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Climate News: Laughter and drinks amid climate worsened chaos in Los Angeles


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A group of people reached for some normalcy "As L.A. burned, some venues tried to provide laughter, drinks and normalcy";

"As a Climate Scientist, I Knew It Was Time to Leave Los Angeles";

"Calif. Republicans weigh in on Trump allies’ calls for fire aid conditions";

"The home front: Could the Los Angeles fires happen in Australia?";

"How Los Angeles Dreams Became Kindling";

"For L.A.’s homeless population, the fires upend hard-earned stability";

"A new kind of urban firestorm";

"Advocates Warn of Climate, Cancer Risks From a Potential Trump Rollback on Electric Big Rigs and Buses";

"Power utility sued over woman’s death as crews make progress against LA fires";

"Misinformation Spreads Like Wildfire Online While LA Neighborhoods Burn";

"GoFundMe, Mandy Moore and the unfairness of disaster relief: ‘If you were poor before, you should stay poor’";

"‘Virtually Any City on Earth Can Burn Now’";

"Peering Into a Bleak, ‘Uninsurable Future’";

"Timeline: How the LA fires erupted into the worst natural disaster in California history";

"The California wildfires are not ‘natural disasters’ – they’re man-made catastrophes";

"Hottest year on record sent planet past key global warming limit of 1.5C for first time in 2024";

"Supreme Court declines to hear from oil and gas companies trying to block climate change lawsuits";

"A Court Says Coastal Marine Ecosystems Have Intrinsic Value—and Legal Rights";

"Why Chinese EVs are displacing Teslas";

"How climate-friendly waterwheels are coming around again";

"What might sports look like in a warming world?";

"Chart: EV sales grew slowly in 2024 — but still set new records";

"Without enough utility power, California EV truck depots try microgrids";

"‘There’s literally nothing’: surrounded by destruction, Los Angeles begins to process scale of loss";

"‘It’s going to be rough’: what Trump’s response to LA fires portends for future climate disasters";

"I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers";

"New weather system to strike eastern Australia with strong winds and rain";

"Major banks are abandoning their climate alliance en masse. So much for ‘woke capital’";

"New Study Shows How Fossil Fuel Sectors Create a Climate Denial Echo Chamber on Social Media";

"More Americans, Risking Ruin, Drop Their Home Insurance";

"The Wrong Lesson From Trudeau’s Fall Is That Climate Action Is Unpopular";

"Trump Energy Secretary Pick Chris Wright Calls Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg a ‘Friend’";

"I’m a climate scientist and my house in LA burned down. My work has never been more real";

"Texas Is Unprepared for Compound Climate Disasters";

"How Climate Change Is Complicating a Beloved Midwest Pastime: Ice Fishing";

"Los Angeles Fires Are Exacerbating the City’s Housing Crisis";

"Wealthiest 1% Have Used Up Their Share of World’s Carbon Budget in Just 10 Days, Analysis Finds";

"Trump Energy Secretary Pick Chris Wright Calls Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg a ‘Friend’";

"Los Angeles Fires Lead to Over $200 Billion in Losses, Potentially the Most Expensive Wildfire Event in U.S. History";

"Yes, Imitation Meat Is Processed. Can It Also Be Healthy?";

"From cod logs to frog bogs: we catalogued 400 ways to help species survive a warmer world";

"The LA fires have prompted a reckoning for the insurance industry – Australian premiums could soar as a result";

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