Archive for the 'Environment' Category
Huge Earthquake Causes Widespread Damage in Southeast Asia
March 28th, 2025Via: New York Post: Thousands are feared dead after a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake rocked Southeast Asia on Friday, bringing down a towering skyscraper in Thailand and toppling buildings, including a mosque, in neighboring Myanmar. Harrowing scenes emerged of bodies being lined up in the rubble as rescuers scoured for survivors from the midday quake, […]
COP30: The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference
March 13th, 2025Via: Paul Watson:
Hole Blasted By Drone In Chernobyl’s Radiation Shield
February 14th, 2025Via: The War Zone: While the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said there was no immediate radiation release, the massive, complexly designed New Safe Containment (NSC) structure was compromised and could suffer further damage, the experts told us. In addition, one expert expressed concern that in a worst-case scenario, the ensuing repair work could require […]
Tucker Carlson and Michael Shellenberger Break Down the California Fires
January 14th, 2025If you happen to be trying to wake someone up in Los Angeles, the fires might represent a teachable moment. Shellenberger comes from the left, so that might make the medicine more palatable, in general, to people in that area. On a much different topic, if you stick with this to the end, it appears […]
Massive Los Angeles Wildfires Still Burning Out of Control
January 9th, 2025If Southern California gets unlucky with Santa Ana winds and fires, the vast urban sprawl from the base of the San Gabriel Mountains to the Pacific Ocean could easily wind up looking like World War 2 Hiroshima. I’m actually baffled as to how it hasn’t happened already. What you’re seeing with the current situation is […]
“Unprecedented Fires” Scorch 3,000 Acres In Los Angeles Area, Forcing 49,000 To Evacuate
January 8th, 2025The Southern California disaster cycle is as follows: * Years of drought and scorching temperatures. * A bit of rain occurs and the vegetation grows like crazy. * More years of drought and scorching temperatures, killing and drying out all that vegetation. * Fires (current phase). * Mudslides. * Repeat Wildcards: Earthquakes, riots. Via: ZeroHedge: […]
Forbes: Global Warming Probably Caused Cold Weather Deaths to Double in U.S. Between 1999 and 2022
December 30th, 2024Comedy Gold. Via: Forbes: The number of people who died in the United States from cold weather-related causes more than doubled between 1999 and 2022, according to an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Thursday, and scientists say increasing extreme winter weather events due to climate change could be to blame.
‘Unprecedented Risk’ to Life on Earth: Scientists Call for Halt on ‘Mirror Life’ Microbe Research
December 15th, 2024Via: Guardian: World-leading scientists have called for a halt on research to create “mirror life” microbes amid concerns that the synthetic organisms would present an “unprecedented risk” to life on Earth. The international group of Nobel laureates and other experts warn that mirror bacteria, constructed from mirror images of molecules found in nature, could become […]
Bovaer: Methane Reducing Chemical Given to Dairy Cows, “May Damage Male Fertility and Reproductive Organs”
December 3rd, 2024Via: Daily Mail: …experts have assured customers there’s likely nothing to worry about. More / New Zealand: Governments don’t mind exposing people to health risks as long as it appears they are doing something about climate change (even if they aren’t)
EPA Could Approve GMO Mosquitoes for Consumers’ Backyards
December 3rd, 2024Via: The Defender: A U.K.-based biotech company is seeking U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approval to sell genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes directly to U.S. consumers as a “biopesticide.” If the EPA approves the company’s product registration application, Oxitec could sell boxes of GM Aedes aegypti mosquitoes — under the brand name “Friendly” — directly to consumers […]
