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California's high-speed rail project may soon face a larger price and $10.2 billion budget gap, even larger than lawmakers expected two months ago, as project leaders hope to complete the first part between Bakersfield and Mercedes. [emphasis, links added] The update was first reported by KCRA 3 on Monday, providing transportation advisers and some state legislators later last week after the governor proposed his proposed state spending plan for the upcoming year. According to the High Speed High Speed Project, California 2024 2024 2024 project leaders have been focusing on completing the 171-mile Bakersfield-to-Merced Line, with taxpayers estimated to cost…
As co-founder and leader of the World Weather Attribution Initiative, climate scientist Friederike Otto is painfully aware of how climate change amplifies the destructive power of extreme weather. Otto is a pioneer in attribution science, a branch of climate science that enables researchers to better understand how climate change affects specific weather events, such as the Los Angeles wildfires that broke out in early 2025. Otto is a PhD trained physicist at the Liberal University of Berlin and is now a senior lecturer in climate science at the Grantham Institute of London. (Editor's Note: Grantham College is supported by the…
Transcript: When the flood hits, you may hear news describing it as a 100-year flood. But with the change of climate, the term may not be as accurate as before. “100-year flooding” means 1% of flooding occurs every year, which means that, on average, flooding will occur once a year in 100 years. The same goes for 500 or 1,000 years of flooding. These possibilities are calculated using history. However, with climate change bringing extreme weather and increasing sea levels in many areas, the likelihood of severe flooding may be higher than these terms. Moftakhari: “The 100-year activity calculated based…
House Republicans recently introduced their proposed changes to their energy subsidies, which would significantly cut them and raise $515 billion in revenue. [emphasis, links added] This caused a lot of heartburn from subsidy defenders, but the truth is These subsidies are largely costly, inefficient, and transfer wealth from taxpayers to the wealthiest Americans. When the Democrats passed the party’s lowering inflation bill (IRA) in 2022, they promised to cut energy costs and significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These promises have been flat. Soaring cost estimates and reduction forecasts show that IRA’s clean energy subsidies are an invalid burden on taxpayers.…
Media reports are related to unproven claims that people are overheating the earth. Every time climate change is mentioned in the story, even featured in newspaper food or fashion pages, it is understandable that humans are turning the earth into a stuffy greenhouse by burning fossil fuels. [emphasis, links added] No evidence was provided to confirm the claim. Artificial global warming is just that skeptics are sad. But the fact tells a different story. Alabama – Roy Spencer of Hunsville climate scientist confirmed: “From 1895 to 2023, 65% of the US linear warming trend was due to increased population density…
Expectation: Republican Trifecta will terminate the vast majority of IRA subsidies. Three years ago, when the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was passed, no Republicans supported it. [emphasis, links added] During the 2024 election, President Trump ran to “terminate” the IRA's energy subsidy, which he called a “green new agreement” or a “green new scam.” “Terminating…Green New Deal” (IRA subsidy) is the first policy of the Republican platform in 2024. There are good reasons: The IRA subsidizes trillions of dollars in inferior energy forms every decade, which increases energy costs and reduces our grid because subsidies are primarily aimed at unreliable…
Transcript: In a new lab at the Toledo College of Technical Engineering in Ohio, public high school students are assembling electric cars from scratch. Kubiak: “Our students will be high school graduates with experience in learning and even building electric vehicles, and will be ahead of the competition.” Lecturer Laura Kubiak said the Electric Vehicle Lab has seven car lifts, an electric vehicle fleet, and classrooms, and students learn everything from how electricity works to problem-solving and engineering skills. Kubiak: “We actually have solar panels on the roof of our electric vehicle lab. So how cool is it to think…
During the five months in 2017, farm worker Alka Kamble experienced blurry vision in one of her eyes, but did not consult an ophthalmologist. “I can't afford it, and I don't have time because I have to work long to make ends meet,” she said. Then, Kamble Village, Maharashtra, India state. Doctors there recommend cataract surgery immediately and say excessive exposure to solar radiation may cause her vision to worsen. Kamble, 55, has worked for decades in the heat without sunglasses or shadows. She added that as the heat wave intensified in India, the situation worsened. “The calories have become…
The judge dismissed the Pennsylvania County lawsuit, alleging climate change related to major oil and gas companies late Friday. [emphasis, links added] Bucks County General Pleas Court Judge Stephen Corr dismissed the county's lawsuit against energy companies such as Chevron, BP, ExxonMobil and Shell, and ruled that the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the case. The decision is one of several recent dismissals against climate nuisance lawsuits that Democrats lean into cities and states seek significant damage from energy companies. “Today, we join the growing chorus of state and federal courts throughout the United States [justiciable] Any court in Pennsylvania”…
On Monday, May 19, the country's deadliest tornado has not yet ended, with 100 days of distortion reported for five days and at least two more days of severely severe weather. As multiple high-rise storms crossed the wavy frontal area, the activity moved from the Upper West to Friday (38) to Kentucky (38) on Thursday, May 15 (31 preliminary tornado reports), and then reloaded Colorado and Kansas (31) on Sunday (31). The back-to-back outbreak puts more pressure on the already-working National Weather Service, which has been keeping its office staff after Digg triggered budget cuts, layoffs and early retirement. On…