Oregon eyes mandate for climate change lessons in schools – Oregon Public Broadcasting

Oregon lawmakers are aiming to make the state the second in the nation to mandate climate change lessons for K-12 public school students, further fueling U.S. culture wars in education. Dozens of Oregon high schoolers submitted support of the bill,…

Oregon eyes mandate for climate change lessons in schools – The Associated Press – en Español

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers are aiming to make the state the second in the nation to mandate climate change lessons for K-12 public school students, further fueling U.S. culture wars in education. Dozens of Oregon high schoolers submitted…

Republicans slam Biden energy secretary for claiming US can ‘learn from what China is doing’ on climate change – Fox News

Republican lawmakers are tearing into U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm after she held up China as a model for the United States to emulate on climate change. At the annual SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, on Friday, Granholm praised China’s…

The 50 States of Climate Change – Outside Online – Outside

Since the 1700s, the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere has increased by 40 percent, largely from greenhouse gasses released by people burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, and coal. As a result, the climate is becoming more…

Opinion | Clean Energy Is Suddenly Less Polarizing Than You Think – The New York Times

My whole adult life, the work of fighting climate change was understood as the job of the blue team in America. The red team, we knew, just wasn’t going to play ball. President George W. Bush abandoned the Kyoto Protocol,…

Animals and People Are Clashing More Frequently Thanks to Climate Change, New Study Says – InsideClimate News

Climate change is driving more conflicts between humans and wildlife, as expanding development, deepening drought and quickly changing ecosystems force animals and people into new territories where they’re more likely to encounter each other, a new study says. Experts have…

Al Gore Talks Climate Progress, Setbacks and the First Rule of Holes: Stop Digging – InsideClimate News

Al Gore describes himself as an optimist about the world’s progress on climate change, but he doesn’t mince words about the obstacles that remain. His optimism and frustration were clear last month when he gave fiery remarks during a panel…

Iowa Ethanol Lobby Wants CO2 Pipelines To Stay Competitive With EVs

Iowa’s biofuel lobby is staking its future on carbon capture and sequestration. That’s why it’s issuing dire warnings this week to lawmakers in Des Moines who are considering putting new strictures on the construction of CO2 pipelines. [emphasis, links added]…

The MInd-Boggling High Costs Of Expanding Our Grid For Renewables

Billionaires, bureaucrats, and academics claim that shifting to an all-renewable electricity system will require doubling or tripling the size of our high-voltage transmission grid. Talking about it is easy. Making it happen? That’s an entirely different story. Last month, Michael…

Great Meteor Procession 110 years ago

On February 9, 1913, lucky observers witnessed the Great Meteor Procession. Bright meteors soared horizontally across the sky for minutes at a time.

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