We’re going the way of the dinosaur
“Civilizations have throughout history marched blindly toward disaster, because humans are wired to believe that tomorrow will be much like today,” says Roy Scranton in The New York Times. But we are...
View ArticleIs extreme cold snap more proof of global warming?
A few days of record-breaking cold weather don’t “change the overall trajectory of a warming planet” and may actually be evidence of climate change; warmer temperatures in the North Pole weaken the jet...
View ArticleMap illustrates climate change
Chris Amico and Peter Aldhous from New Scientist magazine have created an interactive graphic to illustrate global climate change. They used data from a scientific study that measured the earth’s...
View ArticleClimate change crisis fueled by inaction
Despite warnings about how chlorofluorocarbons were harming the earth’s atmosphere, it was only after scientists discovered an ozone hole over the South Pole that world leaders banned its use, says...
View ArticleWith heat comes hunger
Our opinion: A new report on climate change underscores the consequences of denial. That one in six adults are hungry in America is alarming. That one in five children are hungry is appalling. And what...
View ArticleMaps show how climate change is affecting U.S.
Based on new research on global warming, Brad Plumer in Vox has compiled nine maps to illustrate how climate change is affecting the United States with most regions getting hotter, and some areas, such...
View ArticleThere’s no practical fix for climate change
Missing from the climate-change debate is the recognition that we have no solution, says Robert Samuelson in The Washington Post. With no practical replacement for fossil fuels, and no government...
View ArticleClimate can kill civilizations
Those who shrug off global warming should study history, because “climate change has been leading to global conflict — and even the collapse of civilizations — for more than 3,000 years,” says Eric...
View ArticleThe EPA turns up the heat
Our opinion: New carbon pollution regulations are encouraging; the energy industry, and politicians, must rise to the challenges of climate change. The ink was barely dry on the Environmental...
View ArticleCall to action on climate
Former secretary of the Treasury Henry M. Paulson Jr., a lifelong Republican, has a stern message for his fellow members of the GOP: Stop arguing about evidence of global warming and take firm action...
View ArticleUp in the sky, a lesson
Our opinion: Can the U.S. and other countries bring to climate change the kind of focused effort they devoted to the ozone layer? More than three decades after the human beings began taking steps to...
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By agreeing to new reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the U.S. and China have elevated the importance of international climate cooperation and demonstrated a willingness to make economic...
View ArticleSkeptics: Deniers aren’t skeptics
Skeptical scientists object to putting climate deniers in the same camp with them. I suspect the Flat Earth Society will join this movement as well. But seriously: The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry,...
View ArticleWeather panic is good for business
It’s important to warn people about dangerous storms, but it’s “a technological nightmare to have our understanding of climate, environment and weather co-opted by bubbleheads and hysterics and...
View ArticleDairy farms can help energy woes
By Catherine Spirito, Commentary As U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer recently declared, New York is “the Silicon Valley of Greek yogurt”. When you buy a container of yogurt from Chobani or Fage, it likely...
View ArticleLancet: Global warming a major health threat
“The effects of climate change are being felt today, and future projections represent an unacceptably high and potentially catastrophic risk to human health,” declares The Lancet’s Commission on Health...
View ArticleObama’s plan piece of climate aims
President Barack Obama’s administration this week released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a sweeping U.S. Environmental Protection Agency program that aims to cut U.S. greenhouse-gas...
View ArticleCruz ignores facts on global warming
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz recently seized on testimony by Sierra Club President Aaron Mair (a longtime Albany activist) to make scientists appear close-minded to debate on global warming when it’s because of...
View ArticleGOP acts as shill for Exxon-Mobil (link added)
“It’s not surprising, given its army of first-rate scientists and engineers, that Exxon was aware as far back as the 1970s that carbon dioxide from oil and gas burning could have dire effects on the...
View ArticleClimate change is already upon us
Even if world leaders agree to take immediate and drastic measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions, climatologists say the Earth’s surface temperature will still increase “by at least 2 degrees...
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