"El Nino Is Gone, But Earth's Record Heat Is Sticking Around"
"Earth's persistent record 2016 heat is now dancing near levels that a world agreement is trying to avoid, federal scientists said."
Source: AP, 07/20/2016
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The Diabolical Ukrainian Hack That Put The U.S. Grid On High Alert
"As Ukraine's civil war raged, a few mouse clicks at three local power companies set in motion the covert intrusion. It was the first successful attempt at planting a bug, then disabling an electric grid serving hundreds of thousands of people."
Source: EnergyWire, 07/19/2016
"Global Cloud Coverage Shifting in Ominous Sign of Climate Change"
"We didn’t know enough about clouds until now. What a new study reveals is bad news."
Source: Bloomberg, 07/12/2016
DNC Platform Calls for Justice to Investigate Fossil Fuel Companies
"Platform's authors request federal climate probe into 'allegations of corporate fraud,' while brushing off calls for carbon tax and other strong climate policies."
Source: InsideClimate News, 06/27/2016
"Raging Wildfires in the Southwest Stretch Resources"
"Firefighters across Arizona and New Mexico battled 31 wildfires on Wednesday, their efforts complicated by a relentless heat wave and bone-dry conditions. And in the Angeles National Forest, on the northern edge of Los Angeles, two fires kept more than 300 families from their homes as the fires threatened to merge into one."
Source: NY Times, 06/23/2016
"Record Heat Sparks Warnings, Boosts Fires In Western United States"
"Wildfire warnings were posted across parts of three Western U.S. states on Sunday as a heat wave baked the region in record, triple-digit temperatures, stoking flames in California from the coastal foothills outside Santa Barbara to desert brush near the Mexican border."
Source: Reuters, 06/20/2016
"Ontario To Spend $7-Billion On Sweeping Climate Change Plan"
"The Ontario government will spend more than $7-billion over four years on a sweeping climate change plan that will affect every aspect of life – from what people drive to how they heat their homes and workplaces – in a bid to slash the province’s carbon footprint."
Source: Toronto Globe & Mail, 05/17/2016
"Coming Home to Coal Country"
"Ashley Funk looks back fondly on her days of playing in the black hills behind her Southwestern Pennsylvania house. But when she learned more about what those black hills were made of, it drove a wedge between her and her hometown."
Source: WBEZ, 05/12/2016
"Armed Guards At India's Dams As Drought Grips Country"
"Government says 330 million people are suffering from water shortages after monsoons fail".
Source: Guardian, 05/02/2016
"Colo. Struggles With Marijuana's Huge Carbon Footprint"
"Colorado, which gets 60 percent of its electricity from coal-burning power plants, has set some of the more ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets in the United States. It wants to cut emissions from its power plants 38 percent by 2030. ... One of the immediate problems of the target-setters, however, is that the state lacks plans from its fastest-growing, most energy-hungry users: owners of indoor marijuana farms."
Source: ClimateWire, 04/28/2016
