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Climate

We’re Gonna Need a Better Weather Model
Climate

AM Briefing: A Forecasting Crisis

On climate chaos, DOE updates, and Walmart’s emissions

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AM Briefing: America’s New Emissions Goals

On Biden’s big announcement, Montana’s climate case, and the murder hornet

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Climate

AM Briefing: Clinging to Coal

On a new IEA report, EV batteries, and some good news about emissions

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Ideas

How Covid Shaped Climate Policy

Five years from the emergence of the disease, the world — and the climate — is still grappling with its effects.

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The Long-Awaited LNG Study Is Out

And the predictable battle lines are already being drawn.

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What to Expect From the Looming LNG Report

AM Briefing: The LNG Report Looms

On a long-awaited study, PG&E’s loan, and Germany’s snap elections

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Climate

AM Briefing: An Island in Ruins

On Mayotte’s death toll, the last days of the Biden administration, and subsidence

Tropical Cyclone Chido’s Horrifying Destruction
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Current conditions: A rare tornado caused damage in Northern California over the weekend • Severe flooding continues in southern Thailand • It is chilly and cloudy in Washington, D.C., where lawmakers have reportedly decided not to include permitting reform in the year-end spending package after a weekend of tense talks.

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1. Tropical Cyclone Chido brings destruction to French islands of Mayotte

Thousands of people could be dead in the small island region of Mayotte after Tropical Cyclone Chido swept through on Saturday. The islands, home to some 300,000, are French territory but located in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and the east coast of Africa. Sources have reported apocalyptic scenes of destruction, with entire neighborhoods gone and essential infrastructure wiped out. “There is nothing left,” a local hotel owner told CNN. “It’s as if an atomic bomb fell.” The cyclone struck as a Category 4 storm, with 136-mph winds, making it the strongest storm to hit the islands in nearly 100 years. So far 14 people are confirmed to have perished, but that death toll is expected to rise. According to CNN, the worst damage is in slum regions where thousands of undocumented migrants reside.

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Politics

How Elon Musk Broke Bad on Climate

Why he did is anybody’s guess. But we’re all about to suffer the consequences.

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Donald Trump hasn’t taken office yet, but the quarter of a billion dollars Elon Musk invested in Trump’s victory is already paying off in ways large and small. On Friday, Reuters reported that the Trump transition team is looking to scrap a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration crash-reporting requirement, “a move that could cripple the government’s ability to investigate and regulate the safety of vehicles with automated-driving systems.” Tesla finds this requirement irksome, and lo, it may soon disappear.

In the scope of Musk’s emerging sway over the Trump administration and the course of federal policy in the coming years, it’s a relatively minor story of potentially corrupt influence and the subversion of the public interest. But an even more disturbing picture of Musk’s full priority set is coming into focus.

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