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Donald Trump Takes A Skeptical View Of Nuclear Energy On Joe Rogan’s Podcast - Huffington Post (Oct 27, 2024) |
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Oct 27, 2024 · Former President Donald Trump took a skeptical stance on nuclear energy in his recent interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, warning that the source of electricity Republican voters favor and GOP lawmakers vowed to support carries “dangers” and costs too much.
While the GOP nominee for president said atomic energy “is very clean” during his three-hour conversation with the popular comedian and sports commentator, he repeatedly cited the downsides of a technology his administration supported in the past and his campaign has now vowed to promote if he’s elected again next month.
“They get too big and too complex and too expensive,” Trump said.
“There’s a little danger ... Read more ...
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There’s An Insurance Crisis In Florida - And 1 Person May Be To Blame - Huffington Post (Oct 27, 2024) |
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Oct 27, 2024 · Wetter, more destructive hurricanes, like the back-to-back storms that pummeled Florida this fall, are pushing the state’s homeowners insurance market to the brink of collapse.
When asked by Florida Atlantic University pollsters in June who was most responsible for the high cost of insurance in the state, the largest share of surveyed voters blamed Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. But it was his Republican predecessor, Rick Scott, now a U.S. senator, who lured low-quality insurance companies to the state and left Florida’s publicly owned insurer-of-last-resort agency struggling to provide for more homeowners as private insurers went bust or refused to renew policies in ... Read more ...
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A Democrat Is Running On An Issue That Was Once Controversial - Huffington Post (Oct 25, 2024) |
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Oct 25, 2024 · If power lines are the veins of the electrical system, big transmission lines that cross state and national borders are the major arteries ? and they’re notoriously hard to get approved.
In 2021, voters in Maine sided with fossil fuel companies on a referendum to block construction of a transmission line connecting Québec’s hydroelectric system to New England’s gas-burning grid. The next year, New York’s public utility regulator faced fierce opposition to a pair of transmission lines connecting New York City to solar and wind farms upstate and to Quebec’s zero-carbon grid.
Now, building a giant, locally-contested transmission line is something a Democrat is trying to run on. Read more ...
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This Could Be A Game Changer For America's Forgotten Paradise - Huffington Post (Oct 21, 2024) |
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Oct 21, 2024 · RINCÓN, Puerto Rico - At the end of a dirt road leading to a prime surfing spot in this vacation town on the northwest coast sits a giant, hemispheric bulb bulging out from between the palm trees. When the structure popped up more than six decades ago, federal scientists called it the “dome of the future.”
Beneath its rounded concrete exterior lie the remains of the only nuclear power reactor ever built in the Caribbean - an early experimental model the U.S. government started testing in 1960 to see if superheating steam to higher temperatures could unlock ways to make atomic energy cheaper.
Due to technical challenges and high maintenance costs, Puerto Rico’s ... Read more ...
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Democrats Are Embracing A Taboo Issue In Heated Senate Races - Huffington Post (Oct 20, 2024) |
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Oct 20, 2024 · Democratic candidates in several key Senate races are breaking with a long-standing taboo among liberal voters: They’re increasingly embracing nuclear power as tech companies, banks and governments pour money into building new reactors to shore up a U.S. electrical grid that’s heaving under pressure from data centers, air conditioning and extreme weather.
Asked during last week’s televised debate against Republican Kari Lake what he would do to deal with Arizona’s rising temperatures, Ruben Gallego, the Democratic nominee for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat, pitched just one big solution: more nuclear power.
In Michigan’s final U.S. Senate debate this week, Democrat ... Read more ...
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The U.S. Is Pushing Solar Panels On Puerto Rico - And It's Creating Issues - Huffington Post (Oct 20, 2024) |
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Oct 20, 2024 · SALINAS, Puerto Rico - Diana Santi was used to stocking the shelves of her corner grocer in this tiny town with canned and preserved foods from the continental United States.
She never understood why the fertile flatlands in this part of Puerto Rico’s southeast coast weren’t used to grow more local crops - she always had to pay a markup for shipping costs. But she’s had a more pressing problem: Keeping the perishables she sells from spoiling in the power outages that still plague the most populous U.S. territory seven years after Hurricane María laid waste to the Caribbean archipelago’s electrical grid.
When solar energy developers started staking out the open fields a ... Read more ...
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A Ship Floating In Puerto Rico Could Become A Full-On Nightmare - Huffington Post (Oct 19, 2024) |
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Oct 19, 2024 · CATAÑO, Puerto Rico - Just before the rain began one afternoon in July, Lissette Avilés Ríos went looking for the best spot along the shoreline to see the ship she feared might bring fiery death.
The nun hopped in her SUV and drove from her convent in this coastal neighborhood on the opposite side of San Juan Bay from scenic Viejo San Juan, past dockyards and down streets where gray pipelines stacked as high as the rooftops hemmed in some houses on two sides. Pulling into a vacant lot on the water, she got out, approached the edge and pulled back the feathery needles of a white pine just barely clinging to the eroding shore.
The letters etched along the red-painted hull ... Read more ...
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Why Tech Giants Are Pouring Money Into Nuclear Energy - Huffington Post (Oct 16, 2024) |
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Oct 16, 2024 · Nearly a month after Microsoft bet $16 billion on reviving the defunct Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power its energy-hungry data centers, Google and now Amazon are inking massive deals to finance the United States’ ambitious atomic revival plans.
On Wednesday morning, Amazon Web Services announced a megadeal with two utilities to fund the construction of next-generation nuclear plants near its server farms in Virginia and Washington.
Unlike its rivals’ recent deals, the tech giant isn’t just agreeing to buy nuclear-generated electricity. Amazon teamed up with billionaire Ken Griffin to pump $500 million into X-energy, a Maryland-based startup designing small ... Read more ...
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Dog's Eyes 'Say It All' After Firefighter Saves Him From Hurricane Flooding - Huffington Post (Oct 12, 2024) |
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Oct 12, 2024 · As recovery efforts continue in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, an especially sweet selfie is standing out.
“Check out this beautiful moment of pure gratitude and love!” wrote Florida’s Hillsborough County Fire Rescue in a Facebook post on Friday.
One photo included in the post shows a wet, bedraggled-looking dog gazing at a firefighter, who stares down at the camera.
“This dog’s eyes say it all as he looks at Cpt. Dusty Mascaro from our HCFR [search and rescue] team after being brought to safety,” the post said. Read more ...
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Trump Drives His Anti-Immigration Message In Aurora, Colorado - Huffington Post (Oct 11, 2024) |
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Oct 11, 2024 · AURORA, Colo. (AP) - Donald Trump detoured from the battleground states Friday to visit a Colorado suburb that’s been in the news over illegal immigration as he drives a message, often using false or misleading claims and dehumanizing language, that migrants are causing chaos in smaller American cities and towns.
Trump’s rally in Aurora marked the first time ahead of the November election that either presidential campaign has visited Colorado, which reliably votes Democratic statewide.
The Republican nominee has long promised to stage the largest deportation operation in U.S. history and has made immigration core to his political persona since launching his first ... Read more ...
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Missed The Northern Lights? Here’s Where They’re Forecast To Appear Next. - Huffington Post (Oct 11, 2024) |
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Oct 11, 2024 · Stargazers received a spectacular treat in parts of the U.S. and Europe on Thursday when the northern lights appeared in skies much farther south than they’re typically ever seen.
The pink, purple, blue and green light show was documented in parts of England, Germany, and as far south as Florida in the U.S.
The aurora borealis, as the lights are also known, is typically seen in the upper parts of the Northern Hemisphere around the Arctic Circle (places like Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Norway, Finland and Sweden). But scientists say a powerful solar storm caused the dazzling lights to appear at unusually low latitudes this week.
Here’s what happened, and when and why ... Read more ...
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Arizona Democrat Calls Out Kari Lake In The Most Perfect Way - Huffington Post (Oct 10, 2024) |
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Oct 10, 2024 · Arizona just ended its hottest summer since records began in 1896, with its fast-growing Phoenix metropolis last month completing a historic 113-day streak of temperatures at 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The next few decades are forecast to be even hotter for longer.
To survive in that heat and keep the state’s economy growing, Democratic Senate candidate Ruben Gallego pitched one major solution at Wednesday night’s final debate with Republican rival Kari Lake.
More nuclear power.
Amid a combative televised parley in which the serving U.S. congressman attacked his GOP opponent for denying election results and climate science, Gallego said new reactors were the “quickest ... Read more ...
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FEMA Chief Says Misinformation 'Starting To Go Down' Amid Disaster Response - Huffington Post (Oct 09, 2024) |
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Oct 09, 2024 · WASHINGTON – FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell said Wednesday that the swirl of misinformation being spread by right-wing influencers on social media - and by former President Donald Trump - about the federal disaster response to Hurricane Helene is starting to wane.
“We’re still seeing some misinformation out there. I do believe that the volume of misinformation is starting to go down,” Criswell said on a call with members of the press. “But we need to continue to now remain focused on what our mission is: Our mission is to help people.”
“We are not going to let the misinformation be a distraction to the important work we need to do,” she added.
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We're Meteorologists. Here's The Deadliest Mistake People Make Before A Hurricane. - Huffington Post (Oct 08, 2024) |
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Oct 08, 2024 · On Monday, Hurricane Milton strengthened into a Category 5 storm and continued barreling toward Florida. The system will bring life-threatening hazards like storm surges, flooding and catastrophic winds to the region when it makes landfall midweek.
The hurricane is coming less than two weeks after the state experienced the devastation of Hurricane Helene. But if you’re a Floridian or know someone who is, do not let storm fatigue prevent you or a loved one from taking action this time. This extremely dangerous new storm is set to be a historic event.
“If the storm stays on the current track, it will be the worst storm to impact the Tampa area in over 100 years,” warned ... Read more ...
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'I Don't Think It's Sunk In': The Town Hurricane Helene Almost Wiped Off The Map - Huffington Post (Oct 05, 2024) |
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Oct 05, 2024 · CHIMNEY ROCK VILLAGE, N.C. (AP) - The stone tower that gave this place its name was nearly a half billion years in the making - heated and thrust upward from deep in the Earth, then carved and eroded by wind and water.
But in just a few minutes, nature undid most of what it has taken humans a century and a quarter to build in the North Carolina mountain town of Chimney Rock.
“It feels like I was deployed, like, overnight and woke up in ... a combat zone,” Iraq War veteran Chris Canada said as a massive twin-propped Chinook helicopter passed over his adopted hometown. “I don’t think it’s sunk in yet.”
Nearly 400 miles (644 kilometers) from where Hurricane Helene ... Read more ...
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Gen Z Talks About This Kind Of Anxiety More Than Anyone Else - But We're All Starting To Feel It - Huffington Post (Oct 04, 2024) |
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Oct 04, 2024 · When Ayana Williams, 23, hears older people talk about temperate weather in “the good old days,” she has to knock back the jealousy she feels. She’s envious that older generations got to experience summers that were breezy and bearable, not suffocatingly hot.
“And I definitely feel envious that my kids will never get to experience the joys of a happy Earth,” said Williams, who’s a digital marketer from Virginia.
“There was once a time these natural disasters helped the earth heal itself; wildfires would make room for new plant life to grow, floods would nourish barren lands,” she said. Now, Williams said, it feels like these disasters continuously erase and ... Read more ...
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JD Vance Made An Eye-Popping Suggestion During The Debate - Huffington Post (Oct 02, 2024) |
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Oct 02, 2024 · A back-and-forth about federal lands during Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate shined light on how a future Trump administration - much like the first - would treat publicly owned acres as little more than landscapes to be exploited and developed.
Asked about the Republican Party platform’s proposal to pawn off federal lands to address housing affordability, former President Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), effectively argued that undeveloped acres are serving little, if any, purpose.
“Well, what Donald Trump has said is we have a lot of federal lands that are not being used for anything,” he said. “They’re not being used for a national park … ... Read more ...
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JD Vance's Mic Gets Cut During Immigration Question At Vice Presidential Debate - Huffington Post (Oct 01, 2024) |
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Oct 01, 2024 · Debate moderators cut off the candidates’ microphones during Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate as Republican JD Vance tried to get in a last word about immigration.
Shortly before the cutoff, Vance, Donald Trump’s running mate, complained that a debate moderator corrected him when he suggested Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were there illegally.
“The rules that you guys weren’t going to fact check,” Vance said. Read more ...
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JD Vance, Tim Walz Face Off In Vice Presidential Debate: Latest Updates - Huffington Post (Oct 01, 2024) |
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Oct 01, 2024 · Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) went head-to-head Tuesday in the only vice presidential debate scheduled ahead of Election Day.
The running mates of former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris kept things fairly civil, rarely talking over or interrupting one another at the event on CBS, which was moderated by Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan.
The two regularly pointed out when they agreed with one another, but also tried to highlight the stark differences in their running mates’ platforms, touching on topics like immigration, abortion, climate change, housing and inflation. Things heated up as the two discussed the Jan. 6 ... Read more ...
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Trump Lists His Grievances In A Wisconsin Speech Intended To Link Harris To Illegal Immigration - Huffington Post (Sep 28, 2024) |
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Sep 28, 2024 · PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis. (AP) - Former President Donald Trump meandered Saturday through a list of grievances against Vice President Kamala Harris and other issues during an event intended to link his Democratic opponent to illegal border crossings.
A day after Harris discussed immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, Trump spoke to a crowd in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, about immigration. He blamed Harris for migrants committing crimes after entering the U.S. illegally, alleging she was responsible for “erasing our border.”
“I will liberate Wisconsin from the mass migrant invasion,” he said. “We’re going to liberate the country.”
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What Project 2025 Would Mean For Life-Saving Hurricane Forecasts - Huffington Post (Sep 26, 2024) |
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Sep 26, 2024 · Millions of Americans along the Gulf Coast and throughout the U.S. Southeast are turning to the National Hurricane Center and the National Weather Service for accurate information about Hurricane Helene ahead of its expected landfall late Thursday - just as they have with tropical storms going back decades.
But if pro-Donald Trump conservatives have their way, these lifesaving forecasts could come to a screeching halt next year.
Project 2025 ? the sweeping policy blueprint that GOP operatives, including dozens of former Trump administration officials, compiled to guide a second Trump term ? calls for a future Republican administration to “break up” the National ... Read more ...
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This $16 Billion Deal Could Be A Game Changer For The U.S. - Huffington Post (Sep 20, 2024) |
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Sep 20, 2024 · In 1979, the Three Mile Island nuclear plant came to embody Americans’ fears about atomic energy, after one of its two reactors partially melted down in what became the worst accident in the U.S. industry’s history, despite no one dying or getting sick from radiation.
Now the Londonderry, Pennsylvania, facility could become a symbol of nuclear power’s turnaround.
In a landmark deal announced Friday, Microsoft agreed to pay $16 billion to restart the plant’s second reactor, which shut down in 2019 under financial pressure from growing competition with cheap natural gas. It’s part of the tech giant’s efforts to secure enough reliable, low-carbon electricity to supply ... Read more ...
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The Fed’s Interest Rate Cut Could Actually Be A Good Thing For Climate Change - Huffington Post (Sep 18, 2024) |
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Sep 18, 2024 · The Federal Reserve’s decision Wednesday to start cutting interest rates could bolster green energy investments, which took a hit as the U.S. central bank drastically increased the cost of borrowing money over the past two years in a scramble to tamp down post-pandemic inflation.
At its 2 p.m. meeting, the Fed slashed interest rates by 50 basis points ? one-half a percentage point ? delivering an even larger cut than the quarter of a percentage point Wall Street forecasters initially expected.
But analysts said the market needs rates to come down further to reverse the project delays and cancellations slowing the global transition away from fossil fuels, as well as ... | By October, the International Energy Agency warned that higher rates were spiking the cost of building all kinds of clean energy projects. Before the end of that month, the world’s largest offshore turbine developer, the Danish giant Ørsted, canceled its high-profile wind farm off the coast of New Jers Read more ...
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EU Issues 'Climate Breakdown' Warning Amid Record Flooding And Deadly Wildfires - Huffington Post (Sep 18, 2024) |
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Sep 18, 2024 · BRUSSELS (AP) - Devastating floods through much of Central Europe and deadly wildfires in Portugal are joint proof of a “climate breakdown” that will become the norm unless drastic action is taken, the European Union’s head office said Wednesday.
“Make no mistake. This tragedy is not an anomaly. This is fast becoming the norm for our shared future,” said EU Crisis Management Commissioner Janez Lenarcic.
The worst flooding in years moved Tuesday across a broad swath of Central Europe, taking lives and destroying homes. At the other end of the 27-nation EU, raging fires through northern Portugal have killed at least six people.
“Europe is the fastest warming ... Read more ...
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'Time To Put Gramps To Bed': Trump's Bizarre 'Seafront' Claim Leads To Blunt Fact-Check - Huffington Post (Sep 18, 2024) |
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Sep 18, 2024 · Critics are taking Donald Trump to school after the former president made a bizarre claim about the impact of rising sea levels.
“You’ll have more seafront property, right, if that happens,” Trump told an audience in Michigan on Tuesday.
Michigan would not have more “seafront property” as it’s not on the sea, nor is it near the sea. In fact, the entire state is hundreds of feet above sea level.
However, climate change could lead to an increased risk of flooding, coastal erosion and other problems in the state, which borders four of the Great Lakes.
Trump may have been speaking more generally rather than specifically about Michigan, but the claim is still ... Read more ...
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These Dolphins Could Be About To Face A Mass Mortality Event - Huffington Post (Sep 14, 2024) |
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Sep 14, 2024 · TEFÉ, Brazil - Each morning for the last several weeks, researcher Miriam Marmontel has gazed out at Lake Tefé and the Amazon River, through a thick curtain of smoke from thousands of wildfires raging throughout the region, with a sense of dread and déjà vu.
Brazil is in the grip of severe drought for the second time in as many years - this one already topping 2023 as the worst, most widespread drought in Brazil’s recorded history. Major rivers throughout the Amazon Basin have plummeted to record low levels, and water temperatures are approaching those that triggered mass die-offs of two species of endangered river dolphins this time last summer.
A year ago, drought ... Read more ...
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Debate Disaster: Trump’s Seething, Unhinged, Incoherent Onstage Meltdown - Huffington Post (Sep 10, 2024) |
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Sep 10, 2024 · In their first and maybe last face-to-face encounter, Vice President Kamala Harris successfully got under Donald Trump’s skin early in their debate Tuesday night, putting him into angry rally speech mode where he spent the rest of the encounter shouting his usual lies and insults.
He claimed his top officials, from chief of staff John Kelly to defense secretary Mark Esper to joint chiefs of staff chair Mark Milley were all terrible people. “So when somebody does a bad job, and you take a guy like Esper, he was no good, I fired him.”
He claimed no one ever left his campaign rallies early: “People don’t leave my rallies, we have the biggest rallies, the most incredible ... Read more ...
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RFK Jr. Made His Mark As An Environmental Lawyer. Now He’s All In On MAGA. - Huffington Post (Sep 10, 2024) |
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Sep 10, 2024 · As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke about the spiritual connection he feels toward the natural world and humankind’s duty to protect it, Tucker Carlson was left visibly starstruck.
“That is where we sense the divine. God talks to us through the fishes, the birds, the leaves. They’re all words from our creator,” Kennedy told Carlson in an Aug. 26 interview. “That is why we preserve nature.”
“Yes!” Carlson agreed, emphatically.
“It’s not because of the quantity of carbon,” Kennedy added, condemning the environmental movement’s focus on planet-warming carbon emissions.
“I feel what you said so deeply I can hardly even express it,” Carlson marveled.
Kennedy, who ... Read more ...
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'Climate Crisis Is Tightening Its Grip On Us': 2024 Declared Hottest Summer Ever - Huffington Post (Sep 06, 2024) |
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Sep 06, 2024 · Summer 2024 sweltered to Earth’s hottest on record, making it even more likely that this year will end up as the warmest humanity has measured, European climate service Copernicus reported Friday.
And if this sounds familiar, that’s because the records the globe shattered were set just last year as human-caused climate change, with a temporary boost from an El Nino, keeps dialing up temperatures and extreme weather, scientists said.
The northern meteorological summer - June, July and August - averaged 16.8 degrees Celsius (62.24 degrees Fahrenheit), according to Copernicus.
That’s 0.03 degrees Celsius (0.05 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the old record in 2023. ... Read more ...
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Biden To Dish Out $7.3 Billion For Clean Rural Power - Huffington Post (Sep 05, 2024) |
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Sep 05, 2024 · President Joe Biden will travel to Wisconsin on Thursday to announce $7.3 billion in federal clean energy spending in rural communities across the country.
The Biden administration is calling it the “largest investment in rural electrification” since President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930s.
The funds, which will be divvied out to 16 electric cooperatives serving millions of customers across 23 states, will go toward building and purchasing more than 10 gigawatts of wind, solar, nuclear and hydropower.
In a call with reporters on Wednesday, a senior administration official said the “impact of this investment cannot be overstated,” noting that the ... Read more ...
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