Articles tagged:climate

COLUMN: Climate Change: Can people change their minds?

Posted: Wed May 9 11:37 a.m. by Wayne Baker Community Contributor

Where do educators and activists find information to share about climate change? One popular source of online graphics is a website called www.GlobalWarmingArt.com created in 2007 by Robert A. Rohde, a physics researcher at UC Berkeley. The website was last updated in 2009, but a lot of Rohde’s images and ...

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How do you survive Michigan winters?

Posted: Wed Jan 20 5:30 a.m. by Charlie Naebeck Community Contributor

We all dream of beaches and warmer climates during winter right? Some folks that have experienced the cold thrive in it, and some cannot wait to escape from it. What are your favorite tips for surviving Michigan Winter? Charlie Naebeck is a freelance photographer specializing in portraits, editorial, weddings, commercial, ...

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Q&A: University of Michigan professor discusses climate change conference in Copenhagen

Posted: Mon Dec 14 6 a.m. by Tina Reed

The global climate change conference in Copenhagen just began heating up last week, and a delegation from the University of Michigan hopes to witness it all. That group, which is being led by Richard Rood, a U-M professor of atmospheric, oceanic and space sciences; Paul Edwards from the School of ...

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Politico: When climate change meeting in Copenhagen flops, blame Barack Obama's China trip

Posted: Thu Nov 19 6:21 a.m. by Cindy Heflin News producer

The upcoming climate change meeting in Copenhagen will likely achieve nothing and President Barack Obama's trip to China is to blame, Steve Clemons writes in a Politico Ideas piece. Clemons says Obama suffers from trying to tackle too many issues, and thus not addressing any of them well enough to ...

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Detroit News: Carbon rules under consideration will hurt Michigan biofuel industry

Posted: Tue Nov 10 11:44 a.m. by Cindy Heflin News producer

Carbon credit legislation under consideration in the United States Congress is a bad deal for Michigan, an an opinion piece in the Detroit News says today. The article, by Michigan State University crop and soil sciences professor Phil Robertson, notes that not all biofuels are created equal, and that it's ...

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Learn new skills or form a big '350' on the Diag for climate action

Posted: Fri Oct 23 1:30 p.m. by Jennifer Janssen Community Contributor

Want to be a part of something huge on the Diag tomorrow? How about a reskilling festival that is both hip and your grandmother would approve of? First, the huge part: Saturday, Oct. 24 is the 350.org International Day of Climate Action. There will be over 4,000 events taking place ...

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In the Environment: Climate change rally planned at U-M to push global deal in Copenhagen

Posted: Thu Oct 22 6:10 p.m. by Tina Reed

There will be a rally on the University of Michigan’s campus on Saturday to call for a global deal at the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held in Copenhagen later this year. The rally will begin on U-M’s Diag at 1 p.m. where an aerial photo will be ...

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