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In Courtrooms, Climate Change Is No Longer Up for Debate
This article discusses how, in courtrooms, climate change is no longer debated. Increasingly, global warming science is going unchallenged in lawsuits seeking to curb fossil fuel use and hold companies to account.
IN SEPTEMBER 2017, San Francisco experienced its hottest day on record, with temperatures reaching a searing 106 degrees. Weeks later, […]
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Yale Climate Connections post – 6-14-2019
This week’s edition includes:
State and local governments seeking climate change ‘solutions’ have plenty of options
Permafrost is thawing rapidly. How much should we worry?
Reverend Mitchell Hescox encourages Christians to advocate for renewable energy
Electric vehicles could […]
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Alaska’s climate frontier: Anchorage to cut carbon emissions by 80%
This article discusses how Anchorage, Alaska is attempting to cut carbon emissions by 80%.
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Feeling the Heat in Winter in Alaska
This article discusses how Alaska is heating up. This year in Alaska, an abnormal rise in temperature has, like in much of the north, disrupted isolated communities, upset subsistence hunting patterns, and even led to some deaths.
Across Alaska, March temperatures averaged 11 °C above normal. The deviation was most extreme in […]
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DeSmog Blog – May 16, 2019
This blog discusses multiple environmental issues, including the puzzling deaths of dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico; Oregon’s refusing to allow a LNG terminal to be built over water quality concerns; carcinogens and other pollution at a Boston gas compressor station; attempts by the fossil fuel industry to eliminate the […]
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Deadly flooding is rocking Texas. Scientists say this is our future under climate change.
This Think Progress article discusses how Deadly flooding is rocking Texas. Scientists say this is our future under climate change. What’s happening in Houston is the future, according to climate scientists.
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Three decades after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Alaska’s coast faces an even bigger threat – climate change
This High Country News article discusses how, 3 decades after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Alaska’s coast faces an even bigger threat. Climate change is damaging ecosystems that never had the chance to recover.
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Report: Rising temperatures threaten health of fetuses, researchers say
This article discusses how rising temperatures threaten health of fetuses, researchers say. In a recent article in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an international group of researchers concluded that higher temperatures caused by climate change may result in up to 7,000 additional infants with congenital heart […]
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7 States Rebalance Their Colorado River Use as Global Warming Dries the Region
This article discusses why 7 western states need to change how the use water from the Colorado River as Global Warming dries the region. As major reservoirs shrink with the changing climate, seven states seek a sustainable future for the critical regional water source.
The Colorado River watershed may be […]
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Military’s remote Cold War radars face a new threat: climate change
This article discusses the military’s remote Cold War radars face a new threat: climate change.
Across Alaska, 15 remote radars spin every minute of the day, 365 days a year. Since the Cold War, they’ve monitored the airspace above Alaska and across much of the Bering Sea and Arctic. Even […]
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