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Antarctica’s Totten Glacier may melt in a few hundred years (or not)

The floating portion of Totten Glacier in East Antarctica may be melting from warm sea water swirling beneath it, making it more vulnerable than previously thought to future melting. That’s according to a new study by scientists at the Imperial College London and institutions in Australia, the US, and New Zealand, and published yesterday in […]

Aussie Climate Professor: ‘Governments may need extraordinary emergency powers’ to combat ‘global warming’

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/05/20/aussie-climate-professor-governments-may-need-extraordinary-emergency-powers/ Yet another Aussie academic attack on Democracy, Mark Diesendorf, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, UNSW, UNSW Australia has demanded wide ranging social changes, a “wartime response” to the climate emergency, including vesting the government with extraordinary powers in order to overcome resistance from “vested interests”. …in practice there are several big, non-technical barriers. These […]

Portland school board bans ‘climate change-denying materials’

http://portlandtribune.com/sl/307848-185832-portland-school-board-bans-climate-change-denying-materials   In a move spearheaded by environmentalists, the Portland Public Schools board unanimously approved a resolution aimed at eliminating doubt of climate change and its causes in schools. “It is unacceptable that we have textbooks in our schools that spread doubt about the human causes and urgency of the crisis,” said Lincoln High School […]

Trump’s Newest Enemy: Environmentalists

Trump’s Newest Enemy: Environmentalists http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/05/19/3779862/trump-paris-climate-deal-environmentalist-reaction/ Donald Trump has officially taken aim at the environment. Environmentalists are starting to aim back. The post Trump’s Newest Enemy: Environmentalists appeared first on ThinkProgress. — gReader Pro