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Call to Action on Weather and Climate Extremes
Just in case you hadn’t already figured out that something crazy is happening with our weather, the world’s top climate scientists today issued a report detailing exactly what we know. Early this morning, the Nobel-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change… Read more >
5 Reasons to Send Youth to Climate Negotiations
Kate Catlin, a native of the Seattle area, has been selected as a member of the United States Youth Delegation to the United Nations climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa from Nov. 28-Dec. 9, 2011. A junior at Gonzaga University… Read more >
Iowa Scientists Ask Candidates to Recognize Climate Reality
With the Iowa caucus now exactly seven weeks away, more than 30 Iowa scientists are asking political candidates to acknowledge the threats posed by ongoing climate change, particularly to Iowa’s farmers. “All major scientific societies and the US National Academy… Read more >
New Report to Warn Climate Change Already Fueling Extreme Weather
A new report is set to warn the intensity of 2011′s floods, heat and drought aren’t freak occurrences – they’re the direct result of man-made climate change. Read more >
Global Warming-Fueled Extreme Weather Spikes Peanut Butter Prices
Will consumers get the jarring truth about why peanut butter prices are suddenly chunky? So far, it looks like the media is feeding them a smoothed-over version that omits the impact of the climate crisis. Read more >
Breath of Fresh Air in Senate: “We Are Not Just in This Chamber to Represent the Polluters”
There’s so much hot air coming out of Washington these days, many Americans have tuned out. But one speech on the Senate floor recently is worth watching in full. Read more >
California Leading the Fight on Global Warming
Wednesday’s decision by California’s Supreme Court to allow the state to go ahead with a cap-and-trade program was an important step in the effort to limit and dramatically reduce the global warming pollution that threatens people and wildlife across… Read more >
Obama Delaying Action on Carbon Pollution: Quite Damaging
Power plants are the nation’s single largest source of climate change causing air pollution pumping roughly 2.4B tons of carbon dioxide into the air each year. Setting standards to limit this air pollution are critically needed to tackle the climate… Read more >
Global Warming Hits Home for NWF Climate Scientist
As I stood in a torrential downpour waiting for my son’s bus to arrive, I couldn’t help but think how this was yet another sign of climate change hitting home. Literally. It was only his third day riding the bus… Read more >
New Climate Data Shows July was 7th-Hottest on Record Globally
New data confirms what you already knew – July was incredibly hot, one of the warmest on record. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center just released its recap of July 2011. Here are some of the… Read more >
