Hamilton Nolan · 11/24/15 09:45AM
The latest scientific tussle over global warming pits the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the respected journal Science against Texas Republican Congressman Lamar Smith. Who to believe?
The latest scientific tussle over global warming pits the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the respected journal Science against Texas Republican Congressman Lamar Smith. Who to believe?
A Stanford University study says California textbooks “use the same kind of language seen on climate change denier blogs” and misrepresent the scientific consensus about the causes and impact of global warming, reports The Guardian.
Scientists have long said that we must try to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius or less if we want to preserve much of our way of life. According to new estimates, it’s not looking good.
The World Bank—friend to hippy-dippy liberal types, ally to socialists, bastion of political correctness, a cadre of Social Justice Warriors if ever there was one—estimates that 100 million people could be pushed into poverty by 2030 by, you guessed it, climate change.
A report from the Pew Research Center says concern about climate change among Chinese citizens has plummeted in the past five years. Cool, cool—China is “the world’s biggest carbon polluter.” No problems here.
ExxonMobil, a company that vehemently asserts that it does not hate your children, has been caught in a big fat enormous lie, and politicians want the corporation to pay.
“The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the American agency that tracks worldwide temperatures, announced Wednesday that last month had been the hottest September on record, and in fact took the biggest leap above the previous September that any month has displayed since 1880.”
During the Democratic debates last night, Bernie Sanders hinted at the need for a tax on carbon to fight climate change. He’s not the only one!
July was our planet’s hottest month since record-keeping began in 1880. Better get that motherfucking carbon tax soon.
The president’s new plan to fight climate change is modest at best, but it does open the door for states to impose their own versions of a carbon tax—the only thing that will actually work. Hurry up with it before we all die, idiots.
A new study finds that melting sea ice in the North Atlantic caused by global warming could ultimately cause Western Europe to get colder. So there will be somewhere cool to go when America becomes a sweltering hellscape.
At long last, Cool Pope “Francis” (a pseudonym) has released his much-anticipated encyclical on climate change. **SPOILER ALERT**: He’s against it. What does this mean?
Rick Santorum—a rust-belted Pittsburgher who has embraced the Petrine church ever since he stopped being pro-choice in his first congressional election—is smeared in penitence and frothy with faith, and he will show this pontiff who’s supreme.
“Atmosphere: exploring climate change,” the London Science Museum’s exhibit on global warming, is principally sponsored by Shell. You’re asking yourself: Hmm, Shell—isn’t that the name of some trendy “green” startup? No, it’s the same old Shell that fills your gas tank and that was responsible for 76 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions last year. What could go wrong?
A new study published Thursday in the journal Science has found that, if climate change continues apace, one in six species on the planet could face extinction.