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For the past 35 years, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned us that emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, predominantly carbon dioxide (CO2), are causing dangerous global warming. This myth is blindly accepted...The global warming story is not a benign fantasy. It is seriously damaging Western economies...Generations have been brainwashed for decades into believing this imaginary ‘climate crisis’ from kindergarten through college and in mainstream media and social media...The evidence contradicting the climate apocalypse is vast...within the current Holocene Interglacial, there have been warmer periods known as the Minoan (1500 – 1200 BC), Roman...

"China's coal consumption increased by more than 4% in 2022. Coal imports in August 2023 were the highest since 2015. China is ramping up its import from Russia and Australia and continues to increase imports from Indonesia. Despite introducing in 2021 a policy to curb emissions of carbon dioxide, Beijing has yet to announce any cap for steel production. Like steelmaking, the manufacturing of cement is energy intensive, with coal accounting for up to 85% of the energy used in the process. China consumes as much cement every two years as the U.S. did over the entire 20th century.

The greatest energy folly of all time… Germany restricts electricity supply while ramping up demand! Rationing unavoidable...While leaders demand citizens quickly switch over to electric mobility and heat pump systems, thus placing ever huger demands on the power grid, they are reacting by shutting off nuclear and fossil fuel power plants...if it’s January and -10°C outside, your heat pump may be remotely switched off. Have blankets ready...As compensation for the affected consumers, it is envisaged that they will receive a reduction in their grid fees.

Former President Donald Trump’s first hearing will take place on April 4, a court spokesperson confirmed on Friday. Trump is set to appear at 2:15 p.m. on Tuesday before New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, the spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email. Merchan is the judge who oversaw the case of Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization.

"Typically, a 300-ppm increase in the air’s CO2 content … will raise the productivity of most herbaceous plants by about one-third, which stimulation is generally manifested by an increase in the number of branches and tillers, more and thicker leaves, more extensive root systems, and more flowers and fruit. Elevated CO2 Reduces Temperature Stress in Plants. CO2 is the ‘food’ that sustains essentially all plants (and animals who consume plants, including humans).”

"The first domino has fallen in the Democrat Party’s bid to keep the Senate majority"

(pdf) Bipartisan Select Committee on the strategic competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. Strategic Production Response Act (pdf) Protecting America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act (pdf) Prosecutors Need to Prosecute Act (pdf) Tough-on-crime resolution (pdf) Border Safety and Security Act (pdf) Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act (pdf) No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act (pdf) resolution (pdf) that would condemn attacks on pro-life facilities, groups, and churches

A federal court has granted a request by Missouri and Louisiana officials to obtain information and documents from top-ranking officials in the Biden administration over its alleged collusion with social media giants in an effort to censor and suppress free speech...The judge, a Trump appointee, also gave a timeline in which federal officials and social media platforms must hand over documents...Federal officials and social media platforms must also hand over documents and answer questions from officials from the two states within the next 30 days

"After years of claiming you can't challenge 'the science' they now claim you can't challenge their 'solutions!'" Gina McCarthy, President Biden's top domestic climate adviser, said tech companies should do more to prevent the spread of inaccurate information about climate change and clean energy. The tech companies have to stop allowing specific individuals over and over again to spread disinformation."

"Hero Sheriff Dar Leaf Sues Lawless MI AG Nessel, Dishonest MI SOS Benson For Interfering, Obstructing and Covering Up Crimes In Election Fraud Investigations, Including Machine Voting, Ballot Harvesting and Trafficking...If a township or city clerk has knowledge that there is a probable illegal or fraudulent registration in the township or city, or in any ward or precinct of the township or city, the clerk has the power and duty to make a full investigation of the facts...Benson has also been caught in numerous lies related to the election and like her fellow Democrat activist attorney general, she has mocked...

An international team of scientists, including Dr. Willie Soon, has produced a solar model which does a skilful job of reproducing past climate shifts such as the Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period...The main reasons for the Little Ice Age (LIA) are the long and deep minimum of summer insolation and insolation seasonality (IS) in the Northern Hemisphere...The noted characteristics of insolation, reflecting not only variations in the arrival of solar radiation, but also variations in the mechanisms of heat transfer, are not taken into account in the general astronomical theory of climate. Taking these indicators into account will...

If absurdity were a source of renewable energy, the COP26 climate change summit might achieve its aim of saving the planet...Some 240 Jaguar Land Rover vehicles including its I-PACE SUVs will be laid on by the UK government to move the 120 visiting heads of state and their entourages between their hotels and the SEC venue. Unfortunately a lack of charging points means the fleet now has to be re-charged by cooking oil-powered generators.

Some Facebook users have recently reported being sent warning messages from the social media giant relating to “extremists” or “extremist content.”...others reported getting a warning that they may have been “exposed to harmful extremist content recently.”...that “violent groups try to manipulate your anger and disappointment,”... Facebook spokesperson confirmed to The Epoch Times on July 1 that the company is currently running the warnings as a test...The messages come after lawmakers have repeatedly targeted and pressured CEOs of big tech firms such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft, essentially accusing them of allowing “extremism,” misinformation, and cyberbullying on their platforms. Such...

General Motors Co. in Detroit and Wabtec Corp., a large equipment provider in Pittsburgh, today announced a partnership to develop and produce GM’s Ultium battery technology and HYDROTEC hydrogen fuel cell systems for Wabtec locomotives. The companies signed a nonbinding memorandum of understanding to advance a zero-emissions future in transportation. Wabtec will apply its expertise in energy management and systems optimization to develop a solution for heavy haul locomotives that takes full advantage of GM’s platform.

even if every single American citizen biked to work, carpooled to school, used only solar panels to power their homes – if we each planted a dozen trees...guess what? That still wouldn’t be enough to offset the carbon pollution coming from the rest of the world. If all the industrialized nations went down to zero emissions...it wouldn’t be enough – not when more than 65 percent of the world’s carbon pollution comes from the developing world.”

A new prototype solar panel from the Technical Institute of Copenhagen (TIC) promises to be a game changer for renewable energy prospects....Traditional solar panels work by intercepting photons. Naturally the Earth is opaque to photons, so at night the panels are useless. But the Sun emits another kind of particle that shines right through the Earth, even at night: solar neutrinos....neutrinos pass through the Earth, they do change on their way through – a bit like the way white light is changed into a rainbow as it passes through a triangular prism.” Keying in on this relationship, Pierrot was able...

People who are vaccinated against COVID-19 shouldn’t be told to continue wearing masks and social distance, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said Friday. “For 100 years almost, since we’ve been developing immunity capability, people have always known if you survive smallpox, you don’t get it again. You get chickenpox, you don’t get it again. You get a vaccine; you stop worrying about polio, etc. For the first time ever, here is a series of vaccines, safe and effective, 95 plus percent effective, and what’s happening? They’re telling us to leave our masks on, to continue social distancing. That’s absurd,”

John Kerry has repeated his claim the upcoming COP26 talks have to produce results..."international talks this year are the “last, best hope” of avoiding catastrophic global heating". With his repeated last chance claims, John Kerry has added his name to the hilarious and very long list of last chances to save the world from climate change. The list stretches all the way back to the 1980s, so clearly some of the last chance claims were a little exaggerated.

January 20- Inauguration and 4 Crises January 21- COVID January 22- Economic Relief January 23-24- Weekend January 25- Buy America January 26- Equity January 27- Climate January 28- Health Care January 29- Immigration January 30-31- Weekend February - Restoring America’s Place in the World

A group that received hundreds of millions of dollars from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is accused in post-election lawsuits of contributing to constitutional violations in key battleground states...The money was sent through agreements that had municipalities run elections in contravention to state law...and “to facilitate the movement of hundreds of thousands of questionable ballots in secrecy without legally required bi-partisan observation.”