Climate Change

Manchin Faces Liberal Opposition in Bid to Be Energy Panel’s Top Dem

"During his first run for the Senate in 2010, Joe Manchin III, the Democrat from West Virginia, took aim — literally — at a climate change bill, shooting a bullet through it in a television ad. Now some Democrats are taking aim at Mr. Manchin, declaring him unfit to be the top Democrat on the committee that handles climate change."

Source: NY Times, 12/07/2018

"New Study Shows Just How Frighteningly Fast Greenland Is Melting"

"In July 2012, a spate of warm weather caused nearly the entire surface of the Greenland ice sheet to begin melting, an event with no precedent in the satellite record. A new study shows this massive melt-out wasn’t just an anomaly compared with the last 40 years, but the last 350. Unfortunately, the study also suggests 2012 could be a harbinger of our new normal."

Source: Earther, 12/06/2018

US Plans To 'Showcase Ways To Use Fossil Fuels' At Climate Conference

While all the nations of the world meet in Poland to lower greenhouse emissions, the Trump administration, which has dropped out of the Paris Agreement, will nonetheless show up and promote the use of fossil fuels.

Source: Washington Post, 12/06/2018

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