
At Sunday’s 67th Emmy Awards, a number of actors and other industry figures sported green ribbons over their high fashion choices, in order to support President Obama’s climate change initiative. Stars, including Transparent’s Jeffrey Tambor, Veep’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Louis CK,
by Kipp Jones21 Sep 2015, 8:12 AM PST0

The 15 miles that separate Apple and Stanford University now have tech centers for 11 car makers, if you include Apple and Google. Although each company is spending spectacular amounts of money on developing driverless cars, Apple may be about to take the lead by being the first company to gain the state’s DMV permission to test artificial intelligence cars on public roadways.
by Chriss W. Street19 Sep 2015, 8:03 PM PST0

The Pope should stop talking and acting “like a leftist politician” on climate change and instead concern himself with things that really matter, such as the murder of Christians by ISIS and the “intentionally planned genocide of unborn children by Planned Parenthood.” So says Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), who is planning to boycott the Pope’s forthcoming visit to the House of Representatives in protest.
by James Delingpole19 Sep 2015, 4:18 PM PST0

Twenty alarmist climate scientists – including UN IPCC lead author Kevin ‘Travesty’ Trenberth – have written a letter to President Obama urging him to use RICO laws to crush dissent by climate skeptics. Their hypocrisy and dishonesty, especially that of the main signatory, almost defies belief.
by James Delingpole19 Sep 2015, 12:37 AM PST0

Former Late Show host David Letterman will briefly return to television to discuss climate change.
by Kipp Jones17 Sep 2015, 5:09 PM PST0

SIMI VALLEY — Retired neurosurgeon and presidential candidate Ben Carson responded to California Gov. Jerry Brown over climate change in the spin room at the GOP debate Wednesday night.
by Adelle Nazarian17 Sep 2015, 2:59 PM PST0

Los Angeles saw 2.39 inches of rain on Tuesday, making it the wettest calendar day for the city in more than four years, according to the Associated Press.
by Daniel Nussbaum17 Sep 2015, 2:40 PM PST0

In a post-debate appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Thursday, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump followed up on a question from the debate about climate change. Trump completely dismissed climate change as a threat and pointed to other nations’ responses
by Jeff Poor17 Sep 2015, 7:11 AM PST0

The United Nations and Oxfam are offering a prize to young writers who can come up with the best story raising “awareness of the harmful impacts of climate change on communities”. (H/T Climate Depot) Here’s my entry: Once upon a
by James Delingpole17 Sep 2015, 6:09 AM PST0

In a meeting with environment ministers of the European Union, Pope Francis urged the adoption of UN sustainable development goals later this month as well as intensified preparation for the “COP21” in Paris.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.17 Sep 2015, 5:30 AM PST0

A large magnitude 8.3 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Chile triggered tsunami alerts around the Pacific rim–including in California, where a small tsunami wave hit the coast early Thursday.
by Joel B. Pollak17 Sep 2015, 5:21 AM PST0

Canadian activist Naomi Klein has given an interview – yet another one – to promote her latest turgid eco-project. Purely by accident, she and her activist husband Avi Lewis are captured talking a lot of sense. Here’s how. 1. This
by James Delingpole16 Sep 2015, 6:45 AM PST0

A Catholic deacon who says he was inspired by Pope Francis’ recent encyclical on the environment is building an altar for the papal Mass in Washington, D.C. using “ecologically friendly” materials.
by Dr. Susan Berry15 Sep 2015, 4:54 PM PST0

California Gov. Jerry Brown predicted Monday that the effects of global climate change would drive mass migration to his state, similarly to how the current Syrian civil war is causing thousands of refugee migrants to flee to Europe.
by Daniel Nussbaum15 Sep 2015, 9:56 AM PST0

California’s office of Environmental Protection issued a “notice of intent” to label Monsanto’s highly effective ‘Roundup’ weed herbicide’s key ingredient glyphosate as a cancer causing compound.
by Chriss W. Street15 Sep 2015, 8:45 AM PST0

Climate change has saved hundreds of thousands of Africans from extreme poverty, starvation and premature death, a study from Arizona State University has confirmed. The study shows that the West African Sahel – part of the semiarid strip just south
by James Delingpole15 Sep 2015, 7:07 AM PST0

If you don’t believe in climate change you’re as bad as Hitler. There. I’ve just precised a long article which appeared in the New York Times over the weekend with the title The Next Genocide. Rather worryingly it was the
by James Delingpole15 Sep 2015, 12:27 AM PST0

California Gov. Jerry Brown sent a letter to Republican presidential contender Dr. Ben Carson on Thursday, along with a flash drive containing the latest science on climate change, challenging him to “review the material.”
by Joel B. Pollak13 Sep 2015, 6:13 AM PST0

As Pope Francis prepares to embark on his first trip ever to the United States, on Friday he spoke of the “urgency of climate change” while indicating two “crucial events” looming on the ecological horizon: the approval of the objectives of sustainable development by the United Nations at the end of this month and the Paris Climate Conference at the beginning of December.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.12 Sep 2015, 6:43 AM PST0

On Thursday, the Butte Fire, east of Jackson and southeast of Sacramento, surged, tripling in size due to hot winds and triple-digit temperatures.
by William Bigelow11 Sep 2015, 12:48 PM PST0

California Governor Jerry Brown vowed Wednesday to wage a “life-and-death struggle” to “change the very basis of our industrial economy.”
by Chriss W. Street10 Sep 2015, 11:55 AM PST0

A scorching summer heat wave resulted in the early closure of all eight schools in the Bay Area’s Campbell Union High School District on Wednesday and Thursday.
by Adelle Nazarian9 Sep 2015, 3:38 PM PST0

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich, subject of the 2000 Julia Roberts film bearing her story and name, is scheduled to tour the Navajo Nation Tuesday to see the aftermath of last month’s Colorado mine spill.
by Kelli Serio8 Sep 2015, 12:40 PM PST0

According to analysts working with GasBuddy.com, gas prices in California could sink to less than $2.50 per gallon by the end of the year.
by William Bigelow8 Sep 2015, 12:25 PM PST0

Am I the only one who finds it incongruous that President Obama, when on a carefully choreographed trip to Alaska that highlighted global warming, announced the accelerated acquisition of ice breakers?
by Marita Noon8 Sep 2015, 8:50 AM PST0