Global warming is destroying species, raising sea levels and threatening millions of poor people, the United Nations' top scientific panel is expected to say in a report today that U.N. officials hope will help mobilize the world to take tougher actions on climate change. ...more

November 17, 2007

There's growing worry about global warming, but how much of it is the work of that power plant just outside town? If Congress limits heat-trapping greenhouse gases, will it affect utility and electric bills? Who's the biggest corporate culprit when it comes to climate change? ...more

November 15, 2007

The United States appears poised to act soon on global warming. Hopefully, Congress will craft policies that motivate a truly international solution rather than make the problem worse, hurt the economy, and create windfall profits for some regulated industries. ...more

November 5, 2007

opportunities with potentially very profitable yields. ...more

November 5, 2007

Often, regulation can have unintended consequences, and we can already see evidence of a negative outcome from Florida's new climate change policies. Tampa Electric Co.'s recent decision to scrap a proposed coal gasification power plant in response to Florida's new greenhouse gas policies actually represents a significant step backward in the fight to reduce global greenhouse gases. ...more

October 22, 2007

Just what Florida needs, more humidity. A study reported this week in the scientific journal Nature says global warming is causing humidity to rise. In the Sunshine State, that could mean more intense but fewer thunderstorms, more fuel for hurricanes, and a higher misery quotient during summer. ...more

October 12, 2007

Tampa Electric Co. is touting its proposed $2 billion coal gasification power plant in Polk County as 'clean coal technology.' ...more

October 4, 2007

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told an unprecedented summit on climate change Monday that 'the time for doubt has passed' and a breakthrough is needed in global talks to sharply reduce emissions of global-warming gases. ...more

September 25, 2007

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Gore and the leaders of some 80 nations converge on the United Nations today for a summit on the warming Earth and what to do about it. ...more

September 24, 2007