The World Health Organisation and World Bank are requesting an annual budget of $31.1 billion for pandemic preparedness and prevention. An amount that is almost ten times WHO’s current budget. This money will be used to fund the growing pandemic industry

Greening is being supercharged in the African savannah, new research published in Nature has found, with higher CO2 levels driving a 28 percent increase in plant growth over the last 32 years

Norway’s Minister of Energy Terje Aasland told Reuters that his country will keep developing oil and gas in the Barents Sea irrespective of a European Union (EU) ban on Arctic drilling. [some emphasis, links added]

With steady regularity, news items appear in mainstream publications discussing male sterilisation or, in the conveniently obscure medical jargon, vasectomies.

AI needs vast amounts of electricity, more than America can reliably deliver. That is becoming hard to miss as data centers spread across the country to feed the AI boom

Climatologist Judith Curry announced earlier this year she would no longer maintain her influential “Climate Etc.” blog. “Climate stupidity” had lost, and it was time to move on, Curry, who has a doctorate in geophysical sciences, wrote in a final entry

Months ago, I warned that diesel would hit $8 to $10 a gallon. Back then, many uninformed people dismissed me as an alarmist. But as I write this, San Francisco has already blown past the $8 mark, and the rest of California is not far behind ^[1]

Michigan will test counting drivers’ miles through vehicle GPS and smartphones — even though more than 30% of residents told the state they worry about privacy.

A solar storm in November 2024 caused GPS positioning errors exceeding 33 feet across the continental United States, according to a new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters

The Environmental Protection Agency under President Donald Trump is clearing pollution-control barriers around America’s expanding AI infrastructure as researchers report massive nitrogen oxide emissions from an AI power plant and EPA documents identify potentially lethal hazards from newly approved semiconductor chemicals

Deglaciation periods, such as the one occurring from about 14,000 to 6,000 years ago, are estimated to have had ocean heat uptake rates of 12,000-20,000 zettajoules (ZJ). [some emphasis, links added]

Rapid-onset autism cases are relatively rare. These are the cases showing the temporal proximity. But most pediatric practices will have too few cases for them to notice the pattern!

We are witnessing one of the most breathtaking acts of public deception in modern history, and it centers on the simple claim that artificial intelligence data centers don’t consume water

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) — a storied institution signed into law by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 through an act of Congress — finds itself at the center of a growing controversy over how it has mixed climate science and politics in violation of its Congressional mandate and the organization’s commitment to objectivity, independence, and excellence

This week I published a new report into Britain’s oil refining sector, Fuel, Refineries and the UK ETS: What Policymakers Need to Know. Its conclusions are alarming

After months of being told how unprecedented this summer has been, it turns out it was barely any hotter than 1976 in terms of daytime temperatures – just 0.3C warmer, to be precise, which is an insignificant amount, given the Met Office’s shoddy dataset