STUDY: Climate policies can backfire – ‘Mandates can make even green citizens less green’ – ‘Urban car bans, may trigger strong negative reactions’ – Found ‘a 52% greater negative response to climate mandates than to COVID mandates’

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-climate-policies-backfire-eroding-green.html By Santa Fe Institute A popular vision of life after climate action looks like vegetarians riding bikes, city centers without cars, and people foregoing air travel. But a new paper published in Nature Sustainability finds that climate policies targeting lifestyle changes (say, urban car bans) actually may weaken people’s green values, thereby undermining support for other needed environmental […]

The Net Zero Death Duty: ‘Labour is using inheritance tax to push prime farmland into solar & wind farms and rewilding estates’

https://rationals.substack.com/p/the-net-zero-death-duty?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email By THE RATIONALS On 26 November 2025 Rachel Reeves will deliver her second Budget and decide whether to lock in — or finally soften — the inheritance-tax changes that are already forcing family farms onto the market. One farmer could not wait to find out what she would do next. The morning before her […]

NY couple claims Zillow, First Street’s ‘climate risk data’ harmed home sale – Claimed ‘extreme’ flood risk property, but the claim contradicted FEMA flood zone maps

https://bellagiorealestate.net/blog/NY-couple-claims-Zillow–First-Street–8217-s-climate-risk-data-harmed-home-sale by Brooklee Han Chappaqua, New York home sellers, married couple Andrew and Eri Uerkwitz, are claiming that flood risk data provided by First Street Technology accompanying their listing on Zillow is to blame for their home-selling woes, according to a story first published by the Daily Mail. In April 2025, the Uerkwitzes listed their Westchester County home, which […]

Net Zero emission ideologies is destructive to future generations

https://www.americaoutloud.news/net-zero-emission-ideologies-is-destructive-to-future-generations/ By Ronald Stein P.E. & Yoshihiro Muronaka The vast resources of underground coal, crude oil, and natural gas are all useless unless refined or processed into the fuels and products that support the lives of 8 billion people. Refineries, coal gasification, and coal liquefaction plants—though emission generators—remain indispensable to modern civilization. In less than a […]

The climate agenda has entered the operating room. From anaesthesia to heart surgery, medical procedures are now being scrutinised based on their climate impact

The climate agenda has entered the operating room. From anaesthesia to heart surgery, medical procedures are now being scrutinised based on their climate impact. New guidance urges reduced use of anaesthetic gases to cut emissions, while studies measure the carbon footprint of… pic.twitter.com/T9X350mDGk — Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) September 12, 2025 Background:  HEARTLESS: New Study […]

Republican bill allows utility companies to limit customers’ energy usage in Ohio

Republican bill allows utility companies to limit customers’ energy usage By T.A. DeFeo Proposed legislation would allow utility companies to temporarily limit the amount of customers’ energy usage during peak demand times. Rep. Roy Klopfenstein, R-Haviland, introduced House Bill 427 late last month. The measure, which has not yet been assigned to a committee, creates […]

Bjorn Lomborg on climate hypocrisy: ‘Many Europeans disapprove of keeping cool with air conditioning…but most have no problem using 100x more energy on heating to keep warm’

Climate hypocrisy Many Europeans disapprove of keeping cool with air conditioning, because of its climate impact But most have no problem using 100x more energy on heating to keep warm Climate change emotion often trumps logichttps://t.co/hEReHkwZei pic.twitter.com/WPHGEIrcEP — Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) August 29, 2025