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Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts
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Friday, April 8, 2016

Why Warmer Winters Will Affect Nearly Every Aspect Of Human Life

For many, the winters we remember from childhood are becoming just that: memories. Winter’s record warmth in recent years — especially the shockingly high temperatures during the first months of 2016 — has become a frightening harbinger of a world to come....
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/19/3761760/warmer-winters-impacts/


Thursday, April 7, 2016

Climate Deniers’ Favorite Temperature Dataset Just Confirmed Global Warming

February smashed monthly global temperature records, according to the satellite data analyzed by the University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH). At the same time, a brand new study concludes that miscalculations explain why the Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) satellite temperature dataset had appeared to show a relatively slow rate of global warming....
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/02/3755715/satellites-hottest-february-global-warming/


Saturday, April 2, 2016

Kasich Bashes Clean Energy And Climate Action At Ohio Town Hall

At a town hall event in Ohio’s manufacturing hub on Sunday, Republican presidential candidate John Kasich criticized Secretary of State John Kerry for traveling to Paris to fight climate change, and said clean energy was too expensive for the region. The Ohio governor’s remarks came in response to a constituent who asked how he would “implement clean energy and green jobs” in Youngstown if elected president. The questioner noted that clean energy was important to fighting human-caused climate change, and that Kerry had recently travelled to Paris to negotiate an international deal to reduce emissions...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/14/3759893/kasich-clean-energy-climate-change-ohio/


Friday, April 1, 2016

British Columbia’s Carbon Tax Has Been So Successful That Businesses Want To Increase It

A carbon tax may be a controversial topic in the United States, but in one Canadian province, this eight-year-old policy has been such a success that on Wednesday more than 100 businesses said they support a tax increase...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/31/3765312/canadian-business-support-carbon-tax-increase/

Study Confirms World’s Coastal Cities Unsavable If We Don’t Slash Carbon Pollution

This latest research from the journal Nature underscores that what the nation and the world do in the next decade or two will determine whether or not cities like Miami, Boston, New York, or New Orleans have any plausible chance to survive by 2100...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/31/3765266/coastal-cites-carbon-pollution/

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

This One Chart Shows How Crazy Trump’s Climate Positions Are

Now that the results from Super Tuesday are in, we can officially pivot to considering Donald Trump as the most likely Republican presidential nominee. November will see a Trump v. Clinton or a Trump v. Sanders face-off, barring a few, impressively over-analyzed scenarios. With that in mind, ThinkProgress wanted to revisit our climate and energy candidate chart, where we help voters understand where candidates stand.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/02/3755772/trump-v-clinton-v-sanders-on-climate/


Friday, March 25, 2016

A Brief History Of Canada’s Stunning About-Face on Climate Change

Newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Obama are expected to sign onto a joint climate change strategy during Trudeau’s upcoming visit to Washington. The agreement, to be approved this week, will likely touch on automotive fuel standards and include measures to spur the adoption of electric vehicles.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/09/3757245/canada-energy-history/

Should Kids Be Able to Sue for a Safe Climate? This Federal Court Is About to Decide

Twenty-one kids were in court yesterday to demand a climate fix.....
http://www.alternet.org/environment/should-kids-be-able-sue-safe-climate-federal-court-about-decide








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