National Academies to fast-track a new climate assessment

Move comes in response to government’s questioning of climate science.

The nation’s premier group of scientific advisers announced Thursday that it will conduct an independent, fast-track review of the latest climate science. It will do so with an eye to weighing in on the Trump administration’s planned repeal of the government’s 2009 determination that greenhouse gas emissions harm human health and the environment.

The move by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to self-fund the study is a departure from their typical practice of responding to requests by government agencies or Congress for advice. The Academies intend to publicly release it in September, in time to inform the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision on the so-called “endangerment finding,” they said in a prepared statement.

“It is critical that federal policymaking is informed by the best available scientific evidence,” said Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of Sciences. “Decades of climate research and data have yielded expanded understanding of how greenhouse gases affect the climate. We are undertaking this fresh examination of the latest climate science in order to provide the most up-to-date assessment to policymakers and the public.”

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Ford switches gears, will push smaller EVs over full-size pickup and van

The e-Transit and F-150 Lightning’s replacements will be delayed awhile.

The Ford Motor Company is adjusting its electric vehicle strategy. The automaker will prioritize smaller and more affordable EVs ahead of the replacement for the F-150 Lightning fullsize pickup truck and e-Transit van. The Lightning replacement, codenamed T3, should now appear later in 2027, with the van a year behind.

Here in 2025, EV adoption isn't exactly going the way everyone thought—or rather hoped—it would. The hype surrounding EVs worked fast, and the glinting dollar signs in people's eyes as they saw Tesla's share price soar higher and higher convinced even people who don't care about decarbonization that going all-in on EVs was the way to go.

But it takes longer to develop a new vehicle than it takes to excite an investor. And it takes longer even than that to build out the charging infrastructure necessary to transform EV motoring from something for early adopters and the eco-conscious into a viable alternative for a largely incurious and change-averse general public. Which is a long-winded way of saying the industry got out over its skis.

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GPT-5: Yay or nay – sagt uns eure Meinung!

Super Fortschritt oder Katastrophe: Wie ist euer Eindruck von OpenAIs angeblich leistungsstärkstem KI-Modell GPT-5? (GPT-4, KI)

Super Fortschritt oder Katastrophe: Wie ist euer Eindruck von OpenAIs angeblich leistungsstärkstem KI-Modell GPT-5? (GPT-4, KI)

Google TV: Kampf um Profitabilität

Schwache Werbemonetarisierung, Konkurrenz im Einzelhandel und durch Youtube: Google TV scheint sich in einer misslichen Lage zu befinden. (Google TV, Google)

Schwache Werbemonetarisierung, Konkurrenz im Einzelhandel und durch Youtube: Google TV scheint sich in einer misslichen Lage zu befinden. (Google TV, Google)