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As Climate Change Hits Miami, Only The Rich Will Be Able To Protect Themselves
Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018

Myesha Pugh fled the apartment complex where she spent the first 30 years of her life after an insect wormed into her grandmother’s ear in the middle of the night. “My dad took her to the hospital, and the hospital retrieved a live cockroach,” she recounts with disgust.

Conditions at the multi-family complex in the heart of Miami’s Overtown neighborhood, where rents hovered around $500 a month, quickly deteriorated after the original owner died and left it to her children. “I personally think they’re waiting for the city to condemn the building,” says Pugh. 

Unparalleled warmth is changing the Arctic and affecting weather in US, Europe
Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018

The Arctic is experiencing a multi-year stretch of unparalleled warmth "that is unlike any period on record," according to the 2018 Arctic Report Card, a peer-reviewed report released Tuesday morning from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, an agency within the United States Department of Commerce.

That was awkward ÔÇö at worldÔÇÖs biggest climate conference, U.S. promotes fossil fuels
Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018

President Trump’s top White House adviser on energy and climate stood before the crowd of some 200 people on Monday and tried to burnish the image of coal, the fossil fuel that powered the industrial revolution — and is now a major culprit behind the climate crisis world leaders are meeting here to address. 

“We strongly believe that no country should have to sacrifice economic prosperity or energy security in pursuit of environmental sustainability,” said Wells Griffith, Trump’s adviser.

The climate may be warming even faster than the UN's dire warning
Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018

A sobering new piece in the journal Nature finds that October's dire UN science report about the ongoing and future effects of climate change may have actually underestimated the pace of global warming.

Why it matters: The new analysis, if borne out, widens what's already a huge gulf between the expected human and ecological toll from high levels and rapid rates of warming and the failure of governments worldwide to bring about the steep carbon emissions cuts that could prevent runaway temperature increases.

Climate change is not only influencing extreme weather events, it's causing them
Monday, Dec. 10, 2018

Extreme weather events that spanned the globe in 2017 have been directly linked to -- and in some cases were even caused by -- continued warming of the planet via human influence through greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report.

Humans on Course to Reverse 50 Million Years of Climate Change in Just Two Centuries
Monday, Dec. 10, 2018

For the past 50 million years, the Earth has been gradually cooling. But scientists fear manmade global warming may reverse this trend in just 200 years. 

The authors of a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Scienceswarned that if greenhouse gases continued to be pumped into the Earth’s atmosphere at the current rates, the planet's climate would be comparable to that of the mid-Pliocene era of 3 million years ago by 2030. And by 2150 it would go back to the climate of the Eocene period, 50 million years ago.

ÔÇÿWe are in trouble.ÔÇÖ Global carbon emissions reached a record high in 2018.
Thursday, Dec. 06, 2018

Global emissions of carbon dioxide are reaching the highest levels on record, scientists projected Wednesday, in the latest evidence of the chasm between international goals for combating climate change and what countries are doing.

Between 2014 and 2016, emissions remained largely flat, leading to hopes that the world was beginning to turn a corner. Those hopes appear to have been dashed. In 2017, global emissions grew 1.6 percent. The rise in 2018 is projected to be 2.7 percent.

What Greenland's 'unprecedented' ice loss means for Earth
Thursday, Dec. 06, 2018

For a few days in July of 2012, it was so hot in the Arctic that nearly the entire surface of the Greenland ice sheet turned to slush.

It was so uncharacteristically warm that scientists, emerging from their tents high on the peak of the ice sheet, sank up to their knees in the suddenly soft snow. And then, that snow started melting.

PatagoniaÔÇÖs CEO is donating companyÔÇÖs entire $10M Trump tax cut to fight climate change.
Monday, Dec. 03, 2018

Patagonia is having a very good year. And under our new corporate tax code passed by a Republican Congress and enthusiastically signed into law by President Trump, they’re paying a lot less in federal taxes.

$10 million less, to be exact.

In letter posted to LinkedIn, Patagonia’s CEO announced her company is donating all $10 million to non-profit groups who work on issues related to climate change and the environment.

NAFTA 2.0 is signed ÔÇö but itÔÇÖs far from finished
Friday, Nov. 30, 2018

North American leaders formally signed their new trade agreement Friday, marking the end of 15 months of contentious talks between the U.S., Canada and Mexico — and the beginning of what could be months of fierce debate between the Trump administration and Congress.

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