Conservative lawmaker Scott Morrison has forced out Malcolm Turnbull as Australian prime minister, the third time the country’s leader has sunk over climate policy in the past decade, and the seventh since 1997, according to Australia’s ABC News. An internal Liberal party row started when Turnbull proposed modest emissions targets for the country’s energy sector. […]
The Trump administration announced a new plan Thursday to fight ongoing wildfires with more logging, and with no mention of additional funding or climate change. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke stated in a Fox Business interview that the fires are so intense because the forests have “been held hostage by environmental groups” to prevent proper management […]
Much like his boss, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will blame anything but climate change for California’s ongoing wildfires and insists that clearing trees will help reduce the risk of fires spreading. “I’ve heard the climate change argument back and forth,” Zinke, who is currently touring communities devastated by the massive Carr Fire, told Sacramento’s KCRA. […]
By Andy Rowell The disconnect could not be greater. As wildfires raged across the U.S. last week, inflamed by climate change, Trump officials attended the America First Energy Conference, where delegates heard age-old fossil fuel arguments that, amongst others, carbon dioxide makes the planet greener and could not be creating a climate crisis. The conference […]
As California faces record-breaking blazes across the state, its Department of Corrections tweeted this week that more than 2,000 inmates are working as firefighters, prompting new debate over this aspect of prison labor. Today, more than 2,000 volunteer inmate firefighters, including 58 youth offenders, are battling wildfire flames throughout CA. Inmate firefighters serve a vital […]
The destructive wildfires currently raging in the American West have produced so much smoke that it can be observed in the majority of U.S. states, the Weather Channel reported. Varying concentrations of smoke have spread as far east as Lake Superior and Hudson Bay, and as far south as Baja, California, the National Oceanic and […]
California’s disastrous wildfire season has surpassed last year’s historically destructive season in at least one respect. The Mendocino Complex Fire nearly doubled over the weekend, taking the title of largest in California’s history from last year’s Thomas Fire, CNN reported Tuesday. “It’s not stopping,” Red Cross disaster services worker Renato Lira told The Guardian. “People […]
President Donald Trump tweeted for the first time about the deadly wildfires ravaging California that have killed nine people, destroyed hundreds of buildings and charred hundreds of thousands of acres. Trump did not offer condolences. Rather, the president tweeted Sunday that the wildfires are “being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental […]
The record high temperatures scorching the Northern Hemisphere this summer are not relenting as August kicks off. A 15-day stretch of over 35-degree Celsius weather in South Korea has led to the deaths of 29 people from heatstroke, the South Korean Ministry of Health, Welfare and Disease Control said, as CNN reported Friday. And on […]
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