Blogging the End of the World™
18 Oct 2015 (Al Jazeera) – Powerful Typhoon Koppu has hit the northern Philippines, battering the coast with powerful winds that have killed at least three people and displaced more than 16,000, according to the national disaster agency. The storm hit the main Philippines island of Luzon, where it flattened homes and brought down bridges […]
By Natasha Geiling 1 October 2015 (ClimateProgress) – On Thursday, ten leaders from some of the world’s biggest food companies urged Congress to support a strong global agreement on climate action, in advance of the U.N. climate talks happening in Paris this December. In a letter published in both the Washington Post and Financial Times, […]
By Sara Jerving, Katie Jennings, Masako Melissa Hirsch, and Susanne Rust9 October 2015 (Los Angeles Times) – Back in 1990, as the debate over climate change was heating up, a dissident shareholder petitioned the board of Exxon, one of the world’s largest oil companies, imploring it to develop a plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions […]
By Jim Salter14 October 2015 ST. LOUIS (AP) – A report card is out on the Mississippi River basin, and the grade is not good: a D+, with an aging transportation infrastructure topping the list of concerns. The report by America’s Watershed Initiative, released Wednesday in St. Louis, assesses categories such as the abundance of […]
By Denis Balibouse and Alister Doyle; Editing by Frances Kerry17 October 2015 (Reuters) – One of Europe’s biggest glaciers, the Great Aletsch, coils 23 km (14 miles) through the Swiss Alps – and yet this mighty river of ice could almost vanish in the lifetimes of people born today because of climate change. The glacier, […]
By Andrew Freedman17 October 2015 (Mashable) – Super Typhoon Koppu, known as Typhoon Lando in the Philippines, made landfall close to 1 a.m. local time on Sunday morning near the town of Casiguran in Luzon’s Aurora Province, as a powerful Category 4 or 5 storm. The storm was on the cusp of being declared a […]
By Peter Frumhoff10 October 2015 (UCS) – Internal Exxon memos recently brought to light through meticulous investigative reporting by Inside Climate News (ICN) show that senior company executives knew by 1978 that emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels posed significant risks of disrupting the climate. Over the decade before NASA scientist James Hansen’s 1988 […]
15 October 2015 (National Geographic) – Record heat, melting ice, and rising seas show how climate change is affecting us. But there’s new hope we can cool the planet. Here’s how. [more] The Climate Change Issue Technorati Tags: global warming,climate change,Greenland,sea ice,Amazon,rainforest,alternative energy,Arctic,sea level,Oceania
By Marton Dunai and Krisztina Than16 October 2015 ZAKANY, Hungarian-Croatian border (Reuters) – Hungary will seal off its border with Croatia from midnight (2200 GMT) on Friday to stem the flow of thousands of migrants arriving daily, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto announced after a meeting of the national security cabinet. Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s right-wing […]
By Aimee Picchi15 October 2015 (CBS News) – The likes of Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould — the robber barons of the late 19th century — might feel right at home in today’s economy. The coffers of the uber-rich have exploded since the Great Recession, reaching a level “possibly not seen for almost a century,” […]
