In Pecos County, Texas, crews are clearing scrubland for a power plant that will burn natural gas and answer to no one but Amazon. With 35 turbines and a generating capacity of more than 7 gigawatts, the plant would produce more electricity than the Grand Coulee Dam. [some emphasis, links added]

The AI doom narrative currently saturating the news cycle is not a spontaneous scientific concern. It is a coordinated, funded, and carefully timed psychological operation designed to achieve one objective: regulatory capture of artificial intelligence before the public ever gets its hands on the technology.

The Trump Environmental Protection Agency plans to propose permanently repealing federal regulations on power plants’ greenhouse gas emissions, asserting that such rules have “virtually no benefit,” the Washington Free Beacon has learned. [some emphasis, links added]

The United Nations announced this week that “Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming’s harms,” so UN officials now “recommend trying to limit excessive warming and then bring the temperature back down to the agreed-upon threshold.”

The approved mass slaughter of the disabled, the poor, the frail, the old, the unemployed and the unwanted is, with quiet certainty and to the eternal shame of politicians, becoming global.

A study published in Frontiers in Psychiatry has found an association between extremely low frequency electromagnetic field (ELF-EMF) exposure and poor sleep quality, depression, anxiety and stress among electric power plant workers, according to Environmental Health Sciences.

A federal appeals court has just told prosecutors in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin they cannot charge a man for privately possessing AI-generated child sexual abuse images inside his home.

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

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]

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]

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

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.

As I note in my upcoming Broadside/HarperCollins book Confidently Wrong, one defining feature of upper-middle-class life over the past 50–60 years has been scientists, activists, and public intellectuals making the most horrifying kind of doomsday predictions — which invariably fail to come true.

Although the coupled ocean-atmosphere processes associated with El Niño are well established, questions remain about what determines the onset, strength, and timing of individual events.

You’ll all probably know that an undercover sting operation by a newly-formed investigative group called Verbatim — which is backed by the US-linked climate journalism group Centre for Climate Reporting (CCR) — targeted senior officials of the UK political party Reform UK.

Common medications may reshape the gut microbiome long after the last dose is taken. In a study of more than 2,500 people, researchers found lasting microbial changes linked not only to antibiotics, but also to antidepressants, beta-blockers, acid-reducing drugs, and benzodiazepines.