
Police reportedly arrested over a thousand people, after nearly 100,000 protesters chanted their dismay over rising temperatures and lack of action. Not every picketer stuck to the same message. Some demonstrators demanded more vegetarian diets and a boost in flood- and drought-resistant crops worldwide. Others decried nuclear power and genetically modified foods.
Optimism and Cynicism Over Copenhagen
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, December 8, 2009.
Climate change activists are now calling the Danish capital "Hopenhagen," as the two-week-long international summit on climate change gets underway there. But the public is viewing it with a mix of optimism and cynicism. Scientific American editor David Biello is preparing to attend the meeting later this week, and he joins us from New York with a preview of what’s to come.
David Biello in Scientific American:
"Copenhagen climate conference kicks off"
"What Is the Right Number to Combat Climate Change?"
"More important than Copenhagen? U.S.-China deal on energy and climate"
(Photo courtesy Matthew McDermott via Flickr/Creative Commons)
What issues are on the table at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen?
By EarthTalk on Sunday, November 22, 2009.
Bow High School Students to Discuss Climate Change In Copenhagen
By Amy Quinton on Wednesday, November 18, 2009.This weekend, ten teenagers from Bow High School will head to Copenhagen to discuss climate change.
They’ll be attending the Zealand Consensus, a Danish government-sponsored climate conference for high school students from around the world.
As New Hampshire Public Radio's Amy Quinton reports, the students have been studying the issues for six months and hope they can make their voices heard at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
Scoring Corporations on Climate Change
By Virginia Prescott on Wednesday, November 18, 2009.
Every time we go to the store, we face a myriad of decisions. Single or two-ply? Earth-friendly or generic? Organic or eco-safe? It’s not easy to discern the most environmentally friendly products and companies from those in green-friendly packaging.
ClimateCounts is working to change that. Every year, the Manchester-based non-profit releases a scorecard of Fortune 500 companies, like Levi Strauss and Microsoft, and ranks their climate change efforts. Everything from a company’s green house gas emissions to its engagement in public policy discussions get a mark on the scorecard.
As part of our next green thing series, Wood Turner, ClimateCount’s Executive Director, is with us in the studio to roll out this year’s scores for a Word of Mouth exclusive. We also spoke with Michael Kobori, VP for Social and Environmental Sustainability at Levi Strauss and Microsoft’s Director of Environmental Sustainability, Steve Lippman.
(Photo courtesy Jim via Flickr/CreativeCommons)
