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Trump administration cuts could stymie climate change researchOCRegisterResearchers working on climate-oriented science at UC Irvine are cutting or scaling back their programs in anticipation of budget cuts that reflect the Trump administration’s skeptical views about global warming. The changes are coming as the school …

SFGate Bay Area political events: peace talk, environmentSFGateFor information: www.wilpfeastbay.org. Environmental action: A conversation with the Sierra Club’s executive director and local environmental justice groups on what people can do to take action against President Trump’s environmental agenda. The event …

Evidence supports claim man caused global warmingSouth Whidbey Record (subscription)I read the recent letters by David Powell denying human-caused climate change. Why this is an important debate to have in a small, semi-rural community newspaper’s opinion page, I’m not sure. One thing I appreciate about his arguments is he tries to …

Salon Global warming tipped scales in Europe’s heat waveSalon“Global warming has already put a thumb on the scales; it’s already tipped the odds,” Noah Diffenbaugh, a Stanford University climate scientist who wasn’t involved with the work, said. The heat wave was the result of hot, dry air moving northward from …

The Guardian Court rejects EPA’s attempt to halt Obama-era methane ruleThe GuardianThe Environmental Protection Agency cannot freeze the implementation of a rule requiring oil and gas companies to fix methane leaks in their equipment, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday in a setback for Donald Trump’s push to cut environmental …DC Circuit Court Rules in…

CleanTechnica Climate Change Will Hit Trump Supporters HardestCleanTechnicaIt’s a fine irony that the US states with the largest number of Trump supporters and climate change deniers, the people who stand up and cheer when the Philanderer in Chief announces the US will pull out of the Paris climate accords, will be the …Climate Change Will…

WUNC Report: Global Warming Threatens North Carolina’s BeesWUNCGlobal warming and urbanization are threatening bee populations across the country. One factor in that threat is heat. At high temperatures, bees become unable to reproduce, fly or even walk. So researchers from North Carolina State University recently …

TheInertia.com VICE: ‘Surfers Should Really Be Worried about Climate Change‘TheInertia.comThe latter often manifests itself in the comments section of this website and on our Facebook page, particularly with stories related to the phenomenon of climate change. So-called deniers are quick to cling to a handful of common refrains. “The …

Quartz Stephen Hawking says Trump’s climate policies are pushing Earth toward an irreversible “tipping point”QuartzFamed physicist Stephen Hawking spent part of his 75th birthday celebration warning the public of the potentially catastrophic consequences of US president Donald Trump’s climate change policy. “We are close to the tipping point where global warming …Trump’s flawed reasoning on climate…

Air & Space Magazine Most Mass Extinctions Have Been Due to Global WarmingAir & Space MagazineThey found that most of the events seen in the geologic record, starting about 500 million years ago and extending until today, can be linked to periods of massive volcanic activity, which caused global warming of the atmosphere together with…