CapitalClimate: Cool Spring Forecast for UK, Western Europe; coldest UK winter since mid-1990s

The Met Office also announced today that provisional figures show this to be the coldest UK winter since 1995/96.

Tyler Prize winners | Greenspace | Los Angeles Times

A Southern California atmospheric scientist who predicted the signs of climate change nearly three decades ago is sharing in a $200,000 science prize.

The 2009 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement has been awarded to Veerabhadran "Ram" Ramanathan, a professor of atmospheric and climate sciences at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Richard Alley, a Penn State University geosciences professor.

Ramanathan was the first to show that ozone-depleting aerosols could aggravate the greenhouse effect. In 1980 he correctly predicted that carbon-dioxide induced global warming would be detectable by 2000.

Offshore Drilling: Just Do It » The Foundry

That’s how the American voters feel.

In a poll conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of the American Petroleum Institute, 61 percent of Americans support access to oil and natural gas resources in federal waters on the Outer Continental Shelf and the Gulf of Mexico. Only 26 percent opposed. It should be noted that Harris conducted these interviews from February 13 – February 16, 2009, when gas prices were much lower than the $4-per-gallon prices we faced over the summer.