
In just a few months, President Trump’s moves have exceeded the worst fears of climate activists.

Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
[How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: ![IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols a
Europe launches space satellite to measure tree biomass | Scientists say the radar will paint the first detailed global map of forests’ biomass, which is crucial for sucking up CO₂ & slowing warming
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Trump’s 100 Days of Upending Climate Policy | In just a few months, President Trump’s moves have exceeded the worst fears of climate activists.
In just a few months, President Trump’s moves have exceeded the worst fears of climate activists.
Writing to the future is one of the most powerful climate actions you can take | Social scientists say writing a letter to loved ones in the future can overcome a critical climate problem: inaction.
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Building a World Without Carbon Requires Megaproject Thinking
One of the biggest mistakes we can make in the current moment is to assume climate change is only an environmental problem—one that we will address at some time in the future. Climate change is an everything problem. It affects our economy, national security, health, competitiveness, and communities...
Even though Liberal candidate Mark Carney has a lengthy climate policy résumé, Trump’s threats have nearly drowned the issue out of the campaign.
All Authors Working on Flagship U.S. Climate Report Are Dismissed
The Trump administration told researchers it was “releasing” them from their roles. It puts the future of the assessment, which is required by Congress, in doubt.
Because if you don’t know what’s happening, it can’t hurt you, right? Reuters: President Donald Trump’s administration has dismissed all contributors to the U.S. government&…
Zeldin’s plan for endangerment finding: Accept warming, contest its costs | US EPA administrator’s strategy to dismantle scientific justification for climate rules could focus on cost to business
The EPA administrator's strategy for dismantling the scientific justification for climate rules could focus on the costs to industry.
Maritime sector's new climate plans are historic - but also highly flawed.
Maritime sector's new climate plans are historic - but also highly flawed.
Why Trump can’t stop states from fighting climate change | Climate progress is still happening. You just need to know where to look.
The United States has never really cared much about tackling climate change, at least at the federal level. Up until the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA — which handed out billions of dollars for people to electrify their homes and pumped billions more into the clean energy ec...
American Geophysical Union files new lawsuit to protect hundreds of thousands of federal workers
AGU and a coalition of plaintiffs have filed a complaint in a new lawsuit arguing President Donald J. Trump’s February Executive Order No. 14210 directing federal agencies to engage in “large-scale” reductions in force and reorganization is illegal.
Rice already contains arsenic, a naturally occurring toxin. But climate change is supercharging the danger with hotter, high-carbon dioxide conditions dramatically increasing arsenic levels. For the billions who depend on rice, the health risks could be devastating. Here’s everything you need to kno...
In Montana, Republican State Legislators Fight Back After Successful Youth Climate Lawsuit
When the state’s Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in the nation’s most successful youth climate suit, it sparked a Republican backlash that could lead to fundamental changes in Montana’s courts and environmental laws.
When the state’s Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in the nation’s most successful youth climate suit, it sparked a Republican backlash that could lead to fundamental changes in Montana’s courts and environmental laws.
Harmful dioxins in Agent Orange, used to strip forests of their leaves, still linger in soil. Restoration work has been slow, and upheaval at USAID may slow it more.
When the Vietnam War finally ended on April 30, 1975, it left behind a landscape scarred with environmental damage. Vast stretches of coastal mangroves, once housing rich stocks of fish and birds, lay in ruins. Forests that had boasted hundreds of species were reduced to dried-out fragments, overgrown with invasive grasses.
Fifty years later, Vietnam’s degraded ecosystems and dioxin-contaminated soils and waters still reflect the long-term ecological consequences of the war. Efforts to restore these damaged landscapes and even to assess the long-term harm have been limited.
Although the war spurred new international treaties aimed at protecting the environment during wartime, these efforts failed to compel post-war restoration for Vietnam. Current conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East show these laws and treaties still aren’t effective.
Ice all but disappeared from this Alaskan island. It changed everything.
A warming Bering Sea kept ice away from this Alaskan island — leading to the closure of a crab processing plant and fraying of the community.
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US Urges Eastern Europe to Split From EU Energy Transition Aims
And no surprise that the US energy secretary lies about the research
Navy Secretary John Phelan has canceled the Navy’s Climate Action 2030 program, which was enacted by the Biden administration in 2022 to improve the service’s energy efficiency.