Decade of Climate Evidence Strengthens Case for EPA's Endangerment Finding

Scientific understanding of the risks greenhouse gases pose to public health and welfare has strengthened and broadened in the decade since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency made its landmark "endangerment finding," according to a new review of the latest science published Thursday.

A new review by climate scientists and legal scholars
adds to the legal arsenal of those opposing the Trump
 administration’s rollbacks of climate policies. It says
the EPA's endangerment finding, “fully justified in 2009,
 is much more strongly justified in 2018.”

From the worsening of chronic disease to the perils hurricanes and wildfire, the peer-reviewed paper published in the academic journal Science found new evidence of risk in all eight of the areas cited in the EPA finding, which focused on carbon dioxide and five other heat-trapping gases.

The authors also argue that areas that were not even considered by the EPA at the time—ocean acidification, increased threat of violence and risks to national security and economic well-being—should be included in the government's assessment of the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Read the Inside Climate News story by Marianne Lavelle - “Decade of Climate Evidence Strengthens Case for EPA's Endangerment Finding.”

Climate Change Act must set 'net zero' emissions target by 2020, experts say

Britain's climate change targets must be strengthened by 2020 in order to meet stringent international targets, a new report  has warned.

A new report states the UK must set new targets to ensure
 greenhouse gas emissions are balanced by the removal
of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

The nation must strive to cut its emissions to “net zero”, the point at which annual greenhouse gas emissions are balanced by the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, the experts at the London School of Economics (LSE), stated. 

Achieving such a target could require anything from planting more trees to developing new technologies that suck carbon dioxide from.”

Read the story from the Independent by  Science Correspondent, Joe Gabaritiss -  "Climate Change Act must set "net zero" emissions target by 2020, experts say."

Hurricane Nate: US states on alert after storm leaves trail of destruction in Central America

Tropical Storm Nate has strengthened into a category one hurricane and is speeding towards the United States after killing at least 21 people in Central America.

Landslides have caused damage to towns and
roads, like this highway in Casa Mata, Costa Rica.

Forecasters said it was likely to strengthen over the Gulf of Mexico before making landfall near New Orleans.

Louisiana and Mississippi officials declared states of emergency and evacuations ahead of the hurricane's expected landfall on Saturday night local time.

Evacuations began at some offshore oil platforms in the Gulf.

Read the ABC News story - “Hurricane Nate: US states on alert after storm leaves trail of destruction in Central America.”