Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Report: Florida Officials Banned From Saying ‘Climate Change’, ‘Global Warming’
Mar 10 2015 // Florida’s government may have figured out a way to beat climate change: ignore it. A report by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting (FCIR) published Sunday details the claims by employees of the Florida...
Study Finds Cooler Pacific Slowing Global Warming – Temporarily
Feb 27 2015 // A natural cooling of the Pacific Ocean has contributed to slow global warming in the past decade but the pause is unlikely to last much longer, U.S. scientists said on Thursday. The slowdown in the rate of rising...
Climate Change Modeling on Cusp of Paradigm Shift
Feb 26 2015 // In the face of growing interest in climate change impacts, several big catastrophe modelers said they’ve heard from more clients interested in receiving climate-related data and they believe the field is on the cusp...
Climate Change Affecting Hawaii Island Storms, Researchers Say
Feb 23 2015 // Two university of Hawaii researchers say climate change is affecting rainfall on Hawaii Island. The researchers say heavy rainstorms are occurring more often on the Big Island. Ying Chen and Pao-Shin Chu reported their...
Climate Change Measure Advanced in Oregon Senate
Feb 20 2015 // The Oregon Senate this week passed a climate change bill that was one of Gov. John Kitzhaber’s top legislative priorities. The approval in a 17-13 vote sent the measure to the state House. The bill would extend...
Climate Change Regulations for Insurers Not Out of Realm of Possibility
Feb 12 2015 // Some sort of climate change regulation for the insurance industry could be just around the corner. Then again, it might not be. It’s a tossup in the eyes of Don Reed, a managing director in...
Climate Change Affecting Hawaii Island Storms, Researchers Say
Feb 10 2015 // Two university of Hawaii researchers say climate change is affecting rainfall on Hawaii Island. The researchers say heavy rainstorms are occurring more often on the Big Island. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Ying...
Deloitte Insurance Report Keys in on Climate Change
Feb 9 2015 // The potential impact of climate change on the insurance industry was important enough for consulting giant Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. to include the topic as a significant part of its recent 2015 Property and Casualty...
Deloitte Insurance Report Keys in on Climate Change
Jan 29 2015 // The potential impact of climate change on the insurance industry was important enough for consulting giant Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. to include the topic as a significant part of its recent 2015 Property and Casualty...
Research Shows Climate Change Will Cause More Extreme La Niña’s
Jan 29 2015 // Pacific Ocean La Niña events that trigger droughts in the U.S. Southwest, floods in China and raise the chances for tropical systems in the western part of the basin, as well as in the Atlantic, will likely occur twice as...
‘Climate Change’ in 2015: Bigger Than Religion – or Selfie?
Jan 12 2015 // The phrase “climate change” yields roughly 108 million results in a Google search – in the ballpark in terms of numbers of results with “Jesus Christ,” “Mohamed” and...
Climate Change in 2015 Could be Bigger Than Religion – or Selfie
Dec 31 2014 // The phrase “climate change” yields roughly 108 million results in a Google search – in the ballpark in terms of numbers of results with “Jesus Christ,” “Mohamed” and...
Survey Shows 8-in-10 Americans Believe in Climate Change
Dec 15 2014 // More than eight-in-10 Americans now believe the climate is changing – although they place that concern beneath issues like global political instability, economic crisis or a pandemic. Munich Re America’s inaugural...
Companies May Need to Disclose Fossil-Fuel Exposure: UK Energy Secretary
Dec 11 2014 // U.K. Energy Secretary Ed Davey called for a debate on forcing companies to disclose their exposure to fossil fuels so that investors know the risks they face as cleaner forms of energy are required. “There’s a...
Climate Researchers Lower Global Warming Forecast on Plans to Cut Emissions
Dec 8 2014 // Climate researchers lowered their forecast for global warming for the first time since 2009 after the greenhouse gas polluters agreed to limit their emissions over the next 15 years, a group of European academics...
Insurance Industry Is Leader on Climate Change, Report Says
Dec 4 2014 // The insurance industry is being called out by an international research institution for its progressive attitude on climate change. A white paper put out by the nonprofit Urban Land Institute this week urges the real...
UN’s Weather Agency Warns 2014 May Be Warmest on Record
Dec 3 2014 // Record high ocean temperatures will make 2014 the hottest year on record, or at least among the very warmest, in evidence of a long-term trend of global warming, the U.N.’s weather agency said on Wednesday. Including...
Climate Change Report: Philippines Hardest Hit by Extreme Weather in 2013
Dec 3 2014 // The Philippines, Cambodia and India were the countries hardest hit by extreme weather events in 2013, according to a study unveiled on Tuesday at U.N. talks in Lima on a global deal to limit climate change. The report by...
Survey Shows 8-in-10 Americans Believe in Climate Change
Dec 2 2014 // More than eight-in-10 Americans now believe the climate is changing – although they place that concern beneath issues like global political instability, economic crisis or a pandemic. Munich Re America’s inaugural...
IPCC Publishes Full Report on Climate Change Mitigation Options
Dec 1 2014 // Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the full version of its contribution “Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change” to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report in its...
