You may have heard that Larry Fink, Manager of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, sent a letter to clients this week underlining the need to move investments into sustainable technologies, and soon.“In the near future”, he wrote, “and sooner…
Click on the image above to enlarge. Comparison of Yale’s “6 Americas” polling on climate concerns from 2016 and today. Yale Program on Climate Communication: Nearly six in ten (58%) Americans are now either “Alarmed” or “Concerned” about global warming.…
Larger and larger numbers of Americans are Concerned or Alarmed about climate change. (see post on this page)May the Republican Party burn in hell for poisoning the dialogue on climate for the last 30 years, and now preparing to pretend…
Those refugees on the beach are rich white folks, folks. I spoke to University of Melbourne scientist Linden Ashcroft PhD for an overview. This event seems historic to me, and I suspect I will have several more vids on this.…
Significant new research from Lijing Cheng and Kevin Trenberth.Your intrepid reporter, of course, spoke to the scientists in December, above, and below. Inside Climate News: The new study, the first to analyze ocean temperatures for 2019, was based on two…
Washington Post: The past decade was the hottest ever recorded on the planet, driven by an acceleration of temperature increases in the past five years, according to data released Wednesday. The findings, released jointly by NASA and the National Oceanic…
If this is the way it’s going, we’re going to have to get a lot better managing fire. We might want to talk to some experts – indigenous people the world round have been doing this for a long time,…
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been under fire, – first for taking a Hawaiin vacation as the current bush-fire catastrophe set in – and more broadly for his staunch climate denial positions. Great ABC reporting here. Evolving story.…
Trying to work on a video about this fire and I can’t keep up. NPR: A pair of massive bushfires in southeastern Australia has merged into a “megafire” engulfing some 2,300 square miles — a single blaze more than three…
The same folks that brought you “..the Sandy Hook parents faked their own children’s deaths,..” – now bringing you “evil greenies lighting fires in Australian bush to make coal look bad.” DeSmogblog: As unusually intense and widespread bushfires have ravaged…
University of Sydney: Update on number of animals killed in Australian bushfires: Sydney expertShareProfessor Chris Dickman has revised his estimate of the number of animals killed in bushfires in NSW to more than 800 million animals, with a national impact…
Climate denial social media offensive follows the same format we saw during the California fire season – with a new wrinkle. THE FACT: Fire services in Australia do regular burns to control brush build up and deprive fires of ready…
Science Alert: A swath of the Pacific Ocean larger than New South Wales is heating up, and fast. About 800 kilometres (497 miles) east of New Zealand’s South Island, near the Chatham Islands, ocean temperatures have spiked to almost 6…
Michael Mann PhD in the Guardian: After years studying the climate, my work has brought me to Sydney where I’m studying the linkages between climate change and extreme weather events. Prior to beginning my sabbatical stay in Sydney, I took the opportunity…
High on the list for a (fingers crossed) new congress and President should be campaign finance reform. Karin Kirk at Yale Climate Connections: Corporations, special interest groups, and individuals inject billions of dollars into the American political system every year.…
Time: $300 billion. That’s the money needed to stop the rise in greenhouse gases and buy up to 20 years of time to fix global warming, according to United Nations climate scientists. It’s the gross domestic product of Chile, or…
Dangerous climate change is here now. Mike Mann is, by chance, on sabbatical in Australia and has a front row seat to an unfolding disaster. Below, reposting Kevin Trenberth’s explanation of how heat builds in a drought. Meanwhile, Surfing champion…
CBS News: PORT ARTHUR, Texas — As the nation plans new defenses against the more powerful storms and higher tides expected from climate change, one project stands out: an ambitious proposal to build a nearly 60-mile “spine” of concrete seawalls,…
