UK Guardian Claims ICE Deportations Are ‘Accelerating The Climate Crisis’ – ‘CO2 Emissions from ICE enforcement flights went up 88% between 2024 & 2025’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/26/us-immigration-flights-emissions Revealed: huge climate cost of harmful emissions from US immigration flights – Trump campaign accelerating climate crisis as officials move migrants to detention jails and deport them from US By Alexandra Villarreal – UK Guardian Excerpt: US immigration enforcement flights are producing hundreds of thousands of metric tonnes of climate-damaging carbon emissions as officials […]
New Study: ‘LGB individuals live in warmer places.’ – Study ‘tests whether lesbian, gay, & bisexual (LGB) individuals inhabit systematically warmer locations than their heterosexual peers’
https://richardtol.substack.com/p/gays-are-hot Gays are hot – experiments in vibe-coding By RICHARD TOL Excerpt: Abstract The geographic distribution of sexual minorities reflects patterns of urbanisation, social tolerance, and economic opportunity. We combine gridded mean annual surface air temperature from the UK Met Office HadUK-Grid 30-year climatology (1991–2020) with Local Authority District (LAD)-level sexual orientation counts from the […]
Hantavirus blamed on — global warming! ‘Climate change is contributing to the conditions driving a rodent boom – ‘Wet Weather in Argentina Helped Fuel the Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak’
https://www.wired.com/story/climate-change-next-hantavirus-outbreak/ By MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES ORFILA Excerpt: The hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship has created a global public health crisis. But the driver of it is a rodent that weighs about an ounce, and climate shifts this year that have helped increase the odds of transmission. Across the Southern Cone, researchers […]
Risk of snakebites increasing ‘as a result of climate disruption’, says study – WHO predicts hotter climate will lead to more contact between humans & venomous snakes
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/21/risk-of-snakebites-increasing-climate-crisis-habitat-loss-who-study By Jonathan Watts – UK Guardian The risk of snakebites is increasing across the world as reptiles shift their habitats to cope with rising temperatures and growing human pressures, a study of venomous snakes has found. Spitting cobras in Africa, vipers in Europe and South America, cottonmouth moccasins in North America and kraits in […]
Meet the new Greta…Eva Lighthiser! Eva v Goliath: The 20-year-old airplane flying climate activist suing Trump for ‘violating constitutional rights’ – ‘Young Americans are suing the president for violating rights with executive orders that fuel the climate crisis’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/20/eva-lighthiser-trump-climate Meet the new Greta…Eva! Eva v Goliath: the 20-year-old climate activist taking on Trump and the fossil fuel industry – Young Americans are suing the president for violating rights with executive orders that fuel the climate crisis – She and 22 other young Americans are accusing the US federal government of violating their constitutional […]
Professor Who Predicted Mass Human Extinction By 2026 Was Dead Wrong
Professor Who Predicted Mass Human Extinction By 2026 Was Dead Wrong Guy McPherson’s infamous prediction resurfaces as temperature data tell a very different story. By I & I Editorial Board Predicting that catastrophe is just around the next corner is an old game for the global warming crowd. [some emphasis, links added] From Al Gore to […]
New Study: ‘Climate change costs lives by breaking down social connection’ – ‘Loneliness caused by climate change kills people’
Junk Science: “Loneliness caused by climate change kills people” By Anthony Watts From the University of Sydney and the “this is what passes as peer-reviewed science these days” department comes this load of rubbish. The paper argues that climate change erodes social connections, through heatwaves keeping people indoors, disasters displacing communities, and droughts reducing participation in rural […]
Washington Post gets it correct! A ‘ban on advertising hamburgers won’t stop climate change’
Right, Washington Post, Banning Hamburger Ads Won’t Stop Climate Change By Linnea Lueken A recent Washington Post (WaPo) article, “Amsterdam’s ban on advertising hamburgers won’t stop climate change,” blasts a new law in Amsterdam banning advertisements for meat in public spaces. The order is meant to decrease the demand for meat to stop climate change. […]
Psychology Prof.: Bad weather could be GOOD for your mental health: Rainy days & thunderstorms aid depression – & could be a surprising boost for us all
https://www.dailymail.com/health/article-15810685/bad-weather-good-mental-health-rainy-thunderstorms-psychologist-depression.html By PROFESSOR TREVOR HARLEY – Professor Trevor Harley is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Dundee. Excerpt: …it might surprise you that I have also experienced many positive benefits on my mental and physical health from what might be dubbed ‘bad weather’. And the research backs me up. Bad weather – rain, […]
CNN: ‘The country where lethal hantavirus cases are on the rise. Experts blame climate change’
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/09/americas/hantavirus-cases-double-argentina-climate-change-latam-intl Buenos Aires, Argentina — Hantavirus cases in Argentina have almost doubled in the past year, with the country recording 32 deaths alongside its highest number of infections since 2018. … Experts blame climate change and habitat destruction for the rise in cases of the disease, which is usually caused by exposure to the urine or feces […]