NYTIMES (David Gelles) - How Companies Have Abandoned Their Climate Goals and Let Themselves Off the Hook
Big business made big promises about saving the planet. Following through hasn’t been easy.
JUSTTHENEWS (Kevin Killough) - Germany to slash climate fund by $34 billion through 2030 as part of an effort to reduce spending
The government has argued that a subsidy program it launched to lower energy-intensive industries will justify cuts to the climate and transformation fund.
NYTIMES (Ezra Klein and Jack McCordick) - The Very Good and Very Bad News on Climate
Advancements in renewable energy are paving the way for a new climate politics. The environmentalist Bill McKibben articulates some of the possibilities in this new era of energy abundance.
AMERICANGREATNESS (AG News Staff) - Europe’s Climate-First Policies Fuel Resistance to Air Conditioning as More Than 1,300 Die in Heat Waves
Europe continues to rely on alternatives to air conditioning even as deadly heat waves claim lives across the continent. Officials argue that expanding air conditioning […] Source
NEWSCATS - China Failed and Tried to Cover This Up
Image: Remove the crude oil, and you do not merely dim the lights. You dismantle society! Related: Britain: Time To Go Back To Coal Can solar and wind + batteries really provide 24/7/365 electricity? Net [...]
NEWSCATS - Is The Global Temperature Record Credible?
Image: AC Feudalism: Eurocrats Stay Cool While Staff Swelter In Brussels Heatwave Related: NYT Frets Over AC While Europeans Swelter And Die – Sweat-soaked Europe gets lectured by NY Times: Push for air conditioning is [...]
NPR (Geoff Brumfiel) - Red, white and glowing blue: Trump's push for new reactors reaches the finish line
A program initiated by the Trump administration has allowed small companies to rush their testing of several new nuclear reactor designs. Some worry that safety is being compromised.
NYTIMES (Chico Harlan) - Heat Wave Takes Toll on Europe’s Infrastructure, Too
The devastating heat wave has exposed weaknesses in the continent’s infrastructure, much of it built for a cooler climate that no longer exists.
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NYTIMES (Michael D. Shear and Jeanna Smialek) - Europe’s Deadly Heat Wave: A Jolt for the Climate Agenda, or Just for AC?
Heat-related deaths and disruptions to daily life are forcing politicians to reckon, in different ways, with a rapidly warming planet.
NYTIMES (Raymond Zhong) - Climate Change Fueling Europe’s Ferocious Heat Wave, Scientists Find
A scientific analysis concluded that such high temperatures, across so much of the continent, would “not have been possible” without global warming.