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.

I am only interested in Lomborg as a metaphor, and as a marketing vehicle.  I have no interest in demonizing him, since he is really only a role player in a drama which dwarfs the roles of all but a very few key decision makers, who fall into two not mutually exclusive groups: first, the people who manage the flow of funds to think tanks to produce the appearance of intellectual rigor for global deniers; and second, the people who manage the flow of funds to elected officials and candidates who act to prevent or slow down action against global warming. To the extent that there is personal information about Lomborg on this site, it has to do with his role, not his personality or his personal morals.

The fundamental misleading argument in Lomborg’s analysis is his assertion of a phony “center” or “middle” occupied by the clear-thinking author, surrounded to his left by people who want to take immediate action against global warming (“extremists”), and to his right by people who deny that global warming is happening (“deniers.”). The metaphor suggests an old-time balance beam, with Lomborg balancing carefully in the middle between equal but opposing forces.

But in science, one is looking not for balance, but for the best possible explanation of the phenomenon at hand. If the evidence suggests that global warming is happening, then in the end, there is no “center” no “middle” position. Lomborg’s use of this metaphor has the effect of confusing his readers, because only a small number of scientists disagree with the IPCC consensus that global warming requires our species to make an unprecedented effort to stop before we cause irreparable damage to the entire planet.