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Fear of ‘climate change’ may be meddling with cost & ingredients for cement next?! ‘Cement’s carbon problem may have a blunt fix, swap limestone for basalt’ – Seek to ‘cut CO2 from about 1,343 lb per ton of cement’ – ‘Limestone brings a built-in climate penalty’ as ‘cost testing’ needed for new process

Cement’s carbon problem may have a blunt fix, swap limestone for basalt, because modeling suggests energy demand could drop by more than 40% and emissions by over 80%, cutting CO2 from about 1,343 lb per ton of cement to roughly 110 lb with certain rock types Cement’s carbon problem may have a blunt fix, swap […]

Time Mag Insists ‘Climate Change is Making Your Life More Expensive’ – ‘Climate change is pushing up prices for everyone’ – ‘Climate change has raised the price of food in U.S. by up to 6.7% over the past 50 years’

https://time.com/article/2026/06/11/how-climate-change-is-making-your-life-more-expensive/ By Simmone Shah If you feel like things have been getting more expensive, you’re not imagining it. The average American household spent $15,400 more for basic necessities in 2025 than it did in 2019, according to research from the Common Sense Institute, a non-partisan research organization. That’s across a number of spending categories. On average, […]

Green Machine Targets Plastics at Consumer Expense

https://restoration-news.com/green-machine-targets-plastics-at-consumer-expense By Kevin Mooney Anti-trust investigations target pressure groups teaming up with corporate America. Your casserole went stale, and your mayo turned bad, along with a few pastries. But that’s okay since you’re taking one for the team and doing your part to save the planet! Those nasty plastics will bring about death and destruction. […]

Lomborg: ‘Global green transition cost is now $14+ trillion’ – ‘Over $2 trillion/year’ – But ‘Still, CO₂ emissions set another record last year’

Climate campaigners tell you green is cheap It isn't Global green transition cost is now $14+ trillion, rising with over $2 trillion/year (2% of global GDP) 105x our spending to avoid hunger Still, CO₂ emissions set another record last yearhttps://t.co/ypTLqfQ2Hq pic.twitter.com/pJbvKTOPAt — Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) April 3, 2026 Some people suggest that while green is […]

Weather disaster losses as a percentage of global GDP from 1990–2025 ‘Are Flat…if anything slightly declining’ – Climate change NOT causing an explosion in extreme weather damages

This chart demolishes one of the central claims of the climate cult. It comes from Munich Re, one of the world’s largest reinsurance companies. Their entire business depends on accurately pricing risk. What does it show? Weather disaster losses as a percentage of global GDP… pic.twitter.com/Hu4rSImObU — Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki (@MatthewWielicki) March 10, 2026

UK Guardian: ‘Can degrowth save the climate?’ Political economist ‘advocates degrowth, shrinking parts of the economy that do not advance our social & ecological goals’

https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2026/feb/26/can-degrowth-save-the-climate-podcast Presented and produced by Madeleine Finlay, sound design by Ross Burns; the executive producer was Ellie Bury Since the 1960s, global GDP has been rapidly rising and living standards have reached record highs. But something else has been rocketing up too – carbon emissions. For years, scientists and economists have been asking: is it […]

Economist: ‘Was Climate Change the Greatest Financial Scam in History?’ – Globally, ‘$16 trillion has been spent…but there is not a penny of measurable payoff’

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/02/18/was_climate_change_the_greatest_financial_scam_in_history_153854.html By Stephen Moore Environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg recently calculated that across the globe, governments have spent at least $16 trillion feeding the climate change industrial complex. And for what? Arguably, not a single life has been or will be saved by this shameful and colossal misallocation of human resources. The war on safe and […]