By Michael Bastasch Next year, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will start denying disaster funding to states that don’t incorporate global warming into their emergency preparedness plans. Governors looking for disaster preparedness funding will have to start reporting on how man-made global warming will impact their states such as “more intense storms, frequent heavy…
By Michael Bastasch Published: March 16, 2015 President Barack Obama is confident that Republicans will be forced to see things his way when it comes to policies aimed at tackling global warming. The president told VICE News he can “guarantee you that the Republican Party will have to change its approach to climate change because voters will insist upon…
By Michael Bastasch Published: March 12, 2015 Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz told NASA Thursday to stop worrying about global warming and focus on its “core priority of exploring space.” “Since the end of the last administration, we have seen a disproportionate increase in the amount of federal funds that have been allocated to the Earth sciences…
By Michael Bastasch Published: March 9, 2015 When Dr. Roy Spencer looked up summer temperature data for the U.S. Corn Belt, it showed no warming trend for over a century. But that was before temperatures were “adjusted” by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate scientists — now the same data shows a significant warming trend….
By Michael Bastasch Today climate scientists are warning that Arctic sea ice extent has been shrinking due to global warming, but would you believe that experts were warning about polar warming back in the 1950s? On Feb. 18, 1952, the Barrier Miner, a paper published for decades in Australia, reported that University of Vermont Arctic…