Environment - Page 10

The National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) may be about to remove ‘climate change’ from its list of core priorities.

Antarctic melting faster than evah! This has been the global warming scare story of the week, heavily promoted by the usual suspects, including Time, CBS, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the New York Times and, inevitably, the BBC.

Don’t laugh too hard but this has been a terrible week for the renewable energy dream. Across the world solar energy share prices have crashed. This was caused by a sudden and unexpected decision by China, the world’s biggest solar manufacturer and user, to rein in subsidies.

“Is the political class’s obsession with global warming rotting their brains?” asks Christopher Booker in a must-read piece for the Daily Mail.

Contents: Climate change activists struggle to replace US climate change money; China backs out of its climate change commitments with ‘bifurcation’

The prestigious Lancet medical journal has published a disingenuous editorial falsely attributing 7 million deaths from air pollution to “climate change.”

The United Nations is to vote later this week for a climate treaty “on steroids” – stronger, more all-encompassing and more legally binding than the ailing Paris accord.

Greenies are up in arms over another environmental scandal of their own making. A TV documentary, shown on Britain’s left-wing Channel 4, has been shocked to discover that old hardwood forests in the U.S. are being chopped down, exported to the UK and burned for what is laughably being billed as “green” energy.

Britain has just suffered its worst winter death toll in 42 years. But what’s more shocking still is that the UK government – claiming to be Conservative, last time I looked – is actually boasting about the disastrous policy which helped kill them.

In a bizarre irony, the German daily newspaper Die Welt has proclaimed U.S. President Donald Trump “the most successful climate protector in the world” after a new global climate report revealed that U.S. carbon dioxide emissions dropped dramatically during Trump’s first year in office.

President Donald Trump backed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Pruitt amid a number of leftist attacks against the agency chief.

Fewer and fewer Republicans and Independents believe that ‘climate change’ is a credible threat; more and more Democrats do. ‘Global warming’, it is becoming increasingly clear, is a political issue and not a scientific one.

California’s bullet train appears to have released a “High Case” estimate of $98.1 billion to prepare the public for much higher tunneling costs.

The “Base Case” estimated cost to build California’s bullet train from San Francisco to Los Angeles has doubled to $77.3 billion, and could almost triple to $98.1 billion.

At 2:00 AM on March 11, Americans complied for the 44th year with President Richard Milhouse Nixon’s still controversial “Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act.”

TEL AVIV – People were panicked over the weekend when a river in eastern Lebanon suddenly turned a deep red, in what was later said to have been a leak from a local chocolate factory, Lebanese media reported.

An effort by the state of California to block construction of President Trump’s proposed border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border has been dismissed.

The climate loons – and their amen corner in the liberal MSM – want you to panic about a new study claiming that sea level rise is accelerataing.

California Gov. Jerry Brown’s $17.1 billion Delta tunnels project has been cut in half, after a study found the projected cost of project water deliveries by the project had tripled.

The California legislature’s Democrats and Republicans voted unanimously on Tuesday to have the budget-busting High-Speed Rail Authority subjected to a nonpartisan review by State Auditor Elaine Howle.

California Governor Jerry Brown delivered his final “State of the State” address on Thursday in the State Capitol in Sacramento. Brown, in his second consecutive term, and his fourth term overall since the late 1970s, is prevented by law from running again.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s attorney general is suing the Trump administration for rolling back a fracking rule that he says is designed to protect public health and the environment.

The Iranian oil tanker Sanchi is leaking heavy bunker fuel through a massive hole in its side, rescue operation leaders confirmed this week, after exploding and sinking into the East China Sea carrying its fuel and a large shipment of the lighter petroleum product condensate.

Nigel Farage MEP has slammed attempts to “overturn” and “frustrate” Brexit, whilst attacking the Irish premier for putting the interest of the European Union (EU) above those of his people.

Just when you thought the Big Freeze couldn’t get any worse, here’s Al Gore to twist the knife and grab a Rahm-Emanuel-style opportunity to promote his renewables scam.

The city of Palm Springs, California, announced that it would remove a row of trees blocking a black neighborhood from viewing a municipal golf course.

The Atlantic claims online pornography is killing the environment at a greater pace than physical pornography ever did, in an article this week.

California cities are being forced to spike taxes to pay for spiking public employee pension funding costs.

[LANGUAGE WARNING] TMZ Sports released cell phone video that captured now deceased former MLB pitcher Roy Halladay’s plane moments before it crashed in the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday. Per TMZ, witnesses on a nearby boat pulled out their phones to video the

The media is reporting that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt has been meeting with “polluters,” including fossil fuel leaders, ranchers, and farmers.

In a major new study, the Lancet journal has revealed that pollution-related diseases were responsible for an estimated 9 million premature deaths in 2015, or some 15 times more than from all wars and other forms of violence combined.

Did you hear the scary rumor at the weekend that President Trump was about to renege on his promise to quit the UN Paris Climate Agreement?

President Donald Trump’s economic adviser Gary Cohn appears keen on working with the world about climate change, setting up a meeting next week at the United Nations to discuss the issue.

The leftist government of Ecuador, a close ally of China, has lodged a stern protest against Beijing this week after seizing an illegal fishing vessel carrying thousands of endangered sharks. China’s presence in the waters of Latin America has grown as the lucrative illegal fish market has grown.

Callista Gingrich, the Trump nominee for U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday as part of a confirmation process expected to move forward with little resistance.

In a recently-launched project, IDF soldiers from the Combat Intelligence Collection Corps, including spotters, will help protect Israel’s wildlife and nature.