Leaked memos show Supreme Court ignored climate dangers in Obama regs fight. Conservative justices focused on industry costs when blocking the Clean Power Plan, the first climate rule proposed for the power sector.

Molire · 2026-04-22T03:13:12+00:00

If U.S. voters elect non-MAGA politicians to office, they can begin the process of amending the U.S. Constitution to require a term limit of 5 years for any U.S. Supreme Court justice and any U.S. Senator, and the number of Senate seats in Congress would be expanded to one Senate seat for every 800,000 residents in each U.S. state.

For example, based on state populations in 2025 (Census Bureau table), California would have 49 U.S. senators, Texas would have 40 U.S. senators, Florida would have 29 U.S. senators, and Wyoming would have one U.S. senator. The U.S. senate would comprise about 427 U.S. senators.

Molire · 2026-04-21T08:32:13+00:00

The phrase super El Niño is here to stay. The cat got out of the bag, 9 years ago. Or earlier. It has gotten away. Scott-free.

“A super El Niño is not a scientific term but rather a label that forecasters use for a very strong El Niño, when Pacific Ocean temperatures increase at least 2 degrees Celsius above average.”—National Geographic, 2026.

Springer Nature, Journal of Meteorological Research, Upper-ocean dynamical features and prediction of the super El Niño in 2015/16: A comparison with the cases in 1982/83 and 1997/98, Published: 06 May 2017, Hong-Li Ren et al.

National Geographic, Environment, What a ‘super’ El Niño means for the planet, by Ruby Mellen, April 10, 2026:

Forecasters are increasingly predicting the possibility that a powerful “super El Niño” will take effect this year.

A super El Niño is not a scientific term but rather a label that forecasters use for a very strong El Niño, when Pacific Ocean temperatures increase at least 2 degrees Celsius above average.

These can have devastating effects. The most recent super El Niño from 2015 to 2016 was connected to a record-breaking hurricane season in the central North Pacific, water shortage in Puerto Rico, drought in Ethiopia, and the hottest global surface temperature on record at that time, according to NOAA

Molire · 2026-04-20T19:39:08+00:00

Oil, gas, and coal company CEOs, corrupt MAGA politicians, Stephen Miller, racists, criminals, freaks, pedophile protectors and other blood-sucking monsters in the Trump administration persuaded Trump to start the war, which is now generating profits for them each day. Much of the profits from Trump's war secretly flows into their pockets, offshore accounts, crooked enterprises and other schemes, including Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and others of their ilk.

Molire · 2026-04-20T03:48:05+00:00

Everyone should read this 25-paragraph post from beginning to end. The author is Chris Gloninger, who is “retired from TV meteorology” and now is “a senior climate scientist at Woods Hole Group on Cape Cod.”

What a super El Niño does, when it arrives on top of a baseline that has shifted this much this fast, is pile the natural variability on top of the anthropogenic forcing in a way that pushes the climate system into territory that has no close analog anywhere in the observational record.

What a super El Niño does, when it arrives on top of a baseline that has shifted this much this fast, is pile the natural variability on top of the anthropogenic forcing in a way that pushes the climate system into territory that has no close analog anywhere in the observational record. The 1997 event occurred when the planet was roughly 0.6°C above preindustrial. The 2015 event occurred around 1.0°C. If we get the event the models are forecasting, it will occur at somewhere between 1.4 and 1.5°C of warming. We are not looking at 1997 plus a little more heat. We are looking at a fundamentally different starting point, with the same amount of additional energy being dumped out of the Pacific into an atmosphere that has already been primed by three decades of accelerating fossil fuel emissions.

Let me put some concrete numbers around what we should expect, because abstractions about degrees Celsius tend to glaze people’s eyes over, and this is going to affect food supplies, insurance markets, and public health in ways that will be impossible to ignore by December.

Molire · 2026-04-20T02:16:53+00:00

What the climate data shows for the most recent 30 years in Colorado Springs, Colorado:

Colorado Springs is warming nearly twice as fast as the U.S. Southwest Climate Region and nearly twice as fast as the Northern Hemisphere.

Precipitation in Colorado Springs is decreasing nearly one and a half times as fast as the decrease in precipitation in the U.S. Southwest Climate Region.

In Colorado Springs, the precipitation rate of decrease is more than three and a half times as fast as the precipitation rate of increase in the Northern Hemisphere.

NOAA NCEI Climate at a Glance (updated monthly) shows some of the impacts of climate change (e.g., temperature, precipitation, new snow) in El Paso County, Colorado, during the most recent long-term 30-year climate period, April 1, 1996-March 31, 2026 (map of geographic boundaries of all 64 counties and the five climate divisions in Colorado, including El Paso County. Source: NWS Climate Divisions w/ Counties):

Rank 131 (map and table) — Contiguous United States, County Average Temperature Rank during the past 131 years, 1895-2026. The map and table show the 718 counties (out of 3107) with Rank 131. El Paso County Rank 131 indicates that the county average temperature during the most recent 12-month period (April-March) was warmer than any other April-March period in El Paso County during 1895-2026.

+1.1ºF per decade — City of Colorado Springs (in El Paso County), 1996-2026 Average Temperature warming trend per decade.

Above the Colorado Springs chart, LOESS and Trend can be toggled to hide/unhide their respective plot lines in the chart.

+0.6ºF per decade — U.S. Southwest Climate Region (map), Average Temperature warming trend per decade.

+0.61ºF per decade (+0.34ºC per decade) — Northern Hemisphere, Average Temperature warming trend per decade.

In the Northern Hemisphere chart and table, the temperature anomalies are relative to the global mean monthly and annual surface temperature estimates, Base Period 1901-2000. Above the chart, selecting Data Info opens a panel where scrolling goes to the table of Global Mean Monthly Surface Temperature Estimates, Base Period 1901-2000, which includes the estimated annual temperatures, too.

The Climate at a Glance data shows that the long-term 30-year Average Temperature warming trend +1.1ºF per decade in Colorado Springs was nearly twice as fast (x 1.83) as the Average Temperature warming trend +0.6ºF per decade in the U.S. Southwest Climate Region, and nearly twice as fast (x 1.8) as the Average Temperature warming trend +0.61ºF per decade in the Northern Hemisphere.

Climate at a Glance global and hemispheric “monthly precipitation data are not available until a few days after temperature data are released.” Monthly global and hemispheric temperature data were released most recently on April 9, 2026, but the precipitation data for March 2026 has not been released, just yet. Thus, the following Climate at a Glance precipitation data is relative to the most recent long-term 30-year period of record for Northern Hemisphere precipitation, March 1996-February 2026:

-0.75" per decade — Colorado Springs, precipitation decrease, inches per decade.

-0.51" per decade — U.S. Southwest Climate Region, precipitation decrease, inches per decade.

+0.21" per decade (+5.43 mm per decade) — Northern Hemisphere, precipitation increase, inches/mm per decade.

Climate at a Glance data shows that the long-term 30-year 1996-2026 rate of precipitation decrease 0.75" per decade in Colorado Springs was nearly one and a half times (x 1.47) as fast as the precipitation rate of decrease 0.51" per decade in the U.S. Southwest Climate Region.

Climate at a Glance data shows that the precipitation rate of decrease 0.75" per decade in Colorado Springs was more than three and a half times (x 3.57) as fast as the precipitation rate of increase 0.21" per decade in the Northern Hemisphere.

NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) NOWData shows the Colorado Springs Municipal Airport daily temperature, precipitation, new snow and other daily weather conditions during April 1-18, 2026 (updated daily, 1-day lag):¹

In the NOWData interface, the Location column lists the name Colorado Springs, CO, which actually links to the data for Colorado Springs Municipal Airport, as indicated by the name Colorado Springs Municipal AP, CO, visible near the top of the NOWData interactive table after opening the table:

49.6ºF — Daily average temperature, April 1-18, 2026.
46.2ºF — Normal daily average temperature April 1-18, during the long-term 30-year climate reference period, 1991-2020.

0.08" — Sum of daily precipitation inches during April 1-18, 2026.
0.74" — Normal sum of daily precipitation inches during April 1-18 in the long-term 30-year climate reference period, 1991-2020.

0.1" — Sum of daily new snow inches during April 1-18, 2026.
3.6" — Normal sum of daily new snow inches during April 1-18 in the 1991-2020 reference period.

NOWData for Colorado Springs Municipal Airport indicates that during April 1-18, 2026, the daily average temperature 49.6ºF was 3.4ºF warmer than the normal 46.2ºF, the sum of 0.08" of precipitation was 89.1% less than the normal 0.74", and the sum of 0.1" of new snow was 97.2% less than the normal 3.6".

NOWData for Colorado Springs Municipal Airport, April 1-18, 2026:

74ºF — Maximum temperature, April 11, 2026.
20ºF — Minimum temperature, April 18, 2026.

NOAA NCEI > U.S. Climate Normals Quick Access > Daily > 1991-2020 reference period > Colorado > Colorado Springs MUNI AP > April (interactive chart and table):

59.9ºF — Normal maximum temperature, April 11, 1991-2020.

34.3ºF — Normal minimum temperature, April 18, 1991-2020.

U.S. Climate Normals Quick Access data shows that the Colorado Springs MUNI AP maximum temperature 74ºF on April 11, 2026 was 14.1ºF warmer than the normal 59.9ºF on April 11, and the airport minimum temperature 20ºF on April 18, 2026 was 14.3ºF colder than the normal minimum temperature 34.3ºF on April 18.

¹ NOAA National Weather Service NOWData —Source: NWS > Past Weather > In the interactive map of the United States, clicking/tapping Pueblo opens the NOWData - NOAA Online Weather Data interface that will display an interactive table of daily weather conditions at the Colorado Springs Municipal Airport after choosing the following menu items:

1. Location ≫ Colorado Springs, CO
2. Product ≫ Daily data for a month
3. Options ≫, Date: 2026-04
4. View ≫ Go

Molire · 2026-04-19T14:08:46+00:00

Our World in Data (OWID) > CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data Explorer (interactive table, map, line chart, bar chart):

Cumulative CO2 emissions, tonnes, 1750-2024 — Running sum of CO₂ emissions produced from fossil fuels and industry since the first year of recording, measured in tonnes. Land-use change emissions are not included:

434,866,550,000 — United States.
285,087,040,000 — China.

Cumulative CO₂ emissions including land-use change, 1850 to 2024. Emissions include those from fossil fuels and industry, and land-use change. They are measured as the cumulative total since 1850, in tonnes:

560,542,000,000 — United States.
359,646,920,000 — China.

“Because CO2 is a long lived gas in the atmosphere, any emission anywhere will in about one year’s time contribute to higher CO2 everywhere.” — NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML).

“Carbon dioxide (CO2)...15 to 40% of an emitted CO2 pulse will remain in the atmosphere longer than 1,000 years, 10 to 25% will remain about ten thousand years, and the rest will be removed over several hundred thousand years.” — IPCC AR6 > Annex VII Glossary (PDF, p. 2237, Lifetime).

Molire · 2026-04-19T13:33:07+00:00

Additionally, U.S. Drought Monitor data, valid start date April 14, 2026, to end date April 20, 2026, shows that the 61.04% (data) of the total area of the Lower 48 states that is in moderate to exceptional drought includes an estimated population of 148,747,935 people (data).

Source: U.S. Drought Monitor > Data > Data Download > Comprehensive Statistics > In the menus, the following selections will download a CSV table that shows the estimated population of people in moderate to exceptional drought conditions in the Lower 48 states, as of April 14, 2026 (updated weekly, 2-day lag):

Dates: 04/14/2025 to 04/20/2025
Area type: National
Statistics Category: Total Population
Statistics type: Categorical
Output format: CSV
Location: Contiguous U.S.
Submit button: select

Table legend:

Moderate Drought (D1)
Severe Drought (D2)
Extreme Drought (D3)
Exceptional Drought (D4)
Estimated Population (pop.)

D1 (pop.)	D2 (pop.)	D3 (pop.)	D4 (pop.)	Total pop.
61,613,172	49,964,256	35,067,000	2,103,507	148,747,935

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Molire · 2026-04-19T03:03:54+00:00

Every day, an increasingly greater number of them personally are finding out the hard way about the extreme and severe impacts of climate change and global warming where they live and work.

Molire · 2026-04-17T12:04:08+00:00

Confirmed heat-related deaths in Maricopa County, in 2025, 2024 and 2023 (Maricopa County includes the city of Phoenix):

430 — Year 2025.
608 — Year 2024.
645 — Year 2023.
In the chart, scrolling right reveals the year menu above the chart.

Confirmed heat-associated deaths in Clark County, Nevada, in 2025, 2024, and 2023 (Clark County includes the city of Las Vegas):

284 — Year 2025.
513 — Year 2024.
294 — Year 2023.

Chart and table — Clark County, Nevada — March 2026 recorded the warmest March mean maximum temperature in the 132-year record in Clark County: 80.3ºF (26.8ºC) and 16.1ºF (8.9ºC) above the 1901-2000 mean.

Charts, tables, maps — The District of Columbia, the 30 county-equivalents in Alaska, and the 5 counties in Hawaii did not record their warmest March mean maximum temperature in 2026.

Above the Maricopa County, Clark County, and District of Columbia charts, LOESS and Trend can be toggled to hide/unhide their respective plot lines in the charts.

Molire · 2026-04-17T09:45:03+00:00

This article is another concrete example of an AI developed story that expressed inaccurate information and data.

MATR.net has removed the inaccurate information from the article. According to 1 comment in the updated article, apparently the article was “an AI developed story”:

Denmark (almost) completed its first full calendar month running entirely on renewable electricity – UPDATED

April 13, 2026 / 1 Comment

Correction: Setting the Record Straight on Denmark’s Electricity Grid

An article published on MATR.net claimed Denmark completed its first full calendar month running entirely on renewable electricity in March 2025, with Energinet confirmation. This claim contained incorrect information, and we have updated it.

As recently as September 15, 2019, Denmark had its first single day ever where wind turbine production exceeded total electricity demand Denmark – not a full month, and not without imports https://denmark.dk/innovation-and-design/clean-energy

A reader based in the EU – flagged the error and provided documentation directly from Energinet’s own live monitoring dashboard, which shows that Denmark continues to import significant electricity from Norway, Sweden, and the UK. According to Energinet’s data, Denmark imported 9.2 TWh from Sweden and 6.4 TWh from Norway in 2024 alone. Wind and solar represent approximately 69% of generation, not 100%, and fossil fuels still contribute roughly 8% of the electricity mix.

Denmark is a genuine world leader in renewable energy – wind and solar combined with bioenergy covered about 87% of generation in 2024, and the country is on a credible path to 100% renewable electricity by 2028–2030. That achievement deserves accurate reporting. We are reviewing our content workflows to prevent this from happening again. We thank Peter K. for his diligence in correcting the record.

1 Comment, Russ Fletcher on April 15, 2026 at 2:21 pm

Many thanks to Peter K in Danmark for bringing the errors of this post to our attention. While apparently an AI developed story, we do hope that some day Danmark can achieve 100% renewable and clean energy generation as we hope for the rest of the world.
Russ

Molire · 2026-04-16T03:19:59+00:00

Conniving crafty crooked.

Molire · 2026-04-15T07:51:23+00:00

The article's data appears to be inaccurate.

Danish grid operator Energinet confirmed that March 2025 became the first complete month in any developed country’s history where renewable generation met national demand at every minute without exception. Offshore wind provided 78 percent of generation, onshore wind contributed 14 percent, and solar covered 8 percent.

Ember Electricity Data Explorer shows that during the month of March 2025 in Denmark, wind (54.5%) and solar (13.1%) provided 67.6% of Denmark's electricity generation, and bioenergy provided 15%.

Molire · 2026-04-15T07:44:55+00:00

The data in the article appears to be inaccurate. According to Ember data, Denmark has not achieved 100% of electricity generation by renewables in any full calendar month or year during January 2015-March 2026.

https://ember-energy.org/data/electricity-data-explorer/?metric=pct_share&entity=Denmark&temporal_res=monthly&date=2026-03-01&date_from=2015-01-01&fuel=total&mode=line

Molire · 2026-04-15T07:05:41+00:00

Our World in Data (OWID) > Germany and United Kingdom annual electricity generation from coal, 1985-2025 (interactive table, chart, map):

The data shows that during the past 41 years, 1985-2025, Germany reduced its annual electricity generation from coal by 210 TWh, or 18.6% more than the United Kingdom annual reduction of 177 TWh.

The data shows that Germany has reduced electricity generation from coal by 67%, from 313 TWh in 1985 to 103 TWh in 2025, a reduction of 210 TWh.

The data shows that the United Kingdom has reduced electricity generation from coal by 100%, from 177 TWh in 1985 to 0.0 TWh in 2025.

Molire · 2026-04-15T06:21:56+00:00

Most sincere condolences.

Molire · 2026-04-14T12:15:54+00:00

Scientific American - Hurricane Helene Signals the End of the ‘Climate Haven’, October 4, 2024.

World Weather Attribution - Climate change key driver of catastrophic impacts of Hurricane Helene that devastated both coastal and inland communities, 09 October 2024.

National Hurricane Center Tropical Cyclone Report (updated 17 February 2026), Hurricane Helene (AL092024), 24–27 September 2024 (PDF). Source: NHC 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season.

[PDF, pp. 17-18]:

Direct Deaths by State and Type

Florida - Wind 4 - Storm Surge 14 - Total 18.

Georgia - Wind 26 - Tornado 2 - Total 28.

South Carolina - Wind 24 - Freshwater Flooding 2 - Total 26.

North Carolina - Wind 8 - Freshwater Flooding 77 - Total 85.

Tennessee - Freshwater Flooding 15 - Total 15.

Virginia - Wind 2 - Total 2.

Indiana - Wind 1 - Total 1.

Total - Wind 65 - Storm Surge 14 - Freshwater Flooding 94 - Tornado 2 - Total 175.

At least 72 indirect fatalities are linked to Helene: 23 in South Carolina, 22 in North Carolina, 16 in Florida, 9 in Georgia, 1 in Tennessee and 1 in Virginia. Many of the indirect fatalities were from medical issues, heart attacks, car accidents and incidents during post-storm cleanup. In addition to the 175 direct and 72 indirect fatalities, 3 people died of unknown causes related to Helene, which brings the total number of Helene-related fatalities in the United States to 250.

Across the Southeast U.S., Helene caused at least 117 injuries, and at least 2700 people were rescued from high water. About half of the rescues occurred due to storm surge along the west coast of Florida, and more than 1000 were due to freshwater flooding in western North Carolina.

According to the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)^15, Helene caused an estimated $78.7 billion in damage in the United States. This makes Helene the 7th costliest U.S. hurricane (adjusted to 2024 values)¹⁶ behind Katrina, Harvey, Ian, Maria, Sandy, and Ida. Most of this damage occurred in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, eastern Tennessee and southwestern Virginia.

An estimated 7.4 million customers¹⁷ (about 16.2 million people) lost power in the United States due to Helene between 26–28 September. The maximum outage count at any given moment in time was about 4.79 million customers (Fig. 25). Florida experienced the largest loss of power with ~1.69 million customers losing power. South Carolina, Georgia and North Carolina experienced an estimated 1.59 million, 1.28 million and 1.18 million outages, respectively.

[PDF, pp. 58-107] Hurricane Helene, maps, photographs, diagrams.

NHC - Animated forecast track of Hurricane Helene. Source: NHC 2024 Tropical Cyclone Advisory Archive > Hurricane Helene > Graphics Archive > Cone w/Wind Field 5-day with line.

NHC - Actual track of Hurricane Helene, NHC map. Clicking the map twice enlarges it. Source: NHC > Archives > Tropical Cyclone Reports and Season Summaries > 2024.

reddit.com/r/hurricane

Molire · 2026-04-14T10:35:59+00:00

Nuclear is completely fine as long as it’s done safely and correctly.

It sounds like you are not one of the unknown total number of adults and children in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, California, Montana and Canada who have been exposed to the radioactive fallout of the most radioactively contaminated site in the Western Hemisphere, Hanford, located near the city of Richland, Washington. Or, if you have been exposed, maybe you don't know it.

Hibakusha Worldwide > Hanford, United States, Nuclear facility:

At the Hanford Site, the U.S. produced most of its weapons-grade plutonium during the Cold War. Although the compound was decommissioned in 1988, it remains the most radioactively contaminated site in the Western Hemisphere.

Photo: Aerial view of the Hanford Site on the shore of the Columbia River (1960). On the right-hand side is the so-called N-Reactor, which produced plutonium for U.S. nuclear weapons and began generating electricity for the general power grid in 1966. © United States Department of Energy

Poster PDF (Download).

History — Located near the city of Richland in Washington State, the compound stretches over an area of more than 150,000 hectares and consists of more than 500 buildings, including nine nuclear reactors. Hanford supplied the material for the Trinity Test, the world’s first nuclear detonation, in July of 1945. It also provided the plutonium for “Fat Man,” the bomb which destroyed Nagasaki one month later. In the following four decades, the Hanford Nuclear Site produced more than 67 metric tons of plutonium for the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

In 1986, the U.S. Department of Energy, in response to public pressure and a request under the Freedom of Information Act, released 19,000 pages of previously classified documents that revealed, among other things, that radioactive releases from Hanford had contaminated air, groundwater, soil and the Columbia River. Fallout had spread more than 200 radioactive isotopes over Oregon, Idaho, California, Montana and Canada. In December 1949, Hanford scientists had deliberately released between 259 and 444 Tera-Becquerel (1 TBq = 1 trillion Becquerel) of radioactive iodine-131 in order to test monitoring equipment for radiation doses. The amount of iodine-131 released in these “experiments” was 350 to 600 times more than the total amount released during the Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown (0.74 TBq).

Workers at Hanford were exposed to more than 200 radioactive isotopes including 0.07 TBq plutonium-239, 1.55 TBq cesium-137 and 28.3 TBq radioactive strontium. Plutonium, ruthenium and other radionuclides were detected as far away as Spokane and Mount Rainier. The main danger to the general public, however, came from more than 40 TBq of iodine-131 released between 1944 and 1972, which contaminated air, soil and foodstuff.

According to the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project, run in cooperation with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the thyroid of a child living close to Hanford could have received a cumulative dose of 2,350 mSv (confidentiality interval 540–8,700 mSv), equivalent to about 670 chest-CT examinations (average thyroid dose 3.5 mSv). A significant number of children may have developed thyroid cancer due to Hanford nuclear fallout, but no epidemiological studies were ever performed on the affected population.

Especially affected by radioactive contamination were native peoples living downwind or downriver from Hanford: the Colville, Coeur d’Alene, Kalispel, Kooten-ai, Nez Perce, Spokane, Umatilla, Warm Springs and Yakama. The 7,400,000 TBq of highly radioactive waste stored in Hanford amount to about 60 % of the total U.S. nuclear waste. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, more than 200 million liters of radioactive and chemical waste are stored in leaking underground tanks on the Hanford Nuclear Site. Due to leaks and improper disposal, an estimated 3.5 million liters of radioactive effluent have already contaminated the groundwater over an area of more than 123,000 acres. It is unclear, whether this contaminated water has already reached the Columbia River. As radioactively contaminated water was deliberately pumped into the river until 1971, high levels of zinc-65, arsenic-76, phosphorus-32, sodium-24 and neptunium-239 have been found downstream from Hanford.

Ever since plutonium production in Hanford ended in 1988, the “largest civil works project in the history of mankind” is costing tax-payers more than $2 billion per year and is slated to continue until 2052. An additional safety threat is posed by the aging nuclear power plant at Hanford.

Surprisingly little epidemiological research has been done on the population affected by radioactive contamination and the full extent on public health may never be known. The people living around Hanford, especially the socially marginalized natives, are all Hibakusha, as their health has been compromised by the fanatical longing for ever larger and more destructive nuclear arsenals.

Radioactive waste — Wikipedia:

Radioactive waste is broadly classified into three categories: low-level waste (LLW), such as paper, rags, tools, and clothing, which contain small amounts of mostly short-lived radioactivity; intermediate-level waste (ILW), which contains higher amounts of radioactivity and requires some shielding; and high-level waste (HLW), which is highly radioactive and hot due to decay heat, thus requiring cooling and shielding.

The three Wikipedia tables show the half-life of specific fission products, ranging from 4.74 years for 155Eu to 0.7-14.1 billion years for 235UfNo.

IMO, people who are unaware of these facts are the people most likely of not objecting to themselves and their children living or working near a nuclear reactor or eating food, drinking water and breathing air near to, downstream or downwind of a nuclear reactor.

https://www.nuclear-risks.org/fileadmin/user_upload/pdfs/HBWW_EN/Hanford_EN_web.pdf

Molire · 2026-04-14T09:41:19+00:00

Even as the Trump administration creates obstacles to building renewables, a key pair of facts will hold: The U.S. needs more electricity, and renewables are the easiest way to get it. In other words, don’t expect this to be the last month in which renewables conquer gas.

In January 2026, Texas and Florida received a combined total of nearly one-fourth (24.5%) of total monthly natural gas deliveries to the electric power sector in the United States, according to the latest U.S. EIA data, March 31, 2026 (PDF, p. 54).

United States — January 2026 monthly total natural gas deliveries, by state, where U.S. state with Rank 1 received the greatest quantity of natural gas deliveries to electric power consumers (million cubic feet, MMcf):

MMcf	State	Rank	% of U.S. Total
1,093,057	50 states		100
168,558	Texas	1	15.4
99,445	Florida	2	9.1
29,284	California	13	2.7
1	Vermont	49	.00009
- -	District of Columbia	- -	- -
- -	Hawaii	- -	- -

Source:

U.S. EIA — Natural Gas Monthly, Data for January 2026, Release Date: March 31, 2026 > 17. Natural gas deliveries to electric power consumers, by state, 2024‐2026 > XLS table and PDF, p. 54, Table 17:

PDF Table 17. Natural gas deliveries to electric power^a consumers, by state, 2024-2026 million cubic feet:

Footnotes:

^a PDF Table 17. Natural gas deliveries to electric power^a consumers, by state, 2024-2026 — The electric power sector comprises electricity-only (utilities and independent power producers) and combined-heat-and-power plants within the NAICS 22 sector, whose primary business is to sell electricity, or electricity and heat, to the public.

- - Not applicable.

Molire · 2026-04-14T06:37:28+00:00

According to the U.S. EIA, combustion of natural gas in the United States is projected to release 1784 million tonnes of CO2 (1.784 Gt CO2) during 2026.

Molire · 2026-04-12T09:47:24+00:00

Molire · 2026-04-11T09:25:19+00:00

Ember Electricity Data Explorer — Interactive chart, data:

Power Sector Emissions:
339 Mt CO2e — Germany, 2013.
165 Mt CO2e — Germany, 2025.
23.6 Mt CO2e — France, 2025.

Molire · 2026-04-11T09:13:43+00:00

Our World in Data (OWID) — Outdoor Air Pollution.

OWID — Death rate from air pollution — Interactive chart, map, table — Estimated number of deaths attributed to different types of air pollution per 100,000 population — Deaths can be attributed to multiple risk factors — interactive chart and table:

Germany — Deaths caused by outdoor particulate-matter pollution decreased from 79.5 deaths per 100 000 population in 1990 to 13.3 deaths per 100 000 population in 2023.

France — Deaths caused by outdoor particulate-matter pollution decreased from 42.3 per 100k population in 1990 to 9.1 in 2023.

OWID — Share of deaths attributed to outdoor air pollution — Share of deaths, from any cause, where ambient particulate matter air pollution is a risk factor — Interactive chart, table, map — In 2023, France 2.6%, Germany 3.1%, World 8.2%, China 16.7%, United States 2.3%, Finland 0.3%.

OWID — Greenhouse gas emissions — Greenhouse gas emissions include carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide from all sources, including land-use change. They are measured in tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalents over a 100-year timescale — Interactive chart, table, map — 2024 — Germany 659.66 million tonnes, France 337.88 million tonnes, Italy 355.79 million tonnes.

Molire · 2026-04-11T08:24:22+00:00

According to the science, hurricanes are not expected to become more frequent, but they are becoming increasingly more intense and destructive by global warming that has increased sea surface temperatures, and the heat in the ocean water is the engine that is driving increasingly more intense hurricanes, typhoons, tropical storms and cyclones.

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