Australia Sea Level Rise Will Rack Up $200 Billion Bill by 2100

Major coastal cities in Australia, that vast southern continent of perpetual surf, sun and endless barbeques, are facing a climate change bill of more than $203 billion in commercial, industrial and residential assets by the end of this century. A new report by the Climate Council of Australia, Counting the Costs: Climate Change and Coastal Flooding, has […]

West Virginia Officials Worried Freedom Industries Skimping On Chemical Spill Cleanup

In early January of this year, a chemical storage facility run by Freedom Industries ruptured and leaked thousands of gallons of chemicals into West Virginia’s Elk River. The leak occurred less than 2 miles from a water treatment plant that serves as many as 300,000 nearby residents.  Almost 9 months after the spill occurred, West […]

China To Create National Cap-And-Trade Program As Obama Admin Must Bypass U.S. Senate On Climate

The Obama Administration is pursuing an international climate agreement that would be “politically binding” but would not be a treaty requiring ratification by two-thirds of the U.S. Senate. Meanwhile, China has announced it will create a national cap-and-trade program. These two facts amount to a stunning juxtaposition. China, currently the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse […]

Peabody Energy Booted From S&P 500, King Coal on the Defensive as Market Signals Industry Decline

King Coal and industry multinational Peabody Energy (BTU) have taken a beating in the markets lately, and it has some executives in the dirty energy industry freaking out.  On September 19, Dow Jones removed Peabody Energy from its S&P 500 index, considered a list of the premier U.S. stocks for investors. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch cited the downward trajectory of the […]

Will Caroline Flint Ignite Labour Climate Change Fight?

Caroline Flint (pictured), of the Labour party, is centre stage with the opportunity to influence the international debate on climate change. Rarely in politics is there such a confluence of events: Caroline Flint, the shadow secretary of state for energy and climate change, takes to the magenta-lit stage at the Labour party conference in Manchester during a […]

The Artists Behind the People's Climate March

48 hours before the People’s Climate March, DeSmogBlog ventured out to Brooklyn to see the preparation for what would become the largest climate march in history. (Check out some photos from the march itself.) Artists from the around the country were quickly finishing their work in anticipation of march day — a day they’ve been waiting […]

Senate Republicans Go All In On Keystone XL

Six years have passed since TransCanada originally sought a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, and Republicans in Washington have not given up fighting for the project. In spite of the fact that the pipeline will create fewer than 40 permanent jobs

In Photos: Record-Breaking Crowd of 400K Marches For Climate Justice in New York

More than 400,000 people took to the streets to have their voices heard at the People’s Climate March yesterday in New York City. The record-breaking crowd took up 27 blocks in total, from West 86th street to Columbus Circle. Photographer Zach Roberts was there to document the biggest climate change march in history for DeSmogBlog. Here are […]

Cheshire Claim: Rupert Darwall Copies Satellite CO2 Nonsense From Murry Salby

The world of climate dismissives often could be Wonderland, although with multiple Mad Hatters. Both have characters who can believe six impossible things before breakfast. Many wrong climate claims seem more like the Cheshire Cat, who could appear as just a floating grin or a bodiless face to avoid beheading. Climate claims/myths might be called “Cheshire […]

Labour Silence on Climate Change 'A Dereliction of Duty'

The business community demands the British government does more to tackle climate change, including sending clear signals to international markets. Ed Miliband must show leadership on the international stage on the issue of climate change in order to deliver sustainable business and appear electable, the shadow minister for energy and climate change Jonathan Reynolds MP was […]