climatechange News of 04/23/19

The Mayor Fighting To Save Her Island Home From Climate Change

In January 2018 floods , the sea wall that Australia built to protect the residents of Yam Island collapsed. Residents of the island — just over 1 square mile — which lies off the coast of mainland Australia, waded through the floodwaters ...

Climate Change Protesters Have Shut Down London’S Historic Waterloo Bridge

(LONDON) — Climate protesters are once again trying to shut down parts of London to urge residents to do more to protect the Earth from rising temperatures. Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson joined a rally by the Extinction Rebellion ...

Microsoft Is The Latest Major U.S. Company To Back A Carbon Tax. Here’S Why

Microsoft joined a growing list of major corporations this week that have thrown their weight behind a proposal to create a federal carbon tax. It’s the latest indication that corporate America is beginning to take seriously potential climate ...

Cities Around The World Go Dark For Earth Hour, In A Call For Action On Climate Change

NEW YORK (AP) — Cities around the world marked Earth Hour on Saturday by turning off lights at 8:30 p.m. local time in a call for global action on climate change. Earth Hour, spearheaded by the World Wildlife Fund, calls for greater awareness ...

California Already Has A Green New Deal. Here’S How It Works

Republicans in the Senate uniformly voted against the Green New Deal earlier this week. President Donald Trump thinks it can help him win re-election. And conservative pundits on cable news regularly rail against it. But 3,000 miles away, the former ...

Watch A Piece Of Glacier The Size Of A Skyscraper Crash Into The Ocean In This Clip From Netflix’S Our Planet

Among the many wonders in Netflix’s new wildlife documentary series Our Planet , arguably the most awe-inspiring is a scene where almost no animals appear at all. In this exclusive clip from the show, which premieres April 5, cameras catch ...

Republican Mocks Green New Deal As Senate Stymies Sweeping Climate Plan

(WASHINGTON) — The Senate turned away from the Green New Deal on Tuesday as both parties shunned an opportunity to debate a comprehensive climate change plan offered by Democrats. Republicans in the GOP-controlled Senate forced the vote as ...

The Senate Will Reject The Green New Deal. But It’S Already Changing The Debate On Climate Change

The Green New Deal will go down to defeat in a Senate vote Tuesday afternoon. But the push for the Congressional resolution has already changed the conversation on climate change in Washington and forced a discussion on the issue. Senate Majority ...

‘It’S Literally Our Future.’ Here’S What Youth Climate Strikers Around The World Are Planning Next

Inside the U.K. houses of parliament, the grown-ups were at work. Outside, thousands of others — many of whom were not old enough to vote — were doing their best to make sure business was anything but usual. With their chants echoing down ...

Amsterdam’S First National Climate Change March Draws 40,000 People

Tens of thousands of people joined a climate change protest in Amsterdam on Sunday, urging the Dutch government to take action on climate change. The demonstration, the first of its kind in the Netherlands, drew around 40,000 people despite ...

Wildfires, Flooding And Droughts Could Make Climate Change An Issue. Some Are Pushing For It To Be The Top One

For years, climate change has been the also-ran of presidential campaign issues, even as the threat has become steadily more serious. Vice President Al Gore, who spent the previous decade calling for action, didn’t center his campaign around the ...

The Green New Deal Spurred These Republicans To Start A ‘Conservation Caucus’

Two Republican senators launched a new group this week to advocate for “market-based approaches” to environmental problems in the wake of growing momentum among Democrats pushing for an aggressive approach to climate change and other ...

Washington Governor Announces Run For President To Fight Climate Change

Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee jumped into the 2020 Democratic presidential primary Friday with a promise to put climate change front and center in both his campaign and his potential presidency. Given the serious risks of rising global ...

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 ...