CDC abruptly cancels long-planned conference on climate change andhealth – The Washington Post
CDC abruptly cancels long-planned conference on climate change and health – The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/01/23/cdc-abruptly-cancels-long-planned-conference-on-climate-change-and-health/ Smoke billows from stacks as a Chinese woman wears as mask while walking in a neighborhood next to a coal-fired power plant in Shanxi, China. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images) With little warning or explanation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]more…
George Monbiot on climate change and Big Tobacco | Environment | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/sep/19/ethicalliving.g2 George Monbiot • Tuesday 19 September 2006 10.45 EDT ‘The impacts of the climate-change deniers sponsored by Exxon have been felt all over the world.’ Photograph: AP ExxonMobil is the world’s most profitable corporation. Its sales now amount to more than $1bn a day. It makes most of this money from oil, and has more […]more…
New White House website scrubbed of most climate change references
New White House website scrubbed of most climate change references https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/trumps-white-house-website-includes-184747084.html Andrew Freedman January 20, 2017 Out with the old White House website and in with the new. The transition to the Trump administration’s White House website is proving especially jarring for climate change advocates. On Friday, the Obama administration’s White House website, which included […]more…
Trump says ‘nobody really knows’ if climate change is real – The Washington Post
Trump says ‘nobody really knows’ if climate change is real – The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/11/trump-says-nobody-really-knows-if-climate-change-is-real/?utm_term=.9d6be0577997 President-elect Donald Trump speaks during an election night rally on Nov. 9 in New York. (Evan Vucci/AP) President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that “nobody really knows” whether climate change is real and that he is “studying” whether the United States […]more…
Obama on Climate Change: The Trends Are ‘Terrifying’ – NYTimes.com
Obama on Climate Change: The Trends Are ‘Terrifying’ – NYTimes.com http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/08/us/politics/obama-climate-change.html MIDWAY ATOLL — Seventy-four years ago, a naval battle off this remote spit of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean changed the course of World War II. Last week, President Obama flew here to swim with Hawaiian monk seals and draw attention […]more…
The world’s clouds are in different places than they were 30 years ago – The Washington Post
The world’s clouds are in different places than they were 30 years ago – The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/07/11/the-worlds-clouds-are-in-different-places-than-they-were-30-years-ago/ Global cloud patterns (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) In a new study published in Nature on Monday, scientists say they have for the first time thoroughly documented one of the most profound planetary changes yet to be caused by […]more…
Deconstructing the #demdebate: Clinton, Sanders control conversation – Washington Post
Deconstructing the #demdebate: Clinton, Sanders control conversation – Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/debates/oct-13-speakers/ The five Democrats running for president debated for the first time Tuesday night in Las Vegas. The two front-runners owned the conversation. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders together said 56 percent of the words spoken by candidates. Jim Webb, on multiple occasions, complained that […]more…
Ocean’s food chains will collapse because of climate change: report
Ocean’s food chains will collapse because of climate change: report http://www.morningticker.com/2015/10/oceans-food-chains-will-collapse-because-of-climate-change-report/ An alarming new report indicates that climate change will cause massive disruptions in the ocean’s ecology. A new study from Adelaide University is ringing the alarm over the ocean’s delicate food chain, arguing that climate change could disrupt it more than we realize. As […]more…
The New Optimism of Al Gore – NYTimes.com
The New Optimism of Al Gore – NYTimes.com http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/03/17/science/the-new-optimism-of-al-gore.html The New Optimism of Al Gore NASHVILLE — Al Gore wants to make a point about cellphones, and he has a helpful set of slides on his laptop. “Do you want to see that?” he asks, and starts to turn the MacBook around. “It’s not two […]more…
Senate Says Climate Change Real, But Not Really Our Fault
Breathtakingly broad as its jurisdiction may be, the U.S. Senate does not usually vote on the validity of scientific theories. This week, it did. And science won. The Senate voted that climate change is real, and not a hoax. The vote was 98-1. The vote was about an amendment to the bill approving the Keystone […]more…