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Study: Analyzing climate change/hurricane links
This article discusses the linkage between global warming and hurricanes. A review of top research scientists’ views on climate/hurricane links points to areas of increasing scientific consensus, but with key voids still begging high-confidence understanding and answers.
Predictions for the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, now officially under way, amount to […]
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Rural Virginians pledge to cut carbon pollution
This article discusses how rural Virginians are promising to cut pollution and waste by 20 percent by 2020.
In Virginia’s Blue Ridge mountains, residents of the tiny town Floyd are leading a campaign to slow global warming, one signature at a time. Follow this link to SustainFloyd, a nonprofit […]
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In Case You Missed It … Some climate change basics
This article discusses basics about climate change, to help people understand and counter deniers false logic. Need some quick and accessible authoritative resources to share with someone just wanting to better understand climate change? Take these for a spin. There are more sources than I listed below.
Sometimes you just […]
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Studies: Rare good climate news: the fossil fuel industry is weaker than ever – Bill McKibben
This article by Bill McKibben, discusses how many people, the From Wall Street to the pope, increasingly see fossil fuels as anything but a sure bet. That gives us reason to hope.
If you’re looking for good news on the climate front, don’t look to the Antarctic. Last […]
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More than 20 nations seek lead in setting tougher climate goals
This article discusses how other nations are filling in the void of American leadership against climate change.
ore than 20 nations ranging from Germany, France and Britain to Pacific island states said on Thursday they planned to “lead from the front” in setting new, tougher goals by 2020 to cut […]
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Too hot to handle: Politics of warming part of culture wars
This article discusses the political climate that punishes candidates on the Right who even mention climate change.
When it comes to global warming, America’s political climate may have changed more than the Earth’s over the past three decades.
NASA scientist James Hansen put the world on notice about global warming on […]
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‘The doomsayers were right’: James Hansen’s 30-year-old climate warning rings true today
This article discusses scientist James Hansen’s documenting climate change, and how deniers now rule the landscape. 30 years after a brave scientist warned us about global warming, deniers run America. This is a good article showing how deniers mobilized to stop the truth from getting out.
On June 23, 1988 […]
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Sinking Land and Climate Change Are Worsening Tidal Floods on the Texas Coast
This article discusses how flooding will increasingly occur in Texas because of climate change. More than 10,000 homes along the Texas coast will flood at least 26 times a year by 2045, researchers say.
A new study by the Union of Concerned Scientists has […]
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Summer Days Are Getting Hotter
This article discusses the impact that climate change is having on the planet’s temperature. In a graphic, there are cities that can be selected in each state where you can see how the number of days of above-normal hot days will occur.
The summer solstice occurs at 6:07 a.m. EDT […]
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Discovery helps explain how Greenland’s ice sheet responds to shifting temperatures
This video discusses a tiny clue found in ancient sediment has unlocked big secrets about Greenland’s past and future climate. Northwestern University Professor Yarrow Axford describes how clues found in rare sediment cores indicate that Greenland’s climate during the last two interglacial periods experienced extreme warming. This new information will feed […]
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