We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks..

It is unbelievably sad and ironic that the first victims of global warming are almost all going to come from places that are producing virtually none….

At the moment, the 4 percent of us in this country produce a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide - once you look at maps of rising sea levels and s….

That's when the vast consensus of the world's climatologists, brought together by the UN and The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, really an….

Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem..

Everybody was cratered after Copenhagen. If the movie had worked the way that it should have, if it had been scripted by Holywood, the world would ha….

It's much to the credit of the rest of the world that they have gone ahead and tried to do the Kyoto accords on their own. It makes it unbelievably d….

[The Maldives] they've become deeply politically engaged - just for instance, the president taught his whole cabinet to scuba dive so they could hold….

Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem, for two reasons. One is the habits of the West in terms of consumption. The other is t….

When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one's figured out how to meter the sun yet. And that's good..

The earth is a museum of divine intent..

what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it's solitary (yo….

I don't spend a huge amount of time fixated on climate denial because I don't think that their objections, though sometimes couched in science, are b….

There's a part of all of us whose impulse is to say, "Let's keep everything the same until I die and then you can do whatever you want afterward." An….

Probably more than anything else, the place that we really see the effects of the power of even the relatively mild temperature increases so far is i….

Scientists had said, "If you keep burning coal and gas and oil, you will melt the Arctic." And then the Arctic melted just as they had predicted. Did….

We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves - that is what all this boils down to..

everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between "good weather" and "bad weather" is a fiction, that we need rain as surely as we need sun..

Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming..

For those of us who worry more about working people than about windfall profits for oil companies, it may net out. A better question is: what does it….

We finally know where the red line for climate really is. After the rapid melt of arctic ice in the summer of 2007, our best scientists, led by NASA'….