Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Climate Change And The Nightmare Scenario for Florida’s Coastal Homeowners
Apr 20 2017 // On a predictably gorgeous South Florida afternoon, Coral Gables Mayor Jim Cason sat in his office overlooking the white-linen restaurants of this affluent seaside community and wondered when climate change would bring it...
Trump’s Proposed Cuts to NASA and NOAA Could Impact Forecasting, Modeling
Apr 13 2017 // Funding cuts proposed in a White House budget that has been on the table for months spook some experts who are concerned that the ability to do everything from model changes in the climate to forecast the day-to-day...
17 States Sue to Halt Trump Rollback of Climate Change Regulations
Apr 6 2017 // A coalition of 17 U.S. states filed a legal challenge on Wednesday against efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to roll back climate change regulations, deepening a political rift over his emerging...
Global Momentum to Curb Climate Change Proceeds Despite Trump: UN
Apr 3 2017 // Governments have created “worldwide momentum” to slow climate change despite threats by U.S. President Donald Trump to pull out of the 2015 Paris Agreement to slash greenhouse gas emissions, the U.N.’s...
What Could be Hotter than Phoenix? The Answer Might Just Be Phoenix
Mar 30 2017 // Can you imagine an even hotter, drier Phoenix? Certainly not if you’ve been to the sun-drenched Arizona capital in the summer. Such an inconceivable scenario is being proposed by the LA Times. “Today, Phoenix...
Exxon Dealt a Blow as Texas Judge Sends Climate Suit to New York
Mar 30 2017 // Exxon Mobil Corp.’s attempt to derail a multistate fraud probe into whether the company fully disclosed to investors the financial risks of climate change was dealt a major blow after a Texas judge moved the case...
Trump Moves to Undo Federal Climate Change Policies
Mar 28 2017 // President Donald Trump is moving aggressively to undo policies designed to keep the carbon-cutting promises the U.S. made alongside nearly 200 other countries in Paris, while stopping short of a decision to formally...
Saving Coral Reefs Requires ‘War’ on Global Warming: Study
Mar 23 2017 // Reducing pollution and curbing overfishing won’t prevent the severe bleaching that is killing coral at catastrophic rates, according to a study of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. In the end, researchers say,...
Higher Arctic Temperatures Likely to Shift Global Weather in 2017: WMO
Mar 22 2017 // Unusually warm weather in the Arctic is helping shift weather patterns this year from North America to the Middle East, after global warming shattered records in 2016, according to the World Meteorological...
It Could Be Trump or the Weather, But More People Think Climate Change Is Real
Mar 16 2017 // You can blame it on the weather, or you can blame it on Trump. A record number of Americans are concerned about global warming, believe it is occurring and consider it a serious threat that is caused by human activity. A...
Appliances to Pipelines: Trump Plans Major Rollback of Obama Climate Change Rules
Mar 15 2017 // President Donald Trump is set to sign a sweeping directive to dramatically shrink the role climate change plays in decisions across the government, ranging from appliance standards to pipeline approvals, according to a...
Nationwide Says Extreme Weather Brings Bigger Claims, Need for Disaster Plans
Mar 2 2017 // More extreme weather has led to more extreme insurance claims in the U.S. over the past few years. In a review of more than 100,000 commercial catastrophe claims during a 10-year period, Mark A. Anderson, a claims...
What Happens if Trump Pulls U.S. Out of Paris Agreement?
Feb 16 2017 // Dam climate change. An opinion piece in the New York Times is offering a tie-in between global warming and the potential disaster unfolding at the Oroville Dam in Northern California. “After five years of...
Can Climate Change Make The Groundhog A Better Forecaster?
Feb 2 2017 // Donald Trump has no problem saying what he’s thinking – as he proved during a phoner with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Saturday. This could make one wonder how he’ll treat Prince Charles –...
Trump Advisor Says U.S. Will Change Climate Policy, Pull Out of Paris Agreement
Jan 31 2017 // The United States will switch course on climate change and pull out of a global pact to cut emissions, said Myron Ebell, who headed U.S. President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition team...
Report: Trump Administration Orders Removal of Climate Page from EPA’s Website
Jan 25 2017 // U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to remove the climate change page from its website, two agency employees told Reuters, the latest move by the newly...
Global Temperatures Hit Record High for 3rd Year in Row in 2016
Jan 19 2017 // World temperatures hit a record high for the third year in a row in 2016, creeping closer to a ceiling set by the Paris climate change deal, with extremes including unprecedented heat in India and ice melt in the Arctic,...
California’s Climate Risk Database Calls Out Insurer Carbon Investments
Jan 18 2017 // A new interactive database with extensive information on insurer investments in fossil fuels was unveiled today by California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones. Jones released the results of his Climate Risk Carbon...
New Climate Index Shows Extreme Weather Is Now 3 Times More Frequent
Jan 12 2017 // Extreme weather over the last five years has been occurring with a regularity that’s about three times the norm, according to a newly created index from a group of number crunchers. The Actuaries Climate Index, which...
Social Polarization, Inequality Raise Potential for Risk, Disruption: WEF
Jan 12 2017 // Rising inequality and social polarization are set to shape world developments for the next decade after contributing to Britain’s decision to leave the European Union and the ballot-box success of U.S....
