By Chelsea Harvey 14 December 2016 (Washington Post) – An adviser on the Trump transition team turned heads Wednesday when he likened modern climate science to the ancient belief that the Earth was flat. “I know that the current president believes that human beings are affecting the climate,” Anthony Scaramucci, a member of the president-elect’s […]
13 December 2016 (Desdemona Despair) – Here are Desdemona’s remarks at today’s climate activism meeting held concurrently with the 2016 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco: When Mike invited me to this event back in June, what I would have said then was very different from what needs to be said today. Since the […]
By Juliet Eilperin11 December 2016 (Washington Post) – President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that “nobody really knows” whether climate change is real and that he is “studying” whether the United States should withdraw from the global warming agreement struck in Paris a year ago. In an interview with “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace, Trump […]
By dana19815 December 2016 (Skeptical Science) – Human carbon pollution is heating the Earth incredibly fast. On top of that long-term human-caused global warming trend, there are fluctuations caused by various natural factors. One of these is the El Niño/La Niña cycle. The combination of human-caused warming and a strong El Niño event are on […]
7 December 2016 (Columbia University) – Scientists have found evidence in a chunk of bedrock drilled from nearly two miles below the summit of the Greenland Ice Sheet that the ice nearly disappeared for an extended time in the last million years or so. The finding casts doubt on assumptions that Greenland has been relatively […]
By Sophie Vorrath24 November 2016 (RenewEconomy) – Australia’s top climate scientists have come out in support of their American counterparts, in response to news that the incoming Trump Administration will scrap climate research at the country’s top research facility, NASA. […] Here’s what Australia’s scientists are saying about Trump and NASA: “Just as we have […]
1 December 2016 (NASA) – On 10 November 2016, scientists on NASA’s IceBridge mission photographed an oblique view of a massive rift in the Antarctic Peninsula’s Larsen C ice shelf. Icebridge, an airborne survey of polar ice, completed an eighth consecutive Antarctic deployment on 18 November 2016. Ice shelves are the floating parts of ice […]
By Valerie Volcovici and Timothy Gardner7 December 2016 (WASHINGTON) – Donald Trump will pick an ardent opponent of President Barack Obama’s measures to curb climate change as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, a Trump transition team source said on Wednesday, a choice that enraged green activists and cheered the oil industry. Trump’s choice, Oklahoma […]
By Laura Snider5 December 2016 BOULDER, Colorado (NCAR) – At century’s end, the number of summertime storms that produce extreme downpours could increase by more than 400 percent across parts of the United States — including sections of the Gulf Coast, Atlantic Coast, and the Southwest — according to a new study by scientists at […]
By Shanika Gunaratna6 December 2016 (CBS News) – In an unusually direct message, the Weather Channel is taking Breitbart to task for using Weather Channel content to “mislead Americans” about climate change. “Though we would prefer to focus on our usual coverage of weather and climate science, in this case we felt it important to […]
