‘Green News Report’ – February 19, 2026

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    Dredd said on 2/21/2026 @ 8:12am PT: [Permalink]

    “Lawsuit Challenges Trump’s Climate Science” – Desi link up-thread

    Did they leave out the ocean again?

    That is hot hysterical but it is historical:

    “In scientific papers, some people [said] we’ve explored 5 percent or 10 percent or 1 percent [of the deep ocean]””and there was no consensus,” says Katy Croff Bell, a marine scientist and founder of the Ocean Discovery League. She wondered “Has anybody actually calculated this?” Bell adds. “And I couldn’t find anything. So I started to do just initial estimates about four or five years ago, and the numbers seemed ridiculously small: 0.001 percent [visited and explored] over almost [the past] 70 years.”
    “Oceanographers have arrived late to the climate problem. Continuous climate records longer than a century or more are available for many cities, but are unheard of for the ocean. In the last 30 years, there has been great progress in expanding ocean observations to the point that we can start to address climate problems, but the shortness of the records is a constant impediment to progress. Of course, we are also now in an era when the climate problem looms larger than ever.”

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