The Latest News about climate change

The Trump administration is mulling the creation of an expert panel to assess whether climate change poses a risk to national security, but critics are denouncing the idea. The White House may form the Presidential Committee on Climate Security to determine if global warming is a threat to national security, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post. The committee, which ...

Some GOP lawmakers are putting forward their own innovation-fostered proposals to tackle global warming. “This is a pro-jobs approach to lowering greenhouse gas emissions,” Sen. Bill Cassidy said. Lisa Murkowski said she’s “bullish” on nuclear power as a way to cut CO2 emissions. Louisiana Republican Senator Bill Cassidy says he has an answer to Democrats’ Green New Deal resolution that ...

Twenty-one young people suing the U.S. government for supposedly contributing to global warming are now asking the court system to block all forms of fossil fuel production moving forward. The kids filed their motion late Thursday with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and asked the court for an injunction to freeze all fossil fuel infrastructure while their lawsuit against ...

GOP Rep. Rob Bishop of Utah blasted Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee Wednesday for violating committee rules and not making clear the intent of a hearing on climate change. Bishop’s remarks came in his opening statement of a committee hearing Wednesday titled “Climate Change: The Impacts and the Need to Act.” “It would have been a bit easier, ...

The “polar vortex” was the coldest weather many Americans have seen in decades. Many news reports tried to link the record cold to global warming, despite the evidence. “Tying the polar vortex to global warming is a bit of a stretch,” said one scientist. More than 220 Americans experienced the coldest weather in decades over the past few days as ...

Democrats in control of the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced set a date for the chamber’s first hearing on global warming in six years. The hearing is scheduled for next week, February 6, after the coldest weather in decades for many parts of the U.S. is forecast to subside. A “polar vortex” event brought record-cold to the Midwest and ...

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren used the bitter cold sweeping the Midwest and Northeast to announce her full-throated support for a “Green New Deal.” “Our children & grandchildren should grow up in a world where they can breathe the air & drink the water – and go outside without risking their lives in extreme temperatures,” Warren tweeted Thursday using the hashtag ...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims that we will not be here in 12 years due to climate change (Global Warming). That was before the latest record cold snap spreading across America. Political Cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2019. See more Branco toons HERE Get his latest book, “Make America Laugh Again: Vol. 2 HERE

Bill Nye “the Science Guy” has another global warming prediction — Americans will have to grow their food in Canada if nothing is done to limit temperature rise. “The agriculture in North America is going to have to move north into what would nominally be Canada and we don’t have the infrastructure,” Nye told MSNBC host Chris Matthews Tuesday night. ...

The media is once again pushing the narrative that global warming is behind extreme winter cold. However, many scientists disagree with this theory and there’s little evidence to back it up. “Cold waves have lessened over the past 50 years,” said one scientist. In what’s become an annual affair, the media is pushing articles suggesting bone-chilling temperatures about to hit ...

Students for Liberty says Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez launched a “smear campaign” against them. Ocasio-Cortez and Pingree wrote letters to the student group’s big tech sponsors over concerns of “climate denial.” Students for Liberty denied this and said such claims were “built on half-truths and misinformation.” A libertarian student group fired back at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a Democratic colleague for ...

Germany plans on closing all its coal-fired power plants over the next two decades to fight global warming. However, it’s doubtful Germany’s anti-coal effort will have any measurable impact on global warming. Germans already pay about three times more for electricity than Americans thanks to taxes and green subsidies. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has embraced a plan to phase ...

California Senator Kamala Harris, who’s running for president in 2020, claimed that global warming was behind devastating natural disasters Americans see every year, including wildfires and hurricanes. “Let’s speak truth — climate change is real and it is happening now,” Harris said at her first presidential rally in Oakland, California, Sunday. “Everybody here knows from wildfires in the west to ...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, is so young that she is unaware of the decades of environmental leftists who have previously predicted global warming doom within 5 years, or 10 years, or 15 years, and her ignorance of things that have come before the present day is making her look like a fool with her new 12-years-to-destruction prediction. But at least her ...