Climate, Energy & Conservation
This essay is adapted from the Frankly episode posted on October 3rd, 2025 titled, “Peak Oil, Ponzi Pyramids, and Planetary Boundaries.”
SÃO SEBASTIÃO, Brazil — In front of the house where she has lived for decades, Cosma da Silva points to nearby homes in her Itatinga neighborhood and lists a string of cancer cases. “There’s a woman w...
Danish scientist Henrik Svensmark, known for his controversial research on cosmic rays and cloud formation, has been dismissed by his university in Copenhagen after years of internal conflict. In an i...
Guest essay By Paul Homewood This BBC article: More than 2,700 people may have died in exceptional May and June heatwaves in England and Wales, makes the claim: More than 2,700 people may have died fr...
After a wet start to the month, Chicago has had a bit of a dry spell, leaving people wondering how much rain could fall by the end of July.
Just the News Excerpt:The 2026 “Statistical Review of World Energy” finds that 86.3% of primary energy consumption was derived from fossil fuels last year. This isdown from 86.6%the previous year. ......
Tree rings from the Amazon show that the world’s largest rainforest has developed wetter wet seasons and drier dry seasons over the past four decades. The findings point to intense seasonal swings tha...
Gulf Coast states are preparing for Tropical Storm Bertha, which is set to deliver life-threatening storm surge, tropical downpours and gusty winds to parts of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisi...
Hi Congressman. You have opinions. But I have data. Let's look at it. 1⃣ Wildfires occur every year all over the world. That's true this year, just like it was last year and 5,000 years ago. But as it...
“I had diarrhea and dizziness. Food no longer tasted the same. … I wasn’t the only one who noticed it — it was the same for everyone in the village; we couldn’t breathe,” Benoît Packera, secretary of ...
Tropical Storm Bertha is producing some winds gusting near hurricane force, but they are confined to a robust thunderstorm cell near the center of rotation well offshore of the Florida Panhandle.
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2026-7-18-rolling-blackouts-hit-new-york?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email By Francis Menton At least since New York passed its Climate Leadership and Commu...
DHAKA — On June 28, as the afternoon sun beat down on Bangladesh capital Dhaka’s sprawling Tejgaon neighborhood, Samiha Begum gathered her two school-aged children and headed for the shade of Hatirjhe...
Tiger bone wines in exquisite bottles. Tiger cubs sold alive as pets or served as a culinary delicacy alongside pangolin and cobra meat at exclusive restaurants. Rooms filled with rhino horns and elep...
Pangolin scales and other body parts trafficked internationally appear to come from the same areas that supply the animals for local wild meat markets, a new study has found. It created a DNA database...
Following days of torrential rain and life-threatening flooding across the Hill Country, Lake Travis tops 100% full capacity, prompting the first Mansfield Dam floodgate release in five years.
Nuclear power looked dead. Plants shut down. Activists celebrated. Turns out they celebrated too soon. Watch nuclear’s comeback here: pic.twitter.com/g9EVBiNulr — John Stossel (@JohnStossel) July 14, ...
RCP8.5: The Impossible ‘Worst-Case’ Climate Scenario View this page as a printable PDF here: RCP 8.5-The Impossible Worst-Case Climate Scenario Key Takeaways: The climate model known as RCP8.5, long p...
https://clintel.org/matthew-wielicki-on-climate-debrief-the-human-condition-has-never-been-better/ Clintel Foundation Students were crying during conversations about the future, their fears largely dr...
Scientists Kesten Green and Willie Soon found that the UN's climate models simply don't work. "IPCC climate models lack predictive validity and cannot guide policy," say the researchers. When tested o...