Rep. Hageman Introduces Bill To Shield American Energy Producers From Leftist Climate Litigation Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Harriet Hageman (R-WY) introduced the Stop Climate Shakedowns Act of 2026 to protect American energy from leftist legal crusades punishing lawful activity.

Republicans introduced federal legislation literally called the Bill To Shield American Energy Producers From Leftist Climate Litigation to give oil & gas companies immunity from laws or lawsuits that aim to hold them accountable for their role in the climate crisis hageman.house.gov/media/press-...

Future flood-induced losses are projected to be comparable to or even exceed drought-induced losses in many regions and globally exhibit distinct spatial and temporal patterns.

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The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

You may not think you’ve ever relied on the Wayback Machine, but chances are pretty good you have at least indirectly.

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Trump has approved just 23% of disaster funding requests from states with Democratic governor & two Democratic senators since returning to office. Trump has approved 89% of their requests from states with Republican governor and two Republican senators.

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When Hyperglobalization Meets Chaos Choke points are everywhere you look

A fuller scope of Strait of Hormuz disruptions, together with a quick survey of some other vulnerable global chokepoints, from the great Paul Krugman. Pulling massive US naval assets out of Pacific sector to try to reopen Hormuz can only be making things worse et now.

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5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds Exclusive: War in the Middle East is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined

The US-Israel war on Iran has emitted 5 million tonnes of CO₂ₑ in its first 14 days. The world currently has 0.6 million tonnes of novel and permanent CO₂ removal (CDR) capacity annually.

The acreage represents roughly 7% of the state's land and waters.

New policy is being set by the California Natural Resources Agency.

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California pledges to open 7% of its land and waters to Indigenous tribes — a step toward healing a 175-year-old broken promise The new plan aims to bring at least 7.5 million acres of land and coastal waters under the care of Indigenous tribes — representing the acreage the U.S. promised and failed to hold for tribal reservat...

New California policy to return >7.5M acres to care of tribes, an acreage the US promised & failed to hold for tribes. Policy should allow tribes to acquire land, access important sites, & restore previously outlawed practices such as to wildfire restoration. ½

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Ecological Society of America ( @ecolsocaus )'s comments on the value and future of NCAR and its programs...

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E&E News: NRC considers eliminating half-century-old radiation standard Under the draft proposal, the principle that exposure should be “as low as reasonably achievable” will be replaced with hard limits and special exceptions.

Under a new Administration proposal, nuclear power plants will no longer have to keep radiation doses "as low as reasonably achievable”. Instead, plant operators & medical workers will only have to keep doses < maximum dose limits, some to be loosened.

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Middle East desalination plant attacks highlight risks of relying on "fossil fuel water" Destroying the facilities is “the most grievous kind of war crime that you can dream up.”

Recent attacks (w/accusations from both sides) on Middle East desalination plants are war crimes aimed at source of crucial parts of the region’s freshwater production. Such destruction has been a consequence of wars there since at least Bush I’s Iraq incursion.

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Btw, it occurred to me that this aspect of how extreme springtime heat waves impact mountain snow pack doesn’t always get the attention deserved: A strong heat wave unleashes snowmelt from all elevations at once, instead of more gradually altitude-wise up a basin.

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Extreme heat wave shows which species can survive rising temperatures A study of the 2021 heat dome shows how extreme heat reshaped ecosystems and revealed which species can survive record temperatures.

As heat waves become more frequent & extreme, natural & artificial refugia & migration options for people, animals & plants, snowfed water resources, and coastal ecosystems need to be prepared and protected in advance.

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Statement on Public Availability of Scientific Information and Scientific Evidence on Climate Change The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

@ametsoc.org has released a new statement re: the recent decision by the Federal Judiciary Center to remove the climate science chapter from Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence and letter from 21 GOP AGs to the National Academies regarding climate change.

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AMS Feedback to NSF NCAR Dear Colleague Letter The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

Here’s the American Meteorological Society’s (@ametsoc.org’s) response to NSF regarding the fate and importance of NCAR…

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Celebrating Fish Biologist Peter Moyle UC Davis professor emeritus Peter Moyle is arguably the most important fish biologist in California’s history. Last Saturday, a stellar collection of California water leaders, agency heads, wildlife e...

Emcee Jeff Mount set the tone, saying “We don’t say ‘thank you’ to people often enough.’” Peter Moyle REALLY is the most consequential fish biologist in California history, & was honored & thanked by many of the State’s environmental best & brightest last Saturday.

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Modulation of North Atlantic atmospheric rivers by the Gulf Stream Gulf Stream ocean variability plays a key role in modulating atmospheric river (AR) activity over the North Atlantic during winter and spring at monthly time-scales. Increased ocean heat transport an...

Variations of Gulf Stream ocean-heat and surface-heat fluxes play important roles in the latitudinal variability of atmospheric rivers, and thus extreme precip and coastal winds over the Euro-Atlantic sector during winters and springs.

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California Communities’ Recovery Time Between Wildfire Smoke Events Is Shrinking Californians have long dealt with wildfire smoke as a seasonal fact of life, but those fires have become more intense and frequent, raising the profile of wildfire smoke as a public health issue. Now,...

🔥 A new study from researchers at Scripps Oceanography finds that periods of clean air between multi-day wildfire smoke events in California shrank by more than 60% from 2006 to 2020 — leaving communities with less time to recover before smoke returns. Learn more: scripps.ucsd.edu/news/califor...

The Sierra snow is (of course) thin this year (& mostly in southern range). With lots of rain, rainy snow, and thin snow cover, the "cold content" of Sierra snows has to be small--ie, snow temperatures are not much below freezing--so yeah, it shdn't take much to shrink or remove it in most places.

The strange and persistent psychological distance between us and climate disaster An analysis of dozens of previously published studies reveals people systematically underestimate their own vulnerability to climate threats.

Meta study suggests need for different strategy for communicating about climate change: Reduce the tendency (found by the study) for overoptimism by framing climate risks in relation to specific groups rather than humanity as a whole.

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A marine heat wave continues to impact the U.S. West Coast EEZ (exclusive economic zone)
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The first country to BAN the sale of new gas cars is doing just fine, actually Two years ago, Ethiopia became the first country to ban gas cars from its roads. Two years later, they seem to be doing great!

"The #Ethiopia story is fascinating... Ethiopia made history in 2024 by becoming the first country to ban the sale and import of new internal combustion-powered vehicles. Despite the predictions of the anti-EV hysterics, they’re doing just fine."

#ClimateSky

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Former staff show how Trump acted to upend EPA's mission and "make America sicker" Their new report details relaxed restrictions on dangerous chemicals in food, consumer products, water and air.

Report from Environmental Protection Network (a nonprofit, nonpartisan group of 100s of former EPA staff) details how new EPA actions have eased limits on chemicals in food, consumer products, water & air.

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How Trump’s EPA rollbacks give US states new tools in climate suits Vermont and New York face high stakes to protect climate superfund laws as it faces attacks from Trump’s DoJ

Overeager Trump’s suit to kill Vermont’s climate-superfund policy (requiring major polluters to pay for damages from carbon emissions) claims federal law, not state law, governs GHGs. But EPA’s repeal of its endangerment finding ceded that federal authority.

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Iran's FM condemns US attack on Qeshm's freshwater desalination plant, warns of grave consequences US President Donald Trump announced that Iran promised not to attack its neighbours anymore

Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant.
If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination.
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Revision of decarbonization wedges divides the vast solution space into a detailed list of options w/o limiting to one strategy. They provide a scale-able planning toolkit: Set a temperature target & select enough strategy wedges to reach it, weighing the trade-offs.

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How the Rise of a Salty Blob Led to the Fall of the Last Ice Age - Eos Scientists have long suspected that high salinity levels in the deep ocean were responsible for keeping carbon dioxide locked away during the last ice age. New research finds the strongest evidence ye...

Study in Nature Geoscience seems to confirm that a giant blob of salty water held carbon dioxide deep in the ocean during the last ice age, & the blob released that CO2 during an upwelling event 18K years ago.

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Drought Drove the Amazon’s 2023 Switch to a Carbon Source - Eos The change was caused by thirsty vegetation taking up less carbon than normal, not by the year’s extended fire season, new research shows.

Despite 2023 drought-driven increased fires in the Amazon, fire-related emissions from the rainforest were w/in long-term avg. The rainforest’s change from carbon sink to carbon source was caused by vegetation absorbing less carbon due to drought, not fire-induced C release.

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Runaway Climate: The Point of No Return James Hansen

Hansen: “The danger of passing the point of no return is [a taboo topic] w/IPCC [but] deserves to be debated…The danger of passing [this] point is not reason to panic, though; climate’s delayed response [still] leaves time to take action” now.

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