DAVOS ELITE FOCUS ON CLIMATE CHANGE, IGNORING TRUMP’S SKEPTICISM...
A woman walks past the entrance to the Congress Center, venue for the World Economic Forum (WEF), in Davos on Jan. 13, 2017. Photographer: Michele Limina/Bloomberg
Donald Trump has often ridiculed global warming and promised to withdraw the U.S. from the accord signed in Paris in 2015. Yet despite the shift in political weather in Washington, the captains of business and finance gathered in Davos this week will spend a lot of time talking about climate change -- and how to make money from it...
Read moreCLIMATE CHANGE: 90% OF RURAL AUSTRALIANS SAY THEIR LIVES ARE ALREADY AFFECTED...
The Climate Institute says 82% of poll respondents in rural and regional Australia and 81% of those in capital cities were concerned about increased droughts as a result of climate change. Photograph: kristianbell/Getty Images/RooM RF
Overwhelming majority believe they are living with the effects of warming and 46% say coal-fired power should be phased out...
Read moreIT CAN POWER A SMALL NATION. BUT THIS WIND FARM IN CHINA IS MOSTLY IDLE...
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JIUQUAN, China — On the edge of the Gobi Desert, the Jiuquan Wind Power Base stands as a symbol of China’s quest to dominate the world’s renewable energy market. With more than 7,000 turbines arranged in rows that stretch along the sandy horizon, it is one of the world’s largest wind farms, capable of generating enough electricity to power a small country...
Read moreUSED TO WHIZZING BULLETS, KASHMIR BORDER FARMERS NOW HIT BY DROUGHT...
An Indian Border Security Force soldier patrols near the fenced border with Pakistan in Suchetgarh, southwest of Jammu in this January 14, 2013 file picture. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta/Files
“A farmer in our border village knows exactly what to do in the face of exploding shells and bullets – but one really doesn’t have any idea how to deal with this drought"...
Read moreTHE NASA DATA CONSPIRACY THEORY AND THE COLD SUN...
When climate deniers are desperate because the measurements don’t fit their claims, some of them take the final straw: they try to deny and discredit the data...
Read moreDELIRIUM TREMENS: BRACE FOR THE OIL, FOOD AND FINANCIAL CRASH OF 2018...
New scientific research suggests that the world faces an imminent oil crunch, which will trigger another financial crisis...
Read moreREX TILLERSON IS BIG OIL PERSONIFIED. THE DAMAGE HE CAN DO IS IMMENSE...
‘It’s like appointing Ronald McDonald to run the agriculture department.’ Photograph: Brian Harkin/Getty Images
Now a fossil fuel executive will run America’s foreign policy, right out in the open. Donald Trump gets credit for a kind of barbaric transparency...
Read moreWHEN SCIENTISTS HATE SCIENCE...
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast
Climate denialists have been able to hide behind very misleading science. But this is far from the first time that science has been backstabbed by its own practitioners...
Read moreWISCONSIN'S PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION ALSO CUT CLIMATE TOPICS FROM SITE...
In addition to the Department of Natural Resources, a second state agency has scrubbed information on global warming from its website...
Read moreWYOMING BILL WOULD ALL BUT OUTLAW CLEAN ENERGY BY PREVENTING UTILITIES FROM USING IT...
A new bill would outlaw utilities from providing power from large-scale wind farms like the Foote Creek Rim Wind Project. Credit: Getty Images
Coal supporters are pushing a bill that would bar utilities from using the state's abundant wind power to provide electricity within the state...
Read more25 SIGNS OF HOPE FROM THE OBAMA ERA...
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As President Obama steps down, here are 25 signs of hope, change and environmental progress from the past eight years...
Read moreCLIMATE CHANGE THIS WEEK: SOLAR SURGES, CLIMATE CHANGE GOT REAL, AND MORE!
Saving BUB, Beautiful Unique Biodiversity, as in this tiny mighty ant in Borneo, Indonesia, is another reason to preserve carbon storing forests. Credit Frenki Jung
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. And no, this isn’t photoshopped...
'EXTRAORDINARILY HOT' ARCTIC TEMPERATURES ALARM SCIENTISTS...
A large pool of melt water over ice on top of the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Ocean. Photograph: Operation IceBridge/Nasa
Danish and US researchers say warmer air and sea surface could lead to record lows of sea ice at north pole next year...
Read moreU.S. LISTS FIRST BUMBLE BEE SPECIES AS ENDANGERED!
A rusty patched bumble bee is pictured in Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. Aug. 7, 2015.
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The rusty patched bumble bee, a prized but vanishing pollinator once familiar to much of North America, was listed on Tuesday as an endangered species, becoming the first wild bee in the continental United States to gain such federal protection...
Read moreIS THE GREAT CALIFORNIA DROUGHT FINALLY ENDING?
Water from the Sacramento River flows through some of the gates of the Sacramento Weir on Tuesday. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)
The state’s biggest reservoirs are swelling. The Sierra Nevada have seen as much snow, sleet, hail and rain as during the wettest years on record. Rainy Los Angeles feels more like London than Southern California.
So is the great California drought finally calling it quits?
Read moreHOW REINDEER AND CARIBOU HELP COOL THE ARCTIC...
Image: National Park Service
Just imagine: What if millions of people moved to the Arctic and devoted their lives to engineering a landscape that could help offset the global impacts of climate change?
Read moreEXXON’S TILLERSON MURKY ON FUTURE OF PARIS CLIMATE PACT...
Rex Tillerson, the former chief executive of ExxonMobil, testifies Wednesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson downplayed global warming’s dangers during a hearing into his nomination for secretary of state on Wednesday, refusing to rule out an American withdrawal from a climate treaty even as he acknowledged that “the risk of climate change does exist.”
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