Wealthy nations risk undermining the loss and damage fund’s plan to deliver $250 million in aid next year to climate-vulnerable countries hit by extreme weather, board members from developing nations said this week.

While rich nations have pledged $789 million, they have only transferred $348 million so far to the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD), which all governments agreed to set up two years ago under the UN climate talks and is now in its start-up phase.

The agency took the unusual step of creating websites debunking the conspiracy theory that chemicals are being sprayed in the sky to control the weather or do other things.

The websites are:

• Geoengineering
• Information on Contrails from Aircraft

Apparently this conspiracy theory was too bonkers for even the Trump regime.

• Each fraction of a degree of warming will have a bigger impact than the last on lengthening heat waves, with the most extreme heat waves lengthening the most.
• Tropical regions will see larger changes than temperate regions, and summer heat waves will lengthen more than winter warm spells.
• Researchers led by UCLA and the Universidad Adolfo Ibañez in Santiago, Chile, developed an equation that has the flexibility to analyze one region or to gain additional broad insight by analyzing multiple regions as a whole.

The paper is here

Submerged in about 40 meters (44 yards) of water off Scotland’s coast, a turbine has been spinning for more than six years....

The MeyGen tidal energy project off the coast of Scotland has four turbines producing 1.5 megawatts each, enough electricity collectively to power up to 7,000 homes annually.

‍2025 has been a disastrous year for climate science in America. The 47th presidential administration has fired hundreds of scientists, starved programs and departments of funding, rolled back dozens of environmental regulations, undermined the tracking of hurricanes and extreme weather, and has taken down hundreds of federal websites, pages, references and data sets related to climate change. This ideological purge of climate research aligns closely with the goals of the Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership.

There are some great organizations working on archiving this data, including the Public Environmental Data Partners, The Data Rescue Project, and the Southern Environmental Law Center. We're adding our site to the pile, as the more of us that download and share this information, the harder it will be to suppress.

Since most people won't be combing through these spreadsheets, we've also mapped several of these data sets, and provided commentary to help make sense of this data. You can view those here:

• NCA5 (1.5C)
• NCA5 (2C)
• FEMA Future Risk Index
• CDC Social Vulnerability Index

We've also compiled reports from both public and private institutions, as well as research papers with a focus on climate resilience and adaptation. If there are any reports or data sets you think we've missed, let us know and we'll add it to the collection!

The Democratic party and the climate movement have been “too cautious and polite” and should instead be denouncing the fossil fuel industry’s “huge denial operation”, the US senator Sheldon Whitehouse said.

“The fossil fuel industry has run the biggest and most malevolent propaganda operation the country has ever seen,” the Rhode Island Democrat said in an interview Monday with the global media collaboration Covering Climate Now. “It is defending a $700-plus billion [annual] subsidy” of not being charged for the health and environmental damages caused by burning fossil fuels. “I think the more people understand that, the more they’ll be irate [that] they’ve been lied to.” But, he added, “Democrats have not done a good job of calling that out.”

While Whitehouse slams his fellow Democrats for timidity, he blasts Republicans for being in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry, an entity whose behavior “has been downright evil”, he said. “To deliberately ignore [the laws of physics] for short-term profits that set up people for huge, really bad impacts – if that’s not a good definition of evil, I don’t know what is.”

To be clear, "ignoring" doesn't mean doing nothing; the Democrats actually passed major climate legislation that was then dismantled once the Republicans took power. It mostly means that they're not campaigning on it right now.

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New preliminary research suggests that a combination of higher atmospheric CO2 and hotter temperatures contribute to a reduction in nutritional quality in food crops, with serious implications for human health and wellbeing.

I'll note that the converse also applies — because warmer air can hold more water, it can remove more water through evaporation too, so droughts can also end up being worse.