Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oregon Judge Dismisses Climate Change Lawsuit
Apr 9 2012 // A Lane County Circuit Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by two Eugene, Ore. girls and their mothers that accused Gov. John Kitzhaber of failing to protect the state’s resources against climate change. Judge...
Climate Contrarian Case Wilts as More Studies Confirm Warming Trends
Apr 5 2012 // A clutch of recent studies reinforces evidence that people are causing climate change and suggests debate should now move on to a more precise understanding of its impact on humans. The reports, published in various...
Regulators and the Business of Climate Change-Related Risk
Apr 2 2012 // For more than three years, a handful of insurance regulators and global warming activists have been trying to prod the insurance industry into taking unspecified action to address the “risks” associated with...
Plan Now for Climate-related Disasters Warns U.N. Report
Mar 29 2012 // A future on Earth of more extreme weather and rising seas will require better planning for natural disasters to save lives and limit deepening economic losses, the United Nations said on Wednesday in a major report on the...
Global Warming Litigation Ruling in Favor of Insurers Vacated
Mar 19 2012 // What Does This Mean? As if times weren’t uncertain enough, the Virginia Supreme Court issued a ruling on Jan. 17, 2012, vacating its Sept. 16, 2011, opinion in Steadfast Insurance Co. v. The AES Corp. and granting a...
Millions in U.S. at Risk from Rising Sea Levels: Report
Mar 15 2012 // Sea level rise due to global warming has doubled the annual risk of coastal flooding of historic proportions across widespread areas of the United States, according to a report from the non-profit research group Climate...
Allianz Teams with Experts to Assess Climate Change Impact on Insurers
Mar 15 2012 // Europe’s largest insurer, Germany’s Allianz SE, posed the following question: “How does climate change affect the business model of a large insurance company?” In order to find the answers Allianz...
Virginia High Court to Rehear Global Warming Coverage Case
Feb 20 2012 // The Virginia Supreme Court has granted rehearing of a closely followed legal case involving climate change coverage, The AES Corp. vs. Steadfast Insurance Company. The court said on Jan. 17 that its previous decision on...
100-Year Storms May Happen Every 3 to 20 Years: MIT-Princeton Research
Feb 15 2012 // Last August, Hurricane Irene spun through the Caribbean and parts of the eastern United States, leaving widespread wreckage in its wake. The Category 3 storm whipped up water levels, generating storm surges that swept over...
Virginia Court Grants Rehearing of Global Warming Claims Case
Feb 3 2012 // The Virginia Supreme Court has recently granted rehearing of a closely followed legal case involving global warming, The AES Corp. vs. Steadfast Insurance Company. The court says its previous decision on the case has been...
California’s Jones Announces Multi-State Effort on Climate Risk Disclosure
Feb 1 2012 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Wednesday announced that the California Department of Insurance has joined with Washington and New York to require insurers to disclose the effects of climate change on their...
Climate Change Lawsuit in Court in Oregon
Jan 25 2012 // A Lane County Circuit Court judge is deciding whether to allow a lawsuit brought by two girls against Gov. John Kitzhaber, accusing him of failing to protect the state’s resources against climate change. Judge...
Investors: Private Sector Must Tackle Climate Change
Jan 12 2012 // Institutional investors with a collective $26 trillion under management opened a new front Thursday in the fight against climate change, urging the private sector to mobilize, follow the money and find new technologies to...
Munich Re Describes Climate Conference Results as ‘Disappointing’
Dec 14 2011 // From Munich Re’s perspective, the recently concluded climate summit in Durban “yielded disappointing results that fail to reflect the world climate’s dramatic situation.” Prof. Peter Höppe, head of...
Canada Pulls Out of Kyoto Climate Change Protocol; First Country To Do So
Dec 13 2011 // On Monday Canada became the first country to announce it would withdraw from the Kyoto protocol on climate change, dealing a symbolic blow to the already troubled global treaty. Environment Minister Peter Kent broke the...
New U.N. Climate Deal Struck; Critics Say Gains Modest
Dec 12 2011 // Countries from around the globe agreed on Sunday to forge a new deal forcing all the biggest polluters for the first time to limit greenhouse gas emissions, but critics said the plan was too timid to slow global warming. A...
Scientists Say Kenai Area Getting Drier, Warmer
Dec 5 2011 // Climate change is taking place on the Kenai Peninsula, slowly but surely. Over the last 100 years, climate change has been affecting the Peninsula, according to a presentation in November from Dr. John Morton, supervisory...
Insurers Win First Round of Climate Change Coverage Litigation
Nov 29 2011 // In light of the economic turmoil currently engulfing the United States and Europe, the Republican sweep in the 2010 midterm congressional elections, the various protests going on around the country and the upcoming...
Scientists Say Kenai Area Getting Drier, Warmer
Nov 29 2011 // Climate change is taking place on the Kenai Peninsula, slowly but surely. Over the last 100 years, climate change has been affecting the Peninsula, according to a presentation Thursday night from Dr. John Morton,...
Last Chance to Save Kyoto Deal at Durban Climate Talks
Nov 28 2011 // Countries will make a last ditch effort to save a dying Kyoto Protocol at global climate talks starting on Monday aimed at cutting the greenhouse gas emissions blamed by scientists for rising sea levels, intense storms and...
