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Timothy Schwinghamer (he/him)

Fired #climate scientist Tom Di Liberto says lives are at risk from #extremeweather as more cuts loom over the U.S. government agency responsible for #forecasting and much more. Di Liberto lost his job as part of a massive purge by the Trump administration, and worries the layoffs will not only cost the U.S. more money, but will cripple weather forecasting across the continent, leaving many people vulnerable to #NaturalHazards

What On Earth with Laura Lynch - cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-429

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#BillGates’ #climate group lays off #US and #Europe #policy teams
#BreakthroughEnergy, the climate group founded by Bill Gates, has laid off dozens of employees in the U.S. and Europe, eliminating its #publicpolicy and partnerships teams as it shifts away from advocacy work. Its investment and grantmaking divisions will remain unaffected.
detroitnews.com/story/business

The Detroit News · Bill Gates’ climate group lays off US and Europe policy teamsBy Devon Pendleton, The Detroit News
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Matthew Rimmer

Trump officials decimate climate protections and consider axeing key greenhouse gas finding
EPA takes aim at almost every major pollution rule in what environmentalists call act of ‘malice toward the planet’
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“The Trump administration’s ignorance is trumped only by its malice toward the planet,” said Jason Rylander, legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute.
theguardian.com/environment/20
“Come hell or high water, raging fires and deadly heatwaves, Trump and his cronies are bent on putting polluter profits ahead of people’s lives. This move won’t stand up in court. We’re going to fight it every step of the way.”
#uspol #uslaw #climate #EPA

The Guardian · Trump officials decimate climate protections and consider axeing key greenhouse gas findingBy Oliver Milman
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Matthew Rimmer

Climate litigation - Environmental groups sound new alarm as fossil fuel lobby pushes for immunity theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

Nearly 200 groups urge Congress to reject fossil fuel industry immunity efforts, fearing long-term damage to climate lawsuits

“Lawmakers must decisively reject any attempt by the fossil fuel industry to evade accountability and ensure both justice today and the right of future generations to hold polluters responsible for decades of deception,” said the missive, which is addressed to the House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, and Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer.

Fossil fuel companies have vied for such a get-out-of-jail-free card for years.

The Guardian · Environmental groups sound new alarm as fossil fuel lobby pushes for immunityBy Dharna Noor
#environment#climate#pollution
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ApaulD

Buried. #australia ‘s Climate Risk Assessment

“No one is officially telling Australian people that we have officially passed 1.5°C…The question now is, how much below 2°C can we stay?”

#heat #flood #fire #food #shortages

“Most experts are saying we’re actually on track for 2.6-3°C. Now, that is catastrophic in some areas. So, I think it’s recklessly negligent of either major party to fail to properly inform the Australian people of the risk ahead.”
#climatechange #politics #auspol #climate #risk

thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/e

The Saturday Paper · Exclusive: Secret briefings on climate national security riskBy Karen Barlow
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VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ

"The American Beef Industry Understood Its Climate Impact Decades Ago"

insideclimatenews.org/news/140

People need to know about the anti-science and pseudoscience promoted by the meat industry, especially the cow meat industry, to hide the non-slaughter horrors of their bloody industry.

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Jacquet, a professor of environmental science and policy at the University of Miami, noted that the 2006 UN report represented an inflection point, not only making the public aware of livestock’s climate impact, but putting the industry on notice that it could potentially be targeted for regulation. The report said that livestock’s climate emissions—which come from converting forests to pasture, growing feed, methane-emitting cow burps and manure storage—were about 18 percent of the global total, more even than the transportation sector.
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In 1989—the year after NASA’s James Hansen famously told Congress that climate change posed a global threat—the Environmental Protection Agency held a workshop focusing on methane emissions from livestock and, soon after, published a report, “Reducing Methane Emissions from Livestock.” The report said that livestock were a major source of methane and estimated that a 50 percent decrease in global emissions from livestock would yield huge benefits for stabilizing this especially potent greenhouse gas. Tucked into an appendix was the following suggestion: “Reducing methane emissions from ruminants should be pursued as part of an overall investigation into alternatives for reducing future global warming and its impacts.”
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Jacquet and her co-authors note that representatives from the meat and dairy industry attended the 1989 EPA workshop, including a member of the National Cattlemen’s Association. Several months and a handful of planning meetings later, the association, which is the country’s biggest beef lobby and now known as the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, or NCBA, developed a “Strategic Plan on the Environment” to counter anticipated public relations problems or regulations related to climate change. The plan included suggestions to reach out to “key influencers” with research and positive messaging about the industry’s environmental benefits.
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In a separate study, published this week, Jacquet and another University of Miami researcher, Loredana Loy, trace the meat industry’s efforts to derail advocacy groups’ attempts to persuade the public to eat less meat as a climate strategy. These attempts include the Beyond Beef campaign and others, including Diet for a New America and Meatless Monday.
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The study says the livestock industry took a different approach than the oil and gas industry, which tried to convince the public it was only continuing to develop fossil fuels because consumers called for them. The livestock industry, on the other hand, tried to convince consumers that their dietary choices would make no difference.
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Inside Climate News · The American Beef Industry Understood Its Climate Impact Decades Ago - Inside Climate NewsNew research finds the industry’s campaigns to confuse the public about beef’s climate impact go back longer than previously recognized.
#meat#beef#bigMeat
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