‘President Obama declared climate change the greatest threat to the future during his State of the Union address Tuesday night.’

via Obama: Climate change the greatest threat to future generations | TheHill.

‘January 20, 2015 President Obama, delivering his first State of the Union speech to a Congress under total GOP control, on Tuesday vowed to thwart Capitol Hill efforts to undermine his climate change and environmental policies.’

via Obama: ‘No Challenge Poses a Greater Threat to Future Generations Than Climate Change’ – NationalJournal.com.

‘In 134 years of temperature records, the warmth in 2014 exceeded them all, NOAA and NASA announced today.’

via Scientists react to warmest year: 2014 underscores ‘undeniable fact’ of human-caused climate change – The Washington Post.

Berkeley Earth releases temperature results for 2014:

‘Berkeley Earth has constructed an estimate of the global average temperature during 2014, including land and sea.

The key findings are:

1. The global surface temperature average (land and sea) for 2014 was nominally the warmest since the global instrumental record began in 1850; however, within the margin of error, it is tied with 2005 and 2010 and so we can’t be certain it set a new record.

2. For the land, 2014 was nominally the 4th warmest year since 1753 (when the land surface temperature record began)

3. For the sea, 2014 was the warmest year on record since 1850

4. For the contiguous United States, 2014 ranked nominally as the 38th warmest year on record since 1850.’

via Global-Warming-2014-Berkeley-Earth-Newsletter.pdf.

‘The Obama administration on Wednesday announced its latest move to combat global warming, this time trying to rein in heat-trapping methane gas that escapes from oil and gas fields.’

via 5 Things to Know About Obama’s Next Climate Move: Methane – ABC News.

WASHINGTON

‘Legislation approving construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline cleared an initial Senate hurdle Monday, a victory for newly empowered Republicans angling for a quick veto showdown with President Barack Obama.’

via Senate advances Keystone bill despite Obama veto threat | The Kansas City Star.

‘The economic damage caused by a ton of carbon dioxide emissions – often referred to as the “social cost” of carbon – could actually be six times higher than the value that the United States now uses to guide current energy regulations, and possibly future mitigation policies, Stanford scientists say.’

via Estimated social cost of climate change not accurate, Stanford scientists say.

‘(CNN) Although most of us worry about other things, climate scientists have become increasingly worried about the survival of civilization.’

via The climate is ruined. So can civilization even survive? – CNN.com.

‘OSLO, Jan 14 Reuters – Sea level rise in the past two decades has accelerated faster than previously thought in a sign of climate change threatening coasts from Florida to Bangladesh, a study said on Wednesday.’

via Sea level rise quickens more than thought in threat to coasts – Yahoo News.