Isle de Jean Charles , from Go Project Films on Vimeo. By Neha Thirani Bagri 5 June 2017 (Quartz) – The water has been inching closer to Rita Falgout’s house, lapping at the edges of her front yard. Her home is one of 29 in Isle de Jean Charles, a narrow island in the bayous […]
By Renee Cho 6 June 2017 (Earth Institute) – The 2004 disaster movie, The Day After Tomorrow, depicted the cataclysmic effects—superstorms, tornadoes and deep freezes— resulting from the impacts of climate change. In the movie, global warming had accelerated the melting of polar ice, which disrupted circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean, triggering violent changes […]
By Brian Deese and Ronald A. Klain 30 May 2017 (The Washington Post) – With President Trump’s decision on U.S. participation in the Paris climate accords expected in the next few days, there has been widespread discussion of the many consequences that climate change will have for us and our children, including extreme weather events, […]
By Nadja Popovich, John Schwartz, and Tatiana Schlossberg 21 March 2017 (The New York Times) – Americans overwhelmingly believe that global warming is happening, and that carbon emissions should be scaled back. But fewer are sure that the changes will harm them personally. New data released by the Yale Program on Climate Communication gives the […]
By Matt Novak 2 June 2017 (Gizmodo) – President Donald Trump stood up in front of the world yesterday and withdrew the United States from the Paris Accord, a global agreement to combat climate change. The agreement had nearly universal support, but Trump said withdrawing is good for American business. But American business leaders disagree.CEOs […]
By Jeff Tollefson and Quirin Schiermeier 2 June 2017 (Nature) – Nature rounds up reaction from researchers around the world to US President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement.Jane Lubchenco, marine ecologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis and former administrator of the US National Oceanic and […]
By Robinson Meyer 3 June 2017 (The Atlantic) – Michael Oppenheimer has been thinking about climate change about as long as most Americans have been alive. For almost four decades, he has worked on answering the phenomenon’s two most pressing questions: How dangerous will climate change get? And what can humanity do about it? So […]
By Timothy Mclaughlin 3 June 2017 (Reuters) – Evangelical Christian environmental groups on Friday panned President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from a global climate change pact, with leaders saying the political left does not have a monopoly on this issue. Trump’s decision, announced on Thursday, “was an affront to our faith […]
By Michael Biesecker 2 June 2017 WASHINGTON (Associated Press) – While other world leaders have strongly condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to abandon the Paris climate accord, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday he won’t judge.”Don’t worry, be happy!” Putin quipped after being asked for his reaction at an economic forum in St. Petersburg, Russia. […]
By Dino Grandoni 22 May 2017 (The Washington Post) – On Thursday, a group of scientists, including three working for the U.S. Geological Survey, published a paper that highlighted the link between sea-level rise and global climate change, arguing that previously studies may have underestimated the risk flooding poses to coastal communities.However, three of the […]
