Sea Level

By Bjorn Carey | ( Stanford News Service) | – –

At 450, Florida’s St. Augustine Faces Rising Waters of Manmade Climate Change as Governor Fiddles

Aljazeera America | (Video) “St. Augustine is one of the many cities seeing this alarming trend and fears that they may one day be submerged”

Climate Change

Global Warming: G7’s Coal Plants are Weapons of Mass Destruction aimed at World’s Poor

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By Sean Buchanan | (Inter Press Service) | – – LONDON, Jun 6 2015 (IPS) – As heads of state and government of the G7 states prepare for their Jun. 7-8 summit in Germany, Oxfam has released a new report titled Let Them Eat Coal which they may find hard to digest. According to the […]

Acidification of Oceans

It’s Getting hot in Here: There never was a Pause in Global Warming: Scientists

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By Jay Lawrimore | (The Conversation) | – National and international studies have shown that the Earth is warming, and with this warming, other changes are occurring, such as an increasing incidence of heat waves, heavy downpours and rising sea levels. In its Fifth Assessment Report in 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found […]

Acidification of Oceans

Bahamas will lose 80% of Land in this Century to Climate Change, Builds Sea Walls

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By Desmond Brown | – NASSAU (IPS) – Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have championed the phrase “1.5 to stay alive” in demanding that global temperature increases be kept as far below 1.5 degrees C as possible to limit the anticipated devastating effects of climate change on the world’s most vulnerable countries. But for the […]

Acidification of Oceans

Why do Poor Nations care more about Climate Change than the Rich?

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Alex Lo | (The Conversation) | – Alex Lo, University of Hong Kong Do rich countries care more about the environment that poorer ones? In a recent study I found that’s not necessarily the case. The reason comes down to danger: poorer nations are more worried about risks such as flooding, so are more concerned […]

Climate Change

‘Climate Change Deniers Are Like Alcoholics’ | Ed Begley, Jr.

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Dave Rubin | (Rubin Report Video) – “Ed Begley Jr sits down with Dave Rubin for an interview about everything from environmental activism and climate change, to the California drought and the future of our planet ” Rubin Report ‘Climate Change Deniers Are Like Alcoholics’ | Ed Begley, Jr. Interview

Climate Change

More Bad Climate News: Once-Stable Antarctic Region Suddenly Melting

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By Bert Wouters | (The Conversation) Antarctica’s glaciers have been making headlines during the past year, and not in a good way. Whether it’s a massive ice shelf facing imminent risk of collapse, glaciers in the West Antarctic past the point of no return, or new threats to East Antarctic ice, it’s all been rather […]

Barack Obama

Obama: Climate change deniers endanger national security

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WTNH News8 | (Video) – “President Barack Obama says climate change deniers are endangering national security.” WTNH News8 “Obama: Climate change deniers endanger national security”