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  • My neighbor’s massive tree is blocking my $35K solar panels — can I demand they cut it down or am I stuck losing money every day?

    10/27/2024 5:56:01 AM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 118 replies
    moneywise ^ | Oct 27, 2024 | Christy Bieber
    Asolar power system is a big expense, but if it gets enough sun, it can pay for itself and reduce your carbon footprint in the process. Unfortunately, obstructions can substantially reduce the power your panels provide and make it much harder for your investment to pay off. That's why it can be so frustrating if your neighbors plant a tree in the wrong place. If there’s a tree in the way of your energy production, it's important to understand what your options are. They may depend on where you live and whether the tree or your panels were there first....
  • Alabama couple's 16-foot, 10-inch okra plant might be world's largest

    10/25/2024 11:11:04 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 31 replies
    UPI ^ | October 25, 2024 | Ben Hooper
    VIDEO AT LINK...................... Oct. 25 (UPI) -- An Alabama couple may have broken a Guinness World Record by growing an okra plant that reached a height of 16 feet, 10 inches. Mobile residents Terry and Candace Stevens said this was their first year planting okra in their garden, and they were shocked to see one of their plants reach for the sky. "Actually, this is our first year planting," Terry Stevens told WALA-TV. "I think we started in March, and we started in seeds from my shed, and we transferred them out here, and they've just been growing ever since."...
  • Suddenly Energy Realism Is A Winning Political Issue

    10/25/2024 4:37:47 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 11 replies
    Manhattan Contrarian ^ | 23 Oct, 2024 | Feancis Menton
    For well over two decades, the linked causes of climate alarmism and energy transition have provided their adherents with a powerful upper hand in American politics. For that matter, supporters of those causes have had just as strong, if not a stronger upper hand in the politics of all the countries with advanced economies, whether in the EU, or Canada, Australia, and others. Here in the U.S., for all this time, almost no politician — even those claiming to advocate generally for smaller government or less regulation — has been willing to push back directly against assertions of “climate crisis,”...
  • Simple Facts Expose The Climate Change Hoax

    10/25/2024 5:03:15 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 25 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 25 Oct, 2024 | Jonathan Gault
    The reality is that we are in a CO2 famine that puts life on earth at risk. To believe in the climate change hoax, you must believe 5 (palpably untrue) things: CO2 is the “control knob” for the climate. This has been proven to be ridiculous. CO2 makes up only about 0.04% of the atmosphere, while 96–99% of the atmosphere is oxygen and nitrogen. Water vapor, a much larger determinant of temperature, varies from 1-4%. But what determines temperature more than anything else? Changes in the Earth’s solar orbit (obviously). NASA has admitted this. CO2 is harmful. Wrong! CO2 is...
  • World Bank bureaucrats lost track of at least $24B in funds fighting climate change: ‘Could be twice or 10 times more’

    10/24/2024 3:45:52 AM PDT · by george76 · 55 replies
    New York Post ^ | Oct. 23, 2024 | James Franey
    Bungling World Bank bureaucrats lost track of at least $24 billion bankrolling the battle against climate change, according to a bombshell report by a left-leaning charity group. An investigation by Oxfam revealed “poor record-keeping practices” by the DC-based international lender that resulted in anywhere between $24 billion and $41 billion in misplaced funds. The agency’s audit showed “a lack of traceable spending” over the past seven years — partly because of an oddball accounting practice in which the bank accounts for its climate financing at the time of a project’s approval rather than at the time of project completion ......
  • Fringe Scientists Warn of ‘Irreversible Climate Disaster’ from Fossil Fuels

    10/22/2024 5:59:40 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 35 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 10/22/2024 | Thomas D Williams PHD
    A fringe group of climate scientists have published an apocalyptic report warning that “much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled” by climate change, in the latest attack on low-cost fossil fuels. Led by Oregon-based climate activists William J. Ripple and Christopher Wolf, the writers assert that humanity is “on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster” because of increasing greenhouse gas emissions and ecosystem change.
  • Frequent Flyer Tax

    10/22/2024 9:04:24 AM PDT · by delta7 · 20 replies
    Armstrong Economics ^ | 21 Oct 24 | Martin Armstrong
    The core reason that the establishment is suddenly interested in climate change comes down to one main factor – money. More specifically, the establishment is hunting down YOUR money through taxation. A second motivator is limiting our freedom of movement by demonizing fossil fuels and limiting our ability to travel. The European Union is now seeking to punish those who fly more than once per year with a frequent flyer tax. The EU has already implemented an aviation tax, but the new proposal is designed to punish the pesky “rich,” but per usual, everyone will suffer. “A frequent flying levy...
  • The system that moves water around the Earth is off balance for the first time in human history

    10/19/2024 11:37:09 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 132 replies
    CNN ^ | 16/10/24 | Laura Padison
    Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance “for the first time in human history,” fueling a growing water disaster that will wreak havoc on economies, food production and lives, according to a landmark new report. Decades of destructive land use and water mismanagement have collided with the human-caused climate crisis to put “unprecedented stress” on the global water cycle, said the report published Wednesday by the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, a group of international leaders and experts. The water cycle refers to the complex system by which water moves around the Earth. Water evaporates from...
  • In Miami, the Nation’s First Chief Heat Officer Charts a Course for Surviving on a Warming Planet

    10/17/2024 4:39:53 AM PDT · by dennisw · 67 replies
    Smithsonian Mag ^ | September/October 2024 | Text by Julie Winokur
    Planting over 16,000 trees. Increasing the tree canopy is a priority because trees provide shade, lower the ground surface temperature and offset carbon emissions by capturing carbon dioxide. For nearly two decades, Miami-Dade has struggled to reach its goal of 30 percent tree cover. Gilbert explains that rampant development and hurricane damage have made meeting this a Sisyphean task. The fact that the county isn’t backsliding is an achievement, she insists—it’s currently hovering around 20 percent. This year Miami-Dade will invest a record $7 million in tree planting, with an emphasis on low-income neighborhoods, which tend to have the least...
  • Kamala Harris's Electric School Bus Program Granted $395k to a Chinese Manufacturer. Then Its Top Executive Sent Biden-Harris Scores of Campaign Cash.

    10/13/2024 5:45:10 PM PDT · by george76 · 33 replies
    Washington Free Beacon. ^ | October 10, 2024 | Thomas Catenacci
    Company documents indicate BYD Americas president Ke Li is a Chinese national with 'right of abode' in US.. Vice President Kamala Harris's billion-dollar Clean School Bus program provided funding to Chinese EV manufacturer BYD Company's subsidiary in the United States, according to federal filings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Months later, the subsidiary's top executive, a Chinese national, wired $50,000 in support of what is now Harris's presidential campaign. BYD Americas was selected in late 2022 to receive $395,000 under the administration's Clean School Bus program, which was spearheaded by Harris and EPA administrator Michael Regan, EPA documents show....
  • FEMA maps missed parts of North Carolina devastated by Hurricane Helene, Post analysis shows

    10/13/2024 12:52:01 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 16 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | Updated October 13, 2024 at 10:18 a.m. EDT|Published October 13, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT | Kevin Crowe , Shannon Osaka and John Muyskens
    The federal government’s flood maps, which are used nationwide to signal areas vulnerable to inundation, vastly underestimated the flood risk faced by properties in the parts of North Carolina devastated by Hurricane Helene, according to data analyzed by The Washington Post.The analysis of flood risk data from First Street, a climate modeling group, found that just 2 percent of properties in the mountainous counties of western North Carolina fall inside areas marked as having a special risk of flooding. That “Special Flood Hazard Area” designation, which compels homeowners to buy flood insurance if they want to get a federally-backed mortgage,...
  • Rising disaster costs leave U.S. confronting fiscal risks of climate change

    10/12/2024 12:48:16 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 38 replies
    The New York Times ^ | October 12, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT | Tony Romm
    A second catastrophic hurricane in as many weeks has forced the U.S. government to grapple with a harsh reality: Climate calamities are becoming more frequent, deadly and costly in a country already facing massive fiscal challenges. The earliest estimates suggest the latest storm, Hurricane Milton, may have unleashed roughly $50 billion in damage across Florida, destroying countless homes, businesses and critical infrastructure that will need to be repaired or replaced, probably with the help of urgently needed federal aid. But Milton is only the most recent extreme weather event in a nation that experiences on average a billion-dollar climate disaster...
  • Globalists Are Taking The Mask Off And That’s A Bad Sign…

    10/11/2024 7:44:09 AM PDT · by george76 · 35 replies
    Alt-Market ^ | October 10, 2024 | Brandon Smith
    Remember the last time the globalists took the mask off? It wasn’t that long ago, but some people might have already forgotten how the western world almost lost all individual freedom under the guise of an over-hyped health emergency. When globalists are honest about what they truly want, it usually coincides with an engineered calamity. In the two years since the failure of the covid pandemic narrative I have argued that globalist organizations are trying to regroup under a new plan. The evidence suggests that these people suffered a shocking revelation after their attempt to implement perpetual medical tyranny. They’ve...
  • Milton's Landing: Big Oil Must Pay for Massive Storm Damage | Opinion

    10/10/2024 10:12:04 AM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 46 replies
    Newsweak ^ | Oct 9, 2024 | Aaron Regunberg
    In 1989, Shell published an internal report analyzing two possible futures, one in which fossil fuels were brought under control and one in which they weren't. In the former, which they called the "sustainable world" scenario, greenhouse gas emissions began declining rapidly around the year 2000 and global warming was kept in check. In the other, where fossil fuel production continued apace, Shell researchers predicted a world of climate chaos—one with massive increases in "violent weather," particularly "more storms" and "more deluges." These disasters, Shell concluded, would create crises of such severity that "[c]ivilization could prove a fragile thing."....... If...
  • Hurricane Helene -- and the 'Climate Change' Experts

    10/10/2024 9:21:41 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 41 replies
    Townhall ^ | 10/10/2024 | Larry Elder
    "No one can deny the impact of climate crisis anymore. At least I hope they don't. They must be brain dead if they do. Scientists report that with warming oceans powering more intense rains, storms like Helene are getting stronger and stronger. They're not going to get less; they're going to get stronger." -- President Joe Biden, Oct. 2, 2024 Three years ago, Science News published an article with the following headline: "Hurricanes may not be becoming more frequent, but they're still more dangerous -- There aren't more of the storms now than there were roughly 150 years ago, a...
  • Milton threatens to reach max limits, sparking calls for a new Category 6 designation for hurricanes

    10/08/2024 11:54:39 AM PDT · by bitt · 53 replies
    https://nypost.com ^ | 10/8/2024 | PATRICK REILLY
    Hurricane Milton is threatening to reach known maximum limits with wind gusts already topping 200 miles per hour — leading to calls for a new Category 6 designation for such a historic superstorm. “This is nothing short of astronomical,” Florida meteorologist Noah Bergren said late Monday as Milton reached sustained winds of 180 mph and “gusts 200+ mph.” “I am at a loss for words to meteorologically describe to you the storm’s small eye and intensity,” he marveled. “This hurricane is nearing the mathematical limit of what Earth’s atmosphere over this ocean water can produce.” After being a monster Category...
  • Galveston hurricane of 1900

    10/08/2024 12:32:18 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 17 replies
    Britannica ^ | none given | Britannica
    Galveston hurricane of 1900, hurricane (tropical cyclone) of September 1900, one of the deadliest natural disasters in U.S. history, claiming more than 8,000 lives. As the storm hit the island city of Galveston, Texas, it was a category 4 hurricane, the second strongest designation on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale.
  • Climate change activists ‘drown’ themselves with oil, gas and flames in nightmarish protest (only 6.29 years left)

    10/04/2024 11:00:28 PM PDT · by Libloather · 31 replies
    NY Post ^ | 10/04/24 | Emily Crane
    Climate change activists pretended to drown themselves in oil and gas in a nightmarish protest outside a United Nations agency in London on Friday, gory photos of the stunt show. The Ocean Rebellion campaigners staged the frightening demonstration on the steps of the International Maritime Organization — the UN agency responsible for regulating maritime transport. Footage showed one activist, dressed as an “ocean goddess,” donning a fish bowl over her head as another poured in fake black oil to make it appear as if she was drowning. The woman could be seen screaming as the liquid engulfed her face before...
  • THREE THOUSAND DEAD AT GALVESTON Tbe Latest Estimates by Prominent Men Give Tills as the Figure. Looters of tbe Dead Caught at Their Dastardly Work Are Shot Id Their Tracks and Fitly Are Reported to Have Been Killed.

    10/04/2024 3:11:01 PM PDT · by xxqqzz · 17 replies
    Stockton Record ^ | September 12, 1900 | reports
    —Order has begun to take the place of chaos which fro* reigned In Galveston since Saturday’s terrible storm and the citizens are recovering from tho stuplflcatlon of their sudden disaster. All previous estimates have been shattered by tho estimates of prominent men who declare that 3000 deaths will result from the storm. One hundred lives were loot at other points. It is thought that »10,000,000 will cover the loss of property at Galveston and more than halt as much for the remainder of tbe State. Advices say that 700 human bodies have been weighted and consigned to the sea. Some...
  • the lesson from Helene is the opposite from that being promoted.

    10/04/2024 6:03:24 AM PDT · by george76 · 30 replies
    x ^ | Oct 2, 2024 | Stephen McIntyre
    the lesson from Helene is the opposite from that being promoted. In 1933, the Tennessee Valley Authority was given the mandate for flood control in the valley of the Tennessee River and its tributaries. Over the next 40 years, they built 49 dams, which, for the most part, accomplished their goal. Whereas floods in the Tennessee were once catastrophic, younger people are mostly unaware of them. The French Broad River (Asheville) is an upstream tributary where flood control dams weren't constructed due to local opposition. Rather than the devastation of Hurricane Helene on Asheville illustrating the effect of climate change,...