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Culling for Climate
Culling for Climate Climate research and its misanthropic sect It’s the smell Over the weekend, Bill McGuire, an Emeritus Professor of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at University College London, set X/Twitter afire with the following Tweet, which foresees the “culling of the human population” as the “only realistic” way to address climate change — a […]
Musings on the Nature of Technology
Musings on the Nature of Technology A picture taken during the trip (own photo) Recently I have been on a four-day hiking trip, completing another 80 km (~50 mile) stretch of the 1171 km National Blue Trail running across my tiny country. This gave me plenty of time to tune into and ponder on the many […]
Million Texans Without Power As Storm Topples Transmission Towers
Million Texans Without Power As Storm Topples Transmission Towers Powerful storms tore through eastern Texas on Thursday evening, decimating transmission towers and plunging over a million residents into darkness. “Severe thunderstorms moving across the Houston metro area have a history of producing damaging winds! This destructive storm will contain wind gusts to 80 MPH! A […]
Wet Winter Veggie Sowing
Wet Winter Veggie Sowing In the early days on the farm, I adopted a calendar based sowing schedule based on the idea that cool season crops should be sowed in March and warm season ones in September. The passing years have demonstrated that approach is overly mechanical given the variability of seasons from year to […]
Feathers Fall, Humanity Falters: An Indictment of Our War on Wildlife
Feathers Fall, Humanity Falters: An Indictment of Our War on Wildlife In the Shadows of our Progress, the Pelicans of California Starve—A Harrowing Testament to the Devouring Maw of Industrial Greed In the face of nature’s grim scene on the California coast, where the corpses and struggling forms of brown pelicans accumulate against a backdrop […]
Unsold Tesla’s Pile Up in Mall Parking Lots, Big Discounts Likely
Unsold Tesla’s Pile Up in Mall Parking Lots, Big Discounts Likely Tesla is renting parking lots to store thousands of vehicles. This helps explain the mass layoffs. Tesla Cranking Out Cars, But to Where? Please consider Tesla’s Storing Unsold Inventory In An Abandoned Mall Parking Lot Parking lots full of Tesla vehicles are becoming impossible to […]
VW The Latest Automaker To Step Back From All-Electric Plans To Embrace Hybrids
VW The Latest Automaker To Step Back From All-Electric Plans To Embrace Hybrids Not to be left behind by the rest of the industry, Volkswagen is the latest auto manufacturer to walk back its plans to go all-electric. The move should come as no surprise to Zero Hedge readers, as we have been writing non-stop […]
Buying and selling water is a reality in Alberta — sometimes for big money
Buying and selling water is a reality in Alberta — sometimes for big money Benchmark prices have been set in the water market, but it remains broadly opaque Rising demand, dwindling supply: southern Alberta’s water dilemma As water scarcity intensifies, farmers, cities and businesses in southern Alberta are under pressure to find sustainable water solutions. […]
Fear, anxiety as thousands flee their homes in Fort McMurray due to threat of wildfire
Fear, anxiety as thousands flee their homes in Fort McMurray due to threat of wildfire Evacuees directed to Cold Lake, Edmonton for accommodation A highway camera photo shows traffic in Fort McMurray jammed in the southbound lane of Highway 63 on the north side of the Athabasca River. The image was captured at 3:11 p.m. […]
India set to face hotter heatwaves amid preparation gaps, says study
India set to face hotter heatwaves amid preparation gaps, says study The study advocates for the expansion of mandatory regulations alongside existing action plans to tackle the challenges posed by climate change Photo: Bloomberg As summer arrives, India braces for the onslaught of heatwaves, despite having substantial heat action plans in place. A recent study […]
Electric Vehicle Subsidies as Complex and Costly as Ever
Electric Vehicle Subsidies as Complex and Costly as Ever Electric vehicles (EVs) may be the most subsidized product in America. Federal taxpayers shell out $7,500 every time a new eligible electric vehicle is purchased (usually by wealthy buyers). State and local taxpayers chip in an additional $1,500 for each EV purchase. Then, there’s the tens of billions of dollars “invested” by […]
Bill Gates Wants to Block-Off the Sun
Bill Gates Wants to Block-Off the Sun From the beginning, scientists, politicians and leading cabal figureheads of fake green persuasion, have spoken about “considering carrying out stratospheric geoengineering programs” to block sunlight and cool the planet. The irony of such statements is that they are made even while such activities are being carried out on […]
Will sucking carbon from air ever really help tackle climate change?
Will sucking carbon from air ever really help tackle climate change? The direct air capture industry got a boost last week with the opening of Mammoth, the largest plant yet for sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, but questions remain about whether the technology can scale up. Humanity has spent the past few centuries […]
Brazil authorities warn of more floods, landslides as new rains hit south
Brazil authorities warn of more floods, landslides as new rains hit south Nearly 140 people have been killed so far Katiane Mello (R) leaves her flooded home in a boat navigating a street in Eldorado do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. Photo: AFP New rains in waterlogged southern Brazil are expected to be […]
From Climate Crisis to Polycrisis
From Climate Crisis to Polycrisis Climate change, resource depletion, extreme weapons, AI, and more: Richard Heinberg looks at the individual threats composing the unprecedented convergence of risk leading us to a global polycrisis. Though he finds no easy answers, he concludes that humanity’s collective survival will require setting aside our hubris and coming to terms […]
