Cues from Our Climate and Other Hot Pubs

Member Reports: Insurer Responses to Climate Risk: This month, Ceres released “Climate Risk Disclosure By Insurers: Evaluating Insurer Responses to the NAIC Climate Disclosure Survey.” The report examines public disclosure filings from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) to assess US insurer consideration of climate change as a key risk factor to their business [...]

Toss another skeptic on the barbie….,Climate Action Hotline, 7.5.11

Peter Bahouth, Executive Director July 5, 2011 Toss another skeptic on the barbie…. If, over the course of July 4th festivities, someone brought up your work, you may have experienced the demoralizing feeling that one can get from talking with the neighbors about the future of the planet. Over the past few years, we have [...]

Climate Action Hotline, 3.21.11

Peter Bahouth, Executive Director March 21, 2011 Climate Action Hotline Under the guise of protecting small businesses, higher gas prices and continued high unemployment numbers, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) pushed to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from moving forward on new pollution regulations, but failed to get to a vote Thursday, after days [...]

Imagine a World Where Politicians Get it About Climate, Climate Action Hotline 3.7.11

Peter Bahouth, Executive Director March 7, 2011 Imagine a World Where Politicians Get it About Climate Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster, has a new book out that offers 11 of the most powerful words and phrases for the political mood of 2011.  Just for fun, let’s look at the current events on climate with a [...]

Climategate Debunked: Climate Action Hotline, Apr. 16

April 16, 2010 Climate Research Unit, University of East Anglia Last year during the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, The Guardian newspaper’s respected environmental columnist, George Monbiot, described in painful and often hilarious detail the trail of missteps and communications blunders at East Anglia University that turned a deceitful email hack job into a [...]

Koch Industries Finances Climate Denier Factions

The work to achieve a climate and energy bill in the United States is moving with considerably slower momentum this spring than it did at the same time last year. A number of factors contribute, not the least of which is the time and focus that the White House and Democrats in Congress devoted to [...]

Fossil Fuel Lobby Focused on Disrupting Copenhagen

The fossil fuel lobby is hard at work around the world to prevent any global climate treaty from coming out of Copenhagen in December, according to a report released by the Center for Public Integrity. According to the report, “Global attempts to craft a pivotal new climate treaty in Copenhagen this December are being stymied [...]