CNN’s Chris Cuomo frets Harvey: Implies government policies can ‘find ways to reduce the number of these storms’
AMBER ATHEY Media Reporter Kellyanne Conway took CNN’s Chris Cuomo to task for trying to shift the Hurricane Harvey conversation to climate change during a Wednesday night interview. “One of the themes that’s coming out of this…is opening up a discussion about climate change,” Cuomo said. “Is the president, is the administration, open to that […]
Arctic Refuses To Melt As Predicted
Arctic Refuses To Melt As Predicted By Paul Homewood Greenland: http://beta.dmi.dk/en/groenland/maalinger/greenland-ice-sheet-surface-mass-budget/ Greenland’s melt season ended a month ago, and since last September the ice sheet has grown at close to record rates. Much was made of the anomalously warm year in 2012, which was quickly linked to climate change. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jul/24/greenland-ice-sheet-thaw-nasa I doubt whether Guardian readers will […]
Cheers! US state department to abolish ‘climate change envoy’ to UN
By Karl Mathiesen Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has informed Congress that the US will no longer have a special envoy for climate change, the official that has led delegations to UN climate talks since 2009. In a letter (below) addressed to Bob Corker (R-Tenn), the chairman of the Senate committee on foreign relations, Tillerson outlined a plan […]