Climate Change Headlines
A list of the most recent stories about Climate Change.
More tornadoes from global warming? Nobody knows
A deadly tornado hit suburban Oklahoma City on Monday. A quick look at some basic facts: Q. Is global warming to blame? A. You can't blame a single weather event on global warming. In any case, scientists just don't know whether there will be more or fewer twisters as global ...
Canada PM on pipeline plan: Oil to come anyway
A controversial oil pipeline to the U.S. Gulf Coast "absolutely needs to go ahead," Canada's prime minister said Thursday, and he warned that the oil will be transported through America one way or another. Stephen Harper addressed the Keystone XL project, a flashpoint in the debate over climate change, during ...
West Virginia editorial roundup
Recent editorials from West Virginia newspapers: May 13 Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette on Greenhouse buildup: A historic landmark occurred last week. Scientists at a Hawaii mountaintop observatory reported that carbon dioxide buildup in the atmosphere reached 400 parts per million for the first time since the Pliocene Epoch -- 5 million ...
Project aims to track big city carbon footprints
Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets anchored in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases that waft skyward. Halfway around the globe, similar contraptions atop the Eiffel Tower and elsewhere around Paris keep a pulse on emissions from smokestacks ...
Natural gas export plans stir debate
A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas as energy companies seek permits for proposed export projects that could set off a renewed frenzy of fracking. Expanded drilling is ...
Plans to export US natural gas stir debate
A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas as energy companies seek permits for proposed export projects that could set off a renewed frenzy of the much-debated kind of ...
Project to track megacities' carbon footprints
Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases that waft skyward. Halfway around the globe, similar contraptions atop the Eiffel Tower and elsewhere around Paris keep watch on emissions from smokestacks and automobile ...
Experts: CO2 record illustrates 'scary' trend
The old saying that "what goes up must come down" doesn't apply to carbon dioxide pollution in the air, which just hit an unnerving milestone. The chief greenhouse gas was measured Thursday at 400 parts per million in Hawaii, a monitoring site that sets the world's benchmark. It's a symbolic ...
Greenhouse gas milestone; CO2 levels set record
Worldwide levels of the chief greenhouse gas that causes global warming have hit a milestone, reaching an amount never before encountered by humans, federal scientists said Friday. Carbon dioxide was measured at 400 parts per million at the oldest monitoring station which is in Hawaii sets the global benchmark. The ...
Greenhouse gas level highest in 2 million years
Worldwide levels of the greenhouse gas that plays the biggest role in global warming have reached their highest level in almost 2 million years — an amount never before encountered by humans, U.S. scientists said Friday. Carbon dioxide was measured at 400 parts per million Thursday at the oldest monitoring ...
State College mayor urges fossil fuel divestment
The mayor of the central Pennsylvania borough of State College has endorsed a campaign that urges municipalities to divest from fossil fuel companies, the environmental group 350.org said in a release Thursday. Borough Mayor Elizabeth Goreham joined nine other mayors in urging municipalities to divest from the top 200 fossil ...
Nebraska lawmakers advance climate change study
Nebraska lawmakers gave first round approval Tuesday to a measure that would launch a state review of climate change. Lawmakers voted 35-0 to advance the proposal by Sen. Ken Haar of Malcolm after a handful of lawmakers denounced global warming. The bill still must pass through two more rounds of ...
UN official hopeful about 2015 climate talks
Governments are more serious and the impact of climate change is more dramatic, improving chances of a groundbreaking global warming pact in 2015 in contrast with the failure of such an effort in 2009, the U.N. climate chief said Tuesday. The climate change talks in Copenhagen were a resounding failure, ...
Climate change linked to pattern
Research scientists and others studying the Earth’s climate say global warming could be linked to a signature weather pattern seen around the world that possibly contributed to this year’s drought and the ferocity of Hurricane Sandy.Some evidence indicates climate changes are pulling jet stream air flows into a more north-to-south ...
High court rejects global warming lawsuit against Ohio power company
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court Monday tossed out a global warming lawsuit by five states against Ohio-based American Electric Power and three other private power companies, ruling that the federal government has the authority to regulate emissions of greenhouse gasses. In an 8-0 ruling, the justices rejected pleas by ...
Jonah Goldberg: Cooling on global warming
“What the heck went wrong?” That, apparently, is the question roiling the environmental community as it realizes that the fight against climate change has fizzled.As Brad Plumer writes in the New Republic, everything was looking great in 2008 for a sweeping effort to make good on candidate Barack Obama’s pledge ...
Speak Ups for Feb. 15 - Maybe global warming is what we need to get over this winter.
To all the clueless people writing to speak up about all the jobs out there, even cleaning toilets, shoveling snow, sweeping floors, mowing grass, etc.: Are you really serious about it or are you so well-off you’re not living in the real world? Better listen to the news and read ...
Speak Ups for Jan. 28 - I have had about enough of this global warming!
Yesterday I watched a Columbia Gas employee trudge through knee-deep snow to read the meters. Thank you for doing your job.Thanks to the person who shoveled my driveway on Briarwood Terrace on Jan. 20.The snow plow pushes all the snow onto my sidewalk. I suggest the city send someone to ...
Speak Ups for Dec. 21 - Comments on Springfield nursing home inspections, global warming and misspelling
To Clark and Champaign county nursing home inspectors: Apparently you have not talked to any of the family members of these residents to see if they have had these things happen to their loved ones, or as one reader said, turned any of the patients over to look at their ...
Cars & Climate Change
As the Obama Administration set out tough new rules for fuel mileage standards Thursday, getting less attention was the release of the first regulations ever placed on greenhouse gas tailpipe emissions, an effort by the feds to slow the effects of climate change. "Establishing a harmonized approach to regulating light-duty ...
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