Connecticut may require ‘climate change’ education starting in elementary school – First state to require it
https://apnews.com/e19029381ba24b9c9c567e0924621888 HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A legislative proposal in Connecticut would mandate instruction on climate change in public schools statewide, beginning in elementary school. Connecticut already has adopted science standards that call for teaching of climate change, but if the bill passes it is believed that it would be the country’s first to write such […]
Barbra Streisand Honored for ‘raising awareness for global warming’
https://people.com/music/barbra-streisand-gisele-bundchen-hollywood-for-science-gala/ After years of using their platforms to protect the environment, Barbra Streisand and Gisele Bündchen will both be honored next month at the UCLA Institute of the Environment & Sustainability‘s annual Hollywood for Science Gala. … Streisand, who has helped raise awareness for global warming, is also a noted environmental activist and started the […]
Acting EPA head Wheeler correctly says wildfires are result of forest management, not drought
Acting EPA head says wildfires are result of forest management, not drought Acting Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler told senators Wednesday that “the biggest issue with wildfires is forest management … not drought,” Axios reports. He made the claim during his confirmation hearing to become the agency’s permanent head. # See: ‘Less fire today than centuries […]
Sigh — Trump’s EPA pick Wheeler says ‘climate change’ is a ‘huge issue’ & he is concerned at an ‘8 or 9’ level on a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being highest concern)
https://earther.gizmodo.com/incoming-epa-chief-andrew-wheelers-opinions-on-climate-1831809432 Incoming EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler’s Opinions on Climate Change Are a Mess By Brian Kahn Excerpt: After listing a litany of climate change impacts, Oregon Senator Jeff Merkeley asked Wheeler to rate how concerned he is about climate change on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being so worried it keeps you up at […]
Mother Jones: ‘EPA Nominee Wheeler Wasn’t Ready for Senate’s Questions on Climate Change’
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/01/epa-nominee-andrew-wheeler-confirmation-senate-climate-change-bernie-sanders-green-new-deal/ He blamed the shutdown for his lack of preparation. By REBECCA LEBER It was clear about halfway through Andrew Wheeler’s confirmation hearing to lead the Environmental Protection Agency that he wasn’t prepared for the number of questions he was getting on climate change. Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) asked Wheeler on Wednesday whether he agreed […]
Dem Senators question EPA’s Wheeler on urgency of climate change
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/chaos-government-shutdown-trumps-nominee-replace-pruitt-epa/story?id=60400921 By STEPHANIE EBBS Jan 16, 2019, 12:12 PM ET … Democrats on the committee, led by Ranking Member Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware, are concerned that the nomination is being rushed during the government shutdown even though Wheeler could continue to work in an acting capacity for much of the year. “I do not believe […]
We’re saved! A ‘Green New Deal’ coming to America to ‘virtually eliminate poverty;’ create millions of new ‘green” jobs; & increase tax rate to 70%
http://www.cfact.org/2019/01/16/a-green-new-deal-coming-to-america/ By Peter Murphy|January 16th, 2019|Regulation|0 Comments According to its draft plan introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, the House would create a 15-member committee to craft a “detailed national, industrial mobilization plan.” And to what end? To transition the United States economy away from fossil fuels by dramatically lowering its “greenhouse gas emissions,” as well as […]
Will media retract?! Climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer: Media Reports of +40% Adjustment in Ocean Warming Were Greatly Exaggerated – Actually only up estimated 11%
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2019/01/media-reports-of-40-adjustment-in-ocean-warming-were-greatly-exaggerated/ by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Summary: The recently reported upward adjustment in the 1971-2010 Ocean Heat Content (OHC) increase compared to the last official estimate from the IPCC is actually 11%, not 40%. The 40% increase turns out to be relative to the average of various OHC estimates the IPCC addressed in their 2013 […]
The top 12 warmist climate change ‘facts’ debunked in 2018
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/the_top_12_climate_change_facts_debunked_in_2018.html By Rick Moran You’d never know it from media coverage of the climate change issue, but over the past year, several “facts” about global warming have been debunked entirely or were radically altered. Almost all Democratic candidates who ran in the mid term elections tried to push climate change as a major issue. It didn’t […]
Winning! Warmists write at CNN: ‘EPA nominee Andrew Wheeler is even worse than Scott Pruitt’
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/15/opinions/andrew-wheeler-bad-choice-epa-kimmell/index.html By Ken Kimmel, the president of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit science advocacy organization. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN. (CNN)When Scott Pruitt stepped down as the Environmental Protection Agency administrator and his deputy Andrew Wheeler took over as acting administrator, many of us […]