At least 21 dead as wildfires rage across Urals and Siberia
At least 21 people have died in wildfires in Russia’s Ural mountains, state media reported. Wildfires have raged in the Kurgan region of the Urals and in Siberia all week. Local media reported that most of the dead were older…
The China-Russia-Oil-Gas-Coal-Climate Nexus
The relationship between China and Russia poses the greatest danger faced by America and the West since the Hitler-Stalin Pact in 1939 initiated WWII. If alarm bells are not ringing all across Washington, DC, they should be. [emphasis, bold added]…
Opinion: How a misreading of the Bible fuels many Americans’ apathy about climate change – Los Angeles Times
Christian theology and global politics can make strange bedfellows. Consider the intimate relationship between fundamentalist expectations of Jesus’ return and market-driven disregard for the environment. The affair became public back in 1981, when Ronald Reagan’s newly minted Interior secretary, James…
John Kerry: relying on technology to remove carbon dioxide is ‘dangerous’
Relying on technology to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is “dangerous” and a cause for “alarm”, John Kerry has warned. The US special presidential envoy for climate said in an interview that new technologies may not prevent the world…
Older people like me need to start protesting for our planet | Bill McKibben
The brutal truth is that last week’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report didn’t have the effect it should have had, or that its authors clearly intended. Produced by thousands of scientists who synthesized the work of tens of thousands…
Tucker Carlson Takes On The Green Cult’s Radical Climate Agenda
Let’s enter Fantasyland for a moment. Let’s pretend for a sec that our country had a news media that was interested in bringing you the news, not in lecturing you about your moral inferiority (You’re so bad) or lying to…
‘I warned the FBI about this guy Osama bin Laden’: the people who predicted disasters, from the 2008 crash to Covid
‘Thinking I could have stopped it is something I have to deal with’ Ali Soufan on 9/11 In October 2000, Ali Soufan, a 29-year-old Lebanese-American FBI agent, was driving across Brooklyn Bridge when his pager beeped. More than 7,000 miles…
Snow in L.A. feels like a reprieve from climate change, and it’s amazing – Los Angeles Times
Good morning. I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. Let’s look back at the week in Opinion. Los Angeles is one of the less interesting places to live for an amateur weather geek like me (the kind…
Putin Discusses Possibility That Global Warming Has Peaked – Newsweek
Russian President Vladimir Putin has discussed the possibility that global warming has peaked, in a conversation with scientists in Moscow. Putin was talking with the winners of the Presidential Prize in Science and Innovation for Young Scientists on February 8,…
Greta Thunberg: How should global leaders use trillions of dollars to combat climate change? – Los Angeles Times
We cannot just buy, invest or build our way out of the climate and environmental crisis. Nevertheless, money is still very much at the heart of the problem. Investment is vital. Financial resources need to be directed to the best…
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