Climate Change
After China announced plans to ban new diesel and gasoline-powered cars, California Gov. Jerry Brown is said to be considering the same option.
Virgin Group founder Richard Branson called out President Donald Trump’s refusal to accept the science of climate change.
When EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt says it’s insensitive to Floridians and Texans to talk about climate change during hurricane emergencies, I say he missed the boat as to what’s truly insensitive.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Scott Pruitt called discussion of climate change during Hurricane Irma “misplaced” in a Thursday interview with CNN.
This is the first time that three hurricanes have the potential to make landfall at the same time. This satellite animation shows Category 4 Hurricane Irma approach the Bahamas, followed by Hurricane Jose approaching the Leeward Islands. And, hurricane Katia continues to spin in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico.
“Quite simply,” wrote Eric Holthaus for Grist overnight, “meteorologists never expected a storm like Irma. The storm appears to have exceeded (or is about to exceed) the maximum theoretical strength for a hurricane in its environment — an estimate based on current water temperature and other conditions.”
Droughts in Somalia. Water rationing in Rome. Flooding in Jakarta. It doesn’t take a hydrologist to realize that there is a growing global water crisis.
The researchers report that by using neural network technology, the computer predicted temperatures rising in roughly the same way as they have based on real-world measures—in the absence of added carbon dioxide—which suggests that carbon dioxide is not the cause.
The report closes by offering numerous ways to tackle inequality, which are broken down into four categories, including policies that would “lift the floor, level the playing field, break up the over-concentration of wealth, and check unbridled corporate power.”
Trump pulls U.S. out of Paris Accord. Watch moments of his speech and The Young Turks analysis of his decision.
The new report, “Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic,” found that previous estimates of sea level rise didn’t account enough for the fast pace of melting ice in the Arctic and Greenland. Climate Central created 3D visualizations of what U.S. cities will look like in NOAA’s most extreme scenario.
Scientiss at IIASS want us to know how important the next 10 years are for changing our energy habits. Here’s what they suggest.
Peter Tans, the lead scientist at NOAA says, “The rate of CO2 growth over the last decade is 100 to 200 times faster than what the Earth experienced during the transition from the last Ice Age.” Read more about this…
The “dust bowl” of the 20th century was bad, but according to Nasa and Cornell University, the megadrought of this century will be even worse.
Big banks are still funding extreme fossil fuels. Read this and be informed!
