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Arab Times
a day ago
- Climate
- Arab Times
Climate change caused half the world to endure an extra month of extreme heat: experts
NEW YORK, May 31, (AP): Scientists say 4 billion people, about half the world's population, experienced at least one extra month of extreme heat because of human-caused climate change from May 2024 to May 2025. The extreme heat caused illness, death, crop losses, and strained energy and health care systems, according to the analysis from World Weather Attribution, Climate Central, and the Red Cross. "Although floods and cyclones often dominate headlines, heat is arguably the deadliest extreme event,' the report said. Many heat-related deaths are unreported or are mislabeled by other conditions like heart disease or kidney failure. The scientists used peer-reviewed methods to study how much climate change boosted temperatures in an extreme heat event and calculated how much more likely its occurrence was because of climate change. In almost all countries in the world, the number of extreme heat days has at least doubled compared with a world without climate change. Caribbean islands were among the hardest hit by additional extreme heat days. Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States, endured 161 days of extreme heat. Without climate change, only 48 would have occurred. "It makes it feel impossible to be outside,' said Charlotte Gossett Navarro, chief director for Puerto Rico at Hispanic Federation, a nonprofit focused on social and environmental issues in Latino communities, who lives in the San Juan area and was not involved in the report. "Even something as simple as trying to have a day outdoors with family, we weren't able to do it because the heat was too high," she said, reporting feeling dizzy and sick last summer. When the power goes out, which happens frequently in Puerto Rico in part because of decades of neglected grid maintenance and damage from Hurricane Maria in 2017, Navarro said it is difficult to sleep. "If you are someone relatively healthy, that is uncomfortable, it's hard to sleep ... but if you are someone who has a health condition, now your life is at risk,' Gossett Navarro said. Heat waves are silent killers, said Friederike Otto, associate professor of climate science at Imperial College London, one of the report's authors. "People don't fall dead on the street in a heat wave ... people either die in hospitals or in poorly insulated homes and therefore are just not seen,' he said. Low-income communities and vulnerable populations, such as older adults and people with medical conditions, suffer the most from extreme heat. The high temperatures recorded in the extreme heat events that occurred in Central Asia in March, South Sudan in February, and in the Mediterranean last July would have not been possible without climate change, according to the report. At least 21 people died in Morocco after temperatures hit 118 degrees Fahrenheit (48 degrees Celsius) last July. People are noticing temperatures are getting hotter, but don't always know it is being driven by climate change, said Roop Singh, head of urban and attribution at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, in a World Weather Attribution statement. "We need to quickly scale our responses to heat through better early warning systems, heat action plans, and long-term planning for heat in urban areas to meet the rising challenge,' Singh said. City-led initiatives to tackle extreme heat are becoming popular in parts of South Asia, North America, Europe, and Australia to coordinate resources across governments and other agencies. One example is a tree-planting initiative launched in Marseille, France, to create more shaded areas. The report says strategies to prepare for heat waves include monitoring and reporting systems for extreme temperatures, providing emergency health services, cooling shelters, updated building codes, enforcing heat safety rules at work, and designing cities to be more heat-resilient. But without phasing out fossil fuels, heat waves will continue becoming more severe and frequent, and protective measures against the heat will lose their effectiveness, the scientists said.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Flattery and sleight of hand: The art of managing President Trump
Marco Rubio, the US foreign secretary, had a dilemma. Peace talks were fast approaching in London last month but Ukraine had signalled it was not ready to accept Washington's proposal to end the war. So he pulled out of the talks, leaving negotiations to more junior officials. Better that than having to return to Washington and report his failure to Donald Trump, his quixotic boss. 'Fundamentally, he didn't come to London, because what they understood the Ukrainians were bringing to London was something that he would not be able to sell back in the White House, so there was no point in him coming,' a source with knowledge of the negotiations said. 'He made it pretty clear when explaining the reasoning behind his decision for not attending with the foreign secretary.' It is just one of the ways that Cabinet officials, advisers and aides are managing the president, killing off dubious ideas or keeping themselves out of the firing line. The result is a surprisingly stable White House. Where Trump 1.0 was marked by leaks, infighting and dismissals, this time around, disagreements have mostly played out quietly behind the scenes. No one has played the game better than Mr Rubio, who has seen his stock rise to the point where he is talked of as a potential 2028 runner. Peter Navarro has watched it all from his palatial office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next door to the White House. He is one of the few survivors of Mr Trump's first term and confided there was little secret to getting along with the president. 'Basically, you help president Trump fulfil his vision,' he previously told The Telegraph. 'Never take the credit. Be willing to take the blame.' However, insiders have worked out a string of tricks to gently bring Mr Trump around to their way of thinking. And Mr Navarro himself has ended up on the wrong side of such strategies. He was one of the key architects behind 'liberation day' when Mr Trump unveiled swingeing tariffs on goods imported around the world. The immediate impact was to plunge markets into free-fall, spooking key Trump administration figures who sensed a political bloodbath. So when Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, and Scott Bessent, the treasury secretary, hatched a plan to urge Mr Trump to think again, they knew they needed to keep Mr Navarro as far away as possible. They made sure they met the president when the hawkish trade adviser had his own meeting elsewhere in the White House and was away from Mr Trump's ear. It is a feature, not a flaw, of Mr Trump's style of management, say those that know him well, as he enjoys the spectacle of staffers fighting it out to influence policy. It is a divide-and-conquer approach to team building, said Barbara Res, who described her 18 years at the Trump Organisation in a memoir Tower of Lies. 'He will pit two people against each other and divide them, instead of allowing them to join forces in a disagreement with him or complain about him,' she said. 'And he likes to see them fight and see who comes out on top.' She even described how he pitted his own ex-wife, Ivana, against a Trump Organisation employee on rival redevelopments in Atlantic City during the 1990s to see who would do best. Trump 2.0 is different from Trump 1.0. Then Mr Trump's administration was built from scratch, in the days after his shock election win, drawing on members of the Republican Party establishment, Wall Street and the armed forces. They did not make easy bedfellows and the first tranche of memoirs from that time revealed all sorts of tricks used by officials to build guardrails around an unpredictable and inexperienced president. A book by political insider Bob Woodward described how Gary Cohn, Mr Trump's chief economic adviser, was so disturbed by plans to end a free trade agreement with South Korea that he simply removed a draft letter from the president's desk before he could sign it. 'Working inside the White House with him was like living inside a pinball machine,' is how one former staffer put it. John Bolton, Mr Trump's third national security adviser in his first administration, said he found much of his job was simply trying to keep the policy process on track. 'People found out that if they just happened to be the last person to talk to him, as likely as not, they would get the outcome they wanted,' he told The Telegraph. 'Well, of course, the whole National Security Council process is intended to prevent that from happening.' He lasted 18 months in office and is today one of the figures most hated by Mr Trump and his allies. This time around, the president has built an administration of loyalists who stayed close to him through four years in the political wilderness. Much of the policy comes directly from trusted advisers such as Stephen Miller. And last Friday, officials took an axe to the NSC, firing 100 officials, and concentrating decision-making in the hands of a few senior directors. Even so, some of the same rules that applied the first time around still stand. Keep memos brief. Make them graphic. Be the first to arrive with good news. Get yourself on TV as much as possible. And things work best if it sounds like the idea has come from Mr Trump himself. 'Try something like, do you remember that day we were talking about blah, blah, blah, and you said we should stop doing that thing,' said a former aide to Mr Trump. 'first he'll say, 'No, I never said that.' 'Then you come back with well, we were all very surprised and in awe of you taking that position. And eventually he'll say, 'Yeah I guess I did do that.' Other Trump allies take a dim view of the tactics. 'I don't fall in the list of people that try to manipulate him, so I don't need a strategy,' said Marjorie Taylor Greene, the hardline congresswoman and staunch Trump ally. 'I'm real with him. And he's pretty smart about who he's dealing with.' Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Ana Navarro grills controversial politician Anthony Weiner about being a registered sex offender live on 'The View'
Controversial politician Anthony Weiner appeared on The View as he runs for office. Ana Navarro grilled him on being a sex offender after he transferred obscene material to a minor. In an email, Weiner tells EW Navarro asked "tough but totally fair questions" about his View cohost Ana Navarro turned up the heat on controversial politician and former congressman Anthony Weiner, as the Republican commentator grilled him about his status as a registered sex offender during his attempted comeback in New York City politics. After fielding a few other talking points at the top of his interview, Navarro dove into Weiner's numerous headline-making incidents over the years, which she laid out in full at the top of her question for the current New York City council candidate who was previously imprisoned over "illicit online contact with a 15-year-old girl," the Associated Press reported in 2019. "Let's talk about some of these giant scandals. You've had numerous of them," Navarro began. "You resigned from Congress in 2011 over a sexting scandal. Two years later, you stepped down from the mayoral race after sexting again under the alias Carlos Danger. Then, in 2016, you sent lewd texts to a minor and served 15 months in prison, in addition to becoming a registered sex offender." Navarro eventually got to her question, looking toward Weiner as she asked, "With all that said, why do you think, or why should New Yorkers give you a chance at a political comeback?" Weiner answered by acknowledging that "all of that happened," before saying, "I accept responsibility for it." He stressed that he wouldn't label himself as "a victim" of political persecution, but added, "I was dealing with very serious problems, I was dealing with what I now understand to be addiction." Weiner continued, "I accept it. I didn't ask for a trial, I pled guilty, served my time in prison, served in a halfway house, served probation, went to try to do good work for the formerly incarcerated. I guess what I'm saying to people is, maybe don't vote for me in spite of what they know about me, but maybe consider that journey, that idea that we all go through things and we come out the other side." The 60-year-old, who's classified as a low-tier offender, doesn't appear in public searches on New York City's sex offender registry as a result, also invoked a Catholic ideology. He summarized it as, "you suffer for a reason so you can be of service at the other end." Weiner also noted that he's "doing the opposite of what a lot of politicians do" in similar situations. "[They] ignore that problem, pretend it didn't happen, blame someone else," he observed. "I'm saying, yes, I did these things. I got into recovery, I tried to make my life better. Now, if I can be of service — and I'm a damn good politician — I come up with answers, I talk to people directly, I don't try to butter over things, I try to be direct. Why shouldn't I? If it's just because I have bad things in my past, that's not a good enough reason. All I can ever be is who I am right now, and that brought me to this space." The View audience applauded Weiner's words before the conversation shifted to other topics. In an email to Entertainment Weekly following the interview, Weiner says Navarro's inquiry included "tough but totally fair questions" on the air. "I was convicted of an obscenity crime that usually doesn't result in registry requirements. But, I accepted it as part of my guilty plea and as part of my commitment to acceptance of responsibility," Weiner continues of the legal development, which he says also involves "no restrictions of any sort on movements and not Later on The View, Joy Behar asked Weiner about sexism in politics. He then brought the topic back to his marriage to ex-wife Huma Abedin from 2010 to 2017, after he began a relationship with her while she worked for Hillary Clinton at the State Department and was later heavily involved in Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign."She's amazing" Weiner observed of Abedin, before highlighting what he felt were unfair expectations for women in politics. "I would watch the standard, we had our courtship during the 2008 campaign, so I was right there up close to watch. The standards that women have to live up to, everything from what they wear to how they talk to the intonation to the inflection. The number of times I heard someone comment about Hillary Clinton's laugh.... I think there is something to [your point]." As Navarro noted on The View, Weiner previously attempted a political comeback in a bid to become mayor of New York City in 2013 — a move camera crews documented for the 2016 documentary Weiner. The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC. Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Appeals court allows President Trump to continue collecting tariffs
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Three different courts have ruled on President Donald Trump's tariff plan over the last two days. Two lower courts blocked most of the tariff plan from taking effect. However, on Thursday, an appeals court let the Trump administration continue collecting tariffs, essentially freezing the status quo as judges consider the case. 'The Trump tariff agenda is alive, well, healthy and will be implemented,' White House Adviser, Peter Navarro said. Navarro says the Trump administration will continue with its tariff plan whether the courts approve or not. 'Even if we lose, we will do it another way,' Navarro said. On Wednesday, a federal court stopped most of the tariffs President Trump announced in April. The court blocked the baseline 10% tariff, the up to 50% 'reciprocal tariff' and the tariffs meant to stop fentanyl. It didn't affect tariffs on cars, car parts, steel and aluminum. On Thursday, an appeals court paused that ruling while it considers the case. 'The president's rationale for imposing these powerful tariffs was legally sound and grounded in common sense,' White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said. On Truth Social, President Trump railed against the three-judge panel that blocked his tariff plan. The president appointed one of the judges. 'Radical Left Judges, together with some very bad people, are destroying America,' he wrote. 'He's trying to do this in a backwards way and find a loophole. And the judges said, no,' Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield said. Rayfield led the lawsuit against the Trump administration. He told The Hill on NewsNation, the president doesn't have the right to tariff imports. 'The Constitution gives Congress the power to set tariffs. That isn't an inherent presidential power,' Rayfield said. President Trump says the tariffs are necessary to boost the American economy and bring manufacturing jobs to the U.S. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
National Observer
2 days ago
- Health
- National Observer
Half of world's population endured an extra month of extreme heat due to climate change, experts say
Scientists say 4 billion people, about half the world's population, experienced at least one extra month of extreme heat because of human-caused climate change from May 2024 to May 2025. The extreme heat caused illness, death, crop losses, and strained energy and health care systems, according to the analysis from World Weather Attribution, Climate Central and the Red Cross. 'Although floods and cyclones often dominate headlines, heat is arguably the deadliest extreme event,' the report said. Many heat-related deaths are unreported or are mislabeled by other conditions like heart disease or kidney failure. The scientists used peer-reviewed methods to study how much climate change boosted temperatures in an extreme heat event and calculated how much more likely its occurrence was because of climate change. In almost all countries in the world, the number of extreme heat days has at least doubled compared with a world without climate change. Caribbean islands were among the hardest hit by additional extreme heat days. Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States, endured 161 days of extreme heat. Without climate change, only 48 would have occurred. 'It makes it feel impossible to be outside,' said Charlotte Gossett Navarro, chief director for Puerto Rico at Hispanic Federation, a nonprofit focused on social and environmental issues in Latino communities, who lives in the San Juan area and was not involved in the report. 'Even something as simple as trying to have a day outdoors with family, we weren't able to do it because the heat was too high," she said, reporting feeling dizzy and sick last summer. When the power goes out, which happens frequently in Puerto Rico in part because of decades of neglected grid maintenance and damage from Hurricane Maria in 2017, Navarro said it is difficult to sleep. 'If you are someone relatively healthy, that is uncomfortable, it's hard to sleep ... but if you are someone who has a health condition, now your life is at risk,' Gossett Navarro said. Heat waves are silent killers, said Friederike Otto, associate professor of climate science at Imperial College London, one of the report's authors. 'People don't fall dead on the street in a heat wave ... people either die in hospitals or in poorly insulated homes and therefore are just not seen,' he said. Low-income communities and vulnerable populations, such as older adults and people with medical conditions, suffer the most from extreme heat. The high temperatures recorded in the extreme heat events that occurred in Central Asia in March, South Sudan in February and in the Mediterranean last July would have not been possible without climate change, according to the report. At least 21 people died in Morocco after temperatures hit 118 degrees Fahrenheit (48 degrees Celsius) last July. People are noticing temperatures are getting hotter but don't always know it is being driven by climate change, said Roop Singh, head of urban and attribution at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, in a World Weather Attribution statement. 'We need to quickly scale our responses to heat through better early warning systems, heat action plans, and long-term planning for heat in urban areas to meet the rising challenge,' Singh said. City-led initiatives to tackle extreme heat are becoming popular in parts of South Asia, North America, Europe and Australia to coordinate resources across governments and other agencies. One example is a tree-planting initiative launched in Marseille, France, to create more shaded areas. The report says strategies to prepare for heat waves include monitoring and reporting systems for extreme temperatures, providing emergency health services, cooling shelters, updated building codes, enforcing heat safety rules at work, and designing cities to be more heat-resilient. But without phasing out fossil fuels, heat waves will continue becoming more severe and frequent and protective measures against the heat will lose their effectiveness, the scientists said.
