Climate change is back on the table
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Climate change is once again a hot topic in the Untied States. Hurricane Sandy brought the issue back into the spotlight just days before the presidential election.money.cnn.com
Obama finally talks climate change. Now what will he do about it?
Yet doing anything bigger on climate change will likely require working with a Republican Congress. Stricter fuel-economy standards are here to stay.www.washingtonpost.com
Climate Change Action and More Drilling Likely in Obama's Second Term
All will be owed action on key issues: immigration reform, holding the line on reproductive rights and, yes, some kind of action on climate change. After all, a second term means the Obama administration will have to carry out U.S. commitments made in ...blogs.scientificamerican.com
Japan Takes Different Tack on Climate-Change Efforts
International climate-change negotiators will meet in Doha, Qatar, later this month to try to firm up an outline pact reached in South Africa a year ago, under which all countries would cut emissions starting in 2020.online.wsj.com
Climate Change Lifts the Lid Off Inequality in New York City
In an unexpected turn, Bloomberg announced his endorsement for President Obama's reelection, citing the president's concern for climate change. Bloomberg thus recognized the connection between Sandy and global warming that even the president was ...www.indypendent.org
Top senator hopes to work on climate change bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Wednesday that he hoped senators would work on climate change legislation, though he did not provide a time frame for doing so. "Climate change is an extremely important issue for me ...www.reuters.com
Climate Change Could Hit Crops Far Worse Than Thought
New Delhi - The impact of climate change on key food crops in Africa and South Asia may be much worse than previously estimated - with reductions of up to 40 per cent by the 2080s - according to a study, which synthesised results from related studies ...allafrica.com
Obama Victory, Sandy Give Environmental Groups Hopes For Climate Change ...
That is unlikely, however, to stop the nation's environmental advocates -- newly energized by a storm that has put climate change at the forefront of many people's minds -- from pressing the president for bold action. "The administration has been too ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Community action alleviates climate change gloom
In his recent piece on climate change on the network, Jo Confino wrote of the dark place he found himself in after a few weeks immersed in the latest news on sustainability - his climate change "dark night of the soul" if you like. For the past six ...www.guardian.co.uk
Change in eating can change climate
Frankenstorm Sandy is one more dramatic demonstration that climate change and its extreme weather patterns are now part of our future.www.pantagraph.com
The US election has put climate change back on the political agenda
It's particularly funny because, for the first time in a while, it feels like climate change is back on the political agenda.blogs.telegraph.co.uk
The New Politics of Climate Change
Environmentalists face a much improved political climate following the election, although the climate of Planet Earth will continue to get worse for its human inhabitants.www.huffingtonpost.com
Workshop considers climate change adaptable crops
Agricultural experts from across the Asia-Pacific region are meeting in Western Australia this week in an effort to develop new varieties of crop that are adaptable to climate change. Representatives from 12 Asian nations are taking part in the ...www.abc.net.au
The Mother of All Campaigns
Now is the time to launch the mother of all campaigns -- to stop climate change. Mother Nature became an important player in this election, too big to ignore.www.huffingtonpost.com
Africa: Climate Conversations - What Would Obama or Romney Mean for Doha?
Negotiators preparing to fly to Doha later this month for the next round of U.N. climate change talks will have a close eye on the outcome of the U.S.allafrica.com
Linden: Climate change is camouflaged
Even as Sandy underwent its bizarre metamorphosis from hurricane to winter storm, the question arose in many inquiring minds (at least those not beholden to a solemn oath of climate-change denial): Was this historic storm a symptom of global warming?onlineathens.com
Thomasson: Did climate change cause superstorm Sandy?
In the storm's aftermath, the question we hear again and again is: Did climate change cause superstorm Sandy? Unfortunately, that is invariably followed with the blanket hand wave of dismissal -- oh, you can never blame any single storm on climate change.www.newsday.com
Chinstrap Penguin Populations Threatened By Climate Change, Not Tourism
Changing climatic conditions, rather than the impact of tourism, has the greatest effect on the chinstrap population. The findings of this study, conducted by a research team with the Antarctic Site Inventory (ASI), have been published in the journal ...www.redorbit.com
Why Climate Disasters Might Not Boost Public Engagement on Climate Change
It would be hard to find someone more concerned about human-driven climate change and more involved in pursuing and assessing ways to get traction on curbing greenhouse gas emissions than Marshall.dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com
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