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Yale Climate Connections August 16, 2019
This week’s articles include:
‘What’s the best kind of car for the climate?’
What it means to be human in an age of climate change
Storytelling is fueling climate conversations at Appalachian State University
Architectural history offers clues […]
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Yale Climate Connections – Week of August 2, 2019
This week, articles include:
What role will climate change play in the 2020 presidential election?
The Great Smoky Mountains’ iconic clouds are helping to protect the region from climate change – for now
People don’t need to ‘believe’ in climate change […]
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NY sees heat wave, heavy rain, and flash flooding in a climate change preview
This Esquire article discusses On July 21, the temperature in New York hit 100 degrees. Historically, the city of New York has seen two days a year where the heat index—temperature plus humidity, or what it feels like outside—reaches 100 degrees or higher. But
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Federal Court Tosses Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s Key Endangered Species Permits – 2 articles
This article discusses a recent court decision to toss the Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s key Endangered Species permits. A federal court has thrown out two key permits for the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline. U.S. 4th Circuit Court Chief Judge Robert Gregory said in an opinion issued Friday that the U.S. Fish and […]
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Judge rules against oil companies to keep climate liability case in Rhode Island
This The Hill article discusses why a Federal Judge ruled against oil companies to keep climate liability case in Rhode Island.
A federal judge ruled against multiple oil and gas companies Monday, deciding that Rhode Island’s novel climate liability case can be tried in the state.
The ruling will allow Rhode Island […]
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2 articles on plastics
This article discusses South Carolina’s Sullivan’s Island beach is strewn with tiny plastic pellets, and cleanup isn’t likely. The pellets are nurdles, the raw material used to make virtually every commercial plastic item in the market. They are a toxic petroleum product that can poison or clog the guts […]
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Chesapeake states grapple with ‘forever chemical’ contaminating drinking water
This article discusses how Chesapeake states grapple with ‘forever chemical’ contaminating drinking water. Widely used in consumer and industrial products, including fire-fighting foam, PFAS are now cropping up in ground water near military bases, airports, factories.
The suburban community midway between Harrisburg and York is among the latest nationwide to discover that […]
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Yale Climate Connections July 19, 2019
This week they discuss:
The ‘war on coal’ myth. Environmental regulations aren’t the reason that coal is falling off the map.
What’s the difference between weather and climate? They’re closely related, but they’re not actually the same thing.
Do we need […]
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Report: 6 articles on climate change and heat
The first article discusses how CLIMATE CHANGE WILL EXPOSE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN U.S. TO ‘OFF-THE-CHARTS’ EXTREME HEAT. In the coming decades, climate change will lead to a significant increase in the frequency and severity of extreme heat across the contiguous United States, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has […]
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