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Aug 09 2012
News
Romney's short list: Portman is case study in campaigning for VP
At the edge of the Alt farm cornfield, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman gets a firsthand look at the impact of a punishing drought. "These guys have crop insurance, which will cover most of their losses," Portman says of the Alt family, which has been farming this land since 1959. "But going forward, we need to prove predictability and certainty with a new farm bill." On the one hand, Politics 101: a
CNN (Online News)Dec 22 2020
Analysis
No, Joe, We’re Not in a ‘Climate Crisis’
He doesn’t want to get us thinking about climate change, but rather to suspend all rational thought about the issue.
Former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s famous axiom is that a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. It’s an even worse thing to manufacture.
Although President-elect Joe Biden obviously disagrees. Creating an unwarranted sense of drama and urgency around climate
Rich LowrySep 30 2020
Analysis
Why we’re more confident than ever that climate change is driving disasters
The emerging field of climate attribution helps explain the wildfires and hurricanes of 2020.
Back in 2017, record-breaking hurricanes like Maria and wildfires like Tubbs hammered the United States. But the specific role of long-term global warming was a tentative part of the discussion, with scientists speaking of it cautiously, in broad strokes.
Compare that with 2020, where
VoxFeb 09 2015
News
Climate Change Is of Growing Personal Concern to U.S. Hispanics, Poll Finds
Alfredo Padilla grew up in Texas as a migrant farmworker who followed the harvest with his parents to pick sugar beets in Minnesota each summer. He has not forgotten the aches of labor or how much the weather — too little rain, or too much — affected the family livelihood.
Now an insurance lawyer in Carrizo Springs, Tex., he said he was concerned about global warming.
“It’s
New York Times (News)Feb 01 2015
News
Iowa Dems high and dry as Hillary decides
Democrats are beginning to worry that Hillary Clinton is creating a drought in Iowa. A year out from the Iowa caucus, some party members fret that Hillary Clinton’s dominance in the Democratic field will leave the party high and dry as the campaign season intensifies. A lack of competition within the party may hurt fundraising and makes it hard to develop the new blood that often grows out of
PoliticoJan 08 2013
News
2012 Hottest Year On Record For Lower 48 States, NOAA Confirms
Its official: 2012 was the warmest year on record in the lower 48 states, as the country experienced blistering spring and summer heat, tinderbox fire weather conditions amid a widespread drought, and one of the worst storms to ever strike the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2012 had an average temperature of 55.3°F
HuffPostApr 13 2015
News
Mighty Rio Grande Now a Trickle Under Siege
On maps, the mighty Rio Grande meanders 1,900 miles, from southern Colorado’s San Juan Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico. But on the ground, farms and cities drink all but a trickle before it reaches the canal that irrigates Bobby Skov’s farm outside El Paso, hundreds of miles from the gulf.
Now, shriveled by the historic drought that has consumed California and most of the Southwest,
New York Times (News)Apr 01 2015
News
Scary Times For California Farmers As Snowpack Hits Record Lows
The water outlook in drought-racked California just got a lot worse: Snowpack levels across the entire Sierra Nevada are now the lowest in recorded history – just 6 percent of the long-term average. That shatters the previous low record on this date of 25 percent, set in 1977 and again last year.
And it has huge implications for tens of millions of people who depend on water flowing
NPR (Online News)Aug 15 2022
Headline Roundup
100 Million Americans in ‘Extreme Heat Belt’ to Face 125 Degree Temperatures by 2053, Study Says
An “extreme heat belt” stretching from Texas to Illinois will see temperatures up to 125 degrees at least once per year by 2053, according to an analysis published Monday.
Large swaths of the Southwest and East Coast will also see 125-degree temperatures, the analysis said. Some counties, like San Bernardino County, CA, Hernando County, FL and Henderson County, IL are already seeing
CBS News (Online) Daily Mail The HillSep 11 2020
Analysis
California’s recurring wildfire problem, explained
The state’s weather is becoming warmer and more volatile due to climate change. And there are more people and buildings.
The images and reports out of California this week are overwhelming: concurrent colossal wildfires laying waste to property and landscapes, freaky orange skies, massive smoke clouds, worsening air quality, more than 64,000 people forced to evacuate, and all of it
Vox