Category Climate change

White House science adviser John Holdren proposed the phrase. Conservatives have been mocking it, “Trips off the tongue, doesn’t it?” This new term sounds deliberately ominous, and that smells of spin to me. What’s wrong with ‘climate change.” Besides, in…

The Greenland and West Antarctic ice caps are melting at half the speed previously predicted, according to analysis of recent satellite data. This estimate was based on exacting satellite and sea floor measurements. What was not referenced was, who made…

The betrayals continue. The Obama administration has urged the Supreme Court to toss out an appeals court decision that would allow lawsuits against major emitters for their contributions to global warming, stunning environmentalists who see the case as a powerful…

Temperature anomalies (degrees Celsius) for January to June 2010. Red dots indicate warmer-than-average conditions, and blue dots indicate areas that were colder than average. Credit: NCDC For denizens of the American Southwest and West, 100 degrees is just starting to…