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Global warming emissions hit record high in 2017, because nothing good happens this year

sudshr47 November 13, 2017

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For three straight years, global greenhouse gas emissions — the primary driver of global warming — leveled off while economic growth continued. This led to a flood of optimism that at long last, greenhouse gas emissions were peaking and would finally start declining. In addition, it sparked a flurry of stories about how the world was finally separating, or to use a technical term “decoupling,” economic growth from emissions of greenhouse gasses.

Those hopes have largely been dashed with the news on Monday from the Global Carbon Project showing that it’s likely that 2017 saw about a 2 percent increase in global greenhouse gas emissions, with such emissions hitting a record high.  Read more…

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La Niña is officially here to shape U.S. winter weather, along with global climate

sudshr47 November 9, 2017

La Niña is back, ya’ll. And it may have major implications for your winter weather, depending on where you live. 
La Niña conditions were formally declared present in the tropical Pacific Ocean on Thursday, in a statement from the Nati…

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The astounding climate denial of a top Trump environmental pick was just on display before senators

sudshr47 November 8, 2017

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.&#160…

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Crucial Arctic monitoring satellites are blinking out just when we need them most

sudshr47 November 8, 2017

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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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Hollywood is obsessed with climate change disasters. What does that mean for the planet?

sudshr47 November 7, 2017

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…

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Fragile climate talks begin in the wake of Trump’s trashing of Paris Climate Agreement

sudshr47 November 6, 2017

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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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Scott Pruitt just destroyed one of the EPA’s core safeguards, and we may never get it back

sudshr47 October 31, 2017

In an unprecedented move, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt just issued a directive that would prohibit individuals from serving on the agency’s independent scientific advisory boards if they also receive research grant…

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Scott Pruitt just destroyed one of the EPA’s core safeguards, and we may never get it back

sudshr47 October 31, 2017

In an unprecedented move, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt just issued a directive that would prohibit individuals from serving on the agency’s independent scientific advisory boards if they also receive research grant…

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