Jeff Goodell, writer for Rolling Stone, explains how Trump’s EPA chief is gutting the agency, defunding science, and serving the fossil-fuel industry.

Emily Atkin of New Republic exposes the legal attacks, internet harassment, and the Trump-fueled “culture of fear” that is making it more difficult than ever to be a […]

Elana Gordon, writing for Newsworks explains how historic weather libraries can hep scientists with understanding our future climate.

Read John Abraham’s profile of Kevin Trenberth, one of the world’s foremost climate scientists in The Guardian.

Michael Mann views the US statesman, Al Gore’s, second film probing climate change.

Richard Heinberg of Post Carbon Institute’s thoughtful commentary via CommonDreams about a highly publicized controversy over the efficacy of plans for a comprehensive transition to an all-renewable energy future.

Financial Tribune explains how a new study has found that the temperature baseline used in the Paris climate agreement may have discounted a century’s worth of human-caused global […]

Scott Waldman, writing for Scientific American, explains how a new global temperature baseline casts doubt on humanity’s ability to meet the Paris target.

Tom Mckay of Gizmodo explains this switch in beliefs by Lamar Smith, republican in charge of the House Science Committee.

Ian Johnston, environment correspondent for independent.co.uk says the earth’s average temperature could have risen by up to 1.2 C rather than about 1C.

In this article for E&E News Robin Bravender explains how Anthony Scaramucci, the president’s new communications director has expressed doubt in climate science.

A’ndrea Elyse Messer, writing for Penn State News, explains how Penn State’s carbon budget may have been overestimated.