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Among the slew of executive actions President Trump signed Monday, there is one that may impact our climate. The Paris Climate Agreement is an agreement between countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions with the goal of avoiding human interference in climate change. When speaking with UW-Madison climate expert, Jack Williams, he shares with he has taught climate change courses for over a decade and says he has seen a major shift in how climate change is viewed. "Public opinion and awareness has really shifted on this. And so, there is this interesting disconnect between public awareness, which people are...

Biden’s pardon of Dr. Anthony Fauci may protect the former National Institutes of Health official from immediate criminal prosecution, but some critics say he is not completely out of legal jeopardy and that public sentiment might still condemn the man who became known during the COVID-19 pandemic as “Mr. Science.” In the days before Biden offered the pardon to Fauci, along with other critics of Donald Trump, some experts who have followed Fauci’s career and handling of the pandemic, as well as members of the Trump transition team, reiterated their assertion that Fauci perjured himself on several occasions during the...

Earth has broken another greenhouse gas emissions record: The levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere above Hawaii made an unprecedent jump in 2024, according to a new analysis by the Met Office, the United Kingdom’s national climate and weather service. Between 2023 and 2024, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose by 3.58 parts per million (ppm), to reach a total of 427 ppm—the largest increase between calendar years, as measured by Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory, since records began 67 years ago. Scientists say that a “safe” concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide is 350 ppm....... Scientists suggest...

With 2024 going down as the globe's hottest year on record, and with devastating fires in California signaling a new climate-changing normal, President Donald Trump and his administration are doing exactly the thing a warming planet doesn't need. Trump is withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, again. Ten years ago, 195 countries thought it prudent to protect their populations from the increasingly deadly consequences of climate change. And that's why they joined the Paris Agreement, to work together to limit fossil-fueled global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius if possible. That warming limit was breached in 2024 for...

Dustin Nehl was previously convicted of arson in Woodburn; Jennifer Nehl was highlighted by federal NOAA for climate education for incarcerated youth in 2023 ... An Oregon couple was arrested Sunday for impersonating firefighters in the area burned by the Pacific Palisades near Los Angeles, California... the couple as Dustin Nehl, 31, and Jennifer Nehl, 44. Mr. Nehl’s social media accounts say he lives in Woodburn, Oregon; Mrs. Nehl’s say she lives in Jefferson or Scio, Oregon. The couple allegedly drove a full-size firetruck emblazoned with “Roaring River Fire” into the recently burned area, claiming they were volunteer firefighters. Police...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement on Monday, once again placing the world's top historic emitter of greenhouse gases outside of the global pact aimed at pushing nations to tackle climate change. Here are some reactions to the announcement of the second U.S. withdrawal from the climate pact: SIMON STIELL, U.N. CLIMATE CHANGE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY "Embracing (the global clean energy boom) will mean massive profits, millions of manufacturing jobs and clean air. Ignoring it only sends all that vast wealth to competitor economies, while climate disasters like droughts, wildfires and superstorms...

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – A man and a woman from Oregon were arrested over the weekend for reportedly impersonating firefighters as they attempted to enter a Palisades Fire evacuation zone in what appeared to be a legitimate fire engine, officials announced Sunday. In a news release, officials with the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department said the suspects, identified as 31-year-old Dustin Nehl and 44-year-old Jennifer Nehl, were spotted by LAPD patrol officers on Jan. 18. Not believing the fire truck was legitimate, police relayed the information to sheriff’s deputies, who caught up to the suspects. LASD said that when they contacted...

A New York Times writer is using birds to wokescold the American electorate for turning the dial back on climate change progress by inaugurating President Donald Trump. Siri, define birdbrain. “On a Cold, Dark Inauguration Day, a Message From the Birds,” read the headline of Times contributing writer Margaret Renkl’s wacky January 20 guest essay. After seven paragraphs of mindless babbling about the symbolism of birds, Renkl then took to crying “fowl” over the incoming Trump administration. “At the dawn of a year that seems almost certain to make this country into an unrecognizable place, to make this world even...

In preparation for the upcoming bitter cold weather today (Sunday) through Thursday, Jan. 23, PJM has implemented a number of procedures to enhance the flexibility for operators to react to real-time and forecast system conditions. With the coldest weather since 2015 moving into the PJM footprint of 13 states and the District of Columbia, electricity demand on Tuesday and Wednesday is expected to approach PJM’s all-time winter peak of 143,295 MW, set on Feb. 20, 2015. Low Voltage Alert PJM issued a Low Voltage Alert through 10 a.m. Thursday to prepare for heavy demand and the potential for tight system...

Across the world, public finances are stretched dangerously thin. Per-person growth continues dropping while costs are climbing for pensions, education, health care and defense. These urgent priorities could easily require an additional 3%-6% of GDP. Yet green campaigners are loudly calling for governments to spend up to 25% of our GDP, choking growth in the name of climate change. If climate Armageddon were imminent, they would have a point. The truth is far more prosaic. Two major new scientific estimates of the total global cost of climate change have been published recently. These are not individual studies, which can vary...

Javanese Princess, Raden Ajeng Kartini, is revered in Indonesia, the fourth biggest nation on earth by population, for advancing nationalism and women's rights by upholding family values. Her observations of the weather during a severe drought in 1903 make interesting reading: "For three longs weeks not a drop of rain has fallen. It is boiling hot as it has never been before, even in the dryest Oostmoesson. Father is in despair; the young rice in the fields is turning brown, Oh, our poor people! So far they have had enough to eat here and they do not know the most...

As Los Angeles’s deadly wildfires continue to burn, a group of survivors is taking aim at the industry most responsible for fueling climate disasters: fossil fuels. Residents impacted by the blazes lamented during a Thursday conference call losing their homes and communities and called for litigation and policies that could force big oil to pay for the damages. In the coming days, lawmakers will introduce legislation with that aim in mind....... There is mounting evidence that big oil knew for decades that their products fuel the climate crisis, yet continued to peddle them to the public anyway and sow doubt...

‘We can and we must protect our precious environment without suffocating the economy,’ Zeldin told senators.In a confirmation hearing on Thursday, Democrat senators bombarded Lee Zeldin with “gotcha” environmental questions and pressured him to embrace their radical climate agenda.Zeldin, 44, is an attorney, a former congressman from New York, a one-time candidate for New York governor, and a frequent, funny guest on “Gutfeld!” on Fox News. His background also includes four years of active duty in the U.S. Army, including time as a military intelligence officer. His next gig may be administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).Zeldin’s congressional...

An idyllic stillness swallowed Home Ranch on Friday, as there was little to disturb the oldest dairy ranch on the Point Reyes National Seashore. California quail fluttered their wings and scattered in the brush beside a dirt road leading into the historic complex containing several barns, a silver silo and a farmhouse with green window trims that predates San Francisco’s cable cars.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court dealt a major setback to the oil industry on Monday, refusing to block lawsuits from California and other blue states that seek billions of dollars in damages for the impact of climate change. Without a comment or dissent, the justices turned down closely watched appeals from Sunoco, Shell and other energy producers. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said he took no part in the decision, presumably because he owns stock in companies affected by the dispute. In Sunoco vs. Honolulu, the energy producers urged the justices to intervene in these state cases and rule that...

Oil and gas companies will be forced to face a suit seeking damages over Honolulu's claims they downplay their products' contribution climate change. The Supreme Court turned down an appeal from fossil fuel giants on Monday, rejecting an attempt to skirt a climate change lawsuit seeking to hold companies liable over claims of deceptive marketing about the effect of greenhouse gases. Companies such as Sunoco, Exxon Mobil, Chevron and BP said they are facing dozens of lawsuits, leaving a vital industry at risk of owing billions of dollars over accusations it causes climate change. The justices denied the oil and...

Commiefornia's Push to Restrict Vintage and Classic Cars 4:12 VIDEO AT LINK............ They want to create "ZERO EMISSION ZONES" where you cannot drive. Eventually this will expand to the entire state and you will not be able to drive an ICE automobile or TRUCK in California............... These people are INSANE.................

Scientists have drilled 1.7 miles deep into Antarctica, pulling up an ice core sample that dates back at least 1.2 million years. They expect the sample to offer new insights into the evolution of Earth’s climate and atmosphere throughout history. A team of 16 scientists and support staffers spent four summers drilling through Antarctic ice until they finally reached bedrock. To accomplish their goal, they endured average temperatures of -25.6 degrees Fahrenheit at a site known as Little Dome C, located near Concordia Research Station. They removed the ice core in pieces, which they will load onto an icebreaker ship...

As fires wreak havoc in California, Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., claimed in a post on X the catastrophe is “what a climate emergency looks like.” In another tweet, he took aim at President-elect Trump, asserting the incoming president has been bought off by the oil industry. “Trump has been bought for $1 billion by Big Oil. Just a payoff to kill the IRA and the Green New Deal. We know what will happen. More fires, more climate disasters, more death. The LA fires are preview of coming atrocities,” Markey declared in a post on X. Markey, who claims there is...

Democrats, especially those who want to disclaim responsibility for catastrophic Dem mismanagement, are screeching that the Los Angeles fires are a result of “climate change.” A federal scientist who has spent decades studying such matters rejects the politicized hypothesis. There is no climate crisis, and climate alarmists have not been right in one single major prediction in over half a century, so it is always wise to take assertions of climate change-fueled disaster with caution. Now, Jon Keeley, U.S. Geological Survey scientist, has told Public, “I don't think these fires are the result of climate change. ... We’ve looked at...