Global Climate Change

That Sinking Feeling

Why San Francisco Birds Are So Fat

Scientist say birds in Northern California, including San Francisco, are getting bigger and fatter by the year. And since Global Warming tends to be the scapegoat for all our general state of deterioration, it made sense to place blame squarely on Climate Change. But after considering the science, ... More >>

Global Warming Will Submerge Ocean Beach at Little Cost to San Francisco

CosmoPolitician via Flickr​First, the bad news: Ocean Beach will likely sink, thanks to global warming. But the good news is, it won't suck nearly as bad as it will for our neighbors down in Southern California.The reason for this is that our beach is kinda lame, according to a new study. Therefor ... More >>

Climate Change: $5.3 Billion Worth of Sea Walls Needed to Protect Bay Area

Come 2151, little sea-walls like this one at The Embarcadero simply won't do​Climate-change-borne threats of flood, erosion, inundation, and salinization will spur the Bay Area to spend more than $5.3 billion on seawalls and levees, according to a report released by the environmental group NRDC.Th ... More >>

Teens Sue Federal Government for Failing to Protect Children from Global Warming (Video)

Put this fire out!​Typically, you expect an environmental activist to be dressed in all organic clothing, maybe even birkenstocks. Whatever it is they are wearing, you at least imagine that they are them to be adults, as in over the age of 18. But apparently, the concern over global warming stretc ... More >>

Gas Mask Removed from Cow at Aquarium's Controversial Global Warming Exhibit

Humans in gas masks just aren't the same​A cow in a gas mask is a memorable image. That's probably why it was deployed, to great effect, in a recent exhibit on climate change at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. While this is the sort of thing that would doubtless please André Breton, dairy farmers -- n ... More >>

Scientist Who Spotted Faulty Air Pollution Figures Still Supports AB 32, Opposes Prop. 23

It's not as bad as you think​The San Francisco Chronicle has a big story today about how the California Air Resources Board overestimated the amount of pollution caused by diesel-burning trucks and other vehicles as it crafted regulations to improve air quality. It's a thorough story, and sure to ... More >>

Would Gas Have to Cost $9 a Gallon to Meet Emission Goals?

Fill 'er up -- for $135!​Those of us not named Rush Limbaugh know that in order to prevent the world from devolving into a giant Mad Max set, we've got to drive less. So as California's politicians and environmental regulators set ambitious emission reduction targets to combat global warming, the ... More >>

Mount Sutro battle pits tree lovers against native-plant lovers

Fill 'er up -- for $135!​Those of us not named Rush Limbaugh know that in order to prevent the world from devolving into a giant Mad Max set, we've got to drive less. So as California's politicians and environmental regulators set ambitious emission reduction targets to combat global warming, the ... More >>

California Faces Interstate Lawsuit -- If Voters Don't Pass Prop. 23

Don't touch that greenhouse gas, warn out-of-state attorneys general...​If California voters don't pass Proposition 23 -- which would pull the rug out from under the state's 2006 law limiting greenhouse gas emissions -- a gang of out-of-state attorneys general have threatened to file suit against ... More >>

PG&E Calls for 'Green' Rate Increase

Gee, Reddy, seven cents doesn't seem so bad to save the planet​The list of companies opposing Prop. 23, a measure that would knock down California's 2006 anti-greenhouse gas law, reads like a Who's-Who of the sort of high tech and outdoorsy companies that usually line up behind environmentally-fri ... More >>

You Think Carly Fiorina Gives a F*ck About Global Warming?

Soft on terrorism, just like Barbara Boxer​Republican Carly Fiorina has launched a doozy of an attack ad (view after the jump) against incumbent Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, managing to make herself look like a wannabe national-security hawk and something of an ecological cretin in just over 30 ... More >>

Gear Up for Earth Day with Talk on Global Warming Cuisine

Gibbs Smith Publishers​As a drug rug-clad, headband-sporting Johnny Mathis might warble, it's beginning to look a lot like Earth Day. Revving up to Thursday, related food-themed happenings abound. Tomorrow, chef Laura Stec and atmospheric scientist Eugene Cordero, Ph.D. will appear at the Ma ... More >>

After Health Care Victory, Hipster Lobby Targets Immigration, Jobs, Lack of Beer Fridges

Where are the beer refrigerators?​Following Sunday's passage of a historic health care bill letting brakeless track-bike riders stay on their parents' health insurance until age 26, America's hipster lobby now turns to legislative battles in areas such as immigration, climate change, financial reg ... More >>

S.F. Green Business Program rewards polluter

Where are the beer refrigerators?​Following Sunday's passage of a historic health care bill letting brakeless track-bike riders stay on their parents' health insurance until age 26, America's hipster lobby now turns to legislative battles in areas such as immigration, climate change, financial reg ... More >>

Gift of Gab’s talent sidetracks his solo missions

Where are the beer refrigerators?​Following Sunday's passage of a historic health care bill letting brakeless track-bike riders stay on their parents' health insurance until age 26, America's hipster lobby now turns to legislative battles in areas such as immigration, climate change, financial reg ... More >>

Do Anti-Climate Change Protesters Want to Fill The Bay With Garbage?

Over the weekend, hundreds of San Franciscans flocked to Justin Herman Plaza to join protesters in 181 countries urging United Nations negotiators to push for greenhouse gas reductions. Around 100 cyclists donned snorkels and other water-themed costumes to show that a warming, rising sea would inun ... More >>

Seen In San Francisco: Motorcycle Converted to Recycling Bin

Joe EskenaziMeals on wheels?​Just in time for mandatory composting, an inadvertent green statement has been made by a tippler waddling past this stripped-down motorcycle. Instead of burning fossil fuels, now the bike is serving as a recycling container. And while the city likely won't be fining yo ... More >>

I Wish I Knew How to Quit You: S.F. Chamber of Commerce Won't Leave Global Warming-Denialist U.S. Chamber

​People in fields such as petroleum, investment banking, or running chambers of commerce, know what it means to be blessed. They are embedded within industries that love to put on conventions and trade shows. Workers travel to distant cities, check into the Hyatt, mingle with people who went the s ... More >>

S.F. State Prof: Comparision of Republicans to Neanderthals Is Insulting -- To Neanderthals

His knuckles do not drag...​Angry words continue to be exchanged about fiery Florida freshman Congressman Alan Grayson referring to Republicans as "knuckle-dragging Neanderthals" and Rep. Nancy Pelosi's refusal to compel him to apologize. But a San Francisco State University professor has a probl ... More >>

Newsom: No Jaye, No Problem. Mayor Says He's Going to Be Just Fine Without Former Svengali.

Gavin Newsom says he's got everything covered​This morning., Gavin Newsom's favorite group of notebook, tape-recorder, and camera-wielding inquisitors packed into his tepid chambers for a press conference regarding a proposed United Nations Global Warming Center at the Hun ... More >>

Rainbow Arabia

Gavin Newsom says he's got everything covered​This morning., Gavin Newsom's favorite group of notebook, tape-recorder, and camera-wielding inquisitors packed into his tepid chambers for a press conference regarding a proposed United Nations Global Warming Center at the Hun ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Gavin Newsom says he's got everything covered​This morning., Gavin Newsom's favorite group of notebook, tape-recorder, and camera-wielding inquisitors packed into his tepid chambers for a press conference regarding a proposed United Nations Global Warming Center at the Hun ... More >>

Climactic Change

Gavin Newsom says he's got everything covered​This morning., Gavin Newsom's favorite group of notebook, tape-recorder, and camera-wielding inquisitors packed into his tepid chambers for a press conference regarding a proposed United Nations Global Warming Center at the Hun ... More >>

Saturday: World Naked Bike Ride

Gavin Newsom says he's got everything covered​This morning., Gavin Newsom's favorite group of notebook, tape-recorder, and camera-wielding inquisitors packed into his tepid chambers for a press conference regarding a proposed United Nations Global Warming Center at the Hun ... More >>

Well, Blow Me Down! Why the Hell Has S.F. Been So Windy Lately? We ask a Scientist

Gavin Newsom says he's got everything covered​This morning., Gavin Newsom's favorite group of notebook, tape-recorder, and camera-wielding inquisitors packed into his tepid chambers for a press conference regarding a proposed United Nations Global Warming Center at the Hun ... More >>

Guy Who Founded the Weather Channel Kind of Insane

Gavin Newsom says he's got everything covered​This morning., Gavin Newsom's favorite group of notebook, tape-recorder, and camera-wielding inquisitors packed into his tepid chambers for a press conference regarding a proposed United Nations Global Warming Center at the Hun ... More >>

Hot, Hot, Hot: Agriculture in a Warmer World

Gavin Newsom says he's got everything covered​This morning., Gavin Newsom's favorite group of notebook, tape-recorder, and camera-wielding inquisitors packed into his tepid chambers for a press conference regarding a proposed United Nations Global Warming Center at the Hun ... More >>

Unhealthy Union

Could there be a secret deal with Arnold on health care that will inflate union rolls?

Gavin Newsom Can Help Cure Global Warming's Effects ... with High-Rises

Could there be a secret deal with Arnold on health care that will inflate union rolls?

World Vegetarian Day: What Would Morrissey Do?

Could there be a secret deal with Arnold on health care that will inflate union rolls?

World Vegetarian Day: What Would Morrissey Do?

Could there be a secret deal with Arnold on health care that will inflate union rolls?

Richie Unterberger

Could there be a secret deal with Arnold on health care that will inflate union rolls?

Governor Newsom?

Not likely, given his lack of spine in opposing the initiative promoting more parking

Dalai Lama's Counsel 'the Oracle' in Fundraising Mode

Not likely, given his lack of spine in opposing the initiative promoting more parking

Pollution Absolution

A company is dumping questionable materials into the ocean so that you can buy forgiveness in the form of carbon credits

Mother Nature or Nurture?

The question of whether to begin saving creatures and habitats from climate change

Global Warning

Al Gore was in town last week to remind us all that we're ruining the planet. But do you think the concern about climate change is just a bunch of hot air?

Bad News With Al

Al Gore was in town last week to remind us all that we're ruining the planet. But do you think the concern about climate change is just a bunch of hot air?

Hot Air

Richard Branson's phony plans to fight global warming, his Virgin startup at SFO, and the Fox host who missed a dig

Hard to Be Really Green

Let's scrap the city's weak, pale-green environmental standards and actually take the total environment into account

Fahrenheit 2050

Al Gore takes on the other imminent threat to America

Stars

Set Yourself on Fire

Pedal Power

VeloSwap rides into town

Power Politics

Two major S.F. energy projects are in the works. Do we need both? The question isn't really being discussed.

Letters

Two major S.F. energy projects are in the works. Do we need both? The question isn't really being discussed.

Coming Clean

Environmental group targets Stanford investment muscle

Samples

Environmental group targets Stanford investment muscle

Letters

Environmental group targets Stanford investment muscle

Whirly Birds

The wind-power entrepreneurs at Kenetech have spent millionsin vain tosolve this avian mystery: Why have hundredsof raptors, including golden eagles, died alongside the windmills of Altamont Pass?