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New Book claims ‘the climate crisis is physically changing our brains—without us realizing it’ – THE WEIGHT OF NATURE by neuroscientist-turned-environmental journalist

https://randomhouse.app.box.com/s/phuwz95j595kdclnbk6uli4l29m8ssso December 2023 Dear Editor/Producer, In August 2020, I was in the Bay Area when the skies turned orange from the August Complex—the largest wildfire in California’s history, started by lightning from a stray thunderstorm that sparked in the draught-ridden mountains. The experience was horrifying, mesmerizing, and haunting—I am now intrinsically fearful every time I […]

Watch: CFACT’s Craig Rucker on OAN TV: Coalition Sues Biden Admin. To Block Construction Of Offshore Wind Farm to Save Right Whale

Coalition Sues Biden Admin. to Block Construction of Offshore Wind Farm OAN’s Stella Escobedo 12:35 PM -Friday, March 22, 2024 President Biden fast-tracked approval for dozens of offshore wind farms. The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow is suing to stop construction on the Virginia Offshore Wind Project because they say it endangers whales. The organization’s President, […]

Wrong, NBC News, Climate Change Doesn’t Threaten Minnesota Ice Fishing

Wrong, NBC News, Climate Change Doesn’t Threaten Minnesota Ice Fishing ByAnthony Watts A broadcast by NBC News, titled “Ice fishing threatened by climate change,” claims that warmer winters, particularly the 2023/2024 winter, is affecting the ice fishing season due to supposed influences from climate change. This is false. Climate change does not make such localized […]

International panel of geologists rejects notion of significant ‘climate change’ – ‘Stunning rebuke’ of ‘proposed geologic time division reflecting human influence’

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/climate/anthropocene-epoch-vote-rejected.html?searchResultPosition=4 Science Mag: ‘Panel rejects a proposed geologic time division reflecting human influence’ – The vote, first reported by The New York Times, is a stunning—though not unexpected—rebuke for the proposal, which has been working its way through a formal approval process for more than a decade. https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/03/10/1849256/are-we-in-the-anthropocene-the-human-age-scientists-say-nope Excerpts: Science magazine “has confirmed that a panel of two dozen geologists […]

CNN BEGS Readers ‘Don’t Panic’ About Four-Month High Gas Prices

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2024/03/13/getting-gassy-cnn-begs-readers-dont-panic-about-four-month By Joseph Vazquez CNN is back to its old schtick of desperately spinning higher gas prices to look like no big deal for Americans, even though they’re currently hovering at four-month highs. CNN addressed gas prices hitting $3.40 a gallon on Friday, after bottoming out at $3.07 in January. Instead of just reporting the straight news, […]

Now will you support the Green New Deal!? Actual Reuters headline: In rural India, climate migrants ‘have hysterectomies to survive’

Thomson Reuters Foundation: As climate change impacts hit farming, women driven into gruelling sugarcane work have the procedure to work harder, report says

Frequent droughts push poor rural families to migrate

Many work as labourers on Maharashtra sugar plantations

Hysterectomy rates found far higher among migrant workers

Drought is driving poor Indian women into exploitative sugarcane work in the central state of Maharashtra, with many of the migrant labourers opting to undergo unnecessary hysterectomies to work even harder, research showed on Thursday. Years of failed monsoons, extreme heat and droughts have led residents of Beed, a district in the top sugar-producing state to leave and become day labourers on sugar plantations, said the report by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), a London-based think-tank… Ritu Bharadwaj, a principal researcher with the IIED and lead author of the paper: “Hysterectomies are a symptom of economic distress in the region that is exacerbated by the climate crisis.” … As climate change impacts hit farming, women driven into gruelling sugarcane work have the procedure to work harder, the report says. 

Climate Fact-Check February 2024 Edition

Full pdf here:  Climate Fact-Check February 2024 Edition By Steve Milloy Guest Post by: The Competitive Enterprise Institute, The Heartland Institute, the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and the International Climate Science Coalition, and Truth in Energy and Climate. Editor’s note: This summary serves as a fact check on […]

Politico: ‘The Biden climate slowdown?’ – ‘Lofty White House goals for slashing’ emissions ‘are hitting another barrier’

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2024/03/01/the-biden-climate-slowdown-00144375 By JACK QUINN Lofty White House goals for slashing carbon pollution during the next 10 years are hitting another barrier. As Jean Chemnick reported Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency is postponing final action on a rule that would limit carbon dioxide emissions from about 2,000 existing gas-fired power plants. The decision is likely to push one of […]