Scientists say Ocasio-Cortez’s dire climate warning is spot on. Back in October, the nations of the world unanimously approved a landmark report from scientists warning that we must make sharp reductions in global carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 to have any plausible chance of averting catastrophic climate change.
This report — published by the U.N. Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040. In addition, it said, the United States along with Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam are home to 50 million people who will be exposed to the effects of increased coastal flooding by 2040, if 2.7 degrees of warming occur.
At 3.6 degrees of warming, the report predicts a “disproportionately rapid evacuation” of people from the tropics. “In some parts of the world, national borders will become irrelevant,” said Aromar Revi, director of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements and an author of the report. SR15. Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040. U.S. Climate Alliance. No new 'ice age' likely in Earth's future. The Myth of Scott Pruitt’s EPA Rollback.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s spiraling ethics scandals and perilous job status were big news this week, but he also made headlines with his latest assault on President Barack Obama’s environmental legacy.
“Pruitt Announces Rollback of Obama-Era Auto Fuel Efficiency Rule,” ABC News reported. “EPA’s Pruitt Kills Obama’s Auto Rules,” the Washington Examiner put it. The New York Times analyzed how the furor over Pruitt’s behavior has overshadowed his triumphs over regulation: “For Scott Pruitt, a Spotlight Shines on His Ethics, Not His EPA Rollbacks.” But Pruitt did not kill or roll back Obama’s strict fuel-efficiency standards; he merely announced his intention to launch a process that could eventually weaken them. In fact, Pruitt has not yet killed or rolled back any significant regulations that were in place when President Donald Trump took office. Story Continued Below. Cambridge Analytica's Fossil Fuel Connections. Global Warming Concern Steady Despite Some Partisan Shifts.
Story Highlights Partisan gaps across global-warming measures slightly wider than in 2017Democrats view global warming seriously; Republicans view it skeptically69% of Republicans, 4% Democrats say global warming is exaggerated This story is part of a special series on Americans' views of the environment, global warming and energy.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans' concerns about global warming are not much different from the record-high levels they were at a year ago. However, the views of some partisans have shifted, creating larger gaps than what Gallup saw last year across all questions about global warming. Trump Tweets About the Bitter Cold and Global Warming, Confusing Weather and Climate. President Trump tweeted about the cold snap hitting the East Coast.He seemed to confuse the difference between weather and climate.
President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday that "we could use a little bit of that good old global warming" in response to the bitter cold hitting the East Coast this week, but seems to confuse weather with climate. The Trump administration has proven time and again that it ignores science, including the recently released, Congressionally-mandated National Climate Assessment, which found "no convincing alternative explanation" for climate change over the past 100 years other than "human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse gases. " NASA makes this distinction: "weather is what conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere 'behaves' over relatively long periods of time.
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Fossil Fuel Industry Depends on Subsidies and Climate Denial Oil Change International October 2017 Download the full report. A new report by Oil Change International reveals that U.S. taxpayers continue to foot the bill for more than $20 billion in fossil fuel subsidies each year. The analysis outlines tax incentives, credits, low royalty rates, and other government measures benefiting the oil, gas, and coal sectors. Environmentalists get win in US coal-climate change lawsuit. FILE - In this April 30, 2007, file photo, a shovel prepares to dump a load of coal into a 320-ton truck at the Arch Coal Inc.
-owned Black Thunder mine in Wright, Wyo. A federal appeals court has sided with environmentalists trying to block mining at the two biggest coal mines in the U.S. on the grounds the coal contributes to climate change. (Matthew Brown, File/Associated Press) By Mead Gruver | AP By Mead Gruver | AP September 15 at 4:01 PM CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Handing a major victory to environmentalists, a court cast doubt Friday on a longstanding U.S. government argument that blocking federal coal leasing won’t affect climate change because the coal could simply be mined elsewhere.
Federal Scientists' Startling Climate Report Released Before Trump Can Bury It. What's Really Warming the World? Climate deniers blame natural factors; NASA data proves otherwise. Climate scientists tend not to report climate results in whole temperatures. Instead, they talk about how the annual temperature departs from an average, or baseline.
They call these departures "anomalies. " They do this because temperature anomalies are more consistent in an area than absolute temperatures are. What's Really Warming the World? Climate deniers blame natural factors; NASA data proves otherwise. Donald Trump's Proposed EPA Cuts Would Affect Public-Health Programs - The Atlantic. Mick Mulvaney, President Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, described the administration’s new spending proposal as a “hard-power budget,” and by design it echoes President Trump’s top campaign priorities—namely, national security.
But to create additional funding for defense programs and immigration enforcement, the budget would cut funding to the Environmental Protection Agency by 31 percent. The EPA isn’t the only agency slated to suffer, but it is absorbing the largest blow. Faced with a cut of $2.6 billion, it would stand to lose approximately one-third of its total budget, cutting its resources to the lowest level in 40 years, adjusted for inflation.
The cuts to the EPA are significantly greater than those suggested by congressional Republicans—who proposed a modest $291 million cut from former President Obama’s last budget request—and they’re achieved in part by eliminating 3,200 positions, one-fifth of the staff. GE CEO Immelt knocks Trump on climate. General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt says President Donald Trump’s imagination is at work if he doesn’t believe in climate change science or the Paris agreement that President Barack Obama signed onto before leaving office.
And Immelt is calling on other companies to step up to fill the void that the administration is leaving behind. Story Continued Below “Companies must be resilient and learn to adjust to political volatility all over the world," Immelt wrote Wednesday in an internal company blog post obtained by POLITICO. "Companies must have their own ‘foreign policy’ and create technology and solutions that address local needs for our customers and society.” The CEO Of General Electric Just Called On US Companies To Defy Trump.
One of America’s most influential CEOs, Jeff Immelt of General Electric, just took President Trump to task for his dangerous anti-climate and anti-science agenda.
POLITICO just revealed that “Immelt is calling on other companies to step up to fill the void that the administration is leaving behind,” as per an internal memo obtained by the news outlet. In the missive, Immelt politely questions Trump’s mental faculties by saying his “imagination is at work” and calls on other American companies to pick up the baton that the White House has so carelessly discarded. I am an Arctic researcher. Donald Trump is deleting my citations. As an Arctic researcher, I’m used to gaps in data. Just over 1% of US Arctic waters have been surveyed to modern standards. In truth, some of the maps we use today haven’t been updated since the second world war. Navigating uncharted waters can prove difficult, but it comes with the territory of working in such a remote part of the world. Over the past two months though, I’ve been navigating a different type of uncharted territory: the deleting of what little data we have by the Trump administration.
CLIMATE & SECURITY CONFERENCE REVEALS DISTURBING ATTITUDE SHIFT. By Mark Hughes, SanDiego350 February 22, 2017 (San Diego’s East County) - On February 21, 2017, an audience of approximately 75 attended the Security & Climate Change: Issues and Perspectives conference, held in the Veterans Museum at Balboa Park. Organized and funded by The Center for Climate and Security (with the support of The San Diego Foundation and Skoll Global Threats Fund). The program focused on the threat climate change imposes on world stability, the burden it puts on the US military, and what they, as well as our local and state governments, are doing to plan for the consequences. The conference was followed by a screening of a new documentary entitled "The Age of Consequences. " Humans causing climate to change 170 times faster than natural forces.
For the first time, researchers have developed a mathematical equation to describe the impact of human activity on the earth, finding people are causing the climate to change 170 times faster than natural forces. The equation was developed in conjunction with Professor Will Steffen, a climate change expert and researcher at the Australian National University, and was published in the journal The Anthropocene Review. The authors of the paper wrote that for the past 4.5bn years astronomical and geophysical factors have been the dominating influences on the Earth system. The Earth system is defined by the researchers as the biosphere, including interactions and feedbacks with the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere and upper lithosphere.
But over the past six decades human forces “have driven exceptionally rapid rates of change in the Earth system,” the authors wrote, giving rise to a period known as the Anthropocene. Bogus Daily Mail Story Spearheads Latest Right-Wing Assault On Climate Change Science. Daily Mail Deceptively Attacked NOAA Climate Scientists, Distorted Their Research Daily Mail: Scientists “Manipulated” Data To Exaggerate Global Warming And Influence World Leaders Ahead Of UN Climate Conference. In an article headlined “Exposed: How world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming data,” Daily Mail writer David Rose asserted that NOAA “rushed to publish a landmark paper that exaggerated global warming and was timed to influence the historic Paris Agreement on climate change.” Mashable. The climate-denial camp has new ammunition: A widely refuted Daily Mail article that claims top U.S. climate scientists exaggerated their data for a 2015 study to "dupe" world leaders into adopting the Paris Climate Agreement.
That agreement, which went into force in November 2016, for the first time committed the world to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. For his incendiary story, British journalist David Rose, who has reported inaccurately on climate science and Iraqi weaponry in the past, spoke to a "high-level whistleblower" in a top U.S. climate agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Decrying 'post-truth' climate politics, scientists test activist waters. Medscape Access. Meet the Obscure Group Influencing Trump's Energy Policy - Bloomberg. An obscure Washington policy group that opposes almost any government aid for renewable energy has emerged as an influential force in shaping Donald Trump’s plans to dismantle Obama administration climate initiatives.
The tiny Institute for Energy Research and its advocacy arm, the American Energy Alliance, work from an office decorated with an oversized photo of an oil derrick in a nondescript building in downtown Washington. Their names aren’t even on display in the unmanned lobby nine floors below. But the modest trappings and small, 14-member staff belies their impact. "There’s not a material energy or environmental policy on which they are not involved -- and most of them, they own," said Michael McKenna, a lobbyist who advises the alliance. California Gov. Jerry Brown defiant on climate change. Gov. Could You Power Your Home With A Bike-Powered Generator? : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture. Note to Breitbart: Earth Is Not Cooling, Climate Change Is Real and Please Stop Using Our Video to Mislead Americans.
NASA announces first geostationary vegetation, atmospheric carbon mission. NASA has selected a first-of-its-kind Earth science mission that will extend our nation's lead in measuring key greenhouse gases and vegetation health from space to advance our understanding of Earth's natural exchanges of carbon between the land, atmosphere and ocean. The primary goals of the Geostationary Carbon Cycle Observatory (GeoCARB), led by Berrien Moore of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, are to monitor plant health and vegetation stress throughout the Americas, and to probe, in unprecedented detail, the natural sources, sinks and exchange processes that control carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane in the atmosphere. Amid fears of Trump cutback, NASA announces long-term climate mission. Soon, NASA will be observing plants from a space-bound satellite.
That is, unless the Trump administration puts a stop to it. On Tuesday, the space agency announced its first new earth science mission since the 2016 election: the Geostationary Carbon Cycle Observatory, or GeoCARB. Leaked Memo Outlines Trump’s Energy Agenda. By Zachary Davies Boren President-elect Donald Trump is set to gut U.S. environmental regulations, open up federal lands for fossil fuel extraction and quit the Paris climate agreement, according to documents seen by Energydesk. A memo penned by Thomas Pyle, head of the Department of Energy transition team, and obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy, lists 14 key energy and environment policies the incoming Trump administration is expected to enact.
Trump names Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma attorney general suing EPA on climate change, to head the EPA. Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt arrives at Trump Tower in New York on Dec. 7, 2016. America ditching the Paris climate accord would have global consequences. Groups Raise Alarm Over Climate Denial Creeping into Trump's Team. Washington Won't Have Last Word on Climate Change. House Science Committee Tweets Climate-Change Denying Breitbart Article.