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Trump 'believes climate is changing', says UN ambassador Nikki Haley
White House has dodged declaring president’s view on climate change, but Haley says leaving Paris accord ‘doesn’t mean we don’t care about the environment’
Donald Trump “believes the climate is changing” partly because of pollution, according to the US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley.
Speaking on the CNN programme State of the Union, due to air on Sunday, Haley was seeking to define the president’s thinking about climate change in the wake of his announcement that the US will leave the Paris climate accord, joining Syria and Nicaragua as one of three non-signatories.
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Not green enough
Michael Bloomberg: ‘US will meet its Paris commitments’ – video
Former New York mayor says during surprise trip to Paris on Friday that Americans ‘don’t need Washington to meet our Paris commitments’. Bloomberg, who is the UN’s special envoy for cities and climate change, says cities, states and businesses will instead step in to ensure the targets are met
Continue reading...A sinister bird arrows into the river
Teifi Marshes, Pembrokeshire Bilidowcar the cormorant’s called in Welsh – Billy the Ducker
Bound for hides in the Teifi Marshes reserve, I paused to lean against railings on the riverside path and a cormorant arrowed into view, threw up its broad, webbed feet to brake, and touched down on the water.
Seeing it reminded me of a morning 20 years ago in a fishing boat careening into Roonagh in County Mayo on green combers that were the aftermath of an Easter storm. A cormorant had kept us close, wave-skimming company. I asked the skipper, Jack Heanue, what the folk of Inishturk – an English-speaking island – thought of these weirdly beautiful birds.
Continue reading...Michael Bloomberg: US states and businesses will still meet Paris targets
Former New York mayor, now UN cities and climate ambassador, says Trump may have withdrawn from Paris accord but American people haven’t
The United States will meet its Paris accord greenhouse gas targets despite Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the agreement, former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has said.
A decision by President Trump to pull the US out of Parisand seek renegotiated terms “fair” to America has drawn widespread international condemnation.
Continue reading...Great Barrier Reef: Australia must act urgently on water quality, says Unesco
Draft decision says Australia would not, at this rate, meet interim or long-term targets in the Reef 2050 report
Unesco has expressed “serious concern” about the impact of coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef and warned Australia it will not meet the targets of the Reef 2050 report without considerable work to improve water quality.
The criticism was contained in a draft decision published as part of the agenda for the upcoming world heritage committee meeting (pdf), which will take place in Krakow, Poland, in the first two weeks of July.
Continue reading...Analysing wastewater reveals population health
Urgent action to save the Southern Black-throated Finch
The rodent and the walking stick
It's way past time to speak truth to climate arguments this stupid | Lenore Taylor
It’s clearer than ever the economic interests Trump claims to defend can only be served by acting on global warming
For precious decades experts have explained, over and over, that the science of climate change is incontrovertible, the consequences of blindly sticking with fossil fuels catastrophic and the costs of inaction far higher than switching to a low-emissions economy.
But these facts had no impact on the sceptics, who cling to a worldview where they find “alternative facts”, where fossil fuel power is the only path to prosperity and mounting environmental and economic evidence to the contrary is some kind of dastardly leftwing plot.
Continue reading...Poison pill
Beaver return 'benefits environment'
The benefits of beavers
US has nothing to apologize for on climate change, says defiant EPA chief
- Scott Pruitt insists America retains a seat at the negotiating table
- Pruitt refuses to say whether Trump believes climate change is real
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency has said America has nothing to apologise for on climate change and retains a seat at the negotiating table, claiming: “After all, we’re the United States.”
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Continue reading...US states and cities likely to achieve emission reductions despite exit from accord
Late-night hosts on Trump’s climate decision: ‘Even North Korea agreed to this’ – video
Talkshow hosts address Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement. On Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Trevor Noah describes Trump’s choice to make the announcement in the Rose Garden of the White House ‘a pretty gangster move’, while Jimmy Kimmel points out that the only other countries to shun the deal are Nicaragua and Syria, ‘and they’re doing great’
Continue reading...Scientists dispute the 'tiny, tiny' impact of Paris deal
Paris climate deal: Buildings 'go green' in protest
Aerial footage of the split in the Larsen C ice shelf
Footage taken at the beginning of the year shows the split in an Antarctic ice shelf. A giant section is hanging by a thread and is due to break off at any moment
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