The 2009 Endangerment Finding labelled carbon dioxide a ‘pollutant’ that threatens public health and welfare. For more than a decade, that designation has functioned as the legal foundation for regulating ‘fossil’ fuels, electricity generation, transportation, and much of the modern world
The US Department of Defense is considering blacklisting Anthropic — one of America’s leading AI companies, and the creator of the Claude large language model — after it refused to let the military use its technology without ethical limits
There have been more than three times the number of claims under the NHS Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme for Covid jabs than during the previous four decades for all other vaccines combined – but only one percent have been successful
Here, I promise you, was “breaking” news from not long ago: “United States Representative Tim Burchett says aliens could be stationed in five or six underwater bases off the U.S. coast”
There are lessons to be drawn from the recent near-buckling of the U.S. energy grid under the stress of the winter, rumours of whose demise have been greatly exaggerated
The Media Hall Monitors repeatedly tell us that CBS’s new editorial direction is Trump-adjacent and “MAGA-friendly.” This is, of course, a shameless exaggeration most recently belied by a weird Sunday Morning report that injected ‘climate change’ into the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding
Many countries around the world demand that all children be vaccinated against measles. When they start school or kindergarten, their parents are asked for proof of vaccination. The state tells them the injection is beneficial and protective for their child
US supplies of gasoline are being shipped out of the country to travel thousands of miles viathe Bahamas before finally ending up in California, a state battling shrinking fuelmaking capacity and high pump prices
For years on Irrational Fear, I have written about Dansgaard–Oeschger (D–O) events, abrupt climate shifts during the last glacial period when temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere surged by double-digit degrees in mere decades
The two Voyager spacecraft were launched in 1977 on a five-year mission to study the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. What they did after that made them the most successful spacecraft ever
Global warming policy has become the world’s most expensive bet. Governments have committed trillions of dollars on the assumption that carbon dioxide (CO2) from human activity is the principal driver of rising temperatures