Category: Climate change
As The UK Bakes Under A Deadly Heat Dome, Conservatives Want To Turn Up The Temperature
Temperatures in the UK this week are expected to break records, but voters there prefer adding to the problem.
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Electricity Wins Because It Breaks The Fossil Fuel Chain
One of the easiest ways to get the energy transition wrong is to treat electricity as just another fuel. Coal, oil, gas, hydrogen, ammonia, methanol and electricity are often placed in parallel columns, as if the future is mainly a substitution table. That framing preserves too much of the fossil … [continued]
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How You Can Fight Climate Disinformation
It’s a fact of contemporary life: social media is the most popular way for people of all ages to get their information. Heaven forbid the internet goes out! We’d miss out on checking our favorite stories on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, or X. Quick access, however, masks unverified information. Nowhere is … [continued]
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Former EPA adviser claims agency violated whistleblower protections after petition criticism
The EPA is being sued this week by Elin Warn Betanzo, a water safety engineer who was also instrumental in the Flint water crisis investigation.
France records its hottest day ever as Europe withers in early heat wave
Punishing temperatures extended to the United Kingdom and Spain, where weather agencies issued red alerts — like France — about the risks of extreme heat for tens of millions of people.