Climate Change Headlines
A list of the most recent stories about Climate Change.
Beyond NYC: Other places adapting to climate, too
From Bangkok to Miami, cities and coastal areas across the globe are already building or planning defenses to protect millions of people and key infrastructure from more powerful storm surges and other effects of global warming. Some are planning cities that will simply adapt to more water. But climate-proofing a ...
Protecting NYC: Mayor's plan, successor's question
A $20 billion plan to gird New York with levees, flood gates and other defenses is a bold stroke from a mayor who saw the city through Superstorm Sandy and has championed preparedness for global warming. But the future of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's sweeping proposals will largely rest with his ...
US-China climate deal was long in the works
Disparate interests ranging from environmental activists to businesses and industry are lining up to support a first-of-its-kind deal between the U.S. and China to phase out a chemical blamed for climate change. Although it took most proponents by surprise, the deal was in the bag before President Barack Obama and ...
Levees, removable walls proposed to protect NYC
Removable floodwalls would be erected in lower Manhattan, and levees, gates and other defenses would be built elsewhere around the city under a nearly $20 billion plan Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed Tuesday to protect New York from storms and the effects of global warming. The plan — which would also ...
Colby opts against fossil-fuel divestment
Trustees at Maine's Colby College have decided not to stop investing endowment money in oil, gas and other companies connected to fossil fuels, but students say they'll continue trying to build support for the move. Students asked the board's investment committee to consider divesting investments in companies they say contribute ...
Climate change scientists, deniers clash in W.Va.
A Republican congressman sought common ground in the climate change debate Thursday but found the same clash of science and ideology that paralyzes Washington had followed him to West Virginia, a state long built on fossil fuel production. For more than three hours, U.S. Rep. David McKinley quizzed a panel ...
US environmentalist McKibben wins Sophie Prize
American environmentalist Bill McKibben has won the $100,000 Sophie Prize for being a mobilizing force in the fight against global warming. The award committee commended McKibben for "building a global, social movement, fighting to preserve a sustainable planet." McKibben, born in 1960, has written widely about the impact of global ...
Gov. Brown keeps pressing climate change crusade
Gov. Jerry Brown warned scientists and policymakers Thursday that they are losing the war on climate change and urged them to become advocates for the planet. "We've got a big challenge. It's daunting," Brown said. "This is not just about science, this is about activism." A team of climate change ...
More tornadoes from global warming? Nobody knows
A deadly tornado hit suburban Oklahoma City on Monday. A quick look at some basic facts: Q. Is global warming to blame? A. You can't blame a single weather event on global warming. In any case, scientists just don't know whether there will be more or fewer twisters as global ...
Climate change linked to pattern
Research scientists and others studying the Earth’s climate say global warming could be linked to a signature weather pattern seen around the world that possibly contributed to this year’s drought and the ferocity of Hurricane Sandy.Some evidence indicates climate changes are pulling jet stream air flows into a more north-to-south ...
Several factors fuel warm weather
March high temperatures that broke century-old records were in part fueled by global warming from human activity, an early analysis from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.In a draft report dated April 3 from NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory Physical Sciences Division, federal scientists examining Upper Midwest and Ohio ...
High court rejects global warming lawsuit against Ohio power company
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court Monday tossed out a global warming lawsuit by five states against Ohio-based American Electric Power and three other private power companies, ruling that the federal government has the authority to regulate emissions of greenhouse gasses. In an 8-0 ruling, the justices rejected pleas by ...
Jonah Goldberg: Cooling on global warming
“What the heck went wrong?” That, apparently, is the question roiling the environmental community as it realizes that the fight against climate change has fizzled.As Brad Plumer writes in the New Republic, everything was looking great in 2008 for a sweeping effort to make good on candidate Barack Obama’s pledge ...
Global warming already hitting Ohio, study says
DAYTON — A new study highlighted three Ohio cities — Cincinnati, Toledo and Cleveland — as being at especially high health risks in a warming world as temperatures break records along eastern and southern portions of the United States this summer. In the immediate area, Dayton is also under threat ...
EPA rejects petitions questioning whether climate change is man made
Petitions from private groups including Ohio coal companies questioning the scientific validity of man-made climate change were rejected Thursday, July 29, by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. About 90 percent of Ohio’s electricity comes from coal combustion. The petitions were filed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Ohio Coal Association, ...
Cars & Climate Change
As the Obama Administration set out tough new rules for fuel mileage standards Thursday, getting less attention was the release of the first regulations ever placed on greenhouse gas tailpipe emissions, an effort by the feds to slow the effects of climate change. "Establishing a harmonized approach to regulating light-duty ...
We should begin long-term planning for effects of global warming
As sea temperatures rise, weather effects can be dramatic. More evaporation means more more snow, drenching rains, mudslides and flooding, and harsher hurricanes. That’s what we’re seeing. Laugh if you want, but we should start long-term planning.
GOP, Dems could come to global warming agreement, Ohio senator says
WASHINGTON – Emerging from a White House meeting with President Barack Obama, Sen. Sherrod Brown on Tuesday, March 9, said there was "a chance" that Senate Republicans and Democrats could agree on a sweeping bill that would curb global warming through the development of cleaner energy. The 90-minute session, which ...
Thomas Friedman: ‘Global weirding’ more accurate than warming
Of the festivals of nonsense that periodically overtake American politics surely the silliest is the argument that because Washington is having a particularly snowy winter it proves that climate change is a hoax and, therefore, we need not bother with all this girly-man stuff like renewable energy, solar panels and ...
Mona Charen: It’s freezing; this must be a sign of global warming
Great swaths of Britain are buried under more than a foot of snow as the country shivers through the coldest winter since 1981. Airports have been shut down, trains have been canceled, and the army had to be called out to rescue more than 1,000 motorists stranded in Hampshire.In Germany, ...
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