Small debris-free plateau glacier with glacier lakes at Gangrinchemzoe Pass at 5,200 m, south of the main Himalayan divide, Bhutan.

Image credit: National Heritage

Unless the very worst predictions come true (which is perfectly possible), then it is fair to assume there will be winners and losers from climate change.

Image credit: D'Arcy Norman & timtak (Creative Commons)

When I wrote about industrial agriculture exploring sustainability, commenter Ruben suggested that the idea of something being "more sustainable" was illogical.

image: IPCC

Though the Nobel Peace Prize-winning IPCC has done good work in its past assessments of climate change science, an independent review of the way the organization operates says "fundamental reforms" are needed-- among those are shorter terms for the organization's chai

In case you haven't seen it yet, world renowned climatologist Dr James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies has an excellent new piece in The Guardian wherein he talks at length ab

Arctic sea ice extent image for August 24, 2010, as compiled by The University of Illinois Cryosphere

For the fourth year in a row, and for the fourth time in recorded history, the Northwest passage is completely open. For only the third time, both the Northwest and Northeast passage (north of Russia) are open.

photo: Lingaraj GJ via flickr

Back in March, Dr Rajendra Pachauri was cleared of alleged financial misconduct related to his work as chair of the IPCC.

photo: Samenwerkende Hulpoganisaties via flickr

Though it's de rigueur to say that any single weather event can't be directly linked to climate change, and it's true, what if we could determine how much of say massive flooding or a 1000-year heat wave were caused by human-caused warming?

Simulating a colossal volcanic eruption every 18 months would just delay sea level rise. Space Shuttle (Mission STS 43) photograph of the Earth over South America taken on August 8, 1991, showing double layer of Pinatubo aerosol cloud (dark streaks) above high cumulonimbus top.

The CDM can fund clean energy projects like concentrated solar farms (photo via flickr)

The UN backed Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has suspended carbon credits for shady chemical manufacturers in China that were producing an excess of pollution and then destroying it, all to get credit for doing good. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger