A new study finds that the oceans can take thousands of years to recover from the sort of damage climate change is doing to them now, so at least when the sea swallows us it won’t be full of sharks.
Florida Orders Mental Exam for Worker Who Pushed Climate Change Agenda
Florida Gov. Rick Scott's unofficial official policy of climate denial has taken a turn for the bizarre: A high-level employee in the state Department of Environmental Protection now says he was suspended and told to get a medical evaluation for refusing to purge mentions of climate change from a state record.
Hundreds of Hungry Sea Lion Pups Wash Up on California Beaches
Since January, over 1,450 sea lions have been found stranded on California beaches, crowding rescue centers past capacity and worrying animal experts, The New York Times reports. According to researchers, this is 5 times greater than the historical average.
Florida Officials Banned from Saying "Climate Change," Employees Claim
According to a report published by the Miami Herald on Sunday, officials at Florida's environmental protection agency have been banned from using the terms "climate change" and "global warming" since Republican Governor Rick Scott took office in 2011.
A Global Warming-Denying Loon Just Threw a Snowball on the Senate Floor
Republican Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe is the chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment Committee. He once wrote a book called The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future. Today, he threw a snowball at a senate page to illustrate that tome's idiotic central thesis.
Paid Climate-Change Skeptic Even More Corrupt Than Previously Thought
Wei-Hock "Willie" Soon, a favorite scientist of climate-change deniers for his theory attributing global warming to variations in the sun's energy and not human activity, has accepted more than $1.2 million from the fossil-fuel industry in the last decade, the New York Times reports. He also failed to disclose that…
The Seas Have Been Rising Much Faster Than We Thought
The news on the disastrous effects of global warming is never good; but it also possesses the special quality of always being even more bad than we might have guessed.
U.N. Climate Negotiators Reach Compromise, Barely
Negotiators at the U.N. climate talks in Lima, Peru managed to agree on a compromise deal early Sunday morning, the Associated Press reports, more than 30 hours behind schedule after 10 days of negotiations.
Oil Is So Cheap Now. So What?
While you slackers were all spending quality time with your families, the global oil markets were plummeting! This is good news, perhaps. Or maybe bad news? Let's explore how this will save—or possibly destroy—our world.
Seven student activists are suing Harvard University to try to force the school to divest from fossil fuels, citing among other things the risk of "future damage to the university's physical campus as a result of sea level rise."
China Agrees to Cut Carbon Emissions for the First Time in Landmark Deal
President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced from Beijing today a groundbreaking joint plan for both countries to cut carbon emissions ahead of the global climate treaty expected to be finalized next year. The pact is China's first-ever pledge to stop the country's carbon emissions from growing.
Stephen Colbert Calls Out "I'm Not a Scientist" Climate-Change Deniers
Stephen Colbert hasn't quite jumped on the very popular "arrest climate-change deniers" bandwagon yet, but he proved last night that he's ready to go as far as "mock climate-change deniers mercilessly."
Kill the Oil Companies Before They Kill Us
There is a new U.N. report on climate change. Its warnings are very, very dire. It is time that the public comes to terms with the choice we face: keep fossil fuels in the ground, or face doom. Oil companies, like it or not, must be forced to change or be killed.
What Happens When There's No Insurance for Your Beach House?
Climate change is causing rising oceans and more extreme weather. Even as beachfront development continues, beachfront living is growing ever more perilous. What happens when all the insurance companies decide to stop insuring anything by a beach?
Mother's Moving Climate Change Poem Brings World Leaders to Tears at UN
By several accounts, the most interesting part of yesterday's United Nations Climate Summit was not a speech by any of the world leaders in attendance, but a poem read by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, a 26-year old mother from the Marshall Islands.
Leo DiCaprio, Sting, Mark Ruffalo March in NYC People's Climate March
Today's worldwide People's Climate March is off to an exciting start as over 100,000 people are expected to flood the streets of New York City, alongside many thousands of others in London, Melbourne, and other cities around the globe.
Florida Is So Stupid
You may have heard that the sea levels are rising. You may have heard that over the next several decades, rising seas will threaten major coastal cities. You may have surmised that it's dumb, then, to build houses right by the water. Not Florida!
If you've felt a bit sweaty lately, it may be because our planet officially just experienced the hottest summer in recorded history. We must end global warming. But not before it reaches New York City for a while, because the summer here was cold as hell.
Can We Solve Global Warming For Almost Nothing?
Much of the discussion about cutting the carbon emissions that are slowly destroying our planet centers on the supposed cost of all these new forms of clean energy. A new report suggests: what costs?
"At least 150 major companies worldwide - including ExxonMobil, Google, Microsoft and 26 others in the United States - are already making business plans that assume they will be taxed on their carbon pollution, a report today says." So go ahead and tax them already, before we all burn up.
