je.st
news
Tag: climate
14 Extreme Weather Events Linked to Climate Change
2015-11-07 15:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Even though skeptics would disagree, weather and climate are clearly two different things. We know that the greenhouse gases emitted by human activities such as burning fossil fuels and land use cause global temperatures to rise over long stretches of time, but what effect does that have on the weather today? Well, according to a new study, we can now pin at least 14 extreme weather events in 2014including heatwaves, drought, wildfires and floodson climate change. The report, Explaining Extreme...
Tags: change
events
weather
extreme
Obama rejects Keystone XL project, citing U.S. climate leadership
2015-11-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: President Obama announced Friday that his administration will not issue a permit for construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, arguing that approval would undermine the U.S. effort to curb greenhouse gases. Americas now a global leader when it comes to taking serious action to fight climate change, Obama said. And frankly, approving this project would have undercut that global leadership. And thats the biggest risk we face -- not acting. Denying TransCanada Corp. a permit...
Tags: project
leadership
climate
citing
Dungeness crabs, the latest climate casualty
2015-11-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: Like messages in bottles, the evidence of something very wrong in the Pacific Ocean has been mounting all year on Californias shores. Ordinary storms have been whipped into monsters like last weeks Hurricane Patricia. Schools of tropical sunfish have shown up on the Alaskan coast, and red crabs from Baja have carpeted beaches as far north as Monterey County. Now, amid record high water temperatures in the Pacific, a record algal bloom is floating like a heat rash along the West Coast from...
Tags: latest
climate
casualty
crabs
Keystone XL wasnt about jobs or the climate it was all politics
2015-11-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
FiveThirtyEight: During Keystone XLs seven-year review process, the pipelines political significance ballooned far beyond its measurable consequences. In partisan narratives, it was often framed as a fight pitting jobs against the climate and energy security against environmental concerns. In reality, the pipeline stood to make little difference in any of these arenas. On Friday, President Obama announced that he was rejecting TransCanadas request to build the 1,179-mile Keystone XL pipeline. It would have...
Keystone XL pipeline rejection signals US taking lead climate change fight
2015-11-07 14:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The symbolism was everything. Standing before a portrait of Teddy Roosevelt, the conservationist president who 104 years ago busted the Standard Oil monopoly, Barack Obama made his own tilt at an environmental legacy. The proposed 1,179-mile Keystone XL pipeline, which Obama rejected on Friday, would have borne more than 800,000 barrels of exceptionally high-carbon oil from Canadas tar sands fields in Alberta to refineries on the US gulf coast each day. It should have been a shoo-in for presidential...
Tags: change
taking
lead
fight
Sites : [678] [679] [680] [681] [682] [683] [684] [685] [686] [687] [688] [689] [690] [691] [692] [693] [694] [695] [696] [697] next »