silence7
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Twenty years after California's landmark climate law, the state is not on track to meet its targets California’s landmark 2006 climate law helped the state meet its first emissions target six years early, but upcoming goals are harder to reach. The state is only halfway to its 2030 target and, at the current pace, may not meet it until 2034; the 2045 goal requires even steeper cuts. Transportation emissions, high infrastructure costs and federal policy shifts pose challenges, even as Califo...
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United Nations report highlights significant increase in U.S. climate pollution
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Why smart people believe the myth that natural gas is clean / How the gas industry turned a half-truth into one of the most successful PR campaigns in fossil fuel history.
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Ilhan Omar Investigation Aims to Build Case for Stripping Her Citizenship Basically, they’re trying to find a decades-ago paperwork error by her father to take away her citizenship. If they’re allowed to do that, they can strip a huge fraction of Americans of their citizenship, and go ahead with Miller’s plan to deport 2/3 of the US population. This post uses a gift link which likely has a view count limit. If it runs out, here is another one
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Adam McKay enlists Woody Harrelson for darkly satirical Exxon ad
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World must cut emissions by 18% in four years ‘to find our way back’, UN says
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Britain Approves Long-Stalled Gas Drilling Project in the North Sea The project will lessen the country’s dependence on imported energy, though environmental advocates say it undercuts a pledge to reduce carbon emissions. Archived copy of the article
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U.S. Is an Outlier Among Rich Nations in Slowing Climate Progress, U.N. Data Says The scientific report, identifies the United States as an outlier among the nations responsible for the vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions. Archived copy of the article
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World headed for warming of 2.8C as fossil fuel emissions keep rising, UN warns | Global energy-related greenhouse gases remain at record levels This post uses a gift link with a view count limit. There will hopefully be an archived copy posted here by the time it runs out.
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Trump Renews Battle to Upend US Offshore Wind-Farm Developments
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Humboldt Bay Is California's ‘Canary in the Coal Mine’ for Sea Level Rise, State Climate Report Warns
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After a Decade of Efforts to Regulate Methane, the Trump Administration Promises New Rules In both terms, Trump has rolled back or blocked attempts to reduce highly warming methane emissions from the oil and gas industry.
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Giant ‘heat storms’ are scorching the Earth. This is the story of the biggest one on record. Supersized heat waves used to be rare. No longer. A Reuters data-driven examination of global temperatures reveals the emergence of what we call ‘heat storms.’ They now swarm the planet, upending life around the world from Texas to Ivory Coast to Poland.
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Why have countries been pushing for a vital global climate report to be delayed?
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Tap water no longer drinkable in Norwegian town as climate-related thawing releases heavy metals
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Thanks to El Niño, California is getting a grim preview of its climate change future Chrome and safari reader mode skips the registration request. No Archive.is link because Hearst
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US Midterm Voters Are Worried About Climate, but Their Candidates Are Ignoring It | Polling shows that swing-state Democrats, Independents, and Republicans all want it addressed.
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About 2% of natural gas supplied to a Midwest city leaks into the atmosphere
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If So Many Americans Care About Climate, Why Don’t They Vote Like It? 11.2 million. That’s the number of Americans who rank climate as a their top priority but didn’t vote in the 2024 US elections
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Heat pumps and insulation would cut UK living costs more than new oilfields, study suggests
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The GOP’s Message to Immigrants | Be white and Christian, or America doesn’t want you.
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How AI chatbots may be talking people out of climate action
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Britain’s Growth Has a Lot to Do With the Transition Away From Fossil Fuels
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Animal Control Has Always Been Tough Work. Climate Change Is Making it Harder Bears, coyotes, mountain lions: More wild animals are tangling with humans as increased drought and heat alter their behavior. Animal control officers are scrambling to keep up.
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Oregon’s off track in reducing emissions from the transportation sector
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How the quirky puffin became a symbol of the climate crisis – and hope
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How the Climate Crisis Fueled the Youth Protests Roiling France Youth protests for better school conditions have prompted a national political crisis. Lack of adaptation to a hotter world is part of the story.
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The rule of law versus the rule of coal Archived copy of the article
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US voters want action on global heating. So why are midterm candidates ‘climate hushing’?
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A Global Sugar Crisis, Made and Felt in India A sugarcane crop withered by El Niño in India, the world’s second-largest producer, is hurting consumers and farmers — plus undermining the country’s energy security goals. archived copy of the article