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Brenda Shafer Vice President Kamala Harris' evolving rhetoric on fracking has become a key issue in the current U.S. presidential campaign. Just five years ago, Harris pledged to ban fracking, the drilling technology that helped make the United States the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas. Now, the Democratic candidate says she supports fracking, a shift many political analysts attribute to the political importance of winning Pennsylvania's electoral votes. Pennsylvania is a major center for natural production through fracking in the United States. The problem extends far beyond Pennsylvania, however. It also has a huge impact on the…

From the Daily Skeptic by Will Jones European heat pump sales plummeted 47% in the first half of the year as the number of households switching to gas boilers decreased. this telegraph There is more. The European Heat Pump Association said that only 765,000 heat pumps were sold in 13 European countries in 2024, accounting for 80% of the market share. During the same period in 2023, 1.44 million heat pumps were sold in countries such as France, Italy, Germany and Sweden. This means heat pump sales may fall below 1.5 million units in 2024, the lowest level since 2019.…

There's a lot of meowing here A pane of glass is protected more than a human life. This is crazy. In 2022, Judge Hehir sentenced Anna and Phoebe to a total of just under 4 years in prison for pouring tomato soup on Van Gogh's glass-protected sunflowers. . Those pushing for oil and gas development remain at large, raking in cash and funding politicians. Where is justice? … Imprisoned for “conspiracy”. To fight against the state. for fucking soup. Barely escape the cell and follow the road. The courts continue to crack down on nonviolent direct action, and more than…

Helen wreaks havoc in southeast; 33 dead; 4.5 million in darkness: Live updatesUSA TodayHurricane Helen: Category 1 storm hits Florida, gaining intensitynbc newsHelen Live Update: Destruction in southern region, death toll risingnew york timesReview: Cat-4 Helene's 'catastrophic' collision with Big BendTallahassee DemocratsHelene Live Update: Tropical storm continues to hit, at least 11 people died in GeorgiaFox 5 AtlantaLIVE UPDATE: Flood damage continues in Helen, at least 25 deadwashington postHurricane Helene Live Updates: Category 2 storm expected to hit Florida tonight with storm surge of 15 to 20 feet in its pathYahoo! soundHurricane Helen: Latest updates on projected track, landfall and…

“I couldn’t make this schist up even if I tried” by guest David Middleton From the American Association for the Advancement of Science… Although the Messenian salinity crisis and the subsequent Zankerin Flood constitute one of the most incredible events in geological history…so incredible that the uppermost phase of the Miocene was named Messenian Xenia, the lowermost stage of the Pliocene was named Zankelin… no mass extinction related to it. Article A of AAAS cites a very interesting paper: Agiadi and her colleagues have now tracked the extinction and subsequent recovery through a comprehensive analysis of most fossils from the…

This week's award for climate issues will be presented to new scientiststwice. [emphasis, links added] First, new scientists Tell us that low sea ice levels in Antarctica portend permanent changes. That's because Antarctic sea ice reached near-record lows for the second year in a row, “raising concerns that climate change has triggered a 'regime shift' in the amount of ice formed each year in the Southern Ocean,” they said. sorry, new scientistsbut it has not become a trend in two years. Looking at the data, 2023 is indeed a record low, and 2024 is slightly above that, but if you…

Things are getting worse for the German Greens. The party “collapsed from the state parliament” in Germany's Brandenburg region (around Berlin) after two poor performances in recent state elections. [emphasis, links added] The results were so bad that two current leaders of Germany's Green Party have jointly stepped down. The Greens received just 4% of the vote in the region, not even reaching the minimum 5% needed to win a parliamentary seat in the state election. Over the past five years, about 70% of voters have abandoned them. In Thuringia, the entire Traffic Light coalition of three parties received only…

It’s Climate Week in New York City, another expensive and carbon-intensive global gathering of chickens giggling about the end of the world. More than 6,000 participants from more than 100 countries gathered in New York to coincide with the United Nations General Assembly to better coordinate efforts to stop climate change by taking away your freedoms and money. But is Climate Week losing its influence? Heartland Institute's H. Sterling Burnett, Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken and Jim Lakely will investigate in Episode 128 of The Climate Reality Show. We'll also cover Hurricane Helene, the folly of owning an electric car in…

According to a new study, Global warming over the past 200 years has been associated with reduced cloud cover, This decrease in cloud albedo may be related to “the dominance of external forces – volcanoes, the sun and the ocean – in the interaction after the LIA.” [Little Ice Age]”. [emphasis, links added] Scientists have repeatedly reported satellite observations (CERES) that reduced cloud albedo results in increased solar radiation absorbed by Earth's oceans – Explain the rising temperature trend after 2000 (Dubal Vahrenholt, 2021; Loeb et al., 2021; Stephens et al., 2022; Koutsoyiannis et al., 2023; Loeb et al., 2024;…

Emergency crews are scrambling to rescue people trapped in flooded homes after Helen roared ashore in Florida as a Category 4 hurricane. The system triggered a massive storm surge that knocked out power to millions of customers in several states. At least six people were reported dead. The storm made landfall in a sparsely populated area Thursday night, with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph in rural Big Bend. The area is home to fishing villages and resorts where the Florida Panhandle and Peninsula meet. But the damage stretched hundreds of miles north, with flooding as far away as North…