Americans Take Global Warming More Seriously Now Than They Have In 8 Years

“I think the unseasonably warm winter has a lot to do with this [change], because people were able to experience first-hand global warming,” said Feinberg, adding that all the attention around the Paris agreement also influenced people’s opinion...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/18/3761720/climate-change-worries-increase/

February Didn't Just Break Climate Change Records – It Totally Obliterated Them

We are currently swamping the Earth’s ability to absorb greenhouse gases. And it just keeps getting dramatically worse...
http://www.alternet.org/environment/february-didnt-just-break-climate-change-records-it-totally-obliterated-them

Hottest Winter On Record By Far Drives Devastating Weather Disasters Globally

This extreme warmth — caused primarily by the accelerating human-caused global warming trend (with a boost from El Niño) — is a key reason a number of countries have already “set records for the all-time most expensive weather-related disaster in their nations’ history” this year, as meteorologist Jeff Masters has explained...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/17/3761359/hottest-winter-weather-disasters/

Climate Change Will Lead To More Harmful Algal Blooms

The waters are warming, the sea ice is melting … Those conditions, without a doubt, are more favorable for algal growth...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/15/3760245/toxic-algae-climate-change-pacific/

Surging Renewables Keep Global CO2 Flat As Economy Grows

What happened? The IEA says its “data suggest that electricity generated by renewables played a critical role, having accounted for around 90% percent of new electricity generation in 2015.” Yes, a whopping nine out of 10 new power plants in 2015 were renewable — and five out of 10 were wind...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/16/3760809/renewables-global-co2-flat/

SCOTUS Stalls Clean Power Plan (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

The historic Paris agreement on fighting climate change nine weeks ago was based on the premise that everybody was in on the fight. One-hundred and ninety-five countries. The US, right up front with a very public commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Now the U.S. Supreme Court has thrown the brakes on the heart of the American promise to the world – cleaning up US power plants. They haven’t killed the plan yet, but they’re signaling they could. This hour On Point, climate change, the constitution, and the U.S. Supreme Court. — Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2016/02/11/scotus-clean-power-block

China Redoubles Its War On Coal

“In a nutshell, Beijing has been watching this play out just like all of us, and now they are stepping in to fix it. So much of this is top-down policy so we often see them turn one dial, watch what happens, then realize they need to turn another one to get what they want. They were already dialing up on the shut-down of existing inefficient plants. Now they are dialing down the new-construction pipeline.”
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/02/29/3753342/china-war-coal/

Real Time with Bill Maher: New Rule – The Empathy Gap (HBO)

In his editorial New Rule, Bill Maher calls out Republicans for refusing to get on the humane side of an issue unless they have been personally affected by it. Original air date: March 4, 2016.
Interview:
https://youtu.be/BVwFmdipfZg

Science Has Found a Brilliant New Use for Your Kitchen Scraps

Turns out, dumping compost on grasslands can do a suprising amount for the planet.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/compost-sequester-marin-carbon-project-emissions

Obama: None of the GOP candidates have climate change plan

"There is not a single candidate in the Republican primary that thinks we should do anything about climate change."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/01/barack-obama/obama-none-gop-candidates-have-climate-change-plan/

Krugman: This Presidential Election Is an Up or Down Vote on the Survival of Humanity

The Republican Party has somehow managed to get even more destructive in eight years...
http://www.alternet.org/environment/krugman-presidential-election-or-down-vote-survival-humanity

Leonardo DiCaprio Uses Best Actor Speech to Blast the “Politics of Greed”

"Climate change is real, it is happening right now," DiCaprio said, to applause. "It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating."
http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2016/02/leonardo-dicaprio-oscar-win-climate

Many Of The World’s Pollinators Are Facing Extinction, Report Warns

The report, released Friday by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), is a two-year assessment of the threats facing pollinators — both vertebrates, such as birds and bats, and invertebrates, such as bees, butterflies, and other insects. It noted that, in some regions, 40 percent of invertebrate pollinator species are so threatened by myriad environmental impacts that they’re facing extinction, with butterflies and bees seeing the highest risk. Among vertebrates, 16.5 percent of species are threatened by extinction worldwide. Pollinators are a major group: there are 20,000 species of wild bees across the globe, the report notes, and many of them haven’t been identified yet...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/02/26/3754235/pollinators-ipbes-report/

Seared by climate change, Nicaragua’s small farmers face food crisis

Environmental and charitable groups call on Sandinista government to respond to hunger and drought...
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2016/2/24/seared-by-climate-change-nicaraguas-small-farmers-face-food-crisis.html

The World's Biggest Climate Culprit Will Shut Down 1,000 Coal Plants This Year

With deeper cuts to follow.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/china-coal-power-plants-1000-shut-down

Lawmakers Call For An Investigation Into Shell’s Climate Policies

Three Democratic lawmakers have sent a letter to the Justice Department calling for an investigation into whether Royal Dutch Shell knowingly misled the public about the dangers of climate change...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/02/19/3751279/shell-climate-investigation/

New Republican Super PAC Will Support Clean Energy Candidates

"No one is currently providing enough support to candidates who embrace conservative clean energy principles..."
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/02/19/3750787/republican-clean-energy-pac/

Climate Change Is Decimating Maine's Lobster Population

The outbreaks are so lethal, according to a biologist involved in both studies, that at least one species of sea star has vanished off the coasts of Washington and British Columbia and the lobster fishery, already decimated in southern New England, will likely be threatened in Maine...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/grub-street/climate-change-is-decimat_b_9277194.html

What's going on with polar ice sheets?

With the Arctic and Antarctic experiencing below average, if not record-low, sea-ice coverage, climate and polar researchers are scrambling to quantify how ice-loss could effect global sea levels...
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0210/What-s-going-on-with-polar-ice-sheets

What was done to stop the Porter Ranch leak?

After 16 weeks, a California utility was finally able to temporarily stop the flow of a methane gas leak in Porter Ranch...
https://youtu.be/vegX7xQLsyU