The world is losing momentum in the battle against global warming, the U.N. climate chief warned on Saturday, urging environmental ministers from wealthy nations to revive the effort by setting clear targets for reducing greenhouse gases. The ministers gathered in the western Japanese city of Kobe for a three-day meeting as evidence mounted ...

In Al Gore's brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of ''generational mission'' -- the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement -- to set it right. Gore's ...

The complete documentary produced and aired by BBC Channel 4 in Great Britiain 2007. Has political hype skewed the scientific debate over this complicated, controversial topic? Hear the opposing viewpoint. Some ideas presented in this video are outdated or highly speculative/controversial in their own right. Wikipedia link spells out ...

Relax, it's worse than you think. Much worse. As this piece in the Guardian notes: The Greenland ice cap is melting so quickly that it is triggering earthquakes as pieces of ice several cubic kilometres in size break off. Yes, this is the land-based Greenland icecap, which contains enough water to raise sea levels worldwide by over 20 ...

Economist Bjorn Lomborg makes a persuasive case for prioritizing the world's biggest problems, asking ''If we had $50 billion to spend over the next four years to do good in the world, where should we spend it?'' His recommendations - based on the findings of the 2004 Copenhagen Consensus - controversially place global warming at the bottom of ...

Effects in Space and in the Sun can affect the Earth's weather patterns, particulary cloud formation.

Cato Institute talk, discussing the artifical polarization of the Global Warming debate, the effect is real, but perhaps more modest than feared, and hasty plans to remedy the situation will likely make things worse.

A new catalyst that can split carbon dioxide gas could allow us to use carbon from the atmosphere as a fuel source in a similar way to plants....

Bill McKibben, who was one of the first laymen to warn of global warming, is now the philosopher-impresario of the program of climate-change rallies called Step It Up....