Taxpayers on the Hook for Insuring Farmers Against Growing Climate Risks
"The American Farm Bureau lobbies to protect the status quo, and its own interests".
Source: InsideClimate News, 01/02/2019
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"Deep Beneath Your Feet, They Live in the Octillions"
"The real journey to the center of the Earth has begun, and scientists are discovering subsurface microbial beings that shake up what we think we know about life."
Source: NY Times, 12/24/2018
Decade of New Evidence Supports EPA Greenhouse ‘Endangerment Finding’
"Scientific understanding of the risks greenhouse gases pose to public health and welfare has strengthened and broadened in the decade since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency made its landmark 'endangerment finding,' according to a new review of the latest science published Thursday."
Source: InsideClimate News, 12/14/2018
2017's Extreme Heat, Flooding Carried Fingerprints of Climate Change
"Many of the world's most extreme weather events witnessed in 2017, from Europe's "Lucifer" heat wave to Hurricane Harvey's record-breaking rainfall, were made much more likely by the influence of the global warming caused by human activities, meteorologists reported on Monday."
Source: InsideClimate News, 12/11/2018
"Scientists Find Some Hope for Coral Reefs: The Strong May Survive"
"Among the threatened corals of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, one of the natural wonders of the world that has been ravaged by global warming, researchers have found a reason for optimism — or at least a reason not to despair completely."
Source: NY Times, 12/11/2018
"Study Warns of Cascading Health Risks From the Changing Climate"
"Crop yields are declining. Tropical diseases like dengue fever are showing up in unfamiliar places, including in the United States. Tens of millions of people are exposed to extreme heat. These are the stark findings of a wide-ranging scientific report that lays out the growing risks of climate change for human health and predicts that cascading hazards could soon face millions more people in rich and poor countries around the world."
Source: NY Times, 11/29/2018
New EPA Rule Strikes Language On Impact Of Climate Change On Children
"The Trump administration’s latest rule weakening the way a greenhouse gas is regulated in cooling units also strips out language on how climate change affects children, new documents show."
Source: The Hill, 10/04/2018
Trump Administration Sees 7-Degree Rise In Global Temperatures By 2100
"Last month, deep in a 500-page environmental impact statement, the Trump administration made a startling assumption: On its current course, the planet will warm a disastrous seven degrees by the end of this century."
Source: Washington Post, 10/01/2018
"Is the ‘Heat Day’ the New Snow Day?"
"One of the most precious rituals for a student in the Northeast is to peer out the window on a winter morning, witness a flurry of snow, and realize that there’s no need to cram for that test — snow day! But “heat days” might soon become just as regular an occurrence."
Source: NY Times, 09/07/2018
"A Summer of Megafires and Trump’s Non-Rules on Climate Change"
"Against an infernal backdrop of widespread wildfires, the Administration announced its plan to roll back rules limiting greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants."
Source: New Yorker, 09/03/2018
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