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Portland Tribune Cost of going solar to risePortland TribuneCOURTESY ABUNDANT SOLAR – An Abundant Solar installer attaches a solar panel to a residential roof Portland homeowners’ cost to add rooftop solar panels could nearly double next year, not long after the city and county adopted an aggressive goal to … and more »

Forbes What Irma, Harvey And The Solar Eclipse Have To Do With The Hotel IndustryForbesA woman looks up at the partial solar eclipse in downtown Washington, DC, August 21, 2017.The Great American Eclipse completed its journey across the United States Monday, with the path of totality stretching coast-to-coast for the first time in nearly …

Express.co.uk Hurricane Irma: Solar flares could wreak HAVOC on satellites as storm barrels towards USExpress.co.ukHowever, the two solar flares – the strongest in 12 years – could put satellite communication in jeopardy. Solar storms blast radiation in all directions from the sun, some of which hit the outer atmosphere of Earth, causing it to heat…

Science Magazine Billionaire’s gift pushes ocean sensors deeper in search of global warming’s hidden heatScience MagazineEvery day, thousands of robotic floats bob up and down, tracking temperatures in the world’s oceans, which sop up an estimated 90% of the heat from global warming. In the course of a decade, the international Argo array has provided…

Cato Institute (blog) Hurricanes Harvey and Irma Can’t Be Blamed on Global WarmingCato Institute (blog)“Harvey Is What Climate Change Looks Like: It’s time to open our eyes and prepare for the world that’s coming.” That August 28 Politico article by Slate weatherman Eric Holthaus was one of many trying too hard to blame the hurricane…

The Guardian Big Oil must pay for climate change. Now we can calculate how muchThe GuardianWe know that the costs of both hurricanes will be enormous and that climate change will have made them far larger than they would have been otherwise. How much larger? Careful studies will take time but the evidence that climate…

The Atlantic Has Climate Change Intensified 2017’s Western Wildfires?The Atlantic“Now, thinking about temperature trends due to human-caused climate change, we think that the western United States is 1.5 [degrees] Celsius, or 3 degrees Fahrenheit, hotter than it would be in absence of climate change. And there’s a heat wave on top … and more »

Quartz Even Fox News is admitting that climate change helped make Irma super strongQuartzHurricane Irma struck the Caribbean last night (Sept. 6), killing at least ten people and causing thousands of dollars in infrastructure damage on affected islands. It’s the strongest storm ever recorded in the Atlantic, and it comes just a week after …Irma…

Washington Post At a moment climate change is hard to ignore, the EPA is being pointed elsewhereWashington PostOnce confirmed by the Senate, Pruitt got to work reshaping the agency in precisely that way. In April, the organization’s page on climate change was removed; in May, a page focused on educating children was as well. Pruitt’s…

EcoWatch Millennials: Climate Change Is World’s Biggest ProblemEcoWatchFar and wide, young people consider climate change to be the world’s most serious issue, according to the World Economic Forum’s 2017 Global Shaper Survey of more than 31,000 millennials from 186 countries and territories. Close to half (48.8 percent …Maryland Charges Forward in Fight Against Climate ChangeFood…