Tag: Global Warming

The Government Accountability Office has found that while the Pentagon has begun to integrate climate change into its plans, integration has been limited and the military faces very real costs from sea-level rise and extreme weather. (iStock)

Energy and Environment

GAO: Military talks up climate change but does little to account for its costs

John Siciliano · December 14, 2017 12:27 am

According to this year's Arctic Report Card, "Arctic paleo-reconstructions, which extend back millions of years, indicate that the magnitude and pace of the 21st century sea-ice decline and surface ocean warming is unprecedented in at least the last 1,500 years and likely much longer." (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Energy and Environment

NOAA: Sea ice melting amid second warmest year in Arctic

John Siciliano · December 12, 2017 6:02 pm

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been a vocal advocate of taking concrete steps to achieve the carbon emission-reducing goals set by world leaders in Paris in 2015. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Energy and Environment

Bloomberg gets oil companies, dozens of others to join climate disclosure pact

John Siciliano · December 12, 2017 10:00 am

Babrow goes on to say that climate change makes war more likely, and calls efforts to mitigate climate change "heroic." (AP Photo/Patrick Record)

Ohio professor claims ‘global warming is worse than war’

Phalen Kuckuck · December 11, 2017 10:32 pm

Former President Barack Obama on Tuesday addressed mayors from around the globe at a summit on climate change in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Obama jokingly congratulates himself for continued job creation under Trump: ‘Thanks, Obama’

Naomi Lim · December 5, 2017 11:06 pm

California Governor Jerry Brown speaks in the U.S. Climate Action Center at the COP 23 Fiji UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017. Brown's and Michael Bloomberg's "America's Pledge" campaign works to compile and tally the climate actions of states, cities, colleges, businesses, and other local actors across the entire U.S. economy. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Energy and Environment

California Gov. Jerry Brown to protesters during climate speech: ‘Let’s put you in the ground’

Mandy Mayfield · November 11, 2017 5:38 pm

The hearing had been focused on Kirstjen Nielsen's credentials and views on national security. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

Democrats hijack confirmation hearing for Homeland Security chief for climate change lecture

Anna Giaritelli · November 8, 2017 6:44 pm

The group is made up of a diverse array of manufacturers like Caterpillar, agriculture, and energy industry groups, as well as environmental conservation groups. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Energy and Environment

Energy alliance kicks off campaign to counter ‘anti-energy’ environmentalists

John Siciliano · October 31, 2017 12:47 am

The federal government this year alone has spent $300 billion to respond to the most expensive year for wildfires on record, on top of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. And climate change costs are expected to keep rising in future decades. (NOAA via AP)

GAO: Trump should craft strategy to deal with economic harm of climate change

Josh Siegel · October 24, 2017 1:00 am

Many scientists blame greenhouse gas emissions, principally carbon dioxide, for increasing the temperature of the Earth, resulting in more severe weather, drought, and flooding. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Energy and Environment

GE’s environment chief: Carbon tax ‘not going to happen’

John Siciliano · October 13, 2017 11:10 pm

George Dethlefsen, left, CEO of Corsa Coal, speaks with a miner in a coal pit in Friedens, Pa., on June 7. Corsa Coal Corp. says the mine will create 70 to 100 new jobs and produce some 400,000 tons of metallurgical coal a year. President Trump has referred to the mine's opening during speeches announcing his intent to withdraw from the Paris climate accords. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)

Energy and Environment

Trump’s path to global coal dominance picks up at UN

John Siciliano · October 2, 2017 4:01 am

Energy and Environment

Climate activists stage protest inside Mitch McConnell’s office

John Siciliano · September 27, 2017 4:56 pm