Texas, Trump and Climate Change
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The Trump administration has hired three prominent researchers who over the course of their careers have questioned and even rejected the scientific consensus on human-caused climate change. Each were given positions in the Energy Department, which is led by Secretary Chris Wright, a former oil and gas fracking executive.
Days after the passage of a sprawling domestic policy bill, the Trump administration announced moves that could further hamstring renewable energy.
The decision by the Department of Defense to stop providing data to NOAA is just the latest challenge for the agency this year.
US retreat from climate commitments under the Trump administration will have “significant consequences” for the planet, EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra told Euronews at The Europe Conversation.
The U.S. Energy Department has hired two Alabama scientists who are well-known for their skepticism about human-influenced climate change. The New York Times is reporting that John Christy, Alabama’s state climatologist since 2000,
CNN's Harry Enten cites polling that shows just 40% of 2025 Americans are "afraid" of climate change, the same number as in 2000. "Americans aren't afraid of climate change, climate activists have not successfully made the case to the American people,
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Democrats and media outlets faced criticism in recent days for blaming climate change and other political agenda items for devastating floods in central Texas.
The Mauna Loa laboratory in Hawaii has measured atmospheric carbon dioxide, which — along with other planet-warming pollution — has led directly to climate change, driving sea level rise, supercharging weather and destroying food systems.
Congress will take up Trump's proposed budget cuts, which target 26 long-term ecological research centers like the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon.