Colorado Climate Change News
Stories in this feed are from newspapers in Colorado courtesy of Environmental Health News.
Santorum and Gingrich dismiss climate change, vow to dismantle the EPA.
A day before Colorado Republicans voice presidential preferences at the caucuses, Rick Santorum dismissed climate change as “a hoax” and advocated an energy plan heavy on fossil fuels.
Global Warming: USGS to assess Arctic impacts.
Scientists are just in the early stages of understanding the implications for ecosystems in the region. A new multidisciplinary study by the U.S. Geological Survey may help understand how dynamic ecosystems and their wildlife communities will respond to rapid change in the Arctic.
Hickenlooper talks energy, water, pensions.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper espoused several strong positions, including global warming and revolutionary vehicle fuel this week during a speech to a Southern Colorado advocacy group.
In Colorado classrooms, climate change skepticism rising like ocean levels.
Climate change skepticism is creeping into classrooms even as advocacy groups try to broaden their reach using new-school X Games athletes to spread the message to high schools students.
Global warming: How will Arctic ecosystems change?
As Arctic sea ice melts at an unrelenting pace, marine biologists are trying to understand how ecosystems in the North Pole region may change and how the increase in hunting territory available to killer whales in the Arctic could seriously affect the marine ecosystem balance.
Boulder council to consider climate goals, carbon tax.
Whether the city of Boulder should revamp its approach to addressing climate change – including whether to extend an expiring tax to pay for related programs – is among the questions facing the Boulder City Council this week.
Colorado researchers to consider Arctic ice tipping point.
A research effort led by the University of Colorado Boulder, will consider whether areas like the Beaufort Sea and the adjacent Canada Basin have passed a ‘tipping point’ and now are essentially sub-Arctic zones where ice disappears each summer.
Report: Energy development threatens biodiversity.
Along with the significant pollution — including greenhouse gases — associated with use of fossil fuels, the push to extract more oil and gas is also a driver in the great wave of species extinctions currently sweeping the planet.
Draft of Boulder County 'climate change preparedness plan' finished.
By 2050, the average temperatures in Boulder County could rise by as much as 5 degrees, which would lead to more precipitation falling as rain instead of snow. It's also likely that climate change will lead to more extreme summer downpours. The question is what to do about it.
Global warming: Feds launch wildlife adaptation plan.
The Obama administration is launching an ambitious effort to create a climate-change adaptation strategy aimed at reducing the vulnerability and increase the resilience of fish, wildlife, plants and the communities that depend on them in the face of climate change.