Tag: global warming
June 2019 was the hottest on record: NOAA
Nine of the 10 warmest Junes have occurred since 2010.
Hey, psst, Prince Charles: Here are some graphs on global heating...
Everything Trump says about climate is wrong, and he is incorrigible.
US dismisses climate change at Arctic Council Summit: Pompeo says melting...
The U.S. objections come as the Arctic just experienced its five warmest years on record, and is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world.
Carbon emissions reach record high worldwide in 2018
"[D]espite major growth in renewables, global emissions are still rising, demonstrating once again that more urgent action is needed on all fronts."
To clean up the planet, clean up Washington
Doing so will remove long standing barriers that have slowed and blunted climate action.
Polar bear ‘invasion:’ How climate change is making human-wildlife conflicts worse
Unfortunately, climate change is only going to make these negative interactions between humans and wildlife more common.
‘Life threatening’ cold snap could break records across Midwest
Some scientists also think that climate change is making the polar vortex increasingly unstable, as warmer temperatures in the Arctic cause the jet stream to push more cold air further south, National Geographic explained.
Researchers say, if we phase out fossil fuel, we can combat...
“The climate system is not stopping you [hitting the target], global society is stopping you.”
A planet in crisis
Perhaps if we listen deeply enough and regularly enough, we ourselves will become the song this planet needs to hear.
How Native and white communities make alliances to protect the earth
Tribal nations have always been on the front lines of environmental protection. Now their neighbors are catching up.
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Trump seizes control of DC police, threatens military deployment despite record-low crime
President Donald Trump invokes the Home Rule Act to take over Washington, D.C.’s police department and deploy the National Guard, citing a “crime emergency” that officials say does not exist. Critics call the move an unlawful power grab with authoritarian overtones.
Cults, cults, everywhere—raring to bash majority rule, pluralism, justice, science and rationality. Isn’t that...
Thanks to its own greed, egotism, buffoonery, incompetence, and ruthlessness, the MAGA cult is already splitting apart, squandering its overweening power.
Community organizer slams ‘fascist ICE agents’ after arrest of US citizen documenting raids
ICE has faced widespread backlash over the arrest of community advocates swept up while documenting raids across the country, many of them U.S. citizens.
The FDA let substandard factories ship these medications to the US
ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013.
Pentagon plan reveals standing military force for rapid deployment in US cities
Leaked documents show Trump administration proposal to create a permanent National Guard “quick reaction force” to quell domestic unrest, raising concerns over legality, militarization, and civil liberties.