A large part of the Canadian ice shelf has separated from the mainland, but remained trapped in offshore ice. Apparently, it splintered away to become an ice island last August, but one fear is that it will float into oil fields. I had always imagined

Or at least, three global warming bits about bears.Earthweek noted the potential listing of the polar bears. It also noted that bears in Spain have "stopped hibernating in the country's northern mountains in what may be one of the strongest signals

The global warming conversation sometimes pursues chimeras (illusions, or mental fabrications). I came across one today on an email list I subscribe to (which actually has nothing directly to do with global warming). At any rate, one of the contributors

The front page of today's paper suggests the US may be ready to list Polar Bears as an endangered species, and cite global warming as the cause. Talk about a potential poster child for change. Reading between the lines, it sounds like there has been

There was an article in yesterday's Seattle Times Pacific Northwest Magazine about the family that is trying to be carless in Seattle. I'm impressed: that's tough here. It shows a commitment to real change.At the core, this is a design issue. In

After just emerging from three days without power due to a windstorm in Washington, State, two things stand out. One is how fragile the infrastructure of our civilization actually is. We mostly stuck together through this one, neighbors helping neighbors

I was talking about global warming to one of my staff, Gillian Bozanic, who does our TV reporting for the city channel. She said something like, "I feel a little hopeful. This is a problem that transcends our differences - it's not about racism or

There's a full page paid advertisement in today's paper about the Alaskan Way Viaduct (an aging elevated road that runs along Seattle's waterfront). The advertisement making the case against an elevated viaduct and for a tunnel. Think Big Dig, but is

Two interesting articles in the Seattle Times today. One suggests that an old scourge, prairie switch grass, might be a good fuel for biodiesel. Apparently switchgrass needs little in the way of fertilizer or insecticides, and it also bypasses some

An offering that came from a comment on this blog - a fun little newsfeed on global warming. Be patient - it takes a few moments to lo

I posted a blog entry at futurist.com entitled "Why Businesses Need to Plan for Global Warming Now."Part of why I started this blog is to have a place to talk more about global warming, since Futurist.com, the futurist site that I work on in support

First, a little contrast. I bought two tickets to the Seattle Arts and Lectures series this year - Steven King and Elizabeth Kolbert. The Steven King reading was packed, the patron section (the expensive seats) was at least twenty rows deep from the

I'll do something a little more substantive on this tomorrow night, but I had a powerful image come up early in the talk that seems worth relating.Elizabeth was talking about the Greenland Ice Sheet. It's too warm, now, for the ice sheet to form. It

Global warming actually hasn't been a topic in my life much for a few days, unless you want to count getting the house ready for new energy-efficient windows, or seeing copies of "An Inconvenient Truth" for sale at Costco. But tomorrow night, I'll be

In this week's Earthweek, Western Europe has had such a warm autumn that birds are not flying south, and frogs are not sleeping. I wonder if you could do a GlobalWarmingWeek? At least one of the items they pick for this seems to be related every week

At a wrapping party at work today (wrapping boxes for people to put donations in for charity), someone mentioned global warming in context with the severe weather we've had up here this November (the wettest month, ever, on record in Washington State).