Cheers! POLITICO: Climate scientists ‘demoralized’ by Trump 2.0 – ‘Everyone’s demoralized…nervous…rattled’ – Fear ‘funding cuts & layoffs’

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2024/12/12/climate-scientists-demoralized-by-trump-2-0-00194047 By ARIANNA SKIBELL It’s not a great time to be a climate scientist. That was the general sentiment hanging over the American Geophysical Union’s annual meeting in downtown Washington this week, write Zack Colman and Chelsea Harvey. President-elect Donald Trump has promised to do his worst to unravel climate policy when he retakes the White House […]
False, Inside Climate News, Climate Change Isn’t Causing Farm Disasters
False, Inside Climate News, Climate Change Isn’t Causing Farm Disasters By H. Sterling Burnett The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists reposted an article by Inside Climate News which asserts that American farmers have suffered from climate change over the past eight years and, as a result, have become less skeptical that the world is in the […]
Pew Research Poll: ‘Less than half of Americans (45%) actually believe human activity is a significant contributor to climate change’ – ‘Largely unchanged since 2019’
https://townhall.com/columnists/christalgo/2024/12/12/why-is-the-partisan-divide-on-climate-change-so-substantial-n2648935?utm_medium=widget&utm_source=slider Why Is the Partisan Divide on Climate Change So Substantial? By Chris Talgo When it comes to climate change, Democrats and Republicans live in completely different universes. Whereas most Democrats believe climate change is an existential crisis that must be stopped at all costs, most Republicans believe that climate change does not pose an […]
Watch: John Kerry: ‘The climate crisis is killing people’ – ‘Every year now, millions of people around this planet are dying’ caused ‘by the way we “choose to fuel our vehicles…heat our homes, light our factories’

John Kerry: “The climate crisis is killing people.” “Every year now, millions of people around this planet are dying” as a result of “greenhouse gas pollution”, caused by the way we “choose to fuel our vehicles… heat our homes, light our factories”. pic.twitter.com/q83moxhk1K — Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) December 11, 2024
Trump may cancel US Postal Service electric mail truck contract
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trump-may-cancel-us-postal-service-electric-mail-truck-contract-sources-say-2024-12-06/ Trump transition weighs plan to cancel USPS contracts to build large EV fleet Postal service plans to spend billions on EV chargers and roughly 66,000 new trucks Contract cancellation likely part of sweeping executive order on EVs Dec 6 (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s transition team is considering canceling the U.S. Postal Service’s contracts to […]
IRA, Meet DOGE: The Inflation Reduction Act’s energy provisions are a prime target for efforts to reduce government waste
https://www.city-journal.org/article/ira-meet-doge By Mark P. Mills It has doubtless occurred to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, co-leaders of President-elect Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, that the quickest route to finding a big chunk of the DOGE’s promised $2 trillion in savings is the Inflation Reduction Act. The problematic features of the IRA go much deeper than […]
Trump Administration Energy & Climate Policy Imperatives: Base policies on reality – not myths, models, misinformation & fearmongering
https://www.eurasiareview.com/08122024-trump-administration-energy-and-climate-policy-imperatives-oped/ By Paul Driessen Base policies on reality – not myths, models, misinformation and fearmongering Donald Trump and JD Vance have a mandate on energy, economic, immigration and other issues that won them 50% of popular, 58% of electoral and 82% of US county votes. On January 20 they will begin tackling the numerous problems bequeathed […]
EU Weather Watchers Claim This Year Is the Hottest Year Ever–Again! But – ‘hottest’ claims are based on ‘data fed through flawed climate models to produce temperature outputs’
https://thenewamerican.com/us/environment/eu-weather-watchers-claim-this-year-the-hottest-year-ever-again/ by James Murphy Climate-change zealots from the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) have announced that 2024 will with “virtual certainty” be the hottest year on record. This comes only a year after the same agency declared 2023 the hottest year on record. Last year, the same organization reported that 2023 was the warmest the Earth had […]
Todd Stern’s Climate Lesson for the Trump Admin: A Review of UN Paris Climate Pact: How It Happened, Why It Matters, & What Comes Next
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2024/12/11/sterns_climate_lesson_for_the_trump_administration_1077973.html By Rupert Darwall December 11, 2024 “The 2015 Paris climate should take its place as one of the great triumphs in history,” Jonathan Chait wrote two days after it was concluded. Todd Stern, America’s climate envoy for all but eight months of Barack Obama’s presidency, was indispensable in making the Paris agreement happen. With his new book, Landing […]
NBC News: ‘Your daily cup of coffee could get more expensive because of climate change’

Update: Wrong, NBC News, Climate Change Isn’t Causing Rising Coffee Prices, Production Is Increasing – Meteorologist Anthony Watts # https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coffee-price-increase-rcna183711 By Maya Eaglin Unpredictable climate events are blamed for spiking the price of arabica beans to record levels. 1.00 0 of 2 minutes, 54 secondsVolume 0% Coffee lovers and café dwellers are likely to see […]