Awareness of climate change is growing in the U.S., but the country still has some catching up to do when compared to other wealthy nations. A 23-country poll found that the U.S. led rich nations in the percentage of people who said that climate change was not caused by humans, The Guardian reported Wednesday. Thirteen […]
Today women and their allies celebrate International Women’s Day. This year, the theme for the day—and the campaign that will run all year—is promoting a gender balanced world. “A balanced world is a better world,” the day’s organizers write. They are asking people around the world to take a picture of themselves making the #BallanceforBeter […]
The White House is assembling a climate change panel to be headed by a known climate denier who once took money from a coal company to testify at a hearing and who has compared criticism of carbon dioxide to Hitler’s demonization of the Jews. William Happer, a Princeton physicist who has never trained as a […]
Budweiser’s parent company is continuing to associate with groups with anti-climate agendas and ties to dark money, despite several ads aired during Sunday night’s Super Bowl that portray the beverage giant as environmentally friendly, The New Republic reports. Three of eight commercials aired by Anheuser-Busch on Sunday had themes around renewable energy, water conservation and […]
Former coal lobbyist and acting U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler has named a climate denier to serve on the agency’s Science Advisory Board, which is responsible for giving independent policy advice. Among eight new members added to the board Thursday is University of Alabama in Huntsville atmospheric science professor John Christy, who […]
U.S. opinion on climate change is still highly polarized, with 82 percent of Democrats and only around 25 percent of Republicans ranking it a “very serious” problem, according to a November poll from Monmouth University. However, that divide is weakening. The same poll found that 64 percent of Republicans now acknowledge that it is happening, […]
By Jessica Corbett The Midwestern U.S. is currently enduring life-threatening cold temperatures—which these days all but ensures, as so many climate reporters and experts anticipated, an ignorant and even infuriating tweet from President Donald Trump conflating weather and climate. Late Monday, Trump tweeted about the brutal and dangerous wind chills hitting the middle of the […]
A record number of Americans now say that global warming is “personally important” to them, according to the latest Climate Change and the American Mind survey released Tuesday by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC) and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication. That number has jumped to 72 percent, up […]
President Donald Trump has once again contradicted the findings of the U.S. government when it comes to the threat posed by climate change. Days after a Department of Defense report outlined how climate-related events like wildfires and flooding put U.S. military installations at risk, Trump took to Twitter to mock the idea that the world […]
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