🌎 Discussion: Climate Change, Global Warming, Emission Standards, and Other Environmental Issues - Part 1

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Trump names oil and gas advocate to lead agency that manages federal lands

Kathleen Sgamma to oversee Bureau of Land Management, agency that manages quarter-billion acres of public land

www.theguardian.com

Earning all that money Big Oil gave him.

 

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Coca-cola says it could use more plastic due to Trump tariffs

Beverage giant's boss says his company may need to action if aluminium cans become more expensive.

www.bbc.com

 

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World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study

Bogs and swamps are a colossal carbon store but their continued destruction would blow climate change targets

www.theguardian.com

 

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Musk’s ‘efficiency’ agency site adds data from controversial rightwing thinktank

Website of ‘Doge’ includes information published by thinktank CEI, which claims to fight ‘climate alarmism’

www.theguardian.com

 

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Minnesotans deserve their day in court with Big Oil • Minnesota Reformer

It’s illegal to lie to consumers about a product in Minnesota, plain and simple.

minnesotareformer.com

 

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EVs and datacentres driving new global ‘age of electricity’, says watchdog

Forecast for rising global electricity use likely to stoke fears of rising costs and stalled efforts to fight climate crisis

www.theguardian.com

Brake pad dust can be more toxic than exhaust emissions, study says

Research shows move to electric vehicles may not be enough to enable pollution from cars to be eradicated

www.theguardian.com

 

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Climate crisis contributing to chocolate market meltdown, research finds

Scientists say more-frequent hotter temperatures in west African region are part of reason for reduced harvests and price rises

www.theguardian.com

 

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China’s coal power habit undercuts ‘unprecedented pace’ of clean energy

Minimum quotas for purchase of coal power and new project approvals threaten major advances in renewable energy production, thinktanks say

www.theguardian.com

 

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Leaked emails show the nation’s leading wildlife agency has halted critical funding for conservation

Exclusive: The US Fish and Wildlife Service has frozen millions of dollars, imperiling animals abroad.

www.vox.com

 

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Revealed: ‘extremely concerning’ industry influence over UN aviation body

Exclusive: Firms outnumber green groups at environmental talks, with related events sponsored by fossil fuel companies

www.theguardian.com

 

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Trump admin firing National Park Rangers.

 

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This is getting out of control. I don't think DOGE even knows what it is doing.

 

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Extreme weather expected to cause food price volatility in 2025 after cost of cocoa and coffee doubles

Trend towards more extreme-weather events will continue to hit crop yields and create price spikes, Inverto says

www.theguardian.com

 

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Twelve months at 1.5 °C signals earlier than expected breach of Paris Agreement threshold - Nature Climate Change

The 12 months before July 2024 were more than 1.5 °C warmer than the pre-industrial baseline. Using climate models, the author shows that the first year that exceeds 1.5 °C of warming most probably also occurs within the first 20-year period with an average temperature that exceeds temperature...

www.nature.com

 

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Climate change outpaces tree migration, human intervention may be needed: Study

A new Colorado State University study of the interior U.S. West has found that tree ranges are generally contracting in response to climate change but not expanding into cooler, wetter climates—suggesting that forests are not regenerating fast enough to keep pace with climate change, wildfire...

phys.org

 

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DeSantis urged to declare emergency over toxic red tide algae off Florida coast

Harmful algae bloom off south-west coast blamed for deaths of marine life and poses threat to beaches

www.theguardian.com

 

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‘It is going to be terrible’: a senior in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ prepares for Trump’s dismantling of hard-won environmental progress

Robert Taylor recently lost his wife to a long-term illness he linked to chemicals produced by a nearby plant, and now the Trump administration is preparing to scrap pollution reforms in the area

www.theguardian.com

 

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‘It is going to be terrible’: a senior in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ prepares for Trump’s dismantling of hard-won environmental progress

Robert Taylor recently lost his wife to a long-term illness he linked to chemicals produced by a nearby plant, and now the Trump administration is preparing to scrap pollution reforms in the area

www.theguardian.com

Nope. Trump will happily let businesses pollute the hell out the environment, especially if poor people of color are living there.

 

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Two-thirds of Americans think global warming is affecting weather in the U.S.

With stronger hurricanes and longer wildfire seasons, Americans saw the impact of the climate crisis firsthand last year

www.independent.co.uk

 

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Scientists Pinpoint 'Tipping Point' for Greenland's Melting Ice Sheet

The vast landmass is melting quickly due to climate change, and may rapidly cause the complete loss of the island's ice.

gizmodo.com

 

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Scientists Pinpoint 'Tipping Point' for Greenland's Melting Ice Sheet

The vast landmass is melting quickly due to climate change, and may rapidly cause the complete loss of the island's ice.

gizmodo.com

Yep. It's not looking good.