August 2025 Climate Update

Climate in the news (click titles to link to articles):

1. Completely separate worlds discusses how out of step the US administration is with science and the rest of the world.

2. Flash droughts are a new phenomena increasingly threatening crops and livestock.

3. US head of dept of energy denies decades of science

4. The Impacts of Climate Change on the Great Lakes 

5. White House orders the destruction of important climate satellites

 

Report on climate and the American mind. Yale research.  It is modestly encouraging!

 

1. Underwater tidal turbine in Scotland spinning for 6 years and generating power.  The potential is great!

2. Tesla has new customers purchasing electric semis.

3. Minnesota progress on climate and energy issues.

4. Dr. Katharine Hayhoe's address to 16,000 Rotarians in Calgary this summer, Conservative Rotary is taking action on climate now.

 

1. Climate challenges are many, but all is lost if we, if you, give up.  No one can do everything, but EVERYONE can do something.  And every 1/10th degree heating we can help prevent is worth the effort.

2. As  the parties begin selecting candidates for Fall 2026, now is the time to vet them, in all parties, on the biggest threat to humankind - climate change.  Use your voice and your vote!

3. Most tax credits and rebates from the feds, for heat pumps, EVs, etc., will end Dec. 31 (for EVs, September 30).  Now is the time to buy if you can.

4. Talk to friends, family and workmates about climate change.  See this great resource you can direct them to, for answers, at: www.skepticalscience.com