The United States of America could lose its position as the world’s biggest economy as soon as next year — and once that happens, it is unlikely to regain the top spot as developing Asian economies power ahead. Business Insider using Standard Chartered data   According to research released this week by Standard Chartered Bank, […]

The most popular climate paper of 2018 called for “collective human action” to keep global warming from turning Earth into a “hothouse,” according to media tracking data. The so-called “Hothouse Earth” paper, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in August, sparked a wave of alarming media coverage the planet was “dangerously close” to […]

The government needs to develop a “package of measures” to meet Ireland’s climate change targets without bringing protesters out on the streets, the taoiseach has said. Leo Varadkar said that he had learnt from the water-charge protests in Dublin and the yellow-vest demonstrations in France that measures must be implemented with public support. He said […]

The Zimbabwean, 19 October 2017: Tensions came to the fore last week when the World Bank held its annual meeting in Washington. Zimbabwe, Nigeria and India all have doubts about a policy they say does little to lift people out of poverty. Their unlikely ally is Donald Trump. WASHINGTON DC – More than half-a-century after it […]

University of Oklahoma meteorologist Kelvin Droegemeier has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be President Donald Trump’s top science adviser. The Senate used a voice vote — an expedited process for uncontroversial nominees — to approve Droegemeier on Wednesday night, the final night of the current Congress. Droegemeier was nominated Aug. 1 to be […]

The Trump administration’s battle against a global warming lawsuit brought by 21 youths will continue into 2019 after a federal court handed the government a big win over the holiday season. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the Department of Justice (DOJ) in a Dec. 26 ruling largely missed by major media outlets. The court […]

January 2018:  Worst-case global warming scenarios not credible: Study PARIS (AFP) – Earth’s surface will almost certainly not warm up four or five degrees Celsius by 2100, according to a study released Wednesday (Jan 17) which, if correct, voids worst-case UN climate change predictions. A revised calculation of how greenhouse gases drive up the planet’s temperature […]

With only scant days left in the year, 2018 is set to become the first year since formal record keeping began in 1950, in which the United States has not endured even one “violent” tornado.   Violent tornadoes are classified on the Enhanced Fujita Scale as being EF4 (winds of 166-200 mph) or EF5 (winds over 200 […]