Global Warming Link to Hurricane Intensity Questioned (National Geographic) Weather expert says historical satellite data is too crude to make a connection between climate change and the onset of more intense hurricanes in recent years. [News Source]

Selling a kinder touch of clean. Oceanside company joins manufacturers of environmentally friendly, nontoxic cleaning products. [News Source]

Converging ecological crises: Are we up to the challenges?.

There is a very substantial volume of highly credible writing, for anyone that wants to see it, that warns us that humankind has only a few decades left in which to ‘get it right’.

Wind energy push loses power. Wind machines are marching across West Virginia, Pennsylvania and 30 other states, with about 20,000 generating power nationally without producing any air pollution. But none has been built in Maryland. [News Source]

Selling a kinder touch of clean. The market for nontoxic household cleaners is still small, making up approximately one-tenth of 1 percent of all cleaning products sold in 2005, but it has gradually been gaining steam. [News Source]

Britain, Calif. unite on global warming. Britain and California are preparing to sidestep the Bush administration and fight global warming together by creating a joint market for greenhouse gases. [News Source]

Biologists search for desert critters north of Bliss. A team of scientists released findings that point to global warming as the cause of decline of frog populations not only in Idaho and across the United States but globally. [News Source]

Beware of the ethanol hype. The use of ethanol is also politically expedient, as it is perceived to be an alternative to Middle Eastern oil but it is unclear whether ethanol will be the solution to US energy woes. [News Source]

Boomers bear brunt of smog. Smog in Ontario will hit seniors hard over the next 20 years, increasing the number of premature deaths by up to 4,000 a year by 2026, a new Ontario Medical Association report predicts. [News Source]

Capital pollution solution? To save the planet from global warming (oh, and also to generate millions in profits), Richard Sandor has created the first market in the United States for the trading of greenhouse gas emissions. [News Source]

Scientist publishes ‘escape route’ from global warming. A Nobel Prize-winning scientist has drawn up an emergency plan to save the world from global warming, by altering the chemical makeup of Earth's upper atmosphere. [News Source]