By Juliet Eilperin 6 May 2017 (The Washington Post) – The Environmental Protection Agency has sidelined a website aimed at teaching schoolchildren about climate change, a public watchdog group has determined, as part of the agency’s efforts to align online content with the new administration’s values. When the EPA announced on April 28 that its […]
By Graham Readfearn3 May 2017 (The Guardian) – People don’t talk about how global warming has stopped, paused, or slowed down all that much any more – three consecutive hottest years on record will tend to do that to a flaky meme. But there was a time a few years ago when you couldn’t open […]
By B. Rose Kelly3 May 2017 (Woodrow Wilson School) – Scientists and policymakers use measurements like global warming potential to compare how varying greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide and methane, contribute to climate change. Yet, despite its widespread use, global warming potential fails to provide an accurate look at how greenhouse gases affect the environment […]
By Fran Spielman5 May 2017 CHICAGO (The Chicago Sun-Times) – Mayor Rahm Emanuel is accusing President Donald Trump of trying to erase what Al Gore has called the “inconvenient truth” about climate change, and doing his part to recoup that information. Emanuel has created a new city website titled, “Climate Change is Real.” It resurrects […]
By Ellie Bowen25 April 2017 (Stanford Daily) – Using a four-pronged framework, Professor of Earth System Science Noah Diffenbaugh ’96 M.S. ’97 and his research team have found a direct connection between extreme weather events and human impact. The team’s study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences magazine, outlines an objective […]
By Clive Hamilton4 May 2017 (The Guardian) – After 200,000 years of modern humans on a 4.5 billion-year-old Earth, we have arrived at new point in history: the Anthropocene. The change has come upon us with disorienting speed. It is the kind of shift that typically takes two or three or four generations to sink […]
5 May 2017 (UN) – Highlighting the complex link between food insecurity and migration – where increase in one forces the other to rise and then spirals back to push the former even higher – the United Nations food relief agency has urged greater investments in food security and livelihoods at places of origin to […]
By Jonathan Swan4 May 2017 (Axios) – Ivanka Trump will meet with EPA administrator Scott Pruitt on Tuesday morning at the White House before a crucial meeting regarding President Trump’s decision to stay or leave the Paris climate accord. The president’s daughter, who serves as a senior White House advisor, is passionate about combating global […]
By Madeleine Sheehan Perkins4 May 2017 (Business Insider) – Top staffers at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are signaling they are on the side of the coal industry with remarks given by senior policy advisor Mandy Gunasekara at the coal industry’s Eastern Fuel Buyers conference. “I’m here to talk to you to make sure what […]
By Chelsea Harvey and Chris Mooney 4 May 2017 (The Washington Post) – As the Environmental Protection Agency proceeds with a large-scale update of its website, its climate change site has been taken down, pending review. But several climate scientists contacted by The Post argue that this is unnecessary. “If any errors were present, they […]
