Sarah Goodyear

The top brass over at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are patting themselves on the back about the PA's plan to take over Stewart Airport near Newburgh, NY. "The region clearly needs additional capacity for air travel," Anthony Coscia, the agency's chairman, was quoted as saying in the New York Times. "It's undeniable. This is intended to remedy exactly that problem." If the deal goes through, Stewart, 60 miles north of New York City, will become the region's fourth major air hub.

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While Americans are just waking up to the idea that they might have to do something about climate change, small groups of self-styled carbon-reduction activists in the United Kingdom are taking personal accountability for their emissions to the next level, as reported in the Observer of London.

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It's not just the weather that's in an uproar these days, it's the weatherpeople, too. After Heidi Cullen, host of the Weather Channel program "The Climate Code," wrote on her blog that she thought forecasters who deny manmade climate change were uneducated on the issue and should perhaps have their American Meteorological Society credentials revoked, she came under attack for smothering scientific debate, both on her own blog and elsewhere. On the website of the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Marc Morano wrote:

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New Congress Waking Up to Climate Change (NYT) Sen. Bernie Sanders Will Push “Gold Standard” Global Warming Bill (VT Guardian) New York 2106: A Watery Vision (Polis) What Crackdown? Diplomats’ NYC Parking Fines Near $18 million (AMNY) Nassau County Boss Suozzi Apologizes for Car Wreck (Newsday) Admits lights and sirens “should only be used in … Continued

If the melting of Greenland can't make the American people pay attention to global warming, can anything? Environmentalist Bill McKibben, whose The End of Nature was one of the first books to raise the alarm on climate change for a general audience in 1989, is hoping that "Step It Up 2007," a day of rallies planned for April 14, will at least get things started.