The Financial Times looks at the factors in this interactive piece.

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Artificial wetlands for smaller communities.

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I’m never going to be warm in winter ever again, am I? Sigh…

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Somegirl sent this in:
Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also anecdotal reports that some consumers are hoarding grain stocks.
At a Costco Warehouse in Mountain View, Calif., yesterday, shoppers grew frustrated and […]

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Now you can worry about when your house is under water.

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Something else to feel guilty about - Google:
It is no coincidence that search engine giant Google is building its newest computer center near the Dalles Dam, a huge hydroelectric power plant in Oregon. Buying electricity directly from the plant costs one-fifth as much as Google would be paying in California. Besides, the Columbia River supplies […]

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I wish the candidates were talking about how global warming and development policies lead to this endless loop of flooding:
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Swollen rivers flooded parts of the central United States on Friday and threatened to engulf a major interstate highway in Missouri, after violent rainstorms caused at least 16 deaths, according to reports on […]

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Yep. I noticed people are already sneezing and complaining about itchy eyes:
Washington, D.C.’s famous cherry trees are primed to burst in a perfect pink peak about the end of this month. Thirty years ago, the trees usually waited to bloom until around April 5.
In central California, the first of the field skipper sachem, drab little […]

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How much worse does it have to get before our elected officials do something?
The task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures may be far more difficult than previous research suggested, say scientists who have just published studies indicating that it would require the world to cease carbon […]

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A look at candidate positions.

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Here’s where green meets consumer lust:
Flat-screen TVs are among the biggest culprits in the New York area’s record use of electricity this winter, Con Edison said Friday.
“This is now the second straight winter in which we’ve set a record for usage,” said Con Ed spokesman Chris Olert. “And we believe it’s the electronics and the […]

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Roofs are collapsing in New England.

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I read somewhere that makers of disposable chopsticks are the single biggest destroyers of the rainforest. Apparently the word is finally getting out.

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Pretty damned unusual for the middle of winter:
ATKINS, Ark. — Authorities went door-to-door trying to find additional victims of tornadoes that killed at least 27 people, ripped the roof off a shopping mall and blew apart warehouses as they tore across four states.
The dead included 13 people in Tennessee, 11 in Arkansas, and a mother […]

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But the important question is, where on earth will rich people go to ski?
The persistent and dramatic decline in the snowpack of many mountains in the West is caused primarily by human-induced global warming and is not the result of natural variability in weather patterns, researchers reported yesterday.
Using data collected over the past 50 years, […]

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This is very interesting news. I didn’t know Iraq was allowed to make its own decisions!
The list of Kyoto backers gets an addition.After an unusually deadly day for U.S. troops in Iraq, one recent accomplishment in Baghdad made for awkward fodder for tonight’s State of the Union speech, which was expected to emphasize progress and […]

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Because we’re running out of water:
LAKE NORMAN, N.C. - Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply power plants with the amounts of cooling water they need to operate.

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Your FIOS box and your new TV are using a lot more power.

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I didn’t know there was a new law that would phase out incandescent light bulbs, and I have mixed feelings about the whole thing.
I need bright light to read - I read a lot - and I still haven’t found an energy-saving bulb that does the job. And now that I know they also […]

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Has anyone noticed how the topic of climate change is conspicuous by its absence in the presidential race? Not that it’s a big deal - clearly, we have all the time in the world!
Climatic changes appear to be destabilizing vast ice sheets of western Antarctica that had previously seemed relatively protected from global warming, researchers […]

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Won’t someone talk about it in the context of the presidential campaign instead of blathering on about cleavage and haircuts?

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Being gradually boiled alive. Not one big thing, but lots of little clues like this indicate what we’ve done to the environment:
The freaky run of warm weather in early January has also accelerated one of the nastier rites of spring: Potholes.
Around Greater Boston, city and state highway officials say they are seeing far more potholes […]

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You put two oilmen in the White House, you have to expect this sort of thing:
Before EPA administrator Stephen L. Johnson “answered the pleas of industry executives” by announcing his “decision to deny California the right to regulate greenhouse gases from vehicles,” auto executives directly appealed to Vice President Cheney. EPA staffers told the LA […]

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