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Scientists give harsh grades to Trump administration work aimed at undoing a key climate finding
SETH BORENSTEIN and MICHAEL PHILLIS, Yahoo Entertainment
Two key documents from the Trump administration aimed at revoking the long-standing finding that climate change is dangerous were filled with errors, bias...
Aug 26, 2025, 1:02 PM
Why has Donald Trump not spoken out about the famine in Gaza?
Al Jazeera English
The US president publicly acknowledged 'real starvation' last month.
Aug 25, 2025, 8:30 PM
Trump Halts Work On New England Offshore Wind Project That's Nearly Complete
huffpost.com, Biztoc.com
The Trump administration halted construction on a nearly complete offshore wind project near Rhode Island as the White House continues to attack the battered U.S. offshore wind industry that scientists say is crucial to the urgent fight against climate change…
Aug 24, 2025, 8:30 PM
Links 8/24/2025
Haig Hovaness, Nakedcapitalism.com
Our strategic daily links: Music box, Waymo in NYC, Chinese trains, Africa map, Gaza horrors, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, hapless Democrats, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, scams, and wretched excess
Aug 24, 2025, 10:55 AM
President Trump’s War On “Woke AI” Is A Civil Liberties Nightmare
Tori Noble and Kit Walsh, Techdirt
The White House’s recently-unveiled “AI Action Plan” wages war on so-called “woke AI”—including large language models (LLMs) that provide information inconsistent with the administration’s views on climate change, gender, and other issues. It also targets mea…
Aug 22, 2025, 6:58 PM
US Strips Ocean and Air Pollution Monitoring From Next-Gen Weather Satellites
msmash, Slashdot.org
An anonymous reader shares a report: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is narrowing the capabilities and reducing the number of next-generation weather and climate satellites it plans to build and launch in the coming decades, two people fam…
Aug 22, 2025, 4:12 PM
Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
Clint Smith, The Atlantic
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
Aug 22, 2025, 2:00 PM
Trump’s Stance on Science Is Starting to Look Uncomfortably Soviet
Lois Parshley, Grist, Gizmodo.com
The U.S. is drifting away from science and climate reality. So why does life seem so normal?
Aug 21, 2025, 2:35 PM
Watch: Are museums in DC too 'woke'? We ask visitors what they think
BBC News
President Donald Trump has called for a review of Smithsonian museums, saying they focus too much on "how bad Slavery was".
Aug 20, 2025, 9:53 PM
Links 8/17/2025
Haig Hovaness, Nakedcapitalism.com
Our strategic daily links: Avalanche skiing, old black hole, sweaty Hong Kong, Chinese robots, electrifying Africa, Gaza horrors, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, hapless Democrats, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, and wretch…
Aug 17, 2025, 10:55 AM
Toxic algae season is back — and Trump has cut safeguards
Patrick Wensink, Salon
Climate change and funding cuts are putting our drinking water, ecosystems and lives in danger
Aug 16, 2025, 1:00 PM
Farmers in US midwest squeezed by Trump tariffs and climate crisis
theguardian.com, Biztoc.com
Excess rainfall has fueled disease and pest pressure in Ohio’s soybean fields as a trade war with China puts farmers’ biggest export market in doubt Seventh-generation farmer Brian Harbage grows corn, soybeans and grass, and runs a cattle operation across fi…
Aug 16, 2025, 12:06 PM
What will be the climate fallout from Trump's 'big beautiful bill'?
James Dinneen, New Scientist
The “One Big Beautiful Bill” just signed by President Trump will slash support for clean energy, leaving the US far short of its Paris Agreement pledge
Jul 8, 2025, 8:06 PM
Do we have to take climate risks into our own hands now?
Heather Hansman, Vox
In 2023, my husband and I bought our house in southwest Colorado, in part, because it backed up to open space. That was the dream: trails just past the fence, a scrubby network of oak and sage stretching out into the hills beyond. But a little over a year int…
Jul 8, 2025, 4:40 PM
Floods are getting more dangerous around the country, not just in Texas
Rebecca Hersher, NPR
The deadly floods in Central Texas were caused by extremely heavy rain. Climate change is causing even more rain to fall during the heaviest storms.
Jul 7, 2025, 5:30 PM
Apple’s 5th Ave store spray-painted to protest ‘climate hypocrisy’
Emma Roth, The Verge
A climate change activist was arrested after spray-painting Apple’s 5th Avenue store as part of a protest against Big Tech’s “climate hypocrisy.” Protestors from the Extinction Rebellion environmental group staged a demonstration at the New York City storefro…
Jul 7, 2025, 2:11 PM
5th Avenue Apple Store spray-painted by climate protesters calling for boycott
Ben Lovejoy, 9to5Mac
New York’s flagship Fifth Avenue Apple Store was spray-painted by climate change protesters, calling for a boycott of the company. Three slogans were sprayed onto the glass frontage of the store, with Extinction Rebellion accusing Apple of hypocrisy on env…
Jul 7, 2025, 11:03 AM
Mauna Loa Observatory captured the reality of climate change: The US plans to shut it down
Alex Sen Gupta, Katrin Meissner, Timothy H. Raupach, Phys.Org
The greenhouse effect was discovered more than 150 years ago and the first scientific paper linking carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere with climate change was published in 1896.
Jul 5, 2025, 5:10 PM
Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act Will Raise U.S. Climate Emissions
Zack Colman, E&E News, Politicopro.com
Four research firms project that the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act will raise greenhouse gas emissions and likely put U.S. and global climate goals out of reach
Jul 3, 2025, 2:50 PM
The White House took down the nation's top climate report. You can still find it here
Rebecca Hersher, NPR
The National Climate Assessment is the most influential source of information about climate change in the United States.
Jul 1, 2025, 5:53 PM
Are Country-To-Country Deals The Future Of Climate Finance?
Ken Silverstein, Senior Contributor, Ken Silverstein, Senior Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/, Forbes
The Global South did not create the climate crisis. But it is counting on the rest of us to help solve it.
Jun 29, 2025, 4:00 PM
Republicans and climate change
William deBuys, Salon
They know better but they’d rather fight than switch
Jun 29, 2025, 10:00 AM
Google’s carbon emissions just went up again
Emma Roth, Justine Calma, The Verge
Google’s carbon emissions jumped yet again as the company continues to push ahead in AI. The company’s 2025 sustainability report emphasizes that its “ambition-based emissions” grew 11 percent last year to reach 11.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide poll…
Jun 27, 2025, 7:08 PM
WATCH: Lightning strike in South Carolina injures 20 as heat wave scorches East Coast
ABC News
More than 120 million Americans remain under heat alerts Wednesday as record-breaking temperatures and dangerous humidity grip the East Coast.
Jun 25, 2025, 7:26 PM