AS TRUMP ENTERS WHITE HOUSE, CALIFORNIA RENEWS CLIMATE CHANGE FIGHT...
A truck engine is tested for pollution exiting its exhaust pipe as California Air Resources field representatives (unseen) work a checkpoint set up to inspect heavy-duty trucks traveling near the Mexican-U.S. border in Otay Mesa, California September 10, 2013. REUTERS/Mike Blake
California released new measures to fight climate change within minutes of Donald Trump being sworn in as U.S. president on Friday, signaling the state's commitment to be the nation's environmental steward under an administration that has questioned the reality of global warming...
Read moreI TOLD THE NEW YORK TIMES: “IT’S TIME FOR A WHOLE NEW APPROACH TO CLIMATE JOURNALISM!”...
The New York Times wants to innovate its coverage of climate change
They’re going to hire someone else. I think I’m still right...
Read moreDEAR MR PRESIDENT: EROSION...
High-carbon industries have no future (credit: Pixabay)
You can’t understand what Trump’s doing to America without understanding the “Carbon Bubble”...
Read moreDONALD TRUMP SEES THE FUTURE IN COAL. CHINA SEES THE FUTURE IN RENEWABLES. WHO’S MAKING THE SAFER BET?
(above) In Donald Trump's vision of America, some parts of the country's future look a lot like its past. Exhibit A: his promise to revive the flagging coal industry...
China says it will invest another $361 billion in renewable energy over the next four years and create 13 million new jobs in the sector, building on already massive investments over the past decade. The country already has the largest capacity of solar power, including this array of photovoltaic panels in Jiangsu Province. Credit: Reuters
Read moreTICKS, THRIVING IN WARM WEATHER, TAKE A GHASTLY TOLL ON NEW ENGLAND MOOSE...
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Several times a year, Nathan Theriault will be walking deep in the Maine woods and make a gruesome discovery: a dead moose, thin and crawling with ticks...
Read moreEARTH SETS A TEMPERATURE RECORD FOR THE THIRD STRAIGHT YEAR...
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Marking another milestone for a changing planet, scientists reported on Wednesday that the Earth reached its highest temperature on record in 2016, trouncing a record set only a year earlier, which beat one set in 2014. It is the first time in the modern era of global warming data that temperatures have blown past the previous record three years in a row...
Read moreGLOBAL WARMING NEVER 'PAUSED' AND COULD SOON ACCELERATE, WARNS NASA SCIENTIST...
A woman searches for dry land after a flood in Bangladesh, a country already affected by cyclones, floods and drought Probal Rashid
Dr Gavin Schmidt, director of Nasa’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies, describes suggestions that climate change had slowed down or stopped as ‘delusional’ and ‘bunk’...
Read moreCLIMATE CHANGE THIS WEEK: NUCLEAR AND CONGENITAL CLIMATE CHANGE THREATS, CHINA LEADS ON CLEAN ENERGY, AND MORE!
Saving BUB, Beautiful Unique Biodiversity, as in this Indonesian Owl Moth, is another reason to preserve carbon storing forests. Source Pinterest
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...
"NOBODY WANTS TO DO THIS": SCIENTISTS DEBATE EXTREME STEPS TO FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING...
Add your reaction ShareMINUTES AFTER TRUMP BECOMES PRESIDENT, WHITE HOUSE WEBSITE DELETES ALL MENTION OF CLIMATE CHANGE...
Add your reaction ShareWEEKLY WRAP: MORE HEAT THAN LIGHT AS TRUMP TEAM SPEAKS...
Donald Trump's nominees were grilled in the senate ahead of his inauguration in Washington on Friday (Pic: Pixabay)
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Read moreBERNIE SANDERS TO SCOTT PRUITT: ‘WHY IS THE CLIMATE CHANGING?’
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One of President-elect Trump’s most controversial nominees is Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general tapped to head the Environmental Protection Agency — an agency he has sued repeatedly...
Read moreANCIENT WARM PERIOD HINTS AT BIGGER-THAN-EXPECTED SEA LEVEL RISE...
Small waves crash over rocks across the harbor from the Sydney city skyline May 23, 2011. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne
Sea levels could rise by a greater-than-expected six meters (20 ft) over many centuries even if governments cap global warming around current levels, scientists said on Thursday, based on clues from an ancient warm period...
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LARSEN ICE CRACK CONTINUES TO OPEN UP...
The crack that looks set to spawn a giant iceberg in the Antarctic has continued to spread...
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