🤡 Ok lets talk about foreign attempts to influence the Brexit vote (apart from Obama telling us we'd be at the "back of the queue" for a trade deal).... It's quite the list don't you think? ▪️ George Soros – Billionaire financier. Predicted sterling could fall by 15–20% or more, making British households poorer. ▪️ Bill Gates – Warned Britain would become significantly less attractive for business, investment and scientific research. ▪️WEF – published warnings that Brexit could cause profound recession, financial instability and falling investment. ▪️ François Hollande – French President. Warned of consequences for British trade & financial services. ▪️Hillary Clinton – US. Publicly backed Remain supporting Obama's position. ▪️ Angela Merkel – German Chancellor. Publicly backed remain. ▪️ Jean-Claude Juncker – European Commission President. Warned Britain not to leave. ▪️Justin Trudeau – Canadian Prime Minister. Warned that Britain would not get easy or automatic trade agreements after Brexit. ▪️ Donald Tusk – European Council President. Warned Brexit could have serious political and economic consequences. ▪️ Enda Kenny – Irish Prime Minister. Warned Brexit could threaten stability in Northern Ireland. ▪️ Shinzo Abe – Japanese Prime Minister. Warned Brexit could threaten Japanese investment and more than 100,000 British jobs. ▪️ Michael Bloomberg – American billionaire, former New York mayor. Supported Remain and warned of economic and employment consequences. ▪️ Li Ka-shing – Hong Kong billionaire. Warned Brexit would damage Britain. ▪️ Wang Jianlin – Chinese billionaire. Warned Brexit could affect Chinese investment in Britain. ▪️ Jamie Dimon – JPMorgan Chase CEO. Warned that thousands of British financial-services jobs could be at risk. ▪️ International Monetary Fund (IMF) – Christine Lagarde warned the economic consequences could range from "pretty bad to very, very bad". ▪️ Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) – Predicted Brexit would leave British households thousands of pounds worse off annually. ▪️ G7 – Formally declared Brexit a serious risk to global economic growth. ▪️ G20 – Identified Britain's possible departure from the EU as a potential shock to the global economy. ▪️ European Commission – Warned Britain would lose existing privileges and face new trade barriers. ▪️ Bono and U2 – Irish musicians. Supported Britain remaining in the EU. ▪️ Liam Neeson – Irish actor. Encouraged eligible Irish voters in Britain to vote Remain. ▪️ Patti Smith – American singer. Supported a public appeal asking Britain to stay. ▪️ Jean-Michel Jarre – French musician. Supported an appeal opposing Brexit. ▪️ Lilian Thuram – French former footballer. Supported an appeal asking Britain to remain. The scale of attempted foreign interference in Brexit was extreme... And in the face of ALL of the opposition, in the face of all the threats to force us to comply... the majority voted Leave anyway 💣

Arctic sea ice has surged into October, with 2026 now at the highest extent for the date in the past 20 years. Full breakdown (and much more) in today's article: electroverse.substack.com/p/…

Er hello? Does the UN think we are stupid? The UN says too many forests are being destroyed at the same time as they demand a faster Net Zero transition! Which er … has ▪️ fuelled a boom in balsa wood from the Amazon for wind turbines ▪️And then there’s the 13km road cut through protected rainforest near the host city of COP30. ▪️Oh and then there were the 17.3 MILLION trees cut down in Scotland for wind turbines ▪️And then there’s the nickel for EV batteries from Indonesia and the loss of 76,000 hectares of forest ▪️But the best example of bollocks is of course DRAX! Which BURNS about 7 MILLION tonnes of wood a year! I could list hundreds more examples but you get the point. Brilliant! destroying forests while demanding everyone stops destroying forests isn’t quite the masterplan they think it is.

Sorry but this idea that Republicans "did nothing" is just stupid. Feel free to say its not enough, but nothing is false. Victories under Trump & Republicans: IMMIGRATION & BORDER - Sealed the Southern Border - Carried out the most interior removals annually, ever - Expanded 287(g) by 1823% - Thousands of third nation deportations - Built around 200 miles of wall, 750 miles under construction. - Mega Master Court Hearings for illegals - Shut down the San Francisco Immigration Court - Ended TPS for 12 nations - Slowed renewals and deported some DACA individuals - Issued Guidance to make sure Public Charge can determine a foreigner's inadmissibility - Ending the 60-day layoff grace period for work visas - Revoked over 200k visas - Revoked at least 2,300 visas related to birth tourism concerns in the past 40 days. - Two different H-1B fees - Reweighted H-1Bs - DOJ first use of Alien Terrorist Removal Court - Suspended PERM filings of two companies that abused H-1Bs - Cut fentanyl trafficking at the Southern Border by 56% - Ended "catch-and-release" - Reinstated "Remain in Mexico" - Paused visa processing for 75 nations - Cut the number of new foreign students in the US by 17% - Enforced English-language proficiency requirements for commercial truck driving. - Slashed Refugee admission by 97% and the remaining % went to South Africans - 10x'd Denaturalizations - Signed the Laken Riley Act into law - Terminated the CHNV parole program for over 500k individuals - Revoked parole for those admitted through the CBP One - Created a self deportation machine - Rescinded the "sensitive locations" enforcement policy - Expanded immigration detention capacity - Reactivated immigration fines - Increased scrutiny of employment authorization - 10x'd I-9 audits - Reduced Naturalizations by 75% (monthly). - The White House reported negative net migration in 2025, which it described as the first year of net-negative migration in at least 50 years - Immigration-court asylum grant rates fell to 5.5% in June 2026 according to TRAC; the White House has cited an approximately 7% grant rate more broadly - Signed the Secure America Act, providing about $69.55 billion through FY2029 for CBP, ICE, HSI, border technology, detention, removal operations and related DHS immigration enforcement SOCIAL POLICY & DEI - Closed down over 40 "gender-affirming" centers for minors. - Forced several of the above to open detransitioning clinics. - Abolished federal DEI/DEIA programs and offices - Rescinded Biden's federal racial-equity executive orders - Removed DEI considerations from federal hiring and promotions - Eliminated or reorganized DEI-based federal Special Emphasis Programs - Ended discriminatory restrictions in federal employee affinity groups - Revoked EO 11246's federal-contractor affirmative-action framework - Ended race/sex preferences covered by the administration's federal contracting directives - Required federal contractors to comply with antidiscrimination requirements under the administration's new framework - Directed DOJ/EEOC enforcement against unlawful private-sector DEI discrimination - Initiated civil-rights investigations of university admissions practices - Removed disparate-impact provisions from Education's Title VI regulations - Abolished military DEI offices and programs - Made military personnel decisions merit-focused under the new DoD policy - Removed race/sex presumptions from DOT's DBE contracting programs - Terminated federal environmental-justice initiatives covered by the DEI orders - Terminated DOJ's Lowndes County environmental-justice settlement - Removed/archived hundreds of Education Department DEI materials - Directed changes to DEI-related programming at the Smithsonian - Expanded federal-contractor anti-DEI policy again through EO 14398 in 2026 - Whites above 50% of births reversing the trend. CRIME, DRUGS & PUBLIC SAFETY - Violent crime fell 9.3% nationwide in 2025 - Murders fell 18.1% nationwide in 2025 - Robbery fell 18.5% nationwide in 2025 - Rape fell 7.6% nationwide in 2025 - Aggravated assault fell 7.2% nationwide in 2025 - Property crime fell 12.4% nationwide in 2025 - Violent crime fell another 10.6% in the first half of 2026 - Murders fell another 23% in the first half of 2026 - Nearly 54,000 FBI violent-crime arrests - Captured nine FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitives - U.S. Marshals arrested 62,000+ fugitives in FY2025 - Launched Operation Take Back America - Launched Operation Spring Cleaning, resulting in 1,100+ arrests and seizures of nearly 1,000 illegal firearms and 2,700+ pounds of narcotics - Created the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force, declared a D.C. crime emergency and temporarily placed D.C. police under federal direction - Took federal action against D.C.'s cashless-bail policies - Directed prosecutors to seek the death penalty in eligible D.C. cases - Recorded 17,000+ arrests through the D.C. crime initiative - Created the Memphis Safe Task Force, which recorded 5,100+ arrests - Memphis violent crime fell 19% in 2025 - Memphis murders fell 43%+ year-to-date in 2026 - Expanded federal enforcement against MS-13 - Expanded federal enforcement against Tren de Aragua - Designated major cartels and certain transnational gangs as terrorist organizations - Expanded federal prosecution of cartel leaders and traffickers - ATF seized 36,000+ illegal crime guns and 2.3 million+ rounds of ammunition from prohibited persons, gangs and criminal organizations - Intercepted 4,300+ firearms being trafficked toward Mexican cartels - Expanded enforcement against machine-gun conversion devices - Signed the HALT Fentanyl Act - DEA seized 45 million+ fentanyl pills, nearly 200,000 kilograms of cocaine and 1,100+ kilograms of heroin in FY2025 - Overall drug-overdose deaths fell 14% in 2025 - Expanded prosecutions of cartel-linked fentanyl networks - Created the Fentanyl Free America initiative - FBI arrested 5,000+ child predators and human traffickers - FBI located or identified 11,000+ child victims - Signed the TAKE IT DOWN Act - Restored federal death-penalty enforcement, rescinded the Biden-era execution moratorium, restored the pentobarbital protocol and directed DOJ to seek capital punishment in appropriate eligible cases - Increased federal support for state and local law enforcement - On-duty law-enforcement deaths fell 25% in 2025 MAHA & HEALTH - Established the Make America Healthy Again Commission - Released new 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines centered on whole, nutrient-dense foods - Began a federal initiative to phase out six widely used petroleum-based synthetic food dyes: Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1, Blue 2 and Green 3 - Secured synthetic-dye removal commitments from roughly 40% of the U.S. food industry, including 27 major food companies - Approved multiple new naturally derived food-color alternatives - Changed FDA policy to make "no artificial colors" labeling easier for foods using naturally derived colors - Began developing the first federal definition of "ultra-processed food" - Approved SNAP food-restriction waivers for more than 20 states, including Florida restrictions on soda, energy drinks, candy and prepared desserts - Signed the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act - Announced $61.9 million to strengthen Head Start nutrition and expand access to fresh and healthy food for more than 100,000 families - Restored the Presidential Fitness Test - Revamped the President's Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition - Launched a nationwide childhood-physical-activity effort through Get Kids Active - Made childhood chronic disease a formal government-wide priority and redirected $1.8 billion annually toward combating it - Launched a $50 million autism data-science initiative - Launched the first national Autism Missing and Endangered Person Alert initiative - Doubled funding for the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative - Directed federal health agencies to increase transparency and open-source access to federally funded health research - Revised the federal childhood vaccine schedule/recommendations under the administration's new framework - Launched Operation Stork Speed to improve the safety, nutritional quality and availability of infant formula - Took executive action to expand access to IVF - Reclassified marijuana to Schedule III to facilitate medical research and alter its federal regulatory treatment - Launched the Great Healthcare Plan framework - Launched TrumpRx to provide access to discounted prescription drugs - Invested more than $1 billion in farm modernization and long-term food-supply resilience - Issued an executive order advancing regenerative agriculture - Secured Most-Favored-Nation drug-pricing agreements with 26 pharmaceutical manufacturers covering 89% of the branded-drug market by September 2026 - Secured a prior-authorization reform pledge from major health insurers covering nearly 8 in 10 Americans; by April 2026 leading plans reported eliminating about 11% of prior authorizations, or roughly 6.5 million requests ECONOMY & KITCHEN TABLE - The ISM Manufacturing PMI registered 54.6 in August 2026, marking eight straight months of manufacturing expansion after a 10-month contraction - Manufacturing employment rose by 58,000 from its December 2025 low through August 2026; the White House also reported nearly 100,000 additional factory-construction jobs during the second term - Major U.S. stock indexes reached multiple record highs during the second term; the Nasdaq reached another intraday record on September 22, 2026 - Treasury collected $292.5 billion in gross customs duties in FY2026 through August and issued $125.2 billion in refunds, leaving $167.3 billion in net customs revenue - SNAP participation fell by roughly 5 million people, or about 12%, between July 2025 and May 2026 as the OBBBA’s work-requirement and noncitizen-eligibility changes began rolling out; analysts caution that some of the decline preceded full implementation - Treasury and the IRS proposed rules applying PRWORA eligibility restrictions to the refundable portions of the Child Tax Credit, EITC, American Opportunity Tax Credit and adoption tax credit for taxpayers who are not U.S. citizens, nationals or qualified aliens OBBBA: TAXES, BENEFITS, AGRICULTURE, DEFENSE & INFRASTRUCTURE - Signed the OBBBA - Made the lower individual income-tax rates from the 2017 TCJA permanent - Permanently increased the standard deduction and increased it further under the OBBBA - Permanently increased the Child Tax Credit - Created a deduction of up to $25,000 for qualified tip income - Created a deduction of up to $12,500 in qualified overtime compensation, or $25,000 for joint filers - Created a $6,000 additional deduction for qualifying seniors ($12,000 for an eligible married couple), marketed by the White House as “No Tax on Social Security”; it is an income-tax deduction and does not literally repeal taxation of Social Security benefits - Created a deduction of up to $10,000 for interest on qualifying loans for new American-assembled vehicles - Raised the SALT deduction cap to $40,000 for 2025, subject to the law's income phaseout and scheduled changes - Made 100% bonus depreciation permanent - Made the Section 199A pass-through deduction permanent - Permanently expanded the estate and gift tax exemption - Restored immediate deductions for qualifying domestic R&D expenditures - Created Trump Accounts for children, including a $1,000 federal contribution for eligible children born from 2025 through 2028 - Permanently expanded the employer tax credit for paid family and medical leave - Expanded employer-provided childcare tax incentives - Expanded Opportunity Zones - Created new incentives for investment in qualifying rural communities - Funded additional border-wall construction, barriers and related border infrastructure - Funded thousands of additional ICE, CBP and Border Patrol personnel - Massively expanded immigration-detention funding - Funded additional removal and deportation operations - Funded additional border-surveillance technology - Funded additional immigration judges and court resources - Provided funding to reimburse states for qualifying border-security activities - Added Medicaid community-engagement requirements for certain able-bodied adults - Increased Medicaid eligibility verification and required more frequent redeterminations for certain expansion enrollees - Changed Medicaid provider-tax rules - Changed state-directed-payment rules - Added cost-sharing requirements for portions of the Medicaid expansion population - Restricted Medicaid and CHIP federal funding for certain reproductive-health providers - Limited Medicare eligibility for certain categories of lawfully present noncitizens - Tightened verification for ACA premium-tax-credit eligibility - Required repayment of excess advance premium tax credits without the previous statutory repayment caps - Permanently allowed first-dollar telehealth coverage for HSA-compatible high-deductible plans - Made bronze and catastrophic health plans HSA-compatible - Allowed qualifying direct-primary-care arrangements to work with HSAs - Created the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program - Expanded SNAP work requirements for certain able-bodied adults and extended the ages covered - Changed federal-state SNAP administrative cost sharing - Required certain states with high SNAP payment-error rates to contribute toward benefit costs - Restricted SNAP eligibility for specified categories of noncitizens - Increased agricultural commodity reference prices - Expanded base acres - Strengthened Price Loss Coverage - Strengthened Agriculture Risk Coverage - Updated agricultural marketing-loan programs - Updated federal sugar policy - Updated federal dairy policy - Expanded agricultural disaster assistance - Increased benefits for beginning farmers and ranchers - Expanded crop-insurance premium support - Created a poultry insurance pilot program - Increased agricultural trade-promotion funding - Expanded conservation funding - Capped federal lending for graduate and professional students - Ended new Grad PLUS lending - Reformed federal student-loan repayment, deferment and forbearance rules - Reformed student-loan rehabilitation - Modified Public Service Loan Forgiveness provisions - Created Workforce Pell Grants for qualifying short-term workforce programs - Changed Pell Grant eligibility rules - Funded and launched development of Golden Dome homeland missile-defense capabilities - Expanded missile and interceptor procurement and production - Expanded domestic munitions production - Expanded military aircraft procurement - Expanded naval shipbuilding - Expanded the U.S. defense industrial base - Expanded nuclear-deterrence modernization - Expanded military infrastructure investment - Expanded Coast Guard procurement and infrastructure - Required additional federal oil and gas leasing - Accelerated the termination of several EV tax subsidies - Accelerated the phaseout of several wind and solar tax subsidies - Expanded nuclear-energy tax incentives - Expanded domestic critical-mineral incentives - Provided $12.5 billion to modernize and replace aging air-traffic-control infrastructure FOREIGN AID, USAID, UN & COST CUTTING - Ordered a government-wide review of U.S. foreign assistance - Paused new obligations and disbursements of foreign development assistance pending review - Cancelled 83% of USAID-managed foreign-aid programs - Terminated more than $76.5 billion in USAID foreign-assistance awards by March 2025 - Dismantled USAID as an independent foreign-assistance operation and transferred/consolidated remaining functions under the State Department - Reduced USAID's global workforce by roughly 95%, eliminating thousands of positions - Terminated all remaining State- and USAID-funded projects in Afghanistan in April 2025 - Shifted U.S. foreign assistance toward an "America First" foreign-policy framework - Increased emphasis on burden-sharing by foreign governments and international organizations - Signed the Rescissions Act of 2025, rescinding $7.9 billion in previously enacted foreign-assistance funding across USAID, development, economic-support, international-organization, migration/refugee, democracy and peacekeeping accounts - Used presidential rescission authority to cancel additional unobligated foreign-aid and international-organization funding through the administration's 2025 pocket-rescission action - Ended U.S. funding for UNRWA - Ended U.S. participation in the UN Human Rights Council and associated U.S. funding, including the attributable share of the UN regular budget, and eliminated the U.S. representative office - Ordered a government-wide review of U.S. funding and participation in international organizations, conventions and treaties - Withdrew the United States from 66 international organizations in 2026, including 31 UN entities and 35 non-UN organizations - Reviewed U.S. membership in UNESCO and moved to end U.S. participation following the review - Proposed eliminating or consolidating the traditional Development Assistance, Economic Support Fund, Democracy Fund and Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia accounts - Proposed an $8.3 billion reduction across major economic, development and democracy-assistance accounts in the FY2026 budget - Proposed a $3.2 billion reduction across international disaster, migration and refugee-assistance accounts - Proposed consolidating international humanitarian assistance into a smaller $2.5 billion account - Proposed shifting foreign assistance away from grants and toward investment through the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation - Reduced the federal civilian workforce as part of government-wide cost cutting; employment across 22 major agencies fell by nearly 256,000, or more than 11%, from December 2024 to January 2026 - Restricted federal hiring across most agencies - Used deferred resignations, attrition and reductions in force to reduce federal payrolls FRAUD ENFORCEMENT - Created the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, chaired by Vice President JD Vance and spanning major federal departments and agencies - According to the White House, identified nearly $230 billion in suspected fraud, stopped $56 billion in fraudulent payments and enforced more than $55 billion through indictments, settlements and civil penalties - Created Fraud gov and a public Fraud Ledger tracking investigations, suspensions, recoveries and enforcement actions - Created minimum anti-fraud standards for federal benefit programs, expanding identity and eligibility verification and pre-payment controls - Expanded federal data-sharing and required agencies to identify high-risk fraud trends before payment and develop measurable anti-fraud plans - Launched a national fraud whistleblower program - Created the DOJ National Fraud Enforcement Division, led by the first Assistant Attorney General specifically responsible for the division, with nationwide taxpayer-fraud coordination responsibilities - Expanded DOJ Health Care Fraud Strike Forces as DOJ reported roughly 8,000 active fraud cases by April 2026 - Uncovered $6.3 billion in suspected fraudulent government contracts and launched an investigation - Referred 562,000 fraudulent or delinquent pandemic-era SBA loans, totaling roughly $22 billion, for aggressive collection - Blocked $60 million in fraudulent student-loan applications in the first month of enhanced screening - Identified more than 10,000 suspected fraud cases involving international-student work programs - Suspended $1.4 billion in home-health and hospice funding amid fraud investigations, including 447 hospices and 23 home-health agencies in Los Angeles tied to an estimated $600+ million in suspected fraud - Halted new Medicare enrollment for hospice providers nationwide during the fraud crackdown - Launched audits of Medicaid Fraud Control Units in all 50 states and expanded Medicaid fraud investigations nationwide - Deferred $1.3 billion in federal Medicaid reimbursements to California amid fraud-related enforcement - Halted nearly $260 million in Medicaid payments to Minnesota and deferred an additional $91 million amid fraud allegations - Charged 15 defendants in a major Minnesota healthcare-fraud investigation, including cases DOJ described as the state's largest autism-fraud prosecution and highest-loss Medicaid fraud case - Charged four Ohio defendants, including two state employees, in an alleged $30 million Medicaid billing scheme and seized 14 luxury vehicles - Imposed a temporary moratorium on new home-health and hospice providers in high-risk areas of Ohio - Served criminal warrants and administrative charges on 20 Minnesota businesses suspected of SNAP fraud - Expanded investigations into fraudulent childcare providers and charged a Minneapolis daycare owner in a federal fraud case - Created the DOJ Trade Fraud Task Force, which surpassed $1 billion in recoveries, penalties, forfeitures and publicly charged losses while expanding civil and criminal enforcement against customs and tariff fraud - Created federal-state anti-fraud partnerships, including the Florida Anti-Fraud Task Force, and expanded data-sharing to identify fraudulent benefit claims ENERGY & DEREGULATION - Declared a National Energy Emergency - Resumed LNG export approvals and ended the Biden-era pause on new approvals - Achieved record U.S. LNG exports in 2025, becoming the first country to export more than 100 million metric tons in a year - Achieved record U.S. oil and natural-gas production in 2025 - Achieved record crude-oil and petroleum-product exports in 2026 - Opened hundreds of millions of acres of federal land to oil, gas and coal development - Expanded offshore oil and gas leasing - Expanded energy development in Alaska, including reopening ANWR development opportunities - Expanded coal leasing on federal lands and ended the federal coal-leasing moratorium - Accelerated federal permitting for energy projects - Ordered agencies to identify and eliminate regulations burdening domestic energy production - Revoked the Obama-era EPA Endangerment Finding - Reversed Biden-era restrictions on fossil-fuel development, natural-gas infrastructure and federal-land energy development - Ended the federal push toward eliminating gas appliances - Halted the Biden-era fossil-fuel restrictions on federal buildings - Issued four executive orders expanding American nuclear power, including faster NRC licensing and a goal of quadrupling U.S. nuclear capacity by 2050 - Accelerated deployment of advanced nuclear reactors and expanded federal support for advanced-reactor demonstrations - Expanded domestic nuclear-fuel supply chains, including uranium enrichment and fuel production - Launched a government-wide 10-for-1 deregulatory policy - Finalized 646 deregulatory actions versus five regulatory actions in FY2025, a 129-to-1 deregulatory-to-regulatory ratio - Ordered automatic review and rescission of outdated energy regulations VETERANS - Reduced the VA disability-benefits backlog by more than 70%, bringing it below 70,000 claims for the first time since 2020 - Enrolled more than 250,000 new veterans in VA healthcare in 2026 - Opened more than 40 new VA healthcare clinics since January 2025 - Provided more than 3.2 million VA appointments outside normal operating hours through expanded early-morning, evening and weekend scheduling - Completed more than 82 million direct-care VA appointments in FY2025, a 4.1% increase - Completed nearly 60 million VA community-care appointments in FY2025, a 12% increase - Permanently housed 51,936 homeless veterans in FY2025, the most in seven years - Invested another $1.2 billion in VA infrastructure improvements in Q3 FY2026, including $915 million for facility repairs/upgrades and $229 million for infrastructure supporting electronic health records FAITH & RELIGIOUS LIBERTY - Established the White House Faith Office within the Executive Office of the President and Domestic Policy Council - Established the DOJ-led Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias - Established the Religious Liberty Commission to advise the White House on religious-liberty protections and policy - Issued updated Education Department guidance on constitutionally protected prayer and religious expression in public elementary and secondary schools - Restored HHS’s Conscience and Religious Freedom Division within the Office for Civil Rights

🇨🇦 Deaths from assisted dying: 16499 🇺🇸 Deaths from firearm homicaide: 15364 More people died through Canada’s assisted dying program than were killed with guns in the United States. Make it make sense...

Since the 1980s, the Sahara has shrunk by roughly 8%. Satellite data show widespread greening, a pattern that is playing out across the planet. Around 50% of Earth's vegetated land has become significantly greener, an area roughly three times the size of the United States. The dominant driver is not rainfall or land use change, it is rising atmospheric CO2. Higher CO2 lets plants photosynthesize more efficiently, they lose less water, they tolerate heat and dryness better. The effect is strongest along desert margins - across the Sahel, the Middle East, Australia's interior and the southern edge of the Sahara. Rising CO2 is making the deserts, and the planet as a whole, greener.

Was there ever really any doubt that we would get Greenland? Trump is INCREDIBLE. What a time to be alive.

If you were born before 1980, official climate deadlines have already killed you 17 times. I went back to 1969, pulled the original quotes, and put a date on every clock. Thread. Receipts only. No vibes.

"Ursula von der Leyen" descends directly from European nobility, and she married into European nobility. Her great-great grandfather was the German noble and industrialist Baron Johann Ludwig von Knoop. Her husband, Heiko von der Leyen, descends from the Prussian baronial line of "von der Leyen zu Bloemersheim." (Source: Grok) The EU is just another way for the ancient nobility of Europe to continue to exercise their illegitimate, unelected, hereditary power and avoid the voice and vote of the masses. European immigrants came to America to escape the despicable vise grip of bloodlines controlling destiny. The EU should come nowhere near America.

Die EU-Kommission bestätigt offiziell, dass Windkraftanlagen Kunststoffpartikel freisetzen und dieser Abrieb unkontrolliert in die Umwelt gelangt. Über die Menge wird gestritten, über das Phänomen nicht mehr. Damit bekommt ausgerechnet eine als besonders sauber beworbene Stromquelle ein eigenes Emissionsproblem. #Mikroplastik #Windkraft #Rotorblätter #Umwelt blackout-news.de/politik/mik…

A new study analyzed daily temperatures from 992 long-running weather stations across 29 countries covering the years 1899 to 2024. Then it compared those temperatures to cumulative human CO2 emissions. They don't match. From 1899 to 1940, the planet warmed at a rate of 0.022 C per year, even though emissions were low. Then from 1941 to 1982, temperatures cooled, despite CO2 emissions more than tripling. From 1983 to 2024, warming returned, but slower than before, at a rate of 0.017 C per year, even as emissions rose 8.6 times higher than during the earlier warming phase. As the author conclude: "These findings challenge the conventional assumption that human-induced CO2 is the primary driver of global warming." This is because the strongest warming occurred before major modern emissions kicked in, and later periods with far more CO2 show weaker warming, or even cooling. Earth's climate is still governed by natural variability.

Bernie's Math Homework: A $72 Trillion Question Nobody In The Senate Wants To Show Their Work On Bernie. Bernie, Bernie, Bernie. I read your thread twice, once for content and once to make sure I wasn't hallucinating the part where a man who has held federal office since the Ford administration is lecturing ME about what is "too expensive." You want to talk about UnitedHealth's profits like they materialized in a vacuum, completely unconnected to the fifteen-year-old law that guaranteed insurers a captive, subsidized, taxpayer-fed customer base whether they perform well or not. That law is called the Affordable Care Act, Senator, and last I checked, you voted for it. You didn't just witness the fattening of the insurance cow. You helped build the pasture, installed the fence, and handed out the feed, and now you're standing in front of the barn acting shocked that the cow got fat. Somewhere a tree is tirelessly producing oxygen for you tonight, and I think it's owed an apology, because you are not using yours particularly well this evening. Let's start with the sleight of hand in paragraph one. You call the current system "cruel, broken, and dysfunctional," which, fine, I'll grant you the applause line — even a stopped clock, Senator. But here's what a lot of folks quietly whisper about the ACA and never say on the record: the entire architecture was never designed to be a permanent fix. It was designed to be expensive enough, and dependent enough on subsidy, that it would eventually collapse into the very single-payer system you're pitching tonight. That was Obama's stated goal in private strategy sessions long before it was yours in public speeches. Quinn's Law Number One: liberalism always produces the exact opposite of its stated intent. You wrote a bill called the AFFORDABLE Care Act. Fifteen years later you're standing on the Senate floor admitting it isn't affordable. That's not an insult from me, Senator. That's a confession from you, and confessions from a snollygoster of your tenure are rarer than a two-dollar bill, so I'm framing this one. Now to the number that should have every accountant in America reaching for the smelling salts: $72 trillion over ten years if "we do nothing." I'd love to see the model behind that figure, because your own side's favorite Yale/PERI study — the one claiming $1 trillion in annual savings and 114,000 lives saved — has been picked apart by health economists for baking in administrative-savings assumptions that have never once materialized in the real world. Meanwhile, independent nonpartisan estimates of full Medicare for All implementation run $25 to $44 trillion over a decade on the LOW end, and up to 40 to 60 percent of the entire federal budget on the high end. That's bigger than Social Security. Bigger than defense. You want the reins to more than half the federal checkbook from the same government that, and I want you to sit with this one, ALREADY runs three single-payer systems into a documented state of disrepair: Medicare, the Veterans Health Administration, and the Indian Health Service. All three are noted for fraud, waste, and corruption. Why exactly would we hand over the rest of American medicine to an operation that can't run the parts it already owns? Couldn't pour water out of a boot with the instructions printed on the heel, and you want the keys to the whole house. If stupidity were a renewable resource, this proposal alone would solve the energy crisis. Let's talk about what "guaranteed healthcare" actually looks like once a government sets a fixed global budget, because it never means what the campaign poster implies. The United Kingdom's NHS currently has roughly 7.4 million people sitting on a waiting list. Canada's average wait for specialist treatment sits at 27.4 weeks — over half a year to see a specialist for a system you'd hold up as the model. When a country caps the total pot of money for healthcare, somebody, somewhere, in an office you never voted for, has to decide who gets the expensive treatment and who gets a wait-list number and a pamphlet. Ask your Canadian and British counterparts how many of THEIR citizens fly to Cleveland or Houston for care they can't get fast enough at home. Innovation doesn't happen in systems that ration by waiting line instead of by price; it happens in the system that's currently subsidizing the entire planet's drug research because it's the only market left where a return on investment is still possible. You want to nationalize the goose right after everyone else stopped feeding it, and you have the nerve to call that compassion. And since we're doing incentive structures tonight, Senator, here's a question I'd genuinely like a straight answer on. When the budget for a nationalized system is fixed, and a hip replacement for a 78-year-old costs the same line item as a hip replacement for a 38-year-old worker still paying into the system, which patient does the bureaucrat's spreadsheet favor? I'm not the one who invented cost-per-quality-adjusted-life-year calculations — the health economists who built NICE in Britain did that, and it already factors age and remaining productive years into treatment approval. You can dress it up in whatever language you'd like. Call it stewardship. Call it efficiency. I call it exactly what it is: a system where somebody's grandmother gets a pat on the head and a prescription for ibuprofen while the math gets done in a back office. If brains were dynamite, half of Congress couldn't blow their nose, and yet here we are pretending fixed budgets and unlimited demand can coexist without somebody, somewhere, drawing a line nobody voted on. Here's the part that should really sting, and I say this as someone who watched it happen in real time. Your own party just finished a forty-three day shutdown demanding permanent extension of the same ACA subsidies you're using tonight as evidence the system is broken. Those subsidies were written as TEMPORARY line items in Biden's Autopen's American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Zero Republican votes on either bill. Your party wrote the expiration date. When it arrived exactly as scheduled, your caucus shut down the federal government and then had the nerve to act shocked that a temporary Christmas bonus, in fact, expired on schedule. I keep hearing that ending the subsidy is somehow cruel, and yet nobody on your side has explained why a program can survive fifteen years and still require emergency pandemic cash to stay "affordable." And here's the part that really ought to embarrass you personally, Senator: back in 2013 YOU said Republicans "cannot continue to hold the American people hostage because of their hatred for the Affordable Care Act." In 2019 you said "end this horrific shutdown — stop taking hostages." In 2025, when your own party did the exact same thing over the exact same law, you went quiet in public and voted with the hostage-takers you spent a decade condemning. Quinn's Law Twenty-Two: the bigger the lie, the more the liberal repeats it. Quinn's Law Twenty-Three: liberals love the law right up until it's inconvenient, then they just don't follow it. You're not a statesman on this one, Senator. You're a weathervane with a Vermont accent. Let's also revisit the insurance-company villain routine, because the hypocrisy here could power a small city. Your party's online base spent an entire news cycle canonizing a 26-year-old accused of murdering a health insurance CEO as some kind of folk hero, motivated, allegedly, by hatred of the insurance industry. Now here you are, defending a law that GUARANTEES that same industry a permanently subsidized customer base by federal statute. You can't cheer the vigilante and defend the victim's business model in the same news year without somebody noticing the whiplash. If you actually cared about breaking the insurance industry's grip, you'd be championing Health Savings Accounts, which put healthcare dollars directly under the individual's control instead of a bureaucracy's. But HSAs give power to the person, not the agency, and that's precisely why your side has never supported them with any real enthusiasm. Blatherskite is a word for a certain kind of talker, Senator, and I think you've earned it fair and square tonight — somebody who produces an impressive quantity of noise that, examined closely, contains no substance that survives contact with arithmetic. Now, about the messenger. Because I would be doing my viewers a disservice if I let the argument stand without a word about the man delivering it. You are eighty-three years old, Senator. You own three houses. Your campaign spent $221,000 on chartered private aircraft in a single quarter last year, and when a reporter asked you about the mild irony of flying a $15,000-an-hour jet while denouncing the wealthy, your actual answer was "no apologies for that... you think I'm gonna be sitting on a waiting line at United?" No, Senator, apparently you are not going to sit in line with the rest of us — the same rest of us you'd like sitting in an NHS-style line for a hip replacement while you catch a connecting flight in first class. You honeymooned in the Soviet Union in 1988 and came back enthusiastic about what you saw there. A Democratic senator recently visited a formerly communist country and asked the locals what they thought of American politicians warming back up to socialism. Their answer, word for word: "that's the worst thing ever... you are morons." Not misguided. Not idealistic. Morons — from people who actually lived in the bread line you're romanticizing from a leased jet. And here's the detail that I think explains everything, Senator, and I say this as gently as a man with a whiteboard can say it: you tried this once already, on a much smaller scale, and you couldn't hack it. You spent time as a young man on a hippie socialist commune, and by every account you did not stick around long enough to collect a pension from it. If a Vermont commune of a few dozen willing adults couldn't hold you, I have genuine, science-teacher-grade doubts about your ability to run a healthcare system for 340 million Americans who never agreed to live there in the first place. You are, in the most literal sense available, the poster child for why socialism doesn't work — because even the guy selling it to us full-time couldn't make it work for himself in a group small enough to fit in a farmhouse. So here's my counteroffer, Senator, and I want it on the record that I am saying this with a completely straight face: maybe I'm for socialism after all. On one condition. We get to deport every parasite in the system who refuses to contribute a life's worth of work to keep it running. No exceptions. No sob stories. Socialism doesn't care about sob stories, Senator — that's YOUR line, not mine, you've just never applied it to yourself. Pack your bags. Send them all to Greenland. I hear it's lovely this time of year, and I understand the president's been looking to expand our footprint up there anyway. Somebody has to be first in line. Since we're apparently finding $72 trillion in the couch cushions for a program that hasn't passed, I do have a much smaller question. Who pays for it, Senator? I keep hearing "tax the rich" from your side, and I'll believe the sincerity of that slogan the day one of you voluntarily pays double what the IRS says you owe with no itemized deductions, standard deduction only, before lecturing the rest of us about fair shares. Until then it's just theater, and not even good theater — Lindsay Lohan handing you the keys to the minibar would be a more responsible use of resources. This country was founded by geniuses and every generation since has managed to elect a fresh batch of people who think a $72 trillion program pays for itself if you just believe hard enough. My family of six runs on a teacher's salary, and I could not get away with your math homework in my own classroom, let alone in front of 340 million people who actually have to pay the bill. I could eat a bowl of alphabet soup, poop out a smarter healthcare plan than the one you posted tonight, and still have time to grade papers before first period. And before anyone accuses me of pulling a conspiracy theory out of thin air, on January 10, 1963, Congressman Albert Herlong stood on the floor of the House and read into the permanent Congressional Record a list of 45 Communist Goals for America, sourced from Cleon Skousen's research. Goal Number 30 calls for discrediting the American founding in favor of the belief that centralized government planning is superior to a free market. Goal Number 32 calls for supporting any movement that hands centralized control over any part of the culture to the state, education, welfare, and social agencies included. I'm not asking anyone to believe in a sixty-year plot. I'm asking you to look at tonight's thread and tell me, honestly, which goal it more closely resembles. You've spent sixty years auditioning for both, Senator, and tonight you finally landed the part. I have three questions for you, and I'd genuinely like an answer, though I won't be holding my breath long enough to turn a different color over it. Did you not read the actual cost projections on your own bill and are just repeating what the base wants to hear regardless of the math? Are you no longer sharp enough at eighty-three to understand what a $72 trillion price tag actually does to a currency? Or do you understand it perfectly well and are simply comfortable deceiving the people who send you back to Washington every six years? Pick one. There is no fourth option, and "all of the above" is not the flex you think it is. But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who insists on reading the CBO score before I sign my name to anything, unlike a man who apparently could not even survive the small-scale pilot program of his own ideology. #MAGA #Veterans #Trump @JoJoFromJerz @atrupar @TheYoungTurks @TPUSA

Climate Science's Favorite Bluff Two generations of climate scientists have been trained to repeat it. None of them can define what it means. There is a phrase that circulates like a password in climate discussions. Someone points out that atmospheric CO₂ has a short turnover time. Within minutes an IPCC defender arrives and types the same empty accusation. "You've confused the short residence time with the long adjustment time." They never say what the adjustment time is. They never cite a measurement. They never write an equation. They just deploy the phrase and consider the matter closed. It is a climate shibboleth. A tribal password. It has the shape of an argument and none of the substance. No Operational Definition Exists The IPCC has published six Assessment Reports. Search them for an operational definition of "adjustment time" that a physicist could take into the lab and measure. You will not find one. There is no experiment that yields the number. There is no observation that constrains it. There is no derivation from first principles that produces it. It appears as an output of the Bern Impulse Response Function, and nowhere else. The Bern IRF is a curve fit to a bunch of models. No measurements or DATA involved at any step. Four exponentials with hand-tuned coefficients. Joos himself, the primary author, wrote in 2013 that the coefficients "should not be interpreted as distinct physical processes." IPCC AR5 Box 6.1 ignored him and used the coefficients exactly that way. The "long adjustment time" is the tail of that fitted curve. It is what an ensemble of falsified models produces, not what nature does. What The Measurements Actually Show ACTUAL residence time τ_res is measured. Koutsoyiannis 2024 (Water 16, 2402) gives τ_res = 3.80 ± 0.12 yr from Mauna Loa and Barrow flux data. This number is derived, not assumed. It is peer-reviewed. ACTUAL relaxation time τ_rel is also measured. Bomb radiocarbon left a spike in atmospheric ¹⁴C back in the 1960s. That spike decayed. It decayed as a single clean exponential across 52 years of Hua 2022 compilation data. Fit statistics: τ_rel = 18.4 years, permanent fraction = ZERO. Zero. Not small. Zero. The Bern IRF requires that 22% of an atmospheric CO₂ pulse remain airborne essentially forever, with an e-folding time of 165 years and longest decay timescale of 394 years! Bomb-¹⁴C proves this cannot be. The spike decayed all the way down. Nothing stuck. Every IPCC Global Warming Potential and Absolute Global Warming Potential number rests on that permanent fraction. Every "hundreds to thousands of years" persistence claim rests on that permanent fraction. The permanent fraction DOES NOT EXIST. The Rhetorical Machine Once you understand there is no measurement behind the "adjustment time," the deployment pattern becomes clear. The phrase is not an answer to a technical question. It is a way to end the conversation without answering the technical question. The speaker asserts confusion in the opponent. The opponent now has to defend against a charge of confusion instead of pressing the original point. The audience, hearing an insider vocabulary word they do not know, assumes the speaker knows something they do not. Nobody asks the speaker to define the term. Nobody asks for the measurement. Nobody asks how a quantity with no operational definition can be used to correct someone else's arithmetic. The IPCC has trained an army of "useful idiots" to repeat the phrase. The army repeats it. The army has never been shown the underlying number because there is no underlying number. The Fit Underneath The Fit The defenders of the long adjustment time have one fallback when pressed. They say the Bern IRF parameters were derived from complex model runs. As if that rescued the number. It does the opposite. It confirms the emptiness. The Bern IRF is a curve fit. What it is fitted to is not atmospheric data. It is fitted to the output of coupled carbon-cycle models. Those models produce a long tail because they were built to produce a long tail. The Revelle buffer is assumed. The deep-ocean equilibration timescale is assumed. The permanent airborne fraction is assumed. The model integrates the assumptions forward. Joos fits four exponentials to the trajectory. The IPCC cites the four exponentials as if they described nature. Nature never appears in the chain. Model to fit to citation. That is the whole architecture. At no step does an observation enter and constrain a parameter. There is a further tell. If the adjustment-time parameters described a physical quantity, they would be stable across successive fits. They are not. The Bern IRF coefficients change from AR2 to AR3 to AR4 to AR5. The permanent fraction moves. The individual e-folding times move. This is what parameter drift looks like when a curve is being refitted to changing model output. It is not what a physical constant looks like. A measured quantity does not shift every seven years because the modeling group updated their code. The Ensemble Move And it is worse than fitting to a single model. The parameters are fitted to an ensemble of models. This makes the epistemic situation worse, not better. An ensemble in physics or statistics is a defined mathematical object. It requires the members to be independent draws from a common distribution, or to satisfy some other explicit sampling criterion, so that averaging across members reduces variance in a way that is calculable. The central limit theorem needs independent identically distributed samples. Bayesian model averaging needs priors and likelihoods. Any ensemble claim needs a stated mathematical structure that justifies treating the average as more informative than any single member. CMIP has no such structure. The CMIP models share code lineages, share parameterizations, share tuning targets, share the same falsified assumptions about tropospheric moist convection, share the same falsified radiative-disequilibrium premise, share the same assumed Revelle buffering, share the same assumed permanent airborne fraction. They are not independent. They have never been shown to be draws from any distribution. There is no likelihood function. There is no prior. The "ensemble mean" is an arithmetic average of correlated non-independent trajectories from models with shared failure modes. That average has no statistical meaning. Averaging thirty models that all get the tropical hot spot wrong does not produce a better estimate of the tropical hot spot. It produces the same wrong answer with a spuriously narrow confidence interval. And no individual member of the ensemble matches observation. Not one. Every CMIP run diverges from measured tropospheric temperature profiles. Every run diverges from ARGO ocean heat content. Every run produces the tropical hot spot that is not there. If any single model matched reality you could point to it. Nobody does. The defense is always the ensemble mean, precisely because no individual member is defensible. Because the ensemble averaging has no mathematical basis, the standard practice of quoting "CMIP ensemble spread" as a measure of uncertainty is also empty. The spread is the disagreement among models that are all wrong. It is not a confidence interval. It does not bound the true value. It bounds the range of failure modes. Layers of the Lie A parameter fit to an illegitimate arithmetic mean of individually falsified simulations, whose spread is not an uncertainty, quoted as if it constrained a physical quantity that has no operational definition, deployed rhetorically to accuse others of confusion. Every layer is empty. The Foreclosure The bomb-radiocarbon relaxation is a direct atmospheric observation with no model assumptions. It is inconsistent with any Bern-like impulse response, at any parameter setting. The operator-equivalence theorem proves this by Cauchy-Schwarz and Vandermonde arguments that hold for every choice of coefficients, not just the current ones. There is no "long adjustment time" hiding somewhere waiting to be discovered. The physical system does not admit one. The tracer went in, and it came out, and it followed a single exponential the whole way. When someone next tells you that you have confused residence time with adjustment time, ask them one question. What is the operational definition of adjustment time, and where is the measurement that yields its value? They will not answer. They cannot answer. There is no answer. And they have been taught to keep saying the sentence anyway. SHAME ON THEM

Where exactly is the “climate crisis”? Not in reported disaster frequency. Not in weather-related losses as a share of global GDP. And certainly not in human lives... disaster deaths have collapsed over the past century. CO₂ increased. The planet warmed. Yet humanity became safer, wealthier, and dramatically more resilient. These charts don’t prove climate never changes. They expose something far more inconvenient: the data do not support the relentless narrative of escalating global catastrophe. No accelerating disasters. No exploding relative costs. No mounting death toll. If your “crisis” disappears whenever the complete historical record is shown, you’re not presenting science. You’re selling fear.

Climate Crisis Fun Facts: The CO2 hypothesis is just that. And it’s a hypothesis based on three assumptions. First, that all natural climate factors are known, properly understood and have been considered. Second, that whatever cannot be attributed to natural factors must be attributed to human-induced CO2. Third, that there is a direct connection between CO2 and temperature. Experience and empirical evidence have shown us that all three of these assumptions are false.

If I could vote in the midterms, I would vote Republican for ONE major policy win: BORDER AND IMMIGRATION. Everything else can wait. This one changed the country. 1️⃣ ORDER CAME BACK Catch-and-release died. Crossings collapsed to ZERO as opposed to THOUSANDS per day. Cities stopped absorbing endless new arrivals they could not house, school, or police. 2️⃣ FENTANYL KILLS FEWER AMERICANS A tighter border squeezes cartel pipelines. Fewer doses on the street. Fewer overdoses. That is not theory. That is kids still alive. 3️⃣ WAGES AND HOUSING STOP GETTING CRUSHED When the labor market is flooded, paychecks flatten and rents explode. Control the flow and working Americans get leverage again. 4️⃣ SCHOOLS, ERS, AND SHELTERS CAN BREATHE Local budgets stop being emergency camps. Teachers, nurses, and cops go back to serving the people already there. 5️⃣ SOVEREIGNTY BECOMES REAL AGAIN A country that cannot say who enters cannot protect jobs, elections, or the next decade. Secure the line now and America stays America later. BOTTOM LINE: One Major Policy. Control the border. The second-order effects are safer streets, stronger wages, lower pressure on cities, fewer dead kids, and a country that still belongs to its citizens. That is why I would vote Republican to give President Trump the leverage even though the Republicans in office currently are USELESS. It's much easier to push and negotiate with your own party rather than trying to convince SOCIALISTS AND COMMUNISTS aka Democrats.

The United Nations worst case global warming scenario collapsed a few months ago after admissions the modellers got it wrong. The world is no longer facing a 5.5°C warming trajectory by 2100 at all. That target has been removed as 'implausible'. Yet this was the chief driving reason for a global transition away from fossil fuels, and replacing them with energy from wind turbines and solar panels. This effort to harness wind and sunlight could become one of the greatest economic disasters in modern history, costing $275 trillion by the time a new fully developed infrastructure is in place by 2050. This would include a second global power grid costing $21 trillion. The UN explanation—'We are on track for a 5°C apocalypse if we don't immediately upend the global economy'—is dead. Removing its extreme scenario creates a distinct institutional challenge for a climate bureaucracy that spent 25 years leveraging fear. We are left with a blighted rural landscape, trillions of dollars spent on a gigantic physical overbuild and the likelihood that this will become a self-fulfilling, replacement loop every 20 to 30 years. The scientific community has acknowledged that the catastrophic, upper-end predictions were built on flawed, outdated economic models, because early modelers failed to understand real-world market trends. First made available in 2011 to drive global climate policy, this extreme scenario—known widely as RCP8.5 (and later SSP5-8.5)—served as the primary engine for the media's terrifying 'business-as-usual' headlines for over a decade. It was built on assumptions that humanity would aggressively abandon clean tech, undergo an unprecedented five-fold increase in coal use, and even resort to converting coal to oil to run vehicles. Those apocalyptic projections simply didn't occur and fossil fuels produce 81% of global primary energy; wind-solar 6.5%. With the retirement of the extreme 5C baseline for the upcoming 7th Assessment Report (AR7), the ceiling for projected global warming has dropped significantly. The newly proposed high-emissions baseline has been downgraded to a maximum of 3.3°C by 2100. The climate narrative has now officially shifted from an existential struggle of 'apocalypse versus survival' to a standard problem of risk management. Developed in the early 2010s, RCP8.5 was intended to reflect its worst-case scenario available at the time, according to an analysis by Carbon Brief. It modeled a future with rapid population growth and massive, unchecked coal expansion where global coal use would increase multifold by 2100. Media outlets, advocacy groups, and financial regulators defaulted to RCP8.5, creating a vision of unchecked coal expansion. Yet while real-world coal production did rise—driven by China and India to roughly 9 billion tons annually—it never approached the absurd 5x multiplier required by the UN’s old models.

The top 10 leading climate and environment predictions, that failed Ice-Free Arctic: In the 2000s, former US Vice President Al Gore predicted the Arctic Ocean would be completely ice-free in the summer of 2013–2014. Vanishing Nations by 2000: In 1989, a UN official claimed entire island nations would be wiped off the map by sea-level rise if global warming wasn't reversed by 2000. 1970s Global Cooling Scare: News outlets and selective scientific papers in the 1970s warned an imminent ice age was coming due to aerosol pollution. Mass Famine (1968): Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb claimed hundreds of millions would starve in the 70s and 80s. Running Out of Metals (1972): The Club of Rome warned the world would run completely out of copper, gold and zinc by 2000. Forest Collapse from Acid Rain: 1980s forecasts predicted acid rain would destroy Central Europe's forests within a decade. Extinction of Coral Reefs by 2020: Activists warned 90% of tropical reefs would disappear by 2020. Immediate Peak Oil (1970s–2000s): Experts routinely declared cheap oil would run out by the 1990s or 2010s. Methane 'Bomb': Early fears warned permafrost thaw would trigger a massive, overnight methane release causing runaway warming. Net Zero & RCP8.5 Overreach: Net Zero policy largely relied on RCP8.5—an extreme worst-case scenario assuming massive coal growth leading to ~4.5°C warming. Scientists have sidelined this pathway as unrealistic.

Oil & Gas are NOT "fossil fuels"! FREEMAN DYSON [Professor Emeritus in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton] on THOMAS GOLD's [Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University] theory that oil & gas come up from deep within the mantle of the earth and have NOTHING to do with biology. Chemists at the Carnegie Institute in Washington later proved his theory chemically correct. This is called the abiogenic theory of oil and gas formation. Freeman Dyson wrote the foreword to Gold's 1999 book "The Deep Hot Biosphere" where he concluded, "Gold's theories are always original, always important, usually controversial — and usually right. It is my belief, based on fifty years of observation of Gold as a friend and colleague, that the deep hot biosphere is all of the above: original, important, controversial — and right." x.com/robinmonotti/status/17…