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• In first half of 2025, the financial cost of weather catastrophes escalated at record pace, [as global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels worsens weather catastrophes]. The environment-hating Trump's administration stopped updating a database tracking the costs of the s worst disasters. A group of scientists has revived it.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 October 2025

• The government of the USA is shutdown, but not for fossil fuels. Federal workers who issue permits for oil, gas and mining operations are on the job, along with those working to repeal pollution limits - under the orders of Trump.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 18 October 2025

• Oceans lose their luster as concentrations of phytoplankton decline in many ocean regions. Phytoplankton are a crucial food source in ocean food chains, and are a vital source of oxygen generation and CO2 removal. The cause is global heating of the oceans due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Inside Climate News, 17 October 2025

• Almost 75% of drought-prone regions around the world will be at risk of extreme water shortages known as "day zero droughts" by 2100 if CO2 emissions are not reduced (which causes global heating and droughts from the burning of fossil fuels). A third of these regions could have "zero day droughts" (zero water available throughout a city or region) before 2030.
  - Live Science, 13 October 2025

• Coal miners with black lung say they are "cast aside to die" under Trump. Miners say the Trump administration is failing to enforce limits on a lethal workplace hazard - inhaling coal and silica dust.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 October 2025

• Earth is grappling with a "new reality" as it reaches the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible climate tipping points: the widespread death of coral reefs, according to a landmark report produced by 160 scientists across the world. The deaths of coral reefs are due to warmer ocean temperatures, caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 13 October 2025

• Earth is grappling with a "new reality" as it reaches the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible climate tipping points: the widespread death of coral reefs, according to a landmark report produced by 160 scientists across the world. The deaths of coral reefs are due to warmer ocean temperatures, caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels [KM: the lastest burning to fuel mostly useless AI data centers to make the rich richer].
  - Marc Benioff's Time, 13 October 2025

• Summers in Nihon are longer by 3 weeks over the last 42 years, researchers state. In comparison, the average durations of spring and autumn shortened from 1982 to 2023 due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 11 October 2025

• More contempt for the environment: AI data centers are experiencing a significant shift toward coal-powered energy due to elevated natural gas prices and rapidly growing electricity demand. [KM: yes, to profit from their many useless apps, environment be damned]
  - The Register, 10 October 2025

• Melting sea ice and deforestation are continuing to drive many species toward extinction, with the latest Red List of Threatened Species showing that more than a quarter of all animals, plants and fungi assessed are at risk. Three species of Arctic seals now face extinction due to global heating (due to the burning of fossil fuels), while half the s birds are in decline due to habitat loss. But the return of the green sea turtle shows how, with coordinated conservation efforts, these losses can be turned around.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 10 October 2025

• Trump's nationalist socialist industrial policy to support the coal industry, is doomed to fail because power generation with coal is neither economical nor reliable
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 October 2025

• Coal is unreliable, expensive and dirty. The Trump is going all in on investments into coal. Coal is neither economical nor reliable. Coal plants are are costly to maintain and increasingly unsound. [The repeatedly-bankrupted] Trump does not understand this economics. The government of Zhōngguó does.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 07 October 2025

• Zhōngguó is leading the way to a renewable energy future, while the USA under the environment-hating Trump is frozen in the past [by attacking renewable energy and further supporting fossil fuels that cause global heating]
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 07 October 2025

• Trump is reviving large sales of coal from public lands, offering 600 million tons from publicly owned reserves next to strip mines in Montana and Wyoming. But will anyone want to buy this newly available coal, as the demand continues to drop (a decline starting in 2007) because coal has become too expensive of a fuel for power generation.
  - Associated Press, 04 October 2025

• Sea level rise could put more than 100 million buildings across the Global South at risk of regular flooding if fossil fuel emissions are not curbed quickly, decreasing their value and making them harder to insure
  - Phys.org, 03 October 2025

• Costly and deadly wildfires really are on the rise, new research finds. The past decade in particular has seen an uptick in devastating blazes linked to climate change due to global warming due to the burning of fossil fuels, according to the study.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 03 October 2025

• For the first time in human history, the glaciers of California will soon disappear due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels
  - SF Gate, 02 October 2025

• Energy bills are soaring in West Virginia, the coal capital of the USA. As electricity prices have risen for residents of the state, nearly one out of five customers of the leading utility company in the state is behind on monthly bills. Despite Trump's support for coal, generating electricity is expensive (especially compared to natural gas, and to wind and solar which Trump is opposed to). While utilities (governed by economics) have stated that they have no plans to build new coal plants, the governor remains committed to increasingly un-economic coal.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 October 2025

• In his latest national socialist industrial policy, Trump orders the Interior Department to boost the output of coal in the USA, one of Trump's many actions that run counter to global efforts to reduce carbon emissions
  - Comcast's CNBC, 29 September 2025

• In his latest national socialist industrial policy, Trump orders the Interior Department to boost the output of coal in the USA - offering $626 million in socialist subsidies, one of Trump's many actions that run counter to global efforts to reduce carbon emissions
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 29 September 2025

• More nationalist socialist industrial policy: the Trump White House plans emergency orders to keep coal plants running as power bill crisis emerges [instead of letting the free market adjust without government control]
  - Zero Hedge, 25 September 2025

• The undeniable [except to Christian politicians who prostitute their votes] science of extreme weather. How global heating is supercharging droughts, floods and storms - all due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - The Climate Brink (substack), 25 September 2025

• The world's oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life. Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed.
  - The Guardian, 24 September 2025

• The Ganges, a lifeline for hundreds of millions across South Asia, is drying at a rate scientists say is unprecedented in recorded history. Climate change, global heating and shifting monsoons - due to global heating caused by the burning of fossial fuels, relentless extraction and damming are pushing the mighty river towards collapse, with consequences for food, water and livelihoods across the region.
  - The Conversation, 24 September 2025

• Can hybrid grapes solve the problem of global heating [due to the burning of fossil fuels] that is hurting the wine industry?
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 24 September 2025

• Many parts of the world are predicted to endure "day-zero droughts", periods of extreme and unprecedented water scarcity, which could happen as soon as this decade in certain hotspots including parts of North America, the Mediterranean and southern Africa, according to a new study. This water scarcity is due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 23 September 2025

• Bharat, Zhōngguó, Nihon and Brazil are the biggest buyers of coal from the USA
  - Zero Hedge, 22 September 2025

• Farmers in England have lost over 50% of their grass/hay harvest this year, due to dry and hot weather conditions due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels
  - The Cool Down, 21 September 2025

• Under financial stress, BHP, the world's top exporter of steelmaking coal, fires people and shutdowns coal-mining pits. Rising operating costs, falling coal prices and high royalties are straining Australia's massive steelmaking coal mines, triggering firings, and pit closures.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 20 September 2025

• Top scientists at the National Academy of Sciences find growing evidence that greenhouse gases (caused by the burning of fossil fuels) are, in fact, a danger. The assessment contradicts the [environment-hating] Trump administration's legal arguments for relaxing pollution rules. The report notes that multiple lines of evidence now show that human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation are producing greenhouse gases that are heating the planet, and that climate change is exacerbating a wide variety of health risks like intense heat waves and increased wildfire smoke. Climate-driven changes in temperature and rainfall patterns have also led to negative effects on crops and less water availability in some places, among other disruptions.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 19 September 2025

• The global water cycle has become "increasingly erratic and extreme" with wild swings between droughts and floods, spelling big trouble for economies and societies, according to a report published Thursday by the World Meteorological Organization. Climate change and global heating, driven by humans burning fossil fuels, is upending this process.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 18 September 2025

• The high cost of repairing the coastal beaches of California (typically with beach sand replacement), as global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels makes ocean waves stronger and more destructive
  - SF Gate, 17 September 2025

• Prices of arabica coffee beans soar as analyst warns of "weather disasters" [due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels] risk denting global production. "... there is ZERO POSSIBILTY for global production to recover until 2030 and it's a FACT that The World IS Running Out of Coffee ..."
  - Zero Hedge, 17 September 2025

• Heat waves and flooding caused by global heating, due to the burning of fossil fuels, could cost the European Union $50 billion in damage to buildings and agricultural crops as well as a loss of productivity, a new study found.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 17 September 2025

• Extreme heat caused by global heating spurs new laws aimed at protecting workers worldwide. Governments around the world are enacting measures to try to protect workers from the dangers of heat stress. They are barely keeping up with the risks caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 15 September 2025

• Not only is Zhōngguó the world's leader in energy-storage technology and applications, it plans to greatly increase such capacity by 2027. New plan calls for expansion of energy-storage applications, including more projects in desert areas and at retired coal-fired power plant sites. Meanwhile, the environment-hating Trump is sabotaging the renewable energy industry in the USA.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 15 September 2025

• Zhōngguó considers converting coal-fired power plants to nuclear energy generation facilities
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 15 September 2025

• Zinc roofs give Paris its signature look. But they are a nightmare in heat. As global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels helps fuel more severe heat waves, Paris is struggling between maintaining its architectural heritage and keeping apartments livable.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 September 2025

• The environment-of-his-Jesus-hating Trump is having the EPA plan to make polluters not report on much they have polluted. The plan will end a program requiring coal-fired power plants, industrial factories and oil refining facilities to report their planet-warming pollution to the federal government. Environmentals critique the corruption: "This proposal gives polluters the secrecy they want in violation of the law."
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 12 September 2025

• The environment-of-his-Jesus-hating Trump is having the EPA plan to make polluters not report on much they have polluted. The plan will end a program requiring coal-fired power plants, industrial factories and oil refining facilities to report their planet-warming pollution to the federal government. Environmentals critique the corruption: "This proposal gives polluters the secrecy they want in violation of the law."
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 12 September 2025

• The environment-of-his-Jesus-hating Trump is having the EPA plan to make polluters not report on much they have polluted. The plan will end a program requiring coal-fired power plants, industrial factories and oil refining facilities to report their planet-warming pollution to the federal government. Environmentals critique the corruption: "This proposal gives polluters the secrecy they want in violation of the law."
  - Bloomberg, 12 September 2025

• The environment-of-his-Jesus-hating Trump is having the EPA plan to make polluters not report on much they have polluted. The plan will end a program requiring coal-fired power plants, industrial factories and oil refining facilities to report their planet-warming pollution to the federal government. Environmentals critique the corruption: "This proposal gives polluters the secrecy they want in violation of the law."
  - Comcast's CNBC, 12 September 2025

• As global temperatures rise due to the burning of fossil fuels, scientists believe we may see fewer low, cooling clouds but not fewer of the high, warming clouds. It would be a classic feedback loop that accelerates the very global heating that triggered it.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 10 September 2025

• Capitalistic socialist Zhōngguó is "the engine" driving countries to abandon fossil fuels that cause global heating. Zhōngguó's vast investment in solar, wind and batteries is on track to end an era of global growth in the use of coal, oil and natural gas. Meanwhile, the environment-hating Trump is trying to destroy the renewable energy industry of the USA.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 10 September 2025

• For the first time, scientists have quantified the causal links between worsening heat waves and global warming pollution from individual socialistically-subsidized fossil fuel and cement companies. Of the extreme heat events the researchers focused on, as many as a quarter of them would have been "virtually impossible" without the climate pollution from any of the 14 biggest "carbon majors" - the largest fossil fuel and cement producers. These so-called carbon majors include oil companies such as ExxonMobil and Chevron.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 10 September 2025

• Incredible proposals to save the ice sheets of the Earth, including giant underwater sea curtains and refreezing Arctic ice, are gaining popularity as the Earth gets hotter due to the burning of fossil fuels. But none of the most high-profile ideas are viable - and worse, they may cause irreparable harm, according to a new study.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 09 September 2025

• Warming seas [due to global heating from the burning of fossil fuels] threaten key phytoplankton species that fuels the food web, study finds
  - Associated Press, 08 September 2025

• As summers become hotter and hotter, due to global heating due to the burning of addictive fossil fuels, people are consuming more of some of their favorite drugs: more sugary beverages and ice creams. For every 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit of warming, added sugar consumption in US households increased by 0.7 grams per person per day, the researchers found, with a marked escalation as temperatures hit between 68 to 86 degrees Fahrenheit.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 08 September 2025

• The climate crisis and global heating (due to the burning of fossil gfuels) will increase frequency of lightning-sparked wildfires, study finds. These wildfires tend to burn in more remote areas and grow larger faster, posing a higher risk to public safety and health, especially in increasingly drier environments due to global heating.
  - The Guardian, 06 September 2025

• Hop picking season starts amid fears dry summer could hike beer prices. UK hop farmers warn of a national shortage after the hottest summer on record (due to global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels) slashed yields by up to 60%.
  - SWNS, 04 September 2025

• BlackRock has lost a mandate worth $17 billion with PFZW, one of the largest pension funds in the Netherlands with $290 billion in assets, amid concerns that BlackRock, one of the biggest money managers in the world, isn't acting in the best interests of clients when it comes to climate risk and global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels. PFZW is the latest asset owner to voice discontent with money managers in the USA that have cowardly retreated from climate alliances amid an all-out assault on net zero policies by the environment-hating Trump.
  - Bloomberg, 03 September 2025

• Nihon and South Korea suffer from record high temperatures, due to global warming due to the burning of fossil fuels. The prolonged heat is disrupting the natural cycles of Nihon, causing cherry trees to bloom earlier and Mount Fuji's snowcap to appear later.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 01 September 2025

• Two million people are impacted as the Punjab region of Pakistan experiences its worst floods in its history. While South Asia's seasonal monsoon brings rainfall that farmers depend on, climate change and global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels is making it deadly.
  - Al Jazeera, 31 August 2025

• Two million people are impacted as the Punjab region of Pakistan experiences its worst floods in its history. While South Asia's seasonal monsoon brings rainfall that farmers depend on, climate change and global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels is making it deadly.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 31 August 2025

• A 'plague' of octupus has financially hurt the shellfish industry in the United Kingdom. Warming seas have increased the number of octopuses off the waters of the UK, decimating shellfish numbers and leaving fishermen floundering.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 31 August 2025

• Zhōngguó accelerates coal plant commissioning to 9-year high. Despite previous signs of slowdown in coal power last year and a clean energy boom so far this year, coal power remains strong in Zhōngguó, with new and revived projects the highest in a decade.
  - Zero Hedge, 30 August 2025

• Exxon predicts a 20% increase in demand for natural gas by 2050, driven by coal displacement in industry and growing electricity use in emerging markets
  - Zero Hedge, 29 August 2025

• Europe buys less natural gas from Rossiya and more natural gas from the USA and Norway. The European Union will further ramp up purchases of U.S. oil, natural gas and coal, with trade rising from about $75 billion in 2024 to $250 billion annually over the next three years.
  - Zero Hedge, 29 August 2025

• The environment-of-his-Jesus-hating Trump has made no secret of his hatred of wind and solar power in the USA, prefering to heap socialist subsidies on the oil and natural gas industries. Now he is taking his environment-hating agenda overseas, trying to strong-arm nations to retreat on goals to fight global heating caused by the burning of socialisitically subsidized fossil fuels.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 28 August 2025

• Punishing droughts, caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels, put fresh pressure on meat and dairy production. Investors are calling for farm-based businesses to address increasing concerns about their water use. Demand for freshwater is set to exceed supply by 40% by 2030. Water use concerns have also risen as rich AI companies suck tons of water to cool data centers that power their AI systems.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 27 August 2025

• Instances of Vibrio vulnificus, the deadly flesh-eating bacteria, are rising. Global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels is the reason. These potentially deadly bacteria are naturally found and thrive in coastal waters during the warmer months, especially in brackish waters, where fresh water meets the sea.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 27 August 2025

• Across major corn-growing states in the USA, global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels is fueling conditions that make watching the corn grow a nail-biter for farmers. Factors like consistently high summer overnight temperatures, droughts and heavier-than-usual rains at the wrong time can all disrupt the pollination of plants - making each full ear of corn less of a guarantee and more of a gamble.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 25 August 2025

• Glaciers around the world are vanishing faster than ever before. Last year, all 58 global reference glaciers across five continents tracked by the American Meteorological Society lost mass for the second year in a row - the greatest average ice loss recorded in the reprot's 55-year history. The cause? Global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - SF Gate, 25 August 2025

• Modern subway systems are built to handle high temperatures and excessive flooding caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 25 August 2025

• Air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels causes 90,000 premature deaths each year in the USA (more than killed by cocaine), according to a new study. Study analyzed health impacts of fossil fuels from exploration to end use, and found communities of color bear brunt of harm in the Christian USA.
  - The Guardian, 22 August 2025

• The mental moods of humans around the wold are declining, due to global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels
  - Phys.org, 21 August 2025

• Peabody ends a $3.78 billion deal to buy Anglo American's coal mines in Australia, due to the shutdown of a mine central to the deal
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 20 August 2025

• Even without tax incentives, solar and wind are beating fossil fuels such as oil and gas in the affordability department. As reported by PV Magazine, Lazard's latest Levelized Cost of Energy report finds that unsubsidized utility-scale solar ranges from $0.038 to $0.078 per kilowatt-hour, while onshore wind comes in at $0.037 to $0.086 per kWh. By comparison, new-build natural gas peaker plants cost $0.138 to $0.262 per kWh, even before factoring in volatile fuel prices.
  - The Cool Down, 20 August 2025

• Northern destinations for vacations (Norway, Sweden, Scotland, etc.) , known for being cool during the summar, now experience extreme heat due to global heating doe to the burning of fossil fuels
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 19 August 2025

• Hurricane Erin is one of the fastest rapidly intensifying storms in the history of the Atlantic Ocean, from a Category 1 hurricane with 75 mph winds at 11 a.m. Friday to a Category 5 with near 160 mph winds just over 24 hours later. Even more hurricanes are rapidly intensifying in the Atlantic as the oceans and atmosphere warm in response to fossil fuel pollution and the global heating it causes. This likely makes Erin another example of the increasing extremes due to global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 17 August 2025

• Glaciers in the Arctic, already melting due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels, are further melting as microbes accelerate ice melt
  - The Guardian, 15 August 2025

• The International Court of Justice, the world's highest judicial body, recently delivered its first-ever advisory opinion on the obligations of states in respect of climate change and global heating. The UN court said that fossil fuel production, including licensing and socialist subsidies, "may constitute an internationally wrongful act". The court said in a unanimous ruling that governments and countries have a legal obligation to protect the environment from greenhouse gas emissions, protect present and future generations from the climate crisis and to cooperate internationally. "If socialist subsides are unlawful, then one should expect that subsidies are somehow stopped at a certain point in time."
  - Comcast's CNBC, 15 August 2025

• The six million people in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, could have no water by 2030. The Islamic government is desperately seeking for solutions, but financial reserves to pay for water infrastructure are as 'dry' as the water basins of Kabul.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 August 2025

• What to know about the heat wave in Southern Europe caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels. Firefighters were battling blazes in France, Spain, Portugal and elsewhere. Forecasters warned that temperatures would soar well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit in some places.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 August 2025

• Extreme heat, due to the burning of fossil fuels, is threatening tropical birds, even in untouched forests
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 13 August 2025

• A glacier outburst is underway in Alaska. It could send a wave of water downstream toward Juneau. The glacial lake outbursts have become a regular occurrence since 2011 and have worsened considerably each year since 2023. They are yet another consequence of global heating due to fossil fuel pollution.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 12 August 2025

• Evacuation warnings intensify as a glacier outburst is underway in Alaska. It could send a wave of water downstream toward Juneau. The glacial lake outbursts have become a regular occurrence since 2011 and have worsened considerably each year since 2023. They are yet another consequence of global heating due to fossil fuel pollution.
  - CBS News, 12 August 2025

• A famously stable glacier in Argentina suddenly looks anything but stable. After holding steady for decades, the beloved Perito Moreno has thinned considerably since 2019, scientists said. Blame global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 09 August 2025

• Some insurance professionals fear the world is fast approaching temperature levels - global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels sold by the socialist energy industry - where professional risk managers will no longer be able to offer cover for financial services. Top insurers fear the climate crisis and global heating could soon outpace industry solutions, effectively threatening to make entire regions around the world uninsurable.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 08 August 2025

• The fire season in California is starting earlier, study finds, due to global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Summertime fire activity is creeping into spring, and the hotter climate is a major driver, scientists said.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 07 August 2025

• Billionaire Gautam Adani's group will build and operate a $3 billion coal-fired power plant in the state of Bihar with a 2.4 gigawatt capacity, it said on Thursday, the biggest coal plant constructed in Bharat via private investment in a decade.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 07 August 2025

• Turbulence is getting worse in the atmosphere, due to global heating due to fossil fuel. Here are the airplane flight routes with the highest levels of turbulence.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 07 August 2025

• Deadly monsoon floods this year in Pakistan were worsened by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 07 August 2025

• Record high temperatures in Nihon, caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels, is prompting worries over rice crops in Nihon. The worries are about drought, and a proliferation of stink bugs in some rice-growing areas.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 07 August 2025

• The Great Barrier Reef offshore of Australia has been devastated by the worst coral bleeching in history, due to a marine heatwave caused by global heating due to burning fossil fuels
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 06 August 2025

• Trump and other Republicans running the government have declared war on the very idea of climage change and global heating, .
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 01 August 2025

• A new accounting of Trump's tax breaks and other incentives totals tens of billions of dollars of socialist subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. And all the oil industry had to do was donate/bribe Trump with less than $1 billion donation for his election campaign.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 31 July 2025

• Freshwater is disappearing from the Earth at alarming rates, due to global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels, overconsumption (including grow food in deserts) and drough (also caused by global heating)
  - The Hill, 28 July 2025

• Dozens of wildfires burn in Greece and Turkey as temperatures soar due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 28 July 2025

• Toxic algae are turning the coral reefs off of the coast of South Australia into underwater 'graveyards'. A harmful algal bloom, caused by a marine heat wave due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels, has poisoned more than 4,500 square kilometers (about the size of Rhode Island), killing over 15,000 animals.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 25 July 2025

• Alarming report warns that huge number of once-valuable homes may soon be "worthless" due to destructive weather patterns [due to global heating due to burning of fossil fuels] making these homes insurable
  - The Cool Down, 22 July 2025

• Indonesia suffered the most from a large decline in coal imports made by Zhōngguó last month, underscoring how power plants in Zhōngguó have shifted away from lower-quality fuel due to persistent domestic oversupply
  - Bloomberg, 22 July 2025

• Fire weather is becoming worse for the world's forests, due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 July 2025

• Zhōngguó is building a $167 billion mega-dam in the Himalayas. It could eliminate the need to burn coal to the extent that the dam could be a 'coal killer'
  - Bloomberg, 21 July 2025

• More miserable summer weather? Thank fossil fuel pollution - along with other factors - that has turned summers into months of mounting peril, punctuated by relentless heat waves, rampant wildfires and catastrophic flooding. Flash floods? Too much water in the air due to global heating. As Trump undermines environmental protection, if you voted for him, enjoy paying more for insurance.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 20 July 2025

• For the first time in modern history a capital city, Kabul in Islamic Afghanistan, is close to having no water for human use. Too many people, evaporation due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels, and groundwater depletion (the remaining groundwater contaminated) has left Kabul pretty much without water. Worse, women have to spend a lot of their time seeking water in public, only to be harassed by the authoritarian misognistic Islamic government of Afhganistan.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 20 July 2025

• For the first time in modern history a capital city, Kabul in Islamic Afghanistan, is close to having no water for human use. Too many people, evaporation due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels, and groundwater depletion (the remaining groundwater contaminated) has left Kabul pretty much without water. Worse, women have to spend a lot of their time seeking water in public, only to be harassed by the authoritarian misognistic Islamic government of Afhganistan.
  - Zero Hedge, 20 July 2025

• Climate catastrophes (wildfires, floods, storm damage), due to global heating from the burning of fossil fuels, is creating a "new market reality" for insurance companies, with insurance losses in 2025 expected to rise about $100 billion
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 18 July 2025

• Climate catastrophes (wildfires, floods, storm damage), due to global heating from the burning of fossil fuels, is creating a "new market reality" for insurance companies, with insurance losses in 2025 expected to rise about $100 billion
  - Comcast's CNBC, 18 July 2025

• Ramaco Resources, the developer of what would be the first new coal mine in Wyoming in decades, is launching a potentially half-billion-dollar effort to extract rare earth metals from the fossil fuel that are crucial for tech products and military hardware
  - Associated Press, 12 July 2025

• In June 2025, solar power became the leading source of electricity in the EU for the first time, surpassing nuclear and wind, while coal hit a record low
  - CBC News, 11 July 2025

• Extreme heat is a killer. A recent heat wave show how much deadly extreme heat (caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels) is becoming.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 09 July 2025

• Zhōngguó continues to use more than half of the coal mined in the world, dirtying the environment, while it is leading the world in renewable energy which it continues to transition to. At least Zhōngguó is trying to migrate away for polluting fossil fuels.
  - Zero Hedge, 08 July 2025

• Zhōngguó is building 74% of all current global solar and wind projects, according to a new report, the current build totalling 510 gigawatts.
  - Financial Times, 08 July 2025

• Increasingly acidic ocean waters are threatening oyster farming in the Pacific Northwest of the USA. The increased acidity is due to the burning of fossil fuels, which produced CO2 that when absorbed by the oceans can be converted in to acid.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 08 July 2025

• By 2035, a third of the global supply of semiconductor processor chips is threatened by climate change and drought due to global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 08 July 2025

• Insurance companies in the USA are refusing to sell insurance for homes in high-risk climate zones because the losses from extreme weather events (caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels) makes such policies unprofitable to sell. Without insurance, would-be home owners cannot obtain mortgages from banks and other lenders. Yet the environment-hating Trump is eliminating funding for emergency services and weather monitoring, eliminate funding for renewable energy, to give more tax credits to the fossil fuel companies that are the root cause of the destructive extreme weather.
  - Zero Hedge, 07 July 2025

• For the first time, coal is generating less power in Poland than renewable energy systems
  - Financial Times (locked), 07 July 2025

• Over 50 people have been confirmed to be killed by the recent flash flooding in Texas, with more rain and flash flooding to come. Yet another heavier rain storm due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 06 July 2025

• Elon Musk's Groq AI system is blaming Musk and Trump for the multiple deaths in Texas due to flooding - using facts (anathema to Trump and Musk). "Trump's NOAA cuts, pushed by Musk's DOGE, slashed funding 30% and staff 17%, underestimating rainfall by 50% and delaying alerts. ... This contributed to the floods killing 27, including about 20 girls at a camp." More Grok: "Climate models from IPCC and NOAA project more intense flooding in Texas due to warmer air holding more moisture, exacerbating events like this. ... Ignoring it - regardless of politics - will not stop the trend; global emission cuts are needed." -- yeah, from the burning of fossil fuels so popular in Christian-controlled Texas.
  - The Daily Beast, 06 July 2025

• A "thou shalt not" lying Christian Republican congressional candidate from Georgia, Kandiss Taylor, calls the recent floods in Texas "Fake Weather", and that someone (who?) manipulated the weather to kill people.
  - The Daily Beast, 06 July 2025

• As flash floods struck parts of Texas, important roles were vacant at National Weather Service offices in Texas, due to budget cuts by the environment-hating Trump and Musk. Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 06 July 2025

• State officials in Texas (all of whom voted for Trump) severely criticize Trump's downgraded National Weather Service for its bad forecasts of recent flooding in Texas. That's what happens when you vote for an anti-environment president.
  - The Daily Beast, 06 July 2025

• Heat waves in Europe, caused by the burning of fossil fuels, causes wildfires, fish kills and power outages. And it will get worse.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 05 July 2025

• Government relief and insurance programs require significant reform to be equipped to handle a future of increasingly intense and costly climate events due to global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 05 July 2025

• Some nuclear reactors in Europe were temporarily shutdown due to extreme heat caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels. The nuclear reactors typically send their heated cooling waters into rivers, rivers which are now already very hot. The output of the reactors could make the rivers hotter, harming animals such as fishes in the rivers.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 04 July 2025

• A majority of companies around the world are already suffering financially from global heating, according to a new Morgan Stanley report
  - Bloomberg (locked), 03 July 2025

• Trump ends socialist support for the solar and wind industryies, eliminating their tax credits in the new spending/tax law, and gives the socialist tax credits to the socialist oil, natural gas and coal industries that still have to pay nothing for the huge environmental damage their products cause.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 03 July 2025

• While the environment-hating Trump is destroying efforts by the USA to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (much due to the burning of socialistically-subsidized fossil fuels), the European Union is trying to achieve even greater levels of the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 03 July 2025

• The environment-hating Trump allows government websites hosting important climate reports for the USA - to be eliminated. This will make it harder for the public, local governments and researchers to deal with climate disasters due to global warming due to the burning of fossil fuels
  - Associated Press, 02 July 2025

• A report from the United Nations argues that recent droughts are a "slow moving catastrophe" for the world. Droughts are a "silent killer" that "creeps in, drains resources, and devastates lives in slow motion". Global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels worsens the droughts.
  - BBC, 02 July 2025

• The use of coal in the USA has been decreasing for decades, not because of any conspiracies by renewable energy advocates nor investors, but because the economics of renewable energy has become more profitable than burning coal. Investors don't invest in coal because they can't make a profit.
  - Real Clear Markets, 01 July 2025

• The heat wave in Europe, caused by the burning of fossil fuels, is dangerous and becoming worse
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 July 2025

• Corporations are shirking their financial reporting responsibilities by reporting fewer details about the hazards of extreme weather (drought, flooding, wildfires) caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 01 July 2025

• The environment-of-his-Jesus-hating Trump tries to kill the most indisputable evidence of human-caused climate change by shuttering to kill the most indisputable evidence of human-caused climate change by shuttering observatory which measures levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Measurements from the laboratory have shown a steady increase in the levels of CO2, which worsens global heating, due to the burning of fossil fuels. [KXnote: A nice return for the fossil fuel industry for the investments/donations/bribes to Republicans.]
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 01 July 2025

• The lone star tick, a tick that feeds on blood and can trigger a bizarre allergy, the alpha-gal syndrome, to meat in the people they bite, are rapidly increasing in number and spreading across the USA, to the extent that they could cover the entire eastern half of the country and infect millions of people, experts have warned. They can expand because of global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - The Guardian, 01 July 2025

• Europe endures relentless heat wave due to global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Extreme heat has gripped countries including France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain, with record temperatures, health alerts and wildfires.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 30 June 2025

• A surprise tax in the Republican spending/tax proposed law to make the rich richer could cripple the wind and solar power industry in the USA (another gift to Zhōngguó) so that there is more money for socialist subsidies for oil, coal and natural gas
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 30 June 2025

• A surprise tax in the Republican spending/tax proposed law to make the rich richer could cripple the wind and solar power industry in the USA (another gift to Zhōngguó) so that there is more money for socialist subsidies for oil, coal and natural gas
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 30 June 2025

• Extreme heat is breaking the USA, due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels. People across the USA who are living through these extreme heat episodes and stressing over escalating electric bills, dying livestock and dangerous working conditions. Exposure to heat in the workplace drags down labor productivity, suppresses local gross domestic product and hits rural economies hardest - especially those heavily dependent on manufacturing or agriculture. Supply chain disruptions and power outages that destroy inventories also drive up costs for producers and consumers, from food spoilage in grocery stores and warehouses to heat-damaged electronics and pharmaceuticals rendered unusable. [KXnote: but the rich get richer through their investments in fossil fuels.]
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 27 June 2025

• The Earth is heating up, and the increased heating is happening faster. Human-caused global warming has been increasing faster and faster since the 1970s, due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 27 June 2025

• Coffee farms in the Los Santos region of Costa Rica are being devestated by climate change due to global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Heavy rains are a big culprit, fueling diseases like coffee rust and anthracnose. Wet soils cause young fruit to drop early, and irregular flowering throws off the crop cycle. Farmers now obsess over weather forecasts, trying to adapt to unpredictable rains and rising temperatures that disrupt the delicate balance coffee plants need.
  - Tico Times, 26 June 2025

• Zhōngguó and Bharat shift to higher-grade thermal coal for power generation, reducing their imports from Indonesia. Coal from Mongolia imported into Zhōngguó, and coal from South Africa imported into Bharat, have been the biggest gainers at Indonesia's expense
  - Thomson's Reuters, 25 June 2025

• The Department of Energy declares a electric power grid emergency in the southeast of the USA to avert "blackouts", as the region experiences a very hot heatwave due to global heating due to burning of fossil fuels
  - Zero Hedge, 24 June 2025

• New lies from the socialistically subsidized fossil fuel industry. No longer able to deny climate change and globel heating, they are now attacking the economics of renewable energy such as solar and wind power, to delay the transition away from socialistically subsidized fossil fuels.
  - The Verge, 23 June 2025

• "Real distress" hits the solar panel industry as a tsunami of bankruptcies loom, as Republicans plan to eliminate tax credits for the solar and wind power industries (while not ending socialist subsidies for oil, coal and natural gas). Another industry Republicans are gifting to Zhōngguó.
  - Zero Hedge, 23 June 2025

• A dangerous 'heat dome' caused by the burning of fossil fuels causes record temperatures across much of the USA. Officials warn of health risks as massive weather system traps sweltering air.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 23 June 2025

• Cites in the Midwest of the USA are baking under intense heat (due to global heating caused by burning of fossil fuels), with East Coasts expected to bake as well in coming days. Climate scientists have found that climate change and global heating has made heat waves more common, more intense and longer lasting worldwide, though attributing a specific heat wave to climate change is tricky.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 June 2025

• Scientists at Oregon State University discovered that, in the last glacial period, Earth experienced its highest CO2 increase: 14 parts per million in just 55 years. Now, the Earth experiences that increase every five years due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2025

• A huge heatwave caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels is striking the USA this week. AccuWeather estimates that 170 million people will experience temperatures at or above 90 degrees during the building heat wave into next week, with millions of people facing temperatures over 100 degrees.
  - USA Today, 21 June 2025

• How black lung disease came roaring back to coal country. Once nearly eradicated, old s is back and suffocating younger miners. Federal cuts ordered by Trump risk putting a solution further out of reach.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 21 June 2025

• Why eliminating coal could take a long time. A mining and processing business in California is replacing one coal plant but says another could stay online for many years.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 20 June 2025

• Central and southern Zhōngguó were on high alert for more flash floods on Friday as the annual East Asia monsoon gathered pace and extreme rainfall threatened disruption in the world's second-largest economy. Extreme rainfall and severe flooding, which meteorologists link to climate change and global heating due to burning of fossil fuels, increasingly pose major challenges for policymakers as they threaten to overwhelm ageing flood defences, displace millions, and wreak havoc on Zhōngguó's $2.8 trillion agricultural sector.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 19 June 2025

• Turning recently closed coalmines into solar energy plants could add almost 300GW of renewable energy by 2030, converting derelict wastelands to productive use. Researchers from Global Energy Monitor (GEM) identified 312 surface coalmines closed since 2020 around the world, and 134 likely to close by the end of the decade, together covering 5,820 sq km (2,250 sq miles). Strip mining turns terrains into wastelands, polluted and denuded of topsoil. But if they were filled with solar panels and developed into energy plants, the report claims, they could generate enough energy to power as big and power hungry a nation as Deutschland.
  - The Guardian, 18 June 2025

• Insurance companies want businesses to "wake up" to the costs of extreme heat caused by global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels. The market for extreme heat insurance is only likely to increase as risk modelers for insurers and lending institutions offer clients the ability to see heat impacts on properties or types of businesses.
  - Bloomberg, 18 June 2025

• Major banks around the world, their environment-hating coming out again due to Trump, increase fossil-fuel funding as they betray their climate pledges. New report shows that banks poured nearly $900 billion into financing coal, oil and gas projects in 2024.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 18 June 2025

• Sea surface temperatures in 2024 broke records and about 25% of the world's oceans are experiencing temperatures that qualify as a marine heat wave, due to global heating caused by burning of fossil fuels.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 17 June 2025

• Trump allows the EPA to repeal air-pollution standards on power plants. The proposals would roll back Biden-era climate rules and Obama-era limits on mercury and CO2 emissions.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 12 June 2025

• Trump allows the EPA to repeal air-pollution standards on power plants. The proposals would roll back Biden-era climate rules and Obama-era limits on mercury and CO2 emissions.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 12 June 2025

• Scientists mapped what happens if a crucial system of Atlantic Ocean currents collapses. The weather impact would be extreme. Parts of the world would suffer a deep freeze, with winter temperatures plunging to around minus 55 degrees Fahrenheit in some cities. This huge cooling, despite global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels. Crops would die, threatening food security, and infrastructure could buckle in the Northern Hemisphere. The Southern Hemisphere, meanwhile, is projected to experience increased warming.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 11 June 2025

• The environment-hating Trump approves expansion of a scandal-hit coal mine in Montana, the Bull Mountain mine. The mine has been allegedly been involved with cocaine trafficking and the faked kidnapping of an executive.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 07 June 2025

• Trump, not understand business economics, orders coal and natural gas plants to continue operating, despite their owners wanting to close the power generation facilities - do not go bankrupt. The grid operators that buy electric power from the plants said they never asked for them to remain open, and consumers may have to absorb the extra costs (on top of the extra costs from Trump's taxes/tariffs).
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 06 June 2025

• Trump, not understand business economics, orders coal and natural gas plants to continue operating, despite their owners wanting to close the power generation facilities - do not go bankrupt. The grid operators that buy electric power from the plants said they never asked for them to remain open, and consumers may have to absorb the extra costs (on top of the extra costs from Trump's taxes/tariffs).
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 06 June 2025

• Despite the intentions of the environment-hating Trump, investments into renewable energy are expected to be double that of investments in global-heating-causing fossil fuels. Around $3.3 trillion will flow into the energy sector in 2025 and around $2.2 trillion of that will go to renewable and nuclear energy, energy storage, low-emission fuels, efficiency and electrification, the International Energy Agency said.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 06 June 2025

• Coal is the new 'bridge' fuel to renewable energy, needed to meet demand for mostly useless AI data centers and cryptocurrency mining, while worsening global heating
  - Zero Hedge, 05 June 2025

• Coal-fired electricity generation in Bharat in May fell at the fastest pace in five years, as overall power demand declined for the first time since August and renewable energy generation rose to a record high. Increased generation from less polluting power sources including hydro and nuclear also led to a decline in natural gas-fired power output, which fell at the steepest rate in nearly three years.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 05 June 2025

• A solar power boom in Pakistan undercuts coal-fired plants built by Zhōngguó. An increasing flow of cheap solar panels from Zhōngguó to the Pakistan is undercutting demand for power from coal-fired plants that Zhōngguó helped finance and leading to a vicious cycle of stranded assets. With a zero tax rate for solar power imports, Pakistan has emerged as the second-largest destination for solar panels from Zhōngguó, behind only Brazil.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 05 June 2025

• Editorial: another "thou shalt not" lie of Christian politicians. The Christians Trump and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claim that money managers bought shares of coal companies to get them to produce less coal/profits. Seriously?
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 03 June 2025

• Iron released from coal combustion and steel production is altering the ecosystem in a critical part of the North Pacific, a new study has found. Iron is essential for the growth of microscopic phytoplankton in the ocean, but industrial emissions contain aerosolized iron, which quickly dissolves in the ocean and disrupts nutrient balances, the authors noted.
  - The Hill, 02 June 2025

• Nearly 40% of the world's glaciers are already doomed, according to scientists, even if global temperatures stopped rising immediately, unlikely as the world continues to worsen global heating with the burning of oil, coal and natural gas
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 02 June 2025

• Rising snow and glacier melt, due to global heating from use of fossil fuels, puts almost 2 billion in South Asia at risk. The risks are aggravated by black carbon pollution, which could curb water supply from many rivers flowing through the Himalayan plains.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 02 June 2025

• Bharat, a major user of goal to generate electricity, is making much progress in adopting clean, renewable energy
  - Associated Press, 31 May 2025

• Zhōngguó has a huge oversupply of coal in inventories, due to sinking demand for electric power, causing the price of coal to plummet. With its economy slowing, if not contracting, Zhōngguó is pressuring its coal-fired power plants to stockpile more of the fuel and import less in an effort to shore up domestic prices.
  - Zero Hedge, 29 May 2025

• In a landmark ruling advancing efforts to hold major polluters accountable for transnational climate-related harms, on May 28 a court in Deutschland concluded that a corporation can be held liable under civil law for its proportional contribution to global climate change and global heating, Climate Rights International said today. "The message of the court is clear: major carbon polluters can be held legally responsible for their role in driving the climate crisis and the resulting human rights and economic harms. If the reasoning of this decision is adopted by other courts, it could lay the foundation for ending the era of impunity for fossil fuel giants and other big greenhouse gas emitters."
  - Climate Rights International, 28 May 2025

• The growth of clean energy, especially solar power, is Bharat is growing faster than global trends. The largest renewable energy project under construction in Bharat is nearly four times the size of the largest projects in the US or Europe. Much like the rest of the world, electricity generated from new solar plus storage facilities is now more affordable than new coal power plants. Moreover, solar power alone is cheaper than operating existing coal-fired plants in Bharat.
  - Global Data, 26 May 2025

• JSW Steel, the largest steelmaker in Bharat, can proceed with the $74 million acquisition of a coal deposit in Mozambique after the seller, Minas de Revuboe, recovered the concession rights from the new government of Mozambique.
  - Bloomberg, 26 May 2025

• Due to global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels, the ice sheets of the world are on course for runaway melting, leading to multiple feet of sea level rise and "catastrophic" migration away from coastlines, even if the world pulls off the miraculous and keeps global warming to within 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to new research. Since the 1990s, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have quadrupled the amount of ice that has melted, now about 370 billion tons a year. Around 230 million people live less than 1 meter (3.2 feet) above sea level.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 20 May 2025

• Trump wants to use the dirtiest fossil fuel, coal, to power AI data centers. The tech industry will probably have no problems using such power, .
  - Comcast's CNBC, 17 May 2025

• 31 million tons of supercharged Sargassum seaweed, is creeping towards beaches in Florida and the Caribbean. As it rots on beaches, it emits harmful gases. Rising ocean temperatures due to the burning of fossil fuels is fueling even more growth of Sargassum then in decades past.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 15 May 2025

• For the first time, the growth in clean power generation in Zhōngguó has caused the nation's carbon dioxide emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth.
  - Carbon Brief, 15 May 2025

• Coal miners says that the stakes for them are life-and-death as Trump destroys support for worker safety. Black lung disease, a severe respiratory illness, is on the rise as coal miners work deeper than ever beneath the surface of the Earth. Trump is reducing funding to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, which protects workers, including coal miners, .
  - MoneyWise, 14 May 2025

• Global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels threatens the banana, the fourth most important food crop in peril as Latin America and Caribbean suffer from slow-onset climate disaster. Rising temperatures, extreme weather and climate-related pests are pummeling banana-growing countries such as Guatemala, Costa Rica and Colombia, reducing yields and devastating rural communities across the region.
  - The Guardian, 12 May 2025

• The rate of annual sea level rise has more than doubled over the past 30 years. The cause? Human-caused global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 09 May 2025

• Nations in Southeast Asia are increasing imports of natural gas from the USA, to gain leverage in tax/tariff talks with Trump. Asian economies are pledging more imports of LNG from the USA, which is expected to see demand rise as countries shift from coal.
  - Zero Hedge, 07 May 2025

• Electricity generation in the USA using fossil fuels declines below 50% for the first time ever
  - OilPrice.com, 05 May 2025

• First Canada, now Australia: Trump's hostility towards allies helps another liberal leader return to power, after earlier have less support than the conservative candidate (who may have earlier supported Trump).
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 03 May 2025

• If Liberals win elections in Australia - thanks to increasing hostility to Trump, they will continue efforts to elimininate coal-fired power plants
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 03 May 2025

• $28,000,000,000,000 - Scientists calculate that 111 fossil fuel companies caused the world $28 trillion in damage from 1991 to 2020 from extreme heat and climate change. Other scientists are mixed on their support for the assumptions used in the model. Still, the damage is in the trillions.
  - Nature, 23 April 2025

• Reducing the use of coal in the USA only hurts the USA economically, and will not stop climate change and global heating
  - The Hill, 20 April 2025

• Extreme weather disasters, increasing as the planet warms due to global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels, can reduce blood donations while increasing demand, a new analysis found
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 20 April 2025

• Climate change and global heating (due to the burning of fossil fuels) may significantly impact arsenic levels in paddy rice, a staple food for millions across Asia. The research shows that increased temperatures above , coupled with rising carbon dioxide levels, lead to higher concentrations of inorganic arsenic (iAs) in rice, potentially raising lifetime health risks for populations in Asia by 2050.
  - Phys.org, 16 April 2025

• Climate change and global heating (due to the burning of fossil fuels) may significantly impact arsenic levels in paddy rice, a staple food for millions across Asia. The research shows that increased temperatures above , coupled with rising carbon dioxide levels, lead to higher concentrations of inorganic arsenic (iAs) in rice, potentially raising lifetime health risks for populations in Asia by 2050.
  - Condé Nast's Ars Technica, 16 April 2025

• Lee Zeldin, the head of the EPA, sounds the alarm on a rouge climate startup, Make Sunsets, that is launching balloons filled with sulfur dioxide to geo-engineer the Earth. Quoting this ZH article: "Allowing rogue activists to play God with the climate is a disaster waiting to happen." [Allowing fossil fuel companies to play God with the CO2 emissions they profit from is a disaster already happening.]
  - Zero Hedge, 16 April 2025

• The length of deadly ocean heat waves has tripled, thanks to global heating caused by the burning of carbon-based fuels
  - The Guardian, 14 April 2025

• Imports of coal into Zhōngguó decline 6% as local prices decline
  - Zero Hedge, 14 April 2025

• Imports of coal into Zhōngguó decline 6% as local prices decline
  - Zero Hedge, 14 April 2025

• Trump wants to reverse the long decline of coal. It will not be easy to do so. Coal has been displaced by cheap and plentiful natural gas and the rapid growth of wind and solar energy -- forces that Trump will struggle to do away with.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 April 2025

• To help power much useless AI, the dirtiest coal-fired power plant in the USA and dozens of other coal plants are being exempted from stringent air pollution mandates as part of Trump's economically bad effort to revitalize the coal industry.
  - Bloomberg, 10 April 2025

• With new executive orders trying to promote coal, Trump repeats the same false promises he made the last time he was president. Just as the coal companies bled coal workers dry, today it is Trump and Republican Party that exploit them with false promises . Coal is not coming back because natural gas and renewable energy are less expensive, and less polluting.
  - Comcast's MSNBC, 10 April 2025

• The coal industry will benefit, and the environment suffer, with hours of pro bono legal work, after Trump's unprecedented shakedown of major law firms (now being challenged in court).
  - The Daily Beast, 09 April 2025

• Trump signs an executive order to boost coal demand, citing the need to meet rising electricity demand from artificial intelligence. Coal plants are shutting down across the USA as they have lost market share to natural gas and have fallen out of favor due to their carbon dioxide emissions.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 08 April 2025

• Trump signs an executive order to boost coal demand, citing the need to meet rising electricity demand from artificial intelligence. Coal plants are shutting down across the USA as they have lost market share to natural gas and have fallen out of favor due to their carbon dioxide emissions.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 08 April 2025

• Africa must reject Trump's push to resurrect the coal industry. Clean energy can be the greatest success story of Africa, which is why its leaders must not fall for the pro-coal lobbying of the Trump administration.
  - Al Jazeera, 07 April 2025

• The aging Colstrip coal power plant in Montana, the USA's most polluting coal-burning power plant, has asked Trump to exempt it from stricter limits on hazardous air pollution after the administration recently invited companies to apply for presidential pollution waivers by email.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 05 April 2025

• Allianz, one of the world's top insurers, warns that climate change and global heating, due to burning of fossil fuels, could destroy capitalism, with the vast cost of extreme weather impacts leaving the financial sector unable to operate. Without insurance, which is already being pulled in some places, many other financial services become unviable, from mortgages to investments.
  - The Guardian, 03 April 2025

• Global sea ice declines to a new low. The data comes after researchers reported that the past 10 years have been the 10 hottest on record due to global heating.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 29 March 2025

• The non-fossil-fuel power generation capacity of Zhōngguó rises above 2,000 gigawatts for the first time ever, accounting for about 60% of the total installed power capacity of Zhōngguó.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 28 March 2025

• Trump's vain attempt to revive shipbuilding in the USA using massive taxes/fees on Zhōngguó-linked ship visits to ports in the USA is causing coal inventories to swell in the USA, and stoking uncertainty in the embattled agriculture market in the USA, as exporters struggle to find ships to send goods abroad. Enacting and implementing Trump's taxes/fees could cease exports of coal within 60 days from the USA, putting $130 billion worth of shipments at risk. The tax/fee structure could add up to 35% to the delivered cost of USA coal, making it uncompetitive on the global market. Bulk agricultural exporters could face an additional $372 million to $930 million in annual transportation costs from the fees, the Farm Bureau said. That would represent substantial margin loss in global markets where competitiveness is often determined by mere pennies per bushel.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 19 March 2025

• Trump says that he is authorizing the use of coal for energy production
  - Zero Hedge, 18 March 2025

• Global sea level rose faster than expected in 2024, due to global heating caused by the burning of oil, gasoline, coal and natural gas.
  - Disney's ABC News, 14 March 2025

• In the USA in 2024, a record first - wind and solar accounted for 17% of total electricity generation, surpassing coal, which fell to a record low of 15%. Also in 2024, solar power generation surpassed hydropower generation for the time. It made up 81% of all new annual power capacity additions in the USA. Natural gas added no net capacity, as new plants were offset with closures.
  - Electrek, 11 March 2025

• On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States rejected a lawsuit by Republican attorneys general that aimed at blocking left-wing lawsuits targeting energy companies for their alleged role in contributing to "global heating". The general claim by these lawsuits is that energy companies allegedly misled the public as to the environmental impact of their operations and products.
  - Zero Hedge, 11 March 2025

• Climate change and global heating, due to the burning of fossil fuels, caused heat waves in South Sudan to appear 10-times more often. For the last three weeks, extreme heat has settled over a large region of continental Eastern Africa, including parts of Kenya and Uganda. Residents have been told to stay indoors and drink water, a difficult directive for countries where many people work outdoors, electricity is sporadic, access to clean water is difficult and modest housing means there are few cooling systems.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 11 March 2025

• Half of the CO2 emissions in the world come from 36 fossil fuel firms that are heavily subsidized by governments. Researchers say data strengthens case for holding firms to account for their contribution to climate crisis, instead of socialistically making taxpayers pay for remediation to fight global heating. The ten biggest oil companies impacting the environment are: [state-owned] Aramco, Coal India, CHN Energy, NIOC and Jinneng Group; (rich investor owned): ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, TotalEnergies, BP.
  - The Guardian, 05 March 2025

• Global heating and rising temperatures are scrambling the base of the ocean food web. Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on Earth -- just as global heating caused by fossil fuels is changing everything.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 04 March 2025

• Four-year lows in the price of coal don't reflect a coming shortage of global supplies of coal. Investment in new production has dwindled in much of the world as shareholders and banks increasingly refuse to approve new spending on projects. Demand, however, continues to rise in Bharat and Zhōngguó, outpacing breakneck rates of expansion in solar and wind, while even developed countries look to coal to help power the artificial intelligence boom.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 March 2025

• The clean energy revolution is unstoppable. Trump is determined to promote fossil fuels, but the economic and technological forces driving solar, wind and other sources are now too powerful to resist.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 01 March 2025

• Where coal is retiring, and hanging on, in the USA. About half of the remaining coal capacity for power generation is retiring in the next few decades.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 21 February 2025

• Coal power construction in Zhōngguó is at a decade-high despite renewables boom. Despite soaring solar and wind power installations, Zhōngguó launched construction of as many as 94.5 gigawatts (GW) of new coal power projects in 2024, the highest level since 2015.
  - Zero Hedge, 13 February 2025

• Chris Wright, the Secretary of Energy for Trump, says that coal is back. "The goal is just affordable, reliable, secure energy ...". And the environment?
  - Zero Hedge, 12 February 2025

• Exports of coal from the USA have been rising steadily to satisfy growing global demand for the world's dirtiest fossil fuel, even though its domestic consumption has decreased. "The global shift away from coal remains challenging, largely driven by rising demand in Asia, even as Europe and the USA see significant declines in coal consumption.", said Dorothy Mei, project manager for Global Energy Monitor's Global Coal Mine Tracker.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 10 February 2025

• There are 206 coal-burning power plants left in the USA, which supply about 16 percent of the country's energy. Experts say burning more does not make financial sense. And Trump says "good, clean coal", he is also lying. "Coal is fundamentally uneconomic. Any need that is not met by wind or solar or battery storage will for the most part be met with natural gas, and coal will still be a distant fourth resource in that mix."
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 25 January 2025

• Oil, coal and natural gas companies should help pay for the costliest wildfires the history of the USA now occurring in Los Angeles. Coal, oil and gas companies that have contributed substantially to the conditions fueling this and other climate disasters. Major oil and gas companies have known for decades that burning their products could lead to "potentially catastrophic events", like the higher temperatures and abnormally dry conditions that fed the fires still being battled in Los Angeles. Exxon scientists warned about this internally starting in the 1970s. Instead of disclosing these risks, big oil companies deliberately misled the public, policymakers and investors. According to a years-long congressional investigation, even as these companies publicly pledged to meaningfully contribute to a transition away from fossil fuels, they were privately working to continue production for decades to come.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 25 January 2025

• 2024 was the first year above 1.5 degress Centigrade of global heating above pre-industrial times, due to the burning of oil, coal and natural gas
  - Thomson's Reuters, 09 January 2025

• Zhōngguó has reduced sulphur dioxide emissions by more than two-thirds in the last 15 years. Putting emissions limits on coal plants and introducing desulphurization technologies that remove SO2 from smokestacks were critical drivers of this decline.
  - Our World in Data, 02 January 2025

• Coal, which Kazakhstan has a lot of, will help fund the country's transition to nuclear power, since Kazakhstan is the world's largest producer of uranium. Zhōngguó has already set up a uranium processing plant, and has shown renewed interest on construction of nuclear power plants in Kazakhstan.
  - Real Clear Markets, 31 December 2024

• Biologists in Florida are closely monitoring how alligators in the Everglades are responding to rising global temperatures due to burning of fossil fuels. Since the 1970s, researchers have documented erosion that is changing the nesting patterns of this reptile along the coast of the southern Everglades and in Florida Bay. Croc Docs team member Sergio Balaguera-Reina believes the overheating of our planet will make the situation worse - bad for the crocodiles .
  - The Cool Down, 31 December 2024

• According to an October 2024 study published in Nature Geoscience, vegetation is taking over the Antarctic Peninsula, turning its edges into a verdant landscape. This is an ominous warning of faster vegetation growth that evidences the effects of global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - SF Gate, 30 December 2024

• Can the insurance industry survive global heating due to fossil fuel burning? In one scenario, vulnerable parts of the world become completely uninsurable, and economic and/or natural forces dismantle communities, as natural catastrophes cause more and more multi-billion payouts for insurance claims.
  - Anthropocene, 28 December 2024

• The state of New York passes a law that will penalize fine fossil fuel companies a total of $75 billion over the next 25 years to pay for damage caused to the climate. The law is intended to capitalistically shift some of the recovery and adaptation costs of climate change from individual taxpayers to oil, gas and coal companies that the law says are liable.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 26 December 2024

• The state of New York passes a law that will penalize fine fossil fuel companies a total of $75 billion over the next 25 years to pay for damage caused to the climate. The law is intended to capitalistically shift some of the socialist recovery and adaptation costs of climate change from individual taxpayers to socialist oil, gas and coal companies that the law says are liable.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 26 December 2024

• The global burning of coal is expected to reach a fresh high of 8.7 billion tons this year, and remain at near-record levels for years as a result of a global natural gas crisis triggered by the invasion of Ukraine by Rossiya.
  - The Guardian, 18 December 2024

• American power producers over the past two years have accumulated massive amounts of coal that are now sitting idle at their facilities - creating financial and storage headaches for utilities and coal miners alike, a new analysis has found. The coal stockpile has reached about 138 million tons, or about the equivalent of the quantity of coal that Appalachia is expected to produce in 2025. These mountains of coal are not only creating storage problems, but they are also posing financial challenges - piling up to about $6.5 billion in unused inventory, based on an average $47.22 per ton delivery rate. Coal plants in the USA now burn a total of only about 1 million tons per day, half as much as they did in 2015.
  - The Hill, 16 December 2024

• Bharat will reach a decision soon on whether to impose import restrictions on metallurgical coke (processed coal), a key ingredient in manufacturing steel. In April, Bharat proposed a plan to protect local suppliers of low-ash metallurgical coke by imposing country-specific quotas to limit annual imports to 2.85 million metric tons for one year.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 12 December 2024

• The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a request from an electric utility in Kentucky to block an Environmental Protection Agency effort to address the health risks presented by coal ash, a toxic substance created by burning coal to produce electricity
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 12 December 2024

• The global coal industry sets record highs for demand and exports in 2024
  - Zero Hedge, 11 December 2024

• Scientists analyzed coal ash from power plants across the United States and found it could contain up to 11 million tons of rare earth elements -- nearly eight times the amount the US has in domestic reserves -- worth about $8.4 billion
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 06 December 2024

• Carrboro, a town in North Carolina, sues Duke Energy over climate change and global heating. Carrboro accused Duke, one the largest utility companies in the USA, of ignoring data about climate change and global heating while increasing use of fossil fuels, often in disadvantaged communities. The town said that Duke Energy's actions were costing its residents millions of dollars because climate change and global heating had increased damage from floods and other extreme weather - Duke profits by having others pay for the damages.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 05 December 2024

• Republicans in oil/coal-loving Texas sue BlackRock and other investment firms for "conspiring" to quash dirty coal as a power source
  - Zero Hedge, 27 November 2024

• JPMorgan Chase is actively pursuing deals to finance the early shutdown of coal-fired power plants, joining a list of global banks that are rethinking their approach to handling the dirtiest fossil fuel in the world.
  - Zero Hedge, 26 November 2024

• Shares of Peabody Energy drop 7.2% in premarket trading, after the company agreed to pay up to $3.8 billion in cash for the coal assets of Anglo American. Post market-open, shares of Anglo and Peabody both had dropped 4%.
  - Barron's, 25 November 2024

• A new report forecasts temperature increases due to global heating well above the level that world leaders have pledged to avoid. The report by the Climate Action Tracker, a research group, estimates that the climate and energy policies currently pursued by governments around the world would cause global temperatures to rise roughly 2.7 degrees Celsius, or 4.9 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels by 2100. The lie of the 2015 Paris Agreement was a goal of 1.5 to 2.0 degress Celsius. The world is still heading for significant warming because global energy demand is growing faster than clean energy is expanding, which means fossil fuel use has been rising to fill the gap.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 15 November 2024

• Global carbon dioxide emissions, a big cause of global heating, are rising to record highs. Countries promised to move away from coal, oil and natural gas at last year's waste-of-time summit. New research shows that many countries are burning more fossil fuels than ever before.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 November 2024

• Even as Earth sets new records for global heating, people this year is pumping 330 million tons (300 million metric tons) more carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels than it did last year, with Zhōngguó leading the world in carbon emissions, exploiting its opportunity to grow its economy burning fossil fuels as did Europe and North America
  - Associated Press, 12 November 2024

• An estimate of the total cost of damage from climate-related extreme weather events globally was approximately $2 trillion between 2014 and 2023, extreme weather events caused by global heating due to burning of fossil fuels that profits the socialist fossil fuel industry.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 10 November 2024

• Deutschland has a renewal energy outage, due to cloudy weather (less solar), with huge consequences. The foggy weather of the last few days has brought green electricity production to a virtual standstill. Not only have particularly climate-damaging power plants been brought into operation as a replacement for wind and solar power, but prices have also exploded. And all of this seems to be just a foretaste of winter.
  - Zero Hedge, 10 November 2024

• The sustainable giant fish harvest in the Amazon is threatened by severe drought caused by global heating. Two years of drought has fishermen and indigenous communities requesting government aid, in what is being called a matter of climate justice, as these people suffer .
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 09 November 2024

• "A total waste of time": why Papua New Guinea withdrew from COP29 and why climate advocates are worried. The foreign minister of Papua New Guinea argues that UN climate summits have produced "no results" as the country takes the rate step of withdrawing from the upcoming COPY29 summit. Cop, the UN's annual year-ending climate fiesta, has faced persistent criticism that big-emitting countries have not done enough to take meaningful climate action. "The last three Cop meetings have gone around in circles, producing no tangible results for small island states. COP29 will be no different, so Papua New Guinea will not participate at the political level."
  - The Guardian, 08 November 2024

• The CEO of (the useless) COP29 environmental summit is filmed agreeing to facilitate global-heating fossil fuel deals at the climate summit. Elnur Soltanov recorded speaking with fake oil and gas group that asked for deals in exchange for sponsoring talks. Soltanov is the deputy energy minister of Azerbaijan, agreed to these deals, and spoke of a future that includes global-heating fossil fuels "perhaps for ever".
  - The Guardian, 08 November 2024

• The Trump victory sets back the world's attempt to rein in dangerous levels of heating and potentially isolates the United States in the global energy transition, given Trump's and Republican's paid-for hostility to global heating and love of huge subsidies to the fossil fuel industry
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 08 November 2024

• The executives who manage Duke Energy consider making coal power great again under Trump, who will allow them to transfer the costs of their pollution to the taxpayers, while the executives and owners get richer
  - Zero Hedge, 07 November 2024

• Solar and wind are rolling out rapidly in the USA. They account for about 19 percent of energy generation today, and could reach more than 40% by 2030. This clean energy will rapidly replace coal, and many expect it will simply replace natural gas as well. But that is a mistake: In fact, solar and wind will depend on gas for decades to come. This is because natural gas is needed to generate power at night or when the wind isn't blowing.
  - Zero Hedge, 07 November 2024

• 2024 will be the first year on record to surpass the Paris Agreement's goal to keep global heating under 1.5 degrees Celsius, a level under which countries could prevent cascading and worsening impacts such as droughts, heat waves and catastrophic sea level rise. Scientists warn at that level, the human-caused climate crisis -- fueled by heat-trapping fossil fuel pollution -- begins to exceed the ability of humans and the natural world to adapt.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 06 November 2024

• Why heat waves of the future, caused by global heating , may be even deadlier than feared. The human body's cooling defenses fail at lower "wet bulb" temperatures than scientist had estimated.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 05 November 2024

• Anglo American continues coal selloff with a sale in Australia. The global miner sold its interest in two steelmaking-coal mines in Australia for around $1.1 billion, advancing its coal-division selloff.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 05 November 2024

• How a year of rain fell on parts of Spain in eight hours. The region is no stranger to storms like those that caused this week's deluges. But global heating caused by burning fossil fuels helps the storms become more destructive.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 02 November 2024

• Climate change caused by global heating due to fossil fuel burning is making disasters deadlier. More than half a million people were killed in 10 disasters in the last 20 years that climate change worsened, according to a new report.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 November 2024

• The meteorological data recorded over the past two decades by sensors of the Roque de los Muchachos astronomical observatory facilities point to a rise of 1.1 degree Centigrade in the average temperature due to global heating. The analysis, led by UAB researchers, shows more than double the increase predicted by climate models for the same area, and even more than expected for the next 20 years.
  - Phys.org, 31 October 2024

• One of the driest months in United States history is coming to a close after causing the worst drought in more than 20 years in parts of the East as temperatures soar well above average there. But an upcoming pattern flip could change things as the weather seesaws in the USA from one extreme to the next -- a telltale sign of the increasing weather extremes as the planet heats up .
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 31 October 2024

• In 2023, there were a record level of deaths due to extreme heat. Heat-related deaths, food insecurity and the spread of infectious diseases caused by the global heating climate crisis have reached record levels. "The relentless expansion of fossil fuels and record-breaking greenhouse gas emissions compounds these dangerous health impacts, and is threatening to reverse the limited progress made so far and put a healthy future further out of reach."
  - Zero Hedge, 30 October 2024

• Coal remains an important fossil fuel despite the 'green' energy transition. Both Bharat and Zhōngguó have stated quite plainly that they will not be following the example of the UK and shutting down any coal power plants in the observable future.
  - Zero Hedge, 29 October 2024

• Increased use of natural gas for power generation has made the USA more dependent on fossil fuels for its electricity supply this year than Zhōngguó.
  - Zero Hedge, 25 October 2024

• An alarming glimpse into a future of historic droughts due to global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Record dry conditions in South America have led to wildfires, power cuts and water rationing. The world's largest river system, the Amazon, which sustains some 30 million people across eight countries, is drying up.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 20 October 2024

• Rossiya is closing in on the capture of a vital industrial asset: a Ukrainian coal mine that is a cornerstone of the country's steel industry. Owned by Ukrainian firm Metinvest, the modern facility -- opened in 1990 -- is Ukraine's largest mine for producing coking-coal, a specific grade used to fuel blast furnaces. It is near the village of Udachne, about 10 kilometers west of the city of Pokvrosk, which is itself a key supply hub in the Donetsk oblast of Ukraine.
  - Zero Hedge, 19 October 2024

• Coal production in Zhōngguó surged in September, rising 4.4% year-to-year to 414 million tons. The increase followed the end of safety inspections in coal-producing regions and the return of coal-to-chemicals capacity to normal operation after maintenance.
  - OilPrice.com, 18 October 2024

• Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature's carbon sink failing? The sudden collapse of carbon sinks was not factored into climate models -- and could rapidly accelerate global heating due to the burning of fossil fuels.
  - The Guardian, 14 October 2024

• The state of California tries 'Trump-proofing' its climate policies. A second Trump administration would be expected to shred climate polices as payment for huge political donations from the oil and coal industries. California officials are devising ways to insulate its environmental regulations.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 October 2024

• Global heating caused by the burning of oil and coal made Hurricane Helene more destructive. In cooler times, a similarly rare storm over the Southeast would have delivered less rain and weaker winds, a team of scientists concluded in an analysis.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 11 October 2024

• In a first, a gas utility is sued over global heating deception. The Oregon lawsuit, filed by state officials, alleges that a utility, NW Natural, knew of the dangers of burning fossil fuels and misled its customers. The company joins Exxon, Shell and other fossil fuel companies as defendants in the lawsuit. The complaint alleges that Exxon, Shell and other companies, now including NW Natural, had schemed to "rapaciously" sell fossil fuel products and cover up what they knew about the risks to the planet, and that the companies bear responsibility for the effects of climate change including a deadly heat wave in 2021 that killed at least 69 county residents.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 11 October 2024

• Thyssenkrupp reviews plan to wean itself off fossil fuels. The company has been trying to turn the fortunes of its steel business around while making operations more sustainable, an effort complicated by rising costs and market conditions.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 08 October 2024

• Hurricane Milton is supercharged by hot Gulf waters (warmed by global heating due to burning fossil fuels) to a Category 5 superstorm, potentially rivalling a destructive 1848 hurricane
  - Zero Hedge, 07 October 2024

• Global heating due to fossil fuel use is scorching the biggest river in the world. As a punishing drought due to global heating dries up stretches of the Amazon River, Brazil is resorting to dredging to try to keep food, medicine and people flowing along the watery superhighway.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 07 October 2024

• Homeowners are rushing to file insurance claims after Hurricane Helene left a trail of destruction across six states. Many of them will likely be able to buy full coverage. Property insurers in recent years have hollowed out coverage and sharply increased rates to compensate for steep underwriting losses driven by worsening natural disasters caused by global heating due to fossil fuel use.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 07 October 2024

• Mooresville, a wealthy town in North Carolina, worries that there is danger lurking under its grass lawns. For decades, utilities across the nation sold waste coal ash to real estate developers. The EPA now warns it poses a cancer risk.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 01 October 2024

• The United Kingdom becomes the first major economy to stop burning coal for electricity, closing its last power plant fueled by coal.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 30 September 2024

• The USA wants to triple nuclear power by 2050. America's coal communities could provide a pathway. Building new reactors at shuttered coal plants could reduce costs and help the USA achieve its goal of tripling nuclear power.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 27 September 2024

• The two big insurers still betting on fossil fuels. Most companies have cut back on oil, gas and coal investments after big climate-related losses. But State Farm and Berkshire Hathaway's insurance companies increased theirs. Insurers have been pricing in the risks of events such as wildfires and passing the costs on to their customers.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 26 September 2024

• A recent decision by Glencore, after consulting shareholders, to retain its coal assets is the latest evidence that uncompromising and counterproductive ESG attacks on fossil fuels are peaking and that shareholders and corporate managers can support realistic and economically sound decarbonization and energy transition strategies.
  - RealClearMarkets, 24 September 2024

• Despite efforts to decarbonize the economy, global coal consumption surpassed 164 exajoules for the first time in 2023. The fossil fuel still accounts for 26% of the total energy consumption of the world.
  - Zero Hedge, 23 September 2024

• Satellite data shows that the fossil fuel industry in the USA is releasing into the atmosphere more and more of methane, a potent gas for worsening global heating, researchers said, despite pledges to cut back. Apparently the fossil fuel industry want to burn-up their planet ever quicker to earn more money .
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 20 September 2024

• Coal miner New Hope keeps door open for acquisitions as coal deals run hot. Australian miner New Hope's interest in dealmaking reflects its confidence that coal will remain in demand for years.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 18 September 2024

• Floods devastate west and central Africa. Flooding caused by heavy rains has left more than 1,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed, with 1 million people forced to leave their homes in Nigeria, Mali, and Chad. Another consequence of global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 16 September 2024

• Floods brought on by days of heavy rainfalls have been ravaging countries in Central and Eastern Europe including Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic and Austria. Another consequence of global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 16 September 2024

• Trillions of USA dollars are "greenwashed" by banks extending loans and credit lines to subsidiaries of fossil fuel companies in secrecy jurisdictions, thus helping hide the true scale of banking support for oil, natural gas, and coal. The analysis of the fossil fuel financing of the world's largest 60 banks revealed that 68% of the fossil fuel financing provided by these banks is being granted to subsidiaries in secrecy jurisdictions.
  - Zero Hedge, 11 September 2024

• Natural gas and coal dominate fuel for the USA electrical grid despite efforts to transition to renewable energy. "Natural gas is the only cost-efficient energy generation capable of providing the type of 24/7 reliable power required."
  - Zero Hedge, 11 September 2024

• A powerful drought in the Amazon rainforest led on Monday to the lowest water levels on the Paraguay River in more than a century, disrupting commerce on the major waterway, creating hazards for local transport and offering a grim warning for other parts of the world about the dangers of global heating due to burning fossil fuels.
  - Associated Press, 09 September 2024

• Heat waves, the killer climate disaster that are not named (caused by global heating ). In typical years, more people in the USA die in heat waves than in hurricanes, tornadoes and floods combined.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 08 September 2024

• Wildfires in Canada produced more planet-warming carbon than almost any country, researchers found. That could upend key calculations on the pace of global heating. The wildfires that ravaged the boreal forests in Canada in 2023 produced more planet-warming carbon emissions than the burning of fossil fuels in all but three countries. While the hot and dry weather that fueled the fires in Canada last year was extraordinary when compared with historical records, climate projections suggest it will become common in the 2050s if the world continues on the current trajectory of global heating due to burning of fossil fuels.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 29 August 2024

• Heat deaths due to global heating caused by burning fossil fuels have doubled in the USA in recent decades
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 29 August 2024

• 83% of the coal burned in the world is used in Asia, with over half of the coal in the world burned in Zhōngguó
  - Zero Hedge, 28 August 2024

• The world's largest wetland is burning, and rare animals are dying. In Brazil, wildfires have roared across the Pantanal, a maze of rivers, forests and marshlands that sprawl over an area 20 times the size of the Everglades. The Pantanal has suffered years of severe droughts due to global heating and deforestation (to grow more meat ).
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 28 August 2024

• Coal power defined Becker, a town of 5000 people in Minnesota. Can solar power win the people over to the transition? One of the largest coal-fueled electric plants in the USA is being replaced with thousands of acres of solar panels and a test of long-duration batteries. It is also a test of the economic consequences, especially for jobs, in the transition from coal to solar.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 22 August 2024

• Arch Resources and Consol Energy have agreed to combine in an all-stock merger of equals to create a new $5.2 billion entity called Core Natural Resources
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 22 August 2024

• Jharkhand, a coal-rich state in Bharat, has passed a new law imposing mining taxes, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that will inflate the prices of minerals from coal to bauxite
  - Bloomberg, 20 August 2024

• The increased use of coal by Zhōngguó and Bharat, and by other countries in Asia, is turning the West's grand crusade for a carbon-neutral future into a colossal case of useless sacrifice. Every new coal mine in Bharat or every additional megawatt of coal-generated power in Zhōngguó negates whatever emission reductions are achieved by the West.
  - Zero Hedge, 19 August 2024

• As coal-burning power plants close in the USA, there is a renewed focus on nuclear energy
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 17 August 2024

• Coal production in Zhōngguó rises to new all-time high in July
  - Zero Hedge, 16 August 2024

• How extreme heat caused by global heating due to oil and coal burning is threatening education progress worldwide. Children today face many more extreme weather hazards that can undermine global gains in education.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 15 August 2024

• Deadly landslides in Bharat were made worse by climate change and global heating. Extreme rainfall made 10 percent heavier by human-caused (the buring of oil and coal) climate change and global heating triggered landslides that killed hundreds, according to a new study.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 14 August 2024

• Excessive heat caused by global heating due to oil and coal burning, contributed to 47,000 deaths in Europe last year. A new study shows how deadly warming can be, and how behavioral and social changes can reduce mortality.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 August 2024

• Glencore will continue to produce coal, citing a shift of attitudes on protecting the environment from global heating caused by coal. The decision to keep mining the fossil fuel is the latest signal that the finance world's sustainable-investing craze is fizzling out.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 08 August 2024

• Four key pillars of the global climate are melting in the heat trapped by rising emissions of fossil fuels - oil, coal, natural gas. The relatively stable climate that nurtured human civilization depends in large part on these structures: the ice sheets of Greenland and West Antarctica, the Amazon rainforest and the Atlantic currents that warm Europe.
  - The Hill, 02 August 2024

• A vital system of Atlantic Ocean currents that influences weather across the world could collapse as soon as the late 2030s, scientists have suggested in a new study -- a planetary-scale disaster that would transform weather and climate. Several studies in recent years have suggested the crucial system -- the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation -- could be on course for collapse, weakened by warmer ocean temperatures and disrupted saltiness caused by human-induced climate change. In the decades after a collapse, Arctic ice would start creeping south, and after 100 years, would extend all the way down to the southern coast of England. The average temperature of Europe would plunge, as would the temperature of North America -- including parts of the USA. The Amazon rainforest would see a complete reversal in its seasons; the current dry season would become the rainy months, and vice versa.
  - The Hill, 02 August 2024

• Zhōngguó has achieved a historic milestone by surpassing electricity production with coal with wind and solar energy. Solar power is projected to surpass coal as the primary energy source of Zhōngguó by 2026.
  - OilPrice.com, 01 August 2024

• As the fossil fuel industries continue to bribe politicians to deny global heating, the planet shatters the heat record of the hotest temperature for the second time in two days, hitting an average surface temperature of 17.15 degrees C (62.87 degrees F)
  - Comcast's CNBC, 24 July 2024

• Why the era of soaring carbon emissinos in Zhōngguó might be ending. Analysts are seeing promising signs from the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 20 July 2024

• Coal production in Zhōngguó rises to a six-month high
  - Zero Hedge, 18 July 2024

• Heat in Las Vegas breaks records and stuns even the forecasters. A brutal heat wave that has gripped the West for days will shift eastward on the weekend, while much of sweltering Houston still lacks electricity.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 12 July 2024

• "More heat, more often": temperature records keep breaking. The burning of fossil fuels has created more frequent and more intense heat waves. Experts warn these heat waves are "the new normal". Republican politicians, bribed/lobbied by the fossil fuel industry, deny all of this warming of their Earth.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 12 July 2024

• Global heating - out-of-control heat is making the Earth more "weird" - and more deadly. For 13 straight months, global heat records have been shattered. This is unprecedented in human history, thanks to the burning of fossil fuels .
  - Salon, 11 July 2024

• For the first time in more than 150 years, electricity generation uses no coal in the province of Alberta, Canada
  - Globe and Mail, 07 July 2024

• South Africa is seeking to alter the terms of a landmark agreement under which it promised to cut its reliance on coal in exchange for access to financing worth $2.6 billion. South Africa wants to delay closing some coal-fired power plants it needs.
  - Bloomberg, 03 July 2024

• The five men of the Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration "pollution-fighting" plan that would mean crippling new emissions requirements on power plants and pipelines in parts of the country to stem ozone pollution that wanders into downwind states. This will allow Republican states to generate power and send the pollution to harm the health of people in other states.
  - Zero Hedge, 27 June 2024

• The five men of the Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration "pollution-fighting" plan that would mean crippling new emissions requirements on power plants and pipelines in parts of the country to stem ozone pollution that wanders into downwind states. This will allow Republican states to generate power and send the pollution to harm the health of people in other states.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 27 June 2024

• State prosecutors in Arizona could reasonably file homicide charges against Big Oil companies for deaths caused by a July 2023 heatwave, lawyers wrote in a new prosecution memorandum.
  - The Guardian, 26 June 2024

• Efforts to reduce global heating by reducing the burning of oil, coal and natural gas are helping to increase global heating. Tiny particles from the combustion of coal, oil and gas can reflect sunlight and spur the formation of clouds, shading the planet from the sun's rays. Since the 1980s, those particles have offset between 40 and 80 percent of the warming caused by greenhouse gases.
  - Bezos' Washington Post, 25 June 2024

• Extreme wildfires have doubled in 2 decades. Due to global heating much caused by the burning of oil and coal, extreme wildfire events are becoming far more common and more intense.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 25 June 2024

• The first large-scale 'green steel' project is being built in Sweden. Instead of burning coal, it will use 'green hydrogen' produced with renewable electricity. The company says its process will cut carbon pollution by 95% compared to traditional steelmaking, and is aiming to produce 5 million metric tons of green steel by 2030. While projects like H2 Green Steel show momentum is growing, experts say the pace is far too slow.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 23 June 2024

• Nearly 100 million under temperature advisories as a heat wave of moer than 90 degrees lingers in the USA, due to global heating caused by the use of oil, natural gas and coal. The heat is expected to peak over the weekend in the Northeast, but not until early next week in the South and the Great Plains, according to the National Weather Service.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 21 June 2024

• Global heating caused by the burning of oil, natural gas and coal made the recent heat wave in the USA and Mexico more likely. Extreme heat across parts of Central America and the Southern United States in May and early June was 35 times more likely because of human-caused global heating.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 21 June 2024

• Trump once promised to revive coal. Now, he rarely mentions it. In earlier races for the White House, he "thou shalt not" lied/pledged to get coal miners back to work. Now, political and economic realities have shifted. Despite the fact that Mr. Trump gutted climate regulations and appointed a coal lobbyist to lead the country's top environmental agency, 75 coal-fired power plants closed and the industry shed about 13,000 jobs during his presidency.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 16 June 2024

• End all energy subsidies now! The energy crisis is decades past, and technology advances in oil and natural gas drilling have yielded booming supplies, allowing the U.S. to become a major oil and natural gas exporter. So maybe it is time (or past time) to end the dense and expensive thicket of federal energy market interventions (including subsidies and mandates for wind, solar, ethanol, electric vehicles, plus fuel economy standards).
  - Master Resource, 13 June 2024

• Rossiya plans to export coal to Bharat using the railways of Iran, passing through the port of Bandar Abbas in Iran
  - Shipping News, 11 June 2024

• For the next 2-5 years, there is an extraordinary imbalance in favor of demand for power
  - Zero Hedge, 03 June 2024

• Electricity from coal is pricey. Should consumers have to pay?
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 June 2024

• Mainstream investors finally get it: the AI investment tactic is not technology, but energy such as from natural gas - the electric power needed to fuel the growth of AI
  - Zero Hedge, 21 May 2024

• Utility stocks are suddenly white hot, thanks largely to artificial intelligence's thirst for electricity. Investors accustomed to thinking of the sector as sleepy and safe need to realize the game has changed.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 18 May 2024

• The state of Georgia is a magnet for data centers and other cutting-edge industries, but vast electricity demands are clashing with the green-energy goals of the companies demanding more electricity.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 13 May 2024

• Countries in Asia are making more use of coal, while the USA tries to reduce the use of coal
  - Zero Hedge, 11 May 2024

• A major pension fund in Australia, the Australian Retirement Fund, to restrict its investments in coal starting July 1st.
  - Zero Hedge, 03 May 2024

• A yeast-like bacteria can cut carbon emissions while creating sustainable aviation fuel and sneakers. Technology invented by LanzaTech can reduce the CO2 output of steel plants by a third while also creating ethanol for environmentally friendly plastics and fuel.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 02 May 2024

• How big data centers are money-grubbing mega-billion dollar Big Tech companies are slowing the shift to clean energy. In the data center alley in Virginia, rising power demand means more fossil fuel.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 30 April 2024

• The EPA severely limits pollution from power plants that burn coal. The regulation from the Environmental Protection Agency requires coal plants in the United States to reduce 90 percent of their greenhouse pollution by 2039. The EPA also imposed three additional regulations on coal-burning power plants, including stricter limits on emissions of mercury, a neurotoxin linked to developmental damage in children, from plants that burn lignite coal, the lowest grade of coal. The rules also more tightly restrict the seepage of toxic ash from coal plants into water supplies and limit the discharge of wastewater from coal plants.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 26 April 2024

• The EPA severely limits pollution from power plants that burn coal. The regulation from the Environmental Protection Agency requires coal plants in the United States to reduce 90 percent of their greenhouse pollution by 2039. The EPA also imposed three additional regulations on coal-burning power plants, including stricter limits on emissions of mercury, a neurotoxin linked to developmental damage in children, from plants that burn lignite coal, the lowest grade of coal. The rules also more tightly restrict the seepage of toxic ash from coal plants into water supplies and limit the discharge of wastewater from coal plants.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 26 April 2024

• The latest tech bubble to make rich companies in Silicon Valley richer - AI - runs on coal from the eastern USA
  - Zero Hedge, 25 April 2024

• The huge coal usage by Zhōngguó and Bharat are slowing down the transition to renewable energy
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 25 April 2024

• The head of climate research at hedge fund Andurand expresses skepticism over carbon-credit boom. "I don't think you're going to find people stampeding to buy credits".
  - Zero Hedge, 22 April 2024

• Internet data centers are burning more and more coal to generate electricity. Power lines will be built across four states in a $5.2 billion effort that, relying on coal plants that were meant to be shuttered, is designed to keep the electric grid from failing amid spiking energy demands.
  - Jeff Bezos' Washington Post, 19 April 2024

• How Big Tech is consuming more and more electricity and water in the USA (and thus causing more environmental harm)
  - Zero Hedge, 19 April 2024

• The computation demand for the new, job-destroying AI, by 2030 could be consuming more energy than Bharat, much of that energy generated by burning coal and oil, worsening the environment
  - Bloomberg, 17 April 2024

• Federal regulators on Tuesday issued new protections for miners against a type of dust long known to cause deadly lung ailments, airborne silica -- changes recommended by government researchers a half-century ago. Miners have paid dearly for the delay. As progress on the rule stalled, government researchers documented with growing alarm a resurgence of severe black lung afflicting younger coal miners, and studies implicated poorly controlled silica as the likely cause. Miners have paid dearly for the delay. In the 1990s, less than 1 percent of central Appalachian miners who had worked at least 25 years underground had an advanced stage of black lung disease. By 2015, the number had risen to 5 percent.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 17 April 2024

• Driven by Zhōngguó, coal plants made a comeback in 2023. Zhōngguó, along with Bharat, is still building power stations that run on coal. Elsewhere, retirements of older plants have slowed. Not good news for the environment.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 12 April 2024

• A coal-free New England is a victory for the entire country. After decades of work and tireless advocacy, Granite Shore Power has announced plans to retire the last two coal plants in New England: Merrimack and Schiller stations in New Hampshire, bringing 560 megawatts of dirty power offline.
  - Warner Brothers CNN, 02 April 2024

• Hydroelectricity output in Bharat fell 16% at the steepest pace in at least 38 years during the year ended March 31, a Reuters analysis of government data showed, as erratic rainfall forced further dependence on coal-fired power amid higher demand.
  - Mises Institute, 01 April 2024

• SLB (Schlumberger) to invest nearly $400 million in carbon capture company in push to scale technology in a project in Norway
  - Comcast's CNBC, 28 March 2024

• An environmental community group, Save Carbon Country, on Tuesday sued Stronghold Digital Mining (and the state of Pennsylvania), claiming the company's bitcoin mine in northeastern Pennsylvania that burns waste coal and old tires for energy is polluting nearby communities with dangerous chemicals.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 26 March 2024

• Imports by Zhōngguó of coal from Australia surge, replacing Rossiya as the top supplier of coal to Zhōngguó.
  - Alibaba's South China Morning Post, 22 March 2024

• A new surge in power use is threatening climate goals in the USA. A boom in data centers and factories is straining electric grids and propping up fossil fuels.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 18 March 2024

• The 'zombies' of the tax code in the USA: why fossil fuels subsidies for rich oil companies seem impossible to kill. For the fourth year in a row, President Biden is trying to eliminate $35 billion over the next ten years in federal tax deductions for coal, oil and gas companies. But fossil fuel subsidies have proven difficult to stop.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 18 March 2024

• Global heating, due to carbon emissions from oil, natural gas and coal use -- is particularly bad for women-led families. New U.N. research shows that climate change disproportionately erodes income in households led by women in poorer countries.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 06 March 2024

• Renewable power growth in the USA is setting new records with the support of government subsidies. Wind and solar power are projected to become more popular than natural gas in replacing coal.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 23 February 2024

• How taxes/tariffs imposed by Zhōngguó soured the wine industry of Australia. The differing fortunes of wine and coal from Australia -- two export industries targeted by Zhōngguó -- offer clues as to how future trade conflicts could unfold
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 12 February 2024

• The USA might be one step closer to saving the 300-square mile Mobile-Tensaw Delta in Alamaba, the so-called 'America's Amazon'. The greatest upriver threat to the Mobile-Tensaw Delta is the coal-fired James M. Barry Electric Generating Plant, some 25 miles north of Mobile. Since 1965, the Alabama Power Company has been storing coal ash there in storage ponds built in the crook of a switchback bend in the Mobile River. If the dam is breached, that toxic sludge will pour into the Mobile River. Already the ponds are leaking heavy metals into the groundwater. Fortunately, Alabama Power was entering into settlement negotiations with the EPA.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 10 February 2024

• Stricter limits on soot emissions will save up to $46 billion in healthcare costs, federal officials say. The new EPA air-pollution rule is another blow to the coal industry.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 09 February 2024

• Zhōngguó was responsible for 96% of the coal plants constructed in 2023
  - OilPrice.com, 06 February 2024

• Biden makes coal great again as exports soar to Bharat. US thermal coal exporters recorded more than $5 billion in overseas sales in 2023, shipping upwards of 32.5 million metric tons of the high-polluting power fuel. Reuters points out diverging trends between sliding domestic coal use at power plants and a surge in coal exports. They called this "hypocrisy, given the USA's ambitions to become a global leader in energy transition and pollution reduction efforts."
  - Zero Hedge, 06 February 2024

• Bank of America is breaking its promise to not finance new coal projects
  - Zero Hedge, 06 February 2024

• The dreams of Indonesia of prosperity due to the electric vehicle industry helps fuel an excessive use of coal instead. The nickel industry of Indonesia has seen explosive growth, but it is powered by a coal binge that is throwing off the climate goals of the counrty.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 05 February 2024

• Bank of America pledged to stop financing coal. Now it is backtracking. The changes come as Republican lawmakers increase efforts to punish businesses that consider climate change and the environment in their operations.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 04 February 2024

• New documents show that the fossil fuel industry (oil, natural gas, coal) knew of the future danger's of global heating due to their products, only for the industry to then publicly lie/deny this science for decades and fund ongoing efforts to delay action on the climate crisis.
  - The Guardian, 30 January 2024

• Global emissions from electricity set to fall even as power demand climbs, the IEA predicts. Starting this year, record generation from renewables and nuclear will cover rising power demand from growth in emerging markets, AI and data centers, the agency says.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 25 January 2024

• The world's coal-fired power-generation hit a record high in 2023. As countries, especially in Asia, looked to meet growing electricity demand and ensure their energy security, coal use in power generation hit record highs.
  - Zero Hedge, 18 January 2024

• Coal production in Zhōngguó hits a record new high in 2023
  - Zero Hedge, 18 January 2024

• Two freight trains collided on South Africa's main coal export railway along the east coast of South Africa, resulting in significant disruptions that have throttled mineral shipments at a top maritime export facility
  - Zero Hedge, 16 January 2024

• Global heating and the dirty energies of oil, natural gas and coal. How temperature records were shatttered as 2023 became the hottest year ever. Month after month global temperatures not only break records, but also they surpassed them by far. This year could be even warmer.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 16 January 2024

• Carbon emissiones in the USA fell in 2023 as the use of coal declined to new lows
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 12 January 2024

• Global production of coal is growing steadily, making a return unlikely to the high prices of 2022
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 10 January 2024

• Zhōngguó reinstates taxes/tariffs on coal imports, impact global suppliers. Zhōngguó has reinstated taxes/tariffs on coal imports from the start of this year in what could be a blow to Russian exporters.
  - Zero Hedge, 02 January 2024