Geostorm is Hollywood’s latest disaster drama. The movie depicts a fictional, futuristic world where scientists use a satellite system to control the Earth’s weather and battle climate change—until the system suddenly goes awry and attacks the planet. Critics called the movie’s technology laughable, but some researchers believe geoengineering isn’t a thing to take lightly.

WASHINGTON—Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announced Monday he plans to eliminate the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era edict to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The Clean Power Plan required states to meet certain benchmarks for carbon emission reductions. The plan also included an incentive for states that proactively worked on renewable energy initiatives. President Barack Obama unveiled the rule in 2015 and predicted it would prevent thousands of premature deaths and reduce asthma attacks in children.

Wildfires swept through Northern California early Monday, sending residents fleeing for safety through smoke and flames as homes burned. Mandatory evacuations were ordered in Sonoma and Napa counties and other places nearby after blazes broke out late Sunday. Belia Ramos, chairwoman of the Napa County Board of Supervisors, said officials did not yet have a count on the number of properties affected, either by the fire directly or by evacuations. No deaths have been reported, though local hospitals have treated some people for injuries.

Hours after Hurricane Harvey deluged Houston with catastrophic flooding, some storm watchers blamed an unseen culprit for the storm’s massive destruction: global warming.

More caustically, they heaped personal responsibility for the tragic loss of life and property on anyone skeptical that climate change caused the storm or made it so severe.

SeaWorld announced Monday that the last killer whale born in captivity at its parks died of pneumonia over the weekend. The waterpark stopped breeding orcas in 2016 after receiving widespread criticism of its treatment of the animals. Kyara was conceived before the program ended. The park said in a statement its staff worked tirelessly to treat the young whale before it succumbed to illness. Pneumonia is the most common cause of death of orcas and dolphins both in the wild and captivity, according to SeaWorld.

When President Donald Trump announced the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate accord, the president of France offered a sweeping assessment: Trump made a grave mistake for the future of the planet.

Trump’s assessment was less apocalyptic: He argued it would be a serious mistake for the United States to remain bound to an international agreement that burdened our nation more than it bolstered the future of humanity.

President Donald Trump announced Thursday he will pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, making good on his campaign promise to buck the agreement. Trump described the 195-country deal as a job killer that’s unfair to American taxpayers. “So we’re getting out—but we will start to negotiate, and we will see if we can make a deal that’s fair,” Trump said. Starting today, the United States will no longer comply with the requirements of the pact and instead will begin new negotiations to reenter the accord on different conditions, Trump declared.