Bloomberg recently announced the creation of a new website that will provide audiences with important reporting on the economic and business implications of climate change. The move comes at a time when big businesses around the world are urging governments to take action as they increasingly recognize the reality and the risk of climate change.
Source: Bloomberg Editors On New Climate Website: Climate Change “Is Fundamentally An Economic Story”
Cyclone Cook is bearing down on New Zealand and is set to be the worst storm system in nearly 50 years.
Source: States of emergency declared as Cyclone Cook bears down on New Zealand
Two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef is now devastated by severe coral bleaching aerial surveys show, Queensland scientists say.
“Fortunately, in the United States, there are dissenting voices.”
Source: Vatican Urges Trump To Change Climate Change Position | The Huffington Post
ExxonMobil may not be considered a natural ally to the environmental movement, but these are not normal times we’re living through. Officials from the worl
Source: ExxonMobil Write Letter To Trump Urging Him To Keep Paris Climate Agreement | IFLScience
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Russian President Vladimir Putin has abruptly become a climate-change denialist, apparently …
Source: Putin joins ranks of Climate Denialists in support of Trump | Informed Comment
A supervisor at the Energy Department’s told staff this week not to use the phrases “climate change,” “emissions reduction” or “Paris Agreement” in written memos, briefings or other written communication.
Source: Climate Reality
Michael Mann vs. the House “science” committee.
Team Trump begins to roll out its plan to kill climate action, making up facts and ruining your children’s future.
Source: Four-and-a-half false statements EPA head Scott Pruitt made in just one interview
In 2016, PBS NewsHour once again surpassed its nightly news competitors in climate coverage, devoted significant airtime to a range of climate-related issues, and hosted a number of scientists. But President Donald Trump’s proposed budget would take aim at the network that has long been the nightly news leader in terms of climate co
Source: Trump’s Proposed Budget Would Cut Support For The Network Leading The Way In Climate Reporting
The average sea level around China is at its highest level
Source: China’s coastal sea levels rise to record high, experts blame climate change: Shanghaiist
For two straight years — 2015 and 2016 — atmospheric carbon dioxide has climbed by more than 3 parts per million.
Source: Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is rising at the fastest rate ever recorded – The Washington Post
Nearly 90 percent of Queensland is in drought; meanwhile severe storms linger across parts of New South Wales.
Source: Eastern Australia hit by drought and floods | News | Al Jazeera
NBC weatherman Al Roker debunked EPA head Scott Pruitt’s false claim that carbon dioxide is not a primary contributor to global warming during an appearance on MSNBC Live, explaining that there is “no credible science or scientist” to support Pruitt’s statement.During the March 10 segment, Roker addressed Pruitt’s comments on the Marc
Source: Al Roker Debunks EPA Head Scott Pruitt’s Stunning Denial On Human-Caused Climate Change
You may have noticed it’s been a bit hot lately. In fact, if you were born after 1985, you have never experienced a cooler than average month. Let’s just read that again so it really sinks in – if you were born after 1985, you have never experienced a cooler than average month. The UK…
Source: Climate change, power and coal – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Sydneysiders have endured their hottest summer since records began, with official data revealing records across the city were smashed during the 2016-17 season.
Weatherwatch If the third warmest January on record occurred during a La Niña event, scientists are asking what El Niño has in store
Source: Australia’s summer heat hints at worse to come | Environment | The Guardian
Trump’s appreciation of the environment extends only as far as the manicured grass of his golf courses.
Bushfires, floods and heatwaves are the new standard, leading climate scientists say, but they are growing fatigued trying to convince people.
As we’ve sweltered through this terrible summer – and lately, as bushfires have raged – what a comfort it’s been to know that climate change doesn’t exist and isn’t happening.
Source: What a relief that climate change doesn’t really exist
Humans are driving the warming of the Earth 170 times faster than natural forces, according to a new mathematical formula.
By Keith Antonysen Various contrarian opinions are based on the fundamental premise of anthropogenic climate change in relation to how light interacts with radiated infrared. Seth Miller, a scientist, provides some history; and then, criteria in relation to how science matters can be rationally evaluated (1). Seth Miller uses 9 criteria to show the strength…
Source: Abrupt Climate Change: there’s strength in the science – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Pressure is building on the Government to outline how it will mitigate against the biggest risks from climate change after ministers were criticised for “burying” a report highlighting the major global warming threats to Britain.
The Government has been accused of trying to bury a major report about the potential dangers of global warming to Britain – including the doubling of the deaths during heatwaves, a “significant risk” to supplies of food and the prospect of infrastructure damage from flooding. The UK Climate Change Risk Assessment Report, which by law has to be produced every five years, was published with little fanfare on the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ (Defra) website on 18 January.
Source: Government ‘tried to bury’ its own alarming report on climate change | The Independent
The world’s major meteorological agencies have declared 2016 to the hottest year on record – making it three new highs in as many years – as increases in greenhouse gases drove global warming.
Source: ‘Extreme year’: 2016 declared hottest year on record as climate change builds on big El Nino
We are not members of the Greens faction but it’s hard to understand the anger expressed at people who believe capitalism is a problem
Nearly a quarter of the Great Barrier Reef is dead and there has been no discernible political response.
Source: Death of the Great Barrier Reef: One scientist’s planetary tipping point
CC: Donald J. Trump.
Source: ‘Earth On The Edge’: EU Agency Confirms 2016 As Hottest Year On Record | The Huffington Post
Hundreds of billions in new green investments.
It now owns five of the world’s six largest solar-module manufacturing firms and the largest wind-turbine manufacturer
Source: China cementing global dominance of renewable energy and technology | Environment | The Guardian
Bureau of Meteorology’s annual climate statement cites unprecedented bushfires in regions that don’t usually burn and worst coral bleaching on record
The end of 2016 has brought balmy Arctic temperatures and record low ice extent for the time of year. It’s a freak event even by modern standards, and climate models point the finger firmly at humans.
Source: Yes, the Arctic’s freakishly warm winter is due to humans’ climate influence
In December 2015, Australia made a commitment to the global goal “to hold average temperature increase to well below 2°C and pursue efforts to keep warming below 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.” Then in March 2016, the Turnbull government signed an agreement to make a $640,000 grant to Bjørn Lomborg to write yet another climate contrarian…
Source: Bjorn again – » The Australian Independent Media Network
If Santa really lived at the North Pole his sleigh would run the risk of falling through the ice.
Source: Weird weather 2016: Year of melting ice, monster storms and Australia’s big wet
The Algerian desert town of Ain Sefra has just seen its first snowstorm in almost 40 years.
Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to go up, but the Government insists Australia can still meet its climate change targets.
Scientists at institutions in the US and Australia on Friday published a set of unprecedented ocean observations near the largest glacier of the largest ice sheet in the world: Totten glacier, East Antarctica. And the result was a troubling confirmation of what scientists already feared – Totten is melting from below.
Source: Scientists confirm that warm ocean water is melting the biggest glacier in East Antarctica
A sweaty night that has even bureau staff camping out in tents will make way for another hot day.
Source: Sydney weather: Heat, fire threats dominate until change brings cool relief
The Weather Channel has had enough of Breitbart’s bullshit. After the right-wing propaganda site used one of The Weather Channel’s (TWC) videos to make a deceptively worded argument that climate change was a hoax, America’s home for weather clapped back on Twitter: Note to @BreitbartNews: Earth Is Not Cooling, Climate Change Is Real and Stop […]
Well, most of them, anyway!
Source: Every Insane Thing Donald Trump Has Said About Global Warming | Mother Jones
Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | – – Committee’s tweet comes during hottest year on record. Displaying …
Source: Denialist GOP House “Science Committee” Retweets Fake News Breitbart
Scientists confirm this year’s mass coral bleaching event resulted in the largest die-off of corals ever recorded on the Great Barrier Reef.
The Arctic archipelago of Svalbard has seen such extreme warmth this year that the average annual temperature could end up above freezing for the first time on record, scientists have said. Ketil Isaksen of the Norwegian Meterological Institute said that the average temperature in Longyearbyen, the main settlement in Svalbard, is expected to be around 0 Celsius (32 Fahrenheit) with a little over a month left of the year.
TeleSur | – – Ice cover at the top of the globe shrank to its smallest area in 2016 —some …
This October has seen anomalously warm weather in the Arctic, at a period of the year when it should be heading towards its coldest. Usually, during the wi
Source: The Arctic Is Currently An Astonishing THIRTY SIX DEGREES Warmer Than It Should Be | IFLScience
Something is off. The Arctic is superhot, even as a vast area of cold polar air has been displaced over Siberia.
Source: The North Pole is an insane 20C warmer than normal as winter descends
The world is plotting how to push back against the climate change-denying future Trump administration. Apart from continuing on with the Paris agreement, w
Source: Europe Could Place Carbon Tax On American Goods Made Under Trump | IFLScience
The tone at the UN’s annual climate change meeting – taking place this year in Marrakech in Morocco – appears to be one of defiance, both at Trump’s electi
Source: France To Shut Down All Its Coal Power Plants By 2023 | IFLScience
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