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The Climate Commitment is being pushed by a group of environmental activist organizations such as Environmental Defense and the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. Thus far, eight college and university presidents in North Carolina have signed.

The board of trustees for Barnard College voted to de-invest from ‘climate deniers,’ but has not outlined what that means just yet: The move comes after years of activism by the student group Divest Barnard, which initially campaigned for Barnard to divest entirely from fossil fuel investments, according to The Columbia Spectator. Yet the college will not be […]

From The College Fix: Recent stories from a variety of sources, including NASA, the Financial Times, and the New York Times report that Earth’s temperature reached a record high in 2016. The high frequency of these claims cast the matter as fact, and paint a grave picture of the problem. Yet, professors who are experts in climate science say […]

Climate regulation will cost Americans wealth, jobs, liberty and privacy, argued talk show host Brian Sussman at a June 15 Heritage Foundation event.

Climate activists seem intent on preaching anthropogenic global warming to students at many levels, from childhood through higher education.

Those students at green colleges learning about sustainability and reducing their carbon footprint might want to consider the record of those who represent such initiatives.

Governments should abandon their climate-change-related taxes and regulations, turning instead to the courts for answers regarding anthropogenic global warming’s (AGW) affect on property rights, argues University of Buckingham fellow Graham Dawson in the January issue of The Free Market, a newsletter issued by The Ludwig von Mises Institute.

Professor Michael Mann is under investigation by his employer, Penn State University, for his role in the Climategate emails. Since the 60-day investigation began in November more details should be available by the end of January, say University officials.

In a recent British news broadcast one University of East Anglia professor went to bat for Phil Jones and his colleagues over at the University’s Climate Research Unit. The topic of conversation was Jones’ controversial ClimateGate correspondence.

Phil Jones—the director of the Climate Research Unit and persona extraordinaire at the epicenter of the ClimateGate scandal—announced today that he will be “stepping aside” until an independent review of his actions have been completed.

Global warming alarmists in academia who seek to extend their influence beyond the controlled environs of their own classrooms are getting help from admiring moviemakers

Georgetown University announced it will divest from fossil fuels in the next five to ten years after pressure from climate change activists.