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Cenk Uygur calls New York media out for ignoring climate change
Current TV host Cenk Uygur said Tuesday he hoped the devastation wrought by superstorm Sandy shook the New York-based national media out of its complacency regarding climate change. “If tornadoes hit you in the Midwest, well, they didn’t see it,” Uygur said on The Young Turks. “If hurricanes hit you…
Gov. Malloy: Infrastructure needs to be hardened for climate change
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) on Tuesday night said the United States needed to rebuild its infrastructure to protect against extreme weather caused by climate change. “Number one, I have been talking about climate change since 1997,” he told MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. “It’s happened. It’s alive and well in…
Link between cyclones and climate change unclear: scientists
PARIS — Was Hurricane Sandy caused by climate change? This was the contention Tuesday of Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York state, which bore the brunt of the superstorm. “Anyone who thinks there isn’t a change in weather patterns is denying reality,” he said. Many climate scientists would agree with…
UN pinpoints climate-linked health risks
GENEVA — Two UN agencies on Monday presented a new tool to map health risks linked to climate change and extreme weather conditions, enabling authorities to give advance warnings and act to prevent “climate-sensitive” diseases from spreading. The World Metrological Organization and the World Health Organization presented their first joint…
Climate change may be changing amphibian evolution
Disruptions in global weather patterns may be forcing some species to adapt to new conditions or face extinction. Science Daily is reporting that research on some species of amphibians suggests that animals are being forced to alter their patterns of mating and producing young in order to keep up with…
Climate scientist sues The National Review for defamation
Michael Mann, a scientist in the centre of the climate wars, has sued a rightwing thinktank and a magazine for comparing him to the convicted sex offender and disgraced football coach Jerry Sandusky and accusing him of academic fraud. Mann, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University, announced the defamation…
Re-insurer: Climate change played a role in natural disaster spike
Climate change played a role in a nearly five-fold jump in weather-related natural disasters in North America over the last 30 years, Munich Re, the world’s largest reinsurer, said on Wednesday. North America saw the world’s biggest increase in natural catastrophes between 1980 and 2011, ahead of Asia which had…
Scientists have ‘limited knowledge’ of how climate change causes extinction
Review finds loss of plants and animals due to global warming is already widespread, but the causes are poorly understood A major review into the impact of climate change on plants and animals has found that scientists have almost no idea how it drives various species to extinction. Though some organisms struggle to cope physiologically with rising…
Study: Climate change disbelievers get most column space in U.S. and UK newspapers
Climate sceptics feature more prominently in newspapers in the US and UK than other countries, and their views are more likely to go unchallenged in right-leaning papers, an academic study has shown. Friday’s report, which was published in the Environmental Research Letters journal, delved deeper into data that was first published last year. For the…
Climate change skepticism highest in U.S. and Britain
Awareness of climate change is high in many countries, especially the tropics, but in Britain, Japan and the United States many are doubtful about the cause, a poll published on Thursday said. A survey of 13,492 adults in 13 countries who were questioned by Internet found that 88 percent believed…
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