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Are GOP Leaders Trying to Suppress Civil Rights to Protest

Posted by GreenDog on Monday, 03 April 2017 in Climate Change

I was alarmed to read in THE DENVER POST today, April 3 that several bills are being proposed to limit the right for peaceful protest. Here is the digest of the article Note Warning is from United Nations. UNITED NATIONS WARNING Is Americans’ right to protest in grave danger? &nbs...

Trump's Being Reckless With Our Climate

Posted by ryderlynewx on Tuesday, 28 March 2017 in Climate Change

President Trump signed an executive order rolling back climate progress. The executive order instructs the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to rewrite the Clean Power Plan, the single largest step the U.S. has taken to limit climate change. The order also lifts the moratorium on federal coal lea...

The Implications of Ice Sheet's Demise

Posted by jonehopp on Wednesday, 22 March 2017 in Climate Change

Flying over the remote during research at the Barnes Ice Cap on Baffin Island in 2009, a Boulder scientist saw dark where there should have been white. Closer inspection revealed that what Gifford Miller spotted was the remnants of a 1963 geological camp that had been buried for decades by snow and...

Get on the streets for Climate Justice

Posted by Calle on Tuesday, 21 March 2017 in Climate Change

Dear Earth Protecters, Last year, Pope Francis said, “I want the Church to go out into the streets”. On April 29th, the world is going out into the streets calling for action on climate change. The Church will be there. We invite you to march with us, help a...

Why Jewish communities need to join the April 29 People’s Climate March

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 21 March 2017 in Climate Change

(Originally published in the Jewish Advocate at http://www.thejewishadvocate.com/news/2017-02-17/Editorials/Why_Jewish_communities_need_to_join_the_Peoples_Cl.html) Over my years of volunteer work for the Jewish Climate Action Network in the Boston area, I have witnessed a groundswell of co...

EPA Chief Just Contradicted Decades of Science

Posted by Gobec Mitja on Friday, 10 March 2017 in Climate Change

The head of the Environmental Agency Protection disagrees with a well-established scientific fact regarding global warming. On Thursday morning, while speaking to Joe Kernen on CNBC's Squawk Box, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said that carbon dioxide isn't necessarily a primary contributor to ...

Release: 3 Bipartisan Groups of Military and Security Leaders Urge New Course on Climate

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 28 February 2017 in Climate Change

Release: 3 Bipartisan Groups of Military and Security Leaders Urge New Course on Climate by CAITLIN WERRELL AND FRANCESCO FEMIA IN CLIMATE AND SECURITY ON SEPTEMBER 14, 2016. USS AlbanyRelease: Three Bipartisan Groups of Military and National Security Leaders Urge Robust New Course on Cl...

US NAVY ON SECURITY And CLIMATE CHANGE

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 28 February 2017 in Climate Change

Weather Channel: 13 years of military planning for sea level rise Navy Norfolk Virginia USS HARRY S. TRUMAN, NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD, VA. (U.S. NAVY PHOTO, MASS COMM SPECIALIST 3RD CLASS TYLER FOLNSBEE) Center for Climate and Security Advisory Board member, Brigadier General Gerald Gallowa...

The Shrinking Colorado River

Posted by voice on Saturday, 25 February 2017 in Climate Change

Global warming is already shrinking the Colorado River, the most important waterway in the American Southwest, and it could reduce the flow by more than a third by the end of the century, two scientists say. The river’s volume has dropped more than 19 percent during a drought gripping the region si...

The Tragedy of Trump's Climate Attitude

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 14 February 2017 in Climate Change

Opinion piece originally published in The Denver Post November 20,2016 with permission of Author Auden Schendler, VP Aspen Skiing Company and board chair of Protect Our Winters On the day after Trump won, I walked with my family to a melting glacier in New Zealand. A waterfall several hundred...

Environment America - Environment Maryland Big Win for Clean Energy

Posted by GreenDog on Monday, 13 February 2017 in Climate Change

This month, the Maryland Senate voted 32-13 to override Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto of a major clean energy bill after an outcry of bipartisan public support for the bill. It’s a big victory for Maryland and for all of us who want to see more clean energy and less burning of fossil fuels. ...

AN ELEGANT CLIMATE POLICY PROPOSED BY GROUP OF REPUBLICANS

Posted by GreenDog on Monday, 13 February 2017 in Climate Change

A GROUP of Republicans provided a refreshing message to Washington on Wednesday: Climate change is a threat that deserves serious attention, and the GOP should embrace smart ways of dealing with it.The group — which calls itself the Climate Leadership Council and includes two former secretar...

Obama's Clean Energy Legacy - What's At Risk

Posted by Calle on Thursday, 26 January 2017 in Climate Change

Mark Barteau, University of Michigan President Trump comes into office determined to discard huge swathes of his predecessor's legacy on day one, writes Mark Barteau. But he will struggle to undo Obama's clean energy regulations. It's not just that they are legally robust, it's also that energy mar...

Sen. Jeff Merkley patiently exposed Rex Tillerson on climate change

Posted by ESKCSG on Sunday, 15 January 2017 in Climate Change

Late into Rex Tillerson’s marathon secretary of state confirmation hearing yesterday, it came time for Sen. Jeff Merkley’s second round of questioning. What followed was something rare in US politics: a substantive back and forth on the subject of climate change. It was a deft bit of work on Merkley...

Larson C Ice Shelf On Verge of Collapse

Posted by Chad on Sunday, 08 January 2017 in Climate Change

Scientists with the British Antarctic Survey now believe that the fracturing of the Larson C ice shelf from the polar cap is imminent, after a rift in the shelf grew vertiginously in the last month of 2016. The thread connecting Larson C to the rest of Antarctica is now just more than 65,600...

The North Pole Is an Insane 36 degrees Warmer Than Normal

Posted by MiddleWay on Thursday, 01 December 2016 in Climate Change

This story has been updated. Political people in the United States are watching the chaos in Washington in the moment. But some people in the science community are watching the chaos somewhere else — the Arctic. It’s polar night there now — the sun isn’t rising in much of the Arctic. Tha...

Pope urges world leaders not to hobble climate change pact

Posted by wadenorris on Tuesday, 29 November 2016 in Climate Change

Pope Francis urged national leaders on Monday to implement global environmental agreements without delay, a message that looked to be squarely aimed at U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. Addressing a group of scientists that included theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, the pope gave his stro...

Your Ultimate Guide To Igniting Climate Change Talks

Posted by bip104 on Wednesday, 16 November 2016 in Climate Change

by Ben Jervey The American people just elected an outspoken climate-change denier as president. So does that mean the climate conversation is closed for the next four years? Of course not. President-elect Donald “I’m not a big believer in climate change” Trump wasn’t elected for his anti-climate ac...

Just 1 Degree C of Warming Has Altered Nearly Every Aspect of Life on Earth

Posted by Dale on Monday, 14 November 2016 in Climate Change

From Yale 360 e360 Climate change has already impacted nearly every aspect of life on earth, according to a new study in the journal Science. Warming global temperatures have altered everything from entire ecosystems down to the individual genes of species. Some 80 percent of key eco...

ExxonMobil is supporting the Paris climate agreement

Posted by cavaness on Monday, 14 November 2016 in Climate Change

ExxonMobil released a statement earlier this week announcing its support of the Paris climate agreement, which went into effect on November 4th. The company’s release affirms that climate change poses serious risks, noting that "ExxonMobil supports the work of the Paris signatories, acknowledges th...