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The Never-Ending Schemes Of The Climate Change Grifters

Grifters have long fascinated us. Operating outside accepted moral standards, they excel at persuading their “marks” to hand valuables over willingly. If they ever represented a “distinctly American ethos,” they’ve been supplanted by con artists seeking bank accounts for funds…

The Secretive Dark Money Groups Behind The Natural Gas Bans

Last Tuesday, Rewiring America announced that it has hired Georgia politician Stacey Abrams to help the group “launch and scale a national awareness campaign and a network of large and small communities working to help Americans go electric.” In a press…

Energy-saving smart windows could help combat climate change – CBS News

San Jose, California — Inside a factory near Memphis, Tennessee, workers are making an unlikely weapon in the fight against climate change: a smart window. “Well, like everything in life, right, we look back after you’ve experienced the modern thing, and…

Can millions of genetically modified trees slow climate change? – Quartz

Planting a tree, as environmental solutions go, comes in and out of fashion. In 1970, US president Richard Nixon made Arbor Day a national holiday, urging people to get out and put saplings in the ground. Today, however, there is…

Why we can’t solve the climate crisis without schools — and teachers – Los Angeles Times

This story was originally published in Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. When wildfire smoke blocked the sun and turned the sky orange above the San…

Meteorologist: Climate Change Won’t Drive Future US Hurricane Damage Losses

An article in Axios, written by Andrew Freedman, claims increased hurricane winds due to rising temperatures driven by increasing carbon dioxide concentrations may result in more hurricane damage losses along the US East Coast, Florida Coasts, and the Gulf Coast….

Washington state moves forward with program to charge companies for greenhouse gas emissions – CNBC

Then-Washington State Governor and presidental candidate Jay Inslee signs five climate change bills into law that will reduce carbon emissions, decrease pollution, boost jobs and increase public health, Tuesday, May 7, 2019, at Central Park in the Rainier Vista neighborhood….

Could volcanos hold key to climate crisis? Scientists are spilt – Al Jazeera English

Taipei, Taiwan – At opposite ends of Southeast Asia, researchers Pornampai Narenpitak and Heri Kuswanto are both working on the same problem: Is it possible to mimic the cooling effects of volcanic eruptions to halt global warming? Using computer modelling…

This Arctic US Air Base Has Its Eyes on Russia. But Climate is a Bigger Threat – InsideClimate News

THULE AIR BASE, Greenland—On the last Saturday in September, ice had already begun to spread across the Arctic waters at the dock, closing the port for months to come. The temperature was 24 degrees Fahrenheit. Snow swept across the airport…

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