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Topic space viewThe Dire Warnings of the United Nations’ Latest Climate-Change Report
In the fall of 2015, several artists in the Caribbean appeared in a film titled “1.5 Stay Alive,” featuring a series of homespun music videos. The name of the project referred to a campaign to limit the rise
Ruining the Harvard-Yale football game is no way to fix climate change
OPINION Activists decided it would be a good idea to delay one of the most notable NCAA Football Championship Subdivision football games of the year to make a political statement. The Yale Bulldogs hosted the Harvard Crimson on Saturday and beat them 50-43 in double overtime, but that's not why the game made headlines. At halftime, left-wing activists took the field and refused to leave when the second half was supposed to start. The protesters demanded that the two schools divest from their fossil fuel investments and cancel their holdings of...
Promising to ‘Make Our Planet Great Again,’ Macron lures 13 U.S. climate scientists to France
What initially looked like an impish dig at President Trump by French President Emmanuel Macron over climate policy has turned into a concrete plan.
Corporate broadcast TV news fails to make crucial connection between record-breaking California wildfires and climate crisis
ANALYSIS Over the long Labor Day weekend, an explosive fire in the Sierra Nevada and record-shattering heat accelerated the climate crisis unfolding in California. The fires this season have already burned more acres than during any other year on record — and there are still several months left in the fire season. The wildfire media coverage over the three-day weekend and into Tuesday included horrifying images, footage, and accounts from those on the ground, and awestruck reporters onsite and in studios casting around for language that properly conveys the scope...
Trump Administration’s Strategy on Climate: Try to Bury Its Own Scientific Report
The Trump White House, which has defined itself by a willingness to dismiss scientific findings and propose its own facts, on Friday issued a scientific report that directly contradicts its own
Armed Extremists Just Escalated Oregon’s Fight Over Climate Legislation
The Three Percenters’ Oregon chapter has gotten involved in the Oregon standoff between Republican state senators, who fled the state to avoid the passage of cap-and-trade legislation, and the Democratic majority who wanted to put the measure to a vote. The paramilitary group, known for anti-government and pro-gun sentiment, said in a Thursday night Facebook post, “We will stand together with unwavering resolve, doing whatever it takes to keep these Senators safe,” pledging to provide “security, transportation, and refuge” for Republican lawmakers.
States Sue Trump Administration Over Rollback of Obama-Era Climate Rule
The lawsuit, led by New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, argued the Environmental Protection Agency had no basis for weakening an Obama-era regulation that set the first-ever national limits on carbon dioxide pollution from power plants. That rule, the Clean Power Plan, required states to implement plans to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 2022, and encouraged that to happen by closing heavily-polluting plants and replacing those energy sources with natural gas or renewable energy. Carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere is a major contributor to global warming because it traps...
Political cooperation? Little hope for change as Obama starts second term
Americans enter President Obamas second term more upbeat about the direction of the country than they were four years ago, when the recession was at its depths, but voters are less sure that government can be of any use to them.
Supreme Court issues ‘crushing blow’ to Exxon in major climate case, legal experts say
"The significance of the Massachusetts AG's investigation has been grossly underestimated."
