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Pourtant considéré comme une référence dans le domaine des connaissances sur le réchauffement climatique, le site www.climate.gov a été fermé par l’administration Trump au début de l’été. De quoi compromettre sérieusement les cours sur le climat dans les écoles américaines mais les enseignants ne restent pas les bras croisés.

ANTI-KLIMA

In a remarkable United Nations address, the president lashed out at wind turbines, environmentalists and allies around the world while dismissing the dangers of climate change.

ANTI-KLIMA POLITIK

On Wednesday in New York, countries lined up to say they would accelerate their efforts to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. In staying away, the U.S. was all but alone.

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The U.S. president promoted himself and criticized a wide variety of targets, including renewable energy.

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A pattern of getting rid of statistics has emerged that echoes the president’s first term, when he suggested if the nation stopped testing for Covid, it would have few cases.

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The mandatory program, which required 8,000 facilities to report their release, will be ended to reduce ‘bureaucratic red tape’

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The data, from thousands of coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills and other industrial facilities, is the country’s most comprehensive way to track greenhouse gases.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Face au risque de voir le fruit de leur travail disparaître ou pire, être instrumentalisé par l'administration Trump pour promouvoir des idées climatosceptiques, un groupe de scientifiques et de personnes faisant de la vulgarisation aux Etats-Unis se mobilise pour sauver un important site gouvernemental.

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Chris Wright, the energy secretary, said he would push Europe to loosen environmental rules and buy more gas. Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, tied fossil fuels to a need to win the A.I. race.

ANTI-KLIMA

Chris Wright, who travels to Europe next week to promote American gas, called climate change “not incredibly important.”

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Climate.gov, which went dark this summer, to be revived by volunteers as climate.us with expanded mission

MEDIEN & ÖFF. MEINUNG

The political pushback against positive green progress has been shocking. But as corporations and those in power turn away, the overwhelming majority of people in the world want more ambitious climate action, writes Jonathan Watts

WISSENSCHAFTEN

European governments are taking steps to break their dependence on critical scientific data the United States historically made freely available to the world, and are ramping up their own data collection systems to monitor climate change and weather extremes, according to Reuters interviews.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Die Trump-USA wollen zwei der weltweit wichtigste Klimasatelliten abschalten. US-Forschergruppen versuchen derweil, Wissen vor der Löschung zu bewahren.

ANTI-KLIMA

The Department of Energy is calling for "honest dialogue." It looks a lot like a playbook from the past.

EMPFOHLEN MEDIEN & ÖFF. MEINUNG

Die fossile Gegen­offensive tobt, während der Klima­diskurs verkümmert.

ANTI-KLIMA

A “critical assessment” report commissioned by the Trump administration to justify a rollback of US climate regulations contains at least 100 false or misleading statements, according to a Carbon Brief factcheck involving dozens of leading climate scientists.

ANTI-KLIMA

The lawsuit seeks to block the Trump administration from repealing the legal foundation for regulating climate pollution.

MEDIEN & ÖFF. MEINUNG

Die aggressive KI-Strategie der Trump-Regierung zielt auf Dominanz. Ihre Vorgaben für Sprachmodelle sind widersprüchlich.

ANTI-KLIMA

The E.P.A. said this week it would revoke its own ability to fight climate change. It’s the latest move in an extraordinary pivot away from science-based protections.

ANTI-KLIMA

Experts say the report being used to justify the mass rollback of climate regulations has many claims based on long-debunked research

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Researchers say DOE report cherry-picks data to downplay threat of greenhouse gases

ANTI-KLIMA

Malgré des alertes lancées dès les années 1960, les Etats peinent toujours à prendre des mesures pour contrer les émissions de gaz à effet de serre. Pas étonnant, quand on considère tout ce qui a été mis en œuvre par les lobbys des énergies fossiles pour décrédibiliser la science

ANTI-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN

The Trump administration Tuesday announced plans to revoke the agency’s “endangerment finding” on greenhouse gases, setting the stage for the federal government to cease regulating climate-warming emissions.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Climate scientist Michael Mann called the report “a deeply misleading antiscientific narrative, built on deceptive arguments, misrepresented datasets, and distortion of actual scientific understanding.”

MEDIEN & ÖFF. MEINUNG

Can we flood the zone with truth?

ANTI-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN

According to two people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the planet.

ANTI-KLIMA

Under Trump, climate denial has given way to something even more dangerous: climate erasure.

ANTI-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN WISSENSCHAFTEN

Closing Mauna Loa and three other U.S. sites that track greenhouse gases would disrupt a decades-long record of the planet’s changing atmosphere.

MEDIEN & ÖFF. MEINUNG

Through so-called natural language processing, AI can identify misinformation, track its spread and monitor the digital information landscape in real time. But it has its limits.

ANTI-KLIMA

The three scientists joined the administration after it dismissed hundreds of experts who were assessing how global warming is affecting the country.

MEDIEN & ÖFF. MEINUNG

Voters may feel hotter summers are ‘too much’ but they appear to tolerate roll-back of policies to stop global heating

ANTI-KLIMA WISSENSCHAFTEN

The federal website hosting five legislatively mandated reports stopped working Monday afternoon.

ANTI-KLIMA WISSENSCHAFTEN

The national climate assessments help state and local governments prepare for the impacts of a warming world

ANTI-KLIMA

L'agroclimatologue Serge Zaka dénonce dans Forum la violence dont lui et ses collègues sont victimes de la part des climatosceptiques. Ceci alors même que la Suisse et l'ouest de l'Europe traversent une vague de chaleur particulièrement intense.

ANTI-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN

The fossil fuel industry and right-wing populists are increasingly key targeting policy-makers with climate misinformation, according to a new report

ANTI-KLIMA RECHT

The firms say their First Amendment rights are being violated when cities and states sue and accuse them of spreading misinformation about climate change.

ANTI-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN

False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised

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Around the world, well-funded, organised climate deniers are spreading lies about the crisis. We call on governments and tech companies to step up, say London mayor Sadiq Khan and Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo

ANTI-KLIMA WISSENSCHAFTEN

SRF4 aktuell – 5 Minuten.

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Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Thousands of scientists, academics, physicians and researchers have responded to the administration’s executive order about “restoring a gold standard for science.”

TECH. & ENERGIE

Elektroautos sind teuer, umweltschädlich und können explodieren. Solche Behauptungen halten sich hartnäckig. Claudia Kemfert räumt mit Mythen auf – und erklärt anhand einer neuen Studie des "Fraunhofer-Instituts für System und Innovationsforschung", was dran ist und was nicht. – Podcast

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Meteorologists and climate researchers aim to run a livestream for 100 hours in protest of the Trump administration’s cuts to weather and climate research.

AUSWIRKUNGEN EMPFOHLEN

Mit dem Bergsturz ist die Wirklichkeit in unsere heile Welt eingebrochen. Was bedeutet das jetzt für die Schweiz?

AUSWIRKUNGEN

Wie verarbeitet man als Gemeinschaft das Verschwinden eines ganzen Dorfes? Und wie gehen Politiker:innen damit um? Auf Ortsbesuch im Lötschental. 

WIRTSCHAFT

André Corrêa do Lago says ‘answers have to come from the economy’ as climate policies trigger populist-fuelled backlash

ANTI-KLIMA WISSENSCHAFTEN

Eine der ersten Amtshandlungen des wiedergewählten US-Präsidenten Donald Trump war der Austritt seines Landes aus dem Pariser Klimaschutzabkommen und dem Weltklimarat. Seither hat er weitere Massnahmen ergriffen, die zu einem Rückschritt im Klimaschutz und in der Klimaforschung führen – weltweit.

ANTI-KLIMA WISSENSCHAFTEN

Over breakfast at Tom’s Restaurant, right below the historic Giss lab, James Hansen calls Doge’s decision a ‘big mistake’

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Dozens of states, counties, cities, and tribes across the United States and its territories are currently suing major fossil fuel companies for fraud, climate damages, or racketeering.

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A new report draws on internal company documents and other public records to comprehensively outline the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long campaign to mislead the public and avoid paying for their products’ harms.

ANTI-KLIMA

Naomi Oreskes hat in einem aufsehenerregenden Buch aufgezeigt, wie Erdölkonzerne seit den 1980er-Jahren mit viel Geld Zweifel an den Grunderkenntnissen der Klimawissenschaft säten. Nun macht die renommierte Wissenschaftshistorikerin der Harvard-Universität deutlich, dass es Massnahmen gegen den Klimawandel oft schwer haben, weil sie als staatliche Eingriffe in den freien Markt diffamiert werden.

ANTI-KLIMA

It would be harder for insurers and scientists to study wildfires, storms and other “billion dollar disasters,” which are growing more frequent as the planet warms.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

The attack on climate science continues.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

The Trump administration told researchers it was “releasing” them from their roles. It puts the future of the assessment, which is required by Congress, in doubt.

ANTI-KLIMA

These days they call him Ian the renewable energy is expensive potato

ANTI-KLIMA

The former PM has form when it comes to pushing corporate interests and meeting populists halfway

ANTI-KLIMA

Former Labour PM accused of ‘handing talking points’ to Tories and Reform after saying net zero strategy faltering

RECHT

The White House has pulled federal webpages tracking climate and environmental justice data

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Projekte zusammenstreichen, Wissenschaftler:innen entlassen: Macht die US-Regierung so weiter, fehlen künftig zentrale Datengrundlagen zur Bekämpfung der Erderhitzung.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

A Trump administration budget proposal would essentially eliminate one of the world’s foremost Earth sciences research operations.

TECH. & ENERGIE

On his first day in office, Donald Trump signed an executive order halting offshore wind turbine licences. In the order, he cited potential damage to marine mammals.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Nasa cuts contract that convened USGCRP, which released assessments impacting environmental decision-making

WISSENSCHAFTEN

The move raises concerns among scientists that the assessment, which is required by Congress, is now in jeopardy.

ANTI-KLIMA

He once talked about the need to fight climate change. Now, he embraces Elon Musk, lavishes praise on the president and strives to stand out in a MAGA world.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Die Klimaforschung ist in den USA unter Beschuss. Donald Trumps Administration entliess seit Ende Februar Hunderte von Mitarbeitern aus einer Behörde, die eine zentrale Schaltstelle für Wetter- und Klimadaten ist. Das macht auch Wissenschaftern in Europa Sorgen.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Im März 1958 begann Charles David Keeling auf dem Vulkan Mauna Loa, Kohlendioxid zu messen. Der Arbeit verdanken wir eine der bekanntesten Darstellungen des Klimaproblems. Jetzt ist der Ort womöglich bedroht.

ANTI-KLIMA

What the beef industry knew about its environmental impact — and how it spent decades blocking climate action.

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Trump’s EPA claims that climate change isn’t a danger to human beings

WISSENSCHAFTEN

More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

La professeure de l’EPFZ reçoit de nombreuses sollicitations de collègues américains qui cherchent à quitter leur pays en raison des attaques de l’administration Trump. Aux Etats-Unis, la politisation de la science climatique ne date pas d’hier, souligne-t-elle

MEDIEN & ÖFF. MEINUNG POLITIK

Die Zeiten der grossen «Fridays for Future»-Proteste sind passé. Zudem hat die EU bekanntgegeben, dass sie bei den Abgasvorschriften zurückkrebst. Ist das Momentum der Klimapolitik vorbei?

WISSENSCHAFTEN

NOAA, the nation’s leading climate science agency, may lose dozens of offices, including one that is key to the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.

EMPFOHLEN POLITIK

C’est après la première Conférence de l’ONU sur l’environnement en 1972 que la bataille du climat a débuté. Une lutte féroce s'engage, mêlant gouvernements, entreprises, ONG, opposants convaincus et sceptiques. Ce film retrace ces cinquante années écoulées entre avancées réelles et espoirs déçus alors que les alertes climatiques se succèdent. – 73 min.

ANTI-KLIMA

Le gouvernement de Donald Trump a annoncé mercredi une trentaine de mesures allant à rebours de la politique climatique de l’administration précédente. Sont notamment concernées les émissions des centrales à charbon et la protection des zones humides.

ANTI-KLIMA EMPFOHLEN

Donald Trump’s administration to is to reconsider the official finding that greenhouse gases are harmful to public health, a move that threatens to rip apart the foundation of the US’ climate laws, amid a stunning barrage of actions to weaken or repeal a host of pollution limits upon power plant.

ANTI-KLIMA

Environmentalists vow to fight “the greatest increase in pollution in decades.”

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Entlassungswelle in den USA Anti-Wissenschaftskurs von Trump hat erste Folgen für die Schweiz Jetzt abonnieren und von der Vorlesefunktion profitieren.

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WISSENSCHAFTEN

ANTI-KLIMA WISSENSCHAFTEN

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation’s premier agency for weather and climate science, has been told by the Trump administration to prepare to lose another 1,000 workers, raising concerns that NOAA’s lifesaving forecasts might be hindered as hurricane and disaster seas

ANTI-KLIMA

We’re reaching the point with the second Trump administration where, as Wall Street investors would say, the crazy is “priced in.” There’s absolutely no reason to expect anything other than aggressively dishonest and profoundly stupid governance.

ANTI-KLIMA

In thinking about the war being waged against life on Earth by Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their minions, I keep bumping into a horrible suspicion. Could Trump and Musk be seeking to end our time on Earth?

WISSENSCHAFTEN

As the U.S. swings a budgetary axe at the federal government, one of the biggest casualties is climate science. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) faces a brutal 20% workforce reduction—jeopardizing critical research just when we need it most.

POLITIK

Earlier this week, Lisa Friedman, Brad Plumer and I reported on the head-spinning moves by the Trump administration that are undermining the government’s ability to combat climate change.

ANTI-KLIMA

Wie millionenschwere Stiftungen und mächtige Lobbyisten versuchen, Trumps Agenda nach Europa zu bringen und die CDU für sich einzunehmen.

ANTI-KLIMA

“The Trump administration will end the Biden administration’s irrational, quasi-religious policies on climate change that imposed endless sacrifices on our citizens", Donald Trump’s newly appointed energy secretary, Chris Wright, told on Monday.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

L'UNIL fait partie des dizaines d'universités et villes dans le monde où des scientifiques se sont mobilisés vendredi "contre le muselage de la science, de l'établissement des faits et de leur communication".

WISSENSCHAFTEN

How layoffs at NOAA reveal a flaw in the government’s hiring system, briefly explained.

ANTI-KLIMA

He is surrounded by people who have grandiose plans and dreams beyond our planet. Vengeful nihilism is a big part of the Maga project

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Since 2008, embassies and other diplomatic posts had been publishing data about local air quality. In many countries, it was the only reliable source of such information.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Massenentlassungen, Forschungsverbote und vorauseilender Gehorsam in Bundesbehörden und Hochschulen: In den USA wird gerade das Rad der wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnis zurückgedreht.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Elon Musk is vandalizing America's greatest treasures

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Innert Stundenfrist wurde der Biologe Matthew Herron von einer US-Forschungs­behörde gefeuert. Seine Geschichte zeigt, wie perfide die Trump-Regierung ihren Kampf gegen die Wissenschaft führt.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

The National Science Foundation has fired workers at the office that manages polar research, raising fears about a reduced U.S. presence in two strategic regions.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

Après que les Etats-Unis ont annoncé leur retrait de l’Accord de Paris, une série de décrets émis par la Maison-Blanche alarment les experts. Ces décisions risquent de défaire le réseau établi de coopération scientifique mondiale sur le climat

ANTI-KLIMA WISSENSCHAFTEN

Diese Woche tagt im chinesischen Hangzhou das Plenum des Weltklimarats IPCC. Warum die Entscheidung über das Arbeitsprogramm bis 2028/29 auch die Rolle der Wissenschaft in der Klimapolitik bestimmt, lesen Sie bei Table.Briefings.

WISSENSCHAFTEN

State Department officials won't participate in next week's meeting of the top UN climate science panel, sources familiar with the matter told Axios.

ANTI-KLIMA

The tech billionaire is invigorating groups in the U.S. and Europe aiming to sabotage climate action, a DeSmog media analysis shows.

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Website of ‘Doge’ includes information published by thinktank CEI, which claims to fight ‘climate alarmism’