These Climate Programs Would Be Axed Under Trump's Budget

The Trump Budget brings
bad news for the climate.

The rise of the right around the world has given inordinate sustenance to those who deny the damage cause by humans to the world’s climate system.

Leading that charge from the right has been the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president and most of what he threatened is now becoming reality.

Read the Inside Climate News story - “These Climate Programs Would Be Axed Under Trump's Budget.”

Galilee basin coal must be left in ground as a ‘priority’ – new report

A coalmine in the Galilee basin in central
Queensland. A new report shows that existing
fossil fuel projects worldwide are enough
to push global warming beyond 2C.

Miners seeking the green light to dig up Queensland’s Galilee basin should be stopped as a priority, according to a new report showing existing fossil fuels projects worldwide are enough to push global warming beyond 2C.

The report by the research and advocacy group Oil Change International argues there is a compelling case for the six Galilee coalmining proposals in the hands of Australian regulators to be axed in line with a “managed decline” of global coal, oil and gas supplies already on tap.

It shows the embedded carbon emissions from operating fields and mines worldwide, if run to the end of their projected lifetimes, would drive warming beyond the 2C limit laid down by last year’s Paris agreement. Developed oil and gas reserves alone would take warming beyond the aspirational 1.5C target.

Read The Guardian story - “Galilee basin coal must be left in ground as a ‘priority’ – new report.”

British government axes its energy and climate change department

Closure decision by new British government
"plain stupid" - Ed Milibrand.

The government has axed the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) in a major departmental shake-up.

The brief will be folded into an expanded Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy under Greg Clark.

Ed Miliband, the former energy and climate secretary under Labour, called the move "plain stupid".

It comes at a time when campaigners are urging the government to ratify the Paris climate change deal.

Read the BBC story - “Government axes climate department.”