climatechange News of 02/24/19

The Real Culprit Behind Trump’S Border Emergency? Climate Change

President Donald Trump is expected to convene a new panel that will likely undermine the expert consensus that climate change threatens national security. But experts say that move is at odds with his recent declaration of a national emergency at ...

Climate Change Doubter Is Leading Effort To Advise President Trump On Climate Security

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is exploring the idea of forming a special committee to look at climate change and security risks, with the effort being coordinated by a 79-year-old physicist who rejects mainstream climate science. A ...

‘Climate Change Is Forever.’ Thousands Of British Schoolchildren Walk Out In Environmental Protest

Thousands of schoolchildren descended on central London Friday, walking out of their classrooms to voice their anger at the lack of government action on climate change. Hundreds of banners and placards with messages like “There Is No Plan(et) ...

The Green New Deal Could Launch Republican Climate Solutions

The attention surrounding the Green New Deal rollout last week seemed to underscore the entrenched partisanship of addressing climate change: progressive Democrats demanded a quick drawdown from fossil fuels while top Republicans, including ...

Climate Change, ISIS And Cyberattacks Are Seen As The World’S Top Threats In A New Pew Poll

Climate change increasingly ranks as the world’s most pressing security threat, with terrorism and cyberattacks also topping the list, according to a new survey by the Washington-based Pew Research Center. In a poll of 26 countries, 13 ...

The ‘Green New Deal’ Was Unveiled Thursday. But Parts Of It Are Already Underway

Workers in Oregon paid by the federal government to make homes more energy efficient. Union members in California, Massachusetts and New Jersey teaching “green skills” to workers. A city in Colorado working toward powering itself with ...

Costa Rica’S President Carlos Alvarado Quesada Wants To Set A Green Example For The World

The most valuable resource at the world economic Forum at Davos is time. No one has enough of it, so everyone makes compromises to make the most of it. President Carlos Alvarado Quesada of Costa Rica is no exception. As we near the 10-minute point of ...

The ‘Green New Deal’ Is Popular. Now Backers Need To Decide What It Is, Exactly

Americans remember the New Deal as a set of programs designed to end the Great Depression. But in the months before he became president, Franklin Roosevelt used the phrase more to describe how he would approach the problem: by engaging in “bold ...

President Trump Renews Climate Change Denial Days After Defense Department Releases Daunting Report On Its Effects

President Donald Trump mocked climate change again on Sunday, just days after the Department of Defense released a report outlining the effects of climate change on its operations. Referring to the major winter storm that has brought frigid ...

The Paris Agreement Lives On At The U.N. Climate Change Conference. But Political Disruption Still Remains A Threat

Negotiators from around the world struck an eleventh-hour deal Saturday, laying out rules to implement the Paris Agreement and keep the landmark 2015 climate accord intact. But it wasn’t easy. The two-week, drawn-out fight that included a ...

These Tiny Island Nations Are Leading The Fight Against Climate Change

The ongoing negotiations on how to implement the Paris Agreement aren’t going well. The world’s largest economies and top greenhouse emitters remain mired in decades-old arguments about who is responsible for addressing climate change and ...

The Trump Administration Pitched Coal At A Climate Change Conference

The United Nations climate change conference underway here in Poland could play a critical role in the fight to stem greenhouse gas emissions and keep temperatures from rising to unsafe levels. The Trump Administration showed up to pitch fossil ...

Why We Don’T Need A Moonshot To Solve Climate Change

The prospect of solving climate change often prompts grand metaphors of moonshots and the Manhattan Project , with top scientists dedicating time and energy to come up with a breakthrough that will solve global warming. But that may not be ...

Thousands March For Action On Global Warming At United Nations Climate Talks

(KATOWICE, Poland) — Thousands of people from around the world marched Saturday through the southern Polish city that’s hosting this year’s U.N. climate talks, demanding that their governments take tougher action to curb global ...

EPA Eases Rules On Coal Industry Despite Climate Change Warnings

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency acted again Thursday to ease rules on the sagging U.S. coal industry, this time scaling back what would have been a tough control on climate-changing emissions from any new coal plants. The ...

How A Startup Mindset Can Help The Refugee Crisis

Startup entrepreneurs have a crucial role to play in building a more agile response to the global refugee crisis and also helping to change the narrative around displaced people, TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin has heard. Speaking during a panel ...

The U.S. Isn’T The Only Major Country Not Meeting Its Climate Goals

Three years ago, world leaders from nearly every country around the world laid out specific plans to fight climate change that included strategies to slash their greenhouse gas emissions. Those commitments generated optimism that the world might ...

New U.S. Report Says That Climate Change Could Cost Nearly $500 Billion Per Year By 2090

A new report from the U.S. government on the impacts of climate change on society indicates that unless action is taken, climatological events could cost the country nearly half a trillion dollars annually by 2090. The National Climate ...

The Government’S Massive New Climate Change Study Challenges Trump’S Policies

President Donald Trump on Wednesday once again disputed the science of climate change, questioning how this week’s Thanksgiving cold spell could occur as the planet warms. “Whatever happened to Global Warming?” he asked on Twitter. ...

Wildfires Are Getting More Frequent And More Destructive. There Are No Easy Ways To Prevent Them

In mid-October, as high winds and warm weather struck the Sierra Nevada foothills in Northern California lights went off for some 60,000 Californians. Schools shuttered and businesses went dark. At fault was the specter of dangerous wildfires. To be ...