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A single glacier sitting at the bottom of the world may be all that is holding back catastrophic amounts of sea level rise. As it melts away faster than ever, scientists are racing to get a better understanding of when it might fail. Unfortunately, they’ve recently found more bad news. This Antarctic bulwark known as Thwaites, or the “Doomsday Glacier,” is gargantuan – roughly the size of Florida – and holds enough ice to push the planet’s coastlines up two feet. But the edge of Thwaites also acts as a cork, holding up the rim of the West Antarctic ice...

🚨 WOW! The CEO of AUDI just came on stage with President Trump to confirm a multi-BILLION dollar auto manufacturing investment in Georgia "We are planning to bring are biggest and most premium SUVs, and produce them here in MACON, GEORGIA." CROWD: "TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!" This is monumental! 🇺🇸 That thing the Democrats and "experts" said was impossible, HAPPENED AGAIN Trump says construction begins next month. TARIFFS WORK

Western governments have put themselves in mortal danger. They are actively doing things that are destroying their countries: (1) replacing their native citizens with unassimilable foreigners; (2) centralizing government power in unelected and unaccountable bureaucracies; (3) censoring and criminalizing public dissent; (4) offshoring industrial and manufacturing jobs; (5) exacerbating energy costs and general inflation by demonizing hydrocarbons and pushing “global warming” delusions; (6) increasing taxes, government spending, and public welfare in unsustainable ways; (7) demolishing their nations’ historical identities, traditions, beliefs, and common cultures; (8) providing foreigners with “free” homes, food, and educations, while accusing native citizens of being “racists,”...

The UK government has approved extraction from the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea It says Jackdaw "will start to supply gas to British homes and businesses from as early as the end of this month, helping heat millions of homes and protecting hundreds of jobs" Chancellor John Healey says a new "Energy Wealth Fund", using tax revenue from oil and gas extraction, will invest in "green transition" Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh tells the BBC the gas from Jackdaw "won't lower energy bills this winter" - our business editor says the new field will contribute less than 3% of...

Seven years ago in an article entitled “Tectonic Shifts Adds Champagne to Million Dollar Math Prize, I declared in the Times of Israel (7-15-2019) that I’d gift a $1,000 bottle of champagne—aside from the million dollar prize offered by the Clay Mathematics Institute—to the genius who finally cracked one of the seven great Millennium Prize math problems: solving the Navier-Stokes equations. snip he Navier-Stokes equations are as requisite for climate science as the Pythagorean theorem is for triangles. Yet climatologists have limped along without them for the last two centuries, and an honest appraisal of what the discipline has produced...

The United States is making an unprecedented attempt to revive three shuttered nuclear plants to meet rising energy demand, including from large-scale data centers. No commercial nuclear reactor is known to have resumed generating electricity after beginning the decommissioning process that takes one out of service, though some reactors have restarted after long outages. The Department of Energy is lending as much as $4.4 billion to restart the Palisades Power Plant in Michigan, the Crane Clean Energy Center on Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island and the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa to restore a combined 2.25 gigawatts of electricity, which...

This video features Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Wasilla, Alaska (Oct 13, 2026), where he announces and signs unconditional pardons for three individuals, including diesel mechanics Zachary Czubak and Patrick Fleming (0:40 - 0:56). Key Highlights: Pardoning Process: Trump calls the mechanics to the stage to receive their pardons, asserting that they were "wrongly charged" for fixing engines and allegedly violating the Clean Air Act (1:13 - 1:18, 2:18 - 2:20). Criticism of Regulations: Throughout the event, Trump criticizes environmental regulations, characterizing them as "environmental crap" and arguing that the charges were an unjust response to mechanics modifying...

The agency is also axing Biden-era rules that would have forced coal-fired plants to shutter and gas-fired plants to complete costly environmental upgrades.. The Trump Environmental Protection Agency is planning to propose the permanent repeal of federal regulations of power plants’ greenhouse gas emissions, asserting that such rules have "virtually no benefit," the Washington Free Beacon has learned. In tandem with that proposal, the agency is finalizing plans to gut other Biden-era climate rules that forced existing coal-fired plants to close down and stymied future gas plant development. Together, the moves represent a historic action that the EPA says is...

The devastating flash flood that has ripped through the border communities of Nepal and Tibet has heightened fears that the climate crisis is destabilising the geology of mountain and polar regions, threatening millions of people. Satellite imagery suggests a glacier collapse high in the Himalayas was the primary cause of the deadly torrent of mud, water and ice that tore along the Bhotekoshi River on Wednesday. It swept away buildings and roads and left at least 360 dead and 1,400 missing. A magnitude 4.4 earthquake was initially blamed for the collapse. However, it is now thought to have been caused...

Just over four years ago, Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, visited a small town in the south-western region of Extremadura that had been affected by one of the wildfires devouring tens of thousands of hectares of land across the country. That summer’s blazes had left two people dead in the northern region of Castilla y León and another man there fatally burned after the excavator he was using to try to dig a firebreak to protect his town was swallowed up by the flames. A street-sweeper in Madrid had collapsed and died from heatstroke while on shift in soaring temperatures...

Over the last 100 years, the world's population has ballooned from less than two billion to 8.3 billion people. However, researchers say our planet cannot sustain this explosive growth for much longer. Now, in a proposal that will remind movie fans of Thanos' plot in Avengers: Infinity War, scientists argue that the population needs to be 'eased' down to four billion by 2200. In their paper, published in the journal Sustainable Development, the researchers write: 'Easing to a smaller and sustainable population would not deprive additional billions of life but instead ensure that when they do arrive conditions will be...

Leading climate scientists who created Greater Manchester’s carbon neutral by 2038 commitment are urging Andy Burnham to unequivocally reject new drilling in the North Sea. In a letter to the prime minister they said he, as mayor of Greater Manchester, had unveiled one of the UK’s most ambitious local climate programmes that tackled housing, green growth and public transport. Reports over the weekend continued to suggest Burnham was set to give the green light to controversial new drilling in the North Sea by approving the Jackdaw and Rosebank oilfields, which were given approval under the Conservatives but put on hold...

In my own professional life, I was not a scientist, and therefore I never much paid attention to the kinds of rewards and honors that practicing scientists pass out to each other. But at some point I became aware that there was something called the National Academy of Sciences, and that among scientists it was considered a big deal to get selected to become a member. This membership is one of those things that you cannot apply for; rather, one day you get “tapped” by some committee of super-elite gurus who invite you to come learn the secret handshake. Here’s...

Thousands of tourists have been forced to flee a top French holiday hotspot, with many evacuated by boat to escape a raging wildfire. The area of Lege-Cap Ferret in southwestern France - an upmarket tourist destination known as the French Hamptons - is in the middle of a total evacuation with thousands of hectares of forest burning and villas going up in smoke. French President Emmanuel Macron has already requested help from the European Union as the country's growing battle against wildfires intensifies. Images showed scores of residents boarding boats this morning as they evacuated the area while a French...

Much of the U.S. and Europe have been facing record high temperatures and relentless heat domes this summer, but the Earth’s most southern continent just recorded a new low temperature. On July 18, Concordia Station in Antarctica hit minus 119 degrees. This is the lowest temperature recorded on Earth since 2012, per The Weather Channel. It is also within a half degree of Concordia’s all-time low temperature. While we are facing a hot, sweaty summer — Salt Lake City experienced its hottest day on record on July 12 when temperatures reached 109 degrees — Antarctica is in the dead of...

Never underestimate a Soros-funded eco-extremist group’s capacity to rub it in when its plan to reshape the global government regulatory framework to its financier’s vision starts taking shape. E3G (also known as Third Generation Environmentalism) boasted in a July 21 blog that its fixation on “climate security” was possibly “entering a new era.” E3G Associate Director Kaysie Brown and Senior Policy Advisor Travis Brubaker chirped that “The first generation of climate security work, which E3G helped build, focused on demonstrating that climate change creates security and resilience risk. Across much of the political landscape, that argument has largely been won.”...

Democrats can't win back the white working class with staged populism while embracing the policies and elites that drove those voters away. The last Democratic candidate to appeal to the white working-class voter was Bill Clinton. He needed every one of those voters in his 1992 and 1996 races. Yet he still failed to win 50 percent of the popular vote because of Ross Perot’s third-party candidacy. Since then, the Democratic brand has lost the white working-class vote in nearly every presidential election. Yet this demographic still makes up 40 percent of the electorate and registers and votes at much...

Britain's King Charles III met religious leaders and community representatives during a visit to the main mosque in Cambridge on Monday. Hours after appointing Andy Burnham as UK Prime Minister, the monarch celebrated the award-winning religious building. Cambridge Central Mosque is built on sustainable, environmental leadership and serves as a place of worship and community engagement. King Charles unveiled a plaque marking its status as Europe’s first eco-mosque. It has won several awards, including the Riba National Award, with Marks Barfield architect Matthew Wingrove also being recognised by Riba East and the mosque trust being named as client of

When one tries to talk to the fools who block traffic over climate events not supporting any real climate change, he will get blank and angry stares back. They have learned in college that the world is heating up because humans are evil and drive big trucks that make CO2 and destroy the world. CO2 is not destroying the world, and nature makes much more of it than humans do. But like the UCSF doctor, they have completely decoupled themselves from the reality that helps us determine how to live. You can’t argue with them, because it’s like two people...

Firefighting efforts can help protect communities but can't tackle Canada's vast fire landscapeIt's another smoky summer in southern Ontario, and people breathing poor air in and around Toronto are once again asking what governments can do about wildfire smoke. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has defended the province's wildfire budget and has asked Ottawa for extra help. Some Republican lawmakers in the U.S. have also demanded Canada do more to stop smoke from drifting across the border. But experts say the politics can obscure a harder reality: fire is a natural part of Canada's forests, and a warming climate is making...