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President Trump has pushed to dismantle many federal policies that aim to tackle climate change, including Biden-era rules that limited planet-warming emissions from power plants.
It wasn't obvious at the time, but the US uncoupled carbon emissions and GDP growth.
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A new archaeological discovery suggests that people in present-day Georgia have feasted with cacao for 1,000 years...
Retraction Watch - 1 day 10 hours agoA paper that called into question many central data linking carbon dioxide to the rapidly warming climate has been retracted for "significant concerns," including "unsupported conclusions" and "inaccuracies" in the interpretation of the data. The paper, published in August 2023 in the MDPI journal Atmosphere, was written by Stuart Harris, a former geography professor at … Continue reading Hot mess' paper questioning CO2 and climate change gets retracted...
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Mother Jones - 1 day 13 hours agoAfter one of the largest wildfires in state history devastated Rio Blanco County, Colorado in 2025, Deirdre Macnab saw her share of horrors across the community: cows burned to death, pigs died from sunstroke, and pastures were blanketed in thick black smoke. This past summer was no different. "It was hellish," Macnab told me. "Between […]...
Astronomers say they've picked up a radio signal from a planet 63 light-years away but, alas, it's not aliens calling. The bursts appear to be coming from Beta Pictoris b, a massive gas giant about 12 times Jupiter's mass, and point to the existence of an enormous magnetic field driving...
Napoleon's encrypted war orders just got cracked by an AI model that needed little more than a blurry scan and six hours. Carter Church, an engineer at cybersecurity firm SentinelOne, used OpenAI's experimental GPT-6 "Astra" to decode a 1809 letter written in cipher by Napoleon's stepson Eugene to Marshal Auguste...
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