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Climate Change’s Fingerprints Came Early, a Thought Experiment Reveals

Scientific American

Skip to main content Scientific American Opinion July 4, 2025 5 min read A Thought Experiment Reveals the Fingerprints of Climate Change Came Early Climate change left its signature on the atmosphere early in the industrial revolution, reveals a thought experiment investigation By Ben Santer , Susan Solomon , David W.

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Trump’s Pick for Energy Secretary, Chris Wright, is Wrong on Purpose. Here are the Facts. 

Union of Concerned Scientists

In videos and Congressional testimony , Wright portrays himself as a truth teller, while falsely claiming that climate scientists and renewable energy advocates are deceptive. Real-world observations conducted by NOAA show the dramatic increase in billion-dollar extreme weather and climate-related disaster events in the US since 1980.

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Oil & Gas Methane Pollution Reduction Testimony: Barbara Jarmoska, 77 Year Resident Lycoming County - The Degradation Is ‘Shocking And Tragic’

PA Environment Daily

We’ve all heard (ad nauseum) that methane is 80 times more powerful than CO₂ in the short term—but what matters is what climate scientists are urgently telling us: that the short term—a decade, if we’re lucky—is critical. Reducing methane from gas operations is one of the fastest, most cost-effective ways to slow climate change now.

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The Endangerment Finding Is in Danger. Will EPA’s Zeldin Uphold Climate Science?

Union of Concerned Scientists

establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. The 2007 case was brought by petitioners (which included several state attorney generals and NGOs, including the Union of Concerned Scientists) in the context of greenhouse gas emissions from new motor vehicles.

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Trump Administration Attempts Burying Climate Change Evidence to Further Fossil Fuel Agenda

Union of Concerned Scientists

In economist-speak, this is just a commonsense way to correct a market failure and internalize the climate-driven externality costs of using fossil fuels. Well, the latest estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases from the EPA before the Trump administrations attempts to gut themare summarized in the table below. How costly?

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100 Days of Fear & Loathing in Climate World

Legal Planet

Columbia Law’s Climate Backtracker has them in a handy spreadsheet. Trump has accomplished one-third of Project 2025’s goals and 57% of goals related to EPA according to the Project 2025 Tracker. Twenty of those orders are related to environmental policy, reports Heatmap News, which told the story in 5 charts.

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MAGA vs NOAA, Executive Orders, and Growing IRA Support

Legal Planet

The news that started leaking last Friday is that the Trump administration wants to break up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and essentially end NOAAs climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to instead help boost U.S. In fact, the US could be pushing China and the EU closer together.

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