April 2017
What Went On?
Much of my news comes from The Daily Climate, whose wonderful subscription service clues me in to what's going on each day. Another great source of stories (and commentaries) comes from my friend Jim Poyser, at Apocadocs.
2017
April, 2017
4/27/2017
- 'Climate change is real': companies challenge Trump's reversal of policy: Mars Inc, Staples, The Gap and others speak out against Trump’s sweeping executive order that begins to dismantle Obama’s Clean Power Plan
- Energy Department climate office bans use of phrase ‘climate change’: The Office of International Climate and Clean Energy is the only office at DOE with the words ‘climate’ in its name, and it may be endangered as Trump looks to reorganize government agencies.
- Mosquito flight is unlike that of any other insect: Physics of skeeter wingbeats suggests insects may have traded efficiency for alluring buzz
- This Graphic Puts Global Warming in Full Perspective:
- Most global investors recognise financial risk of climate change, report finds: Global index reveals 60% of asset owners are now taking some action, but warns there is still ‘enormous resistance’ to managing climate risk
- Extreme Sea Level Rise and the Stakes for America: Should a newly published sea level rise scenario come to pass, hundreds of American landmarks, neighborhoods, towns and cities would be submerged this century, at least in the absence of engineering massive, costly and unprecedented defenses and relocating major infrastructure. Ocean waters would cover land currently home to more than 12 million Americans and $2 trillion in property.
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