'Curious' If Robins Are Sign Of Early Spring
If you’re like a lot of people you’re seeing a sight that we usually associate with the coming of Spring. And if you’re like a lot of people who are already tired of the cold and snow, you’re yearning...
View ArticleClimate Change Discussion..A Warming World
This graph from the Greenland Ice Core has my mind in a tail spin. The debate and conversation around Global Warming and Climate Change has become so political, so agenda driven, so money-corrupted…I...
View ArticleCurious About Global Warming, Climate Change
BOSTON (CBS) – The doomsday predictions of global warming may have grown tired for some people. A recent Gallup poll shows Americans are more worried about a series of other environmental concerns like...
View ArticleWhat Causes Extreme Weather, Humans Or Nature?
BOSTON (CBS) – When it comes to the weather, it seems that everything is going to extremes. In just the past year, there was the Blizzard Blitz with 80 inches of snow in 6 weeks, and then the June 1st...
View ArticleBoston Developers Plan For Rising Sea Level
BOSTON (CBS) – Climate Change and the gradual creep of sea level rise has coastal communities wondering what life will be like in the future. In the past 100 years sea level has only risen about one...
View ArticleScientists: Seas Rising Faster On East Coast Than Rest Of The World
WASHINGTON (AP) — From Cape Hatteras, N.C., to just north of Boston, sea levels are rising much faster than they are around the globe, putting one of the world’s most costly coasts in danger of...
View ArticleMarkey Calling On Congress To Protect Against Climate Change
ARLINGTON, Mass. (AP) — Massachusetts Congressman Edward Markey is calling on Congress to take action to protect the Northeast and other regions from the effects of climate change, in response to...
View ArticleNewton To Consider Fee For Single-Use Grocery Bags
NEWTON (CBS) – Newton’s Programs and Services Committee is holding an open meeting Wednesday night to consider a new fee on single-use plastic and paper bags offered at stores in the town. The...
View ArticlePhotographer’s Images Document Climate Change
BOSTON (CBS) – David Arnold has spent the past decade documenting Climate Change through pictures. Some of his photographs document climate change over the past several years. “This is the British...
View ArticleNightSide – Jeff Jacoby On The Climate Change Debate
Originally broadcast January 2nd, 2014.NightSide with Dan Rea BOSTON (CBS) – Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe checks in to talk with Dan about the possible climate change that is happening to us right...
View ArticleMIT Professor Urging Climate Change Activists To ‘Slow Down’
BOSTON (CBS) — A new proposal on climate change focuses on public health, energy, transportation and basic infrastructure. Under the plan unveiled Tuesday, $40 million will go to help cities and towns...
View ArticleMarkey, Warren Among New England Senators Joining Overnight Stand On Climate...
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — U.S. senators from Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island are among 28 lawmakers who are preparing to hold the Senate floor all night long to urge congressional action on...
View ArticleNightSide Weekend Commentary – Climate Change
BOSTON (CBS) – In this Weekend Commentary, Dan Rea says climate change has a big impact on the economy. Originally aired June 14th, 2014....
View ArticleJohn Kerry: Address Climate Change Before It’s Too Late
BOSTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that the country and the world need to confront the threat of climate change while there’s still time. Kerry said climate change is already...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists Lose Ally In Congress With Boxer Retiring
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Environmental advocates will lose an ally in Congress when Barbara Boxer leaves the Senate at the end of her term in 2016 after more than three decades in office. The 74-year-old...
View ArticlePope’s Climate-Change Stand Deepens Conservatives’ Distrust
NEW YORK (AP) — Conservative distrust of Pope Francis, which has been building in the U.S. throughout his pontificate, is reaching a boiling point over his plan to urge action on climate change — and...
View ArticleBoth Sides In Keystone XL Debate Bend Facts
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supporters of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would run from Canada to the Gulf, say the privately funded, $8 billion project is a critically needed piece of infrastructure that will...
View ArticleIs Climate Change Behind The Northeast’s Extreme Winter Storms?
A nor’easter is set to pummel the Northeast this week before the area has had a chance to clean up the record amounts of snow that came down only a few days ago. With winter storms in general getting...
View ArticleExperts: Climate Change May Make Northeast Winter Storms Worse
The idea of a snow day is becoming less and less appealing as the city and surrounding areas suffer one winter storm after the other. Snow has been no friend to the Northeast this winter, and as...
View ArticleDefying GOP, Obama Vetoes Keystone XL Pipeline Bill
WASHINGTON — Defying the Republican-run Congress, President Barack Obama rejected a bill Tuesday to approve construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, wielding his veto power for only the third time...
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