by Jim Heath | Nov 4, 2019 | Climate, Headlines, Trump
The Trump administration formally notified the United Nations today that it would withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change, leaving global climate diplomats to plot a way forward without the cooperation of the world’s largest economy. The...
by Jim Heath | Nov 3, 2019 | Climate, Headlines
President Trump sees America not as the United States, but the states who are for him, and those against. California is overwhelmingly Democratic, so today he threatened to cut federal funding for the numerous devastating wildfires burning throughout the state,...
by Jim Heath | Jul 25, 2019 | Climate, Headlines
A historic heat wave has toppled numerous long-standing temperature records with astonishing ease. On Wednesday and Thursday, new national heat records were set in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, and temperatures rose to record highs in major cities such as...
by Jim Heath | Jul 20, 2019 | Climate, Headlines
As two-thirds of the United States grapples with dangerously high temperatures this weekend, climatologists are now sounding the alarm over another blast of warm weather further to the north. An Arctic heatwave hit the settlement of Alert, Canada this week causing...
by Jim Heath | Jul 10, 2019 | Climate, Headlines
A State Department intelligence official who was blocked by the White House from submitting written congressional testimony on climate change last month is resigning from his post. Rod Schoonover – who worked in the Office of the Geographer and Global Issues’ Bureau...
by Jim Heath | Apr 29, 2019 | 2020, Beto O'Rourke, Climate, Headlines
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke announced today a $5 trillion plan to fight climate change, in his first detailed policy rollout to date. O’Rourke, whose first trip to Iowa in March grew criticism for being light on specifics, said on his...
