Category Climate change

… at 7:45 in the morning. It’ll be over 100 today where we live. Yesterday, it was 97 downtown. Others areas of LA were 110. Indio was 122. Yes, 122. California is having a monumental heat wave with no end…

Higher temperatures over 34 years — rather than land-use changes — have led to more blazes, researchers say. They’re sure it’s not a fluke. A White House spokesperson denounced the report as “obvious work by actual scientists intent on proving…

Americans represent 5% of the world’s population but drive almost a third of its cars, which in turn account for nearly half the carbon dioxide pumped out of exhaust pipes into the atmosphere each year, according to a report.

Front-page Sunday L.A. Times yesterday. The massive glaciers are deteriorating twice as fast as they were five years ago. If the ice thaws entirely, sea level would rise 21 feet. Climate experts have started to worry that the ice cap…

Stephen Hawking provoked a group of Chinese students on Wednesday saying he was “very worried about global warming.” He said he was afraid that Earth “might end up like Venus, at 250 degrees centigrade and raining sulfuric acid.” Some fruit…