‘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.

‘Last year, we learned what is probably the worst global warming news yet — that we may have irrevocably destabilized the massive ice sheet of West Antarctica, which contains the equivalent of nearly 11 feet of sea level rise.’

via The U.S. has caused more global warming than any other country. Here’s how the Earth will get its revenge. – The Washington Post.

‘As part of the long debate on the Keystone XL pipeline, the Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday for an amendment that aimed to answer once and for all whether senators believe the climate is changing.’

via ‘Climate change is real and not a hoax,’ Senate overwhelmingly decides – LA Times.

‘The symbolic doomsday clock moved to three minutes before midnight on Thursday because of the gathering dangers of climate change and nuclear proliferation, signalling the gravest threat to humanity since the throes of the cold war.’

via Climate change and nuclear bombs set ‘doomsday clock’ on verge of midnight | Environment | The Guardian.

‘Former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, who’s contemplating another White House run, said climate change was real, that humans helped it along and that it was the responsibility of the world to turn back the environmental tide.’

via Mitt Romney: Climate change is real, human-induced, and we must tackle it – Washington Times.

‘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.