Climatology

Critic's Choice: Ghosts of Glaciers plays February 6 at Summit Music Hall

Tim Wirth scolds Obama for lack of action on climate change

Environmental leaders who ardently supported Barack Obama in 2008 haven't had much to celebrate in the past three years, as key pieces of legislation dealing with climate change and controls on the energy industry have been scuttled, diluted or delayed -- by a bad economy, an increasingly intransige ... More >>

CU Environmental Center hosts Aspen Skiing Company VP Auden Schendler tonight

What does climate change have to do with skiing and snowboarding? Everything, according to Auden Schendler -- Vice President of Sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company, board member of Protect Our Winters, and author of Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolu ... More >>

Who's got the 10 1/2? Loveland and A-Basin ride the storm, Protect Our Winters takes it Further

​Thinking about taking a snow day and heading for the hills this morning? Crank up the Black Flag and point towards the Continental Divide, because the first snow of the season here in Denver hit ski country even harder, with Loveland reporting over 10 inches this morning at 5 a.m. and Arapaho ... More >>

Reader: Global warming protest just shows these kids are doops!

​Young environmental activists are convening in Denver this week, leading a march on the State Capitol tomorrow. Part of a nationwide movement pushed by more than forty organizations, particularly iMatter and Earth Guardians, the youthful protest will back up its message with lawsuits filed ag ... More >>

Colorado youth lead a march on Capitol for climate change

iMatterXiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez.​Young activists are getting hot over climate change, and representatives of the environmental groups iMatter and Earth Guardians who are plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against the federal government will also be leading a march to the State Capitol Building on ... More >>

Snow wildfires and other coming Super Storms: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario

​ Combine the uncertainties of global climate change with the usual crazy Colorado springtime weather for these frightening future forecasts...

Global-warming diorama predicts Rocky Mountain parrots: Kenny Be Yard Arteology

Yard Arteology: The study of neighbors through lawn decoration... Figure 95a. Globeville: Garden of global-warmed delights. Click image to enlarge.​ The gigantic rock garden pictured above would appear to be the decorative efforts of a yard artist with a love for local flora and fauna. Below, ... More >>

How poop is smarter than Jesus: Google Reading Level ranks 100 random things

​​ Google introduced a new way of filtering search results last week: By reading level. You type something in and it tells you how many results fall into one of levels. Fair enough: if you're writing a research paper on sexual health or something, and thoughtful information would normal ... More >>

Flick pick: Pseudo-journalism pervades global warming documentary Cool It

​​ Google introduced a new way of filtering search results last week: By reading level. You type something in and it tells you how many results fall into one of levels. Fair enough: if you're writing a research paper on sexual health or something, and thoughtful information would normal ... More >>

Ken Buck's last name rhymes with "Shmuck," and that's no hoax (like global warming)

Ken Buck.​Ken Buck: Too extreme for Colorado? How about, Ken Buck: Too embarrassing for Colorado. We seem to have our own Joe Biden in the house, a guy who can't stop putting his foot in his mouth. In some ways it's refreshing to see a politician who's not slick enough to lie and obfuscate e ... More >>

Flip a Switch

Ken Buck.​Ken Buck: Too extreme for Colorado? How about, Ken Buck: Too embarrassing for Colorado. We seem to have our own Joe Biden in the house, a guy who can't stop putting his foot in his mouth. In some ways it's refreshing to see a politician who's not slick enough to lie and obfuscate e ... More >>

Global warming in Colorado: Changes are already happening for the worse, says National Wildlife Federation head Larry Schweiger

"What are you guys doing to us?"​During a recent visit to Colorado, Larry Schweiger, president and chief executive of the National Wildlife Federation, said Colorado was in the bull's eye for negative consequences from climate change. What exactly does that mean? Unfortunately, Schweiger has ... More >>

Warming Up

"What are you guys doing to us?"​During a recent visit to Colorado, Larry Schweiger, president and chief executive of the National Wildlife Federation, said Colorado was in the bull's eye for negative consequences from climate change. What exactly does that mean? Unfortunately, Schweiger has ... More >>

Green Screen

"What are you guys doing to us?"​During a recent visit to Colorado, Larry Schweiger, president and chief executive of the National Wildlife Federation, said Colorado was in the bull's eye for negative consequences from climate change. What exactly does that mean? Unfortunately, Schweiger has ... More >>

Feds say global warming could force jets at DIA to produce MORE greenhouse gasses

flickr.comA jet departs from DIA.​ It's all green all the time out at 8500 Pena Boulevard according to the PR chatter from officials at Denver International Airport. A video on the airport's website titled "DIA is Green" touts environmentally friendly efforts such as a solar power program, an ... More >>

Did the spontaneity-free climate-change rally in Greeley have a Mr. Burns touch?

As we pointed out yesterday, a climate-change rally in Greeley on Wednesday didn't exactly qualify as a grassroots uprising, given the participation of EnergyCitizens.org, an affiliate of the American Petroleum Institute, which opposes legislation to cap greenhouse gases recently passed by the U.S. ... More >>

From the week of April 23, 2009

As we pointed out yesterday, a climate-change rally in Greeley on Wednesday didn't exactly qualify as a grassroots uprising, given the participation of EnergyCitizens.org, an affiliate of the American Petroleum Institute, which opposes legislation to cap greenhouse gases recently passed by the U.S. ... More >>

For Colorado's largest power co-op, going green will mean taking down the King of Coal

As we pointed out yesterday, a climate-change rally in Greeley on Wednesday didn't exactly qualify as a grassroots uprising, given the participation of EnergyCitizens.org, an affiliate of the American Petroleum Institute, which opposes legislation to cap greenhouse gases recently passed by the U.S. ... More >>

Is a lump of coal a good thing?

Gas is less than half what it was a few months ago, and Xcel is actually planning to lower rates after the new year. But savor those cheap energy prices while you can. Like Santa Claus, painful new hikes are coming to town, probably sooner than later.  One lump of coal in the stocking comes court ... More >>

Environmental group rips Obama's choice of Ken Salazar as Interior Secretary

Local coverage of Barack Obama's selection of Colorado Senator Ken Salazar as the next Secretary of the Interior has mostly been rah-rah, sis-boom-bah. Take the Denver Post editorial "Salazar a Wise Choice for West, Nation." But as noted in a National Public Radio story, assorted environmental gro ... More >>

Former Denver Post columnist Diane Carman shows her partisanship

Local coverage of Barack Obama's selection of Colorado Senator Ken Salazar as the next Secretary of the Interior has mostly been rah-rah, sis-boom-bah. Take the Denver Post editorial "Salazar a Wise Choice for West, Nation." But as noted in a National Public Radio story, assorted environmental gro ... More >>

The Bill Ritter Meet the Press Transcript

Local coverage of Barack Obama's selection of Colorado Senator Ken Salazar as the next Secretary of the Interior has mostly been rah-rah, sis-boom-bah. Take the Denver Post editorial "Salazar a Wise Choice for West, Nation." But as noted in a National Public Radio story, assorted environmental gro ... More >>

Ale Watch

Local coverage of Barack Obama's selection of Colorado Senator Ken Salazar as the next Secretary of the Interior has mostly been rah-rah, sis-boom-bah. Take the Denver Post editorial "Salazar a Wise Choice for West, Nation." But as noted in a National Public Radio story, assorted environmental gro ... More >>

Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson: Strange Couchfellows

Local coverage of Barack Obama's selection of Colorado Senator Ken Salazar as the next Secretary of the Interior has mostly been rah-rah, sis-boom-bah. Take the Denver Post editorial "Salazar a Wise Choice for West, Nation." But as noted in a National Public Radio story, assorted environmental gro ... More >>

Getting Hot in Here

Local coverage of Barack Obama's selection of Colorado Senator Ken Salazar as the next Secretary of the Interior has mostly been rah-rah, sis-boom-bah. Take the Denver Post editorial "Salazar a Wise Choice for West, Nation." But as noted in a National Public Radio story, assorted environmental gro ... More >>

Anarchists Deploy Dayplanners

Local coverage of Barack Obama's selection of Colorado Senator Ken Salazar as the next Secretary of the Interior has mostly been rah-rah, sis-boom-bah. Take the Denver Post editorial "Salazar a Wise Choice for West, Nation." But as noted in a National Public Radio story, assorted environmental gro ... More >>

Bill Gray, MIA at the Teach-In

Local coverage of Barack Obama's selection of Colorado Senator Ken Salazar as the next Secretary of the Interior has mostly been rah-rah, sis-boom-bah. Take the Denver Post editorial "Salazar a Wise Choice for West, Nation." But as noted in a National Public Radio story, assorted environmental gro ... More >>

Step Up the Fight Against Global Warming

Local coverage of Barack Obama's selection of Colorado Senator Ken Salazar as the next Secretary of the Interior has mostly been rah-rah, sis-boom-bah. Take the Denver Post editorial "Salazar a Wise Choice for West, Nation." But as noted in a National Public Radio story, assorted environmental gro ... More >>

You're Getting Warmer

Local coverage of Barack Obama's selection of Colorado Senator Ken Salazar as the next Secretary of the Interior has mostly been rah-rah, sis-boom-bah. Take the Denver Post editorial "Salazar a Wise Choice for West, Nation." But as noted in a National Public Radio story, assorted environmental gro ... More >>

The California Experiment

Local coverage of Barack Obama's selection of Colorado Senator Ken Salazar as the next Secretary of the Interior has mostly been rah-rah, sis-boom-bah. Take the Denver Post editorial "Salazar a Wise Choice for West, Nation." But as noted in a National Public Radio story, assorted environmental gro ... More >>

The Ice Man

When Al Gore and other global-warming experts want to come in out of the cold, they turn to Boulder's Konrad Steffen.

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble

The Mercury Motley Players cast a hot Colombian spell.

Changing Climates, Changing Minds

The Mercury Motley Players cast a hot Colombian spell.

Science Sensation

Art and science cohabit in this special Boulder event.

Think Green

Boulder hosts an environmental art program.

A Nexus of Excess

Boulder hosts an environmental art program.

Chill Out

Boulder hosts an environmental art program.

Global Meltdown

Boulder hosts an environmental art program.

Bad News With Al

Boulder hosts an environmental art program.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of July 13, 2006

The Skeptic

Celebrated and shunned, CSU's Bill Gray is taking heat in the global-warming debate.

Fahrenheit 2050

Al Gore takes on the other imminent threat to America.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of November 3, 2005

Carbon Loading

Xcel’s solution to rising energy prices includes a lot of coal. Is that a bad thing?

Power to the People

The answer could be blowing in the wind.

Best scientific Web site for kids

Web Weather for Kids www.ucar.edu/40th/webweather

The Talks Heat Up

The state's global-warming forums are canceled after foes show up en masse.

Letters

The state's global-warming forums are canceled after foes show up en masse.

Global Warning

What do you get when greenhouse gases inspire greenhouse guesses? A heated argument--but not much scientific agreement.