"Are We on the Verge of Chatting With Whales?"
"An ambitious project is attempting to interpret sperm whale clicks with artificial intelligence, then talk back to them."
Source: Hakai, 10/28/2021
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World Faces Disastrous 2.7C Heating On Current Climate Plans, UN Warns
"The world is squandering the opportunity to “build back better” from the Covid-19 pandemic, and faces disastrous temperature rises of at least 2.7C if countries fail to strengthen their climate pledges, according to a report from the UN."
Source: Guardian, 10/27/2021"White House Sets Climate Spending At Up To $555 Billion"
"The White House has told allies in Congress that climate change programs in Democrats' spending bill will range between $500 billion and $555 billion, according to four sources familiar with the negotiations."
Source: Politico, 10/27/2021Biden FWS Moves To Undo Two Trump-Era Endangered Species Act Rollbacks
"The Biden administration will move to rescind two Trump-era rollbacks of protections for endangered species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced Tuesday."
Source: The Hill, 10/27/2021"Amplify Energy Cashed Out Cleanup Fund While Racking Up Violations"
"Years before Amplify Energy made headlines for its ruptured pipeline that spewed oil into Southern California ocean waters in early October, the company’s owners were successfully fighting in court to change its obligation to maintain federally mandated funds for plugging and abandoning offshore oil and gas wells and equipment."
Source: Capital & Main, 10/27/2021"Gulf Arab States, Squeezed By Climate Change, Still Tout Oil"
"The global energy transition is perhaps nowhere more perplexing than in the Arabian Peninsula, where Saudi Arabia and other Gulf monarchies are caught between two daunting climate change scenarios that threaten their livelihoods."
Source: AP, 10/27/2021"Majority in US Concerned About Climate: AP-NORC/EPIC Poll"
"President Joe Biden heads to a vital U.N. climate summit at a time when a majority of Americans regard the deteriorating climate as a problem of high importance to them, an increase from just a few years ago."
Source: AP, 10/27/2021Australia Pledges ‘Net Zero’ by 2050. Plan Makes That Hard to Believe
"After months of debate and delay, the Australian government on Tuesday promised to reach “net zero” emissions by 2050, unveiling a plan built on hope and investment in low-emissions technologies."
Source: NYTimes, 10/27/2021Big Oil Hearing To Kick Off Probe Into Climate Disinformation: Lawmaker
"A Congressional hearing this week into whether oil companies misled the public about climate change marks the start of a broad probe that may extend to other industries from advertising to social media, according to a lawmaker leading the effort."
Source: Reuters, 10/27/2021"White House To Release Climate Strategy Ahead Of Glasgow"
"The White House is preparing a national climate strategy that will outline how President Biden plans to meet his ambitious goals on global warming, a senior administration official said yesterday."
Source: E&E News, 10/27/2021"Italy Hosts A Climate-Focused G20 As Geopolitics Shift"
"The leaders of Russia and China aren’t coming. Turkey nearly set off a diplomatic incident on the eve of the meeting. And the United States, Australia and France will be at the same table for the first time since Washington pulled the rug out from under Paris’ $66 billion submarine deal Down Under."
Source: AP, 10/27/2021"World Set To Miss Goal Of $100B Climate Aid Pledged To Poor"
"A target for rich countries to provide poor nations with $100 billion in aid each year to tackle global warming will be missed, dealing a blow to the upcoming U.N. climate talks in Glasgow."
Source: AP, 10/26/2021"Greenhouse Gas Levels Hit New Record Despite Lockdowns, UN Reports"
"Levels of climate-heating gases in the atmosphere hit record levels in 2020, despite coronavirus-related lockdowns, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization has announced."
Source: Guardian, 10/26/2021"Manchin Pushes For More Climate Cuts From The Budget Bill"
"Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia has pushed Democrats to drop or weaken a second major climate change provision from the sweeping social policy and environmental spending bill that the White House hopes to finalize this week, according to two people familiar with the matter."
Source: NYTimes, 10/26/2021Natural Gas Leaks In Boston Vastly Underreported — Could Be Inside Homes
"New research shows that methane emissions in the Boston area were six times higher than previously estimated. That could make the greenhouse effect of natural gas “equivalent to coal.”"
Source: Washington Post, 10/26/2021
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