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• Why the energy transition looks like an energy addition | The energy addition framing has a point. But it draws the wrong conclusions.

• Alle sehen und fühlen es: Die Flüsse sind leer, der Rasen ist gelb, die Luft dick. Deutschland erlebt die Klimakrise. Und wir bleiben vor lauter Scham einfach tatenlos.

• Wildfires will only get worse until the US stops ignoring climate change

  ‘Forest management alone cannot address the hotter, drier conditions that are making fires more intense … — that requires confronting the underlying crisis.’

• Beth, the Beloved Vacuum of a 92-Year-Old Iowa Senator, Has Died

  Senator Chuck Grassley mourned his decades-long cleaning companion, writing on social media: “GOOD BYE BETH. U hv been a real workhorse.”

• Europe’s Great Rivers Are Dying. The Continent Is In for a Shock.

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• Americans’ Shifting Views on Energy Issues | A growing majority of Republicans prioritize the development of fossil fuel energy sources like oil and natural gas

• ‘It’s due to climate’: the people of Stourbridge on the town’s wildfires | Thursday has been described by residents as ‘horrendous’, ‘distressing’ and ‘one of the scariest days of my life’

• AI’s potential climate benefits outweighed by role in boosting fossil fuels, study finds

  Modelling finds AI-driven productivity gains in coal, oil and gas enable more emissions than applications in renewables avoid The paper is here This is above and beyond the direct use of fossil fuels by big tech.

• Trump administration ends support for flagship Arctic climate reports

• In a Summer of Climate Misery, Businesses Confront the Need to Adapt | Repeated heat waves, wildfires, droughts and storms are solidifying the understanding that new investments are unavoidable.

• Trump Administration Is Undoing Plans to Boost Workplace Heat Protections

• Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe

• Extreme Heat and Rainfall Risk Attributed to Cumulative CO₂ Emissions From Fossil Fuel Producers

  cumulative emissions from individual actors have increased the probability of extreme heat and rainfall globally; for example, emissions from the United States have increased the risk of recent extreme heat by at least 50% for one-third of the globe

• Brazil’s Amazon Deforestation Rate Approaches a Historic Low

  Brazil’s Amazon Deforestation Rate Approaches a Historic Low

• The floods of the future won't come one at a time | A dangerous collision of storm surge, torrential rain, and sea level rise threatens to overwhelm communities from Texas to Maine.

  The floods of the future won't come one at a time | A dangerous collision of storm surge, torrential rain, and sea level rise threatens to overwhelm communities from Texas to Maine.

• Extreme heat breaks temperature records in central and eastern Europe

  In Germany, climate activists demanding an end to the use of fossil fuels demonstrated outside the chancellery against the lack of government action to keep people safe from extreme heat. An estimated 11,900 people across the country have died from heat this summer, according to new estimates from the Robert Koch Institute

• ABC, CBS, and NBC aired nearly 200 segments about three U.S. heat events without mentioning climate change

  ABC, CBS, and NBC aired nearly 200 segments about three U.S. heat events without mentioning climate change

• Climate Change Made Canada’s Forests Much More Likely to Burn | The dry, hot conditions that primed Ontario for fire had twice the odds of developing due to the planet’s warming.

  Climate Change Made Canada’s Forests Much More Likely to Burn | The dry, hot conditions that primed Ontario for fire had twice the odds of developing due to the planet’s warming.

• Australian Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has said he will use federal power to force states to fall into line with his plan to require data centres to fully offset their electricity use

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• Bidenomics Was More Successful Than People Think | Conventional wisdom holds that Joe Biden’s bet on climate investment was a bust. The data suggest otherwise.

  Bidenomics Was More Successful Than People Think | Conventional wisdom holds that Joe Biden’s bet on climate investment was a bust. The data suggest otherwise.

• Butterflies Take Flight in Face of Climate Change and Extreme Weather | In 32 of the countries included in a recent study, at least a quarter of the native butterfly species had moved to new areas.

  Butterflies Take Flight in Face of Climate Change and Extreme Weather | In 32 of the countries included in a recent study, at least a quarter of the native butterfly species had moved to new areas.

• The real energy use of agentic AI / Agents use about 600x more energy than simple AI prompts

  The real energy use of agentic AI / Agents use about 600x more energy than simple AI prompts

• Appeals Court Says E.P.A. Cannot Block Billions in Climate Grants | The funds have been frozen since early in President Trump’s second term.

• Trump's EPA was wrong to terminate billions in climate grants, US appeals court rules

• As Climate-Fuelled Wildfires Rage, Canadian PM Mark Carney Cuts Emergency Response and Funds Fossil Fuels

• Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. How much of her rhetoric is actually true?

• Global Wildfire Surge Hits US, Propelled by Rising Temperatures | Blazes in the Western US and Europe point to a global shift: Climate change is making fire weather more extreme and more widespread.

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  They were just sold, and fired a lot of the better writers

• It’s 90 degrees Farenheit (32°C) in the Arctic right now | The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that is

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• What has driven deforestation in the 21st century