December in the east, was, to say the least, a bit warm. Now that we have hit the New Year, temperatures have cooled down to normal. But if you think it was warm in the east, why not try the North Pole? A powerful winter...
climate change
Did everyone enjoy wearing shorts and t-shirts in the Northeast on Christmas Eve yesterday? Yeah, that's just great. Of course, such freakish temperatures are not entirely about climate change--El Niño.
Elizabeth Kolbert has a good discussion on the end of Miami due to climate change. There's almost no way around this conclusion, not with Miami's limestone allowing water to flow.
I don't know that a meat tax could work in reducing consumption to fight climate change, but at least it's good to see environmentalists understanding that any such move would need to include subsidies to the poor so it didn't fall overly heavy on them....
I'm a little surprised at the vigor of the Paris climate agreement. Of course the nations of the world now have to follow through and I'm super skeptical of that,.
It's so easy for corporations to buy climate change denialism that pranksters can pretty much walk into the offices of known professors who have become corporate hacks and do it.
Despite a stupid line about climate change opening up "new economic opportunities for local communities," this is a really good run-down of the impact of climate change in the Arctic as the planet will set another record for warmth in 2015. Arctic Ecosystems Climate change...
The language around climate change and epochs in history has fairly recently coalesced around the term "Anthropocene" to delineate the recent point humans became a geological force that is rapidly.
The greatest environmental issue of the twenty-first century is climate change. The science is nearly unanimous that humans are causing the climate to warm rapidly because of emissions of greenhouse.
With climate change leading to the warming of the planet, we need to start thinking about heat stress as a major global health problem that deserves serious attention. This story on Central American sugar workers should alarm you and move you to thinking about these...
This Human Rights Watch report on climate change in northwestern Kenya is well worth your time. It is quite excellent because it shows how climate change combines with politics, tradition,.
A bunch of smaller stories on environmental issues that deserve some attention: 1) With buildings collapsing in Oklahoma from the plethora of earthquakes caused by fracking, maybe someone in the.