‘Climate change hits the poorest people the hardest, those living in vulnerable areas with the fewest resources to help them adapt or recover quickly from shocks. As the effects of climate change worsen, escaping poverty becomes more difficult.’

via Climate Change Complicates Efforts to End Poverty.

‘The Obama administration looks at climate change as a threat to national security on par with terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and disease outbreaks.’

via White House: Climate change threatens national security | TheHill.

‘Climate change is happening, humans are the cause, and a shocking number of congressional Republicans — over 56 percent — deny or question the science.’

via Here Are the 56 Percent of Congressional Republicans Who Deny Climate Change | BillMoyers.com.

‘Up to 10 million gallons 38 million liters of crude oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill has settled at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, where it is threatening wildlife and marine ecosystems, according to a new study.’

via ‘Missing Oil’ from 2010 BP Spill Found on Gulf Seafloor – Yahoo News.

‘WASHINGTON — An overwhelming majority of the American public, including nearly half of Republicans, support government action to curb global warming, according to a poll conducted by The New York Times, Stanford University and the nonpartisan environmental research group Resources for the Future.’

via Most Americans Support Government Action on Climate Change, Poll Finds – NYTimes.com.

‘New research is first to identify which reserves must not be burned to keep global temperature rise under 2C, including over 90% of US and Australian coal and almost all Canadian tar sands’

via Leave fossil fuels buried to prevent climate change, study urges | Environment | The Guardian.

‘Shell is set to confront the risk that climate change may pose to its future, after backing a resolution from activist shareholders. The move came on the same day it announced $15bn (£10bn) in cost cutting due to plummeting oil prices and said it wanted to resume drilling for oil in the Arctic.’

via Shell urges shareholders to accept climate resolution | Environment | The Guardian.

‘The political network overseen by the conservative billionaires Charles G. and David H. Koch plans to spend close to $900 million on the 2016 campaign, an unparalleled effort by coordinated outside groups to shape a presidential election that is already on track to be the most expensive in history.’

via Koch Brothers’ Budget of $889 Million for 2016 Is on Par With Both Parties’ Spending – NYTimes.com.

‘NEW DELHI – When President Barack Obama arrives in New Delhi on Sunday, he will join the Indian capital’s masses in breathing some of the world’s filthiest air.’

via Polluted skies the backdrop for climate talks in India.

‘DAVOS, Switzerland – On the heels of data showing that last year was the hottest on earth since record keeping began, business leaders, politicians and scientists at the World Economic Forum redoubled their calls to combat climate change.’

via Leaders in Davos Urge Quick Action to Alter the Effects of Climate Change – NYTimes.com.