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The Darth Vader-styled respirator, or 'Smoke eVader', is designed to try and get people talking about climate change.

The Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board (Fed), Jerome Powell, stated in a speech at the Swedish Central Bank's symposium on January 10 that the Fed is not a "climate policymaker."

Florida’s Hurricane Ian, Europe’s summer drought exacerbated by heatwaves and the Pakistan floods stand out the most prominently in the multi-billion dollar climate disasters of 2022. However, many other climate-related disasters this year cannot be overlooked, including Hurricane Fiona, flooding in Australia and ongoing droughts and fires. The consequent loss of life, livelihood, crops and...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to pledge one billion pounds ($1.3 billion) in climate finance at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26)

Rain will continue to fall today, but skies dry out as we slide into the weekend with a lukewarm Saturday giving way to heavier jackets next week. In fact the latter half of next week it may be cold enough for a dusting or coating of flurries or even some slush. Ah yes, slush season is at hand. That said, no headline-grabbing storms in sight. Nothing like what happened 30 years ago.

Teaming up with Facebook to fight misinformation Posted on 26 February 2021 by John Cook Some of you may remember our blog post "A conundrum: our continued presence on Facebook" in which we detailed our misgivings about and decision to stick with Facebook for the time being. So these latest developments - reposted from the Cranky Uncle homepage - might come as a bit of a surprise! Over the past few months, I’ve been working with Facebook, in collaboration with Sander van der Linden (Cambridg...

Ou off piece talking about climate. he took the name francis. it is the patron sane ofint of ecology and animals. and there is a massive meeting in december widely seen as the last serious chance by world leaders to get some kind of climate deal that will hold or reverse the current, you know, move towards global warming and all the uncertainties. and i was speaking to archbishop arzo who is the vatican ambassador to the united nations and he said look, were not democrat or republican. were talk...