Yale Climate Connections

3 days ago | yaleclimateconnections.org | Dana Nuccitelli

The Trump administration has taken an ostrich-like approach to climate change. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is required to publish a report about the country’s sources of climate-changing pollution each year by April 15. This year, that didn’t happen. But the completed report was recently made public as the result of a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by the Environmental Defense Fund.

1 week ago | yaleclimateconnections.org | Bob Henson

Amazing news: We just got a new report on your donations to support our extreme weather coverage, and we’ve blown past our goal of $10,000. Every donation we receive helps us protect more people, so we’re setting a new goal: Can we make it to $20,000 by tonight at midnight? I’m so proud to write for Eye on the Storm at Yale Climate Connections alongside my longtime colleague Jeff Masters, whose storied career continues in this new era and keeps making a huge impact.

1 week ago | yaleclimateconnections.org | Jeff Masters |Bob Henson

With an ever-growing plethora of hurricane computer forecast models out there – including two new ones that became operational just last year – it can be ever more puzzling to figure out which model to believe. But the best approach remains: Don’t take any of them as gospel. Put your trust in the National Hurricane Center, or NHC, forecast.

2 weeks ago | yaleclimateconnections.org | Neha Pathak

Iba de un paciente a otro, cargando mi botella reutilizable de agua de una sala a otra para mantenerme hidratada. “No deberías beber de esa botella de plástico estando embarazada —me advirtió con amabilidad una trabajadora social, abuela de cinco nietos”. Sonreí y la tranquilicé:“Ya lo revisé: no contiene BPA”. Era mi primer embarazo, hace más de 13 años. En ese entonces, en cuanto a los plásticos y la salud, lo único que sabía era que debía evitar el BPA (bisfenol A), un disruptor hormonal.

2 weeks ago | yaleclimateconnections.org | Aaron Cantú

Only weeks ago, new science had buoyed state legislation to calculate the costs of climate change in California and force fossil fuel companies to pay for it. A study in Naturepublished last month took the reported emissions of major oil companies and modeled their effects on temperatures, finding their pollution led to $14 trillion in worldwide economic losses due to extreme heat alone.