All Major TV Networks Spent Just 50 Minutes On Climate Change In 2016
"Major TV networks spent just 50 minutes on climate change — combined — last year."
Source: Grist, 03/27/2017
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"The Arctic Just Set Another Grim Record For Low Levels Of Sea Ice"
"Floating sea ice at the top of the world has set another troubling record for its low spatial extent, shattering a prior record set just two years ago for this key component of the planet’s climate system."
Source: Washington Post, 03/23/2017
Farm Policy in Age of Climate Change Creating Another Dust Bowl: Critics
"Over the past decade, farmers in the Great Southern Plains have suffered the worst drought conditions since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. They've battled heat, dust storms and in recent weeks, fires that devoured more than 900,000 acres and killed thousands of cattle. These extreme conditions are being fueled by climate change. But a new report from an environmental advocacy group says they're also being driven by federal crop insurance policy that encourages farmers to continue planting crops on compromised land, year after year."
Source: InsideClimate News, 03/22/2017
"The World’s Oceans Are Storing Up Staggering Amounts Of Heat"
"The world is getting warmer every year, thanks to climate change — but where exactly most of that heat is going may be a surprise."
Source: Washington Post, 03/13/2017
"February’s Warmth, Brought to You by Climate Change"
"A bonanza of heat records fell throughout February in almost all quarters of the U.S. and research released on Wednesday shows that this pervasive spring-like warmth was made possible by climate change."
Source: Climate Central, 03/09/2017
Experts Paint A Dire Portrait Of Climate Change’s Public Health Impacts
"ATLANTA — In a gathering impacted by presidential politics, an all-star cast of public health experts largely stuck to their own bleak script: Climate change is poised to unleash an unprecedented, global public health crisis."
Source: Daily Climate, 02/17/2017
"Al Gore And Others Will Hold Climate Change Summit Canceled By CDC"
"Former vice president Al Gore, the American Public Health Association, and other organizations announced today that they will hold the summit on climate change and health that was canceled by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this week. The Climate & Health Meeting will take place on February 16th, 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia."
Source: The Verge, 01/27/2017
"Side Effect Of California's Drought: More Climate Pollution"
"Droughts are already getting longer and more severe because of human-caused climate change in the American Southwest and around the world. But the drought-climate connection goes both ways: California's prolonged dry spell has also made climate change a little bit worse."
Source: Palm Springs Desert Sun, 01/04/2017
"Global Warming's Fingerprints Seen In 24 Weird Weather Cases"
"A new scientific report finds man-made climate change played some role in two dozen extreme weather events last year but not in a few other weird weather instances around the world."
Source: AP, 12/16/2016
"Carbon Wars: ‘Get Someone Up Here. We’re All Dying.’"
"Oil refineries don’t just pollute. They also kill and maim workers and threaten the public."
"ANACORTES, Wash. — From 500 yards away, John Moore felt the concussion before he heard it.
Moore was midway through a 6 p.m.-to-6 a.m. shift as an operator at the Tesoro Corporation’s oil refinery in Anacortes, an island town 80 miles north of Seattle. It was 35 minutes after midnight on April 2, 2010.
Source: Ctr for Public Integrity, 12/15/2016
