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Climate March: How many more atomic bombs is Trump setting off in our Atmosphere?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The People's Climate March on Saturday will protest the Trump administration's pro-Climate Change policies of increasing US carbon dioxide and methane emissions. Just…![Does Climate change increase Threat of Terrorism?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504150019im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/does-climate-change-increase-thr-187x137.jpg)
Does Climate change increase Threat of Terrorism?
By Manon Flausch | EURACTIV.fr | translated by Samuel White | - - "Poverty and insecurity can be factors in radicalisation." [Manon Flausch] From South America to the Middle East, the effects…![Donald Trump: Global Ecocide](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504150019im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/donald-trump-global-ecocide-187x137.jpg)
Donald Trump: Global Ecocide
By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - Can one determined and willfully ignorant man both stem the green tide and push the world over the brink into…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504150019im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/image-20170404-5725-qfbx8d-187x137.jpg)
We are heading for the warmest climate in half a billion years
By Gavin Foster, Dana Royer, and Dan Lunt | (The Conversation) | - - Carbon dioxide concentrations are heading towards values not seen in the past 200m years. The sun has also…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504150019im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/cdb-611x472-1-187x137.jpg)
Climate Change Solutions Can’t Wait for Trump
By Desmond Brown | (Inter Press Service) | - - BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (IPS) - From tourism-dependent nations like Barbados to those rich with natural resources like Guyana, climate change poses one of…![Trump’s New Decree to ‘Wreak Havoc’ on Climate, Reward Big Oil](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504150019im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/03/trumps-new-decree-to-wreak-havoc-187x137.jpg)
Trump’s New Decree to ‘Wreak Havoc’ on Climate, Reward Big Oil
TeleSur | - - The latest executive order is seen by critics as a reckless attempt to boost energy industry profits at the cost of the environment and public health. U.S. President…![Top 4 Worst pieces of Climate News from WMO](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504150019im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/03/top-4-worst-pieces-of-climate-ne-187x137.jpg)
Top 4 Worst pieces of Climate News from WMO in Age of Trump
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The World Meteorological Organization of the United Nations issued its annual report on the climate on Tuesday, making a full and final assessment…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504150019im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/03/The-water-table-is-falling-in-Egypts-desert-oases-raising-questions-of-sustainability_Cam-McGrath-629x420-629x420-1-1-187x137.jpg)
New Scientific Evidence that Middle East may become Uninhabitable
By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | - - ROME (IPS) - New evidence is deepening scientific fears, advanced few years ago, that the Middle East and North Africa risk becoming…![Hey Scott Pruitt: Tom Brokaw says you’re full of it on CO2 & Climate Change](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504150019im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/03/hey-scott-pruitt-tom-brokaw-says-187x137.jpg)
Hey Scott Pruitt: Tom Brokaw says you’re full of it on CO2 & Climate Change
Climate State | (Video News Clip) | - - Climate State: Global Warming ϟ ☼ ❅ What You Need To Know, with Tom Brokaw![As Trump Bans Somalis, 100s dying from Hunger in Severe Drought](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504150019im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/03/as-trump-bans-somalis-100s-dying-187x137.jpg)
As Trump Bans Somalis, 100s dying from Hunger in Severe Drought
The Watchers : Watching the World Evolve and Transform | - - 110 people have died from hunger in the past 48 hours in just one region of Somalia as severe drought…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504150019im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/dry-1-187x137.png)
Red state rural America is acting on climate change – without calling it climate change
By Rebecca J. Romsdahl | (The Conversation) | - - President Donald Trump has the environmental community understandably concerned. He and members of his Cabinet have questioned the established science of climate…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504150019im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/11/6163012147_a8d9277061_z-629x472-1-187x137.jpg)
The Catastrophic Downstream Effects of Trump Anti-Climatism
By Tharanga Yakupitiyage | (Inter Press Service) | - - UNITED NATIONS, Nov 24 2016 (IPS) - Although U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has hinted he may be softening his stance on climate…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504150019im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/11/mi_50m_800-741x960-187x137.jpg)
DAPL: This Thanksgiving, Time to Listen to Native Americans again on Climate & Survival
Revised and updated. By Juan Cole | --- The popular story about Thanksgiving is an environmental parable that we would do well to remember today. It was a harvest festival in 1621,…![16-Year-Old Sues Federal Government On Climate Change](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504150019im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/11/16-year-old-sues-federal-governm-187x137.jpg)
16-Year-Old Sues Federal Government On Climate Change
AJ+ | (Video Report) | - - "Indigenous climate activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is one of 21 young plaintiffs suing the federal government to demand action on climate change." AJ+: "16-Year-Old Sues Federal…![Four years of Trump could really sink the planet](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504150019im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/11/four-years-of-trump-could-really-187x137.jpg)
Four years of Trump could really sink the planet
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - I argued that President Obama's carbon-reduction plan wasn't anything to write home about. He wanted to reduce our annual emissions from 5.4 billion…![The last Time Summer was this Hot, Human beings hadn’t yet Left Africa](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504150019im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/09/the-last-time-summer-was-this-ho-187x137.jpg)
The last Time Summer was this Hot, Human beings hadn’t yet Left Africa
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Summer of 2016 was not only hotter than any summer on record, i.e. since 1880. We have enough proxies for global average temperature to know that…![Climate Change Terror as Deserts Bury 2/3s of African Lands](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504150019im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/08/climate-change-terror-as-deserts-187x137.jpg)
Climate Change Terror as Deserts Bury 2/3s of African Lands
By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | - - ROME, (IPS) - Two-thirds of the African continent is already desert or dry-lands. But while this vast extension of the second largest…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504150019im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/07/ss20160722-banner_-187x137.jpg)
New Normal: A victim is displaced by Climate Change Disaster every Second
Climate Victims – Every Second, One Person Is Displaced by Disaster By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | - - ROME, Jul 27 2016 (IPS) - Climate change and related extreme…![Maybe Oil was a bad Idea: Temps in Mideast Beat Heat Records for E. Hemisphere](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504150019im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/07/maybe-oil-was-a-bad-idea-temps-i-187x137.jpg)