A string of hashtags has appeared on social media platforms using disinformation and promoting conspiracy theories about climate change. This analysis of interaction with these hashtags shows that they were mainly promoted by accounts linked to oil interests in Gulf countries. It also showed that this interaction coincided with international and regional events related to the climate issues, and was at odds with the stated positions of these countries, which claim to abide by international climate agreements.

The Trump administration has asked NASA employees to draw up plans to end at least two major satellite missions, according to current and former NASA staffers. If the plans are carried out, one of the missions would be permanently terminated, because the satellite would burn up in the atmosphere.

There is earlier coverage in Heatmap, but its behind a fairly strong paywall

• European governments are taking steps to break their dependence on critical scientific data the US historically made freely available to the world
• Data on sea-level rise and extreme weather events put at risk by cuts to National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration [NOAA]
• Over the next two years the EU plans to expand its own European Marine Observation and Data Network which collects and hosts data on shipping routes, seabed habitats, marine litter and other concerns.
• In addition, the EU is considering increasing its funding of the Argo program, a part of the Global Ocean Observing System which operates a global system of floats to monitor the world's oceans and track global warming, extreme weather events and sea-level rise.
• Nordic countries met to coordinate data storage efforts with Norway setting aside $2 million to back up and store U.S. data to ensure stable access. The Danish Meteorological Institute in February started downloading historical U.S. climate data in case it is deleted by the U.S.
• A range of other European countries initiated complementary programs.

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The paper is here.

Additional background is here

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/3795786

• The European Central Bank (ECB) is set to introduce what it calls a 'climate factor' when lending to banks against appropriate collateral in their short and long-term financing instruments.
• This climate factor could reduce the value assigned to the assets pledged as collateral, thus protecting the Eurosystem against a potential decline in collateral value in the event of climate-related shocks.
• The climate factor also raises the pressure on commercial banks to direct their funds towards 'greener' investments as the bloc seeks to reduce it carbon footprint.
• The new measure will apply to marketable assets issued by non-financial corporations, taking effect in the second half of 2026.

Of the five stations they list in their table, the one which shows the most obvious acceleration (St. Petersburg) is the one they don’t show the graph of! Of course they didn’t find acceleration in U.S. tide gauge records, because they never looked for it. They only looked for what they wanted to see, and that’s all they found. If you do analyze sea level data (and I have), in light of the most recent data (from satellites and from tide gauges) acceleration is obvious, both for the U.S.A. and the globe as a whole.

President Trump and Republicans in Congress are eliminating federal incentives to buy electric vehicles, but carmakers need to keep selling and investing in them.

The E.P.A. said this week it would revoke its own ability to fight climate change. It’s the latest move in an extraordinary pivot away from science-based protections.

The Bureau of Land Management implemented four rules today that create more leeway for oil and gas companies wanting to drill on public lands, as required by the spending bill President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress passed in July. But voters will not have a chance to comment on two of the rules.

Note that they're also making it impossible to locate wind or solar on public land