Report: Climate change behind rise in weather disasters
The report focuses on weather disasters since 1980 in the USA, Canada, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Hoppe says this report represents the first finding of a climate change "footprint" in the data from natural catastrophes. Some of the ...www.usatoday.com
Opinion: Drought demands wiser water decisions
Droughts come and go, of course, but water scarcity is a looming problem as growing populations demand more water and climate change makes supplies more erratic. Fortunately, some communities are already exploring options to soften the shock. by Erica ...www.dailyclimate.org
Opinion: California's vanishing snowpack is another victim of climate change
Through a program with the environmental nonprofit, Protect Our Winters, called "Hot Planet/Cool Athletes," I go to schools in mountain communities throughout the U.S. to talk about climate change. Through these visits, I've seen that young people get it.www.presstelegram.com
Climate change: Winning issue or losing battle?
Soon after the White House gag order was put in place and caved into by green groups, the fossil fuel companies and climate deniers, facing no aggressive opposition, moved in to frame the narrative in their favor and influence public opinion. As a ...www.climatesciencewatch.org
Climate Science and Science Literacy: The Strange Divergence
One big puzzle for climate scientists: despite ever-growing scientific evidence that the climate is changing and that the change is largely due to human activities (see here and here), a significant fraction of the American public remains unconvinced ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Pentagon Study Cites Climate Change as National Security Threat
In typically understated, cool and detached bureaucratese -- even when predicting potentially horrendous global implications -- the ICA concluded that "climate change will cause water shortages in many areas of the world" (including the western U.S ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Climate Victims Deserve a Hearing, Whether Here or in The Hague
Shortly before the U.N. session opened, a U.S. appeals court ruled that, as far as the federal government is concerned, climate change is a political problem to be addressed by the legislative and executive branches. Basic legal ... Last year, several ...www.huffingtonpost.com
News Corp. Climate Change Coverage Is Misleading, Analysis Claims
93 percent of Fox News' and 80 percent of the Wall Street Journal opinion pages' climate coverage is inaccurate and misleading according to an analysis titled "Is News Corp.www.huffingtonpost.com
Do US Media Coddle Climate Change Skeptics?
One reason clean energy might face such a grinding struggle for policy support in the United States is the degree to which climate-change skepticism and denial is part of the discussion - a reality reflected in a new study that shows major U.S. media ...www.earthtechling.com
Is Climate Change the Sleeper Issue of the 2012 Election?
Ever since the collapse of cap and trade, it's been "strong conventional wisdom, even within major environmental organizations, that it can hurt us to talk about climate change," explains climate strategist Betsy Taylor, whose consulting firm ...www.theatlantic.com
Feeling The Economic Impact Of Climate Change
Given the onslaught of weird weather over the last few years, "public opinion" finally seems to understand that something strange is going on and that its linked to a changing climate.www.npr.org
Good News on Climate Change…and Not So Good News
Chris Mooney has a piece for us today arguing that public opinion is turning around on climate change. What's more, he says, recent studies suggest that climate can even be a winning political issue: The first of these studies emerged in 2011 from ...www.motherjones.com
Survey: Chinese Opinions of Obama, U.S. Slipping
He didn't live up to expectations on the issue of climate change in China," Wike says. "So we know a little bit, although we don't have a whole lot of specifics about what particular policies led to this change in attitudes.www.usnews.com
Last week's poll: dispelling climate gloom and doom
Our poll last week asked what messages the European Union might put forward to promote the positive side of meeting climate change targets, rather than relying on the 'gloom and doom' message of what would happen if businesses and individuals did ...www.theengineer.co.uk
How a Romney presidency might impact climate-change issues
Since I'm neither a fortune teller nor a computer-generated soothsayer, the following is my opinion on how climate change would fit into a Romney presidency. The main-stream media (MSM) is apoplectic at the very idea that ... In October of 2011, Romney ...www.examiner.com
Polling climate change in thirteen countries
A recent survey (PDF) surveyed public opinion about climate change in thirteen countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Switzerland, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The survey found ...ncse.com
Most climate change sceptics in US, UK and Japan
The results come as the climate change debate becomes more important to the US election. Campaign groups are threatening to target the vulnerable congressional seats of Republicans who dismiss the dangers of climate change. In the UK, trust in climate ...www.telegraph.co.uk
Opinion: Obama, Romney Wrong to Ignore Climate Change
The member congregations of Georgia Interfaith Power & Light recognize that God calls us to be good stewards of Creation and to care for our neighbors.decatur.patch.com
COMMENTARY: Back climate beliefs with action
Climate change: Are we accountable? Will our grandchildren forgive us? What is our responsibility to the future? Do our own actions even matter?www.registerguard.com
Presidential candidates NOT talking about climate change creates an uncertain ...
... as well as certain senatorial candidates have openly discussed America's need to address climate change, the two frontrunner presidential candidates remain notably muted.latinalista.com
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