Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) thinks that if climate change is a “real problem” then God can fix it. The Republican congressmen, who has been handsomely rewarded by Big Oil, made the remarks at a town hall in Coldwater, Michigan on Friday. “I believe there’s been climate change since the beginning of time,” he said. “I […]
After months of anticipation, President Donald Trump has made up his mind about the United States’ participation in the Paris climate agreement. According to an Axios report, Trump told “confidants,” including U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt, that the U.S. will leave the landmark accord, fulfilling a long-held campaign pledge. Axios cites “three sources […]
From severe coral bleaching to rising sea levels, climate change is drastically impacting the health of our oceans. However, these facts seem to evade the President of the United States. The Trump administration’s notorious skepticism of global warming is affecting plans for the upcoming United Nations ocean conference, according to Sweden’s deputy prime minister, Isabella […]
By Tim Radford Australian scientists have warned that planetary average temperatures could breach the internationally agreed target barrier of a 1.5°C rise as early as 2026. Although global warming is driven by human behavior—and in particular the prodigal burning of fossil fuels at an ever-accelerating rate to dump ever-greater quantities of carbon dioxide in the […]
By Simon Evans The U.S. has no plan yet for how to meet its 2020 climate target and has made no analysis of the impact of recent policy changes, according to an official submission to the UN. The details emerged in a series of terse, repetitive answers to an international climate action peer-review process, known […]
By Nika Knight A new report shows that many previous estimates of global sea level rise by 2100 were far too conservative, the Washington Post reported Thursday, and the research comes as new maps and graphics from Climate Central vividly show how disastrous that flooding will be for U.S. cities. The report, Snow, Water, Ice […]
President Donald Trump‘s top advisors and cabinet officials will debate whether the U.S. should pull out of the Paris climate change agreement. The landmark accord, which aims to keep global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius, was agreed upon by nearly 200 countries in 2015. The Hill reported that the meeting is aimed […]
By Johannes Friedrich, Mengpin Ge and Andrew Pickens A lot has happened since countries met in Paris in 2015 and agreed on an accord to combat climate change. So far, more than 140 countries have ratified or otherwise joined the Paris agreement, representing more than 80 percent of global emissions. Several major economies, including Canada, […]
By Nadia Prupis U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Scott Pruitt on Thursday explicitly called for the U.S. to remove itself from the Paris climate agreement, one of his strongest remarks yet expressing his opposition to the landmark deal to keep global warming below 2°C. “Paris is something we need to look at closely. It’s […]
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