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  • Work under way on first interconnector between Ireland and mainland Europe [electric grid]

    08/19/2025 12:24:54 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 9 replies
    RTÉ News ^ | Saturday, 16 Aug 2025 20:12 | Jennie O’Sullivan
    Work has begun to lay the underwater cable for the first electricity interconnector between Ireland and mainland Europe. It marks a major milestone in the €1.6 billion ($1.9 billion) Celtic Interconnector project, which will link the electricity grids of Ireland and France to ensure security of power supply. A specialist marine vessel Calypso, from Norway, has begun cable-laying along an 84-km (52-mile) section of the route. Once fully installed, the entire 575-km (357-mile) interconnector will run from east Cork to the northwest of Brittany. It will allow for the exchange of 700 MW of electricity, enough to power some 450,000...
  • Ireland in need of wind and solar farms as coal-burning era ends

    08/10/2025 3:11:54 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 73 replies
    RTÉ News ^ | Sunday, 10 Aug 2025 11:59 | George Lee, Environment Correspondent
    Ireland’s 40-year-long era of burning coal — the dirtiest fossil fuel imaginable — to generate electricity came to an end in June. That was when ESB announced it had ceased burning coal at its Moneypoint power station in County Clare, six months ahead of schedule. Throughout those 40 years, the coal was transferred on noisy conveyer belts through what must surely have been the longest, ugliest, sequence of brown tunnels in the country. They ran from the jetty at Moneypoint, where the coal ships pulled up, to a huge coal storage yard and then right into the powerplant and furnaces...
  • US city breaks August heat record as temperature hits 118

    08/08/2025 1:08:52 PM PDT · by Mariner · 114 replies
    ABC News via Yahoo ^ | August 8th, 2025 | KYLE REIMAN and NADINE EL-BAWAB
    Record-breaking heat continues for parts of the desert Southwest into the weekend, with sweltering temperatures beginning to expand east into the Heartland.Extreme heat warnings remain in effect for parts of the desert Southwest -- including Palm Springs, California; Phoenix; and Tucson, Arizona.High temperatures are expected to reach well into the 100s and up to 115 in spots.
  • US to scrap landmark finding that sets limit on carbon emissions

    07/29/2025 12:29:31 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 39 replies
    BBC ^ | 07/29/2025 | Bernd Debusmann Jr
    The Trump administration has announced a plan to scrap a landmark finding that greenhouse gases are harmful to the environment, severely curbing the federal government's ability to combat climate change. Known as the "Endangerment Finding", the 2009 order from then-President Barack Obama allowed the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create rules to limit pollution by setting emissions standards. ... The Endangerment Finding stemmed from a 2007 Supreme Court case in which the court ruled that greenhouse gases are "air pollutants" - meaning that the EPA has the authority and responsibility to regulate them under the US Clean Air Act....
  • ‘No To Blue Angels’ billboard goes up in Rainier Valley (Seattle)

    07/24/2025 2:26:20 PM PDT · by llevrok · 71 replies
    KIRO 7 TV News ^ | 7/23/25 | Deborah Horne, KIRO 7 News
    SEATTLE — A “No to Blue Angels” billboard just went up in Seattle’s Rainier Valley. The Blue Angels have been a fixture of Seafair for more than 50 year-- their thunderous roar could is the soundtrack to summer’s in Seattle. “I miss it more now because I don’t live on this side of town anymore,” said Carolyn Finney. She says she enjoyed the acrobatic show before moving to SeaTac. “Just seeing them fly around just close to the house down on, by the beach, that kind of stuff,” Finney said. “Yeah, it was exciting to see that.” However, a group...
  • What If We're NOT the First Human Civilization? [8:03]

    07/22/2025 10:57:27 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 64 replies
    YouTube ^ | April 2, 2025 | Michael Button
    What if Human Civilisation rose before, in Ancient pre-history? Is it possible? The evidence would suggest yes...The previous interglacial warming period, known as the 'Eemian' period, was 130 to 115,000 years ago. This period was longer than the current warm period, known as the Holocene, has been so far. Considering modern humans had already been around for at least 175,000 years by the start of the 'Eemian', why couldn't civilisation have flourished then as it has now? The conditions were optimal, it lasted more than enough time, we'd been around for 100s of 1000s of years already and according to...
  • The EU’s War on Farmers

    07/19/2025 9:48:02 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 11 replies
    The European Conservative ^ | 16 Jul, 2025 | Lauren Smith
    Amid disastrous green diktats and crippling cuts to farmers’ livelihoods, the out-of-touch elites in Brussels seem to have forgotten where their food comes from. This afternoon, farmers from all over the European Union met outside the European Parliament to march on the Berlaymont, the European Commission’s HQ. Organised by COPA-COGECA, the umbrella body for 22 million European farmers, the demonstration should by all rights be a wake-up call for Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. The unions will hand over a petition signed by 6,335 organisations, along with a symbolic pair of boots, in protest of the EU’s plans to...
  • Electricity rations hit Dutch citizens as government goes ‘green’

    07/14/2025 12:50:10 PM PDT · by Tell It Right · 24 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 7/14/2025 | Olivia Murray
    Thousands of businesses and households are waiting to connect to the Dutch grid, forcing network operators to ration power in an early indicator of what other European countries are likely to suffer as the speed of electrification increases. . . . The Netherlands is among the countries in Europe to have moved fastest to electrify critical parts of the economy after it in 2023 ended production at its giant onshore gasfield, Groningen.
  • Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response

    07/13/2025 11:52:00 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 45 replies
    The New York Times ^ | July 13, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET | Lisa Friedman, Maxine Joselow, Coral Davenport and Megan Mineiro
    As a warming planet delivers more extreme weather, experts warn that the Trump administration is dismantling the government’s disaster capabilities.In an effort to shrink the federal government, President Trump and congressional Republicans have taken steps that are diluting the country’s ability to anticipate, prepare for and respond to catastrophic flooding and other extreme weather events, disaster experts say. Staff reductions, budget cuts and other changes made by the administration since January have already created holes at the National Weather Service, which forecasts and warns of dangerous weather. Mr. Trump’s budget proposal for the next fiscal year would close 10 laboratories...
  • Sweden invented ‘flight shaming’. Now it is begging airlines to return

    07/07/2025 12:46:53 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 15 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | Sat, July 5, 2025 | Greg Dickinson
    The country that invented “flight shaming”, a concept championed by climate activist Greta Thunberg, has scrapped its air tax in a bid to boost its ailing economy. As of July 1, Sweden has dropped the levy of 76–517 kroner (£5.50–£37.40) per passenger per flight, an eco measure introduced by the centre-left government in 2018. The U-turn will be seen as a disaster by environmentalists, and it exposes a tension at the core of the aviation versus climate debate. When jumbo jets disappear emissions drop, but other things begin to dwindle too: regional growth, connectivity and – it appears in Sweden...
  • The future of vanilla ice cream is at stake because of climate change

    07/05/2025 5:54:59 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 75 replies
    Yahoo! News ^ | July 4, 2025
    The quintessential ice cream flavour is under threat, and many other dessert staples along with it, according to climate change researchers at the University of Costa Rica and Belgium's KU Leuven university. Increasing climate extremes are changing the habitats of wild vanilla species — primarily found in the tropical regions of Central America — and their mainly animal pollinators, the researchers say. This, in turn, is putting global production of vanilla at risk. In some regions, the plants may find more favourable conditions, but the insects that pollinate them may no longer find suitable habitats, according to the study published...
  • Wind turbine blade crashes into traffic on busy Northeast interstate (only 5.59 years left)

    07/01/2025 1:05:11 AM PDT · by Libloather · 36 replies
    Fox News ^ | 6/30/25 | Pilar Arias
    One person is reported injured after a wind turbine blade broke loose from a truck and crashed into traffic on Interstate 70 in Maryland. It happened early Monday morning in Washington County, the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) confirmed to Fox News Digital. "At approximately 5:30 a.m., a tractor trailer traveling westbound on I-70 was pulling a wind turbine blade that struck the guardrail causing the blade to go partially into the eastbound lanes," a statement said. "The blade was then clipped by a tractor trailer traveling eastbound." The crash resulted in the closure of all westbound lanes of I-70...
  • Carbon Tax and the Green Deal: The EU’s Climate Heist Is Underway

    06/21/2025 12:43:54 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 10 replies
    The American Spectator ^ | June 20, 2025, 10:03 PM | Thomas Kolbe
    The EU cloaks supranational tax increases in green.On the hunt for fresh sources of cash, the European Commission has zeroed in on households and motorists. A planned expansion of the EU’s carbon pricing scheme to include home heating and transportation fuels is set to plug Brussels’ gaping budget deficit — at the expense of its citizens. What we are witnessing is a fiscal smash-and-grab dressed up in green. Starting in 2027, private homes, small businesses, and passenger vehicles will be folded into a second emissions trading system (ETS2), placing them under the strict control of EU-level cap-and-trade mechanisms. This bureaucratic...
  • Rare Summer 'Winter' Storm To Strike With Two Feet of Snow [Montana]

    06/20/2025 7:38:44 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 21 replies
    Newsweek ^ | Jun 20, 2025 at 4:28 AM EDT | Matthew Robinson, US News Editor
    A rare summer “winter” storm is forecast to hit parts of Montana this weekend, with up to two feet of snow set to fall in parts. The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued another winter storm watch for parts of north-west Montana from Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning. Up to 24 inches feet of snow are now expected to fall on elevations above 6,000 feet, and up to 6 inches below. The NWS had previously said the storm was expected to produce up to 12 inches of snowfall above 6,000 feet and as much as 4 inches in valley areas....
  • May was world's second-hottest on record, EU scientists say

    06/11/2025 9:14:12 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 54 replies
    Reuters ^ | 6/11/25 | Kate Abnett
    BRUSSELS, June 11 (Reuters) - The world experienced its second-warmest May since records began this year, a month in which climate change fuelled a record-breaking heatwave in Greenland, scientists said on Wednesday. Last month was Earth's second-warmest May on record - exceeded only by May 2024 - rounding out the northern hemisphere's second-hottest March-May spring on record, the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said in a monthly bulletin
  • Irony: German Town Cancels Climate Heat & Drought Event – Due To Cool, Wet Weather!

    06/09/2025 6:22:00 PM PDT · by george76 · 10 replies
    Watts Up With That ^ | 7. June 2025 | P Gosselin
    To combat climate change, German towns and cities are busily implementing “heat plans”. Germany has ambitious climate neutrality goals, aiming to be climate-neutral by 2045. The lives of millions of people are at risk! The so-called Heat Planning Act went into force in January 2024 and legally obliges municipalities to develop these plans. Larger cities (over 100,000 inhabitants) have until mid-2026 to do so, and smaller towns until mid-2028. One key aspect is adapting to summer heatwaves and protecting public health. This includes measures such as public awareness campaigns about staying safe during heatwaves, establishing cooling centers and long-term urban...
  • Earth's atmosphere hasn't had this much CO2 in millions of years

    06/05/2025 2:49:02 PM PDT · by PROCON · 87 replies
    nbcnews.com ^ | June 5, 2025 | By Denise Chow and Chase Cain
    New data shows that CO2 levels have broken through 430 parts per million, an indication that human-caused global warming will continue to warp the environment.Earth’s atmosphere now has more carbon dioxide in it than it has in millions — and possibly tens of millions — of years, according to data released Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and scientists at the University of California San Diego.For the first time, global average concentrations of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas emitted as a byproduct of burning fossil fuels, exceeded 430 parts per million (ppm) in May. The new readings were...
  • The U.S. Under Trump: Alone in Its Climate Denial

    05/19/2025 11:52:26 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 92 replies
    The New York Times ^ | May 19, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET | David Gelles
    The administration is not only allowing more greenhouse gases. It is undermining the nation’s ability to understand and respond to a hotter planet.When the Trump administration declared two weeks ago that it would largely disregard the economic cost of climate change as it sets policies and regulations, it was just the latest step in a multipronged effort to erase global warming from the American agenda.But President Trump is doing more than just turning a blind eye to the fact that the planet is growing hotter. He is weakening the country’s capacity to understand global warming and to prepare for its...
  • In Canada: Alberta Tells Carbon Tax Carney to Suck a Cold Stone

    05/13/2025 8:59:33 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 15 replies
    Hotair ^ | 05/13/2025 | Beege Welborn
    Oh, my GAWD -this is getting so good.I mean, to the point where there's no 'Republic of Alberta...YET,' good.The morning after the country went to the polls, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith laid down the law to newly elected Canadian Prime Minister and WEF/Davos climate cult toadie Mark Carney that she - meaning Alberta - wasn't going to stand for any NetZero nonsense out of Ottawa. They'd quite had their fill, thank you.Danielle is one of the few people left in Canadian politics that has a brain, and a big set of balls.— profit xp (@profit_xp) May 1, 2025At the same...
  • Spain's big blackout came less than week after it went full green on electricity

    04/28/2025 8:22:45 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 36 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 04/28/2025 | Monica Showalter
    Spain and Portugal achieved net zero on Monday, but not the way anyone would want to achieve net zero: By going back to the cavepeople times with no electricity. According to the New York Times:A major power outage hit Spain and Portugal on Monday afternoon, abruptly shutting down daily activities, halting trains and subways, cutting off traffic lights, closing stores and canceling or delaying some flights.Hours after the power shut off around 12:30 p.m. Central European time, stranding tens of millions of people across the Iberian Peninsula, officials remained at a loss as to the cause, though several denied any...