On April 1st, take aim at your local Fossil Fool We are living through both alarming and amazing times: financial systems are creaking, climate change is being felt around the world, and the peak in fossil fuels fast approaches. Cracks are widening daily throughout the fossil fuel empire, and change is coming whether we like it or not.

President Barack Obama's plan to push through climate change legislation as part of his $3,600bn federal budget appeared all but dead after the Senate ruled out fast-track action on the issue

As ministers from 189 countries gather in Poland here to hammer out a new climate change treaty, advancement is delayed by the absence of one delegation: the team that will forge Barack Obama's climate policy.

The biggest challenge facing any politician pushing for legislation on climate change is to convince skeptical voters that the bitter medicine is in fact good for them, and they should embrace it. No matter how it is enacted and what it is called, the net effect is likely to be increased costs of fossil fuels,

Fossil Fools Day was such a great sucess - Now is not the time to pause for breath, now is the time to continue building out networks, continue skill sharing and continue taking action! And here are the dates of the next two Days of Action on Climate Change, called by the Network for Climate Action in co-operation with the Rising Tide Network and the Camp for Climate Action. 1st May - Mayday Mayda...

5 March 2009 Climate change A new era of global cooperation on tackling climate change is possible under Barack Obama, the energy secretary said. Ed Miliband, who has just returned from Washington, said there was an "important shared agenda" with the Obama administration. In a swipe at George Bush, Obama's predecessor, he added: "We can now genuinely say there is US leadership on climate chan...

US President-elect Barack Obama underscored his intent to push initiatives on climate change by naming John Holdren, an energy and climate specialist, as the new White House science adviser

Earlier today I posted about climate action scepticism, arguing that climate change scepticism is only one of three important reasons one might have for opposing action to prevent climate change. I pointed out that there is almost no discussion of...

Ed Miliband, the climate change secretary, warns today that he is "fearful" that the world may miss the opportunity to halt global warming and is calling for a Make Poverty History-style popular movement to push for a breakthrough at this year's Copenhagen summit. He will travel to Washington this week for preliminary talks, amid concerns that Barack Obama's ability to back genuinely amb...

Europe must reduce its oil demand by over half within the next forty years to tackle climate change and address growing difficulties in securing access to fossil fuels, an EU consultative body argued last week (9 January).