The Latest News about climate change

Activist-led attempts to hold the government and oil companies responsible for climate change through the court system are hitting a brick wall as judges argue such efforts are unlikely to gain traction. A panel of judges knocked down a lawsuit on Jan. 17 in which a large group of young people sued the Trump administration for not doing more to ...

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California ruled Friday that children do not have standing to sue the Trump administration and the federal government for not adequately addressing climate change. Climate policy comes under the purview of Congress and the president, not the court system, the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in a split decision. Attorneys for the teenagers ...

More than 200 media outlets and journalists partnered together with activists to coordinate and hype climate change news before the 2019 U.N. climate summit. Two of the largest media outlets — BuzzFeed News and HuffPo — did not disclose their role in the project to their readers, a Daily Caller News Foundation review found. The project raises questions about whether ...

The climate change movement has become the “modern world’s secular religion,” declared Wall Street Journal columnist Gerard Baker recently. Climate activists preach a gospel of conservation that aims to redeem humanity’s environmental sins. They counsel us to abstain from eating meat to reduce our “carbon footprint,” and prophesy that Earth will perish unless governments worldwide trust the oracle from whom ...

The Green New Dealers have taken Rahm Emanuel’s advice to heart: “Never let a crisis go to waste.” That is, use the occasion of a crisis to advance a pre-existing agenda, in this case, the remaking of the U.S. economy. Of course, they first had to manufacture — or, if one prefers, dramatically highlight — the crisis of climate change. ...

The lie of climate change is not based on science, it’s based on liberal group-think, and the only purpose for this travesty is to gain control over the lives of Americans and keep them in line with their leaders’ desires and instructions. Let this be a warning to anyone who thinks that the warming/change lie is real and that leftists ...

Far-left climate extremist, Greta Thunberg gave a dramatic speech at the United Nations. Being just 16-years-old, this teen gained worldwide attention when she warned of “mass extinction” and continuously declared “how dare you” in a hostile manner. The Left has used a child as a political shield and gave her worldwide coverage. However, no one is allowed to question what ...

A top item of discussion among world leaders at this week’s United Nations meetings was how to get countries to comply with the Paris Climate Accord. Well, that certainly is a tricky problem for the climate change lobby – which sees the Paris Accord as their last-ditch hope to save the planet. As it turns out, FEW of the signatory ...

Facebook dinged a fact check after climate scientists said a partisan fact-checking group the company uses is defaming them. Another Facebook fact checker came under criticism after dinging an editorial from a pair of climatologists about the problems with climate models. “Facebook is on a slippery slope,” one of the scientists said, referring to the company’s decision to allow supposedly ...

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders admitted Thursday that some of environmental policies will likely hurt working-class Americans. There will be some pain, the Vermont senator said during the first day of MSNBC’s two-day climate change forum. Sanders, who’s running neck and neck with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the 2020 Democratic primary, was referring to the effect his proposed fracking ...

Five of the top Democratic presidential candidates will not be participating in MSNBC’s nearly two-day climate change forum. Former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, Sen. Kamala Harris of California, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota are not joining their fellow candidates at the forum, which will be held in Washington, D.C., Washington Post reported Thursday. Biden, ...

NBC News is asking Americans to confess their climate change sins, though at least some people have taken the opportunity to troll the news company. “Even those who care deeply about the planet’s future can slip up now and then. Tell us: Where do you fall short in preventing climate change?” reads the introduction to NBC’s “Climate Confessions” project. Many ...

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 ...