Climate Change - Page 72

Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio Cortez joined more than 200 youth activists in storming the office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Tuesday morning in order to get her to act on climate change.

California Gov. Jerry Brown blamed climate change for the devastating California wildfires, despite a complete lack of evidence — a day after President Donald Trump was widely criticized for blaming poor forest management.

Pope Francis highlighted on Monday what he considers two main threats to humanity, namely the “immense crisis” of global warming and the possibility of nuclear war.

Neil Young called President Donald Trump a climate change “denier” after losing his home in the deadly Woosley fire.

Man-made climate change is causing increased “rat fecundity,” an essay warns, which, in turn, threatens to escalate into a full-blown “rat explosion.”

Sir David Attenborough has decided to ditch the finger-wagging and the doom-mongering from his next wildlife TV documentary series, Dynasties. Viewers, he has finally realised, find it a turn off.

Vegetarians and vegans have been getting very uppity of late. One reason for this is that some idiot told them they hold the key to saving the world.

Ben and Jerry’s ice cream company, known for its leftist activism, announced the new “Pecan Resist” flavor mocking President Donald Trump.

The world’s oceans are threatened by “dangerous and forced migration, the scourge of various forms of criminal trafficking and the pollution of the seas,” said the Vatican’s representative at the international conference “Our Ocean, Our Legacy” Tuesday.

A handful of protesters showed up on Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court to show support for 21 young people who in 2015 filed a lawsuit against the federal government. They claimed it was ignoring climate change allegedly caused by fossil fuels and denying youth their constitutional right to a stable environment.

Another global warming scare story bites the dust: fragile islands and atolls in the Pacific are not sinking beneath the waves because of global warming. In fact, they are doing just fine.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has joined calls for a popular uprising to protest against the “unprecedented global emergency” of climate change.

Six presidents of continental bishops’ conferences have signed an appeal calling on government leaders to take immediate action to overcome the “devastating effects of the climate crisis,” the Vatican reported Friday.

Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg is spending $4 million to defeat incumbent Republican Dana Rohrabacher — making the race for California’s 48th congressional district the most expensive in the country.

The Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change has justified the nation’s new carbon tax by suggesting that carbon dioxide is a pollutant.

Like “a giant asteroid hurtling towards Earth,” climate change is a menace of gargantuan proportions poised to dramatically alter life as we know it, declared an article in the Irish Times Thursday.

The State of New York sued Exxon Mobil for fraud on Wednesday, claiming that the fossil fuel company hid the potential impact of climate change from its investors.

Global warming has made Britain’s climate slightly more mild and pleasant. This is the shock finding of a study likely to send paroxysms of terror through the alarmist “science” establishment as it finally realises the game is up and that the evidence just doesn’t support its fantastical scare story.

Democratic Socialist candidate for the House of Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in a video that reaching the goal of 100 percent renewable energy to fight climate change requires the same urgency and mobilization in the United States as it did to fight Nazi Germany during World War II.

Stephen Colbert has mocked President Donald Trump’s claim that he has a “natural instinct for science” with a sketch pouring scorn on his alleged ignorance of climate change.

Swift action is required to preserve dozens of World Heritage sites from the “high risk” of extensive damage from climate change, CNN reported this week.

Finally author George RR Martin has revealed the secret of “Game Of Thrones”: it’s all one gigantic metaphor for the threat of climate change.

Sean Astin — the actor still probably best known for playing furry-footed hobbit yokel Samwise Gamgee in Lord of the Rings — has berated his fans for showing insufficient zeal on climate change.

Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) repeatedly cast his Democrat challenger, Abigail Spanberger, as an aspiring pawn of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. He made his remarks during a Monday debate for Virginia’s 7th Congressional District in Culpeper, VA.

President Donald Trump aced his cross-examination by Lesley Stahl on climate change on 60 Minutes.

“Well, the weather has been a factor, and yet they say that the worst hurricanes were 50 years ago if you can believe it,” Trump said.

ROME — Economic losses due to natural disasters linked to climate change have increased by 151 percent over the last 20-year period (1998-2017), the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano claimed this weekend.

The leaders of 19 Catholic development agencies have signed an “urgent appeal” to combat climate change, insisting there is not much time left to deal with the climate crisis without incurring “nefarious consequences.”

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said he is skeptical of a new United Nations climate change report that predicted catastrophic global consequences if greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced. Kudlow said, “The issue here is magnitudes

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher criticized the media for not giving attention to climate change increasing hurricane strength during their coverage of Hurricane Michael. Maher said, “First of all, we feel bad for the people

What do you do when you need an extreme weather event – any extreme weather event – to prove that Donald Trump has got it wrong on climate change?

Arnold Schwarzenegger used to joke that only “girlie men” opposed energetic capitalism and traditional American values. But now, the former bodybuilder, Hollywood star, and California governor is apologizing for popularizing the phrase.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott has been extremely busy preparing his state and its residents for Category 4 Hurricane Michael, which is slamming into the area on Wednesday, while his opponents are attacking him for being a climate change denier.

Only government intervention in the free market will enable Britain to meet its carbon emissions reductions obligations, Chris Stark, the chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has warned.

Australia backs coal-fired power and will continue to mine the resource in direct defiance of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) call to phase out coal power by 2050.

Actor and comedian Patton Oswalt declared on Tuesday that global warming is a “meteor” that will “strike in our lifetimes,” and as such has urged mainstream media outlets to cover the threat it poses above all other news.