SENATORS LAUNCH RESOLUTION, SPEECH BLITZ CALLING OUT #WEBOFDENIAL BLOCKING CLIMATE ACTION...
On Monday and Tuesday this week, at least 19 U.S. Senators who understand the need to clear the PR pollution that continues to block overdue climate policy action will speak out on the Senate floor in support of the Senate Web of Denial Resolution calling out the destructive forces of fossil fuel industry-funded climate denial...
Read morePACIFIC ISLANDS NATIONS CONSIDER WORLD'S FIRST TREATY TO BAN FOSSIL FUELS...
The Solomon Islands and other Pacific island nations are under threat from climate change. Photograph: Oliver Forstner/Alamy Stock Photo
Treaty under consideration by 14 countries would ban new coalmines and embraces 1.5C target set at Paris climate talks...
Read moreTELL REP. SMITH: #EXXONKNEW AND WE WON'T BACK DOWN...
Congress is defending Exxon -- and going after us. Yesterday, Texas Rep. Lamar Smith and the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology announced that they’re taking the extraordinary step of issuing subpoenas to us, the attorneys general of New York and Massachusetts, and seven other NGOs, for our work to hold Exxon accountable...
Read moreA MASSIVE HEAT WAVE IS POISED TO ENVELOP THE U.S. FROM COAST TO COAST NEXT WEEK...
GFS computer model projection showing an unusually hot airmass parked over the U.S. in mid-July. Image: weatherbell analytics
Following on the heels of the hottest June in the history of the lower 48 states, an extended, intense and widespread heat wave is likely to develop next week...
Read more‘THE EXTRAORDINARY YEARS HAVE BECOME THE NORMAL YEARS’: SCIENTISTS SURVEY RADICAL ARCTIC MELT...
Add your reaction ShareAMERICANS ARE BECOMING MORE WORRIED ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE. HERE’S WHY...
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Another major public opinion analysis confirms that Americans are growing substantially more “Alarmed” and “Concerned” about global warming, while at the same time becoming less “Doubtful” and “Dismissive.”
Read moreTHE FAKE FACTORY THAT PUMPED OUT REAL MONEY...(long read)
Making High-Quality Bio-Diesel is hard. Getting paid $100 million To Not
Make It Was Kind of a snap.
ALASKA BAKES IN HEAT WAVE WHILE ARCTIC SEA ICE CONTINUES TO MELT...
This photo taken Monday, June 17, 2013, shows people sunning at Goose Lake in Anchorage, Alaska. The current heat wave baking Alaska rivaled and in some cases exceeded the 2013 heat wave. CREDIT: AP Photo/Mark Thiessen
The Arctic is experiencing a heat wave...
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EXXON CLIMATE PROBE TAKES SURREAL TURN AS CONGRESSMAN SUBPOENAS STATE ATTORNEYS GENERAL...
Rep. Lamar Smith seen on Capitol Hill in 2013 on Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Image: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via ap
The Republican chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee issued subpoenas of two state attorneys general and eight environmental organizations on Wednesday, seeking records about their investigation into ExxonMobil Corp's climate denial activities...
Read moreTTIP PROPOSAL CASTS DOUBT ON G20 CLIMATE PLEDGE, LEAKED EU DRAFT SHOWS...
Dan Mullaney, chief US TTIP negotiator (R) and Ignacio Garcia Bercero, his EU counterpart at the 14th round of the TTIP talks in Brussels, 11 to 15 July. Photograph: Lieven Creemers/EC Press office
Draft proposal reveals new loopholes on a pledge to phase out fossil fuel subsidies within a decade...
Read moreHOW GROWING SEA PLANTS CAN HELP SLOW OCEAN ACIDIFICATION...
Researchers are finding that kelp, eelgrass, and other vegetation can effectively absorb CO2 and reduce acidity in the ocean. Growing these plants in local waters, scientists say, could help mitigate the damaging impacts of acidification on marine life...
FOOD SHORTAGES AND SEA LEVEL RISE US VOTERS' TOP CLIMATE CHANGE CONCERNS...
The island village of Kivalina, an Alaska Native community at risk from rising sea levels, another top concern of US voters surveyed by Guardian US. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Survey of Guardian readers appalled at lack of climate discussion in 2016 campaign finds food and water shortages viewed as most pressing consequence...
Read moreTELL CONGRESS: DENOUNCE THE WEB OF DENIAL...
Tonight on the Senate floor, senators are exposing the Web of Denial, the fossil fuel-funded effort to mislead the public on climate science.
Read moreEXXON IS STILL HELPING FUND THE SPREAD OF CLIMATE DENIAL...
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ExxonMobil — the world’s largest publicly traded oil and gas company — has had an interesting year. In September, two investigations by InsideClimate News and the Los Angeles Times revealed that the company’s own scientists had recognized the dangers posed by climate change as far back as 1977, and yet did nothing about it...
Read moreANOTHER INCONVENIENT TRUTH: IT’S HARD TO AGREE HOW TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE...
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By just about any measure, the movement to battle climate change has grown so large that the truths of Al Gore’s decade-old movie now seem more mainstream than inconvenient...
Read moreTHE DAMAGE WROUGHT BY ACIDIC OCEANS HURTS MORE THAN MARINE LIFE AND LASTS LONGER THAN YOU THINK...
The milky white clouds in this algal bloom in the Barent Sea, off Norway and Russia, are the result of phytoplankton producing shells made of chalk. (Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC / NASA's Earth Observatory)
A milky white cloud blooms in the Barents Sea, so vast it can be seen from space...
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