OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #244,
AUGUST 18, 2025. Compiled by Dick
Bennett.
Rebekah Jones. “The State of the Climate
Report.”
Yale Climate Communication
Yale Climate Connections
AMS
Global Climate Report: “The Planet
Throws a Tantrum.”
Aug 14, 2025. Mesoscale News with Rebekah Jones rebekahjones@substack.com
The State of the Climate report released
earlier today, delivers a stunning verdict: greenhouse gases—CO₂, methane, and
the like—climbed to unprecedented heights, painting a picture of a world ever
more trapped in its fever. Carbon
dioxide alone tipped the scales at around 422.8 ppm, a weight 52%
heavier than pre-industrial skies. The growth rate today creeps ahead at more
than 2.4 ppm per year, compared to a meager 0.6 ppm in the 1960s. Temperatures followed suit: land and ocean
joined hands in setting a new global high for surface warmth. Ocean heat, too,
lurched upward, the oceans absorbing energy like a cauldron under a flame. It’s
striking—every year now rivals the last, and each previous record seems to fall
under the shadow of a new one.
Today, we are excited to
release the new Guidebook:
Using the Six Americas Super Short Survey (SASSY) in Campaigns and Education.
This
Week on Yale Climate Connections. August
1 - 7, 2025.
"The Republican campaign to stop the U.S. EPA from protecting the climate.”
In a stark juxtaposition, while nearly half of all Americans sweltered under
a life-threatening extreme heat wave made several times more likely by climate change,
the Environmental Protection Agency declared this week that it will roll back
the agency’s 2009 determination that climate pollution endangers public health
and welfare.
Known as the “endangerment finding,”
this determination has been the basis of the EPA’s efforts over the past 15
years to regulate climate pollutants from vehicles, power plants, and other
major sources.
“Today is the greatest day of
deregulation our nation has seen,” said Trump’s EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin,
the head of the agency whose mission is to protect
human health and the environment, using regulations as a primary tool. “We are
driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion.”
It’s an audacious move that the EPA
did not pursue in President Donald Trump’s first term, despite being led for
several years by former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler. But the new Trump
administration appears emboldened by Supreme Court decisions in the
intervening years that may enable opponents of climate regulations to
successfully roll back their legal basis. Keep reading.
More
articles featured this week
Climate change brings more rapidly intensifying
hurricanes; NOAA cuts makes forecasting them harder; The surprising reasons floods and other disasters are
deadlier at night
This
week's radio episodes 4 billion people experienced a whole extra month of
extreme heat in the past year
Over 50 million Americans struggle to pay an energy
bill. See OMNI ECONOMIC INEQUALITY/POVERTY USA, AND SOCIAL,
ECONOMIC, RESTORATIVE JUSTICE ANTHOLOGY #2,
November 13, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/omni-economic-inequalitypoverty-usa-and.html
Climate
explained: More dangerous heat waves
Heat waves and climate change: Is there a connection?
How to spot the symptoms of heat stroke and heat
exhaustion
How to stay cool in hot weather
Common medications may increase the dangers of heat
waves
Extreme heat makes pregnancy more dangerous
Four ways your community can save lives during this
summer’s heat waves
END OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #244, AUGUST 18, 2025. Compiled by Dick Bennett.
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