The following is a guest article by Angela Wheeler. Nepal’s Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal’s request for a foreign response to his country’s disastrous Himalayan flood would be better made as an appeal to the charitable instincts of people than as a demand for compensation from climate sinners. Khanal connects the August 26 flood to the
The predictions of climate doomsayers reveal an embarrassing ignorance of a capricious geological history shaped by natural forces too powerful for human control and too complex to allow for meaningful forecasts. What can be said is that we are living in the warmth of an interglacial period known as the Holocene Epoch, which began about
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Politics, they say, makes strange bedfellows. Even a month ago, hardly anyone would have foreseen that Saudi Arabia would sit down with Israel, the United States, and other Arab nations to discuss a joint military strategy against Iran and its Houthi proxies. Reportedly, at the secret conference in early September, Israeli officials offered to provide
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In recent months, Climate Change Weekly has extensively covered the twists and turns of the saga of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) efforts to bias the nation’s judiciary in climate lawsuits filed by dozens of cities and counties against fossil fuel producers for “climate damages” (here, here, here, and here, for
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For two decades, the poorest half of humanity had its energy choices dictated by computer-generated climate predictions now considered to be implausible by the people who made them. Developing countries that are home to the impoverished should be following U.S. actions to abandon these flawed forecasts, which have driven destructive climate policies. In August, the
Two advocacy groups have called on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to withdraw all support for the Pathways to Dairy Net Zero (P2DNZ), a United Nations initiative to reduce methane and other greenhouse gases from the dairy industry supply chain. Launched during Climate Week in September of 2021, P2DNZ counts as members the largest
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Norway Minister of Energy Terje Aasland told Reuters that his country will keep developing oil and gas in the Barents Sea irrespective of a European Union (EU) ban on Arctic drilling. “In today’s geopolitical and security environment … I believe continued activity in the Barents Sea serves both Norwegian and European interests,” said Aasland. Although
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When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, he had four years to assess what went right and wrong in his first term before it was sabotaged by COVID-19. To counter the true “China virus” (hegemony over critical minerals), Trump promptly began imposing tariffs with a goal of taking away China’s pricing
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In Pecos County, Texas, crews are clearing scrubland for a power plant that will burn natural gas and answer to no one but Amazon. With 35 turbines and a generating capacity of more than 7 gigawatts, the plant will be able to produce more electricity than the Grand Coulee Dam. A state permit allows the facility
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Half a century ago, raw emotion drove an anti-nuclear energy campaign that still stifles clean energy development in the U.S. Today, that same fear-driven playbook is being deployed in a campaign to shut down data centers. Between 1970 and 1990, America built 95 nuclear power plants that still supply nearly a fifth of the nation’s
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