Science & Tech

Despite Warnings, Biden’s Energy Department Disbursed $42 Billion in Its Final Hours

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 03:01:25 +1000

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/06/30/shovel_ready_despite_warnings_bidens_energy_department_disbursed_42_billion_in_its_final_hours_1119426.html By James Varney, RealClearInvestigations In its last two working days, the Biden administration’s Energy Department signed off on nearly $42 billion for green energy projects – a sum that exceeded the total amount its Loan Programs Office (LPO) had put out in the past decade. The frenzied activity on Jan. 16 and 17, 2025, capped a spending […]

UN Study: ‘Climate crisis driving surge in gender-based violence’ – Warn of ‘28% increase in femicide during heatwaves’ – ‘Every 1°C rise in global temperature is associated with a 4.7% increase in intimate partner violence (IPV)’

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:24:12 +1000

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/04/1162461 By Laura Quinones Excerpt: Without urgent action, climate change could be linked to one in every ten cases of intimate partner violence by the end of the century. That is the warning from a new issue brief by the UN Spotlight Initiative, which finds that climate change is intensifying the social and economic stresses that are fuelling increased […]

New Study: ‘Climate change giving rise to sexual violence’ – ‘Climate change can have a negative impact on women’ – Urge ‘gender-sensitive climate change adaptation policies’ – Published in journal PLOS Global Public Health

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:07:51 +1000

https://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/climate-change-giving-rise-to-sexual-violence/81894332.html Excerpt: Prolonged droughts linked to rise in sexual violence against women in low-and middle-income countries, says study New Delhi: Extreme, prolonged droughts, sometimes lasting up to over three years, in low- and middle-income countries can worsen social vulnerabilities indirectly, increasing levels of sexual violence against girl teenagers and women, a study has found. Researchers, […]

Update: Latest Version of The Big Beautiful Bill Torpedoes Big Solar & Big Wind – ‘Will effectively repeal the incentives for solar & wind immediately’

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 12:03:45 +1000

https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/the-big-beautiful-bill-torpedoes By Robert Bryce Excerpt: The latest version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which was released by the Senate yesterday, takes a flamethrower to the massive alt-energy subsidies that were passed in 2022 under the IRA. As Reuters explained, the legislation, “will effectively repeal the incentives for solar and wind immediately.” Furthermore, it […]

Altered gut microbiome linked to fertility issues in people with PCOS

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 09:01:45 +1000

People with PCOS who struggle to conceive tend to have lower levels of a gut microbe that has been linked to endometrial function

Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry: Climate Science Has Become Pseudo Science – ‘Your funding, salary increase, & tenure case are tied to agreeing with the ‘consensus’

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 06:56:33 +1000

Professor Judith Curry: Climate Science Has Become Pseudo Science . Freedom Research . , . “Your funding, salary increase, and tenure case are tied to agreeing with the ‘consensus.’ It’s really about careerism and resources. They all have to dance to that same drum beat to get professional recognition and professional advancement,” says […]

Progress update on Big Beautiful Bill: WaPo: ‘Senate tax bill seeks to gut clean energy; Musk calls it ‘utterly insane’ – Dem Sen. Ron Wyden laments bill is a ‘death sentence’ for wind, solar… an ‘outright massacre’

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 02:41:35 +1000

Best headline: “Senate tax bill seeks to gut clean energy; [Major subsidy seeker] calls it ‘utterly insane'”.https://t.co/4d8wKl7V2p 1/ pic.twitter.com/pZ2xXQL4D8 — Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) June 29, 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill is a ‘death sentence’ for wind solar… an ‘outright massacre.’ weeps Sen. @RonWyden. 2/ pic.twitter.com/EWh92FClgP — Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) June 29, 2025 Senate tax bill […]

Sen Mike Lee Backs Down From Public Land Sale Provision In BBB After Backlash – ‘I was unable to…guarantee that these lands would be sold only to American families-not to China, not to BlackRock’

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 02:37:04 +1000

https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/29/mike-lee-public-land-sale-big-beautiful-bill-montana-steve-daines-tim-sheehy/ By Robert McGreevy Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee withdrew his controversial federal land sale provision from the “big beautiful” tax bill after public pressure from citizens and lawmakers, he said in a Saturday tweet. “Because of the strict constraints of the budget reconciliation process, I was unable to secure clear, enforceable safeguards to guarantee […]

Global Warming Hardliners Private Jet Set to Jeff Bezos’ Wedding in Venice – Arrive via $65 million Gulfstream G650 jet

Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:50:49 +1000

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/06/27/global-warming-hardliners-private-jet-set-to-jeff-bezos-wedding-in-venice/ By Jerome Hudson A throng of Hollywood celebrities who’ve spent years lecturing about the peril we all face from climate change, hopped on private jets set for Venice where Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s three-day wedding extravaganza took place. A-listers like Leonardo DiCaprio, Mick Jagger, Orlando Bloom, and his ex-fiance Katy Perry flocked to the picturesque […]

‘Outright Massacre’: Senate GOP Takes Sledgehammer To Biden’s Green Energy Subsidies

Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:47:32 +1000

https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/28/senate-gop-biden-green-energy-big-beautiful-bill/ By Adam Pack The Senate dealt a series of blows to solar and wind energy in the latest version of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill — taking a page out of House Republicans’ playbook to crack down on green energy tax credits enacted under former President Joe Biden. The Senate’s new proposal would move […]

Cheers! ‘No more taxpayer-funded panic porn!’ – ‘Trump admin has finally pulled the plug on gov’t funded propaganda site Climate.gov, dismissing its entire content team

Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:44:40 +1000

. The Trump administration has finally pulled the plug on https://t.co/UHjiEdbRrm, dismissing its entire content team as their NOAA contract expired. This site, once a hub for climate alarmism,… pic.twitter.com/FJxT9dFKky — Watts Up With That (@wattsupwiththat) June 28, 2025 Raise a Glass to the Shuttering of Climate.gov By Charles Rotter In its steady promotion of […]

Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, June 28, 2025, #516

Sun, 29 Jun 2025 09:57:09 +1000

Dane WigingtonGeoengineeringWatch.org “Massive wildfires in Canada helped keep the world cooler” (New Scientist). Researchers call for urgent exploration of methods to cool Earth (UK Guardian). Are the climate engineers desperate and dangerous enough to incinerate Earth’s last remaining forests as a means of temporarily and toxically cooling the planet? The short answer is yes. Even […]

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Musician Chrissie Hynde ‘warns how global warming will likely impact the existence of outdoor summer shows’ – ‘Outdoor events are going to come to an end. It’s too hot’

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 22:48:19 +1000

https://www.yahoo.com/news/chrissie-hynde-warns-global-warming-160714158.html By Janelle Borg Excerpt: One of the UK’s cultural institutions, the annual music extravaganza that is Glastonbury Festival, has just kicked off – and while tents have been pitched, flower crowns assembled, and the artists are up and running showcasing their wares on the highly coveted stages, The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde is giving her […]

STUDY: ‘Climate Change May Increase Cancer Rates — And Mortality — For Women’ – Claims ‘a disturbing correlation between rising temps & cancer rates’

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 22:41:15 +1000

https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/climate-change-may-increase-cancer-rates-and-mortality-for-women/ By Jamie Cattanach Along with changing coastlines, crops and summer camp plans, climate change may wreak another form of havoc — on women’s health. According to a study published in May in the journal Frontiers in Public Health, a warming world could also increase women’s rates of cancer. Along with increasing rates of occurrence, the study […]

Storms Not All Bad; They Offer Benefits to Earth

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 22:00:04 +1000

While cyclone activity can cause massive destruction, science shows that God can transform turbulence into a testament of His grace.

Storms Are Not All Bad; They Provide Benefits to Earth

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 22:00:04 +1000

While cyclone activity can cause massive destruction, science shows that God can transform turbulence into a testament of His grace.

Climate Activists Really Don’t Want You To Have A Dog – Man’s best friend is just the latest victim of climate activists’ propaganda

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 08:46:17 +1000

https://www.dailywire.com/news/climate-activists-really-dont-want-you-to-have-a-dog By Jayden Jelso Climate change activists are now arguing that simply owning a dog can increase a person’s carbon footprint. A finding published in PNAS Nexus says that, supposedly, people overestimate the climate benefits of activities like recycling or switching light bulbs. At the same time, they underestimate other beneficial impacts, such as taking fewer flights. “We […]

X-ray boosting fabric could make mammograms less painful

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 05:00:00 +1000

A flexible fabric called X-Wear could replace some parts of medical scanners, which would make taking X-rays and CT scans far more comfortable and convenient

Meteorologist: Wrong, CNN, Heatwaves Aren’t Becoming More Frequent or Severe

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 03:36:01 +1000

Wrong, CNN, Heatwaves Aren’t Becoming More Frequent or Severe By Anthony Watts In the article “Heat waves are getting more dangerous with climate change — and we may still be underestimating them,” CNN boldly claims that human-induced climate change is making heatwaves “more common, intense and longer-lasting,” and that we are likely underestimating the risk. […]

Watch: Morano: Sen. Bernie Sanders ‘Green New Scam’ exposed by Joe Rogan

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 03:31:48 +1000

Decarbonization Myth Frays as Hydrocarbon Use Grows

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 03:30:08 +1000

Decarbonization Myth Frays as Hydrocarbon Use Grows By Vijay Jayaraj One cannot peruse the morning headlines or scroll through the digital ether without being assailed by the global media’s solemn decree: Society is gracefully, unequivocally and inexorably decoupling from the deathly embrace of fossil fuels. Many in the “enlightened” professional classes, forgoing independent scrutiny of […]

‘Anxiety, grief, anger, fear, helplessness’ – AP on How to Manage ‘Anxiety’ from ‘Emotional Toll’ of Climate Panic

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 03:27:47 +1000

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2025/06/27/positivity-sandwich-ap-how-manage-anxiety-emotional-toll By Joseph Vazquez The Associated Press appears to believe that people are waking up every day having nervous breakdowns over the spectre of — wait for it — climate change. AP lifestyle writer Leanne Italie put out a crackpot piece of green freak propaganda June 25 that competed with The Babylon Bee for funniest satire of […]

Bloomberg News laments ‘America’s New Language of Climate Denial’ – ‘Climate crap… crud…climate change religion’

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 03:24:37 +1000

Climate hoaxers whine about Trump administration consistency on ending the climate scam: – “Beautiful, clean coal.” — Donald Trump – “We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion.” — Lee Zeldin – “The Department of Defense does not do climate… pic.twitter.com/n4oIsXvoSz — Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) June 17, 2025 […]

IT’S THE SUN, STUPID! Astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon’s new brilliant (& funny) short film, exposing the climate scam

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 03:18:42 +1000

Astrophysicist Dr. @WillieSoon8‘s new brilliant (and funny) short film, exposing the climate scam. IT’S THE SUN, STUPID! Pls click, watch and share: https://t.co/AXOaVbDhhf@TomANelson @Martin_Durkin pic.twitter.com/GgtQh6N0FU — GorillaScience (@WatchGorillaSci) June 25, 2025

Good Laugh For Today: New York State Says It Will Build A New Nuclear Power Plant

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 03:16:26 +1000

From THE MANHATTAN CONTRARIAN By Francis Menton In case you missed it, here is New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s breathless announcement from yesterday: “Governor Hochul Directs New York Power Authority to Develop a Zero-Emission Advanced Nuclear Energy Technology Power Plant.” And here is Hochul’s picture of herself making the announcement: Does something here seem like it doesn’t […]

Mathematicians create a tetrahedron that always lands on the same side

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 02:47:31 +1000

With the help of powerful computers, researchers discovered a four-sided shape that naturally rests on one side, and built a real-life version from carbon fibre and tungsten

The bold plan to save a vital ocean current with giant parachutes

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 02:30:11 +1000

Large sea anchors could be used to drag water under a bold plan to keep the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation moving – but some experts are sceptical

A Tale of Two Worms: (R)Evolution on Trial in the Age of Genomics

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 22:00:04 +1000

Through two studies about worms, we see a conceptual crisis in evolutionary biology.

Mystery fireball spotted plummeting to Earth over the US

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 08:09:37 +1000

There have been hundreds of reports of sightings of a “fireball” in the skies over the southern US – it may have been a meteor breaking up as it falls through Earth’s atmosphere

BOMBSHELL: Study Reveals Climate Warming Driven by Receding Cloud Cover – Study destabilizes alarmist narrative – ‘A reduction in cloud cover…has resulted in less solar radiation being reflected back into space & more being absorbed by the Earth’s surface

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 06:27:09 +1000

BOMBSHELL: Study Reveals Climate Warming Driven by Receding Cloud Cover By Charles Rotter https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL114882 The recent paper by Tselioudis et al., titled “Contraction of the World’s Storm-Cloud Zones the Primary Contributor to the 21st Century Increase in the Earth’s Sunlight Absorption”, is a fascinating—and deeply problematic—addition to the climate science canon. It offers yet another reminder […]

Why Oil Market Held Firm In Face Of Another Middle East War – Kudos to ‘Trump’s America First energy policies for making us more reliant on domestic sources of oil & gas’

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 06:15:17 +1000

“Oil prices have remained relatively stable with minimal fluctuations — so far. It appears that the U.S. military strikes on Iran were surgical and not the beginning to a wider conflict,” Morano told the DCNF. “If the fragile cease-fire holds between Israel and Iran, that will further keep energy prices from skyrocketing. But, before we celebrate, we must realize that this is an extremely volatile situation that could change in minutes. … The long-term insurance against Middle East conflict is continuing Trump’s America first energy policies and making us more reliant on domestic sources of oil and gas.”

Watch: Morano on Fox talking ‘polluting EVs’ – ‘There is nothing about them that screams ‘Earth-friendly’

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 06:10:42 +1000

Watch: Morano on Fox talking ‘polluting Evs’ Fox Business – The Evening Edit – Broadcast June 25, 2025 – Host Elizabeth MacDonald pic.twitter.com/sr2Pq1uyen — Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) June 26, 2025 Fox Business – The Evening Edit – Broadcast June 25, 2025 – Host Elizabeth MacDonald Marc Morano: Electric vehicles require half a million pounds […]

Ash trees are rapidly evolving some resistance to ash dieback disease

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 05:00:47 +1000

DNA sequencing shows young trees are more likely to have gene variants that confer partial resistance to a fungus that has been wiping out ash trees across Europe

Deep sleep seems to lead to more eureka moments

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 05:00:23 +1000

After a nap, people who entered the second stage of sleep were more likely to spot a solution to a problem than those who slept lightly or not at all

These rocks are probably the last remains of Earth's early crust

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 05:00:05 +1000

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a compelling case that it does

Nearly a third of Tuvaluans have applied for climate migration visa

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 01:17:26 +1000

With their country threatened by sea level rise, the people of Tuvalu have been offered an escape route through an agreement with Australia, and many are contemplating leaving their home

Extreme winter weather isn’t down to a wavier jet stream

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:00:33 +1000

The recent erratic behaviour of the polar jet stream isn't out of the ordinary, researchers have found by compiling data from the past 125 years

What Is Biofluorescence, and Did It Evolve?

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 22:00:47 +1000

Baffled by biofluorescence diversity, scientists claim it evolved separately over 100 times.

Ted Cruz Confronts Witness Who Wants Oil Execs Jailed For ‘Homicide’

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 08:18:52 +1000

https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/25/ted-cruz-shreds-witness-who-wants-oil-execs-jailed-for-homicide/ By Jason Cohen Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday criticized a witness who said oil companies should face prosecution for climate-related deaths. David Arkush, director of Public Citizen’s climate program and author of the 2023 paper “Climate Homicide: Prosecuting Big Oil For Climate Deaths,” appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee during a hearing titled “China and the […]

Independent estimate of Gaza deaths is higher than official figures

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:07:57 +1000

A study based on household surveys suggests that from October 2023 to January 2025, around 75,000 people in Gaza died violent deaths, while Gaza's health ministry estimates 46,000 for the same period

Ancient mammoth-tusk boomerang is twice as old as we thought

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 05:00:31 +1000

A boomerang discovered in a Polish cave was originally dated as 18,000 years old, but it may have been contaminated by preservation materials. A new estimate suggests the mammoth-ivory artefact is 40,000 years old

Gastric bypass surgery may cut the risk of bowel cancer

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 05:00:09 +1000

Weight-loss surgery seems to lower the risk of colorectal cancer by changing where bile acids enter the small intestine, raising the possibility of developing treatments that mimic these effects

Cancer cells steal mitochondria from nerve cells to fuel their spread

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 02:00:45 +1000

Cancer cells can acquire energy-generating structures called mitochondria from nearby nerve cells, which seems to aid their spread, a discovery that could lead to new treatments

Generation Alpha's coded language makes online bullying hard to detect

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 21:48:58 +1000

Adults and AI models fail to recognise messages with harmful intent expressed with Gen Alpha slang or memes, raising concerns about youngsters’ online safety

Watch: Joe Rogan confronts Sen. Bernie Sanders with WaPo chart showing Earth cooling over last 485 million years – Bernie responds: ‘I’m not sure. I didn’t read that article’

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 21:38:12 +1000

WaPo features shock graph showing Earth cooling: ‘Scientists have captured Earth’s climate over last 485 million years’ – ‘Reveals world was in a much warmer state for most of the history of complex animal life’ – ‘History of wild shifts & far hotter temps than scientists previously realized’ – September 20, 2024 The next […]

Heart attacks are no longer the leading cause of death in the US

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 20:00:40 +1000

Since 1970, heart attack deaths have fallen almost 90 per cent in the US, though deaths from chronic heart conditions have significantly risen

Enigmatic lizards somehow survived near Chicxulub asteroid impact

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:01:55 +1000

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 million years ago, which led to the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs

Small and speedy dinosaur recognised as a new species

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:01:25 +1000

Enigmacursor darted around North America in the Late Jurassic 145-150 million years ago and its skeleton now be on display in London’s Natural History Museum

Contrary to Climate Group’s Claims, The Fresno Bee Points Out Population & Property Values Are Increasing

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 09:30:49 +1000

Contrary to Climate Group’s Claims, The Fresno Bee Points Out Population and Property Values Are Increasing By Linnea Lueken The Fresno Bee published an article, “Nearly half of Fresno residents will flee due to climate risks, report predicts,” covering the claims of a climate risk assessment firm, First Street. The firm claimed that over 45 percent of […]

Women's pelvises are shrinking – how is that changing childbirth?

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 07:20:36 +1000

Over the past 150 years, the rise in Caesarean sections and changes in diet could have led to smaller pelvises among women – which may make vaginal birth more difficult but could also reduce common conditions associated with childbirth