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Outcry as Trump withdraws support for research that mentions ‘climate’

“This administration doesn’t have a plan to advance science, they have a plan to remove obstacles for the #OilAndGas industry. They want to return to an era where kids have polio, rivers are on fire and cities are blanketed by pollution.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/21/trump-scientific-research-climate

Wind, even at its summer minimum, still contributes a significant part of Europe's electricity.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/eus-use-of-fossil-fuels-for-electricity-falls-17-to-record-low-in-first-half-of-2023/

Maybe time to build more solar.

"Global warming is driving down #WindSpeeds during European summers, putting additional stress on the region’s energy systems as soaring temperatures boost cooling demand, new research shows."

https://www.luxtimes.lu/europeanunion/global-warming-could-be-making-it-less-windy-in-europe/41487667.html

"There are four sections of the Atlantic Ocean leased for offshore wind development off the #NorthCarolina coast, including two off of Kitty Hawk and two off of Brunswick County. With the Trump executive order, all four projects are seemingly paused, with would-be developers holding leases but unable to obtain the required permits until either the administration shifts its policy or there is a change in the White House."

Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article299095230.html

"Atlantic Shores, a joint venture between Shell and France's EDF, reiterated its commitment to delivering #NewJersey's first #OffshoreWind project on Thursday, despite Shell's recent $1 billion write-off related to the venture.

The Atlantic Shores South wind project is expected to generate up to 2,800 megawatts of electricity, enough to power close to 1 million homes."

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/atlantic-shores-reaffirms-commitment-new-jersey-offshore-wind-despite-shells-2025-01-30/

The headlines say it's a "win" for Trump; but the remaining partners seem determined to build.

"President Donald Trump’s ban on new offshore wind leases won’t halt giant #WindFarms already planned off #California’s coast, but industry officials say the policy shift is a blow to a renewable energy industry still working to gain a foothold. "

https://calmatters.org/environment/2025/01/trump-order-ban-offshore-wind-california/

"Of onshore wind projects, 99% are on private land, so they cannot be blocked by federal action," the Natural Resources Defense Council said.

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/22/trump-wind-order-offshore-onshore

"Wind is the largest U.S. source of renewable power and provides 10% of the nation's electricity."

Thread: Consequences for individual wind parks

Trump temporarily halts leasing and permitting for wind energy projects

"Trump wants to increase drilling for oil and gas and has been hostile to renewable energy, particularly offshore wind."

https://whyy.org/articles/trump-renewable-energy-offshore-wind-projects/

"Vineyard Wind and SouthCoast Wind’s 11th-hour Biden administration approvals will be hard to undo. "

https://newbedfordlight.org/trump-order-targets-offshore-wind-but-stopping-projects-in-progress-wont-be-easy/

“In New England, we’ve got about 6.5 gigawatts of #OffshoreWind energy that is already leased and already permitted, and which would be unaffected by anything in this order — at least for now,” Sinding Daly said.

The projects could face challenges in the future, however. Trump’s order instructs federal officials to review the “ecological, economic, and environmental necessity of terminating or amending any existing wind energy leases.” "

https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/01/22/trump-wind-executive-order-massachusetts-vineyard-wind

"The order withdraws the entire shelf for new or renewed offshore wind leasing, but does not affect either existing leases or leases in the continental shelf for oil and gas development."

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5097255-trump-freezes-offshore-wind-leases/

"The president stopped building work on over 100,000 acres of clean energy infrastructure at the Lava Ridge Wind Project in Idaho via an executive order on Tuesday."

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-cancels-large-wind-farm-project-idaho-2018261

"A Virginia Beach wind farm already under construction will be spared the immediate effects of the order, said environmental experts and Dominion Energy officials.

Woll said the order’s language seemed to indicate a willingness to go after existing leases. However, she noted that talking was one thing, while “having the legal foundation to actually do it is another.” "

https://www.yahoo.com/news/virginia-beach-wind-farm-spared-190000448.html

"Wind and solar energy projects in #Wyoming are moving ahead with their projects, despite the recent chill from both federal and state lawmakers. Most of the projects are on private property, project managers say, which helps de-risk the projects."

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/02/09/despite-chilly-climate-its-business-as-usual-for-wind-solar-energy-in-wyoming/

Too hot for humans.

"The paper finds that the amount of landmass on our planet that would be too hot for even healthy young humans (18 to 60-year-olds) to keep a safe core body temperature will approximately triple (to 6%)—an area almost the size of the US—if global warming reaches 2°C above the preindustrial average.

Under these conditions, they also warn that the area of land where the over 60s will be at risk will increase to about 35%."

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-degree-global-triple-area-earth.html

Portraits of catastrophe and courage in 2024
The year included travails that were intensified by human-caused climate change and tackled with resilience and determination.

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/12/portraits-of-catastrophe-and-courage-in-2024/

"The world warmed to yet another monthly heat record in January, despite an abnormally chilly United States, a cooling La Nina and predictions of a slightly less hot 2025, according to the European climate service Copernicus."

https://apnews.com/article/record-hot-january-climate-change-cold-2c44da947d4b892448d18b61202a1457

"#Australia has baked through its second-warmest year on record, covering all years since 1910 when reliable national data became available.

January is on average the hottest month, but even for peak summer, the next few days will bring temperatures up to 12C above average."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-02/2024-second-hottest-year-on-record-bom/104777280

"Chinese and Swedish researchers have developed a high-yield #rice variety that emits up to 70 per cent less #methane than normal rice after uncovering how chemicals released by rice roots influence emissions.

The scientists said their new low-methane hybrid rice offered a promising strategy to address a future rise in rice-related emissions because of global warming and an increasing global population."

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3297335/more-rice-less-gas-chinese-and-swedish-scientists-create-hybrid-cut-methane-emissions

THIS is how to write the headline:

The EPA Is Trying to Terrify Employees Into Quitting

“As far as we can tell, EPA workers were the only ones to receive a notice from their agency, intended to go to probationary employees to terrorize and scare them into thinking they were on their way out,” she said.

https://newrepublic.com/post/191072/epa-locked-out-employees-jobs-fired