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DeSmog Blog
This week’s posting contains articles on the oil industry subterfuge. activists fighting the chemical industry in Louisiana, Australian deniers meeting with the Koch Brothers, the financial impact of Trump’s rollback of clean car standards and his appointing an Independent Petroleum Association of America insider to the top DOI post, […]
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Atlantic hurricanes have grown more powerful and climate change is partly to blame, scientists say
This article discusses how Atlantic hurricanes have grown more powerful and climate change is partly to blame, scientists say.
A group of top hurricane experts, including several federal researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, published striking new research Thursday, suggesting that hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean have grown considerably […]
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Study: Expect more extreme hurricanes on the East Coast due to faster ice melts in Greenland
This article discusses how climate change is affecting extreme weather on the East Coast.
Ice is melting in an unexpected region of Greenland at a rate that is unprecedented in the past century, according to a study published Monday, which could lead to rising sea levels and increasingly wild weather on […]
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Study: 2018 was the ocean’s hottest year. We’ll feel it a long time.
This article discusses how 2018 was the ocean’s hottest year. We’ll feel it a long time. The ocean soaks up 93 percent of the heat of climate change. But that heat has a big and long-lasting impact.
Earth’s oceans are warmer now than at any point since humans started systematically tracking […]
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Study: When the ice melts: the catastrophe of vanishing glaciers
This article discusses when the ice melts: the catastrophe of vanishing glaciers. As global temperatures rise, shriveling glaciers and thawing permafrost threaten yet more climate disruption. How should we confront what is happening to our world?
A study led by James Hansen, the former […]
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The Next Climate Frontier: Predicting a Complex Domino Effect
This article discusses the next climate frontier – predicting a complex domino effect of climate change. Motivated by events like Hurricane Harvey, researchers are trying to determine how climate change interacts with agriculture, energy, transportation and other human systems.
When Hurricane Harvey’s record-busting rains drenched Texas in August 2017, they triggered […]
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2017’s Extreme Heat, Flooding Carried Clear Fingerprints of Climate Change
This article discusses 2017’s extreme heat and flooding is linked to climate change. Some weather extremes are now 2-3 times more likely because of global warming, research shows. Several 2017 events would have been virtually impossible without it.
Many of the world’s most extreme weather events witnessed in […]
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Climate change is no longer a future problem
This article discusses why climate change is no longer a future problem.
For years, climate change has been discussed in the context of tomorrow — a problem for future generations — with specific impacts left largely to the imagination. This may be changing now as apocalyptic climate-related disasters awaken the […]
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A political blockade is colliding with the evidence on climate change
This article discusses how politics is colliding with the evidence on climate change.
In rapid succession, the results of this month’s election and the release of blockbuster new scientific studies are widening the distance between the politics and science of climate change.
The massive new study released by […]
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Climate change: Report warns of growing impact on US life
These articles (here, here, here, here, here, and here) discuss the report issued by the US Government on climate change. These articles all have one thing in common – they agree with the scientists and disagree with our denier-in-chef, Trump.
Unchecked climate change will cost […]
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