Global Warming

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 for tough prosecution of Wall Street crimes. As governor, though, he’s been out front on climate change [...]

Sen. John McCain has been the most outspoken and aggressive of Republican presidential hopefuls when it comes to solving climate change. While Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee are ready with sound bites when cornered by reporters or pressed in a debate, McCain is the only candidate who chooses to bring up the importance of cutting [...]

We all survived the first subzero cold snap of the season by bundling up or staying inside. Unfortunately for Minnesota’s forests, most of the moths, beetles and other pests that make our trees sick during summer probably weathered the cold, too.

Historically, Minnesota could count on its extreme cold to annually exterminate disease-spreading bugs like the [...]

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 a statewide stakeholders group working on recommendations for reducing emissions. The Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Group is [...]

Minnesota has joined 16 other states in suing the Bush administration for the right to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks.

Attorney General Lori Swanson announced today that her office is joining the lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which in December denied California the ability to limit vehicle emissions.

The California standards would [...]

Minnesota is not yet among a group of states suing the Bush administration for the right to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks. But the state could soon become entangled in the conflict, as lobbyists and lawmakers here prepare to push the same set of rules that ignited the dispute.

The legislation, which originated [...]

Minnkota Power Cooperative, an electricity provider in northwest Minnesota and eastern North Dakota, has been making a case about global warming — against the scientific consensus that it’s real. The blog Solar Kismet pored over back issues of its customer newsletter,  the Minnkota Messenger, finding a surprising number of articles that call global warming science [...]

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) and building construction (Monday). Today, we ask Neely Crane-Smith, coordinator for the Minnesota Energy Challenge, about changes people [...]

It’s New Year’s Eve, and time for the third installment in our series of daily podcasts about global warming, how we addressed it in 2007 and what trends we can expect in 2008.

Each podcast focuses on a single source of greenhouse gas emissions. Last week’s podcasts focused on electricity generation (Thursday) and transportation (Friday). Tomorrow’s [...]

As the year comes to a close, Minnesota Monitor is looking back at what was a big year for discussion of global warming. We heard more about climate change in 2007 than any other year, but what actions did we take to tackle the problem? And what can we expect to see happen in 2008?

We’re [...]