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The Supreme Court on Thursday lowered the scope of environmental research for critical infrastructure projects, potentially accelerating permits for highways, airports and pipelines. [emphasis, links added] The judgment is the latest loss to environmentalists by the conservative Supreme Court, which recently took measures aimed at protecting wetlands and preventing transstate air pollution. President Donald Trump has often criticized the administration's environmental assessment process for being too heavy. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), signed by President Richard Nixon, is considered one of the basic environmental legislation enacted at the beginning of the modern environmental movement. CNN reported that the Supreme…
Forbes A post titled “You need to know about climate change in 2025” said global warming is causing an increase in severe weather conditions around the world, and is sourced from NASA. [emphasis, links added] This is wrong. The data did not indicate that bad weather became worse or more common. Computer models just predict it may. After a very mild introduction, it was necessary to “a new American narrative talk about climate change”, Forbes Make this set of claims: Global warming has consequences for the weather. According to NASA, global warming “is affecting extreme weather throughout the planet. In…
To celebrate the last five years of outstanding work by meteorologists Jeff Masters and Bob Henson on Yale’s climate connection, we put together some of our favorite “Eye of the Storm” stories. Masters and Henson, as well as Michael Lowry, Kait Parker, Charlie Randall and Alexandra Steele all cover hurricanes, heat waves, ice storms, and more, all with a climate lens. Their work creates communities, prepares for extreme weather and helps people decide when and where to evacuate hurricanes. If you benefit from their work, consider supporting our fundraising event ending on Sunday, May 31. Funding will directly support our…
Transcript: In 2022, Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico, causing flooding throughout the island. After the storm, the peak of Leptospirosis, a disease that can cause symptoms such as fever, chills, vomiting and even death. The bacteria that cause leptospirosis are carried by mammals like rats, which can spread the bacteria into water or soil through urine. When floods overflow, people can get infected by exposure to contaminated water. Wunder: “There are several outbreaks in the world that are related to hurricanes or extreme events.” Elsio Wunder of the University of Connecticut said the disease most often affects people living in…
According to Reuters, the Department of Energy (DOE) has canceled some of the Biden administration's billions of dollars in loan guarantees to green energy companies facing financial instability and a history of so-called misconduct. [emphasis, links added] In 2023, Biden Doe announced a $3 billion partial loan guarantee to Sunnova Energy, which provides solar panels and EV chargers to promote its broader green energy agenda. Trump’s Duo Nong canceled loan guarantees on Wednesday, hitting Sunnis, who have been accused of depriving senior customers in the past because it drove in financial struggles, According to Reuters. At the time of the…
The first storms of the eastern Pacific hurricane season in 2025, Alvin is taking over the warm waters of about 700 miles of southwestern Mexico. Alvin, founded at 11 a.m. on Thursday, May 29, is expected to strengthen into moderately intense tropical storms, adding wind shears and dry air on Friday with 60 mph wind power, then lowering it to a remaining air over the weekend before Alvin reaches the Mexican coast. No watches or warnings were posted to Mexico. Tropical depression is formed in the Pacific Ocean – according to the National Hurricane Center, it may strengthen #Alvin, in…
It's a tough job, but someone has to do it. That is flying to the French Riviera by flying over 10,000 climate doomsday basic principles [city of Nice] Next week, the United Nations considers it the latest global “climate emergency” meeting. [emphasis, links added] A stern declaration is expected to end the gathering entitled UN Ocean Third Ocean Conference (UNOC 3), telling the world that it must do more and donate billions of dollars to save the planet, as part of the expected plan of ocean action. Conference Secretary General Li Junhua told reporters on Tuesday that he hoped it…
Anyone who believes that it is intended to force Americans to leave their cars and enter public transportation or enter the empowerment and policies of early 18th century technology (bikes) (bikes) to protect the environment is naive or accomplices in tyranny. [emphasis, links added] Massachusetts senators want to limit the extent to which people can travel is proven. We have heard a growing point that the world must significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions or we will burn the earth. Fanatics guarantee that the carbon dioxide we produce is an existential threat. The transport sector is the largest source of direct…
Last year, we launched a project called Ask Experte. We ask you to send us questions about climate change and receive a lot of questions that we cannot answer all of them. This year, we hope to continue answering questions, but in a different way. To answer more questions, we will interview our experts via video and post answers on our YouTube channel and on our website. If you have questions about extreme climates such as hurricanes, floods, forest fires, droughts, increase in sea levels, such as how to keep your loved ones (also already you) insurance, or solutions like…
Climate Realism It took years to review climate science propositions; therefore, read Scott Waldman's recent E&E news article titled “Is climate change a threat? It depends? It's exciting. [emphasis, links added] This article highlights how Grok, an AI chatbot developed by XAI, raised a debate on the causes and consequences of climate change in a balanced way. In this way, Grok is getting rid of qualified AI models such as Chatgpt and Google's Gemini, which both torture the so-called “scientific consensus” that humans are causing dangerous climate change. As Waldman points out, Grok's approach is a deliberate shift by Xai…