By Richard Halstead, Marin Independent Journal 17 July 2017 (Marin Independent Journal) – Marin County sued 37 oil, gas, and coal companies Monday asserting the companies knew their fossil fuel products would cause sea level rise and coastal flooding but failed to reduce their greenhouse gas pollution. The lawsuit was part of a coordinated litigation […]
By Aida Chavez 18 July 2017 (The Hill) – Former Vice President Al Gore says he’s given up hope that President Trump will “come to his senses” and act on climate issues.Gore on Monday night told “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert that his hopes about Trump were wrong.”I went to Trump Tower after the election,” […]
By Zahra Hirji 14 July 2017 (BuzzFeed News) – Lamar Smith, one of the most vocal critics of climate science in Congress, led a secret trip to the Arctic in May, BuzzFeed News has learned.He and at least eight other US representatives, mostly members of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, met with […]
13 July 2017 (Climate Feedback) – Sixteen scientists analyzed the article and estimated its overall scientific credibility to be ‘low’. A majority of reviewers tagged the article as: Alarmist, Imprecise/Unclear, Misleading. [cf. The Uninhabitable Earth, Annotated Edition]New York Magazine published an article by David Wallace-Wells detailing the potential impacts of climate change if no action […]
By Philip B. Duffy 6 July 2017 (WHRC) – This opinion piece by WHRC President Dr. Philip B. Duffy was published in the Newport (R.I.) Daily News on 3 July 2017. Dr. Duffy was responding to an op-Ed published in the same paper by Princeton physicist William Happer, who claimed that climate change is “a […]
By Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis 2 June 2017 (The Washington Post) – Less than four months ago, Scott Pruitt arrived in Washington with few connections to President Trump’s inner circle and took the helm of an agency where many employees were openly hostile to him.But the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency has emerged […]
By Chris Mooney 24 May 2017 (The Washington Post) – In a sign of growing tensions between scientists and the Trump administration, researchers published a scientific paper Wednesday that was conceived and written as an explicit refutation to an assertion by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt about climate change.The study, in the journal Nature […]
By Huizhong Wu 6 June 2017New Delhi (CNN) – India has hit back at US President Donald Trump, after he accused the country of receiving “billions” of dollars in return for signing the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.”First of all, there is absolutely no reality [in what Trump alleged],” India’s Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj told […]
By Derek Thompson 6 June 2017 (The Atlantic) – On Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, claimed that the U.S. has created 50,000 jobs in the coal sector since the fourth quarter of 2016. The statistic carries an important message for the White House. Trump has brought extraordinary […]
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 […]
