“Biochar Will Save the World!” proclaims a group page on Facebook. Popular mechanics writes of an “ancient charcoal” that can “put the brakes on global warming.” More than its prospects as a carbon sink or a fuel, biochar has massive prospects for development (the economic kind) for developing countries and emerging markets. But is it really that simple?

Some countries in the world are more worried about global warming than others. The Maldives, for example, might be drowned by rising sea levels. And Nepal fears being flooded by melting mountain glaciers. I wrote recently about their governments meeting in unusual places to highlight their common plight.

The Maldivian President is asking nations most vulnerable to climate change to take the lead in reducing global warming. The leader of a country threatened by rising sea levels slammed rich countries at a two-day conference for doing too little to prevent climate change. Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed says countries like his that are most [...]

As the New York Times detailed yesterday, Al Gore has, in the last few years, become a very, very rich man, thanks in large part to a number of investments he’s made in companies that profit when governments make policy driven by climate-change panic. Of course, the reason so many governments are making policies driven [...]

By Art Reckinger Irreversibility and Irrevocability tend to be bothersome words. They imply that no matter what is done, there is no return. Global Warming is due to increasing Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and is raising the world temperatures, irreversibly. The world ice masses are melting more rapidly every day, and the melt appears Irrevocable. Susan [...]

A U.N. conference in Copenhagen next month is due to agree a new pact to combat global warming after mounting evidence that human activity is disrupting the climate. The following is a timeline of the discovery of global warming. 300 BC – Theophrastus, a student of Greek philosopher Aristotle, documents that human activity can affect [...]

People often talk as if warming temperatures are the only evidence of human-induced global climate change. But the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere also has increased dramatically. For most of the past 800,000 years, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations ranged from about 180 to 280 parts per million. Today, it is 387 parts per [...]

A survey of 40 firms suggests that there’s money to be made fighting climate change The public discourse on climate change has tended to frame the issue as a tradeoff between development and greening; as a choice between generating wealth and creating a less carbon-intensive environment. With United Nations talks in Copenhagen aimed at negotiating [...]