BJØRN LOMBORG CENTRE GOT $640,000 FOR REPORT SAYING LIMITING WARMING RISE TO 2C NOT WORTH IT...
Bjørn Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Centre was paid $640,000 before its Australian program was dropped. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images
Exclusive: Revealed under freedom of information, cost came before Copenhagen Consensus Centre’s controversial $4m Australian program dropped...
Read moreTHE WORLD AGREED TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE, BUT WHAT COMES NEXT?
About nine months ago I was sitting in a conference room on the outskirts of Paris, watching more than two hundred countries vote to approve an international agreement to tackle climate change...
Read moreAS DAKOTA ACCESS PROTESTS ESCALATED, OBAMA ADMIN OK’D SAME COMPANY FOR TWO PIPELINES TO MEXICO...
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On September 9, the Obama administration revoked authorization for construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) on federally controlled lands and asked the pipeline's owners, led by Energy Transfer Partners, to voluntarily halt construction on adjacent areas at the center of protests by Native Americans and supporters...
Read moreCLIMATE CHANGE IS HERE: INSIDE THE SUMMER OF HELL AND HIGH WATER...
Firefighters build a fire line during the Blue Cut Fire in California's San Bernardino County in August.
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THESE RESEARCHERS THINK WE’RE NEARING ‘PEAK CAR’ — AND THE CONSEQUENCES COULD BE DRAMATIC...
Add your reaction ShareTHE BIGGEST THING A PRESIDENT’S EVER DONE ON CLIMATE IS IN THE HANDS OF 10 JUDGES...
Mountains of coal; wind turbine. CREDIT: FLICKR USER WACKELIJMROOSTER
Revisit the history before the Clean Power Plan goes to court...
Read moreU.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY WARNS CLIMATE CHANGE IS ALREADY DESTABILIZING COMMUNITIES WORLDWIDE...
A burning building is seen after warplanes belonging to the Assad Regime carried out airstrikes at opposition controlled areas in Idlib, Syria on Sept. 12, 2016. Image: Bhjat Najar/Anadolu Agency/(Getty Images)
The U.S. intelligence community on Wednesday released a new report finding that global warming is already acting as a destabilizing force worldwide, with more serious ramifications to come in the next two decades...
Read moreCLIMATE CHANGE COULD CROSS KEY THRESHOLD IN A DECADE: SCIENTISTS SAY...
File photo of a view of the lake formed by meltwater from the Pastoruri glacier, as seen from atop the glacier in Huaraz, September 19, 2013. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo
OXFORD, England (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The planet could pass a key target on world temperature rise in about a decade, prompting accelerating loss of glaciers, steep declines in water availability, worsening land conflicts and deepening poverty, scientists said this week.
Read moreTHE EARTH IS SOAKING UP LESS CARBON THAN WE THOUGHT — WHICH COULD MAKE IT WARM UP EVEN FASTER...
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If you are like me, you must be astounded at the lack of attention and action given to the enormous threat of global warming that could lead to the extinction of so much life on Earth...including our own...
Read moreWE DID IT! ENTERPRISE CAR RENTAL COMPANY LEAVES ALEC AFTER PUBLIC OUTCRY!!!
The car rental company Enterprise has parted ways with the rightwing lobby group Alec. Photograph: John Bazemore/AP
Company follows lead of Ford and others in exiting rightwing American Legislative Exchange Council after consumers condemned membership...
Read more‘IT’S A DEPRESSING SIGHT’: CLIMATE CHANGE UNLEASHES GHOSTLY DEATH ON GREAT BARRIER REEF...
John and Linda Rumney on the Great Barrier Reef Photograph: John Rumney
Months after the worst coral bleaching event to hit the reef, Australian conservationist Tim Flannery returns to a tourism hot spot 50km north-east of Port Douglas to witness the destruction wrought by a warming planet...
Read moreGREENLAND MAY BE LOSING ICE EVEN FASTER THAN WE THOUGHT...
Rapidly melting Greenland may be shedding its ice even faster than anyone suspected, new research suggests. A study just out in the journal Science Advances finds that previous studies may have underestimated the current rate of mass loss on the Greenland ice sheet by about 20 billion tons per year...
AND YOU THOUGHT THE REPUBLICANS WERE BAD? GARY JOHNSON WANTS TO IGNORE CLIMATE CHANGE BECAUSE THE SUN WILL DESTROY THE EARTH ONE DAY...
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Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate for president, takes what he calls the "long-term view" of climate change. "In billions of years," he said in 2011, "the sun is going to actually grow and encompass the Earth, right? So global warming is in our future."
Read moreWHAT IS NEW IN EUROPEAN CLIMATE RESEARCH?
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What did I learn from the 2016 annual European Meteorological Society (EMS) conference that last week was hosted in Trieste (Italy)?
Read moreCAN HUMANITY SURVIVE THE 21ST CENTURY?
Into the wild Oostvaardersplassen by Roberto Maldeno | Flickr | CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The Oostvaardersplassen is a nature reserve in the Netherlands managed by the State Forestry Service. Covering about 56 square kilometres it is noted as an example of rewilding, which may be a critical strategy for humanity moving into the future.
Humans are facing the greatest test in the million-year ascent of our kind. But this isn’t a single challenge, like a famine or disease outbreak. It is a constellation of ten huge man-made threats, which are now coming together to imperil our existence...
Read moreTHE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT JUST PASSED A CRUCIAL THRESHOLD...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at the U.N. on Wednesday, September 21. CREDIT: AP PHOTO/JASON DECROW
Just one more hurdle remains before the agreement can enter into force...
Read more375 TOP SCIENTISTS WARN OF 'REAL, SERIOUS, IMMEDIATE' CLIMATE THREAT. TRUMP AND HIS PARTY!
Official portrait of Abraham Lincoln, who created the National Academy of Sciences, 375 of whose members have effectively called out the Republican Party’s refusal to take climate change threats seriously. Photograph: GraphicaArtis/Getty Images
375 National Academy of Sciences members sign an open letter expressing frustration at political inaction on climate change...
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