Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Could More State Commissioners Require Climate Disclosure?
Oct 20 2016 // Max Messervy took a decidedly positive tack when pried again and again to reveal any negative reaction to a report he puts together every so often. Messervy, the insurance program manager at sustainability leadership...
More Insurers Disclosing Climate Change Risks, Report Shows
Oct 20 2016 // Insurers in the U.S. are increasingly willing to disclose their risk management practices related to climate change, and that in part may be attributable to last year’s global accord in Paris and shifting attitudes...
Study: Climate Change Has Doubled Western U.S. Forest Fires
Oct 13 2016 // A new study says that human-induced climate change has doubled the area affected by forest fires in the U.S. West over the last 30 years. Since 1984 heightened temperatures and resulting aridity have caused fires to spread...
Study Finds Climate Change Could Lead to More Hurricanes on NYC Coast
Oct 12 2016 // Hurricanes could start flooding New York City’s coastline as often as every 20 years due to the effects of climate change on sea-level rise and hurricane activity, scientists said on Monday. Water could surge some 9...
You Should Be Able to Buy Stock in This Climate-Friendly Beer
Oct 6 2016 // Beer and coffee make nice bookends. One before the other can put you in the right frame of mind – I usually like coffee before beer, but whichever comes first all depends on what frame you want to be in. The top climate...
Scientists Predict Climate Change to Cause More Droughts, Flooding in Carolinas
Oct 3 2016 // Experts warn the Carolinas will face droughts and deluges in coming years. Scientists, farmers and water managers met in Charlotte recently to explore ways to deal with coming dry weather and the sudden flooding that the...
University in South Carolina Awarded $25K to Study Climate Change on State’s Coast
Sep 29 2016 // College students will be working to gauge the impact of climate change along the South Carolina coast, one of the fastest-growing areas in the nation. The Sun News reports that Coastal Carolina University has received a...
What Climate Change Has to Do with Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tsunamis
Sep 22 2016 // Climate change will cause more earthquakes. It’s as simple as that. Deniers, start your engines. If that isn’t enough to enflame the smoldering embers of discourse within those ready to pounce on any and all...
Scientists Predict Climate Change to Cause More Droughts, Flooding in Carolinas
Sep 19 2016 // Experts warn the Carolinas will face droughts and deluges in coming years. Scientists, farmers and water managers met in Charlotte last week to explore ways to deal with coming dry weather and the sudden flooding that the...
‘Game Changing’ Climate Disclosure Guidelines Coming Soon
Sep 8 2016 // A global task force’s efforts to create new disclosure guidelines for the world’s financial industry – including insurers in the U.S. and abroad – are far from the first attempt to urge companies to be open...
BlackRock Says Investors Must Weigh Climate Change Like Insurers Are Doing
Sep 7 2016 // BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager, said all investors should factor climate change into their decision-making and doing so would not mean having to accept lower returns. Global moves to coordinate a...
The Future of Climate Change Modeling
Sep 6 2016 // For the last few years there’s been a common response from catastrophe modelers who advise the property/casualty industry when asked about including the effects of climate change in modeling. It went something like:...
California Lawmakers Vote for Extension of Climate Change Law
Aug 25 2016 // California lawmakers voted to extend the state’s landmark climate change law — the most aggressive in the nation — by another 10 years, resisting fierce opposition from oil companies and other business interests...
How Monsanto’s Climate Unit Is Changing Risk Profile of Farmers
Aug 25 2016 // It caught my eye when Monsanto Co. subsidiary Climate Corp. announced last week it was creating the “Industry’s First In-Field Sensor Network” and “the first Centralized Platform” digital...
New U.S. Laws Back Still Doubted Climate Change
Aug 12 2016 // A federal appeals court in Chicago gave a thumbs-up this week to an obscure regulatory practice that helps the U.S. government account for projected costs of climate change. The decision comes less than a week after the...
Climate Change And Gisele, The Law of the Land
Aug 11 2016 // When the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Rio highlighted climate change, it wasn’t hard to imagine the buzz – positive and negative – that would be generated. The show included references to rising sea...
Researchers Link Global Warming to Rise in Waterborne Illnesses
Aug 10 2016 // Rising global temperatures are clearly linked to increasing waterborne food poisoning, particularly from eating raw oysters, along with other nasty infections, a new study shows. About a dozen species of vibrio bacteria...
Climate Change Modeling is Closer than You Think
Jul 28 2016 // For the last few years you got a common response from catastrophe modelers who advise the property/casualty industry when asked about including the effects of climate change in modeling. It went something like: “The...
2 State AGs Refuse House Republicans’ Subpoenas Over Climate Change
Jul 28 2016 // The New York and Massachusetts attorneys general are refusing to comply with congressional subpoenas seeking records about their investigations into whether Exxon Mobil misled investors about man-made climate change. In an...
House GOP Wants Democratic AGs’ Records on Climate Change Suit Against Exxon
Jul 15 2016 // Escalating a political fight over global warming, a Republican House chairman issued subpoenas this week to two Democratic state attorneys general, seeking records about their investigation into whether Exxon Mobil misled...
