Saudi Arabia says it will reduce carbon emissions to net-zero by 2060
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman speaks at the G20 Riyadh Summit last year. The country’s leader announced on Saturday that it would have net-zero carbon emissions by 2060. File Photo courtesy of EPA Oct. 23 (UPI) — Saudi Arabia will reduce its carbon emissions to net-zero by 2060, the crown prince of the oil-exporting country…
Ocean acidity data affirms predictions of changes to El Nino conditions
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Score one for a key climate change prediction. A multi-institutional research team led by Yale and the University of St. Andrews has confirmed a major finding of climate models regarding changes that may occur to Pacific Ocean currents—including those that drive El Niño events—with just a few degrees of global warming.…
Despite climate change promises, governments plan to ramp up fossil fuel production
In this July 29, 2020 file photo, a view of a pump jack operating in an oil field in Midland, Texas. Tony Gutierrez/AP hide caption toggle caption Tony Gutierrez/AP In this July 29, 2020 file photo, a view of a pump jack operating in an oil field in Midland, Texas. Tony Gutierrez/AP Despite lofty commitments…
Google Bans Ads That Spread Climate Misinformation
The new rules could put pressure on Facebook to take similar steps Credit: Olly Curtis Getty Images Profiting from climate change denial just got a little bit more difficult. The Google ads team announced yesterday it will “prohibit ads for, and monetization of, content that contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of…
News Corp Australia tweaks climate targets amid scrutiny of editorial line
The News Corporation logo is displayed on the side of a building in midtown Manhattan in New York, U.S., February 27, 2018. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File PhotoNEW YORK/SYDNEY, Oct. 1(Reuters) – The Australian arm of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (NWSA.O) has set new environmental targets, an internal email showed, shoring up employee engagement with climate issues as…
NASA plans to launch climate change-tracking Landsat 9 satellite
An illustration depicts NASA’s Landsat 9 satellite in orbit above the Earth. Image courtesy of NASA Sept. 27 (UPI) — NASA plans to launch one of its most high-tech Earth observation satellite to date Monday from California to help track climate events that range from California wildfires to deforestation of the Amazon. A United Launch…
The jet stream is moving north. Here’s what that means for you.
In 1374, famines struck what is now Spain, Italy, and France. The culprit? The North Atlantic jet stream, a river of fast-moving air that flows from North America to Europe, had shifted north. The jet stream carries moisture-laden storm clouds, and without them, southern Europe was left dry, and crops died off. Research published this…
‘Grow up’: U.K.’s Boris Johnson says world must face climate change
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told world leaders at the United Nations on Wednesday night that humanity has to “grow up” and tackle climate change, saying humans must stop trashing the planet like a teenager on a bender.Johnson is due to host a major United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland in six weeks’ time.…
In climate landmark, China promises to end coal funding overseas
The Celukan Bawang 2 power plant funded by China on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali is seen in 2020. China will stop funding coal projects overseas, President Xi Jinping announced Tuesday, all but ending the flow of public aid for the dirty energy contributing to the climate crisis. Xi made his announcement at the UN…
Biden urges passage of legislation to combat climate change
WASHINGTON — Speaking at a clean-energy facility in Colorado, President Biden on Tuesday urged Congress to pass legislation that he argued will create jobs and mitigate the impact of climate change. “We have to make the investments that are going to slow our contributions to climate change today, not tomorrow,” Biden said during a speech at the…
More than 200 medical journals call for urgent action on climate change
Global warming is already affecting people’s health so much that emergency action on climate change cannot be put on hold while the world deals with the Covid-19 pandemic, medical journals across the globe warned on Monday. “Health is already being harmed by global temperature increases and the destruction of the natural world,” read an editorial…
Study reveals extreme winter weather is related to Arctic change
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study shows that the frequency of polar vortex disruptions that is most favorable for extreme winter weather in the United States is increasing, and that Arctic change is likely contributing to the increasing trend. Led by Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), University Massachusetts Lowell and the Hebrew University of…
Weather disasters are causing 7 times more damage than in the 1970s, U.N. says
GENEVA — Weather disasters are striking the world four to five times more often and causing seven times more damage than in the 1970s, the United Nations weather agency reports.But these disasters are killing far fewer people. In the 1970s and 1980s, they killed an average of about 170 people a day worldwide. In the…
68 House Democrats urge more reconciliation money for Interior
Posted August 30, 2021 at 3:53pmNearly 70 House Democrats have urged party leaders in both chambers of Congress for more funding in the reconciliation budget to combat climate change through the Interior Department, calling funding proposed so far “disappointing” as most of the West is in drought, wildfire seasons grow longer and species die off.In…
2020 had 102 tropical storms, well above world average, NOAA report says
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Tropical storms in 2020 didn’t just break records in the northern Atlantic. It happened everywhere. Storm totals exceeded records all over the world, according to an international study from 60 countries detailed in the “State of the Climate in 2020″ report released Wednesday. The annual report is compiled by the National…
How Warming Is Affecting Northern Storms Like Henri
Tropical Storm Henri struck Rhode Island yesterday afternoon with 60-mph winds, making it the first named storm to hit the state in 30 years. That was a rare occurrence in the Northeast, where most hurricane-force storms weaken over cooler waters or get pushed into the Atlantic by easterly winds. Those that do strike Northern states…
Hydropower Withers in Drought, Boosting Fossil-Fuel Generation
A drought worsened by climate change has caused hydropower supplies in California to reach their second-lowest level since 2001, leading electricity prices in the state to soar 150% in three months’ time. Yet some of the biggest beneficiaries of the price surge, according to a credit ratings agency report yesterday, are fossil fuel-fired power producers…
Feds declare first Colorado River shortage, order water cuts for 2022
BOULDER CITY, Nev. — The federal government declared an unprecedented water shortage for the Colorado River and Lake Mead on Monday, triggering mandatory water cuts and opening a new chapter in the worsening struggle with drought in the West.Water supplies from the Colorado River for Arizona, Nevada and parts of Mexico will be reduced starting…