The Latest News about climate change

At times our schedules, job requirements, and family life distract us from critical issues needing attention. It appears a few Americans are at this point. Are we only seeing the fake shiny objects? Many Americans are unaware the fake news media held an all-day marathon newscast about fake news. Unfortunately, it wasn’t about correcting their formerly fake news but to ...

CNN aired advertisements for airplanes, meat and businesses during its climate crisis town hall Wednesday as candidates branded those three things as reasons for the crisis. Ten 2020 candidates answered questions about ways to help the climate crisis during a seven-hour CNN town hall Wednesday evening. South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg was one of the candidates honing in on decarbonizing ...

Four of the top Democrats running for president in 2020 are planning on plowing trillions of dollars into fighting climate change even as reports suggest such lofty plans could hurt them ahead of the election. Former Vice President Joe Biden, businessman Andrew Yang, along with Sens. Cory Booker and Bernie Sanders, are slated to plow roughly $26 trillion into climate ...

Democratic New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker announced a pricey climate plan Tuesday, marking a trend as the New Jersey Democrat joins other presidential candidates who are pushing trillion-dollar plans to tackle global warming. Booker unveiled the $3 trillion plan, which promises to spend on green energy, phase out the use of fossil fuels and create a 100% carbon neutral economy in ...

CNN revealed Tuesday night the details of its upcoming climate town hall with 10 Democratic presidential candidates. Former Vice President Joe Biden will be one of several candidates who will appear in New York at back-to-back town halls Sept. 4, taking audience questions but not delving deeply into any debate surrounding the science of climate change. CNN announced the schedule ...

We didn’t even hear the minions of the Progressive-Fascist Left say “f*ck him” when Osama bin Laden died, but in the aftermath of the death of Libertarian billionaire David Koch, the caustic Left is in full super-charged mode. This is what the Left has come down to; an arrogant horde of self-important malcontents who stomp on the graves of those ...

Climate activists associated with the Sunrise Movement shouted down members of the Democratic National Committee after they rejected a proposal to host a single-issue debate on global warming. Several people associated with the group interrupted the DNC meeting, singing the union protest song “Which Side Are You On?” Their protests came after the party voted 17-8 Thursday in San Francisco ...

An obscure nonprofit company behind efforts to take on the fossil fuel industry is getting dinged for allegedly failing to register as a foreign agent in Maryland. One of the activists on the company’s board frequently criticizes energy producers and so-called climate denialists for supposedly using dark money to obscure their agendas.  The company faces potential stiff penalties for the ...

Goldsmiths, University of London is set to clear its shelves of all beef products and levy fees on single-use plastics in effort to combat global warming. Plastic water bottles and cups will be subject to a 10p ($0.12) increased fee in the university’s push to become carbon-neutral by 2025. Administrators will also substantially increase solar panel construction to reach a ...

Sen. Cory Booker is proposing an environmental version of a New Deal-era work relief program that would effectively recruit young people to plant billions of trees within the next decade. The New Jersey Democrat unveiled a bill Thursday with Democratic Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico that would establish a new civilian corps based on environmental stewardship. Booker’s proposed Agriculture ...

House Democrats rolled out a climate agenda Tuesday as their caucus attempts to draw a distinction between Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s approach to tackling global warming and a more moderate plan. Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee announced they would pursue legislation calling for zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a far less ambitious plan than the ill-fated Green New ...

Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s  “Green New Deal” is more about drastically overhauling the American economy than it is about combatting climate change, her top aide admitted. Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, made the revealing admission in a meeting with Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s climate director in May. A Washington Post reporter accompanied Chakrabarti to the meeting for ...

A climate scientist corrected a liberal reporter on Twitter Tuesday for suggesting a warming climate is causing hurricanes to worsen. The journalist was shocked. “So Ryan can feel free to attack me and mischaracterize what I’m saying all he wants,” New Republic writer Emily Atkin wrote on Twitter after atmospheric scientist Ryan Maue criticized her for what he considers spreading ...

Environmentalist activists criticized MSNBC’s moderators for devoting only seven minutes during Wednesday night’s presidential debate on climate change. Progressive groups dinged the channel for supposedly rushing through questions on environmental issues, even as the Democratic Party promised to make the issue front-and-center in 2020. Activists also noted the irony of holding a debate in Miami, FL without discussing global warming ...