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Archives: Acidification of Oceans
Of all things Trump did to us, Vast new toxic CO2 Emissions are the Worst
By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Who says President Trump doesn’t have a coherent foreign policy? Pundits and critics across the political spectrum have chided him for…
If we don’t Dump Fossil Fuels *Now*, we’re Sticking our Kids with $530 Trillion in Debt
By James Dyke | (The Conversation) | - - By continuing to delay significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, we risk handing young people alive today a bill of up to US$535…
Pope to Trump: Climate Change is Real and we have to act in Solidarity
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Pope Francis gave Donald J. Trump a going away present after their meeting on Wednesday. It was a copy of his Encyclical on…
The Other Terrorism: Toxic CO2 Gas Promoted by Trump Budget, Shell
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Terrorism is properly defined as non-state actors using violence against civilians to achieve a political purpose. Some argue that this definition lets states…
Climate March: How many more atomic bombs is Trump setting off in our Atmosphere?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The People's Climate March on Saturday will protest the Trump administration's pro-Climate Change policies of increasing US carbon dioxide and methane emissions. Just…
Donald Trump: Global Ecocide
By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - Can one determined and willfully ignorant man both stem the green tide and push the world over the brink into…
We are heading for the warmest climate in half a billion years
By Gavin Foster, Dana Royer, and Dan Lunt | (The Conversation) | - - Carbon dioxide concentrations are heading towards values not seen in the past 200m years. The sun has also…
Top 4 Worst pieces of Climate News from WMO in Age of Trump
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The World Meteorological Organization of the United Nations issued its annual report on the climate on Tuesday, making a full and final assessment…
As Antarctica Ice Cover Shrinks, Trump Picks ‘Most Dangerous’ EPA Leader
TeleSur | - - Pruitt, a suspected climate change denier, has expressed plans to roll back climate policies that regulate the fossil fuel industry. The U.S. Senate on Friday confirmed Oklahoma Attorney…
The last Time Summer was this Hot, Human beings hadn’t yet Left Africa
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Summer of 2016 was not only hotter than any summer on record, i.e. since 1880. We have enough proxies for global average temperature to know that…
In Rejecting Carbon Tax HR Clinton is playing Russian Roulette with our Future
Tom Giesen | (Informed Comment) | - - The Clinton presidential campaign has indicated that it will not support a carbon tax. But we simply cannot meet greenhouse gas reduction goals without…
The Hottest Year on Record: 12th month in a row of unprecedented heat
Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks) | - - "The planet keeps getting warmer. The level of destruction from natural disasters is also climbing. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks…
As Coasts Flood, why isn’t the Corporate Press asking Candidates about Climate Change?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The US corporate press is letting the presidential candidates set the agenda. Occasionally someone will step out of line, as Fox's Megyn Kelly…
Great Barrier Reef Endangered: Ocean turning Acidic from our Our Coal, Oil, Gas emissions
By Mathieu Mongin, Andrew Lenton, Jennifer Skerratt & Mark Baird | (The Conversation) | - - Those of us who have been fortunate enough to have travelled to spectacular coral reefs marvel…
The Question isn’t of Saving the World via Renewables but of how Much can be Saved
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Humanity is not abandoning fossil fuels fast enough to avoid some massive changes to our world's climate, with all the implications that change…
Even After World has Acted: GOP candidates on climate change
Touchvision | (Video News Report) | - - "What would happen to the committments President Obama is making at this week's Paris Climate Conference if a Republican wins the 2016 election?" Touchvision:…
Paris COP21 will only slow Climate Change: Here’s What’s going to happen to you and your children
By Katja Frieler | (The Conversation) | - - At the Paris climate summit, delegates are deciding on a global goal for temperature rise. At the time of publication, the latest draft…
Exxon investigation: A warning shot for fossil fuel companies as climate lies unveiled
The Tree | - - In the first concrete legal action against ExxonMobil’s web of climate lies, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has announced he will investigate whether the oil giant…