Thursday, 13 December 2018

Energy and Environment: The Arctic Ocean has lost 95 percent of its oldest ice — a startling sign of what’s to come

Energy and Environment
With Chris Mooney
 
The Arctic Ocean has lost 95 percent of its oldest ice — a startling sign of what's to come
If this thinning trend continues, scientists fear an added boost to global warming.
Climate talks at risk of failure as U.S. leaves a leadership void
Head of U.N. tells delegates, "To waste this opportunity would compromise our last best chance to stop runaway climate change."
 
'Carbon removal is now a thing': Radical fixes get a boost at climate talks
Despite technological and cost hurdles, experts say that pulling carbon dioxide from the air is essential.
 
Small island nations, threatened by rising seas, want stronger action at the climate-change summit in Poland
Progress has been slow at the COP24 climate summit, and small island nations are demanding better results.
 
Al Gore says Trump isn't paying attention to the global climate summit. (And that's a good thing.)
"It's better when the U.S. is actually providing leadership. And maybe a couple of years from now it will again," the former vice president said.
 
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Trump can't actually exit the Paris deal until the day after the 2020 election. That's a big deal.
The Trump administration can withdraw from the Paris climate agreement next year, but it takes another year to complete the process. Which brings the whole matter to Election Day in 2020.
 
Analysis | The Energy 202: Why climate activists stormed Nancy Pelosi's office again
The 'Green New Deal' is on their agenda.
 
That was awkward — at world's biggest climate conference, U.S. promotes fossil fuels
Laughter and protests greeted the United States' embrace of continued fossil fuel production as global temperatures continue to rise.
 
What to know about the big climate change meeting in Katowice, Poland
Countries are setting the rules for the Paris agreement and struggling over how to do more to stop warming in its tracks.
 
Trump administration moves to slash federal protection for waterways
The proposal would ease permitting burdens on home builders, farmers, and oil and gas extractors who use hydraulic fracturing.
 
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Administration's permits to harm marine animals during oil and gas exploration face a court fight
Environmental groups sued the Trump administration for granting permits that would let oil companies use deafening blasts of sound to map the Atlantic Ocean.
 
The United States isn't the only country downplaying climate change
From Brazil to Australia, other world leaders and politicians deny climate science and fight efforts to cut carbon emissions.
 
Climate change was behind 15 weather disasters in 2017
Analyses of extreme weather events across six continents and two oceans found nearly all were exacerbated by climate change — and that at least one heat wave would have been "virtually impossible" without it.
 
Interior Dept. officials downplayed federal wildlife experts' concerns about Trump's border wall, documents show
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke wanted to "support the border security mission," an official said in one email.
 
Trump administration resists global climate efforts at home and overseas
The government rejects language affirming severity of warming as battle lines sharpen at climate summit in Poland.
 
 
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