Climate

These are the folks saying we should make it easier to drill for oil as a climate strategy

Carbon monoxide and non-methane volatile organic compounds are the major players named in the paper, indirectly accounting for most of that 15 percent of warming. Black carbon, commonly known as soot, also contributes.

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The global weather pattern threatens to worsen floods and heat waves already intensifying due to climate change. But it may also mean fewer hurricanes.

The photos helped Timmer and his colleagues show something recent records had missed: climate change was reshaping kelp forests around Vancouver Island decades earlier than scientists understood. In a new UVic study, based on 1972 photos, old maps, scuba surveys and more, researchers found more than 550 hectares of bull kelp once floated near Comox and Denman Island. Most disappeared between 1972 and 1984 and none remain today.

El desarrollo de este patrón meteorológico puede traer intensas inundaciones y olas de calor a lugares que ya enfrentan otros efectos devastadores del calentamiento global.

No matter what a retailer says about its climate goals, its main goal is to make you buy more clothes.

Not much other coverage of this, so using a source I usually avoid

I’ll note that offsets are largely fraudulent, and scientists have been resigning from the accounting standards board over this

More than 5 percent of the species is estimated to have been lost when a climate-fueled storm unleashed torrents of water, mud and debris.

Greenpeace calculates that wealthiest contribute nearly $1tn of damage a year with ownership-based emissions

JPMorgan Chase leads 65 banks making decisions incompatible with restraining rising temperatures, researchers say

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Analysts criticise a damaging precedent after Beijing made an accounting adjustment in an effort to avoid missing a UN commitment.

The sudden announcement that irrigation flows to Greater Vernon-area orchards and farms will be reduced to a relative trickle is amplifying concerns about water scarcity across the Okanagan.

By accepting oil industry ads calling for oil and gas expansion, legacy media organisations are promoting Trump-aligned policies that undermine international climate goals, experts say.

A carbon tax could have given us the same thing, but done it without redistribution of money to the billionaires

A children’s (?) book about law firms working with companies that are terrible for the environment. They’re apparently giving away free print copies. Maybe you or someone you know would like to have one :)

An auction to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ended with just 10 percent of the available land claimed for oil development.

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The president announced a total of $700 million in federal money to reinvigorate the domestic coal industry, which has been in decline for decades.

You can formally comment on the proposal to put political commissars in charge of deciding which science is acceptable here

Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions

The Trump administration is dismantling two EPA rules, promising cheaper groceries for struggling families. Economists and former officials say it’ll only make things pricier.

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Days after the U.S. said it would kill a network of ocean monitors, European officials pledged to invest more in their version, calling it a “necessity.”

Greenpeace International is arguing under Dutch law that an American pipeline company, Energy Transfer, sought to silence it with a costly lawsuit in North Dakota.

Wildlife habitat, endangered animals and recreation could all be at risk in state’s biggest public land sale in modern history.

The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that monitors marine ecosystems and the effects of climate change.

Electric vehicles have taken off in Ethiopia. Key to the shift: a world-first ban on importing fossil fuel-powered vehicles.

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