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Trump Admin Pushes Domestic Increase in Timber Production

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 12:04:03 -0500

Trump is pushing a 25 percent increase in domestic timber production, part of efforts to reduce construction costs and wildfire fuel. ...

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Gila Monsters Are Threatened by Development Not Warming, Science News

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 06:30:05 -0500

A recent Science News article, “Gila monsters may struggle to survive climate change,” claims that Gila monsters living in the Mojave Desert may be displaced and lose habitat due to climate change. The story is purely speculative with no proof given that Gila monsters have suffered from the past hundred-plus years of warming, and the study referenced relies solely on unreliable climate models.

The Science News article cites a study published in Ecology and Evolution which used “climate change forecasts” (climate modelling) to predict how the native environment and preferred habitat of the Gila monster may change under future warming scenarios.

Science News reports that in “lower emissions scenarios, the team found, not much changes for the Gila monsters,” however under the high emissions scenario, “large swaths of the desert ideal for the lizards could vanish by 2082, resulting in a loss of over a third of today’s suitable territory.“ This may sound reasonable at first glance, but if the study authors meant for people to take the results seriously, they should have started by using reasonable climate model scenarios. The researchers chose only two scenarios, represented by RCP 2.6 as the low emissions scenario, and RCP 8.5 as the high-end emissions scenario. The problem is that RCP 8.5 has been abandoned by even mainstream alarmist scientists and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) because it is an implausible, possibly impossible, projection. It would require a colossal uptick in the amount of fossil fuel use, possibly more than the planet actually contains. It is certainly not a “business as usual” or even a “slightly more business” type of scenario.

Scientists have exposed the problems with RCP 8.5, as well as the fact that the models themselves run way too hot, as Climate Realism covered here.

Gila monsters have existed in the American southwest since at least the late Pleistocene, 10-8 thousand years ago, and their genus has existed since the Miocene – 10 million years ago. They have persisted through extended periods of much hotter and significantly cooler average temperatures than have been projected under even the most extreme, implausible warming scenarios.

The Mojave has likewise seen severe drought periods even as recently as the mid-20^th century, according to a 2004 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) study. Data do not indicate they are getting worse with time.

It is far more likely that, if Gila monsters continue to see population declines, it will be because of human development related habitat destruction, and the pet trade, not warming. The study authors admit in the abstract of the paper that the Mojave has seen increases in urban sprawl and human population growth. Cities in the Mojave Desert basin, such as Barstow, California, Bullhead City, Arizona, and Boulder City and California City, Nevada, have all experienced population growth and urban expansion over the past half-century, encroaching on Gila monster habitat. In addition, the Mojave desert and the species that make it home are under threat from solar energy development with thousands of acres being cleared of vegetation, including protected Joshua trees, to make room for thousands of solar panels – in supposed service of stopping climate change.

The Gila monster migration data presented by the study authors, although interesting, was unfortunately informed by flawed climate models and the extreme modelling scenarios they chose to use to forecast the species decline. In the process, they ignored the long history of the species and its evolution and survival across shifting climates, and downplayed other factors that directly threaten the lizard. Promoting the catastrophic climate change narrative is not going to help preserve the Gila monster’s habitat. Instead, it is likely to encourage even more damage to their range in the form of land-hungry, habitat-destroying solar developments.

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Cheers! Politico: ‘Trump moves to hobble major US climate study’ – ‘A potentially fatal blow to the National Climate Assessment’

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:43:36 -0500

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/09/trump-moves-to-hobble-major-climate-study-00280405 The cuts are a potentially fatal blow to the National Climate Assessment that Congress mandated to ensure the government understands the threats posed by rising temperatures. By Zack Colman The Trump administration is canceling funding for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the entity that produces the federal government’s signature climate change study, according to […]

Over 30 pieces of evidence on how ‘the climate scam is collapsing’

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:10:54 -0500

https://t.co/0fxDNyUR63 — Tom Nelson (@TomANelson) April 9, 2025 By Tom Nelson The climate scam is imploding right now. Of course there are still plenty of remaining pockets of climate cultism, but the whole movement is crumbling. It’s the most massive scientific fraud in human history, and it will take significant time to completely die, but […]

Watch: Morano on Real America’s Voice TV talking return to coal to the U.S. & how the $4 million EPA museum was a ‘shrine’ to Biden, Obama, & the climate agenda

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:01:11 -0500

Watch video here: https://justthenews.com/videos/marc-morano-4-million-epa-museum-shrine-biden-obama-and-climate-agenda Climate Depot Publisher Marc Morano says the National Environmental Museum and Education Center, located at the EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C., is the most “propagandized” government site you can imagine. “$4 million to build, $600,000 to operate annually, less than 2,000 visitors per year—and I guarantee you they’re either EPA […]

Ten Environmentalist Myths Debunked: From claims of a ‘climate crisis’ to ‘too many people’ to ‘running out of ‘fossil’ fuels & more!

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 11:53:27 -0500

Ten Environmentalist Myths Modern environmentalism often strays from its original purpose, advancing policies that unintentionally damage ecosystems, strain economies, and benefit powerful corporate interests. By Edward Ring The first Earth Day was organized in 1970 in response to growing public concern for the environment. Many of these concerns were entirely justified. In 1969, for example, an oil […]

False, Axios, Atlanta’s Rainfall Increase Isn’t Attributable to Climate Change

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 11:49:52 -0500

False, Axios, Atlanta’s Rainfall Increase Isn’t Attributable to Climate Change By Anthony Watts In its April 7, 2025 article titled Heavier rain is becoming more common in Atlanta, Axios Atlanta claims that “climate change is causing heavier downpours in Atlanta” citing data supplied by Climate Central (CC). This attribution is false. Evidence shows that localized urban […]

Biden Admin Quietly Waived ‘Buy America’ Rules on $7B Solar Program, Allowing Taxpayer Funds To Benefit Chinese Manufacturers

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 11:47:58 -0500

Biden Admin Quietly Waived ‘Buy America’ Rules on $7B Solar Program, Allowing Taxpayer Funds To Benefit Chinese Manufacturers By Thomas Catenacci April 9, 2025 Just days before leaving office, the Biden administration quietly waived congressionally mandated “Build America, Buy America” rules for its $7 billion flagship solar program, allowing grant recipients to use federal funds […]

Tariffs threaten to put the nail in the ‘green’ energy coffin

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 11:46:07 -0500

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/tariffs_threaten_to_put_the_nail_in_the_green_energy_coffin.html By Olivia Murray Excerpt: According to a new report at the Financial Times, President Trump’s “tariff blitz” is wreaking havoc in the “green energy” industry, and as chief executive of EDP Renewables North America Sandhya Ganapathy says, the tariffs are a “potential de-railer” to the agenda. Seriously, thank God. And, per an analyst from major investment bank Jeffries […]

Trump’s Tariffs On China Could End The Green Energy Agenda

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 11:45:15 -0500

https://ktrh.iheart.com/featured/houston-texas-news/content/2025-04-08-trumps-tariffs-on-china-could-end-the-green-energy-agenda/ By Ethan Buchanan It looks like tariffs won’t be killing the stock market, but they might be the final nail in the coffin of green energy. That’s because most major components of the green agenda, such as EVs, solar panels, and even windmill components, are made in China. The massive tariffs Trump has imposed […]

False, Axios, Atlanta’s Rainfall Increase Isn’t Attributable to Climate Change

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 06:30:46 -0500

In its April 7, 2025 article titled Heavier rain is becoming more common in Atlanta, Axios Atlanta claims that “climate change is causing heavier downpours in Atlanta” citing data supplied by Climate Central (CC). This attribution is false. Evidence shows that localized urban factors—not global CO₂ levels—are responsible for the modest increases in rainfall intensity in cities like Atlanta.

In their Axios article, writers Kristal Dixon and Alex Fitzpatrick parrot flawed conclusions previously debunked in a March 2025 analysis from Climate Realism, titled Climate Central’s Misleading Urban Rainfall Claims Are All Wet. Good reporters would have examined the evidence independently, rather than simply uncritically echoing CC’s claims. As shown in that post, CC failed to examine long-term historical context and rested their claims on cherry-picked data for the trends they identify. When a more comprehensive data set is examined, such as that compiled at Climate at a Glance, national U.S. precipitation patterns do not support the idea of a climate-driven rainfall crisis. The U.S. Precipitation page makes clear: while some regional variability exists, no alarming or unprecedented surge in rainfall frequency or intensity is attributable to climate change.

The most glaring flaw that Axios inherits from CC is the complete omission of the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect—a basic and long-documented phenomenon in which urban areas retain more heat than surrounding rural regions due to asphalt, concrete, and reduced vegetation. This localized warming creates increased upward convection providing the potential for increased storms in particular locations. Cities like Atlanta are textbook examples of UHI impact as seen in the side-by-side images below.

These paired satellite images, taken in 2000, illustrate the UHI in Atlanta, Georgia. The image on the left is essentially a photo, in which green areas are covered by vegetation, grey areas by built surfaces (pavement and buildings) and brownish areas by bare soil. The image on the right shows land surface temperatures (with a scale). You can see that urban development increases surface temperatures. Source: NASA Earth Observatory

Attributing localized effects to supposed human caused global climate change, while ignoring the critical role urbanization plays seems less of an oversight and more like deliberate misdirection in support of the “climate change causes everything bad” narrative.

Urban areas don’t just heat up differently—they also pollute differently. Cities like Atlanta produce higher levels of particulate matter from vehicles, industrial activity, and heating systems. These particles serve as condensation nuclei, which facilitate cloud formation and rainfall. A 2004 study published in Nature, “Enhanced precipitation due to aerosol effects”, documents this effect, showing how increased aerosols intensify rainfall in heavily polluted areas. These findings have been corroborated in urban studies published by the American Meteorological Society, such as “Urban Influences on Cloud and Precipitation”, which demonstrate how cities create their own microclimates capable of amplifying rainfall—entirely independent of CO₂-driven global climate change.

The rainfall trend that CC and Axios are attributing to “climate change” is more accurately explained by localized human impacts — not emissions from a coal plant in China or a car in Kansas, but heat-retaining surfaces and pollution within the very cities under discussion.

It’s disappointing, but sadly unsurprising, to see Axios uncritically report CC’s dubious climate change attribution for Atlanta’s recent rainfall trends as if it were a proven fact.

Climate Central continues to push a simplistic narrative that ignores fundamental atmospheric physics, misuses regional data, and omits well-established meteorological processes like UHI and aerosol-induced rainfall. Until outlets like Axios start exercising at least a minimal amount of journalistic investigative curiosity, and scrutinize claims made by climate activists that humans are causing changes to the weather, they’re complicit in spreading misinformation, misleading the public concerning the causes and consequences of climate change. This isn’t science, it is narrative engineering in service to a socio-political agenda.

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Trump orders the Attorney General to investigate & stop illegal state climate actions

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 19:13:04 -0500

Trump orders the Attorney General to investigate and stop illegal state climate activism. Full Executive order: https://t.co/6AhyySfQlI pic.twitter.com/5kCaMidT9k — Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) April 8, 2025 https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/protecting-american-energy-from-state-overreach/ PROTECTING AMERICAN ENERGY FROM STATE OVERREACH Executive Orders April 8, 2025 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States […]

Trump Policies Push Maryland To Unplug Its EV Mandate – Dem Gov. admits EV mandate of 43% of all 2027 cars sold must be electric ‘will be too difficult to meet’

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:36:19 -0500

Trump Policies Push Maryland To Unplug Its EV Mandate By Thomas Catenacci Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D.) halted his state’s enforcement of its aggressive electric vehicle mandate law, citing the Trump administration’s withholding of federal funds and concerns from automakers. In a little-noticed executive order signed Friday, Moore pointed to the Trump administration’s policies reversing Biden-era regulations […]

Melting ice in the Arctic could unleash deadly ‘zombie’ viruses and trigger a new pandemic, climate scientists warn

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 12:35:03 -0500

Melting ice in the Arctic could unleash deadly 'zombie' viruses and trigger a new pandemic, climate scientists warn https://t.co/oGXKdUtVKs — Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) April 8, 2025 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14583035/Melting-ice-Arctic-zombie-viruses.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=social-twitter_dailymailus By WILIAM HUNTER Since Covid-19 brought the world to a standstill back in 2020, thoughts have turned to what the next global pandemic could be. Many scientists are focusing their […]

The Only Thing We Have to Fear (About Climate Change) is Fear Itself

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 12:24:28 -0500

The Only Thing We Have to Fear (About Climate Change) is Fear Itself By Wallace Manheimer “So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advances.” This was the opening […]

Princeton Physicist Dr. Will Happer: Climate Scare Based on Lies

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 11:55:28 -0500

Climate Scare Based on Lies by Ron Clutz link to video: Prof. William Happer – Climate Scare Is Based on Lies Excerpt: Transcript in italics with my bolds and added images (HS is interviewer Hannes Sarv, WH is William Happer) HS: If you read about climate in the newspapers or some talk about climate on television, it will be […]

Bastardi: Evidence of underwater geothermal input: ‘More proof that CO2 does not have a darn thing to do with the warming of the oceans’

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 11:51:55 -0500

By Joe Bastardi There has been a sudden unforecasted warming of Sea Surface temperatures to the west of South America. This is more proof that CO2 does not have a darn thing to do with the warming of the oceans. It could not have caused this, But dear reader, I have to deal with this […]

Top Maryland Dem Backs Green Energy Bill That Could Line His Own Company’s Pockets

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 11:45:46 -0500

https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/06/maryland-senate-president-ci-renewables-bill-ferguson/ By Thomas English Democratic Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson is backing legislation to strip trash incinerations from the state’s renewable energy subsidy program — a policy shift that could directly benefit the solar company that now employs him. Lawmakers are quietly folding the proposal into a broader energy package set for a vote before the legislature […]

Meet The Government Consultants Raking In Millions To Spread Climate Doom – Feds outsourcing the ‘crown jewel’ of climate change research to liberal climate consultants

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 11:44:01 -0500

https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-government-contractor-raking-in-millions-to-spread-climate-doom By Brent Scher More than three decades ago, Congress launched an initiative called the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Today, it spends billions of dollars a year empowering liberal climate scientists to spread climate change doom. The government group says its role is to provide the “scientific foundation to support informed decision-making across the United […]

Trump Team Proposes Ending Clean Energy Office, Cutting Billions

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 11:42:10 -0500

https://www.rigzone.com/news/wire/trump_team_proposes_ending_clean_energy_office_cutting_billions-07-apr-2025-180156-article/ Bloomberg By Ari Natter The US Energy Department is proposing to shut down its Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations and cut some $9 billion in awards for programs regarding carbon capture, direct air capture, solar and hydrogen, according to documents seen by Bloomberg. Under the plan, which isn’t final, the $27 billion agency’s staff […]