Movie: Climate Change- Averting Catastrophe- DW documentary- Watch at Heating Planet blog

Released Jul 13, 2023 Climate change - Averting catastrophe- DW Documentary from Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany's international broadcaster.

Mann is a scientist, he's not going to make major decisions because of social media posts- Heating Planet blog

No, Michael Mann did not resign as Penn’s Vice Provost for Climate Science, Policy, and Action because of social media posts about Charlie Kirk. That is something our rumor-driven divisive corporate/ state news media made up; because they don't know why he resigned, so they just made something up.

And we used to be so proud of our free press. 

The Daily Pennsylvanian reports he resigned because 'his scientific advocacy work conflicts with Penn’s “established institutional neutrality policy.”' Which suggests a much more intelligent reason than that twits on X and Facebook didn't like his posts. 

Mann wrote on Bluesky today:

"I've stepped down as Vice Provost at @upenn.edu to focus on public scholarship & outreach, which I feel is so important at this moment. I remain Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth & Environmental Science & Director of @penncssm.bsky.social Statement here: michaelmann.net/announcement/"

Two days ago Michael Mann was in the news with his response and disappointment that the USA once again withdrew from the Paris climate agreement. Mann is a scientist, he's not going to make major decisions in his life based on social media posts. But all so many nitwit newsies could think of to write about him was online nonsense.

Yet that's how I heard the news. I went to read Bluesky for a while and over and over I read that Mann had to retire because of something he wrote about Charlie Kirk, which just shows how our news media is playing right into the deviousness that's going on all over this country right now. I can't imagine how hateful the posts are on X about his resigning.

American news media today is so shallow and so driven by online chatter instead of journalism and facts. For example, I'm 77 years old broke and sick but feel compelled to do Heating Planet blog, because nobody in the United States is reporting that Planet Earth is heating too damn fast.

-Kay Ebeling

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References:

Michael Mann, on how the second US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement may alter the world’s climate change landscape https://thebulletin.org/premium/2025-09/michael-mann-on-how-the-second-us-withdrawal-from-the-paris-agreement-may-alter-the-worlds-climate-change-landscape/?utm_source=SocialShare&utm_medium=CopyLink&utm_campaign=CopyLink&utm_term

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Michael Mann resigns from role as vice provost for climate science, policy, and action https://www.thedp.com/article/2025/09/penn-michael-mann-steps-down-vice-provost-climate-institutional-neutrality

Climate blackout- Censoring science endangers lives- Sinclair's National Weather Desk video n transcript at Heating Planet blog

Science is being attacked in so many ways. Today, we're going off the radar to give science a voice. Climate change is happening and it's going to continue to happen whether or not they try to hide that information. We'll learn what was lost when climate.gov of disappeared and how a group of fired Noah employees are fighting back to return that vital information to the public

WATCH: Climate Blackout: Censoring Science, Endangering Lives

Transcripts here for readers writers and researchersIn May of 2025, the United States government did something unprecedented. 0:05 They took down climate.gov, a website that Americans relied on for vital climate information, information 0:12 we'd already paid for with our tax dollars. It compiled decades of research that warned people of impending climate 0:19 hazards in their region and how to prepare so they could keep their families safe when disaster strikes. 0:25 It's a pattern we've seen before. From pesticides, lead pollution, tobacco to 0:30 even nuclear fallout, America has a disturbing history of silencing science. 0:36 Science is being attacked in so many ways. Today, we're going off the radar 0:41 to give science a voice. Climate change is happening and it's going to continue to happen whether or not they try to 0:48 hide that information. We'll learn what was lost when climate.gov of disappeared and how a group of fired Noah employees 0:55 are fighting back to return that vital information to the public. Our children, 1:00 our grandchildren, they're going to inherit the climate that we're giving them now. We can't be simultaneously 1:07 handing them a problem and then hiding the information that they need to try to figure out what they're going to do. 1:15 I'm meteorologist Emily Gracie and you're listening to Off the Radar, a production of the National Weather Desk. 1:21 On the show, we dig deep into topics about weather, climate, the ocean, space, and much more. Our goal is to 1:26 help you better understand the weather and to love it as much as we do. 1:34 In 1921, workers at a GM lab were attempting to fix a problem. Automobile 1:39 engines that were fed common low-grade fuel would vibrate excessively, causing structural damage to the machinery. A 1:46 chemist tried pouring a small amount of tetraylled into the engine. And like magic, the wild engine was tamed. They 1:53 found a way to turn cheap, low-grade fuel into something more efficient for automobiles. A new phenomenon was born. 2:00 Leaded gasoline. But the human cost was immediate and catastrophic. 2:07 By 1924, lead poisoning was killing workers. At one New Jersey plant, five 2:13 died and 35 suffered neurological damage out of just 49 employees. Standard Oil 2:18 even institutionalized workers like Joseph Leslie to hide the violent insanity caused by lead exposure, 2:25 telling his family that he had died. Despite mounting evidence, including a 1943 study showing learning disabilities 2:32 were universal in lead poisoned children, the industry suppressed the truth. 2:37 By 1965, Americans carried 100 times more lead than their pre-industrial 2:43 ancestors. Studies linked lead exposure to lower IQs and higher crime rates. 2:50 Decades of bipartisan silence followed. It wasn't until public outrage grew in 2:56 the 1970s that either party acted decisively. Even then, leaded gasoline 3:01 wasn't fully banned until 1996. That's 75 years after we knew it was 3:07 killing us. 75 years of toxins in our air going into the lungs of children. 75 3:14 years of scientific evidence that this substance was unsafe for our government to take action. 3:22 Does this narrative sound familiar? Well, it should because it's happening again. 3:28 Our atmosphere is warming at an alarming rate. That's happening because we're burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and 3:35 gas, which release carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that trap heat in Earth's atmosphere. This is not new 3:43 information. The scientific principle was known by the mid 19th century. The 3:48 first modern evidence appeared in 1938, but the US federal government officially 3:53 recognized the danger in 1965, two decades before climate change entered mainstream politics. For years, Noah 4:01 published vital climate data on sites like climate.gov, a website dedicated to tracking and explaining the effects of 4:07 climate change. But in May of 2025, the government slashed Noah's funding, fired 4:13 hundreds of employees, and took down these websites, censoring potentially life-saving climate information. 4:21 Just like with lead poisoning, we're prioritizing short-term profits over long-term public health. The pattern is 4:29 clear. Suppress the science, protect the profits, let future generations pay the 4:34 price. I'm a certified digital meteorologist. 4:39 I'm a science communicator. And I'm a mother. I've worked in broadcasting, academia, and nonprofit. 4:47 I'm also a self-proclaimed people pleaser. In fact, in my first job in TV, my nickname was Switzerland because I 4:53 was the neutral voice of the weather department, keeping the peace with two very opinionated meteorologists that I 4:59 worked with. But it's my job to share correct information with you, to take 5:04 scientific information and translate it into something that's understandable and relatable to the general public. That's 5:12 the whole point of this podcast, and that's what I'm going to do today. I'm going off the radar with Rebecca 5:18 Lindsay, former lead editor, writer, and program manager of climate.gov. 5:24 Rebecca and a group of other fired Noah employees refuse to leave Americans in the dark. They're harnessing their 5:30 talents, their knowledge, and creating a space where educators, journalists, and 5:35 concerned citizens can have access to the information they deserve. information that will help future 5:41 generations survive and thrive in the world we are leaving them. 5:52 Hi Rebecca, welcome to Off the Radar. Can you start by telling me what climate.gov was? 5:58 Climate.gov was a publicfriendly source of science-based information about climate including natural climate 6:05 variability and human caused climate change. Um, we provided magazine style features and explainers, attractive 6:12 reusable maps and other graphics, classroom resources for educators, and 6:18 easy access to popular climate tools and data sets. We were um run uh operated 6:25 out of the climate program office in um Noah's uh office of oceanic research um 6:33 the Noah research uh line office. We had been online since around 2010. We had 6:41 about 600,000 followers on social media and we had more than 15 million page 6:47 views a year. And what did the team look like? Like who was on the team and what did you do 6:53 for about 13 years? I was the managing editor as a federal contractor and then 6:59 uh I also became the the climate.gov program manager in late 2023. So I had 7:04 been a civil servant for a year and a few months when I was fired in February 7:10 along with hundreds of other Noah probationary employees. Our editorial team, content production team consisted 7:16 of um data visualizers, um science writers, an artist, um meteorologists, 7:24 and we had contributors for things like our very popular ENSO blog and polar 7:31 vortex blog. We had scientists who partnered with us. They wrote the posts 7:37 and we provided editorial polish and also um data visualization support. Um 7:42 yes and so blog is very popular. Um okay. So tell me about what did happen in February and and h the changes that 7:51 took place there. Very early in the Trump administration. We were ordered to remove any content 7:57 that was related to the importance of diversity and inclusion in climate science and services. Anything related 8:04 to the idea of climate equity, which is making sure climate policy is fair, especially to communities that have been 8:11 historically excluded from public decision-m, public policy investment. 8:16 That directive forced us to remove two very important resources from our 8:21 teaching climate section. one was the 2024 update to the climate literacy guide which was uh produced by the USGCP 8:31 um and as well as our entire collection of classroom resources for educators 8:36 because it's a database and there were some resources that were related to diversity, inclusion, climate equity, 8:43 and we couldn't just selectively turn off certain resources. So, we had to take the whole collection offline. So 8:49 that was the first change um that that happened. And then I was fired in 8:54 February. The team um the rest of the team who were um full and part-time 8:59 contractors continued to work for a few months. But then in May, we got word 9:06 that all of the climate.gov content team was going to be removed from the 9:12 contract that was up for renewal. And so the rest of the team was let go at the 9:18 end of May. The final attack was that in June um political appointees at Noah 9:25 ordered the web operations team to essentially hide the climate.gov homepage by setting up a permanent 9:31 redirect from the climate.gov homepage to noah.gov/climate. 9:38 Um which the Noah site is under more direct control of political employees. 9:43 Climate.gov gov was based in one of the science offices and our editorial policy did not require us to send everything 9:51 that we published up through um the official public affairs chain of command to be approved or disapproved by 9:58 political appointees. Scientists reviewed our content and said whether or not it needed to be revised or changed 10:05 in any way. Now, if you try to go to the climate.gov homepage, you can't get there anymore. they've redirected that 10:11 site to to noah.gov/climate. And then on the noah.gov/climate page, 10:17 they've removed any links um back to climate.gov. So you can't you can't find 10:23 the front door of climate.gov anymore. You can still find the content if you had it bookmarked. Um you can still find 10:29 it from search engines, but its front door has been barricaded or hidden. We 10:35 don't expect them to leave climate.gov up. We we think, you know, I don't have any inside knowledge of their plans, but 10:42 my guess is that in redirecting the homepage to noah.gov, they may plan to 10:49 migrate over what they consider the good science, like the ENSO blog, um, and the 10:55 polar vortex blog, things that aren't that are more focused on natural climate variability. Um, they may let some of 11:01 that stuff survive and then take the rest offline. We don't expect that they were going to leave the whole site up. 11:07 Have you gotten feedback from people who utilized this website like teachers? 11:14 What have you heard from the community as far as this loss? People were very upset when when we were essentially 11:20 shutting down operations in June um at the end of May. There were a few news stories about that and so people knew 11:27 what was happening and um we see received a lot of email from people just 11:32 saying no this is terrible you know what are we going to do and now that we've um 11:39 decided to try to launch a nonprofit successor to climate.gov of climate. us. 11:44 We have just been flooded with email from teachers and journalists and 11:51 professors and not just in the US but you know in the UK and Germany and lots 11:59 of different places saying how happy people are that we are going to try to rescue the site and the content and 12:05 bring it back so that people um still have access to it. Okay. So tell me about how this idea 12:11 came to be. This is clearly a personal project. Um, so tell me where this idea 12:16 came from and and how it evolved and how you've now launched this nonprofit. We were all sort of reeling, you know, 12:24 in May when when we learned that all the contractors were going to be let go and 12:29 that that was essentially going to be the end. Um, our team had been working together, many of us, for more than a 12:36 decade. The climate.gov gov was it wasn't just a job for us. It was a 12:43 mission. We felt that we were providing an important public service and we were 12:48 all really passionate about it. It was hard for us to think about our team dispersing um and going on to other 12:55 things, especially with the possibility of all of this work that we had done and 13:01 that the taxpayer had already paid for being taken offline or hidden from people. And so, you know, our first sort 13:09 of group meetings that we had after we learned all this, you know, we were just trying to support each other and think 13:16 about, you know, how can we help each other with what happens next. But for some of us, it became a thing where 13:22 every time we would sit down at the computer, this is the way it was for me. every time I would sit down at the computer to think about updating my 13:29 resume, you know, updating my my LinkedIn profile, thinking about where I 13:35 might want to apply for jobs. Every time I tried to do that, I just couldn't stop thinking about the fact that they might 13:41 be going to hide climate.gov or worse, that they were going to use it maybe to 13:47 spread misinformation. Especially when the there was the report that came out from the Department of Energy where they 13:54 handpicked five uh scientists to put out 13:59 a report that challenged the notion that greenhouse gases were a a threat to 14:06 human health and the environment. They said in a news release that they were considering going back and revising 14:13 previous versions of the National Climate Assessment, um, which is the authoritative report on the impacts of 14:21 climate change in the United States. I really began to worry they were going to do something even worse with climate.gov 14:27 than just taking it offline. And so we just started to think, how can we make this right? What can we do? you know 14:34 there science is being attacked in so many ways in this administration 14:41 from the NIH to the CDC to the you know environmental sciences the EPA Noah NASA 14:48 and it can feel overwhelming to people who believe that science provides useful 14:53 important information essential information for us to make decisions our team just began to say well we can't do 15:00 there are so many things we can't do anything about but this is our this is our backyard. This issue of censoring 15:07 climate information from the public, that is something we can do something about. And so we just began to say what 15:15 we need to do is we need to come up with a way to move climate.gov out of the federal domain, put it in the in the uh 15:23 nonprofit sector where it can be where it will be immune from politics and it 15:28 can, you know, stay true to its science-based mission. Um and so we just began talking about how do we make that 15:35 happen? You know, we got a partner um an existing nonprofit called named Multiplier who is sort of an incubator 15:43 for small fledgling nonprofits like us to provide fiscal and business 15:50 operations support so that we didn't have to immediately try to apply for 501c3 status. we can operate through 15:57 them and you know take advantage of leverage their expertise and knowledge 16:03 and we hope that the you know the crowdsourcing funding um will allow us 16:09 to cover some startup costs related to web hosting and web development and 16:14 maybe uh a bit of a of a lifeboat salary for those of us who've been working for 16:20 months without pay. Uh ultimately we do know that we're probably going to need foundation support from philanthropy uh 16:27 and larger organizations and so we hope that that that we're able to make that happen. Tell me about the the data. How has that 16:34 transition gone with getting what was in one place to a new place? And has there 16:40 been roadblocks as far as getting access to certain data? How how has that worked 16:45 out? Well, you know, all everything that we did on climate.gov of um and everything the government does is in the public 16:51 domain. So we you know anyone could do this anyone could do this project. 16:58 Obviously because it's our team we have more knowledge of the intricacies of the 17:03 site and how it works and that sort of thing. But really there haven't been you know it's a pretty straightforward 17:09 process in that there are lots of ways to clone a website and there are even 17:14 existing archives of climate.gov of from you know the way back machine and um a 17:20 project called web recorder and so we have clones we have copies of the site 17:26 that we will be able to leverage now one of the challenges is most of the clones that exist either exist we have con we 17:33 have clones that that existed before January which before we were required to move to 17:40 remove content related to diversity and climate justice so there are clones that 17:46 have that still have that content but then they don't have all of the content the news stories and data visualizations 17:53 and everything that we made from January till operations stopped in June. So 17:59 there are there are also clones that have most of that content. Um but then those clones are missing all 18:06 of the diversity and inclusion content. Um, so we're just trying to we have to figure out the best way and we have 18:12 technical folks that have, you know, that are who are wrestling with those questions about how do we bring those 18:17 all those pieces back together to come up with a complete copy of what climate.gov should have been. What is 18:24 the feedback been like? in the in the span of, you know, three weeks, we've raised, you know, over $100,000 through 18:31 crowd sourcing. The email box for our our general questions and 18:38 inquiries has has been like a fire hose. We've had hundreds and hundreds of um 18:44 emails from people. People who were able to donate and said they were thrilled, you know, and they were so happy to see 18:50 somebody doing this. Also, people who said, "I can't donate, but what you're doing is important." I think that that 18:56 shows that research, surveys, public opinion polls show that a significant 19:02 majority of Americans understand that climate change is real and that it's a 19:07 problem and that they and they say they want the government and corporations to 19:12 be doing more about it. And I think that's true, you know, regardless of 19:18 party. That's, you know, it's something like there was a Pew study in 2023 or 19:23 2024. Twothirds of Americans accept that climate change is happening and that we 19:29 need to do something about it. Hiding information about climate is it's just 19:35 wrong. And people need this information because climate change is real and it's 19:41 happening. And at climate.gov, gov. We were never about trying to tell people 19:48 what to do. The science only tells us what is going to happen if we do one thing or we don't do something. Our 19:55 decisions as a society about what we're going to do. That depends on more than just the science. That depends on our 20:01 values. How important are our institutions to us? How important is it 20:06 that we have uh commercially uh robust fisheries, you know, in Alaska? How 20:14 important is it to us that our communities are not threatened year after year with intense forest fires? We 20:22 have to bring our values to bear. All we're trying to do with climate.gov is say this is what science says is likely 20:28 to happen. To me, I think there's no there's no point in trying to hide that information. And frankly, it's immoral 20:35 to hide it from people because our children, our grandchildren, they're going to inherit the climate that we're 20:41 giving them now. And we can't be simultaneously handing them a problem and then hiding the information that 20:49 they need to try to figure out what they're going to do. The amount of support that we've already seen is a 20:54 sign that people recognize this. People know they need this information and they 21:00 want to have access to it. What are your hopes for the future? Are you hoping that climate us is temporary and that 21:08 you get back to the point where climate.gov is a thing again or both or what's 21:14 the future? I think Yeah, I think you know and we talk about this a lot among our team who thinks 21:20 that the government is going to come to its senses and and take climate.gov back um and other sorts other kinds of 21:27 climate information. And um I I think that what we want to do with climate us 21:32 is build a site that is resilient and flexible for whatever situation we find 21:39 ourselves in in the future. There will always be parts of the climate communication and climate education, 21:45 climate literacy space that um are really better done outside of the 21:51 federal space. You know, one of the most frequent sorts of emails that we got and 21:57 questions on social media, they would say, "We love your science content. We love this. Why can't you bring bring 22:04 this same approach to talking about climate solutions?" Um, and you know, 22:09 the response to that was always, well, that's not really Noah's domain. That's not Noah's part of Noah's mission. Um, 22:15 and so it wasn't appropriate for us to be trying to, you know, talk about 22:20 mitigation and steps that people could take outside of the federal fence though that would be acceptable and and 22:27 appropriate. We would still bring the same rigor and sciencebased 22:34 take on solutions. Um, and again, never being never telling people what to do, 22:42 but only saying this is what you can do if you want. Um, so I still think that 22:47 there would be elements that would be appropriate to sit outside the climate the federal fence and um, you know, 22:55 climate.us could continue on with that. If things change and and Noah wants 23:02 climate.gov back and wants to fund it, that would be fine, too. we could hand the science part back over 23:09 to them um and carry on with some of the more relationship building, community 23:16 building activities around mitigation um and how people can adapt to climate 23:23 change. Um I think there'll be a role for both if the government does decide 23:29 it's going to get back into that that space. So what can people expect if they go to 23:34 climate us? What will they see there? How can the general American public take advantage of information there? 23:40 Well, right now, basically just a um a description of our project and what we're trying to achieve. Um you can see 23:48 how you can donate if you want. You can see the kinds of things that we want to 23:53 bring back. We've tried to explain like this is the stuff that we, you know, the kind of content that we produced on 23:59 climate.gov and what what we want to continue. Our first step, however, was 24:05 as we were thinking about what needs to happen, climate.gov isn't the only climate information that the 24:11 administration is taking offline. One of their first targets was the national 24:16 climate assessments and including the latest one, which is the fifth national 24:22 climate assessment. And so we decided that what we wanted to do first was 24:27 bring that website back online because uh the USGCP, the US global change 24:33 research program uh that was responsible, congressionally mandated to produce periodic reports on the state of 24:42 climate change and its impacts on the US was gutted earlier this year. um all the 24:49 scientists that were working on the sixth national climate assessment um were fired. The fifth national climate 24:55 assessment and all the previous climate assessments were taken offline. So we thought given that they've interrupted 25:02 the development of the next climate assessment, we thought it was extremely important that the latest one, the most 25:09 recent one that we have be back online, easy for people to find. especially as I 25:15 say, news reports um suggested that they were considering revising previous 25:21 national climate assessments. And so we thought it would be very important for 25:28 the originals to be up and accessible where people could see them um and know 25:33 that they were there and trustworthy. So the first thing that we're going to do and we hope that it'll be within no more 25:40 than you know a couple of weeks. Um we hope to have the n the fifth national climate assessment website back live on 25:47 the internet for people to find and use. After that we're probably going to take a strategy where we where we roll where 25:54 we look at um climate.gov's of's most popular sections and content and try to 26:02 bring bits and pieces back at a time, you know, a little bit every month. 26:07 Target trying to get the um our event tracker where we covered extreme events 26:13 and what climate uh influences might have um been at play in a particular 26:18 extreme weather event. We might try to bring that back first and then when we get that one brought over to climate us 26:24 then we might consider our global climate dashboard uh where we have little interactive graphs of all the 26:31 major indicators of global climate change like sea level rise, carbon dioxide, temperature, sea ice, those 26:38 kinds of things. So we we want to bring things back in pieces. Well, you got plenty to do there. Um 26:44 boy, we do. Why do you think that people try to silence climate science? Well, 26:51 people and institutions and you know and businesses, they don't like change. 26:57 Human beings just in general um despite the fact that our adapt our our adaptability as a species is one of the 27:04 hallmarks of of humanity, we don't like to have to change. Um, and I think you 27:12 know the fossil fuel industry, they've made a lot of money over the years and they want to continue to make that 27:18 money. They want fossil fuel development to continue and to be the primary source 27:23 of energy. And so I think that they don't want the it being discussed um 27:28 what the science says about what's going to happen, what the impacts of 27:33 unregulated completely, you know, continued high dependence on fossil 27:38 fuels. They think that if they can maybe they think they can just keep that part quiet if nobody's talking about the fact 27:45 that the coral reefs you know may may go extinct um you know by 2070 I if we keep 27:54 pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere if we we don't talk about it then we can just carry on as we always 28:02 have. Climate change is happening and it's going to continue to happen whether or not they try to hide that information 28:09 from people. So there have been points in human history where terrible awful 28:16 things were happening that human beings didn't understand and couldn't predict. 28:22 massive volcanic eruptions that brought about the little ice age in in the 28:28 northern hemisphere or or the bubanic plague that decimated populations. 28:34 People did not know there were these horrible things happening that people 28:40 didn't understand, couldn't predict, did not know how to cope with. Here we are 28:45 at a point in time where we're facing a serious calamity. We now have the 28:51 information. We're not ignorant or helpless in the face of this challenge 28:58 the way we have been so many times in the past. We have the information to try 29:04 to tackle the problem. And yet there are people who want to try to hide that 29:09 information. And I'm thinking what have we been doing as a human species building knowledge and you know trying 29:17 to to understand the world better if it's not to try to solve problems and 29:22 relieve suffering you know but instead there are people who think let's just 29:27 try to hide this and not talk about it leaving humanity to face this serious 29:35 challenge and risk with one hand with two hands behind their back you know, 29:40 tied behind their back. It's just I just think it's crazy. Rebecca, is there anything else you want 29:46 to add about your project? We are very interested in in developing partnerships and collaborations with 29:53 other people working in this space. You know, as I mentioned, the the cuts to science um across the government are 30:02 extreme, and we know that there are lots of other good programs um and efforts 30:08 that have also been cut and are struggling to figure out how they would 30:14 continue. We want to partner with people. We hope that climate us can be a 30:19 cornerstone for other groups who are trying to find a way to keep reaching 30:26 their audiences and to keep serving the public in the way they did. People who are looking to partner with us can reach 30:32 out to us at the info@climate. us email. We're eager to to collaborate. 30:40 Off the radar is a production of the National Weather Desk. Thank you for listening to this very important episode. If you like what you heard, 30:47 make sure you give us a follow on your favorite podcast platform, and please share it with a friend. You can also 30:52 follow Off the Radar on Instagram for more weather and climate updates and clips from the show. Thank you to 30:58 Rebecca Lindsay for joining me today. If you want to contribute to Rebecca's mission to bring back this climate 31:04 information to the public, you can visit climate.us to donate. In the last week since I interviewed Rebecca, they have 31:10 successfully put the fifth national climate assessment back online. This episode of Off the Radar was hosted, 31:17 produced, and edited by me with writing and research help from my associate producer, Brian Petus. Thank you for 31:23 listening. I'm meteorologist Emily Gracie. Make it a great day. [Music] 

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ALERT Melting glaciers revive Earth's most explosive volcanoes Geology Info channel video n transcript at Heating Planet blog

Imagine a giant asleep for thousands of years, trapped beneath tons of ice, silently accumulating its strength. Now, imagine someone is removing the chains that bind it one by one. This giant exists, and it's not in a fairy tale. It's right here on our planet, and global warming is about to unleash it. We're talking about subglacial volcanoes.

Watch: IENTISTAS ALERTARAM: Melting glaciers are awakening Earth's most explosive volcanoes Geology Info Sep 30 report 

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Welcome back to Geology Info. The study 0:02 being presented is part of research 0:04 conducted by the European Association of 0:06 Geocchemistry. Link to the research in 0:09 the video description. Imagine a giant 0:11 asleep for thousands of years, trapped 0:14 beneath tons of ice, silently 0:16 accumulating its strength. Now, imagine 0:18 someone is removing the chains that bind 0:20 it one by one. This giant exists, and 0:23 it's not in a fairy tale. It's right 0:25 here on our planet, and global warming 0:27 is about to unleash it. We're talking 0:29 about subglacial volcanoes. True time 0:31 bombs hidden beneath glaciers that are 0:33 melting every day. What seemed to be 0:35 merely an environmental issue could 0:37 transform into the greatest volcanic 0:39 threat modern humanity has ever faced. 0:41 The Patagonian ice sheet, a natural 0:43 laboratory in southern Chile, where the 0:46 Andes mountain range extends 0:48 majestically, there exists a region that 0:50 guards millennial secrets beneath its 0:52 glaciers. This area shaped by the 0:55 interaction between fire and ice 0:57 throughout geological eras has been the 0:59 stage for a delicate dance between 1:01 titanic forces. The Patagonian ice 1:03 sheet, one of the largest ice reserves 1:05 outside the polar regions, has covered 1:07 these volcanic mountains for tens of 1:09 thousands of years. During the last ice 1:12 age, approximately 26,000 to 18,000 1:15 years ago, this region was completely 1:17 dominated by a thick layer of ice that 1:20 exerted monstrous pressure on the 1:21 Earth's crust. Among these frozen giants 1:24 stands the Mo Choswinkeno volcano. 1:27 Dormant today but with an explosive past 1:29 that scientists are only beginning to 1:31 fully understand. This volcano together 1:33 with five others in the region studied 1:35 by researchers represents a window into 1:38 understanding a phenomenon that may be 1:40 repeating on a global scale. The 1:42 interaction between ice and magma in 1:44 this region created unique conditions 1:46 that now serve as a natural laboratory 1:48 to predict the future of hundreds of 1:50 other volcanoes around the world. What 1:52 happened here in the past may be about 1:54 to happen again, but this time on an 1:56 unprecedented scale. The geological 1:59 history of this region tells us about a 2:01 period when the weight of the ice was so 2:02 immense that it literally pressed down 2:04 on the earth, keeping imprisoned the 2:06 magma that seathed in the depths. For 2:09 thousands of years, while the planet 2:11 crossed through the height of the last 2:13 glaciation, these subterranean forces 2:15 were being contained, compressed, 2:17 accumulated. Silicar magma concentrated 2:20 in enormous reservoirs. 6 to 9 mi, 10 to 2:23 15 km below the surface, patiently 2:27 waiting for an opportunity to escape. It 2:29 was like filling a balloon that could 2:31 never burst, continuously increasing 2:33 internal pressure. But then something 2:35 changed. About 18,000 years ago, the 2:37 global climate began to warm naturally, 2:40 marking the end of the ice age. The 2:42 Patagonian ice sheet began to melt at an 2:44 accelerated rate. And here's the crucial 2:46 point that scientists discovered. When 2:48 the weight of the ice disappeared, the 2:50 pressure that kept the magma contained 2:52 also vanished. The Earth's crust, freed 2:54 from that monstrous weight began to 2:56 relax and expand. The gases dissolved in 2:59 the magma, previously compressed by the 3:01 pressure of the ice above, began to 3:03 expand violently. The result was 3:05 catastrophic and spectacular. What 3:07 followed was a series of explosive 3:09 eruptions that completely shaped the 3:11 region's landscape. The Mo Choseno 3:13 volcano and its neighbors entered into 3:15 frenzied activity, releasing centuries 3:17 of accumulated energy in a matter of 3:19 decades. This pattern was not exclusive 3:22 to Chile. Similar evidence has been 3:24 found in Iceland since the 1970s, where 3:26 scientists observed that glacier retreat 3:28 was directly related to increased 3:30 volcanic activity. Now, for the first 3:33 time, researchers have demonstrated that 3:35 this phenomenon is not limited to 3:36 isolated volcanic systems on islands, 3:39 but can occur in entire continental 3:41 systems. And here's the part that should 3:44 keep all of us awake at night. This 3:46 process is happening again now as you 3:49 read this. Scientists from the 3:50 University of Wisconsin Madison, working 3:52 in collaboration with researchers from 3:55 three other American institutions, 3:57 embarked on a journey to unravel the 3:59 mysteries of these dormant volcanoes. 4:01 Using sophisticated argon dating 4:03 techniques and detailed analysis of 4:05 crystals found in volcanic rocks, they 4:07 managed to reconstruct the history of 4:09 six volcanoes in southern Chile with 4:11 impressive precision. Pablo Mareno 4:14 Jerger, the researcher who presented 4:15 these findings at the Goldmid conference 4:17 in Prague, explained that they were able 4:19 to track exactly how the weight and 4:21 pressure of glacial ice altered the 4:24 characteristics of magma in the 4:25 subsurface. Each crystal analyzed told a 4:28 story. Each dating revealed a crucial 4:30 moment in the life of these fire giants. 4:33 The method used by scientists is 4:34 fascinating in itself. By precisely 4:37 dating previous eruptions and 4:38 meticulously examining the crystals 4:40 present in rocks expelled by the 4:42 volcanoes, the team managed to create a 4:44 detailed timeline of volcanic events. 4:47 These crystals function as microscopic 4:49 time capsules, preserving information 4:51 about the conditions under which the 4:53 magma formed and evolved. Through them, 4:56 researchers could determine that during 4:57 the peak of the last ice age, the thick 5:00 ice cover not only suppressed the volume 5:01 of eruptions, but also allowed a large 5:04 reservoir of silicar magma to accumulate 5:06 in the depths. It was like a giant 5:08 pressure cooker being slowly filled. The 5:11 alarming discovery. A global pattern 5:13 emerges. The most alarming discovery 5:16 came when scientists realized the 5:18 pattern. As soon as the ice sheet began 5:21 to melt rapidly at the end of the last 5:23 glacial period, the sudden loss of 5:25 weight caused a relaxation of the 5:27 Earth's crust. This relaxation allowed 5:29 gases in the magma to expand 5:31 dramatically. The resulting pressure 5:32 buildup triggered explosive volcanic 5:35 eruptions from the deep reservoir, 5:36 leading to the formation of the volcano 5:38 itself in its current configuration. 5:41 Mareno Jerger was direct in his 5:43 presentation. Glaciers tend to suppress 5:45 the volume of eruptions from volcanoes 5:47 beneath them. But when these glaciers 5:49 retreat due to climate change, volcanoes 5:51 begin to erupt more frequently and more 5:53 explosively. Here's where the situation 5:55 becomes truly worrying. The fundamental 5:58 requirement for increased explosivity is 6:00 to initially have very thick glacial 6:02 cover over a magma chamber. The trigger 6:05 point occurs when these glaciers begin 6:07 to retreat, releasing the pressure. And 6:09 guess where this is happening right now? 6:11 At this very moment in Antarctica, the 6:14 frozen continent of the south covered by 6:16 miles of ice in some regions hides 6:18 hundreds of subglacial volcanoes that 6:20 have remained dormant for millennia. 6:22 With global warming accelerating the 6:24 melting of Antarctic ice at 6:25 unprecedented rates, we are potentially 6:28 setting the stage for a mass volcanic 6:30 awakening. But it doesn't stop there. 6:33 The study suggests that this phenomenon 6:35 is not limited to Iceland where 6:37 increased volcanism has already been 6:39 observed and documented, nor even to 6:41 Chile. It can occur in Antarctica and 6:43 other continental regions around the 6:45 globe. Parts of North America, 6:47 specifically in Alaska and northwestern 6:49 Canada, New Zealand with its volcanoes 6:51 in the South Islands, and even regions 6:53 of Russia, particularly the Kamchatka 6:55 Peninsula, now require more rigorous 6:58 scientific attention. Each of these 7:00 areas has volcanoes covered by glaciers 7:02 that are rapidly losing their ice cap. 7:05 There are hundreds of potential eruption 7:06 points being slowly activated as the 7:08 planet warms. There is however a small 7:11 window of hope in this apocalyptic 7:12 story. Although the volcanic response to 7:15 glacial melting is almost instantaneous 7:17 in geological terms, the process of 7:19 changes in the magmatic system is 7:21 gradual and occurs over centuries. This 7:23 means we have some time for monitoring 7:25 and early warning systems. But here's 7:28 the question. 7:29 Nobody wants to ask out loud, are we 7:31 really prepared to monitor hundreds of 7:33 volcanoes simultaneously in some of the 7:36 most remote and inaccessible regions of 7:38 the planet. And if you've made it this 7:40 far in this video, you've already taken 7:42 the first step. You've informed 7:44 yourself. Now share this knowledge, talk 7:46 about it, demand action from your 7:48 leaders, and if you want to continue 7:50 following scientific discoveries that 7:52 are shaping our future, subscribe to the 7:54 channel, activate the notification bell, 7:57 and together we'll continue this journey 7:59 of knowledge and awareness. Because 8:01 knowledge without action is just 8:03 information, but knowledge that inspires 8:05 change can literally save the world. 

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Swiss Gries Glacier melting at alarming pace- Reuters video n transcript at Heating Planet blog

Switzerland's Gries Glacier is retreating at an alarming pace as climate change accelerates- unprecedented ice melt across the country.

WATCH: The Swiss 'dying glacier' melting at an alarming pace REUTERS Sep 22 report

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TRANSCRIPT: This is a dying glacier. 0:02 Switzerland's Gries glacia is 0:03 disappearing at an alarming pace. 0:06 Climate change is accelerating ice melt 0:09 across the country at an unprecedented 0:11 rate. Matias H, director of glacia 0:15 monitoring Switzerland is measuring this 0:17 dramatic retreat. 0:18 At this place where we are standing, 0:20 there will be no ice in maybe 5 years 0:23 from now. 0:27 Higher regions of this glacia reach 0:29 about 3,000 m and it will take about 40 0:32 to 50 years for it to disappear. 0:35 For the lower region, it's taking mere 0:37 months to see change. 0:39 In the beginning of July, uh the ice 0:41 surface was up there. So this is the 0:43 melt that we have seen in just the last 0:47 two months, two and a half months. So 0:50 pretty impressive. But if we compare um 0:52 the total melting from last September, 0:55 it's even more. It's 6 m 0:59 6 6 m in the vertical direction. 1:04 Last September, exactly one year ago, 1:07 the ice surface was up there. 1:09 H pointed to consecutive dry years in 1:11 2022 and 2023 as major drivers of ice 1:15 melt as well as a warm 2025 summer. 1:18 That's despite heavy snowfall in 1:20 midappril this year, giving momentary 1:22 relief. 1:24 According to Glamos, around 100 glacias 1:27 have vanished between 2016 and 2022 in 1:30 Switzerland, and it can have devastating 1:32 effects with a glacia collapse in May, 1:35 destroying a whole village. Around the 1:38 globe, the World Meteorological 1:40 Organization found that since the 1990s, 1:42 ice loss has increased in nearly all 1:44 regions and sped up after 2000, mainly 1:48 due to strong summer melting. It found 1:50 for the third year in a row, every 1:53 glaciated region on Earth reported ice 1:56 loss.

Western wildfires burn from the Grand Canyon to Oregon- CBN News Sep 30 video n transcript at Heating Planet blog

"Lightning strikes hit dry land during favorable fire weather. It can start in a couple seconds and that wind- crews are battling bigger and more destructive fires this season"

WATCH: Western Wildfires Burn from the Grand Canyon to Oregon

Transcripts here for readers writers and researchers CBN Sep 30 TRANSCRIPT: Lightning strikes hit dry land during 0:38 favorable fire weather. 0:39 It can f=start in a couple 0:41 seconds and it's it's that wind that 0:43 really makes a big difference 0:46 in Oregon. Her zoutdike helps oversee 0:48 the flat fire. Satellite footage shows 0:51 it burning just north of Sisters at 0:53 23,000 acres. It's considered small yet 0:56 no less personal, destroying four homes 0:58 and a dozen other structures, while fire 1:01 crews saved more than 800 homes. 1:05 The largest fire this season came in the 1:07 Grand Canyon. Sparked by a lightning 1:09 strike on the North Rim, it triggered 1:11 mass evacuations destroyed more than 1:14 145,000 acres and more than 70 1:16 structures, including the historic Grand 1:19 Canyon Lodge built more than a century 1:21 ago. 1:22 You know, it's their dedication. And I 1:24 mean they absolutely, you know, are 1:27 devastated when they see structures that 1:29 are lost. You know, homes that are lost. 1:31 They see the people. 1:32 Up here above Salt Lake City, 1:34 firefighters were able to stop this 1:35 brush fire before spreading into the 1:37 nearby hillside homes. But across the 1:39 West, not every community has been so 1:41 fortunate as crews are battling bigger 1:44 and more destructive fires this season. 1:46 Nearly 18,000 firefighters have been 1:49 dispatched nationwide. Men and women 1:52 putting their lives on the line to 1:54 protect communities and families. Most 1:56 travel long distances and work roughly 1:59 14-day shifts before being replaced. 2:02 Firefighter safety is number one. We uh 2:05 we have structural firefighters, 2:06 wildland firefighters. Uh but when we're 2:08 together, the people that, you know, 2:11 we're protecting their homes and we're 2:14 out there fighting this fire, they don't 2:16 know the difference. We're all one big 2:18 team with the same mission and same 2:20 goals. Washington's 2026 budget proposal 2:23 put aside $3.7 billion dollar for a new 2:26 wildland fire service, making crew pay 2:28 raises permanent. Deep federal spending 2:31 cuts, however, have stalled prevention 2:33 projects and shrunk staffing. This often 2:36 means fire crews being asked to do more 2:38 with less. For these qualified 2:40 firefighters, it's especially 2:42 concerning. Red card firefighters train 2:44 for some of the most intense 2:46 firefighting conditions. And as hotter, 2:48 drier spells become more common and 2:50 frequent, experts tell me that them 2:53 putting their safety on the front line 2:55 is becoming more critical than ever. I'm 2:58 Brody Carter, reporting in Salt Lake 2:59 City, CBN News.

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Spain Zaragoza flooded, N-330 hard hit- Revenge of Nature channel video transcript Heating Planet blog

In just a few hours, emergency services handled more than 120 incidents, including rescue operations and urgent evacuations. Torrential rains caused chaos in Cuarte, Cadrete, and María de Huerva. Torrents of water swept away cars, rocks tore down slopes, and residents made their way home by boat. 

ANOTHER sudden hydro meteorological event in 2025

WATCH: SPAIN NOW: Zaragoza is flooded, people are in panic Sep 30 report 

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Spain is flooding: Zaragoza and its surrounding areas are at the mercy of the elements. 0:21 Torrential rains caused chaos in Cuarte, Cadrete, and María de Huerva. 0:42 In just a few hours, emergency services handled more than 120 incidents, 0:46 including rescue operations and urgent evacuations. 1:05 Torrents of water swept away cars, rocks tore down slopes, and residents made their way home by boat. 1:31 In Cuarte de Huerva, 13 cases of damage to roads, trees, and infrastructure were recorded. 1:50 In La Puebla de Alfindén, basements and garages were flooded, and in María de Huerva, 1:55 water penetrated residential buildings. 2:06 The N-330 was particularly hard hit, forcing it to be closed overnight. 2:30 Even hospitals in Zaragoza were affected: 2:33 elevators were out of order in Royo Villanova, and corridors in Miguel Servet were flooded. 2:47 Despite this, medical care continued uninterrupted. 3:00 💪 The Aragon government quickly dispatched rescue teams, heavy equipment and firefighting crews. 3:13 This storm is a reminder of how fragile everyday life can be in the face of nature. 3:24 🌪 It's important to take self-protection measures, 3:28 avoid flooded areas, and avoid using basements during heavy rains. 3:46 Nature doesn't warn—it acts. And our job is to be vigilant.

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Film: Climate change and the terrible causes of floods cyclones droughts- by Odia Fact and Culture channel India- translated at Heating Planet blog

"I am Debdarshi Mohanty, Post Graduate in Odia (Master Of Arts In Odia). My Youtube Channel is about Science and Technology, Culture, Tradition" 

WATCH: Climate change and the terrible causes of floods, cyclones, droughts, etc.

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The 12 months of the year and the six seasons are the middle seasons, which allow us to experience mainly three seasons: 0:04 Summer 0:08 Rainy and winter, depending on the Earth's motion. These are all the seasons, and these are all the seasons. 0:15 The changes here take place at a specific time. 0:18 We were told about the seasonal cycle, but in some years, 0:21 There are many changes that we know about from Indra Climate change is explained in detail by the Varsha Katha. 0:29 The time of rain and the time of Sita Katha. 0:33 The time of Sita and all other things may be less, but 0:38 The summer Rudra outbreak increases the number of days. 0:40 The amount of heat and the amount of heat in the earth increases. 0:44 The irregularity of the seasonal cycle is observed and The rise in Earth's temperature is a matter of concern. 0:52 What is global warming called climate change? 0:55 Changes are mainly due to natural and artificial causes. 0:59 Causes: Man-made causes, natural causes. 1:02 Causes: Sun activity and temperature. 1:06 Changes: Volcanic eruptions and natural The reasons for the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations are: 1:13 Humans are the main causes of various fossil fuels. 1:17 Coal, petroleum, and other substances are the main causes. 1:21 Deforestation and climate change are the main causes. 1:25 The main causes of climate change are: 1:29 Themes: Criticism and Climate Change Climate change has a profound impact on human life. 1:35 Criticism on the subject of creating a catastrophic disaster. 1:38 Sustainable behavior to address climate change. 1:45 The main cause of change is human action. 1:48 Industrialization, coal, petroleum. 1:51 Combustion of substances, etc., are all causes. Atmospheric rays are composed of carbon and dioxide. 1:58 Earth's temperature growth path and here 2:01 Green gas growth path here 2:04 Earth's surface temperature growth path here 2:07 Temperature growth is the main problem in any year. 2:10 According to information, during the 1800s, Many types of glaciation and 2:19 Greenhouse gas growth and atmosphere 2:22 Late and 18th century changes in the mass level and 2:27 Temperature approximately 1.1% 2:29 Which of the following is about a million years after the increase in temperature? Fossil fuel behavior increased by pouches or Over time, Earth's temperature has risen by 30 years. 2:38 A 0.85 degree increase due to changes in water resources. 2:43 Climate change has a direct impact on Earth. 2:46 Falls and hailstorms have caused earthquakes. 2:52 But natural disasters may occur when 2:55 Natural disasters 2:57 There are two ways to deal with this, but at present, There should be a regular flow, but there's a problem. 3:04 The current creation is divided into parts. 3:09 The creation should be in other parts and the seasonal cycle should be established. 3:13 A good flow should be maintained, and the rain should be timely. 3:17 If there is no rain, there will be a long delay. 3:21 And what kind of rain is missing? Others face a lot of problems due to excessive rainfall. 3:29 List and agriculture sector here is greatly affected. 3:32 Climate change impacts Odisha. 3:36 Central and regional disasters have created a huge crisis in the last few years. 3:40 Orissa faces a lot of problems and every year 3:43 Forest conditions are the main problem. As for the Osa Re 1999 October 25 3:51 The creation of Mahaja Pawan and Bethila 26 3:55 Kilometers and this Mahabharata is about 10,000 3:59 More people died, this Osa history is a cataclysm 4:04 October 12, 2013, Island 4:08 The Bathila people took the idol almost 84 years ago On October 12, 2014, Hooda spoke. 4:16 The idol of the Hothila people is usually three times greater. 4:18 The butterfly is said to have appeared on October 11, 2018. 4:22 The Hothila people died in 69 and 64 years in 2019. 4:26 The Bathila people died in 64 years. 4:31 The 20th of the year, the 20th of the year, will be celebrated in 2021. Rays Bathila and Ray Dana, October 25, 2024 4:42 Bathila Osa is currently, but this is all we talk about. 4:45 Facing and dealing with climate change is the main cause. 4:49 Change and climate change are the main causes. 4:52 Every year, 4:54 Osa is cultivated extensively and is also cultivated. 4:58 Climate change is a traditional cause. Thunderstorms strike the atmosphere in the middle of the rising pouch. 5:05 Answer 5:07 The atmosphere is more like a water vapor rise path. 5:10 The water vapor causes the storm to become more powerful. 5:14 The water vapor rises and binds water here. 5:17 It has resulted in deception and here only deception. 5:21 Positive and negative. 5:26 Electricity creates deception and conflict. 5:30 Lightning flashes and terrifying sounds. 5:35 These are the main reasons for the clock to turn. 5:39 Global climate change is the cause of global warming. Global warming is the main cause of climate change. 5:42 Global warming is the main cause of climate change. 5:45 Vajra Khat is the main cause of climate change. 5:48 The change in the seasonal cycle is the reason for the winter season. 5:52 The irregularity in the atmosphere is always visible. 5:55 The answer is: Earth's temperature is increasing.The answer is, the Earth's temperature is increasing. 5:59 The fruit is cold, but there are many obstacles in the creation. 6:03 And the cold days are decreasing. The fruit is cold, the cold days are moderate. 6:07 I don't experience the cold days, I don't experience it. 6:12 The Himalayan Mountains are the effect of the Indian mountain range. 6:15 The amount of snow cover is decreasing from the upper reaches. 5:48 The change in the seasonal cycle is the reason for the winter season. 5:52 The irregularity in the atmosphere is always visible. 5:55 The answer is: Earth's temperature is increasing.

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*Odia, or Oriya, is a classical Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Indian state of Odisha, where it is the official language. It is also spoken in parts

Pakistan's solar revolution "Beyond the Grid" Mustafa Amjad- Watch SDTV video w transcript at Heating Planet blog

Pakistan will soon be a solar powered country.

Producing energy through fossil fuel is no longer feasible due to global warming that has resulted in climate change. Director of Programmes, Renewables First, Mustafa Amjad, says renewables are the future and Pakistan will soon be a solar powered country. -SDTV copy

"The real need is to evolve how we operate the market, new mechanisms to provide flexibility 4:09 through the grid. Things like virtual power plants."

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WATCH: Beyond the Grid: Pakistan's Solar Revolution Sep 30 2025

SDTV Pakistan "Pakistan has immense solar irradiance– one of the highest in the world."

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The world has gone bonkers because of these floods and extraordinary events taking 0:13 place around the world which are climate related. Very simply if I put it down this fossil fuel 0:20 producing energy through the fossil fuel is not sustainable anymore. So fossil fuel is there but 0:26 the word is switching to renewables and clean energy green energy is the future but what are 0:33 the connotations how to manage the fiscal side and everything we have today with us a very eminent 0:39 guest who has hands-on experience in this field and uh he's the head of first renewables Mr. Mustafa 0:46 very warm welcome. You say something on which I've just said as a basic premise and then we rumble on 0:51 for one. Totally agree. I think um you are spot on. The world has decided as a whole and Pakistan 0:58 included by the way that the future has to be renewables. Um and obviously it comes with its 1:04 own set of challenges. Not that you know thermal didn't have challenges, it had its own challenges. 1:08 They overcame that. Now it's renewables. It's the air of renewables. It will come with its 1:12 own set of challenges. But that's the evolution that all the countries have to go through. Some 1:17 are better equipped. Some have to learn how to do it. But all of us will have to take this journey 1:23 and that's the reality and Pakistan has been um making quite a few good strides on that front 1:29 with with a lot of solar panel being imported. Um obviously we are the second largest market 1:34 of Chinese solar imports for the last year. So that's that's a huge um start. uh over the past 1:40 four or five years we've imported almost 40 plus gawatt of solar panels obviously that's a good 1:47 indication of where the market is headed so for Pakistan we are going to be a solar economy soon 1:52 uh it comes with a lot of different benefits uh if not already let's be honest I think a few people 1:58 would agree that you know we're already there uh but the quantum will keep on increasing solar will 2:03 be followed by batteries that's a whole revolution in play um and this revolution obviously has a lot 2:10 of benefits. It's improving electrification rates. It's improving uh per capita consumption. It's 2:16 costing less in terms of electricity, but it's also challenging the grid. Yeah, challenging. 2:20 You know, one of the biggest challenges as you know the economist say the creative destruction. 2:25 Yeah. Already we have the infrastructure and all that and do you think that the government is spot 2:30 on ready for that to take the policy initiative very aggressively where they don't care about 2:35 this creative destruction and go ahead? Do you think? Yeah. No, it will take some time. Um, 2:39 this is a disruption. This is nothing else than a disruption. Obviously, it's it's a 2:43 good disruption of course uh for the people, but but but nonetheless, it has its challenges. 2:48 And when I talk about those challenges, obviously the government will have to equip itself to solve 2:53 those. Um what does that equipping look like? It's essentially rethinking the way we operate 2:59 the grid. So, uh you know, previously the role of the grid was to provide electricity. Going off 3:04 grid. Now, now, now the solution, now the role of the grid is to match demand and supply. So, that's 3:10 a very different role to what we've been doing for the past 50 years, what we normalized as the way 3:15 to go. So, so it's it's a a lot of unlearning that we'll have to do before we go into the 3:19 learning part. Uh but given the speed and scale of Pakistan's energy transition, unfortunately, 3:25 or fortunately, we'll have to do it in a very quick. No, no, it's very amazing. Recently I have 3:29 a chance to visit an industry and inside they had installed captive energy of 20 megawatt solar and 3:36 they have installed a 20 megawatt grid also. So we can understand what's if I ask you to summarize 3:42 your thought at the moment on all that in just one or two lines. How would you do that? No I I 3:47 think the the the real thing that needs to be done is to evolve how uh we operate the market. So new 3:54 market mechanisms will have to come up. We have to rethink tariff. We have to incentivize people to 3:59 use more electricity. That is very different to how we've operated. Talking about policy, 4:03 of course, the policy, the market mechanisms, we have to think of, you know, providing flexibility 4:09 through the grid. Things like virtual virtual power plants, thing things like, you know, time 4:14 of use charges, uh, contract for differences. So all of those technical solutions exist to kind of, 4:20 you know, accommodate all of this decentralized solar coming on the grid. It's just that Pakistan 4:25 will have to move really quickly to keep up with the pace in which people have been importing and 4:30 market has been enabling uh Pakistan's solar rush. So thank you very much for giving so much 4:36 ample time for that and I think whatever you have said is very useful. You have just heard 4:41 what he has said and I think that is the bottom line. sooner or later or not sooner or later. 4:47 Right now Pakistan is moving towards electric electricity driven energy needs for which whole of 4:53 the batteries and to stabilize the grid you know all the and uh recently there was uh there was a 5:01 whole seminar on best battery electric storage system and all that. So that is the future and 5:07 I think when technology comes like this like so much at a cutting edge nobody can resist that 5:16 and that is inevitable that has to take place for thank you very much. Thank you. All right. [Music]

Flood at Phong Chau Bridge. Horrific storm- Watch A TUAN TV Vietnam video at Heating Planet blog

Close-up of the Storm and Flood Situation at Phong Chau Bridge. A TUAN TV

No hoax, no con job, after extreme weather events shown at Heating Planet blog in the coming months, everyone will see global warming, climate change is very real. 

Sugarloaf, Labor Mountain still burning, Bear Gulch wildfire gets rain- KING 5 Seattle video n transcript at Heating Planet blog

Mandatory evacuation orders are in place near Cashmere this hour as the Sugarloaf fire is still burning near Leavenworth. It has grown to nearly 40,000 acres and then just south of there, the Labor Mountain fire is also growing. It has burned more than 35,000 acres. Blewett Pass still closed through that area. And those living near the Bear Gulch fire in Mason County are celebrating the fact that they can breathe fresh air again. 

WATCH: Rain brings relief to Bear Gulch Fire crews, neighbors, KING 5 Seattle evening news report Sep 29 2025

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Mandatory evacuation orders are in place near 0:02 Kashmir this hour as the Sugarloaf fire, 0:04 that's the lower Sugarloaf fire is burning near Leavenworth. 0:08 It has grown to nearly 40,000 acres 0:11 and then just south of there, 0:12 the Labor Mountain fire is also growing. 0:14 It has burned more than 35,000 acres. 0:17 Blewett Pass still closed through that area. 0:20 And those living near the Bear Gulch fire in Mason County 0:23 are celebrating the fact that they can breathe fresh air again, 0:26 literally. 0:27 It's all thanks to the rain. 0:28 King Five's Drew Mickelson shows us what it means for the region. 0:32 Firefighters on the Bear Gulch fire were thrilled to see clouds and rain 0:37 here at Lake Cushman instead of the fire and smoke that's been out here 0:41 for almost 3 months now. 0:42 They say this break from Mother Nature could give them the upper hand on the fire. 0:48 It's back 0:49 and not a drip too soon for Jennifer Devine. 0:52 Everyone out here, 0:53 even people that don't like the rain, 0:55 they have the biggest smiles. 0:57 Everybody's so happy. 1:00 The Bear Gulch fire, 1:01 the largest fire in Olympic National Park's history, 1:04 -- has caused evacuations and unhealthy air quality for neighbors since -- July. 1:09 The smoke will be so thick where we live around our cabin. 1:14 I get kind of claustrophobic when I looked out and then 1:16 when the wind comes and blows it the other way, 1:19 it looks like a fire never was there. 1:21 The fire department gave out air filters for 1:23 residents like Devine who suffer from asthma. 1:25 The air cleaners, 1:26 I ran out all the time. 1:28 We ran them 24 hours. 1:29 We finally gave him a break today, 1:31 and these were the 27 structures that are evacuated in this area right here. 1:36 Fire incident commander Brian Kitchen says his crews 1:39 were just as glad to see the rain. 1:41 It's going to help us. 1:42 It's gonna help with the smoke. 1:43 It's gonna help slow the progress of the fire out. 1:46 Just yesterday they were up monitoring the growth of two fires burning 1:49 in this part of the county after a monthlong stretch of warm, 1:53 dry weather. 1:54 The rains are helping, 1:56 but he says it'll take a good snowstorm to put out the wildfire. 2:01 For those of us in town who dreaded having to get out the rain gear again, 2:05 think about Jennifer Devine. 2:07 How brave can you be? 2:08 I mean, 2:10 we are so grateful to them. 2:12 She appreciates the work of firefighters this summer, 2:14 but today is thankful for Mother Nature. 2:17 -- I -- love it. 2:18 I love it. 2:18 We're letting all the good smells come in our cabin. 2:22 It's wonderful. 2:23 It's it's just so. 2:24 Joyful because it is so beautiful here. 2:26 What started the Bear Guls fire is still under investigation, 2:29 but it has been determined to be human caused. 2:32 The price tag for fighting it is at $43.5 million 2:37 and it's expected to continue burning for weeks. 2:40 At Lake Cushman, 2:41 Drew Mickelson, 2:42 King 5 News.

Walrus Life on Thin Ice premiers Oct 22 on PBS- Watch TRAILER at Heating Planet blog

Follow a paleontologist on an Arctic adventure to uncover the hidden lives of walrus and the threats they face as climate change shrinks the sea ice. "Walrus: Life on Thin Ice" premieres on Nature on PBS Wednesday, October 22, 2025.

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Climate Overshoot Conference- researchers, policymakers, and practitioners meet re risk of topping 1.5°C- Sep 30- Oct 3 Laxenburg, Austria

The risk of exceeding the 1.5°C warming threshold is increasingly real, making it more important than ever to understand the challenges of climate overshoot and explore ways to respond. A key goal is a deeper understanding within the scientific and policy communities- as well as among civil society- about the implications of overshoot and the decisions that come with it. At the same time, the conference provides a space to identify critical research gaps, helping to shape the future of scientific work on this urgent issue. Why a conference on climate overshoot? 

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Spain sudden 30-min downpour- waterfalls on staircases, streets turned to rivers- Valencia WATCH MD7 video n transcript at Heating Planet blog

In just thirty minutes, the rainfall reached approximately 50 liters per square meter, saturating the city. This spell of intense rainfall has raised alarm among authorities and residents, as well as causing large waterfalls on staircases and destroying streets  WATCH: Chaos strikes Europe again! Monster flash floods in Spain shock the world

ANOTHER sudden hydro meteorological event in 2025 

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TRANSCRIPT: Spain, Europe, September 30, 2025.. 0:37 A powerful downpour spread significantly across various areas of Cullera (Valencia 0:43 province) in just half an hour, creating veritable rivers over the streets and 0:48 trapping vehicles and people. In just thirty minutes, the rainfall reached approximately 0:54 50 liters per square meter , saturating the sewage system. This spell of intense 0:59 rainfall has raised alarm among authorities and residents, as well as causing large waterfalls 1:05 on staircases and destroyed streets , as can be seen in the video shared on social media. 1:26 The networks are filling up with videos of residents seeing their streets flooded, 1:31 and where the streets descend from the mountain, they have become rapids that destroy everything 1:36 in their path. The bus company that connects the train station with Cullera and the beach 1:41 and the lighthouse has warned that service will be suspended until the water level recedes. There 1:47 will also be no urban waste collection today due to the red alert and the storm, which, 1:52 although it has provided a respite, remains static in northern Cullera. 2:14 The Emergency Coordination Center also has handled a total of 77 cases related to the rain and storms 2:21 affecting the entire Region of Murcia, none of which were particularly significant. 2:27 Most of the issues have to do with obstacles on the road (26) and water pumping (16), 2:33 according to sources from '1-1-2' consulted by Europa Press, in addition to rescues of people in 2:39 cars surrounded by water (4). However, a downpour of 73 liters per square meter (l/m2) forced the 2:48 rescue of people trapped in four cars on Monday afternoon, immobilized by the meter-high water 2:54 at the end of the boulevard near San Juan Street and the Molina de Segura Town Hall. 3:17 By municipality, the 15 incidents in Molina de Segura stand out, the most notable being 3:23 the traffic jam caused by water on the N-301 as it passes through the town and 3:28 the flooding of the elevator shafts at the Ribera de Molina Hospital after the bilge pumps broke. 3:34 Murcia is next, with a total of 21 cases attended to and several streets closed. 3:40 Aldaia, in Valencia, has been hit again by a severe storm , 11 months after the DANA (High 3:47 Winds) that devastated numerous municipalities in the area. Sara Rincón traveled to this 3:53 municipality to hear the testimony of Aroa , a resident whose home was severely affected 3:59 by the heavy rains and storms that began this Sunday in her city. During the night, 4:04 water seeped through the roof of her house , which finally gave way. This led to her home 4:09 being sealed off and no alternative housing offered. "I don't even have 4:14 anywhere to go," she explains. "I've been collecting water since five this morning." 4:38 Aroa says the city council is aware of her situation. Her house is propped up because 4:43 it's at risk of collapse, and, she laments, "there are no shelters, no emergency center, 4:49 there's absolutely nothing." " If you stay in the house, on top of drowning, you'll stay here, " she 4:55 adds. "I can't get into my house. Let's see what I do now," the young woman comments. She 5:02 woke up around five in the morning and heard a loud noise as the ceiling tiles began to fall, 5:08 and that's when she discovered water covering the floor of her house . "We started bailing 5:12 out the water, but we couldn't keep up," she explains. "The water was falling everywhere." 5:34 It's worth remembering that the State Meteorological Agency has declared 5:38 the orange level for rainfall , which could reach 30 liters per square meter in one hour, 5:43 in the Region for this Monday and tomorrow, Tuesday. There is also a storm warning in 5:48 effect for the entire community, between 11 a.m. today and 7 a.m. tomorrow, Tuesday.

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