A doomsday climate change cover story in New York magazine is getting lots of buzz among the Beltway elites. The headline is indeed a grabber: “The Uninhabitable Earth: Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak—sooner than you think.”
(REUTERS) – Britain said on Thursday it had ratified the Paris Agreement, the global deal to combat climate change.
Hillary Clinton’s chances of becoming next US President took a major hit this week as rumours strengthened that Al Gore will be supporting her campaign.
Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio told reporters in Japan on Wednesday the United States must elect a president who takes climate change science seriously.
By now, most people know about Secretary Hillary Clinton’s recent campaign gaffe that “we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”
Were you moved recently by the tragic tale of 150,000 penguins killed by global warming? Of course you were. The story was almost inescapable – we even ran a wires version of it here at Breitbart – because it was
New European Union (EU) diktats could see every town across the UK forced to introduce congestion charges for motorists as Brussels strives to meet its own self-imposed climate change targets. The recommendations have been made by the European Commission in a guide
Leonardo DiCaprio told Charlie Rose in an interview Thursday that climate change is “the biggest problem that mankind has ever had to face,” ahead of the international refugee crises being fueled by the deadly rise of the Islamic State.
Last year, when Republicans gained a decisive edge in both houses of Congress, I made predictions as to the six energy-policy changes we could expect—as the two parties have very different views on energy issues.
While climate change menaces vineyards in southern Europe, English winemakers are raising a toast to warming weather as it improves their wines and has helped revive an ancient tradition. “Climate change is benefitting us a lot,” said Chris Foss, head
This column is sponsored by my kind friends at ExxonMobil: the Gaia-raping, children-of-the-future-murderers you can trust! No, of course it isn’t really and that’s my only serious beef with ExxonMobil. It ought to support its media defenders but it doesn’t. So
Congress has taken action that actually advances free markets and limits government intrusion.
The United Nations and Oxfam are offering a prize to young writers who can come up with the best story raising “awareness of the harmful impacts of climate change on communities”. (H/T Climate Depot) Here’s my entry: Once upon a
It’s a difficult thing to admit when you are wrong. Several years ago, the United Nations suggested we would soon have to deal with refugees fleeing the impact of climate change. Many of us, myself included, scoffed at the idea.
Perhaps you missed the Vatican-sponsored international symposium on climate change held in Rome on April 28. It was a busy news day. The horrific earthquake killed thousands in Nepal and riots broke out in Baltimore.
It is that time of year again. Winter is almost over for the Northern Hemisphere and summer is nearly upon us. Thus begins the annual ritual of hand-wringing over the climate alarmist’s favourite mascot, the polar bear. Step forward Andrew
India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has indicated that he will not submit to Western pressure on cutting CO2 emissions. In the lengthy run up to the international climate conference (‘COP21’) in Paris later this year, Modi’s comments will be sure
Wisconsin state officials have banned employees who work for an agency that oversees a Wisconsin public land trust from discussing climate change. Enacted this week by a vote of Wisconsin’s Board of Commissioners of Public Lands, it includes prohibitions on
Billionaire activist Tom Steyer has created a “war room” targeting Republican political candidates who are sceptical of climate change. Aiming to swing the results in 2016, Steyer’s campaign will ‘put candidates in the hot seat for their climate denial’ and
In recent weeks, Dr. Wei-Hock Soon, a distinguished solar astrophysicist, coauthored with Christopher Monckton, Matt Briggs, and David Legates an important work of original scholarship in the Science Bulletin (previously titled Chinese Science Bulletin), a publication of the Chinese Academy
Pennsylvania Democrat and likely Senate candidate Joe Sestak tweeted out a link to a dubious New York Times hit piece on Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics scientist Wei-Hock Soon.
In 2006, on NBC’s Today Show, former-Vice President Al Gore predicted that Manhattan would be flooded in “15 to 20 years.” He added, “In fact the World Trade Center Memorial site would be underwater.” Just 3 years ago, the New
Following a two weeks of turbulence after awarding the Duke of Edinburgh a knighthood, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has received a boost from the Liberal Party’s Deputy Leader as he prepares to face his colleagues in a leadership coup, the
Astonishing figures show that the total cost of renewable energy infrastructure in Europe to the end of 2012 came to over €600 billion, excluding additional fees for grid connections and upgrades. And this enormous sum is one and a half
The former Chief Scientific Officer in Brussels, who was fired by Jean Claude Juncker, has slammed the activities of environmental lobby group Greenpeace. Professor Anne Glover, who was the chief advisor to the President of the European Commission Jean Manuel
Nigel Farage says that nurses working for the NHS should be able to speak English. I agree. What a pity that this is about the most daringly controversial criticism of the NHS we’re likely to hear from almost any politician,
221 new species were described by the California Academy of Sciences in 2014, further allaying fears that climate change could be causing a mass extinction event. The species were discovered in sites worldwide, and include ants, fish, sea slugs, plants
