Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
‘Climate Change’ in 2015: Bigger Than Religion – or Selfie?
Jan 12 2015 // The phrase “climate change” yields roughly 108 million results in a Google search – in the ballpark in terms of numbers of results with “Jesus Christ,” “Mohamed” and...
Climate Change in 2015 Could be Bigger Than Religion – or Selfie
Dec 31 2014 // The phrase “climate change” yields roughly 108 million results in a Google search – in the ballpark in terms of numbers of results with “Jesus Christ,” “Mohamed” and...
Survey Shows 8-in-10 Americans Believe in Climate Change
Dec 15 2014 // More than eight-in-10 Americans now believe the climate is changing – although they place that concern beneath issues like global political instability, economic crisis or a pandemic. Munich Re America’s inaugural...
Companies May Need to Disclose Fossil-Fuel Exposure: UK Energy Secretary
Dec 11 2014 // U.K. Energy Secretary Ed Davey called for a debate on forcing companies to disclose their exposure to fossil fuels so that investors know the risks they face as cleaner forms of energy are required. “There’s a...
Climate Researchers Lower Global Warming Forecast on Plans to Cut Emissions
Dec 8 2014 // Climate researchers lowered their forecast for global warming for the first time since 2009 after the greenhouse gas polluters agreed to limit their emissions over the next 15 years, a group of European academics...
Insurance Industry Is Leader on Climate Change, Report Says
Dec 4 2014 // The insurance industry is being called out by an international research institution for its progressive attitude on climate change. A white paper put out by the nonprofit Urban Land Institute this week urges the real...
UN’s Weather Agency Warns 2014 May Be Warmest on Record
Dec 3 2014 // Record high ocean temperatures will make 2014 the hottest year on record, or at least among the very warmest, in evidence of a long-term trend of global warming, the U.N.’s weather agency said on Wednesday. Including...
Climate Change Report: Philippines Hardest Hit by Extreme Weather in 2013
Dec 3 2014 // The Philippines, Cambodia and India were the countries hardest hit by extreme weather events in 2013, according to a study unveiled on Tuesday at U.N. talks in Lima on a global deal to limit climate change. The report by...
Survey Shows 8-in-10 Americans Believe in Climate Change
Dec 2 2014 // More than eight-in-10 Americans now believe the climate is changing – although they place that concern beneath issues like global political instability, economic crisis or a pandemic. Munich Re America’s inaugural...
IPCC Publishes Full Report on Climate Change Mitigation Options
Dec 1 2014 // Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the full version of its contribution “Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change” to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report in its...
Some Future Effects of Climate Change Are Inevitable: World Bank
Nov 24 2014 // Some future impacts of climate change, such as more extremes of heat and sea level rise, are unavoidable even if governments act fast to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the World Bank said. Past and predicted emissions from...
Florida Gov. Scott Facing Rising Seas, Climate Change Politics
Nov 17 2014 // When Florida Governor Rick Scott won re-election Nov. 4, he triumphed over both his Democratic challenger and California billionaire Thomas Steyer, who spent $20 million painting him as a climate-change denier. Scott, a...
Climate Change Report Paints Portrait of Dystopian Future
Nov 17 2014 // A major climate change report issued this month offers dire predictions, a call to action to government and industry and it assesses the blame for a rapidly changing and more volatile world on mankind. The United...
Crop Of Climate Corps May Bloom in Ag Insurance Landscape
Nov 13 2014 // You can still shake your climate moneymaker. Climate change certainly didn’t carry the day in the November elections. It shouldn’t be news to anyone that the topic ushered in few if any victories for those who...
Climate Change Report Paints Portrait of Dystopian Future
Nov 3 2014 // A major climate change report issued over the weekend offers dire predictions, a call to action to government and industry and it assesses the blame for a rapidly changing and more volatile world on mankind. The United...
Time Running Short to Avert Worst Effects of Climate Change
Nov 3 2014 // Governments can keep climate change in check at manageable costs but will have to cut greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2100 to limit risks of irreversible damage, a U.N. report said on Sunday. The 40-page synthesis,...
Regulator Takes Focus on Climate Change Preparedness
Oct 30 2014 // With a calm demeanor and in a somewhat scientific tone he doesn’t mind using while explaining his stance on something, Mike Kreidler stood by his decision to call out the insurance industry and the rest of the...
Boston Mayor: City Made Significant Strides in Preparing for Climate Change
Oct 30 2014 // Boston has made significant strides in preparing for major natural disasters, rising sea levels and other impacts to the ever-changing climate, Mayor Martin Walsh said on the two-year anniversary of Superstorm...
NYC Flood Zone Properties’ Value Rose to $129B Under New FEMA Maps
Oct 29 2014 // The assessed value of properties in New York City that lie within Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) newly proposed 100-year floodplain maps is $129 billion, more than double the value under previous...
Human Factor, Culture Often Overlooked in Climate Debate, Expert Says
Oct 29 2014 // When Hurricane Sandy came, Deborah Star Reed stayed home. Irene, the year before, had been over- hyped. Her 1919 concrete house in New York was left unscathed by Donna in 1960 and the “Big One” of 1938. So, on...
