Global Carbon Emissions Will Hit a Record High in 2019… Again.
Carbon dioxide emissions in the United States rose 3.4 percent in 2018, the largest increase in eight years. A rise in emissions from factories, trucks and planes contributed heavily to this increase.Scott Olson/Getty This piece was originally published in HuffPost and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Global carbon emissions will hit…
Democrats from Congress Tried to Reassure World Leaders at the UN Climate Summit
This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic lawmakers assured world leaders at the United Nations climate conference in Madrid that the United States will continue to be a leader in combatting global climate change, despite backward steps by the Trump administration. “The…
The UN Secretary General Says the Real Climate Leaders Are the World’s Youth
Environment of IFEMA venue during the opening day of the UNFCCC COP25 climate conference on December 2, 2019 in Madrid, Spain. Miquel Benitez/Getty This piece was originally published in the Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, contrasted the “leadership” and “mobilization” shown by the…
The George Soros Conspiracy Theory at the Heart of the Ukraine Scandal
DOBBS: John Solomon reported back in March and I want to get this right that [former US embassy official] George Kent had pressured Ukrainian prosecutors to back off an investigation into AntAC, the anti-corruption action center that George Soros group sponsored. This is a complicated deal here. And it seems that he wanted to keep…
The New York Times Just Published Leaked Documents Detailing China’s Brutal Crackdown on Muslims
Uighur women grieving for their men who they claim were taken away by the Chinese authorities in Urumqi, China, in 2009. Ng Han Guan/AP In one of the biggest leaks from China’s Community Party in decades, reporters at the New York Times have gotten their hands on hundreds of pages of documents and secret speeches…
Trump’s Ambassadors Are Uniquely Unqualified. The Ukraine Scandal Proves It.
Gordon Sondland arrives on Capitol Hill for his Ukraine scandal deposition.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty Gordon Sondland would not have been any reasonable person’s first choice for a senior State Department post. Or their 20th choice. Before he found himself at the center of the Ukraine scandal, Sondland was a hotel magnate with zero…