Business Insider RANKED: The 10 best US senators for the environmentBusiness InsiderWe dug into the League of Conservation Voters’ annual scorecard to find the 15 most environmentally friendly US senators, based on the nonprofit political action organization’s “lifetime score” of lawmakers’ voting records on environmental legislation.Talking Point: The Trump-Pruitt war on both science and the…

Stuff.co.nz Environment Southland didn’t tell public of 23700-litre oil spillStuff.co.nzEnvironment Southland, in a long statement on Monday afternoon, confirmed the oil spill had occurred, but said it did not routinely publicly notify incidents and it had been “assumed” the spill would probably be reported to the media via the emergency …

Quartz Global warming wake-up call, Putin’s plans, and eight other stories you might have missedQuartzOver the past decades, our culture has gone apocalyptic with zombie movies and Mad Max dystopias, perhaps the collective result of displaced climate anxiety, and yet when it comes to contemplating real-world warming dangers, we suffer from an …

Patriot Post Revisionist History Augments Global WarmingPatriot PostGlobal temperature chicanery is a substantiated and metastasizing problem. And the longer these shenanigans go ignored, the more taxpayers all over the world are being embarrassingly duped into forking over money to address an obscure, perhaps even … and more »

New York Magazine The Man Who Coined the Term ‘Global Warming‘ on the Worst-Case Scenario for Planet EarthNew York MagazineThe oceanographer Wallace Smith Broecker is the man who coined the term “global warming,” way back in 1975, in a paper called “Climate Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?” Broecker had…

Washington Post The stubborn worry about climate change that just won’t go awayWashington PostAs if melting glaciers, thawing permafrost and starving polar bears weren’t enough, scientists are finding that the effects of climate change in the Arctic are even more complex — and far-reaching — than we thought. New research suggests that warm …It’s No…

The Guardian Earth’s sixth mass extinction event already under way, scientists warnThe Guardian‘The lion was historically distributed over most of Africa, southern Europe and the Middle East. Now the vast majority of lion populations are gone.’ Photograph: Xinhua / Barcroft Images. Wildlife. Earth’s sixth mass extinction event already under way, … and more »

Morganton News Herald Letter to the Editor: Global warming’s impactMorganton News HeraldThe purpose of that submission was to review the science behind why we know that the ever-increasing use of fossil fuel is responsible for the near doubling of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere which, in turn, is causing the global warming which we are …

The Guardian Conservatives are again denying the very existence of global warmingThe GuardianEPA Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. Even Pruitt won’t touch the scientifically-sound Endangerment Finding. Photograph: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP.

BBC News How climate change will transform business and the workforceBBC NewsBut experts say that those effects may only be the tip of the (melting) iceberg. Climate change is shaking up everything from finance to health. As a result, it isn’t only urban planners in at-risk areas who will have to shift their framework for…