Environment Study Shows Midwest’s Resilience in Changing Climate By Elizabeth Braun - Minnesota News Connection | April 27, 2018 How climate change shape the Midwest over the next 20 years? A new study by The Nature Conservancy gives us some clues.
Energy Crowd Asks Sen. Klobuchar To Vote Against “Climate Denier” Trump Cabinet Appointees By Bill Sorem | January 9, 2017 About 100 people gathered outside Senator Klobuchar’s Minneapolis office asking her to vote against Donald Trump’s cabinet appointees who deny that climate change is real and man made.
Environment Rural Minnesotans Talk Climate Change Priorities By Brandon Campbell - Minnesota News Connection | September 9, 2016 How will Minnesota’s rural communities weather climate change in the coming years? Rural Minnesotans, including farmers, are discussing their priorities in how local policymakers are responding to climate change.
Environment Watch 25 Years Of Arctic Ice Vanish In 1 Minute By Michael McIntee | December 27, 2015 The “arctic amplification” of climate change remained in full swing in 2015, according to the Arctic Report Card. Watch how warmer waters fed by a growing amount of man-made carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reduced old ice to just 3% of the arctic ice pack.
Environment Oil Pipeline Regulation Process “Not Working” Say Environmentalists By Text by Michael McIntee, Video by Kristin Larsen | December 12, 2015 Activists say Enbridge doesn’t want a conversation about expanding its oil pipelines that are carrying crude that poses an extra environmental risk if spilled into Minnesota waterways.
DC Obama: Climate Change Agreement “Turning Point For The World” – Video And Full Transcript Of Statement By Michael McIntee | December 12, 2015 Obama says the agreement signed by 200 countries in Paris is not perfect. The problem is not solved. But he believes it can be a “turning point for the world.”
DC Pope Urges Climate Change Action By Michael McIntee | September 23, 2015 Pope Francis took on the issue of climate change while addressing a crowd at the White House. He says solving climate change is urgent and “can no longer be left to a future generation.”
Energy Polar Explorer Steger Urges MN To Cut Back On Coal Burning, Use Clean Energy Instead By Video by Bill Sorem, text by Michael McIntee | June 17, 2015 Minnesotan Will Steger has been to both poles and has seen firsthand the effects of climate change. He is urging lawmakers in his home state to move ahead with a federal initiative called the Clean Power Plan to cut back coal burning that speeds the effects of climate change.
Environment 10,000 Year Old Ice Shelf About To Vanish By NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | May 15, 2015 A new NASA study finds the last remaining section of Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf, which partially collapsed in 2002, is quickly weakening and is likely to disintegrate completely before the end of the decade.
DC Obama: “Climate Change Can No Longer Be Denied or Ignored” By Michael McIntee | April 18, 2015 More wheezing asthmatic kids, the Florida Everglades wiped out, a risk to national security – those are just a few of the looming and very real impacts of climate change President Obama outlined in a warning aimed at getting action to reverse it.
Environment NASA Predicts 20-40 Year Megadroughts In US Because Of Man-Made Climate Change By Michael McIntee | February 12, 2015 Droughts in the U.S. Southwest and Central Plains at the end of this century could be drier and longer compared to drought conditions seen in those regions in the last 1,000 years, according to a new NASA study.
Energy Heating Help For Poor Prompts Lawmaker Crack About “Global Cooling” By Michael McIntee | February 25, 2014 “Global cooling” is an important topic for Rep. Steve Drazkowski.Global warming? Not so much.
Canada Bill McKibben’s “Do the Math” Campaign Takes Aim at Fossil Fuels Industry By Jacob Wheeler | December 8, 2012 Bill McKibben and 350.org are encouraging colleges to divest from fossil fuel companies — much as academic institutions divested from supporting the South African government under apartheid in the 1980s.
Energy McKibben Sees Opening to Press Obama on Climate Change By Jacob Wheeler | November 8, 2012 Bill McKibben, author and co-founder of the global grassroots climate activist movement 350.org, kicked off the “Do The Math” tour Wednesday before over 2,000 people at Seattle’s Benaroya Hall.
Environment Climate Change Makes Extreme Weather Like Duluth Flooding More Likely By Jacob Wheeler | August 24, 2012 DFL lawmakers agreed that Climate Change will cause more extreme weather events such as the Duluth floods, and lawmakers have to be prepared.
Environment Governor Says No To More Coal Burning In Minnesota By Michael McIntee | May 27, 2011 Govenor Mark Dayton says a bill that would allow more coal-burning electricity plants in Minnesota threatens our health and our climate and isn’t needed. So he is vetoing it.
MN House Pile Of Snow Proves No Global Warming/Climate Change Says Drazkowski By Michael McIntee | May 12, 2011 DFLer presents boxes of evidence of climate change. Republican points to a snow bank left over from one of Minnesota’s snowiest winters as proof climate change doesn’t exist.
Environment Snow, Climate Change Adds To Flooding Woes In Fargo & Grand Forks, ND By Michael McIntee | April 15, 2011 The National Weather Service says flooding will continue well into May. The area continues to experience wetter than normal winters because climate change is keeping the air warmer, which then contains more moisture.
DC Rep. Markey To GOP: HANDS OFF THE INTERNET By Michael McIntee | April 12, 2011 Representative Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) delivers a fiery speech to journalists gathered at the National Conference For Media Reform in Boston. He says Republicans in Congress are trying to shut down the internet at the same time they are trying to shut down the government
CD3 Erik Paulsen Questioned About Climate By admin | August 5, 2010 Click to Play Congressman Paulsen, MN 3rd CD, responds to a question about his position on climate and a carbon tax to reduce greenhouse gasses that are causing climate change. Paulsen said he is against such a tax.
Netroots “Merchants Of Doubt” Authors At Netroots Nation 2010 By admin | July 23, 2010 Click to Play Authors Erik Conway and Naomi Oreskes talk about their book about climate change deniers called “Merchants Of Doubt” at Netroots Nation 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Denmark 33 Provocations on Climate Change By Michael McIntee | December 11, 2009 A presentation from Edward Morris of the Canary Project at the Fresh Air Center during the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009.