A senior Nasa scientist has told Donald Trump he is wrong if he thinks climate change is not happening and warned the President-elect that government scientists are “not going to stand” for any interference with their work. Mr Trump has described global warming as a “hoax” perpetrated by China, vowed to unratify the landmark Paris Agreement and appointed a renowned climate-change denier to a senior environmental position in his transition team.
Choosing Myron Ebell means Trump plans to drastically reshape climate policies
Source: Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition – Scientific American
The world was making fragile progress on global warming. Trump wants to blow it all up.
Source: There’s no way around it: Donald Trump is going to be a disaster for the planet – Vox
Scientists are witnessing the theoretical turning into reality: infectious microbes emerging from a deep freeze
Source: What lies beneath: As earth warms, diseases within permafrost become a bigger worry – Salon.com
Scientists just measured 400 ppm of atmospheric CO2 in September for the first time, so that means levels won’t be lower at any other point this year — or ever again in our lifetime.
Source: Global carbon emissions just crossed a scary threshhold — permanently | VICE News
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Summer of 2016 was not only hotter than any summer on record, i.e. since …
Source: The last Time Summer was this Hot, Human beings hadn’t yet Left Africa
New projections suggest the world could warm 3-7 degrees C over coming centuries.
Revealed under freedom of information, cost came before Copenhagen Consensus Centre’s controversial $4m Australian program dropped
‘Tremendous loss’ of ice reinforces clear downward trend towards ice-free summers due to effects of climate change
Source: Arctic sea ice shrinks to second lowest level ever recorded | Environment | The Guardian
By Amy Goodman and Denis MoynihanWhile any one extreme weather event can’t be directly attributed to climate change, storms, droughts, wildfires, floods and hurricanes all are expected to become more frequent and more severe as the planet warms.
Source: Climate Change and the 1,000-year Flood in Baton Rouge: When Will We Learn? | Democracy Now!
Australia’s stance on climate change and coal puts it increasingly at odds with its Pacific island neighbours.
A new study has found that the Coalition’s “Direct Action” plan has not provided the impetus required for polluters to take responsibility for carbon emissions.
Source: Australia’s biggest emitters say Coalition’s Direct Action is ineffective
Craig Kelly says he wants wind and solar funding to be redirected to research into ‘technological breakthroughs’ because existing renewables had ‘little effect’
Source: Coalition environment committee chairman takes aim at solar subsidies | Environment | The Guardian
As the world endures a third straight year of record-breaking heat, a new study has given fresh insight into what global warming is likely to mean for Australians if it is not curbed.
Source: Climate change: Warning of extreme events and a move into uncharted territory
Why is the DCCC ignoring a golden opportunity to replace noted science denier– Science Committee chairman Lamar Smith in their quest to “Turn Texas Blue”?
Source: The GOP Would Rather Fight Science Than Climate Change | Crooks and Liars
At this point, you’re probably fully aware of how hot it is. But in case you’re unaware: It’s really, really hot.In fact, 2016 is likely to be the hottest
Source: This Is What Earth Will Look Like In 100 Years – If We’re Lucky | IFLScience
The year 2016 continues to set historic heat records with July officially becoming the hottest month ever recorded on Earth. NASA revealed that temperatures last month peaked above the previous record set five years ago.
Source: July 2016 hottest month ever recorded on Earth — RT News
Are India’s extreme weather patterns more evidence of global climate change?
Source: India climate: What do drowning rhinos and drought tell us? – BBC News
A report card on climate change policies around the world has ranked countries according to the progress they have made towards combating global warming, with the UK coming second in the list.
Source: How does YOUR country rank on climate change? | Daily Mail Online
Every so often elections matter. The last one mattered big-time for carbon emissions.
Source: Election 2016: Behind the battlelines there’s surprising agreement on climate change
Following the warmest April on record, ferocious storms lash the east coast of Australia. You would think climate change in action would be an election circuit breaker. But it’s not.
Source: The Insider – New Matilda
As Sydneysiders recover from the storm that battered the city, Australians are wondering just how many ‘once in a lifetime’ natural disasters they will have to live through before finally addressing climate change. The Sydney Storm joins an ever increasing list of ‘once in a lifetime’ disasters that have hit fifteen or sixteen times throughout the average Australian’s lifetime. Some younger Australians have had the good fortune to experience six ‘once in a lifetime’ weather events in their first ten years of life.
Source: Australians Recovering From Their Fifteenth ‘Once In A Lifetime’ Disaster. | SBS Comedy
As coastal properties have been eaten up by the sea, and rainfall records smashed, people have inevitably started asking whether the savage storm that lashed Sydney over the weekend was exacerbated by climate change. At this stage it’s impossible to draw a causative link between global warming and the dramatic storm system, but a numberMore
Source: Did Climate Change Play A Part In The Sydney Storm? – New Matilda
Climate change is already hurting communities and damaging prosperity.
Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef is clearly at risk from climate change, so why would UNESCO agree to censor its own report?
Universities are wonderful places. They are centers of learning, thinking, and social experimentation, and at least some of them prize truth for its own sake. They are also one of society’s special tools for solving problems.
Source: Are Universities Actively Thwarting Efforts to Combat Climate Change? | The Nation
A major climate change marker is about to be passed.
Source: Global warming milestone about to be passed and there’s no going back
At least five reef islands in the remote Solomon Islands are lost completely to sea level rise and coastal erosion, and a further six islands are severely eroded.
Failure to consider the risk of climate change could trigger another global financial crisis, former Liberal leader John Hewson warns.
As we’re sure you all know by now, climate change is happening, and it is almost certainly due to us. The burning of fossil fuels since the late 1800s has put more carbon into the atmosphere at a rate not seen since the age of the dinosaurs.
Source: Five Reasons Not To Care About Climate Change | IFLScience
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Researchers at Germany’s Max Planck Institute and their scientific partners have …
Source: Will Climate Change make the Mideast Uninhabitable & trigger mass exodus?
Climate Institute says regulations to phase out coal-fired generators and subsidies to encourage clean energy are needed
Together with his footsoldiers in politics and the media, Tony Abbott has succeeded in muddying the public’s understanding of climate change.
Source: Tony Abbott’s harmful legacy lives on in climate silence
by Nadia Prupis, staff writer | (( Commondreams.org) | – – “Once you take into account growth of population, the …
Source: Climate Change: 13 Million Americans in Path of slow-motion sea rise Tsunami | Informed Comment
By James Dyke | (The Conversation) | – – And another one bites the dust. The year 2014 was the …
Source: Climate Godzilla Stirs: Heat and CO2 Records ‘Obliterated’
If economists are to help us deal with global warming, they need to start studying science.
Australia’s chief scientist uses an appearance on Q&A to warn the planet is losing the battle against climate change, after new data shows February set a completely unprecedented record.
Climate scientists have long been pressed to answer the question “did climate change cause this?” in the days following the most recent devastating weather event. A watershed report (pdf) released Thursday helps those scientists to more conclusively answer: “yes.” The report, authored by the Washington, D.C.-based National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), outlines a system to determine which extreme weather events are caused by climate change and to what extent.
Australia grapples with a seemingly endless summer, as every state and territory swelters through hotter than usual March temperatures, BoM says.
Just weeks after we learned budget cuts to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) will force the loss of 110 climate researchers at the agency, the Federal Government is funding a new ‘growth centre’ for the fossil fuel industry. Christopher Pyne, the Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science, announced this week that the government willMore
When it comes to swelling oceans that threaten coastal communities around the world, it’s bad, and it’s going to get worse. Sea levels are rising faster than they have in the last three millennia, and that rate continues to accelerate due to the burning of fossil fuels, according to new research published Monday. “Our study is for sea level what the now well-confirmed famous ‘hockey stick’ diagram was for global temperature.”—Stefan Rahmstorf, Potsdam University
El Niño is causing global food crisis, UN
Source: El Niño is causing global food crisis, UN warns | Global development | The Guardian
Ted Cruz has presented ‘misleading’ information in the Senate, scientists say, while Marco Rubio rejects ‘destroying our economy’ – despite pleas for action coming from officials in his own state
Source: Republicans reject climate change fears despite rebukes from scientists | US news | The Guardian
How screwed are we as a species? Very.
Source: 2015 Broke A New Climate Change Record And It’s Bad News For The Planet «
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