Climate

Fossil-fuel burning at Ohio facility could burn longer, leaving Middletown residents to face environmental risks

The U.S. and other exporters are poised for a windfall, but disruptions to Persian Gulf supplies are also pushing gas-buying countries to consider alternatives like coal, solar and nuclear energy.

Needless to say, how that shift goes matters a lot

A long-running experiment in Colorado provides an ‘alarming’ view of how rapidly unchecked global heating could transform fragile ecosystems

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Solar, wind and battery storage are forecasted to provide 99% of new electricity generating capacity in 2026 according to new data released by the Energy Information Administration.

Cleveland-Cliffs won a federal grant to install hydrogen-ready tech. Now, it wants to revamp its Middletown blast furnace, raising questions about its use of funds.

Citing national security, the Trump administration wants to exempt all federally regulated offshore oil from protections for endangered animals—even if it could cause their extinction.

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Sorry no gift link on this one

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/35855287

On Tuesday famed climate scientist Kate Marvel joined the more than 10,000 people with PhDs in science, engineering and mathematics who, according to Science, are reported to have left the U.S. federal workforce since President Donald Trump took office in January.

“I thought I’d spend my entire career working at this wonderful place,” her letter stated. But she “never expected that science itself would come under attack, simply because it—like journalism, history, and even the best kind of art—is a way of seeking the truth. I’m leaving because I want to tell the truth.”

But it turns out there are these older mass extinctions before the dinosaurs that were caused by huge eruptions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from these mind-bending volcanic eruptions. The one I focus on is the End Permian mass extinction. It’s the biggest mass extinction by far.

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“The legacy of the entire history of life on Earth, we’ve brought up to the surface and basically just lit it on fire in the past few centuries.”

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The paper is here

This happens because when you add CO₂ to the atmosphere, concentrations stay elevated basically forever in human terms

Mind you, the US is essentially ending federal funding for research, so even with this, very little new research will get done.

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If you live in NY, make sure you let your assemblymember and state senator know how important it is to get the state off fossil fuels.

If you live in NY, make sure you let your assemblymember and state senator know how important it is to get the state off fossil fuels.

Between 2021 and 2024, home insurance costs increased by about 50% in Illinois, and this year, the state’s insurance rates are expected to climb about 5%.

National data here