"Obama Attacks Republicans for Appeasing Climate Deniers"
"President says members of congress are feigning ignorance of science because they fear backlash from 'fringe elements'."
"President says members of congress are feigning ignorance of science because they fear backlash from 'fringe elements'."
"Average land and ocean surface temperature for May was highest ever, as 2014 shapes up to potentially be hottest year yet"
"Australia was once a leader on climate action. Thanks to American conservative powerhouses, that's no longer true."
"Millions of young rainbow and steelhead trout are being evacuated from California's most productive hatchery complex as summer heat and the state's ongoing drought combine to make the water too warm for them to survive, officials said Tuesday."
"Swathes of north India are sweltering under the longest heatwave on record, triggering widespread breakdowns in the supply of electricity and increasingly angry protests over the government's failure to provide people with basic services."
"Somewhere in China, a man typed his user name, 'ghost,' and password, 'hijack,' and proceeded to rifle the computers of a utility in the Northeastern U.S."
"Increasing use of air conditioners to stay cool is having the vicious circle effect – especially at night – of worsening the problem of cities getting hotter as the climate changes, say US researchers"
"In a warming world, the U.S. could see its cities inundated with water, its power grids threatened by intense storms, its forests devastated by wildfire and insect infestations, and its coastlines washed away by storm surges."
"US scientists fear climate change could have devastating effects on poultry farmers as temperatures reach scorching levels"
"The day that everything changed was a broiling Thursday in July—95 degrees, the kind of dry heat that Sacramento Valley residents are used to. If you have to work outside, you do it before noon, swathed in long sleeves and pants to keep the sun at bay and the mosquitoes from eating you alive."