Trump, Climate Change
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The Trump administration has hired three prominent researchers who over the course of their careers have questioned and even rejected the scientific consensus on human-caused climate change. Each were given positions in the Energy Department, which is led by Secretary Chris Wright, a former oil and gas fracking executive.
Ian Lowe, emeritus professor at Griffith University, accused him of “feeding climate denial in Australia”. Mr Lowe singled out News Corp (the owner of Sky News Australia) for giving him a platform, along with Fox News in the US.
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ZNetwork on MSNDecades of Neoliberalism Entrenched US Inequality. Trump’s Budget Made It Worse.Donald Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill,” which was signed into law last week, has been described as a monstrous piece of legislation. In this exclusive interview for Truthout, world-renowned progressive economist Robert Pollin provides an overview of this “disgraceful” federal budget bill.
US retreat from climate commitments under the Trump administration will have “significant consequences” for the planet, EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra told Euronews at The Europe Conversation.
The Mauna Loa laboratory in Hawaii has measured atmospheric carbon dioxide, which — along with other planet-warming pollution — has led directly to climate change, driving sea level rise, supercharging weather and destroying food systems.
CNN's Harry Enten cites polling that shows just 40% of 2025 Americans are "afraid" of climate change, the same number as in 2000. "Americans aren't afraid of climate change, climate activists have not successfully made the case to the American people,
The “One Big Beautiful Bill” just signed by President Trump will slash support for clean energy, leaving the US far short of its Paris Agreement pledge
The firings of nearly a dozen people in the State Department’s Office of Global Change include the last U.S. climate negotiators.