Tag: Global Warming

Energy and Environment

Bloomberg: Cities key to confront climate change

Edith Lederer · May 28, 2014 12:51 am

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2013, file photo, businessman Tom Steyer talks during a meeting to announce the launch of a group called Virginians for Clean Government at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va. Setting his sights on Republicans who reject climate change, an environmentalist billionaire is unveiling plans to spend $100 million this year in seven competitive Senate and gubernatorial races, as his super PAC works to counteract a flood of conservative spending by the Koch brothers. NextGen Climate Action said it plans to spend at least $50 million contributed by founder Steyer, a retired hedge fund manager and longtime Democratic donor, and another $50 million the group is seeking to raise from likeminded donors. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Energy and Environment

Climate group to sink $100M in 7 races in 2014

Josh Lederman · May 22, 2014 6:40 am

Energy and Environment

Illinois Farmers Insurance sues 12 local governments for allegedly ignoring climate change

Kyla Asbury · May 21, 2014 10:59 pm

Mother Jones ridiculed Oklahoma because officials there recently voted against new science education standards that give prominence to global warming agitprop. (Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

Contrary to Mother Jones, Oklahomans know real climate change when they see it

Mark Tapscott · May 20, 2014 4:00 am

$Richard Gray, left, joins others in a demonstration calling on Gov. Jerry Brown to end hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas, outside the auditorium where Brown spoke about climate change at the University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics conference in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, May 19, 2014.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)$ Business

Brown: California at ‘epicenter’ of climate change

Juliet Williams · May 20, 2014 12:20 am

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Beltway Confidential

Report: Climate scientists suppress study skeptical of global warming rate

Kevin Daley · May 19, 2014 4:40 pm

A helicopter transporting water flies over trees during a wildfire Thursday, May 15, 2014, in Escondido, Calif. One of the nine fires burning in San Diego County suddenly flared Thursday afternoon and burned close to homes, trigging thousands of new evacuation orders.(AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Energy and Environment

Studies: Wildfires worse due to global warming

Seth Borenstein · May 18, 2014 4:32 pm

The Columbia River flowsthrough the Bonneville Dam near Cascade Locks, Ore., in 2011. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Energy and Environment

Climate change poses threat to Northwest electricity

Zack Colman · May 16, 2014 4:00 am

Water splashes over the Center Street Dam in the swollen Des Moines River in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. (AP/Charlie Neibergall)

Another noble quest with no solution

R. Emmett Tyrrell · May 15, 2014 4:00 am

The executive actions, the administration says, include commitments from more than 300 public- and private-sector partners to create new jobs in the energy-efficiency industry and reduce carbon pollution. (Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

New York Times: Obama’s new executive actions won’t have much of an impact on global warming

Ashe Schow · May 9, 2014 4:00 am

A parking lot full of yellow cabs in Hoboken, N.J. is flooded as a result of Superstorm Sandy. (AP/Charles Sykes)

Environmentalists have lost the climate change debate

David Harsanyi · May 8, 2014 4:00 am

The National Climate Assessment the Obama administration released this week describes in Sisyphean terms the task government faces in limiting carbon dioxide emissions, which the assessment says make up 84 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions it holds guilty of artificially warming our planet.

Government will control you before it controls climate

Terence Jeffrey · May 7, 2014 4:00 am