The Environmental Protection Agency is strengthening limits on fine particulate matter, The rule illustrates the challenges facing the Biden administration as it balances two priorities: Reducing pollution in overburdened communities and reviving U.S. manufacturing. It comes as Donald Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, campaigns on a pledge to dismantle many of President Biden’s environmental and…
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How Much Can Forests Fight Climate Change? A Sensor in Space Has Answers.
Supported by How Much Can Forests Fight Climate Change? A Sensor in Space Has Answers. A new NASA program is helping researchers more accurately calculate how much planet-warming carbon protected areas are storing. It’s a lot. Over the last century, governments around the world have drawn boundaries to shield thousands of the world’s most valuable…
Another Nail In the Global Warming Coffin
Statistics Norway, the government agency that produces official statistics for that country, released a report last month titled “To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions?” The report concludes: [T]he results imply that the effect of man-made CO2 emissions does not appear to be sufficiently strong to cause systematic changes in…
Climate change threatens Canadian security, warns brief | CTV News
Canada’s spy service warns that climate change poses a profound, ongoing threat to national security and prosperity, including the possible loss of parts of British Columbia and the Atlantic provinces to rising sea levels. A newly released analysis by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service also foresees an increase in ideologically motivated violent extremism from people…
Powell: Fed Has Only Narrow Role to Play on Climate Change – Banker & Tradesman
Waves pushed by Tropical Storm Henri hit a breakwater on Cape Cod on Aug. 22. Experts predict Cape Cod and the Islands are at significant risk from rising seas and stronger storms thanks to climate change. The Federal Reserve has only a limited role to play in combating climate change, Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday,…
How our time perception shapes our approach to climate change : Shots – Health News : NPR
A pile of debris from Hurricane Ian rises behind a line of people waiting to vote in Fort Myers, Fla., in November 2022. Research suggests support for some climate policies increases immediately after climate-driven disasters such as Ian. Rebecca Blackwell/AP hide caption A pile of debris from Hurricane Ian rises behind a line of people…
Biden admin used taxpayer funds to ‘sponsor’ foreign journalists attending climate change ‘reporting tour,’ emails reveal
Last year, the Biden administration used taxpayer dollars to “sponsor” multiple foreign journalists to attend a virtual “tour” intended to educate them on climate change reporting, Fox News Digital reported. According to internal emails obtained by Protect the Public’s Trust, a government watchdog project, officials from Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry’s office and…
Biden administration will reportedly pay into United Nations fund to compensate countries for climate change, and China will be eligible for handouts
The Biden administration has agreed to pay into a United Nations fund to compensate countries that have experienced damages from climate change, according to new reports. The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly referred to as COP27, is being held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. There are representatives from approximately 190 counties at COP27….
COP27 Strikes Deal on Fund for Poorer Countries Vulnerable to Climate Change – WSJ
Newsletter Sign-up WSJ Climate & Energy Get updates from the U.N.’s climate conference and a weekly must-read on the intersection of business, money and climate. Negotiators representing developed and developing countries agreed to the measure in the final hours of the COP27 U.N. climate summit held in this Egyptian seaside resort. Officials cautioned that the…
“Don’t Look Up” Is as Funny and Terrifying About Global Warming as “Dr. Strangelove” Was About Nuclear War
If you’re wondering whether we’ll do anything about global warming before it destroys civilization, think about this ominous fact: It occupies barely any space in popular culture. This contrasts with the gusher of movies and books in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s about nuclear war. Anyone old will remember “The Day After,” “War Games,” “The…
