On November 29th and December 6th, young people across the country will join a national #ClimateStrike to continue the incredible momentum we saw this September.
With the consequences of climate change becoming more clear and dire with each passing day, a new powerful wave of the climate move...
Newly formed bipartisan Senate Climate Solutions Caucus.
Senator Mike Bennett, (D-CO) Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to craft and advance bipartisan climate change solutions. The team of eight senators has launched this effor...
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ITALY Venice “on its knees” after 2nd-worst flood By Colleen Barry and Luca Bruno
The Associated Press
VENICE, ITALY» The worst flooding in Venice in more than 50 years prompted calls Wednesday to better protect the historic city from r...
Opinion TNYT, Nov 8, 2019 Few thought it would arrive so quickly. Now we’re facing consequences once viewed as fringe scenarios.
By Eugene Linden, Mr. Linden has written widely about climate change.
Nov. 8, 2019
For decades, most scientists saw climate change as a distant prospect. We n...
Shared from the 11/11/2019 The Denver Post eEdition FLOOD CONTROL
Thousands of aging structures are rated as unsatisfactory or poor condition
By David A. Lieb, Michael Casey and Michelle Minkoff The Associated Press
On a cold morning last March, Kenny Angel got a frantic knock o...
jacki Pocock, NOV 11.2019
Australia is enduring a bushfire crisis that has left three people dead, razed more than 150 homes, and prompted warnings of "catastrophic" danger.
Bushfires are a regular feature in the Australian calendar, but the blazes in New South Wales and Queensland have not previo...
Eleven thousand scientists from across the globe wrote a letter Tuesday warning that “untold human suffering” will happen if the governments of the world don't act immediately to combat climate change.
The letter, which was published in BioScience Tuesday, says that "climate change has arrived and ...
Shared from the 10/30/2019 The Denver Post eEdition By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON» The number of people threatened by climate change-triggered flooding is about three times higher than previously thought, a new study says. But it’s not because of more water.
It’s because ...
Climate We can't merely cut emissions to preserve a livable planet. We'll have to invent technologies to take back the carbon we've already released. By Jon Gertner Fall 2019
When one grasps the full implications of climate change, there comes a measure of grief. I first recognized ...
EDMONTON, ALBERTA » Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg stayed away from any direct criticism of Alberta’s oil sands as the teenager took her message to the oil-rich Canadian province.
The 16-year-old told thousands of people in front of the provincial legislature in Edmonton on Friday tha...
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The Associated Press
NEW YORK» Climate change has led to deadlier wildfire seasons in the American West and more severe hurricanes and storms barreling up the Southern and Eastern coasts. The dramatic weather frequently k...
By Sam Tabachnik
The Denver Post
As Greta Thunberg walked on stage to cap Friday’s climate strike in downtown Denver, the kids and adults in the crowd buzzed with excitement, craning their necks to see the 16-year-old Swede who battles the American president on Twitter and is inspiring a generation...
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By Noah Smith
Bloomberg Opinion
More people are coming around to the idea that climate change is really bad news. A recent Washington Post poll found that 38% of Americans now consider climate change a crisis, with another 38% calling it a major...
AUDUBON , When we were putting the finishing touches on this issue, Hurricane Dorian slammed into the Bahamas as a deadly category 5 storm—one of the strongest and longest-lasting hurricanes on record in the Atlantic. It then raked the U.S. shoreline from Florida to North Carolina, sending coastal p...
PG&E Cuts Power to 500,000 in California: Live Updates
Pacific Gas & Electric, the largest utility in the state, could cut electricity to 800,000 customers by day’s end as a precaution against sparking wildfires.
Thomas Fuller
By Thomas Fuller
RIGHT NOWAbout 500,000 customers are...
The general consensus among scientists is that that carbon emissions must be reduced by 80% by 2050 to avoid temperature rise of more than 2°C. While offset programs, like SeaGrass Grow, are great for making up for what you can’t reduce, minimizing the carbon emissions you’re responsible for creatin...
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The Open Forum
Letters to the Editor
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks Wednesday in New York. She traveled to the U.S. on a sailboat to avoid carbon emissions as she pushed for the world to combat climate change. Mary Altaff...
A recent poll shows Americans are saving energy but they are not doing all they can. Here is what they are doing:
1. Turning off lights when not needed-Yeah 90% do this!
2. Lower thermostat a few degrees in winter and leave it a few degrees higher in summer , well maybe so only a small capital yea...
