Severe weather outbreak expected Friday in the Midwest

The Central U.S. is preparing for another severe weather outbreak with the potential for significant tornadoes and damaging wind. Read more here.

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Fossil Fuels Still Dominate Our Security And Defense Needs

President Joe Biden says climate change is the greatest threat faced by our country and the world. It’s a greater threat than nuclear war,  he insists. Ironically, the proposed “solution” of eliminating essential fossil fuels to mitigate climate change actually…

Globally, Net Zero Plans Are In A Complete Shambles

The collectivist Net Zero political project is starting to come apart before our very eyes. Making everyone poor, cold, hungry, and confined to small living territories was always a tall political ask, but decades of green virtue-signaling, backed by a…

Postponing state pension age decision ‘not exactly a sign of strength’, Jacob Rees-Mogg tells Tories – UK politics live

From 2h ago Jacob Rees-Mogg, the former business secretary, has said that the government’s announcement about postponing the decision about accelerating the rise in the state pension age to 68 is “not exactly a sign of strength”. Speaking in the…

£3.5m of Tory donations linked to pollution and climate denial, says report

The Conservative party received £3.5m from individuals and entities linked to climate denial, fossil fuels and high-pollution industries last year, according to new analysis. The climate website DeSmog analysed Electoral Commission records, which show that the party and its MPs…

Nein! Over 82% Of Berlin Voters Refused To Support 2030 Climate Neutrality

The results of the “Berlin Climate Neutrality By 2030” referendum tell us that FFF and Last Generation are fringe movements, remote to even Berlin’s mainstream. The radical climate activists will need a long time to recover from this major setback….

‘Half-baked, half-hearted’: critics ridicule UK’s long-awaited climate strategy

The UK’s new energy plan unveiled on Thursday is a missed opportunity full of “half-baked, half-hearted” policies that do not go far enough to power Britain’s climate goals, according to green business groups and academics. The 1,000-page strategy has been…

Australia passes most significant climate law in a decade amid concern over fossil fuel exports

Australia’s parliament has passed the country’s most significant emissions reduction legislation in more than a decade after the government won backing from Greens and independent MPs for a plan to deal with pollution from major industrial sites. After weeks of…

Meteor shower guide: Next up, the Lyrids

Your meteor shower guide for 2023. There are some good ones! Next up … the Lyrids in April. And then, the Eta Aquariids in May.

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UK is Europe’s worst private jet polluter, study finds

The UK is the private jet capital of Europe, with more flights than anywhere else on the continent, analysis has found. Last year, a private jet set off from the UK once every six minutes, putting the country ahead of…