The Latest News about climate change

A major U.K.-based newspaper will swap out the terms “climate change” and “global warming” for “stronger language to describe the situation we’re in,” according to the editor-in-chief. The Guardian newspaper announced Friday it will swap the term “climate change” for “climate emergency, crisis or breakdown,” and “global warming” will be substituted for “global heating.” “We want to ensure that we ...

Washington Governor Jay Inslee released a $9 trillion plan to fight global warming Thursday, upping the ante on Democratic presidential candidates. “You think of the Green New Deal as saying ‘we should go to the moon,’ but in my plan is how to build the rocket ship,” Inslee told The Guardian. “They both have their values.” Inslee’s plan aims to ...

The University of Colorado at Boulder became the first school to join a United Nations (UN) initiative that “jointly develop climate action agenda in sports.” Sports for Climate Action is a framework that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and bring more publicity to climate change initiatives. The UN claims climate change negatively impacts sports like heat waves forcing events ...

The United Nations is out with a familiar refrain — ecological catastrophe is decades away, echoing a warning from 1982. In 1982, the U.N. warned of environmental destruction “as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust” by the turn of the century. This time, the U.N. says one million species are threatened with extinction, including many that could die out within decades. ...

CNN interviewed discredited environmental catastrophist Paul Ehrlich in its coverage of the United Nations’ latest warning of ecological collapse due to human activities and climate change. Humanity will need to start “consuming less, polluting less and having fewer children” if it’s going to stop mass extinction in the coming decades, CNN correspondent Nick Watt said summarizing the U.N. report, which ...

2020 hopeful Jay Inslee released a plan to fight climate change that’s very similar to the Green New Deal. Inslee aims to “make the entire electrical grid and every new car and building climate pollution-free” in 10 years. Many 2020 Democratic presidential candidates endorsed the Green New Deal. Washington Governor Jay Inslee unveiled his plan “to make the entire electrical ...

Top Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer made it clear to President Donald Trump they will use infrastructure to advance their climate change agenda. Their letter to Trump makes no mentions of roads, bridges or highways, but does mention climate change and “clean” energy. Democrats have said in the past they want to turn an infrastructure bill into a “green ...

Climate change protesters have descended on London for the past five days, demanding the government take action on global warming. London police have arrested hundreds of protesters with the group Extinction Rebellion. Critics say Extinction Rebellion is more about promoting “Marxism” than actually tackling global warming. Climate change protesters have spent the last five days making Londoners’ daily commute difficult ...

A veteran zoologist says Netflix’s “Our Planet” is lying about its viral scene of walruses falling off a cliff. “Our Planet” blames climate change for walruses falling to their deaths, but it may have actually been caused by polar bears. Experts were skeptical about other claims made in the Netflix series, which was produced in partnership with the World Wildlife ...

Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz unveiled his own version of the Green New Deal Wednesday afternoon as the Republican lawmaker seeks to swipe the climate issue from Democrats and re-frame it in conservative terms. The Florida lawmaker rolled out the so-called “Green Real Deal” in an attempt to steamroll a similar climate resolution Democrats promoted earlier this year. He introduced ...

The Rockefeller Foundation is planning to pull the plug on its 100 Resilient Cities initiative as early as the summer of 2019, Bloomberg reports. The 100 Resilient Cities program is the largest privately funded climate change resiliency program in the United States. The Rockefeller Foundation began the program in 2013 with the goal of funneling money into the infrastructure of ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s new climate bill brings up some tricky questions, especially what legally binding President Donald Trump to the Paris deal means for the agreement  Pelosi has not yet responded to The Daily Caller News Foundation’s questions about whether tethering President Trump to the Paris accord would somehow change the structure of the deal Speaker Pelosi’s new climate ...

One of fastest shrinking ice glaciers in the world is reversing course and starting to accumulate ice at an alarming pace, a new NASA study published Monday finds. The Jakobshavn glacier, located in Greenland, began thinning around 2012 to nearly 130 feet annually. It’s now growing again at about the same rate in the past two years, a study in ...

Self-proclaimed Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders pledged to offset carbon emissions from his 2020 presidential campaign travel by donating contributions to renewable energy projects, The Huffington Post reports. “Bernie Sanders is a champion in the fight for climate justice and, like him, we know we need to address our emissions through action, not just rhetoric,” Sanders’s campaign manager Faiz Shakir told ...

A federal judge blocked all new oil leases auctions in Wyoming Tuesday after finding that the Department of the Interior “did not sufficiently consider climate change” when proposing the lease sales, The Washington Post reports. Washington D.C. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras ruled that the government violated federal law and did not fully study the environmental impact of oil development ...