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A Democratic Republic, a 'Great Experiment' in the United States
🗒️ Ours is a democracy, a republic, a work-in-progress continuing to this day, a heritage worth protecting...
As the 250th anniversary of the signing of the US Declaration of Independence approaches, we will celebrate an agenda of rights, inalienable rights, human rights, put forward with and embodied in a founding US Constitution, a Bill of Rights and Constitutional Amendments -- together a Constitutional government envisioning a living Democratic Republic.
On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress passed a “Resolution for Independence” declaring “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.”
The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence occurred primarily on August 2, 1776, at the Pennsylvania State House, later renamed Independence Hall, in Philadelphia. The 56 delegates to the Second Continental Congress represented the Thirteen Colonies, of which 12 voted to approve the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
In Defense of Democracy and Freedom
🌅 'Surviving Victory'🔥
October 2026
US imposes sanctions on ICC after former ICC judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
Beyond defense, as the US continues to move away from international support while advocating an era of 'America First'
Oct 9 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump's administration imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday, hours after one of its former judges won the Nobel Peace Prize, putting Washington on a diplomatic collision course with European allies.
The court denounced the move as an "assault on the rule of law and on the very foundations of the international legal order," and called on its 125 member states to take action to defend it.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Announces Its 2026-2030 Strategic Plan
- As with prior EPA plans, budgets, and proposed changes, a legislative and judicial reordering will follow
EPA's Fiscal Year (FY) 2026–2030 Strategic Plan
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"Thought for the Day"
October 1, 2026
In a recent series of private meetings in San Francisco, after a tasting menu dinner, Anthropic consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models ... a case was being made that Claude could be or become conscious.
What would it mean for humanity’s future if artificial intelligence systems possessed a consciousness that rivals our own?
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September 2026
Canada's Prime Minister Steps Onto the World Stage
Strategic Demands: A extraordinary interview and timestamp documenting geopolitical realities faced by the Canadian Prime Minister. Here, we see the navigation skills required and demonstrated by an exceptionally trained and talented man who guides his ship of state through shifting winds… At StratDem we speak of the need for “Strategic Realism” in international relations, of security competition and values-based politics in foreign policy. Canada is fortunate, in our opinion, to have such a person at the helm of its representative democratic governance.
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Telling the Truth to the World
- Facts are key to understanding, and key to unlocking the truth
- Any speech to a world audience, as at the United Nations, should be time for facts and truth
The Fact Checking writer for CNN has no easy 'news beat' as he has to follow the U.S. president's pronouncements
By: Daniel Dale / CNN
(Note: After a court decision, CNN was re-instituted w/ press credentials on Sept. 24)
Fact check: Trump’s false claims to the United Nations
(Excerpt)
Global warming
Trump scoffed at dire warnings that artificial intelligence might eventually attack or kill people, claiming they are coming from “the very same people who said we’ll all be dead in 12 years because of global warming, a name since reborn to climate change because the planet was cooling, not warming, and nobody was dead.”
There are at least four things wrong with his sentence about global warming.
First, the phrase “global warming” remains in widespread use even though the phrase “climate change” is also common; they mean different things. Climate scientists use both, often saying “global warming” when referring to the long-term trend of increasing global temperature and “climate change” when referring to the numerous effects the world is experiencing because of that trend. (NASA, part of the Trump-led federal government, explains the difference between the terms on its website.) For example, a 2023 report from the UN’s climate change panel is titled “Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report,” but it says this: “Human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases, have unequivocally caused global warming, with global surface temperature reaching 1.1°C above 1850-1900 in 2011-2020.”
Second, while Trump didn’t say what time period he was talking about, he didn’t acknowledge that the world has continued to get warmer, not cooler. The UN’s World Meteorological Organization reported in January that “the past 11 years have been the 11 warmest on record,” with 2023, 2024 and 2025 the three very warmest — as NASA also found — though 2025 wasn’t as hot as 2024.
Third, experts widely disagree that “nobody” has died from the various impacts of a warming world. It’s impossible to pinpoint a precise death number, but some estimates total in the millions. The deaths are likely to continue; the World Health Organization says, “Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year, from under nutrition, malaria, diarrhea and heat stress alone.”
Fourth, while somebody somewhere might have said that “we’ll all be dead in 12 years because of global warming,” that isn’t how an expert report framed the issue.
A widely discussed 2018 report from climate scientists said the world needed to sharply cut carbon emissions within the next 12 years to be on track to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels; scientists said above that threshold, the potential deadly impacts from climate change would be larger. Though the 2018 report was often oversimplified by politicians, the expert claim was never that “we’ll all be dead in 12 years” — it was that significant action was needed within 12 years to improve the future. (The UN program reported earlier this month that the world is set to exceed the 1.5-degree increase, “likely within the next few years".)
More re: Facts and Fact Checking at GreenPolicy360:
Facts Protecting Democracy
At GreenPolicy360, our mission statement supports fact finding and the '3 Ds' -- Discussion ➡️ Debate ➡️ Decision-Making
GreenPolicy360 continues a multi-year defense of facts, science, & 'critical thinking skills'
-- "In Democracy, Facts Count"
- https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Fact_Checking
- https://greenpolicy360.net/index.php/Fact_Checking,_Facts_Count
- https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Disinformation_-_Online_-_Dangerous
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Taking Time to Take Another Look at the Deepening Costs of War
GreenPolicy360 & Strategic Demands
Demanding 'New Definitions of National Security'
A Faith-Announcement in Support of The Commons
The Catholic Church continues forward with the message of Laudato Si (2015), the first papal encyclical to advance formal environmental protection doctrine. Pope Francis, who was named after St. Francis, the patron saint of the environment, acted to open new doors for theological and spiritual belief within the Catholic tradition. Now, Pope Leo follows on with more 'On Caring for Our Common Home' ...
Challenges of 'ecological turning point'
International Theological Commission that calls Christians to view care for creation
"Caring for Our Common Home"
- https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2026-09/ict-document-care-for-creation-ecology-theology-church-pope.html
- https://www.osservatoreromano.va/en/news/2026-09/ing-009/a-fraternal-response-to-the-triune-god.html
- https://www.americamagazine.org/news/2026/09/03/vatican-creation-sin/
- https://www.thefloridacatholic.org/news/vatican/vatican-theological-commission-defines-sin-against-creation-and-the-creator-in-new-document/article_a6edad02-a5c2-482b-bf7f-fefcf1a8f3ed.html
The Vatican has officially declared environmental destruction a ”sin against creation and the Creator” in a major new doctrinal text.
The document, “Caring for Our Common Home – A Responsible and Fraternal Response to the Triune God,” was published Sept. 2 with the authorization of Pope Leo XIV, according to Vatican News.
The 29,000-word document, titled Caring for Our Common Home, elevates ecological concern from a merely political or scientific issue into a direct matter of personal faith.
“Everything is interrelated” within “a single community of life,” according to Vatican News. The commission says this understanding calls Christians to practice gratitude toward God, mercy and solidarity toward others, and responsible care for the common home.
Authorized under Pope Leo XIV, the text declares that destroying natural habitats, polluting, and exploiting resources are not just civic failures, but a 'sin against creation and against the Creator' that directly violates God's plan.
This shift from Pope Francis' earlier concept of 'ecological sin' to a more explicit 'sin against the Creator' is designed to reshape how believers view their daily environmental impact. The Vatican emphasizes that failing to safeguard the planet severely harms the poorest populations and future generations, distorting the core relationships that define humanity.
By placing ecological action squarely in the realm of moral responsibility, the Church is challenging millions of people to treat environmental care as a fundamental requirement of their faith.
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Faith Traditions Are Growing in Their Calls for Eco-Stewardship
"The World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation"
This day is bringing awareness and a call to action
The spiritual and secular find common ground here in a protection of The Commons
The Catholic Church observes September 1 as the "World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation", a day dedicated to thanking God for the gift of creation and renewing the Church’s commitment to ecological stewardship.
What the Day Is:
An annual Catholic observance established by Pope Francis in 2015 as a concrete follow‑up to Laudato Si’.
Shared with the Orthodox Church, which first designated September 1 as a creation‑focused "Day of Prayers for Natural Environment" in 1989.
The opening of the global "Season of Creation", which runs from September 1 to October 4 (Feast of St. Francis of Assisi).
Pope St. John Paul II in 1979
declared Francis the patron saint of ecology
Visit Pope Francis' Eco-Encyclical Laudato Si
More: https://www.greenpolicy360.net/index.php?title=File:St_Francis_with_the_birds.jpg
"Solemn Day of Prayers for Natural Environment", Orthodox Catholic, September 1
'Christianity is the largest religious group in the world...
The largest denominations -- Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox -- have an estimated 2.3 to 2.6 billion adherents
GreenPolicy360 / On Earth...
Religious traditions -- faith and spirituality as practiced -- have an intimate connection to life's protection, quality, and humanity's future
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August 2026
TicToc TicToc
3, 2, 1 ... Launch ... Go, Go, Go
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NASA Goes Looking for Life in the Universe
- Nancy Grace Roman Is the Name of the (biggest- and best-ever) Telescope
August 30, 2026
News from the Florida East Coast
(CNN) A massive observatory that scientists have called a “discovery machine” has launched toward the cosmos, beginning a journey that could mark a significant shift in our understanding of the universe.
Designed to seek out otherwise invisible and faint space objects, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket at 7:26 a.m. ET Sunday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The observatory reached orbit about 10 minutes later.
(NYT) At a news conference on Saturday morning, Nicola Fox, the associate administrator of NASA’s science mission directorate, explained that Roman’s vast gaze would contribute to solving some of the grandest mysteries about our universe, including how it works, what it is made of and if we are alone out there.
“To put it in perspective, it will be as if Hubble and James Webb kind of peered through a keyhole at the universe,” Dr. Fox said, referring to two other telescopes NASA has launched into space. “Well, Nancy Grace Roman will kick the door down.”
(GRN360) Get ready for 'Exo's in Space' ... Exoplanets ...... with discernible, measurable signs of extraterrestrial life✨ ❇️ ✨
'Up' there ⬆️
As seen from 'down' here on our terrestrial Home Planet
Go we go, we're looking 'around'. We're going Exploring ❇️
NASA's Exoplanet Archive
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The Numbers Continue Trending Downward
Via the Washington Post
August 24, 2026
In the CNN Poll of Polls, 36 percent approved of (Trump's) job performance, while 63 percent disapproved. That’s far below the historical average for presidents. He is even more unpopular abroad — and international disapproval of the president has translated into disapproval of the country he leads. A Pew Research Center poll of 36 countries, conducted earlier this summer, found that 76 percent of respondents had “no confidence” in Trump and 57 percent had an unfavorable opinion of the United States. In most of the countries Pew surveyed, people had a more positive impression of China than of the U.S.
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Today & Tomorrow: A Couple Memories
- Today: A Green-Skinned Actress (a Famed Witch) who has the same name as a NASA Software-engineer (who wrote the essential code for the Apollo moon mission)
SJS/GreenPolicy360 editor:
A quick flight of the mind, as I received two online stories this morning -- one brought a memory of when I lived in New York City in the Gramercy Park neighborhood and regularly saw a distinguished looking older women walking her dogs around the park. She had a distinctive profile and one day I briefly talked to her. She said she was an actress, and that she still worked (this was in the mid-1970s) 'in the theater'. Her dogs were anxious to move on so we parted. Later, I learned from a neighbor that she was 'thee Margaret Hamilton.'
Let's call her Margaret from the West (although here in NYC she lived in a building on the East)...
And as those of you who are familiar with the work of GreenPolicy360, you may remember we have focused our work over decades on what we call The Modern Environmental Movement. Your founder/siterunner was among those who were there alongside a Congressman named George Brown, who put into development a first generation of Earth Science missions from space. The Apollo-NASA missions to the moon changed the way humanity saw ourselves, as Apollo 8 sent home the first-ever full-color images of our living planet home. What some called a 'cognitive shift' occurred for many of us who were there as the image that became known as 'Earthrise' appeared in the media, most prominently on the cover of biggest magazine of the era.
“We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth." – Astronaut Bill Anders, Aboard Apollo, December 24, 1968
What your editor carried away was inspiration... and today I am remembering one of the greats of the Apollo mission who made the flights and vision of planet Earth possible. Her name is Margaret Hamilton.
She literally wrote the source code that guided the missions to the moon, and her code (as I learned today) from the Apollo 8 'Earthrise' mission acted to make possible the correction of the Apollo 11 landing and return from the moon.
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- August 17, 2026 - Happy 90th birthday to Margaret Hamilton -- the software engineer who wrote the computer code that saved the Apollo 11 moon landing and who, in the process, invented the discipline of software engineering itself! The system that kept that landing from being aborted began, improbably, with her 4-year-old daughter crashing a simulated moon mission.
- Margaret Hamilton's daughter, Lauren, came along to the MIT lab on nights and weekends while her mother wrote the software that would fly astronauts to the moon. "There wasn't a time when we weren't working," Hamilton said. Lauren liked to play astronaut, because she had watched her mother do it in simulations. One evening she started hitting keys, and the simulation began to run. Then she hit another, and everything fell apart -- she had selected a program meant to be run before launch, and the computer, which had almost no memory to spare, wiped the navigation data that was taking her to the moon.
- Hamilton saw what it meant immediately. "I thought: my God -- this could inadvertently happen in a real mission." She proposed a change to the software that would stop a prelaunch program from being selected in flight. Her superiors at MIT and NASA told her not to bother. The astronauts were too well trained to make a mistake like that.
- On the very next mission, Apollo 8, an astronaut made exactly that mistake -- wiping the navigation data midway to the moon, just as Lauren had. Hamilton called it the Lauren bug. "It created much havoc and required the mission to be reconfigured," she said. "After that, they let me put the program change in, all right."
- Hamilton was born in Paoli, Indiana, in 1936, earned a degree in mathematics with a minor in philosophy from Earlham College, and went to MIT in 1959 to support her family while her husband attended Harvard Law. She learned to program in the lab of Edward Lorenz, the meteorologist who would become the father of chaos theory, because there was nowhere else to learn it. "Computer science and software engineering were not yet disciplines," she said. "Instead, programmers learned on the job."
- In 1964 her husband spotted a newspaper advertisement: the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory was looking for people to write the software to send a man to the moon. "I was attracted both by the sheer idea and the fact that it had never been done before," Hamilton said. "I was the first programmer to join and the first woman they hired."
- She was gradually promoted until she was directing the team -- eventually about a hundred people -- that wrote the onboard flight software for both Apollo spacecraft. When she was given the job, one of the senior men told her he had no doubt she could do it but worried the men under her might rebel. "Well," she said, "they didn't."
- Almost nobody thought the software mattered. It was not in the original schedule; it was not in the budget. "Software during the early days of this project was treated like a stepchild," Hamilton later wrote, "and it was regarded as an art and as magic, not a science." Out of what she called desperation, she started calling what she did software engineering -- a phrase invented to make a point.
- "It was out of desperation I came up with the term, to say: 'Hey, we're engineering too.' It was an ongoing joke for a long time." The joke ended in a meeting, when one of the laboratory's most respected hardware men stood up and said she was right.
- Then came July 20, 1969. Three minutes above the Sea of Tranquility, with two men aboard a vehicle that had never landed anywhere, the Apollo Guidance Computer began throwing alarms -- 1202, then 1201, five of them in four minutes -- because a rendezvous radar switch had been left in the wrong position and the machine was drowning in work it had no time to finish. On virtually any other computer of that decade, this was the end of the story: a freeze, a crash, a mission aborted.
- Hamilton stood watching in the monitoring room at MIT while her software did what she had built it to do, which was to decide what mattered. It recognized the overload, discarded the low-priority jobs, restarted itself in a controlled and orderly way, and held onto the tasks that were flying the spacecraft. "It quickly became clear the software was not only informing everyone that there was a hardware-related problem," she said, "but was compensating for it."
- In Houston a 26-year-old guidance officer named Steve Bales had a few seconds to call an abort, and because the computer was visibly managing itself, he called go. Neil Armstrong flew Eagle past a field of boulders and set it down with about twenty-five seconds of fuel remaining.
- "If the computer hadn't recognized this problem and taken recovery action," Hamilton wrote two years afterward, "I doubt if Apollo 11 would have been the successful moon landing it was."
- There is a famous photograph of her from that summer, standing beside a stack of Apollo source-code listings taller than she is. :"We got carried away and grabbed all the Apollo listings in my office and created the tower," she said. "I was trying to find a way of keeping the stack up."
- Hamilton's standards held. In all the crewed Apollo missions that followed, no software bug was ever known to have occurred.
- Hamilton went unrecognized for decades. In 2016 President Barack Obama gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, calling her emblematic of "that generation of unsung women who helped send humankind into space," and a year later she appeared, as a LEGO figurine.
- Now ninety, Margaret Hamilton still argues that software should be designed at the start not to fail, rather than patched after it does ....
- For young women who want to follow in her footsteps, she offers this advice: "Don't let fear get in the way, and don't be afraid to say 'I don't know' or 'I don't understand' -- no question is a dumb question. And don't always listen to the so-called experts." :To introduce this inspiring trailblazer to kids, consider the picture book "Margaret and the Moon" for ages 5 to 9 at https://www.amightygirl.com/margaret-and-the-moon) and the children's biography "Space Engineer and Scientist Margaret Hamilton" for ages 7 to 10 at https://www.amightygirl.com/margaret-hamilton
- She is also featured in an activity book about pioneering women in technology, which includes a variety of hands-on STEM projects: "Gutsy Girls Go for Science: Programmers" for ages 8 to 11 at https://www.amightygirl.com/gutsy-girls-programmers
- For adult readers who want the wider story of the women who put Americans in space, "Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars" tells of the mathematicians recruited by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in the 1940s and 50s at https://www.amightygirl.com/rise-of-the-rocket-girls
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So, in memory of two classic, talented, game-changing, creative women --
Here's a deep bow and a flourishing wave of our green cap.
We remember you !!
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Are AI companies scanning and destroying millions of books, including rare titles?
Via Snopes.com
Artificial intelligence companies are scanning millions of books, some of which are rare, and destroying them.
July 2026
A Human & Quokka Species, on Behalf of All Species
- Historic, Country-wide Wild Fires Threaten Australia
PyroCbs, "Fire Clouds"
France / Spain ... "Unprecedented" ... "Extreme Weather"
Via NYT
As the hot air rises, it expands and cools, causing its moisture to condense. The water vapor and ash particles combine to form a gray or brown cloud that can then develop into a pyrocumulonimbus (pyro means “fire” in Greek) storm cloud.
They produce lightning and burning embers that can spark more fires, and they generate high and unpredictable winds that fan the flames and spread the embers.
In the Gironde region, 103,000 acres have burned, according to officials, and 220,000 people have been asked to evacuate from Gironde and the neighboring Landes region.
The pyrocumulonimbus phenomenon presents extreme challenges for firefighters.
“These fire-generated clouds are linked to extreme fire behavior that impedes firefighting efforts and can devastate communities,” according to NASA, which emphasized the need to better understand the clouds “given the ongoing and projected increases in fire activity and severity.”
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Elon Musk Opens Up in an Interview
- Economist Editor Presses the Controversial 'Trillionaire'
- Elon Musk's 'Vision of the Future'
“People don’t realise that what I’m saying will come to pass,” he tells The Economist in a 90-minute interview held at a giant Tesla factory in Texas where electric cars drive themselves off the assembly line. That may be because his future-gazing ranges from the unsettling to the downright weird.
Mr. Musk predicts that, within five years, artificial-intelligence systems may surpass the sum of all human intelligence. Within ten years, robots in the workplace will help usher in an era of such “amazing abundance” that money will become meaningless....
More:
Musk proposes peer review for frontier AI models in Economist interview
Musk says he got ‘carried away’ with Trump – but still holds on to contentious political views
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Mix of Comments:
- https://beincrypto.com/elon-musk-real-force-european-politics/
- https://www.cnbc.com/video/2026/07/24/elon-musk-speaks-to-the-economist-editor-in-chief-zanny-minton-beddoes-on-the-key-takeaways.html
- https://futurism.com/elon-musk-interviewer-npc
- https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-economist-interview-2000790016
- https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/nonsense-elon-musk-lashes-out-in-fiery-interview-after-hes-accused-of-supporting-the-far-right/
- https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/07/23/musk_admonishes_the_economist_editor_what_is_far_right_about_having_secure_borders_safe_cities_and_sensible_spending.html
- https://zeteo.com/p/top-economist-trump-musk-starmer
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The Big Picture
Humanity Looks up to the Heavens, 'Inspired' by the Stars
- Earth Art & Heliophysics, An Art Project 50 Years in the Making Opens Up
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July 21, 2026
U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations
The Topic -- Supplemental Federal Aid
The Question -- Why More Government Funding for the Military, and Agriculture Producers, is urgently needed
The Secretary of War explains that $1.5 trillion in needed in the next budget year, a 'generational' budget, one year increase request of over $500 billion... and tens of billion more are needed immediately for war fighting, training, munitions...
Then ... on July 21st, with minimal media coverage, the following is put into the record -- to explain why billions more than a half trillion more, are needed for farmers and agriculture.
“For many agricultural producers, 2025 was a year in which the cost of growing their crop at times exceeded what they could earn from selling it. Severe weather compounded these losses... producers had to contend with a combination of challenging market conditions."
“... We will hear a great deal today about how declining commodity prices, rising input costs, labor shortages, trade disruptions, pests and disease, and increasingly volatile weather are squeezing farmers’ already thin margins.
“Nationwide, we have lost nearly 200,000 farms in the last decade."
Let's parse this list of what 'we will hear'... the causes are what we will focus on here.
The choice of going to war, and resulting increases in oil/gas prices, the resulting prices of fertilizer spiking, the boycotts and tariffs of U.S. farm products resulting from boycotts and tariffs in international markets (Trade War consequences of U.S. policies), the reasons for 'labor shortages' in the U.S. agriculture industry, and increases in extreme weather events and damages...
These consequential facts seem to be set aside, ignored, and not explored by committee hearing speakers and the majority party running the hearing (the Chair is a Senator from Maine and is running for re-election).
Look more closely at the 'Deep Costs, Costs of War' that the people of the U.S., and many others, are paying.
It is time for new policies, facts, costs of failed policies, and more realistic debate and discussion...
Enough said...
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July 16, 2026
Consider the Facts, Pay Attention to the Reality
As an audience listens in while an American president talks, we, at GreenPolicy, have a bottom line request -- our bottom line is Facts Count
Go with the Reality, not the Marketing
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Attribution of Extreme Weather and Climate Events and Their Impacts
- This 2026 National Academies of Science Study and Report Will Have Consequences
GreenPolicy360: We are reminded of the mid-1970s National Academies of Sciences Study and Report that led to Congressional Hearings and the First US National Climate Act Program. We watched as Representative George E. Brown - (D) Los Angeles pushed for the scientific research and moved to hearings and legislation.
The era of modern climate science moved forward with lasting contributions ...
Read about the foundational 1970s National Climate science report, hearings, and legislation here --
Rep. George E Brown
The Modern Environmental Movement
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GreenPolicy360: Our Outlook, Perspective and Work is Local/National/Global, Individual and Community-to-Community
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An Interview with Bill McKibben
The Very Good and Very Bad News on Climate
July 10, 2026
Here’s the good news: Green energy is getting better and cheaper, faster than we had ever dared hope.
This next sentence was unimaginable even a few years ago: In April, the energy think tank Ember found that all of the new electricity demand around the world in 2025 was met with green power. That is wild.
But here is the bad news: Climate change is accelerating. We’re discovering new ways that the climate system is more fragile, more sensitive to emissions, than we previously had thought.
We have not been talking that much about climate change lately, but that doesn’t mean it has stopped happening. Europe is in the midst of an extraordinary heat wave. The world is staring down the barrel of a powerful El Niño.
And climate politics is in almost total disarray. Donald Trump has gutted the Inflation Reduction Act. His administration is accelerating fossil fuel production and kneecapping green energy.
But here’s the possibility, a bit of optimism: The advances in green technology make a new climate politics possible — one that doesn’t just talk about sacrifice and disaster prevention but presents decarbonization and green energy as a way station on the path to somewhere better.
Clean energy abundance, a new form of energetic wealth, the possibility of the left actually offering a future of more and better — not less and worse — was a hard case to make even a few years ago. But now we cannot only imagine it, we can see it, touch it, live in it. It is here.
So how do we talk about it? How do we make it happen?
Read the McKibben Interview Here for more:
"Even better than the E.V. is the e-bike, which I think may turn out to be the transformative invention of our time on Earth." -- Bill McKibben
Click Here for more about Bill McKibben at GreenPolicy360
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We recall a quote of Benjamin Franklin responding to a question in 1787 about the newly announced birth of the US as he left Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention:
We have "a Republic, if you can keep it."
Today's generation, and future generations, would be wise to remember Franklin's words of warning.
July 4th, 1776
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness...
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June 2026
June 30, 2026
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL COMMITTEE ET AL. v. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION ET AL.
Millionaires & Billionaires Applaud
- U.S. Supreme Court Increases Influence of Money in Politics
- New SCOTUS Ruling Memorializes 'Pay to Play' Transactional Politics
GreenPolicy360's associate PoliticoPay.com, has been tracking the escalating money in politics trend for years.
We have warned of the consequences of profligate spending on politicians and campaigns. These warnings have become a reality -- and further challenge to good government.
NPR re: Decision No. 24–621
(The Supreme Court) decision means that parties get the best of both worlds. They can both coordinate with candidates and raise unlimited funds.
At issue in the case was a post-Watergate law that Congress passed to limit the amount of money individuals can give to political parties. The law, the Federal Election Campaign Act, also limited how much money political parties can spend on their candidates. Other types of organizations, like political action committees and Super PACs, have no limits on the amount of money they can raise and spend on elections...
Republicans, including Vice President Vance and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, challenged the law as an unconstitutional violation of political parties' First Amendment right to raise and spend money on their candidates.
Backed by the Trump Justice Department, they contended that the only justification for imposing a fundraising limit on parties is to prevent corruption, but they maintained that there is no evidence that the law has prevented corruption.
This decision overturns a 2001 Supreme Court case that declared the limits on party spending to be constitutional. It's the latest in a series of rulings since then that have unraveled campaign finance regulations.
The saga began in 2010, when the court ruled in Citizens United that corporations have a First Amendment right to unlimited spending on elections...
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Speaking of the Influence of Big Money on Consequential Political Decisions
Michael Mann has news of science, politics, and life impacting policies --
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The Consequences of Another War in the Middle East
- Deep Costs to the U.S. and Its Future -- Come into View
- U.S. Allies Suffer with Shifts in Global Economics -- the Mid East Continues in Crisis
With the deepening costs of oil/gas wars adding trillions to expanding U.S. debt -- with a multi-trillion dollars Iraq war, Afghanistan war, and ongoing Israel/Syria/Lebanon/Palestine-Gaza conflicts -- we witness decades of failed policy and generational roll over... The national/international costs and changes brought on by the U.S./Iran war, with its severe global energy disruptions, begin to come into a wider global view ...
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June 14, 2026
China benefits as Petrol Politics of Oil/Gas and Mideast Wars push alternative energy sources
China's electrostate is poised to win from war in the Middle East
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Spring 2026
"And then came Hormuz" ... Iran war analysis via Ember
- If the defining economic story of the century is the rise of Asia, the defining energy story is the rise of electricity. The two are usually told apart. This report argues they are one: Asia’s rise is electric, and the electric age hastens Asia’s rise.
- Electricity has been the century’s fastest-growing energy carrier, overtaking oil in 2007 as the leading supplier of useful energy worldwide. Over the same years, Asia has been the fastest-growing region. In 2016, China passed the United States in purchasing-power terms, and South and Southeast Asia together passed the European Union in 2021. Two features bind these stories together.
- The first is that Asia is taking an electric path. Since the turn of the century, Asia has driven three quarters of the growth in global electricity. In the West, GDP and electricity demand decoupled long ago; in Asia, they rise in lock-step. Asia has achieved greater electrification at lower incomes per capita. No growth in history has been this electric.
- The second runs deeper. It is a change in what energy is. Coal, oil and gas are commodities, dug from the ground. Solar panels, batteries and wind turbines are technologies, built on a production line. The energy revolution is the shift from extraction to manufacturing.
- Enter Asia – the world’s factory. Asia builds most of the world’s solar panels, batteries, power electronics, electric motors and cars. Its strengths fit the new energy system.
- Such a shift carries historical weight. After 1800 the West pulled ahead of Asia, a parting of fortunes known as the Great Divergence. Energy sat at the core of this divergence: first coal, then oil, and the engines built to burn them. These innovations favoured Western strengths and underwrote two centuries of wealth and power.
- The Great Convergence – the East closing in on the West – also has an energy story, and it runs the other way. The new vector is electricity, and the electro-technologies that run on it. The new centre is Asia. Its lack of oil and gas was a weakness in a fossil world. It is a blessing in an electric one.
- China is, of course, the giant. But change is radiating outwards. From Vietnam to Bangladesh, electrification rates are higher than in Europe or the United States. From Pakistan to Japan, solar’s share of power beats the US. From Thailand to Nepal and Indonesia to Singapore, EV uptake is ahead. Strip China out, and the rest of Asia still outbuilds the world in solar modules and battery components.
- For years the economics of electrotech have been improving rapidly. A decade ago, solar began to beat coal, and electric cars beat petrol over their lifetimes, once fuel was counted. Today solar and EVs are cheaper to buy outright, even before the fuel savings. For economies short of capital, the door is now open to rapid change.
- Then came Hormuz: the closure of Asia’s petrol station. The region buys nearly half of its oil from the Gulf, a deeper reliance than Europe had on Russia. It is the second blow in four years. The first came in 2022, when Russia cut off Europe, and Europe outbid Asia for gas, pricing out poorer countries. If electrotech is the pull of opportunity, the twin fossil shock is the push of necessity.
- Economics, security and industrial opportunity now all point in the same direction. Asia holds half the world’s people and 4% of its oil and gas, but three quarters of the electrotech factories that can replace the fuel it lacks.
- The Great Divergence was powered by the energy the West mastered. The Great Convergence runs on the energy that Asia manufactures. If this is to be the Asian century, its path will be electric.
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Electric Asia
- How Asia is leading the electric age, powering its rise and reshaping the global order
“What was five years ago maybe barely competitive, now is almost already clearly cheaper...”
"Investments in renewables have become a better bet, promising returns in closer to two years instead of 30."
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GreenPolicy360: The shift globally to renewable energy comes against a backdrop of historic policy decisions in the two terms of the Trump administration, a government-wide retreat away from renewable energy. The Trump 'retro-vision' that touts fossil fuels and denigrates renewables is, in fact, setting back U.S. competitiveness in meeting new demands for electrification across industrial sectors.
As the economies of the world move forward, in transportation (EVs, e-motorcycles, e-bikes... e-buses, e-trucks, city e-grids with light rail, and soon aerial copters and planes, boats and ships, and e-power tools, e-tractors, e-smart homes and battery technologies (powering grids, cities, factories, consumer products), and e-robots and a gamut of AI technologies .... and on and on, the retro-actions of the Trump period are delivering a backward-looking blow to U.S. competitiveness that will have decades-long consequences.
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June 7, 2026
As the War with Iran Reaches Day 100
- And War in Ukraine Continues to Flare
- And War in Lebanon Expands
- And War in the Middle East Seems Endless
- With Escalations, Reverberations, Proliferation of 'WMDs', and Incalculable Worldwide Costs
We listen in and watch as the issues and questions roil across an informed and hard discussion between voices 'in the know' ...
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June 4
PREMIERE of a New Documentary Film about the Threat of Nuclear Weapons
In this 29-minute documentary, renowned whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg provides a powerful wakeup call about the global threat posed by nuclear weapons and advocates how we can dramatically reduce the real and present danger of nuclear annihilation.
Before he released the top secret Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War, Ellsberg was a nuclear war planner with access to classified information on U.S. nuclear strategy.
Wikipedia Bio / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg
Filmed one year before his death at age 92, Ellsberg speaks with clarity and urgency about the dangers we face, noting, "I’ve long said that to my last breath I will be doing what I can to postpone and avert the risk of nuclear war."
With ongoing conflicts heightening nuclear tensions, and with the recent end of the New START treaty potentially triggering a renewed arms race, "An Ordinary Insanity" is a timely film to help mobilize broad public concern and action for arms control and nuclear disarmament.
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GreenPolicy360 & Strategic Demands:
A message from beyond, words of warning from an old friend of ours, Dan Ellsberg.
Listen in to words of wisdom, even as a US president postures to be anti-nuke, and proposes nuclear weapons funding at all time highs...
In fact, nuclear funding and Trump administration nuclear weapons development and 'usable' delivery platforms have spurred an out of control Nuclear Arms Race between the US, Russia and now China
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“We’re continuing year-by-year deliberately with a posture and a policy and threats that make a significant risk of near extinction possible.”
— DANIEL ELLSBERG in "An Ordinary Insanity"
More about Dan Ellsberg @ GreenPolicy360 & @ Strategic Demands
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May 2026
David Attenborough Turns 100 Years Old
"The next few decades represent a final opportunity to build a stable home for ourselves and restore the rich, healthy and wonderful world that we inherited from our distant ancestors. Our future on the planet, the only place as far as we know where life of any kind exists, is at stake.” -- David Attenborough, "A Life on Our Planet", 2020
GreenPolicy360: We agree with David, we very deeply agree...
And to Leo DiCaprio, a fellow Bioneer, we agree too. David is a protector and close up story teller of the natural world who is a unique and valued voice whose wisdom will remain for years, and years and years...
- https://deadline.com/2026/05/leonardo-dicaprio-david-attenborough-tribute-100th-birthday-1236888075/
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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin this past week defended deep budget cuts proposed by President Donald Trump
Zeldin appeared at a trio of congressional hearings, dueling with House members and senators over the administration’s plan to reduce EPA’s annual funding to $4.2 billion in fiscal 2027 — or more than half of the agency’s enacted spending (E&E)
Green Policy: Lee Zeldin is Donald Trump's zealous attorney/administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. (We note he is also being discussed in the news as a leading candidate for the next US Attorney General). Zeldin for now is showing himself as a man with a cause. The cause he is pursuing, as he wields expanded administrative power, is dismantling and defunding the agency charged with protecting the environment, as the EPA's title straightforwardly declares.
Since the Environmental Protection Agency establishment in 1970, the EPA has followed its mission over decades. Congress after Congress envisioned, developed, and approved its work. Popular support was nationwide. Memorable achievements followed. We won't go into the long list of health-protections and science that EPA has given the nation and its communities, the air-quality, water-quality, health- and living-quality advances are there to see and experience.
In Lee Zeldin's short time in office, however, the record of achievements is not seen as achievements to be built on... Zeldin has instead turned the valued agency into a storm of firings, cuts, closing of departments, ending research, terminating projects, eliminating oversight programs, announcing the EPA is no longer in the business of doing the people's work of enforcing the statutory mandates and directions of the US Congress.
When asked under what authority he is dismantling the EPA, he answers with authoritative assurance -- that of the Supreme Court's 'Major Questions Doctrine' and the Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision.
Zeldin and the current administration go on to explain they have 'different' policy priorities' that allow them to cut, cut, cut the EPA, turning it into a shell of what it was -- and away from Congressional votes, decisions and budgets since the 1970s intended to support viable, effective environmental protection.
Yet, a remade Supreme Court has now enabled a dramatic and demanding new level of explicit text in Statutory law. The Court's novel doctrine of 'Major Questions' and the Loper Bright decision that Lee Zeldin wave as he orders dismantling is the order coming from the president. Given on the ground, deep and popular support, Zeldin's orders won't stand the test of time.
Congressional staffs will bring in experts and act to redraft the letter of the law. Future administrations will support will act to pass legally specific text across most all environmental laws that are being summarily dismissed by Lee Zeldin, Esq.
What Zeldin seems to forget, as he flaunts the Scotus recent turn, is that the clock is ticking, the people see and learn what is needed and what to do to deliver the kind of government they are demanding.
Top of list -- quality of life. This includes protection against toxics and pollution. Moving toward a goal of clean, breathable air, drinkable water, and sustainable, enjoyable, healthy communities, towns and cities.
We understand the need for the EPA's work. Most everyone does.
When Lee Zeldin goes away, within a brief time a renewed Environmental Protection Agency with new Presidential executive orders and Congressional support will be the order of the day.
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April 2026
Remade Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS) Remakes Civil Rights & the Voting Rights Act
- SCOTUS Voting Act Decision Acts to Reshape the 2026 Mid-term Congressional Election
- Partisan Reconfiguration of Congressional Districts Goes into Overdrive
Voting Rights and Control of Congress
- Media news headlines from across the US deliver Temper of the Times
Supreme Court hollows out a landmark law that had protected minority voting rights for 6 decades Associated Press / April 30, 2026
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Memorable Words from the British King Addressing a Joint Session of the US Congress
Charles navigates fraught politics with reminders of the Magna Carta of 1215, citizen rights, and calling for today's democratic governments to have high purpose
"[O]ur generation must decide how to address the collapse of critical natural systems, which threatens far more than the harmony and essential diversity of Nature.”
"Reflect on our shared responsibility to safeguard Nature, our most precious and irreplaceable asset." ...
The modern representative of the UK went on to speak of the British Enlightenment, and the rights and duties of today's democratic governments.
“We do not embark on these remarkable endeavours together out of sentiment, we do so because they build greater shared resilience for the future, so making our citizens safer for generations to come."
“Our common ideals were not only crucial for liberty and equality, they are also the foundation of our shared prosperity. The Rule of Law: the certainty of stable and accessible rules, an independent judiciary resolving disputes and delivering impartial justice.”
... "It is here in these very halls that this spirit of liberty and the promise of America’s Founders is present in every session and every vote cast” ... political debate enriched “by the deliberation of many, representing the living mosaic of the United States. In both of our countries it is the very fact of our vibrant, diverse and free societies that gives us our collective strength.”
"The essence of our two Nations is a generosity of spirit and a duty to foster compassion, to promote peace, to deepen mutual understanding and to value all people, of all faiths, and of none.”
-- King Charles III, April 28, 2026
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'Earth Day', April 22, 1970, Carries On & On
- April 22, 2026 🧤 Teach-In Memory Time
At GreenPolicy360 we tell of 'being there' and being directly involved in the envisioning and planning of a first Earth Day
Tip of our Green Hat to Representative George E. Brown
Personal recollection --
A Story of 'Earthrise' to 'Earth Day' and Far Beyond....
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- Round & Round We Go ....
'Earthrise' to a First 'Earth Day' ... Now Earth Is in Your Hands
'Earthrise', December 24, 1968 to 'Earthset', April 6, 2026
- NASA / December 1968
- A half century on, fifty years after Apollo 8, humanity again visits the Moon and looks back at Planet Earth
- NASA / April 2026
Artemis II, Journey from Earth to the Moon
NASA
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March 2026
Another War
As the US and Israel launch war with Iran, the following words hover front of mind.
“People predicting disaster: The odds are in your favor, but you cannot be sure, and you should not hope to be right. People celebrating: Maybe wanna wait a bit. The odds, historically, are definitely not on your side. Anyone certain they know what happens next is making it up.” -- Tom Nichols
"The world needs to renew a focus on human rights with quality of life high on every nation's agenda." -- GreenPolicy360
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February 2026
February 18, 2026
Environmental Groups Sue Trump’s EPA Rollback of Climate Science Finding
Via The Guardian
More than a dozen health and environmental justice non-profits have sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its revocation of the legal determination that underpins US federal climate regulations.
Filed in Washington DC circuit court, the lawsuit challenges the EPA’s rollback of the “endangerment finding”, which states that the buildup of heat-trapping pollution in the atmosphere endangers public health and welfare and has allowed the EPA to limit those emissions from vehicles, power plants and other industrial sources since 2009. The rollback was widely seen as a major setback to US efforts to combat the climate crisis.
The suit was brought by the American Public Health Association, the American Lung Association, the Center for Biological Diversity, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club and 11 other public health and environmental organizations. The lawsuit was filed by green legal organizations Clean Air Task Force and Earthjustice and it names the EPA and the agency’s administrator, Lee Zeldin, as defendants...
Photo from the LA Times
An Attack on a Foundational Law, EPA Findings and a Supporting Court Decision
(Updated, with this Trump order) "The United States will essentially have no laws on the books that enforce how efficient America’s passenger cars and trucks should be."
A Trump Legacy: Rejecting Science, Climate Change, and the Environmental Protection Agency
- A Moment in History That Will Be Remembered
Reading 'Top of the News' headlines this week, the world's people encounter a nation's president who rejects a half-century of a scientific, military, educational and security studies, data, knowledge -- and warnings.
President Trump orders environmental cuts and rollbacks, retrogressive policies that turn around the Environmental Protection Agency's progress for the nation.
Five plus decades of vision, foundational work, projects and programs, NASA/NOAA, EPA, USGS, across US colleges and universities, health and medical research, and on and on are now being diminished and degraded.
Time will tell the full story of the Trump presidency.
For now, let's take a quick look back at actions taken to advance environmental protection and the nation's well being, the beginnings of the EPA, atmospheric/climate/earth science, national security, health, and a better future for all.
GreenPolicy360:
Let's call this Trump rejection of science what it is -- an act of hubris, an decision that will not stand in the face of physics...
Donald Trump's administration, with an EPA taken over by anti-science purveyors who callously and destructively set aside fifty plus years of scientific data, now act to put their legacy into the history books. Their action to deny the overwhelmingly evident dangers of climate change, a gathering storm threatening US and world environmental security, is an ignominious day.
We, today's generation and future generations will live to mark this moment as a tragedy, one that accelerates real-world physics of earth systems, delivering climate impacts, disruptions, security lost...
The Trump administration have delivered 'retro' thinking, anti-science destructiveness.
The Clean Air Acts and accompanying model regulations, ideas beginning in California to deal with its "smog" in the 1960s/70s, were shared and spread throughout the US -- and the world's cities and communities. Profound progress, meant explicitly to deal with hazardous air pollutants and remedy the climate-related costs, the damages of atmospheric pollution to health, environment and future well being that adversely impacts life across nations and regions of Earth, was achieved and continues to be achieved. The Trump attempt to block this progress will fail.
Yet, the time lost to Trumpian folly will add additional costs to humanity's journey forward.
We mark these days in February 2026 as times to be remembered -- and judged -- for what they are.
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February 1, 2026
Another Warning Among Many
Excerpt from a Chapter in a new book by Thom Hartmann...
The Climate Collapse Presidency
- Climate change is the single greatest threat to a sustainable future
- but, at the same time, addressing the climate challenge presents a
- golden opportunity to promote prosperity, security and a brighter
- future for all.
- —- Ban Ki-moon, former UN Secretary-General,
- Remarks at Climate Leaders’ Summit, April 11, 2024
Thom Hartmann @https://hartmannreport.com:
The greatest existential threat humanity faces isn’t hiding in a military bunker or a terrorist cell. It’s in plain sight: the accelerating collapse of our only home’s life-support systems.
Trump’s first term was environmental arson. He gutted the EPA, installed fossil fuel executives in key positions, shredded over one hundred environmental protections, and abandoned the Paris Climate Agreement.
Scientists were silenced. Research was suppressed. The words “climate change” vanished from government websites as if deleting terms could delete reality.
When confronted about climate’s role in the devastating 2020 wildfires, Trump smirked: “I don’t think science knows, actually.”
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An AI response:
Daniel Solomon
I asked AI what is the effect of Trump #47 on the climate? Ans. below:
In his second term as the 47th President, Donald Trump has moved aggressively to reverse U.S. climate progress by prioritizing fossil fuel production and dismantling federal environmental oversight.
Key effects on the climate and policy include:
Withdrawal from International Agreements: On January 27, 2026, the U.S. officially withdrew from the Paris Agreement for the second time. Additionally, the administration has announced departures from over 60 international bodies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Increased Carbon Emissions: Projections suggest that the administration's rollbacks could lead to an additional 4 billion metric tons of CO2-equivalent emissions by 2030 compared to previous trajectories.
Dismantling Regulatory Foundations: The EPA is currently working to repeal the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which is the legal basis for nearly all federal greenhouse gas regulations.
Expansion of Fossil Fuels: Under the mantra "drill, baby, drill," the administration has fast-tracked deep-sea mining, reopened Alaskan refuges for oil development, and granted roughly $40 billion in new subsidies to the fossil fuel industry.
Stalling Clean Energy: Federal support for wind and solar has been slashed, including the elimination of the $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit and nearly $13 billion in green energy funding.
Information and Data Gaps: The administration has removed past National Climate Assessments from federal sites, deleted climate science webpages, and cut funding for climate research programs, creating significant gaps in global climate tracking.
While federal action has stalled, market forces and state-led initiatives — particularly in California and Texas — continue to drive some growth in renewable capacity despite federal headwinds.
Deep Losses in Clean-Renewable Production & Competitiveness
- US Policy Goes Retro with Fossil Fuels
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Tracking_science_policy_across_the_Trump_administration.png
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January 2026
January 7th, a Day to Remember ...
This day in America delivered a deadly shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a death recorded live by a number of video recordings taken and distributed by citizens who observed the killing. Today is going to become etched in the memory of US history.
The death, as witnessed by those who viewed and reviewed the video recordings, was tragic -- and much more...
The lies told by government officials following the shooting of a woman in her car were painfully far from the facts and now remain another in a line of political lies that are spreading like a fire inflaming communities across the country.
Today, it is again time to remember the warnings of Hannah Arendt.
Take time to read her writing of lies, big lies, repeated lies -- and the threats and dangers they pose.
These lies are, again, as history teaches, deliverers of dangerous times.
Echoes from the propagandists that brought on World War II.
Echoes of lies to recall...
"Truth and Politics"
By Hannah Arendt
1967 in the New Yorker Magazine
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