By Kahrin Deines/Medill - Smith Island, MD
Only one excited voice and the whirr of overhead fans broke the rapt silence of the open-air tabernacle where Smith Island’s annual “camp meeting” takes place.
Itinerant Methodist preacher Eric Clark was working his way – and his audience – into a fervor. Between breaths and pauses to call for ‘Amens,’ his […]
Awakening to Sea Level Rise
August 8th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: · Chesapeake Bay, climate change, global warming, Maryland, sea level rise, Smith Island
Founder of Chicago Climate Exchange says cap and trade is coming
August 7th, 2008 · No Comments
(Photo by Rob Runyan) Richard Sandor is founder and CEO of the Chicago Climate Exchange, the first voluntary but legally binding market for trading emissions in North America.
By Frank Carlson/Medill
As U.S. Senators Barack Obama and John McCain begin their long descent into tit-for-tat rhetorical games, it’s easy to forget key issues the two still broadly agree […]
Tags: · attack, auction, Barack Obama, cap and trade, carbon, CCX, chicago climate exchange, Clean Air Act, emissions, global warming, John McCain, market, Richard Sandor, terrorist
What happens in Alaska, won’t stay in Alaska
August 5th, 2008 · No Comments
By Angela Nitzke/Medill
Humans won’t go extinct if the planet warms up a few degrees, surmised Richard, who sat next to me on my flight from Anchorage to Chicago. Probably true, but a lot could change that would influence the way we live our lives. And in Alaska, climate change is not a computer modeled prediction. […]
Tags: · Alaska, Anchorage, Arctic, Begich, climate change, glacier, global warming, ice, marine mammal, polar bear, sea, Stevens
