Climate

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In just the last year, the Trump administration has derailed an international carbon tax, boosted forecasts for oil and gas, and sought to silence an island nation’s climate campaign.

From his remote cabin in the once snowier hinterlands above Gothic, billy barr tracks decades of warming, snow-starved winters

It may take more time to hit some of the targets set by New York’s landmark climate law. But retreat from the existential threat of global warming is not an option.

I note that this editorial contains a factual error: the lawsuit over the NY climate law is a result of Hochul failing to implement it, rather than the other way around.

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The $5 billion project in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to help produce up to 10 billion barrels of oil by the end of this decade. Critics say it could endanger people and marine life.

US solar capacity installations fell 14% in 2025 compared with the previous year

Underlying this is a jet stream gone wild, Maue and Chenard said.

The jet stream is the river of air that moves weather from west to east on a roller coaster-like path. Usually, the plunges are as mild as a kiddie roller coaster. But now that jet stream is barreling down near-vertical, scream-inducing drops, followed by straight-up ascents.

“Which means you get a lot of extremes next to each other,” Maue said. Storm fronts coming from the Pacific hit that high pressure heat dome in the Southwest and are pushed north to climb that mountainous jet stream peak, “grab access to that cold air reservoir up there” and bring it back down south down the other side of the hill, he said.

Numerous studies have connected unusual jet stream and polar vortex activity to shrinking Arctic sea ice and human-caused climate change.

Republican lawmakers are advancing legislation that would shield major polluters from legal accountability for climate change harms.

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The papers are here and here. The first paper is paywalled, the second is open-access.