Otherweb Archive - Opinion - Science

• California wildfires show blatant mainstream media failure
• The reactionary turn against nuclear power
• Blame Democratic Party incompetence for Palisades destruction - Washington Examiner
• Demonizing Heroic Private Firefighters - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Albany’s new fossil fuels ‘super-fund’ could hit consumers hard
• Wildfires have left Pacific Palisades looking like Dresden after WWII fire-bombings
• A growing number of U.S. corporations are exiting a left-wing climate cartel, House Judiciary Committee says
• Trump says he won’t meet California Gov. Gavin Newsom when he visits Los Angeles on Friday
• Exclusive: Records Detail Hefty Higher Ed DEI Spending
• Why There Will Not Be a Beige Future
• Trump is threatening to hold wildfire aid hostage. Can he really do that?
• Can you ace this week’s Slate News Quiz? Good luck!
• It must be climate change!
• This is the most lethal wildfire season since records began, says Lucy Walker
• SoCal Fire Update: Another Blaze Erupts, Mudslides Feared
• California Democrats are clinging to climate change as a matter of political survival
• The 8 talking points fossil fuel interests use to obstruct climate action
• At long last, a president who cares about facts and science
• Why companies are ditching ESG
• Donald Trump’s No. 2 Pick for the EPA Represented Companies Accused of Pollution Harm
• 18 months after wildfires destroyed some 2,000 homes on Maui, only 3 have been rebuilt
• Biden Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine Stance Made Trump’s Job Easier
• A historic storm dumped several inches of snow across the southern U.S., shattering decades-old records
• Thought experiment 6: Twin Earth
• Letter of the week: Motherhood vs Mother Earth
• Michael Shermer: Conspiracy thinking, wokeness, and the future of free thought
• Prime Target: a show so preposterous it’s almost addictive
• California Gov. Gavin Newsom's adjutant general decapitated the state's volunteer firefighting units, a retired general says
• DeSantis rushes to use "Gulf of America"
• Heat networks: a crucial piece of the UK Net Zero puzzle
• Biden administration winding down American Climate Corps ahead of Trump’s inauguration
• The dark side of Europe's energy devolution
• Bill Maher rips into L.A. and California officials for their handling of the January 2025 fires
• A Home on the High Frontier
• Trump rescinded 78 executive orders left over from Biden’s presidency
• California: electric vehicles are on fire!
• LA fires reveal Democrat-run California’s ridiculous number of catastrophes
• Climate change fanatics want to bankrupt the entire world for little to no reward
• Trump says he plans to visit California to see fire damage as part of his first week in office
• 'America’s Newsroom': Trump's choice to move inauguration indoors is 'unequivocally false'
• These states will keep fighting for climate progress, Trump or no Trump
• L.A.'s political house of cards is in flames after the Great Fire of L.A., says author
• Bill Maher and Rick Caruso say Trump was right about the California wildfires
• One Very Concrete Thing Schools Could Do to Help Teenagers Facing Disasters
• Irenic takes a position at KBR. Here’s how the activist may help improve shareholder value
• This week, Iona talks to Marco Visscher, author of The Power of Nuclear
• Be Your Own First Line of Protection: Self-Defense for Everyone
• Deb Haaland, America’s first Native cabinet secretary, reflects on her legacy
• Woke one-party government has left NYC just as unprepared for disaster as LA
• In the final days of his term, Biden has issued a series of policy decisions that will make it harder for Trump to take office
• "Does he just fear small crowds?": Trump moves inauguration indoors due to "arctic blast" forecast
• Trump says he'll be sworn in inside Capitol Rotunda because of 'Arctic blast'
• California squeezes private money out of wildfire rebuilding effort
• As fires burn, private firms and personal effort step in where California officials fail
• This week’s Slate News Quiz challenges you to test your knowledge of the week’s news events
• How California policy exacerbates costs and consequences of wildfires - Washington Examiner
• This could be the toughest winter in NHS history. Here’s a simple way we can all help | Polly Toynbee
• California’s Raging Wildfires, Iran’s Forbidden Oil Cargoes, and Falling Birth Rates in Japan
• Hochul must abandon her insane climate change tax grabs
• Australia is becoming an uninsurable nation. There may only be one solution | Nicki Hutley
• SpaceX successfully caught its Super Heavy booster for a second time after launch of its Starship megarocket
• Lee Zeldin, Trump’s nominee for EPA administrator, faced tough questions at his confirmation hearing
• The week in whoppers: Biden offers a parting doozy, Rep. Maxine Waters slams the rich for LA fires and more
• Bill Burr on Jimmy Kimmel Live!: ‘I think everyone did a great job — unlike the internet’
• Hydroelectric Dams on Oregon’s Willamette River Kill Salmon. Congress Says It’s Time to Consider Shutting Them Down.
• "Good government is not about rousing speeches. It has nothing to do with press conferences. Instead, when done right, good government is beautifully boring
• Montana’s “Climate Justice” Lawsuits Endanger Real Justice
• Biden offers $770 pittance check to victims of historic Los Angeles wildfires
• There Has Never Been a Better Time for Environmental Journalism
• Action Could Have Prevented the Deadly Blaze in Los Angeles - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• L.A. Deputy Mayor Brian Williams was not on the job in the weeks leading up to the wildfires because he was raided by the FBI
• Australians should be angry about another year of climate inaction. But don’t let your anger turn into despair | Greg Jericho
• Protesters disrupted the confirmation hearing for Chris Wright, Trump’s nominee for energy secretary
• Gavin Newsom prohibits offering to buy people's property
• What do the Los Angeles fires tell us about the coming water wars? | Judith Levine
• In defense of private firefighters
• The myth of the teenager
• California legislators created a $21 billion 'wildfire fund' to minimize risk to utility companies
• Major banks are abandoning their climate alliance en masse. So much for ‘woke capital’ | Adrienne Buller
• I’m a climate scientist and my house in LA burned down. My work has never been more real
• The Trump administration will transform aviation and aerospace
• The Never-To-Be Forgotten 'Newsom Fires'
• L.A. firefighters say they're focused on saving lives, not climate change
• Former California state Rep. Mike Gatto blames years of policy failures for devastating wildfires
• Gavin Newsom just admitted permitting reform works - Washington Examiner
• Newsom’s Governorship Going Up In Smoke
• Karen Bass Regrets Taking African Trip Amid Fire Dangers
• If Republicans Deny Disaster Aid on Political Grounds …
• How the Los Angeles fires highlight the challenge of disaster relief
• How Los Angeles can draw on lessons from other cities recovering from disasters
• U.S. climate scientist Michael Mann must pay National Review more than $500,000 in legal fees after 13 years of suing the outlet for defamation
• Why was California so woefully unprepared for the fires that ravaged the state? Why didn’t the state aggressively clear out underbrush? Why wasn’t there a Marshall Plan-scale effort to build reservoirs?
• Crockford: Fires have existed for millennia as a result of naturally occurring climate cycles
• The LA fires are the horrifying consequence of Democratic misrule
• In 2024, global temperatures crossed the 1.5 degree mark that the world agreed to not cross just 10 years ago in Paris
• More Santa Ana winds are forecast to hit Los Angeles County and Ventura County, prompting the National Weather Service to issue a red flag warning
• Judicial Watch Sues California Coastal Commission for Records on Controversial Decision against Elon Musk’s SpaceX - Judicial Watch
• What is happening in Los Angeles is our future | Francine Prose
• What's wrong with a private firefighter?
• Prescribed burns offer a proactive approach to reducing wildfire risks, but they remain woefully underused in Los Angeles County