climatechange News of 08/26/19

Jay Inslee Helped Make Climate Change A Top Campaign Issue. He Says That’S Not Enough

During his six-month campaign for president, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee made climate change a focus of the Democratic presidential primary, forcing it onto the debate stage and pushing other candidates to match his ambitious plans. But Inslee ...

A Record Number Of Fires Are Currently Burning Across The Amazon Rainforest

The Amazon rainforest has seen a record number of forest fires this year, according to Brazil’s Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, a space research center. The INPE detects and tracks fires through satellites — in other words, the ...

July 2019 Was The Earth’S Hottest Month Ever Recorded, NOAA Says

July 2019 was the hottest July and the hottest month on record globally since temperature records began in a year of many record breaking temperatures as heatwaves hit many parts of the world. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

Why Your Brain Can’T Process Climate Change

Last week saw the latest in a series of increasingly dire reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This past July was the hottest month on record , punctuated by intense heat waves throughout Europe and the Arctic, leading to a ...

The Newest Audience For Democrats’ Climate Change Plans: Iowa Farmers

As in other years, Democratic presidential candidates hitting the Iowa State Fair this weekend came armed with policy ideas targeted at rural farmers who dominate the state. The difference this time: Those proposals were about climate change. In a ...

How Eating Less Meat Could Help Protect The Planet From Climate Change

By dramatically changing the food we eat as well as the way it is grown and produced, humans can help stop the devastating impacts of climate change according to the latest report by the United Nations body on climate science . More than 100 ...

Scientists Unveil Memorial To Iceland’S ‘First’ Dead Glacier Lost To Climate Change

Iceland is mourning the loss of one of its famous glaciers, Okjökull Glacier, in an official memorial ceremony that will take place on August 18. Following an “Un-glacier tour” led by two Rice University anthropologists, the attendees ...

The Woman Who Discovered The Cause Of Global Warming Was Long Overlooked. Her Story Is A Reminder To Champion All Women Leading On Climate

Eunice Newton Foote rarely gets the credit she’s due. The American scientist, who was born exactly 200 years ago on Wednesday, was the first woman in climate science. It was back in 1856 that Foote theorized that changes in carbon dioxide in the ...

‘Anything That Moves The Ball Forward.’ Some Green New Deal Supporters Back Carbon Tax, Too

How should we fight climate change? The most progressive Democrats say the answer is something like the Green New Deal, a massive government program aimed at reorienting American society. A more traditionally conservative answer is something like a ...

The 10 Countries Most Vulnerable To Climate Change Will Experience Population Booms In The Coming Decades

Climate scientists have long warned that the impacts of climate change will hit less developed regions in the global south harder and earlier than wealthier parts of the world. A major consequence of that trend, analysis of the U.N.’s latest ...

A Glacier The Size Of Florida Is Becoming Unstable. It Has Dire Implications For Global Sea Levels

Melting ice sheets in the Antarctic, particularly one of the largest and unstable glaciers in the region, could significantly accelerate global sea level rise, according to a new report . The climate scientists who measured likely outcomes of ...

Donald Trump Called Climate Change A Hoax. Now He’S Awkwardly Boasting About Fighting It

President Donald Trump has falsely called climate change a “hoax” invented by China, incorrectly suggested that wind turbines cause cancer and dismissed a landmark scientific report produced by the federal government’s own ...

Planting A Trillion Trees May Be The Best Way To Fight Climate Change, Study Says

(WASHINGTON) — The most effective way to fight global warming is to plant lots of trees, a study says. A trillion of them, maybe more. And there’s enough room, Swiss scientists say. Even with existing cities and farmland, there’s ...

The Trump Administration Protested When Kenya Halted A Coal-Fired Power Plant

When the Kenyan government had second thoughts about allowing the country’s first coal-fired power plant, the Trump Administration’s representative in the country protested. U.S. Ambassador Kyle McCarter, a Trump appointee who previously ...

The Debates Showed America Still Doesn’T Know How To Talk About Climate Change

If you want to understand just how bad climate change was handled in the Democratic debates, start by looking at a good answer on another subject. When former HUD Secretary Julián Castro was asked about immigration during the first night of ...

An ‘Unprecedented’ Early Summer Heatwave Grips Europe As Scientists Warn More Are On The Way

Europeans are bracing for an intense early-summer heatwave, with record-breaking temperatures forecast in parts of France and Germany before the weekend — less than a year after the region’s last extreme heatwave. Temperatures are ...

More And More Countries Agree On This Climate Change Goal. But Will It Work?

As lawmakers around the world debate how best to fight climate change, one goal is rapidly becoming standard: net-zero emissions by 2050. That means that greenhouse gases would be dramatically reduced — most likely by using a combination of ...

Canada’S Permafrost Is Thawing 70 Years Earlier Than Expected, Study Shows. Scientists Are ‘Quite Surprised’

The Canadian Arctic permafrost is thawing 70 years earlier than expected, a rate shocking a group of scientists who released the findings of their long-term study this month. A research team affiliated with the University of Alaska Fairbanks ...

U.N. Head: Climate Change Can Prove The Value Of Collective Action

As the head of the United Nations, Secretary-General António Guterres works to solve the world’s thorniest issues from humanitarian crises to international terrorism knowing that the nature of these conflicts prevents any definitive ...

The World’S Largest Automakers Asked Trump Not To Loosen A Climate Change Standard. Here’S Why

The world’s largest automakers doubled down on their call for the Trump Administration to rethink the scope of a rollback on limits on pollution from cars that were designed to fight climate change. In a letter signed by 17 companies ...