Warming global climate is changing the vegetation structure of forests in the far north. It’s a trend that will continue at least through the end of this century, according to NASA researchers. The change in forest structure could absorb more of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, or increase permafrost thawing, resulting […]
“Hiding the impacts of climate change won’t stop it from happening, it will just make us far less prepared when it does,” one fired contractor said. In its latest attack on climate science, the Trump administration has fired everyone who produced content for Climate.gov, the public-facing website for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate […]
“What happened to Birch Glacier is what we would expect from rising temperatures in the Alps and elsewhere,” one scientist said. Thawing permafrost exacerbated by human-caused global heating is the likely culprit behind a massive glacier collapse that buried nearly the entire Swiss town of Blatten, one scientist said Thursday while warning of the likelihood […]
“There is no energy emergency, and Trump’s stated reasoning for it is as much a scam as every other pathetic con and hustle this president attempts,” said one consumer campaigner. Defenders of climate and the rule of law blasted the Trump administration on Friday for using what one consumer campaigner called a “phony” emergency to […]