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Author: Charles Rotter
Indiana utility seeks 12 percent rate hike to shut down coal power.
From The American Spectator Under a renewable energy proposal from Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO), Indiana consumers would face a 12 percent electricity rate hike, which will cost the…
The Arctic: we don’t know as much about environmental change in the far north as we’d like to think
From The Conversation December 4, 2018 9.58am EST The first International Polar Year, held over 1882–1883, was an important event for science. The year was the brainchild of Austrian explorer…
Fishermen Sue Big Oil For Its Role In Climate Change
From NPR December 4, 20188:02 AM ET Alastair Bland While oil companies built seawalls and elevated their oil rigs to protect critical production infrastructure from the rising sea level, they…
Hurricane Season Officially Ended, But Two Storms Did Billions In Damage, Left Dozens Dead
From The Daily Caller 11:02 AM 11/30/2018 | Energy Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor This year’s Atlantic hurricane season, which officially ended Friday, generated only a slightly above normal number…
Uneven rates of sea level rise tied to climate change
From Eurekalert Public Release: 3-Dec-2018 Findings could help improve regional sea level forecasts National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research The pattern of uneven sea level rise over…
New machine learning method predicts additions to global list of threatened plant species
From Eurekalert Public Release: 3-Dec-2018 Researchers created and trained a machine learning algorithm to assign risk probabilities to 150,000 plant species worldwide University of Maryland The International Union for Conservation…
Coping with threats from hurricanes, wildfires and rising sea levels
From Eurekalert Public Release: 3-Dec-2018 Several studies utilize risk assessment and risk mitigation practices to prepare for future severe weather events. Past practices are no longer adequate. Society for Risk…
UN Climate Summit To Emit More CO2 Than 8,200 American Homes Do In A Year
From The Daily Caller 10:24 AM 12/03/2018 | Energy Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor The U.N.’s climate summit will emit as much carbon dioxide as more than 8,200 American…
Holistic, network approach to life science needed to solve systemic environmental problems
Biting my tongue. Biting my tongue. Biting my tongue~ctm From Eurekalert Public Release: 30-Nov-2018 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Achieving a sustainable world will require a paradigm shift in…
Excess winter deaths in England and Wales highest since 1976
Not one mention of fuel poverty in the entire article. Love the photo caption. Maybe, just maybe. IT’S THE WRONG KIND OF COLD~ctm From the Guardian Call for more NHS…
Snowpack declines may stunt tree growth and forests’ ability to store carbon emissions
And if my aunt had…..~ctm From Eurekalert Public Release: 1-Dec-2018 New study findings also suggest a variety of industries in the Northeast could be negatively affected by warming trends, including…
Whales are changing their tune and its likely our fault. Here’s why.
From The Weather Network. It could be x, but but but…Climate Change! HT/Marcus
"Scientists warn new Brazil president may smother rain forest
From Phys Org November 26, 2018 by Christina Larson And Mauricio Savarese This May 8, 2018 photo released by the Brazilian Environmental and Renewable Natural Resources Institute (Ibama) shows an…
What Lousy Philosophy Tells Us About Belief In Global Warming
Another take on the ignorance of N. Ángel Pinillos’s NYT article. From WM Briggs One reason people doubt global-warming-of-doom is because of lousy philosophers like N. Ángel Pinillos (note the…
Update on Peter Ridd Legal Action
Update 10 Posted by Peter Ridd Dear All, Just as we were finishing preparations for the court case next week, we found out today that there has been…
Details of the Horrible Carbon Tax Bill
Reposted from Americans for Tax Reform Posted by John Kartch on Wednesday, November 28th, 2018, 12:01 AM PERMALINK ALERT: Call Florida Republican Congressman Francis Rooney at 202-225-2536 and ask him…
The Sky is Falling!
From The Heartland Institute November 29, 2018 By Greg E. Walcher A new report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) claims humans have killed more than half the all the…
California fire crews drink water pulled from thin air
An Israeli company is helping America’s disaster victims and first responders Watergen sends Israeli water-making machine to assist massive wildfires. Abigail Klein Leichman An emergency response vehicle (ERV) carrying an…
Here’s how Paradise ignored warnings and became a deathtrap
A very comprehensive story from the LA Times which repeats the points made Anthony’s previous post about the narrowing of evacuation routes. From The LA Times By Paige St. John,…
Sea level rise preparation plan puts Pacifica property owners on edge
From KTVU By: Brooks Jarosz Posted: Nov 28 2018 10:25PM PST Updated: Nov 29 2018 10:36AM PST PACIFICA, Calif. (KTVU) – The Fairway Park West neighborhood in Pacifica has been…
Sea level rise: what’s the worst case?
Reposted from Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. by Judith Curry Draft of article to be submitted for journal publication. Well, I hope you are not overdosing on the issue of sea…
Climate refugee cod
Even more it’s worse than we thought~ctm From Eurekalert High probability for loss of breeding grounds if temperature increases by more than 1.5 degrees Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for…
Climate change poses significant threat to nutritional benefits of oysters
From Eurekalert: (no comment ~ctm) University of Plymouth The nutritional qualities of shellfish could be significantly reduced by future ocean acidification and warming, a new study suggests. Research has previously…
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