Earth to Pawlenty: NASA scientist calls on governor to oppose Big Stone II

The director of NASA’s Goddard Institute has asked Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty to oppose the Big Stone II…

In defense of doing something

Here’s for all the cynics out there: Michael Pollan, author of “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto,” argues in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine why seemingly small, individual steps to save the planet are…

As planet warms, quenching thirst might get tougher

As a rookie home brewer, I wasn’t happy to see this headline from MSNBC: “Beer lovers beware of global warming; Growing malting barley is gonna get tougher, expert warns.” Regional droughts and flooding have already…

Climate skeptics: Protecting polar bears will destroy our way of life

Stephen Colbert has an ongoing joke in which he describes bears as the single greatest threat to America today. The bit might have made a good keynote address earlier this month at the Heartland Institute’s “International Conference on Climate Change”…

Warming climate is thinning state’s moose herd

MPR’s Tom Robertson reports on Minnesota’s dwindling moose population, which wildlife biologists believe may be affected by climate change. This story line is likely to turn up again and again. Most species are adapted to live…

Spitzer scandal seen as setback for climate change reforms

Democratic New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer will be fighting for his political life following an allegation he met with a high-priced prostitute last month at a Washington, D.C., hotel. As the state’s attorney general, Spitzer earned a reputation…

Magazine spotlights Minneapolis climate change grants

Minneapolis didn’t crack the top 10 in this month’s “America’s 50 Greenest Cities” ranking by Popular Science. (It ranked 11th, one place above St. Paul). But the magazine did spotlight the city’s citizen climate change grants:

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Climate-change impact hearings hit the road

State Rep. Bill Hilty, DFL-Finlayson, is hosting a series of public meetings around the state Thursday and Friday to talk about the impact energy and climate change issues might…

Climate efforts could create two kinds of green

A climate strategist hired to help Minnesota meet its aggressive greenhouse-gas reduction targets says reaching the goals might save the state’s economy billions of dollars.

Thomas Peterson, executive director of the Center for Climate Strategies, is a coordinator for…

Critical climate podcasts: Global warming and residential energy use with Neely Crane-Smith

Just in time for New Year’s resolutions, today’s global warming podcast focuses on residential energy use. It’s the last in a four-part, year-end series on greenhouse gas emissions.

So far, we’ve talked about electricity generation (Thursday), transportation (Friday)…