Bolivia Leader Calls Alternative Climate Meeting Morales said the meeting is meant partly to pressure industrialized nations to accept that they have a ''climate debt'' to poor countries and will work ... The cool down in climate polls Under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Copenhagen opened with 170 nations clamouring for attention amid growing public doubts about the validity of global warming theory. Increasing uncertainty shows up in yesterday’s poll numbers. Angus Reid surveyed people in all three countries in November and December, before and after Copenhagen. The drop off in public support for the idea that global warming is a fact mostly caused by human activity looks most pronounced in Canada. In November, 63% of Canadians supported global warming as a man-made phenomenon. By Dec. 23, that support had fallen 52%. Among Canadians, 13% are now not sure. A s... C.I.A. Revives Data-Sharing Program With Environmental Scientists In October, days after the CIA opened a small unit to assess the security implications of climate change, Senator John Barrasso, Republican of Wyoming, ... Recession Struck Michigan Will Create 130,000 Jobs, $25 Billion with Climate Action Plan 5.10 Michigan has one of the bolder plans to fight climate change out of any state in the nation--drawn up last year, it looks to reduce greenhouse gas ... Carbon News and Info . Climate change news . Forest carbon & sustainability . Forests & REDD The two climate and energy bills in the US Congress, one passed in the House last June, the other being drafted in the Senate, both make provision for large use of international forest carbon offsets as a cornerstone of emissions reduction efforts. But the role of the growing project-based forest carbon sector, where mainly private project developers initiate forest activity, remains very much up in the air in these bills.The Congressional Research Service has released a detailed comparison of the treatment of forests under the two climate bills, the House Waxman-Markey bill (H.R. 2454) and the Senate Kerry-Boxer bill (S. 1733). The report takes a systematic look at all the familiar... Science, climate change and policy I've long had a fascination with the science of climate change. After college, with a degree in biology, I worked for a while at the Congressional Research ... Avatar, not Ed, will make the case on climate Checklist: thermal tights, gloves, hat, boots, shovel, ice pick. Ring the plumber to remind him that the boiler hasn't been working for the past three days, ... Whole Foods CEO Raises Eyebrows With Climate Change Doubt � Environmental Leader � Green Business, Sustainable Business, and Green Strategy News for C... When John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, told the New Yorker that “no scientific consensus exists” about the causes of climate change, he thrust himself – and ... Seattle-Tacoma News, Weather, Sports, Jobs, Homes and Cars Olympia Climate Action will sponsor a public forum on sea level rise implications for downtown Olympia from 7 to 9 pm Monday, at The Olympia Center, ... Brewer wants more nuclear power in state Additionally, Brewer signed three executive orders Tuesday related to alternative energy and the state's involvement in the Western Climate Initiative. ...