Danielle Bochove

How Trump-Vetted Scientists Are Trying to Shred the Climate Consensus A new report commissioned by the Energy Department downplays global warming as the administration seeks to unwind environmental rules.

A US DOE report argues the economic harm caused by trying to reduce greenhouse gases is greater than the consequences of climate change itself. It could be used to underpin US President Donald Trump's plans to stop regulating greenhouse gases. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

‘Unprecedented’ Ocean Heat Waves in 2023 Suggest Climate Tipping Point Marine heat waves that year were unusually intense and lasted much longer than average, posing a threat to ecosystems, researchers say.

In 2023, marine heat waves affected 96% of the surface of the world's oceans and helped push overall ocean temperatures to new records. Chinese researchers who led the new study fear it may herald a climate tipping point. @bloomberglp.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How Hot Can It Get? Scientists Are Struggling to Find an Answer Figuring out how anomalously high temperatures can rise is taking on added importance as the planet warms.

On June 26, 2021, Lytton, British Columbia smashed a Canadian heat record , reaching 46.6 C. It broke it again the next day, and the next, and then it burned to the ground. @eroston.bsky.social on the "impossible" temperatures scientists are struggling to predict.

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Wildfire Smoke Brings a Forgotten Danger to the Arctic: Black Carbon Scientists are revising their view of the role that soot may play in endangering glaciers and ice sheets.

What happens when soot falls on snow and ice? As wildfires burn across Canada and beyond, understanding their full impact on the Arctic -- a critical shield against global warming -- is essential. Heat Week series by @bloomberg.com starts w/Black Carbon. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Canadian Pension Doubles Down on Green Investing With $400 Million Pledge At a rocky time for sustainable investing, La Caisse says the approach is key to value creation and risk management.

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Swiss Glacier Collapse Is a Lesson on Climate Disaster Management Swiss authorities evacuated the town of Blatten days before the Birch glacier collapsed, but the resources that allowed them to do that are not available to most countries.

A Swiss mountain slope bursting and unleashing a cascade of rocks and ice over an idyllic Alpine village last week was a chilling image, but also the symbol of a well-managed climate crisis

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This Low-Tech Solution Cut Ship Emissions by Up to 24% A digital OpenTable-style reservation system helped Los Angeles ports reduce vessel congestion and pollution.

New: Technology to cut carbon emissions from giant ships that transport 80% of the world's trade in goods tends to be complex and costly. But the pandemic led the Los Angeles ports to create a low-cost queuing system with a big impact on emissions. Free link.
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Greenlander Takes Helm of Arctic Council as Tensions Simmer The body that fosters collaboration and climate science at the top of the world is under geopolitical pressure.

For 25+ yrs, the Arctic Council helped keep the region "High North, low tension." But now 7 NATO countries + Russia ring it, making collaboration tough. (Trump's aspirations for Canada and Greenland don't help). The new SAO Chair, a native Greenlander, spoke to us. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The WH scrubbed these online enviro mapping tools. So volunteers tried creating them.
EPA EJScreen: pedp-ejscreen.azurewebsites.net
CEQ CJEST: edgi-govdata-archiving.github.io/j40-cejst-2/...
FEMA Future Risk Index: fulton-ring.github.io/nri-future-r...

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💡 BLACKOUT MEGA-THREAD: Last week I was working at the Bloomberg office in Madrid when the humming of the ventilation system suddenly went quiet. That felt quite nice. But when we looked out the windows, we realized traffic lights were off. That's when we knew something serious was going on

Falling Satellites Expose the Space Industry’s Dirty Secret The thousands of satellites operated by companies from Starlink to Telesat will eventually burn up in the atmosphere when they reach their useful end of life. Scientists are sounding the alarm about t...

Clean air, waters and land in the US come in part from ridiculously successful laws starting in the early 70s.

But there's a new blind spot: pollution that originates above the skies.
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Canada's new PM has deep climate expertise. @akshatrathi.bsky.social and I explored the implications on Bloomberg Green's Zero Podcast

Trump’s Push For Deep-Sea Metals Clashes With UN Ocean Treaty In addition to Canada and Greenland, the US president is targeting the international seabed as a source for minerals needed for green technology. Here’s what to know.

New: At stake in Trump's push to strip-mine untouched biodiverse deep-sea ecosystems in international waters is the future of a UN treaty that has kept commercial peace on the world’s oceans for more than 30 years. Here's what you need to know. Free link.
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It's still unclear what exactly caused Spain's blackout Monday. But frequency data shows that the grid was already under stress for at least a half hour before the system broke.

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Norway Is on a 100-Day Mission to Test Military Limits in the Arctic As tensions with Russia rise, 13 Norwegian soldiers have been sent to the far North to test the cold’s effects on their minds, bodies and equipment.

To survive for 100 days in the Arctic, 13 Norwegian soldiers have been drinking cooking oil, slaughtering reindeer and butting up against the human and technological limits of existing in the extreme cold. My latest with @daniellebochove.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Pope Francis Saw Defending the Climate as an Urgent Priority for the World When Argentina’s Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope in 2013, his vision for human justice and equality was so entwined with nature that he chose the papal name Francis, honoring the patron saint o...

Pope Francis did more than advance the issue of climate change; he cast it as a moral imperative while smoothing the path to the Paris Agreement. "The Paris Agreement has a soul because he put that soul there," says Oscar Soria. By @eroston.bsky.social [gift link]

AI Floods Amazon With Strange Political Books Before Canadian Election Canada has seen a boom in political books created with generative artificial intelligence, adding to concerns about how new technologies are affecting the information voters receive during the electio...

Canada's snap election has seen its own floods of disinformation: fake news stories, scams, even entire AI-generated books. It's increasingly hard for journalists to keep up @twseal.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Big News: After months of some of EPA's Clean School Bus Program rebates being inaccessible, it seems the money may finally be flowing soon. This is welcome news for the electric school bus industry.

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Spain’s Nuclear Shutdown Set to Test Renewables Success Story Plans to shut down all nuclear power plants by 2035 remain unchanged even as other countries delay closures and plan to build more.

Spain is ignoring calls to reconsider its nuclear decommissioning plans, betting renewables and battery storage will make up for the upcoming energy shortfall. It migh be able to pull it off

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How Climate Tech Investing Is Being Shaped by Trump’s Tariffs and Orders The last six months have given the US climate tech sector an extreme case of whiplash, yet venture funding to the industry is on the rise.

Climate tech companies are scrapping "net-zero" for "energy abundance," pitching themselves as defense tech and waiting patiently for news on critical federal funding. Still, VC funding in the sector is up.

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Canada’s Mark Carney Treads a Fine Line on Climate in a Tight Election A close race with his pro-fossil-fuels opponent leaves the prime minister little room to play up green goals.

With 2.5 weeks to Canada's federal election, too much focus on climate change may be a political liability. Still, the differences between the 2 candidates on decarbonization are stark. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

US Solar’s Hoarding Habit Will Help Blunt Sting From Trump Tariffs The US has imported about 80% of modules from four Southeast Asian countries that face big new levies.

☀️My colleagues Josh Saul, @jendlouhy.bsky.social and I took a look at the impacts of Trump tariffs on America's solar industry.

Stockpile of panels in America may dull the immediate impacts of high tariff rates hitting countries in Southeast Asia, analysts say.

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RFK Jr.’s Axing of CDC Climate Program Will Hurt Americans, Ex-Official Says A team of federal officials tasked with helping cities and states navigate the effects of climate change on people’s health was disbanded Tuesday, part of a sweeping overhaul ordered by US Secretary o...

CDC's climate health program was prepping to publicly release a new pollen dataset. "We were getting ready to put that up on our portals," said CDC's Paul Schramm, who was laid off yesterday with his entire team. "I don’t see how that can happen now."

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Explorer Seeks Trump’s Nod to Mine Metals on Pacific Seabed A seabed mining company has asked the Trump administration for approval to harvest the ocean floor for critical metals in international waters controlled by a United Nations-affiliated organization

The Metals Company is seeking Trump administration approval to mine the Pacific for critical minerals, an area controlled by the International Seabed Authority. That could upend the UN treaty that governs deep sea mining & other uses of the world’s oceans. Free link
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Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks to Record Winter Low as Earth Heats Up The Arctic Ocean likely had the smallest winter ice cover in 47 years of satellite records this season, with just 5.53 million square miles of sea ice covering the region at its peak on March 22.

Arctic sea ice grows in winter, reaching its peak in March before starting the summer melt. This year's peak was the lowest in almost half a century. That has ramifications for the speed of global warming and for extreme weather further south. @nsidc.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Tariff Pain Brings Hope of Eventual Gain for Canada’s Green Sectors Supply Lines is a daily newsletter that tracks global trade. Sign up here .

A possible silver lining for Canada if the policy response is right. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

What the $660 Million Greenpeace Verdict Means for US Activism A North Dakota jury this week found Greenpeace liable for defamation, conspiracy and other claims over its participation in the Dakota Access pipeline protests that lasted from 2016 to 2017, awarding ...

What does the $660M Greenpeace verdict means for US activism? Legal experts said they predict a "chilling effect" on environmental activism targeting oil & gas companies. Pace University's Josh Galperin described the verdict as "unprecedented"

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Canada’s Anti-Musk Pivot Hits Starlink’s Second-Biggest Market Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Tuesday responded to US President Donald Trump’s tariffs by ripping up the Canadian province’s contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink. “It’s done; it’s gone,” Ford said of the...

Starlink poses a dilemma for patriotic Canadians who want to boycott American goods but, especially in the Arctic, may not have a viable alternative. @twseal.bsky.social @mathieudion.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump’s Return Prompts Companies to Stifle Climate Talk With ‘Greenhushing’ Businesses that used to tout carbon-cutting are switching their message: “This isn’t a good time to put a red flag in front of the bull.”

As the CEO of Caelux, Scott Graybeal runs a tech startup in CA that makes glass for solar panels. For years, climate change had been a crucial part of his business conversations - until Donald Trump was re-elected. The latest from @oliviarudgard.bsky.social and me🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...