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• Crap and Trade

  Cap and trade. It sounds like a kind of street hustle. And in its way it is. But the street is Wall Street and the hustle is designed to collect a lot more than nickels and dimes from gullible passersby.

   10:07 AM

• Pentagon top brass warn: Act now, or pay later with ‘lives’

  The Pentagon has run the numbers. And they’ve decided global warming is real, it’s happening now, and it’s a US national security threat. Unless we take action now, the US military will be drawn into wars fueled by climate change.

   8:59 AM

• Congress cops out on climate

  Danger is in our CO2-laden air—the danger that Obama will head to the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference this December without a climate bill from Congress in his pocket.

   8:55 AM

• No Fire Without Smoke

  The Obama administration is spending $2.4 billion on “clean coal” carbon capture and storage projects. But the Post has learned that the coal industry’s claims about “clean coal” technology are misleading.

   8:45 AM

• Congress to New York: “Swim for it!”

  Congress isn’t taking the action that’s needed to prevent global warming. And according to state-of-the-art scientific research by the Pentagon, as well as a blue-chip panel commissioned by Mayor Bloomberg, the disastrous results of that climate change could soon be coming to a metropolitan area near you.

   8:40 AM

• It’s Coming!

  According to a high tech study commissioned by a concerned Mayor Bloomberg and generously funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, climate change caused by human-created greenhouse gases is threatening the health, livelihood, and security of New Yorkers—especially those who take the subway to work.

   8:55 AM

• ‘Carbon Counter’ Counts NYers as Fools

  Deutsche Bank has erected a giant seven-story carbon counter right near Penn Station that’s supposed to let you know how much Deutsche Bank cares about global warming. Yet the Post has learned that Deutsche Bank is not only financing airlines, coal mines and oil companies—they’re now buying large quantities of actual coal.

   8:50 AM

• New York Fights Back: City strives to slash emissions

  While politicians think only of how they’ll finance their next election, and while world bigwigs bicker as if they were trading truffles rather than our kids’ future, New Yorkers are fighting hard for a better future for everyone, and setting an example for the rest of the USA.

   8:48 AM

• Congress to New York: “Swim for it!”

  Congress isn’t taking the action that’s needed to prevent global warming. And according to state-of-the-art scientific research by the Pentagon, as well as a blue-chip panel commissioned by Mayor Bloomberg, the disastrous results of that climate change could soon be coming to a metropolitan area near you.

   8:40 AM

• Let it Grow, Let it Grow, Let it Grow

  Some inventive New Yorkers have found an answer to this problem: urban agriculture. High on the City’s rooftops a number of city farms are being created or are already in full working order, supplying locals with fresh vegetables and fruits.

   8:40 AM

• Global honchos in end game hothouse huddle

  Tomorrow, over one hundred of the world’s most powerful leaders will meet at UN Headquarters on 43rd Street to discuss the biggest issue facing our planet: climate change.

   8:58 AM

• Flopenhagen: Will Things Go Rotten in the State of Denmark?

  In just a few months, a major UN Conference on Climate Change will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark. The December 7–18 UN Conference of Parties meeting on climate change (COP15) is supposed to save our hides by making a treaty to reduce carbon emissions and stop climate change before it’s too late. But things aren’t looking good—especially for those of us living near sea level.

   8:55 AM

• Chilling News from the Arctic

  1999-2008 was the warmest decade of the last 2,000 years in the Arctic, according to a report just published in the respected journal Science. This despite the fact that changes in the Earth’s orbit are causing the North Pole to get less direct sunlight. The region should be cooling down, not warming up!

   8:52 AM

• UN Chief: World heading for climate ‘abyss’

  The world is speeding towards a climate catastrophe, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned recently, urging rapid progress in talks to cut emissions and tackle global warming.

   8:45 AM

• We seed it coming

  In the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, a Global Seed Vault was established early last year to protect seed samples from the threats of climate change, disease and disasters.

   8:43 AM

• Yes Men Get Desperate

  Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno were spotted yesterday on Lafayette Street, cajoling passers-by to go see their new climate-change epic The Yes Men Fix the World, opening at the Film Forum Theater on Houston Street October 7.

   8:50 AM

• Quick! Quick! A new Seuss Pic!

  Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment have teamed up to bring Dr. Seuss’s environmental tale, The Lorax, to a big screen near you on Seuss’s birthday in 2012. The film will be animated and is slated to be written by the duo behind Horton Hears a Who. The story features a selfish entrepreneur who clear-cuts the [...]

   7:46 AM

• Bono’s Big Belch

  U2 guitarist The Edge has defended the size and cost of the bands 360 world tour, coming to New York this week. The 18-month romp, featuring a 200-person crew and three 390-ton stages, will produce 65,000 tons of CO2—as much as a round-trip flight to Mars!
  When the tour reached Ireland in July, protests delayed the [...]

   7:46 AM

• Model Behavior

  Top earning supermodel, mom-to-be and football wife Gisele Bundchen can add another feather to her cap: cartoon eco-hero. A new kids company, A Squared Entertainment, has joined AOL to produce a range of webisodes for girls featuring an animated Bundchen, who lives a double life–as supermodel by day, superhero protector of the environment by night. [...]

   7:45 AM

• Adamant Eva

  Desperate Housewives actress Eva Longoria has hooked up with two green building and real estate professionals to create “a dynamic model for green retail centers.” The first “eco-mall” designed by the company will open in Portland, Oregon, and will use 30% less electricity than traditional malls, 50% less water and will recycle over 1.2 million [...]

   7:44 AM

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