Next EU climate target to allow carbon offsets from 2036, draft shows – POLITICO
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-comission-climate-target-2036-plan/

The European Commission will permit countries to outsource a portion of their climate efforts to poorer countries from 2036, according to a draft proposal obtained by POLITICO.

The EU executive plans to present the bloc’s 2040 emissions-reduction target on Wednesday after several months of delay. The goal will be set at 90 percent below 1990 levels, the draft amendment to the European Climate Law shows.

But as POLITICO reported in mid-June, the Commission intends to meet up to 3 percentage points of the new target with international carbon credits, despite fierce criticism from its own scientific advisers. This plan aligns with Germany’s position on the 2040 goal.

V usa s temi zmenami klimatu ale zatoci zakonem

MTG Wants to Make ‘Deadly’ Weather Manipulation a Felony
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mtg-wants-deadly-weather-manipulation-151205076.html

Greene announced in a Saturday tweet that she intends to wage war on the “deadly” practice of “climate modification” and “geoengineering” with a bill that would make any such efforts a felony offense.

According to Greene, she’s been “researching weather modification” and now she is ready to take action after spending months “writing this bill” with her legislative counsel.

She added, “It will be similar to Florida’s Senate Bill 56. We must end the dangerous and deadly practice of weather modification and geoengineering.”
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In a since-deleted 2018 Facebook post, multiple news outlets reported that Greene suggested that “lasers or blue beams of light” from “space solar generators” in the sky, controlled by Jewish people, may have caused a spate of wildfires—including the 150,000-acre Camp Fire in California that killed 85 people. She has denied she made such a claim in a later interview.
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On the heels of the devastating 2024 Hurricane Helene, Greene, seemingly provoked, took to X with a message.

“Yes they can control the weather,” she wrote, “it’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.”

Z cyklu seriozne #doomed

Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean, with key climate implications | Institut de Ciències del Mar
https://www.icm.csic.es/en/news/major-reversal-ocean-circulation-detected-southern-ocean-key-climate-implications?

“We are witnessing a true reversal of ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere—something we’ve never seen before,” explains Antonio Turiel, ICM-CSIC researcher and co-author of the study. “While the world is debating the potential collapse of the AMOC in the North Atlantic, we’re seeing that the SMOC is not just weakening, but has reversed. This could have unprecedented global climate impacts.”

According to the research team, the consequences of this reversal are already becoming visible. The upwelling of deep, warm, CO₂-rich waters is believed to be driving the accelerated melting of sea ice in the Southern Ocean. In the long term, this process could double current atmospheric CO₂ concentrations by releasing carbon that has been stored in the deep ocean for centuries—potentially with catastrophic consequences for the global climate.
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“The new processor has allowed us to obtain surface salinity data of unprecedented quality in this region,” explains Verónica González. “Thanks to this improvement, we can now provide a coherent explanation for the rapid Antarctic sea ice loss that had puzzled the scientific community.”

‘A war of the truth’: Europe’s heatwaves are failing to spur support for climate action | Climate crisis | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/04/europe-heatwaves-failing-support-climate-action

As heatwaves engulfed large swathes of Europe and North America last week – the latest in a stream of deadly extremes made worse by fossil fuel pollution – green groups are frustrated that increasingly violent weather has not spurred the urgent support for climate action they had expected.

Governments across the rich world continue to roll back policies to stop the planet from heating, while far-right parties that deny climate science lash out at environment rules even as disasters unfold. Their voters, while rarely climate deniers themselves, seem to tolerate their energetic attacks on environmental policy, if not support them.

Political cowardice hindering Europe’s climate efforts, says EU’s green chief | Extreme weather | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/02/political-cowardice-hindering-europe-climate-efforts-eu-green-chief-teresa-ribera

Speaking alongside Jessika Roswall, the EU commissioner for environment, water resilience and a competitive circular economy, Ribera said there was still a long way to go when it came to readying infrastructures and urban environments for the realities of the emergency.

A major part of the problem, she added, was that some political parties “continue to insist, quite vehemently, that climate change does not exist”, or else say that taking decisions to adapt to environmental realities is too expensive.

National Climate Assessment website goes dark : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/01/nx-s1-5453501/national-climate-assessment-nca5-archive-report

The website that hosts the most recent edition of the National Climate Assessment has gone dark. The sprawling report is the most influential source of information about how climate change affects the United States.

The National Climate Assessment is widely used by teachers, city planners, farmers, judges and regular citizens looking for answers to common questions such as how quickly sea levels are rising near American cities and how to deal with wildfire smoke exposure. The most recent edition had a searchable atlas that allowed anyone to learn about the current and future effects of global warming in their specific town or state.

On Monday, the government website that hosts all of that information stopped working.

The Trump administration had already halted work on the next edition of the report, and fired all the staff who worked on it.

Zack Labe
So far this week (last week):
❌ SSMIS data halted (think sea ice, snow, hurricane, ice sheet monitoring, etc)
❌ climate[dot]gov removed and redirected to...
❌ NOAA Climate homepage, which was modified (e.g., removed Climate Stripes and Climate Ready Nation references)
❌ false bills to ex-probationary employees

It's only Monday(today) of the following week and...
❌ Entire 'proposed' climate budget zeroed out for FY26 in the DoC's budget justification for NOAA.
❌ The congressionally mandated (and paid with your taxpayer dollars) National Climate Assessment has just been removed from their website host entirely.



... nadhera, drill baby drill

Plants’ secret second roots rewrite the climate playbook | ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/06/250620231806.htm

Beneath the forest floor lies an overlooked secret: many plants grow a second set of roots far deeper than expected sometimes over three feet down tapping into hidden nutrient stores and potentially locking away carbon. A new study using deep-soil data from NEON reveals that these "bimodal" rooting systems are more common than previously believed and may play a powerful role in stabilizing ecosystems and fighting climate change

A French minister: we need to prepare ourselves for a future when temperatures are 4°C higher.

A climate scientist: with a rise of 4°C above pre-industrial age, up to 90% of the world's population may die.

Kabul could become the first modern city to completely run out of water, experts have warned.

Water levels within Kabul’s aquifers have dropped by up to 30 metres over the past decade owing to rapid urbanisation and climate breakdown, according to a report by the NGO Mercy Corps.

Kabul at risk of becoming first modern city to run out of water, report warns | Afghanistan | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/07/kabul-could-become-first-modern-city-to-run-out-of-water-report-warns

Tak a ted uz bude jen dobre

Putin stated: “The most important issue in the country today is climate change.”

Oh sure. Not the war. Not poverty.Not the fact that Russia has become a raw materials appendage, not the economic crisis,not the decline in education and culture

Putin has decided to focus on ecology.

@antongerashchenko.bsky.social on Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/antongerashchenko.bsky.social/post/3lqz6dgiljk2f

Trvalo to jen 54 let, ale nebylo kam spechat.

Turkmenistan reduces 50-year fire dubbed 'Gateway to Hell'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/turkmenistan-reduces-50-fire-dubbed-134133302.html

Turkmenistan said Thursday it had significantly reduced a gas fire that has been raging for half a century at a site dubbed the "Gateway to Hell" .

The fire has been burning in the Karakum desert since 1971, when Soviet scientists accidentally drilled into an underground pocket of gas and then decided to ignite it.

The blaze has been spewing out massive quantities of methane, a gas that contributes to climate change, ever since.
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Numerous wells have been drilled around the fire to capture methane, she said at an environmental conference in the capital Ashgabat.

Turkmenistan -- one of the world's most closed countries -- is estimated to have the world's fourth largest gas reserves.

It is the world's biggest emitter of methane through gas leaks, according to the International Energy Agency -- a claim denied by the authorities.

hmyz? zrušeno

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects | Insects | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe

The declines witnessed by Janzen – and described by others around the world – are part of what some ecologists call a “new era” of ecological collapse, where rapid extinctions occur in regions that have little direct contact with people.

Reports of falling insect numbers around the world are not new. International reviews have estimated annual losses globally of between 1% and 2.5% of total biomass every year.

“But what we see here in the preserved areas – that as far as we can tell, are free of even these destructive insecticides and pesticides – even here, the insect numbers are going down horrifyingly dramatically,” she says.

Long-term data for insect populations – particularly less charismatic species – is still patchy, but Janzen and Hallwachs join a number of scientists that have recorded huge die-offs of insects in nature reserves around the world.

They include in Germany, where flying insects across 63 insect reserves dropped 75% in less than 30 years; the US, where beetle numbers dropped 83% in 45 years; and Puerto Rico, where insect biomass dropped up to 60-fold since the 1970s. These declines are occurring in ecosystems that are otherwise protected from direct human influence.

The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies | MIT Technology Review
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/02/1117653/the-trump-administration-has-shut-down-more-than-100-climate-studies
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