Tag: Global Warming

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Beltway Confidential

Tax-hikers are coming for your meat

Tyler Tate · April 25, 2018 2:00 pm

Beltway Confidential

Confessions of a former carbon tax skeptic

Josiah Neeley · April 24, 2018 8:33 pm

In this 2017 photo, the coal-fired Plant Scherer, one of the nation's top carbon dioxide emitters, stands in the distance in Juliette, Ga.

Energy and Environment

Cardinal Ribat: A Christian obligation to confront climate change

Cardinal John Ribat · March 22, 2018 4:00 am

We have to not be afraid to use terms that some might say, that's politically charged. Why is it politically charged to say climate change?" Sen. Lisa Murkowski asked. "I see in my state the impact we have from warming temperatures." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Energy and Environment

Lisa Murkowski challenges her fellow Republicans: ‘Why is it politically charged to say climate change?’

Josh Siegel · February 14, 2018 3:11 pm

The results do not point to specific effects of climate change but do identify particular bases where extreme weather is already reported as a problem. (AP Photo/Vladimir Voronin)

Energy and Environment

50 percent of US military bases report climate extremes, new Pentagon study says

Travis J. Tritten · January 29, 2018 11:24 pm

Trump claimed that the earth is simultaneously heating and cooling and therefore climate change is not happening. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Energy and Environment

Trump: Global warming isn’t happening because there’s ‘a cooling, and then there’s a heating’

Laura Barrón-López · January 28, 2018 8:22 pm

Local governments in California recently sued 18 energy companies claiming the threat of rising sea levels in future years present a substantial risk to their communities. But the stark disparity between what these local governments alleged in their lawsuits and what they disclosed to their own bond investors hints that they, too, have systematically misled investors. And as a matter of principle, the proper place to settle political and policy disputes like this is in the electoral arena, not a court of law. (AP Photo/John Antczak)

Energy and Environment

Telling tales on climate change

Peter Roff · January 28, 2018 5:01 am

Voters were most happy with President Trump's handling of the economy, jobs, and fighting terrorism, but many weren't pleased with his approach to global warming, draining the swamp, foreign relations, and healthcare. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

35 percent give Trump an ‘F’ after his first year

Anna Giaritelli · January 16, 2018 1:49 pm

For about two years, Exxon has been fighting investigations spearheaded by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to demonstrate Exxon covered up its own scientists' research 40 years ago, which showed climate change would harm its business. (iStock)

Energy and Environment

Exxon launches counterattack against California-based climate ‘conspiracy’ lawsuits

John Siciliano · January 9, 2018 5:01 am

President Trump's tweet was met with extreme backlash from those who saw it as his latest attack on climate change science.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The Weather Channel fires back at Trump’s global warming tweet

Katie Leach · December 29, 2017 9:34 pm

President Trump tweeted about the recent cold snap on Thursday and then took a swipe at the concept of global warming. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump: Some ‘good old Global Warming’ could help with frigid New Year’s Eve

Daniel Chaitin · December 29, 2017 12:29 am

A motorist on Highway 101 watches flames from the Thomas fire leap above the roadway north of Ventura, Calif., on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Beltway Confidential

California’s Thomas wildfire has nothing to do with climate change

Tim Worstall · December 14, 2017 6:41 pm