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Measuring the Earth's climate for heat Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Climate science has degenerated into a discussion based on beliefs

By Cal Thomas

In this photo provided by Cabinet Public Affairs Office, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida eats the seafood from Fukushima prefecture at lunch at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. (Cabinet Public Affairs Office via AP)

Japan announces emergency relief measures for seafood exporters hit by China’s ban

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Firefighters spray water inside a woodland during a wildlife in the suburb of Stamata, in northern Athens, Greece, Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. Wildfires are common in Greece and other southern European countries during their hot, dry summers as dozens of fires have been breaking out each day across the country for weeks. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

A massive wildfire in northeastern Greece is gradually abating, with over 700 firefighters deployed

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People walk on a road swept by flooding waters in Chikwawa, Malawi, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. Mozambique, Madagascar and Malawi are counting the deaths and damage by tropical storm Ana and more than a week of heavy rains across southern Africa. Much of the world takes daily weather forecasts for granted. But most of Africa's 1.3 billion people live with little advance knowledge of what's to come. That can be deadly, with damage running in the billions of dollars. The first Africa Climate Summit opens this week in Kenya to highlight the continent that will suffer the most from climate change while contributing to it the least. At the heart of every issue on the agenda, from energy to agriculture, is the lack of data collection that drives decisions as basic as when to plant and when to flee. (AP Photo, File)

The first Africa Climate Summit opens as hard-hit continent of 1.3B demands more say and financing

By Cara Anna and Evelyne Musambi - Associated Press

Illustration on the upcoming presidential election and California Gov. Gavin Newsom by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Gavin Newsom’s shift on energy is a sign he’s running for president

By Michael McKenna

Illustration on the corruption of U.S. news media by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Corrupt news media majoring in omission

By Robert Knight

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif. along with other Republican members of the House, speaks at a news conference after the House passed the debt ceiling bill at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. The bill now goes to the Senate. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

McCarthy headed to Hawaii after House GOP announced investigations into disaster response, cause

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

The decommissioned Biblis nuclear power plant is pictured in Biblis, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday, Sept. 2 dismissed a junior coalition partner's suggestion that the country should keep open the option of reopening its closed nuclear power plants, declaring that nuclear energy is a “dead horse” in Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, file)

Scholz dismisses talk of keeping nuclear energy option open in Germany

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Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey delivers her inaugural address in the House Chamber at the Statehouse moments after being sworn into office during inauguration ceremonies, Jan. 5, 2023, in Boston. On Thursday, Aug. 31, Healey activated up to 250 members of the Massachusetts National Guard to assist at shelters and hotels as the state struggles with a flood of migrants. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Governor activates Massachusetts National Guard to help with migrant crisis

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Buddy Ellison, left, and his father Dan look through debris scattered across their property in Horseshoe Beach, Fla., Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023, one day after the passage of Hurricane Idalia. Ellison said five generations of his family has lived in this spot and that while their stilted home remains standing, rebuilding a damaged cottage and their collapsed business, Ed's Baithouse and Marina, on stilts as required would be cost prohibitive. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Residents return to find homes gone, towns devastated in path of Idalia

By Rebecca Blackwell and Laura Bargfeld - Associated Press

Smoke rises from a burnt tree during a wildfire in Giannouli village, in the northeastern Evros region, Greece, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. Greek authorities have further reinforced firefighting forces in the country's northeast, where a massive blaze in its thirteenth day has flared up once more, triggering authorities to issue alerts to residents in the area to be on standby for possible evacuation. (e-evros.gr via AP)

Greece: Firefighters rescue 25 migrants trapped in forest as massive wildfire approached

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Landowner Tim Baughman speaks during a press conference by opponents of the Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline on Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023, in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Public utility regulators in Iowa will begin a hearing Tuesday on a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline for transporting emissions of the climate-warming greenhouse gas for storage underground that has been met by resistant landowners who fear the taking of their land and dangers of a pipeline rupture. (Lily Smith/The Des Moines Register via AP)

Minnesota regulators vote to proceed with environmental review of disputed carbon capture pipeline

By Steve Karnowski - Associated Press

Hong Kong, other parts of south China grind to near standstill as Super Typhoon Saola edges closer

By Kanis Leung - Associated Press

Dignitaries, including U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, center, break ground on the new SunZia transmission line project in Corona, N.M., on Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. The SunZia project will stretch about 550 miles (885 kilometers) — funneling renewable energy to more populated areas in Arizona and California. (Jon Austria/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)

Powered by wind, this $10B transmission line will carry more energy than the Hoover Dam

By Susan Montoya Bryan - Associated Press

A fin whale is seen stranded, possibly stuck on its belly, in a shallow fjord on the western coast at Vejle, Denmark, on June 16, 2010. Commercial hunting of fin whales can resume in Iceland with stricter requirements on hunting methods and increased official supervision, the Icelandic government said Thursday Aug. 31, 2023. The decision was greeted with dismay by animal rights groups, which called the move “shameful.” (Benny F. Nielsen, Polfoto via AP, File)

Iceland says commercial whaling can resume after temporary ban

By Sylvia Hui - Associated Press

Old growth Douglas fir trees stand along the Salmon river Trail on the Mt. Hood National Forest outside Zigzag, Ore. A federal judge has found that a Trump-era rule change that allowed for the logging of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest violates several laws. U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Hallman on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023 found that the U.S. Forest Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Forest Management Act, and the Endangered Species Act when it amended a protection that had been in place since 1994. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Trump-era rule change allowing the logging of old-growth forests violates laws, judge says

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Land-based wind turbines in Atlantic City, N.J., turn on July 20, 2023. On Aug. 30, the offshore wind energy company Orsted said it is delaying its first offshore wind project in New Jersey until some time in 2026; it had previously been due to be completed by 2024. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

Orsted delays 1st New Jersey wind farm until 2026; not ready to ‘walk away’ from project

By Wayne Parry - Associated Press

In this photo provided by U.S. Embassy, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, left, eats a local fig at JA farmer’s market in Soma city, Fukushima prefecture, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. U.S. Ambassador Emanuel visited a northern Fukushima city Thursday and had seafood lunch with the mayor, talked to fishermen and stocked up on local produce at a grocery store to show they're all safe after the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi plant to the sea, backing Japan effort while criticizing China's ban on Japanese seafood as political.(U.S. Embassy via AP)

U.S. envoy visits Fukushima to eat fish, criticize China’s seafood ban over wastewater release

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

A car plunged into flood waters on Ocean Boulevard in North Myrtle Beach on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023 after the passage of Hurricane Idalia. (Jason Lee/The Sun News via AP)

Tropical Storm Idalia descends on North Carolina after pounding Florida, Georgia and South Carolina

By Terry Spencer - Associated Press

FILE - Crews from SoCalGas and outside experts work on a relief well to be connected to a leaking well at the Aliso Canyon facility above the Porter Ranch area of Los Angeles, on Dec. 9. 2015. California officials are expected to vote Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023, on a proposal to increase storage capacity at the site of the nation's largest-known methane leak. (Dean Musgrove/Los Angeles Daily News via AP, Pool, File)

California panel to vote on increasing storage at site of worst U.S. methane leak despite risks

By Robert Jablon and Julie Watson - Associated Press