ANTI-INTELLECTUAL VOTERS IN AMERICA’S HEARTLAND ENSURE ABRUPT CLIMATE COLLAPSE...
The poorly educated electing a climate change denier (however justified their rage at elitist opulence) is sheer utter madness. That abrupt climate change is well underway is self-evident as the Arctic has shockingly recently been 36° F above normal and above freezing, and 98%+ of temperature extremes are record highs. It is unconscionable that America’s House Science Committee tweets climate science disinformation, as creepy Donald appoints climate change deniers to key environmental positions, and turns his jack booted thugs upon governmental climate scientists. Festering rural American anti-intellectualism may well kill us all. Being smart is cool. I very much hope this essay offends no one, other than the ones it was intended to...
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Add your reaction ShareCLIMATE CHANGE THIS WEEK: EXTINCTION, TAXING CLIMATE DENIAL, AND MORE!
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded.
And the chances of Donald Trump’s family and fortune surviving climate change are small, dwindling daily and irreversibly...
CLIMATE HOME'S WEEKLY WRAP...
This week he talked climate change with Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio, but when it came to the crunch Donald Trump chose a climate sceptic as his environment chief...
Read moreTRUMP TABS ANOTHER CLIMATE DENIER, THIS TIME FOR INTERIOR...
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2015.
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U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a sixth-term Republican from Washington State who is a climate change denier and an ardent opponent of regulations for greenhouse gas emissions, has been nominated by President-elect Donald Trump for Secretary of Interior...
Read moreFOR MANY, COFFEE REALLY IS A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH...
The nomination of a climate change skeptic to run the Environmental Protection Agency may have renewed old arguments in Washington, but CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips says in Uganda, there’s no argument...
Read moreJEFF SESSIONS, TRUMP'S ATTORNEY GENERAL PICK, INTRODUCED FIRST BILL TO EXEMPT FRACKING FROM DRINKING WATER RULES...
U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions speaking at a Trump rally in Arizona. Credit: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0
U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. Attorney General, introduced the first so-called “Halliburton Loophole” bill back in 1999 before it was ever known as such...
Read moreTHE BEST CLIMATE MESSENGERS FOR TRUMP ARE CEO'S...
Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt arrives for meetings at Trump Tower on Dec. 7, 2016. Image: AP
In the past week, former vice president and prominent climate activist Al Gore, as well as actor and climate campaigner Leo DiCaprio, have met with President-elect Donald J. Trump to discuss global warming.
Trump is not listening...
Read moreDISMANTLING CLIMATE RULES ISN’T SO EASY...
Donald J. Trump has named Scott Pruitt, a leading opponent of President Obama’s signature environmental initiatives, as his nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency. Mr. Pruitt, Oklahoma’s attorney general, is closely linked to fossil fuel industries and is a climate change skeptic. He was most likely chosen to reverse these environmental initiatives, a deeply disturbing turn in the nation’s effort to slow climate change...
Read moreCATCH 22: WHEN CLIMATE CHANGE *PREVENTS* MIGRATION...
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Research shows those hit hardest by climate change can’t afford to move, supporting the call for more and better adaptation...
Read moreGREENLAND’S VAST ICE SHEET IS WAY LESS STABLE THAN WE THOUGHT, AND THAT’S BAD NEWS FOR THE WORLD...
Two new studies reveal just how dynamic — and potentially vulnerable to climate change — it actually is...
THE BILLIONAIRE ENERGY INVESTOR WHO VETTED TRUMP'S EPA PICK HAS LONG LIST OF EPA VIOLATIONS...
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Asked for his take on President-elect Donald Trump's appointment of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), multi-billionaire investor and Trump business partner Carl Icahn told Bloomberg that Pruitt is “going to really be a breath of fresh air.” Given Icahn's business ties, that statement is steeped in accidental irony...
Read moreTRUMP TALKS TO LEONARDO DICAPRIO IN LATEST PLOY TO MISDIRECT PUBLIC ON HIS CLIMATE AGENDA...
But did the president-elect actually listen to the climate advocate?
HISTORY REVEALS GREENLAND ICE MIGHT MELT MUCH FASTER THAN BELIEVED...
Even Greenland's thickest ice melted in global warm periods, a warning sign for a climate-changed world to come. Credit: Getty Images
The huge ice sheet melted several times between ice ages, leading to belief it will melt faster with global warming, with dire implications for sea level rise...
Read moreGORE, DICAPRIO AND THE MEDIA: TOOLS IN TRUMP’S CLIMATE DECEPTION...
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Trump’s meetings with Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio acted as a smokescreen while he prepared to appoint an EPA chief who will tear up US climate policy...
Read moreTHE TEEN-AGERS SUING OVER CLIMATE CHANGE...
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In the spring of 2010, Julia Olson, an environmental attorney based in Oregon, was introduced to Alec Loorz, a teen-ager from Ventura, California, and the founder of an advocacy group called Kids vs. Global Warming...
Read morePOLAR BEAR NUMBERS TO PLUNGE A THIRD AS SEA ICE MELTS...
A starved and exhausted polar bear, who became a victim of the global warming.
Paris: Polar bear numbers could drop a third by mid-century, according to the first systematic assessment, released on Wednesday, of how dwindling Arctic sea ice affects the world’s largest bear...
Read moreSCIENTISTS CONFIRM: “THE BLOB” REALLY MESSED UP THE NORTHEAST PACIFIC...
The algae bloom contributed to marine mammal strandings along the Pacific coast. Photo by Richard Mittleman/Gon2Foto/Alamy Stock Photo
The Pacific warm water “Blob” contributed to a record toxic algae bloom...
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