The number of blogs and websites covering climate change has exploded, and the list below is in no way intended to be exhaustive. Please use the Comments below to share the URLs of sites that you use and why you like those sites.

CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY NEWS SITES

Energy Bulletin

Energy Bulletin is my favorite one-stop daily news site for energy updates. The editors do a great job of sifting through the issues and picking out the day's most important developments, as well as pulling together stories about emerging trends.

The Oil Drum: Discussions About Energy and Our Future

The Oil Drum is one of the most widely read energy sites, a group blog whose readers leave very well-informed comments on a wide spectrum of energy issues.

Daily Kos Energy Writers

A. Siegel and The Cunctator post frequent reports on climate change on the very busy Daily Kos news site. Siegel also hosts his Energy Smart blog. The Cunctator posts the most complete and up-to-date schedules of U.S. House and Senate hearings on all energy issues, as well as hosting Hill Heat, a separate website covering global warming developments on Capitol Hill. Also see reports from Jerome a Paris, who provides a European perspective.

Global Public Media

Global Public Media, founded in 2001, is an internet broadcasting station streaming long format audio and video interviews with leading researchers in
developing alternative technologies, urban planning, and social
arrangements to deal with the intertwined problems of climate change and Peak Oil. GPM is a project of the Post Carbon Institute, the sponsor of this site.

SCIENCE, POLITICS, AND PR

DeSmogBlog

DeSmogBlog is dedicated to clearing "the PR pollution that is clouding the science on climate change." Co-founder Jim Hoggan, president of a Canadian PR firm, knows whereof he speaks. See his manifesto "Slamming the Climate Skeptic Scam."

Chris Mooney

Chris Mooney covers the intersection of science, politics, and media. He is the author of The Republican War on Science, and the recently published Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming. He blogs at Intersection.

CLIMATE CHANGE ORGANIZATIONS

It's Getting Hot In Here

It’s Getting Hot in Here is a student-oriented global online community focused on stopping global warming. IGHH is one of more than 40 groups that belong to a larger Energy Action Coalition.

Step It Up

Step It Up is a new national organization founded by author and now activist Bill McKibben. After having written a widely acclaimed series of powerful books about the world's growing environmental problems, McKibben has stepped out from behind his computer and launched Step It Up, which will be holding its 2nd round of national actions on November 3, 2007.

Al Gore and An Inconvenient Truth

Al Gore and the various incarnations of An Inconvenient Truth have done as much as anyone or anything (excepting Hurricane Katrina) to change the debate about climate change and move people towards taking action: "Political will is a renewable resource."

CLIMATE CHANGE LEGISLATION

Energize America

Online groups activists on Daily Kos worked together to create Energize America, a comprehensive 20-point plan to get the U.S. off fossil fuels, with a
2020 deadline for energy security, and a 2040 deadline for "energy
freedom." This plan is the most sophisticated product of what might be called citizen legislators (in keeping with citizen journalists.)

Climate Progress: An Insider's View of Climate Science, Politics and Solutions

Insider is right. Climate Progress is the blog of Joe Romm, currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress.
During the Clinton Administration, Joe was acting assistant secretary
of energy for energy efficiency and
renewable energy, so he knows his way around the inner corridors of the
overlapping federal agencies that handle climate issues.

GREEN BUSINESS

Greenbiz.com

Joel Makower was once a voice crying in the wilderness, but he is now chairman and executive editor of Greener World Media, Inc., which publishes Greenbiz.com, one of the leading voices for green businesses since 2000. GWM also publishes Climatebiz.com, a free (no nasty firewalls here), Web-based resource to help companies of all sizes and sectors understand and address climate change.

PEAK OIL

The Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas--USA

The Association for the Study of Peak Oil&Gas--USA is the premier U.S. organization looking at the problem of peak oil, the point at which the world will have pumped half of all the world's oil reserves. The U.S. peak was in 1970-71, and many geologists believe that we are either at or close to a world peak, after which the price of oil will escalate rapidly. ASPO-USA publishes a great daily and weekly review of energy news, edited by Tom Whipple.

The Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas

The Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas is the international home for more than 10 national ASPO organizations.Sign up for a newsletter here edited by Dr. Colin Campbell, one of the founders of the study of peak oil and gas.

Yes, it’s just a book, but it’s a book that is going to have an impact on the public debate. Look at the sales numbers for this book: On September 23rd at 7:05 PM EDT, Amazon.com reported that Cool It was the 85th most popular book of all the books the company was selling at that moment.

And the book topped Amazon’s lists for books in these 3 important categories of public debate over global warming:
#1 in Books > Science > Earth Sciences > Climatology > Climate Changes
#1 in Books > Outdoors & Nature > Environment > Conservation
#1 in Books > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Political Science > Public Policy

Authors and videographers are producing a torrent of good books on global warming and how to change the world to stop a disasterous increase in the temperature of our planet. If you've got a favorite book or DVD that's not on this list, please post a comment with the name and a sentence or two about why you like it. (Yes, we know, there's lots of things not on this list yet!) Most of the links below will take you to pages focused either on the book or DVD or the author.

The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What It Means, by Tim Flannery (2006)

Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming, by Chris Mooney

Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis--And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster, by Ross Gelbspan

An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, by Al Gore

Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change, by Elizabeth Kolbert

This website is focused on Lomborg’s book because the book shows us what arguments the opponents of taking action on global warming think are the most effective in today’s world. By teasing out these arguments, we can “reverse engineer” the millions of dollars in polling and market research which right-wing think tanks have done to discover the rhetorical weak points in the public debate over global warming.

I believe that the overwhelming and ever-increasing body of scientific knowledge shows that global warming is taking place, that human activities are increasing the rate of global warming, and that the failure to stop global warming will cause large, unpredictable, and potentially devastating changes in the atmosphere and on the earth. As for my own environmental and political policy background, I was vice president for communications at the Worldwatch Institute in the late 1990s, research director at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and interactive media director at the Democratic National Committee. I was active in the antinuclear power movement in New England in the late 1970s (the Clamshell Alliance), and the nuclear freeze movement in the early 1980s. In 1982, I won the National Council of Teachers of English George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language for Nukespeak: Nuclear Language, Myths, and Mindset, a book I co-authored for Sierra Club Books with Stephen Hilgartner and Rory O'Connor.

I base my views on the overwhelming scientific consensus that global warming is a very serious problem. This consensus has become stronger as more data have come in, as demonstrated in the most recent updates from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC’s reports are based on input from a broad range of disciplines and go through a rigorous peer-review process, a process that is inherently conservative, in the sense of eliminating extreme examples on which there is no scientific consensus.

For this one, I’m going to ask you to read a piece I wrote in 2002 while I was at the Worldwatch Institute, when Lomborg had just burst onto the scene with the publication of his first book, The Skeptical Environmentalist. Lomborg took on almost all of the major environmental issues at the time, claiming that his reading of the data (he was a statistician) revealed that the planet was in much better shape than the environmental groups would have us believe. Scientists from the various fields blasted Lomborg’s claims. Scientific American even put out a special issue taking Lomborg to task. Click here to read “Media Sheep: How did The Skeptical Environmentalist pull the wool over the eyes of so many editors?"

The image of polar bears setting out in the open ocean towards ice floes too far for them to reach has become the most emotionally powerful image of global warming and the horror of the massive extinction of species that global warming will accelerate.

Given the power of the drowned polar bear metaphor, Lomborg had to disarm this image first to protect the rest of his arguments.

Lomborg cites studies showing that the number of polar bears has increased from 5,000 in the 1960s to 25,000 today, a gain he attributes to “stricter hunting regulation.” As sea ice disappears, polar bears “may eventually decline, though dramatic declines seem unlikely.” He quotes a single Canadian government polar-bear biologist, who tells Lomborg that polar bears “are not going extinct, or even appear to be affected at the present.” And as for the photos of floating dead bears, “Actually, there was a single sighting of four dead bears the day after ‘an abrupt windstorm’ in an area housing one of the increasing bear populations.”