July was our planet’s hottest month since record-keeping began in 1880. Better get that motherfucking carbon tax soon.
The president’s new plan to fight climate change is modest at best, but it does open the door for states to impose their own versions of a carbon tax—the only thing that will actually work. Hurry up with it before we all die, idiots.
A new study finds that melting sea ice in the North Atlantic caused by global warming could ultimately cause Western Europe to get colder. So there will be somewhere cool to go when America becomes a sweltering hellscape.
Leaders of Fantasy World, Real World Now United Against Climate Change
At long last, Cool Pope “Francis” (a pseudonym) has released his much-anticipated encyclical on climate change. **SPOILER ALERT**: He’s against it. What does this mean?
No Looming Disaster Is Big Enough to Stop the Miami Condo Boom
Parts of South Florida will be underwater before you know it. Nevertheless, Florida is busily building new condos all the way down the coast, because fuck it, they can $ell them. Or can they?
Study: Climate Change Threatens One in Six Species With Extinction
A new study published Thursday in the journal Science has found that, if climate change continues apace, one in six species on the planet could face extinction.
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.
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…
Thanks to energy drilling operations, northern New Mexico is now covered by "a permanent, Delaware-sized methane cloud."
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?
Here you will find an argument that the city of Miami, which is slowly being slowly eaten by the sea, should encourage more development, so it will have the tax base necessary to pay for the construction of defenses to save those developments from the rising seas. That's that Florida logic.
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.
