David Gelles

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Fresh Air · Inside the U.S. reversal on climate change action · 28 Jan 2026 podcast

And what has happened right now is that a lot of the Arctic air that typically sits up there on the North Pole, it has escaped.

It has essentially come down into the United States, other parts of Europe as well.

And what you're seeing, if you look at a global temperature map, is that it's actually warmer above us to the north than

than it is right here.

So these are the scrambling of global weather patterns that science has told us for decades now are going to become more common as man-made global warming overall makes weather more extreme, more volatile, less predictable.

So yeah, we're going to see some very cold snaps even on a hotter planet.

And so, even if businesses...

will tell you, and every CEO that I talk to can tell you how climate change is affecting their supply chains, how it's changing the way they have to air condition large factories that I've been to in the Midwest, how it's changing how they have to protect or even move facilities on the coast.

That's all happening.

But what the Trump administration is now saying is that they don't have to consider

those impacts when passing laws.

In fact, it would be better if they didn't at all.

And it's not just Hawaii.

I had conversations while I was in Davos with international scientists about this very issue.

And they were really concerned because one of the functions that the United States government has fulfilled for decades now is being really a leading compiler of research about our changing planet.

Much of that work is simply being discontinued.

It's being defunded.

The scientists are losing access to their facilities.

And what you're seeing is the emergence of sort of a dark ages when it comes to the United States' role in collaborative international science, at least when it comes to the government's role.

Organizations like NASA, the space agency, have historically played a huge role in providing the international community with data about global temperatures, sea level rise, any number of things.

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