A new satellite will track climate-warming pollution. Here’s why that’s a big deal VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. — Not far from the Pacific Ocean, where just to the south, oil platforms dot the horizon, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted into space Monday with dozens of satellites on board. Four miles away from the…
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Oil industry veteran to lead next round of Cop climate change summit
Cop29, the next round of UN talks to tackle the climate crisis, will be led by another veteran of the oil and gas industry. Mukhtar Babayev, Azerbaijan’s ecology and natural resources minister, has been appointed the president-in-waiting for the Cop29 climate talks when they take place in the country in November. Before his entry into…
Algore Blames Populism On Climate Change, Shrieks About ‘The Survival of Our Civilization’
CNN’s Christmas Eve edition of State of the Union with Jake Tapper earned itself a huge lump of coal by devoting its entire hour to climate propaganda. In other words, religious counterprogramming. It is here that former Vice President Al Gore came on and blamed populist movements around the world on, you guessed it…climate change….
California sues oil giants, claiming they downplayed climate change for decades : NPR
In this aerial picture taken on Aug. 21, a vehicle drives through floodwaters following heavy rains from Tropical Storm Hilary in Thousand Palms, Calif. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption In this aerial picture taken on Aug. 21, a vehicle drives through floodwaters following heavy rains from Tropical Storm Hilary in Thousand Palms, Calif….
Report shows growing number of Australians believe climate change effects already being felt – ABC News
Over the past 15 years, Australians have weathered myriad climate-related disasters including catastrophic bushfires, devastating droughts, and now destructive floods. Key points: It is perhaps unsurprising that new research shows people’s attitudes towards climate change have shifted as they have been exposed firsthand to the impacts of a warming planet. Those attitudes have been mapped out…
Climate-Change Activists Try to Deface Famous Van Gogh Painting, But One Little Detail Stops Them Cold
Two members of an environmental activist group threw tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh’s famous “Sunflowers” painting on Friday morning at London’s National Gallery. Afterward, the protesters glued their hands to the wall. The group, Just Stop Oil, issued a statement demanding the U.K. government stop all new oil and gas projects, according to CBS…
Climate change has made millions more people face hunger : Goats and Soda : NPR
Children reach for food handouts in the aftermath of the catastrophic flooding in Pakistan, which has destroyed rice, corn and wheat crops and left over a third of the country under water. Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images hide caption Children reach for food handouts in the aftermath of the catastrophic flooding in Pakistan, which has destroyed rice,…
Methane supercharges climate change. The U.S. has a new plan to slash it.
The Inflation Reduction Act is the most significant investment the U.S. government has made in fighting climate change, putting more than $369 billion toward projects that will reduce planet-warming emissions. While much of the bill, signed into law by President Joe Biden on Tuesday, will pay for incentives like tax breaks for renewable energy construction…
Key Biden Nominee On Oil Companies: ‘We Want Them To Go Bankrupt If We Want To Tackle Climate Change’
Saule Omarova, Democrat President Joe Biden’s Marxist-friendly nominee to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, said earlier this year that she wants oil and gas companies to go bankrupt, which comes as Americans face surging gas prices. “Here what I’m thinking about is primarily coal industry and oil and gas industry. A…
