Climate change is undoubtedly one of the most pressing issues facing our global community. Though the jury is still out on whether the planet’s warming climate is to blame for recent events like Hurricane Irma or the devastating flooding in South Asi…
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The astounding climate denial of a top Trump environmental pick was just on display before senators
So far, President Donald Trump has shown a propensity to surround himself with climate deniers. There’s Scott Pruitt at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Rick Perry at the Energy Department, and Ryan Zinke over at Interior, for example. …
View More The astounding climate denial of a top Trump environmental pick was just on display before senatorsCrucial Arctic monitoring satellites are blinking out just when we need them most
For 18 years, a fully-built, ready-to-launch weather satellite sat inside a Lockheed Martin facility near Moffett Field in Sunnyvale, California. Scientists were waiting for the spacecraft to be called into active duty since it was completed during the Clinton administration.
A different order from Washington arrived instead.
Because of resistance in Congress — particularly from Rep. Michael Rogers of Alabama, who chairs a key House Defense subcommittee — Capitol Hill told the Air Force to take the satellite apart.
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View More Crucial Arctic monitoring satellites are blinking out just when we need them mostShocking no one, the EPA’s Scott Pruitt denies findings of new climate science report
Hollywood is obsessed with climate change disasters. What does that mean for the planet?
A system of satellites and lasers that controls the weather, as depicted in the new climate change-inspired disaster film Geostorm: Yeah, sounds pretty laughable.
But the premise of the 2004 blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow seemed ridiculous when i…
Fragile climate talks begin in the wake of Trump’s trashing of Paris Climate Agreement
During a year of climate confrontation, the world has closed ranks around the Paris deal struck in 2015.
Momentum was “irreversible”, said a statement released by the German, French and Italian leaders in the hours after Donald Trump said he would leave or “renegotiate” the accord.
In the lead up to the annual U.N. talks in Bonn, which kick off on Monday, rhetoric from all nations has been uniform — confident, calm, defiant. Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel will attend the meeting in solidarity.
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View More Fragile climate talks begin in the wake of Trump’s trashing of Paris Climate AgreementHarrison Ford: ‘We’ve got people in charge of important sh*t who don’t believe in science’
Harrison Ford may be Hollywood’s most entertaining grumpy, old man. His penchant for blunt real talk, especially on topics he cares about, is downright refreshing.
Such was the case on Thursday night when Ford received an award from the environmental non-profit group, Conservation International. The actor used his acceptance speech that night to dish out some pointed criticism of Donald Trump and his misfit team of climate change skeptics.
“We face an unprecedented moment in this country. Today’s greatest threat is not climate change, not pollution, not flood or fire,” Ford said (via The Hollywood Reporter). “It’s that we’ve got people in charge of important shit who don’t believe in science.” Read more…
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View More Harrison Ford: ‘We’ve got people in charge of important sh*t who don’t believe in science’Tourism isn’t thinking much about climate change and that’s a problem
Tourism is contributing to climate change, and it appers there’s not much being done by the industry to address it.
Only 21 percent of tourism policies in Australia referenced climate change, according to a paper published in the Journal of Sustainab…
Prominent scientist sues critic of his work for $10 million
In a rare move that is likely to spark an intense debate in the climate science community, Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, has filed suit in D.C. Superior Court against the author and publi…
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