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The White House calls it the largest deregulation in US history, but environmentalists say it will prove costly for Americans.

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The Washington Post Global temperatures have been rising for decades. But many scientists say it’s nowhappening faster than ever before. Since the 1970s, the Earth, fueled by enormous quantities of greenhouse gas emissions, has been warming at a fairly steady rate. But in the last few years, something changed. 2023, 2024 and 2025 were far warmer than the previous trend. Comparing 30-year trends, scientists can see if the rate of warming is changing across decades, including over the last three years. According to a Washington Post analysis, the fastest warming rate on recordoccurred in the last 30 years. The Post used a dataset from NASA to analyse global average surface temperatures from 1880 to 2025. "We’re not continuing on the same path we had before,” said Robert Rohde, chief scientist at Berkeley Earth. "Something has changed.” For about 40 years - from 1970 to 2010 - global warming proceeded at a fairly steady rate. As humans continued to pump massive amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the world warmed at about 0.19 degrees Celsius per decade, or around 0.34 degrees Fahrenheit. Then, that rate began to shift. The warming rate ticked up a notch. Temperatures over the past decade...

NBC News, January 27, 2026: “Extreme cold warnings were in place for millions from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast on Tuesday, as communities across the eastern third of the United States repaired damage from a huge winter storm that has killed at least 51 people.” Reading the above headline, a reasonable person interested in climate change would wonder how we can have global warming and simultaneously experience such extreme cold events sweeping through large areas of the United States. But a climate scientist would simply nod their head. The simplest answer is that global warming causes climate change, and climate change is all about extreme weather. And extreme weather means more frequent and more severe heat waves, floods, droughts, storms and yes, cold weather. As more of the heat gets trapped in our atmosphere, it provides more energy into the weather system. This added energy feeds the movement of air and ocean currents, changing our climate. In doing so, it’s as though climate change stretches the normal distribution curves of weather events, with more extremes at either end. All of these intense events are happening and will continue to happen, inconsistently and unevenly, non-linearly. That means temperatures will...

Scientists say warming is increasing faster than at any time in at least 3 million years. There is no guide for what comes next.

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Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware