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Donald Trump's landslide victory in Tuesday's presidential election sent climate activists around the world reeling. Trump called efforts to control climate change “one of the biggest hoaxes” in the world and said at his final rally “Who cares?” if sea levels rise. Trump will immediately withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement and pledged in his acceptance speech this week to mine as much “liquid gold” as possible in the United States. Of course, climate clown Michael Mann is furious. Climate activists in the UK vandalized the US Embassy in London with orange paint. X (formerly Twitter) is…
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) called a special legislative session to “confront” President-elect Trump on Thursday following his landslide election victory over Kamala Harris. [emphasis, links added] The special session will begin on December 2. Gov. Newsom says Trump poses threat to California's climate change plans based on actions he took in first termillegal immigrant population, women’s rights and LGBTQ+ rights. “California is ready to fight,” Newsom said. “I have just convened an emergency special session to help bolster our legal resources and protect our country from any unlawful actions by the incoming Trump Administration.” “Whether it's our fundamental civil…
Protesters behind Stop the Oil defaced the facade of the U.S. Embassy in London on Wednesday in protest against President-elect Trump. [emphasis, links added] Hours after Trump called the 2024 election, two protesters, aged 25 and 72, “Just Stop Oil” T-shirts were spray-painted on the walls of the embassy to show their “rejection of fascism.” The Metropolitan Police arrested two people. “This morning, the world woke up to find that it has descended further into fascism and climate breakdown. Trump's victory puts the lives of ordinary people around the world at risk,” the group said Write about the protests online.…
A reader asked us: How does climate change affect and will affect food security? To answer this question, we enlisted the help of Dr. Luis Alexis Rodríguez Cruz, who works on issues related to agri-food systems, the environment, science, and public policy. Here is his response: I will abandon the multidimensional definition food safety The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) answers how climate change affects (and will affect) climate change: “When all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs, Food security exists. It…
The lame-duck Biden-Harris administration has begun working to undermine President-elect Donald Trump's energy agenda after he handed Vice President Kamala Harris a crushing defeat in Tuesday's election. [emphasis, links added] Less than 48 hours after Trump won decisive Electoral College and popular vote victories, Federal agencies are taking action to disrupt Trump's plans to expand and unfreeze liquefied natural gas (LNG) export approvals and drill for more oil and gas on U.S. soilAccording to reports from Bloomberg News and CNN. The Biden-Harris administration suspended approvals of LNG export hubs in January and took several actions to limit energy production on…
from masterresource By Robert Bradley Jr. — November 7, 2024 Ed. notes: This article was originally published on January 19, 2017, as Donald Trump was about to be inaugurated as president. “Good news indeed! Energy cuts are a piece of cake compared to the hard budget choices faced in the transition from nationalism and stagnation to a dynamic, coordinated, and ever-expanding entrepreneurial economy. Rome isn't burning, but Climate Progress' Joe Roem is. “Will Trump go down in history as the man who ended a livable climate?” he wrote, subtitled “The fate of humanity is in the hands of a denier…
At the University of Toronto, across from the football stadium, workers are building a 14-storey building that will house classrooms and faculty offices. What's unusual is the way they built it – by bolting together huge beams, columns and panels made of faux wood panels. As each wooden element is transported via flatbed truck, a tall crane lifts and holds it in place while workers connect it with metal connectors. In its semi-finished state, the building resembles flat-panel furniture being assembled. The tower uses a new technology called mass timber. In this construction, steel beams and concrete are replaced by…
Wild blueberries have been grown in Nova Scotia for thousands of years. Today, farmers manage many naturally occurring fields and harvest fruit. But with climate change, the region's wild blueberry industry faces a series of problems. David Percival of Dalhousie University said blueberry fields typically bloom within a few weeks of spring. But this year, warmer temperatures have caused many fields to bloom simultaneously. Therefore, pollinators like bees don't have much time to visit all the flowers and fertilize them – a necessary step in producing berries. Percival: “Because the flowering period is compressed into a short period of time,…
not many people know Paul Homewood Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed funding to build the UK’s largest hydrogen production facility in Bradford. Bradford Low Carbon Hydrogen, a redevelopment of a former gas storage facility, is the largest of 11 green hydrogen projects planned to receive a share of £2bn from the government. The Bradford scheme has received planning permission and is expected to create up to 125 new jobs in the city. The plant will produce 12.5 tonnes of hydrogen per day, taking around 800 diesel buses off West Yorkshire roads every day. The project is delivered by joint venture…
Folks, it's happened again. Germany—Europe’s economic powerhouse, the land of engineers and sophistication—has fallen flat on its face. Why? Because its leaders are chasing a climate dream that has more holes than Swiss cheese. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition has just collapsed, for a simple and obvious reason: the combination of climate policy madness and fiscal reality. The German government is definitely going green. It went green like a tree frog, throwing logic and responsibility out the window at the same time. Scholz fired his finance minister, Christian Lindner, for daring to do his job – keeping the books balanced…