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  • Phillies and Braves are experiencing climate change firsthand, and it may affect their play

    03/28/2024 4:41:07 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 47 replies
    The Philadelphia Inquier ^ | March 27, 2024 | by Anthony R. Wood
    The Phillies and the Atlanta Braves reputedly are among the elite teams of major-league baseball, but if the quality of play at Citizens Bank Park during their season-opening series doesn’t quite measure up to expectations, go gentle on the booing. These players are experiencing a form of abrupt climate change, says Struan Coleman, a sports medicine specialist who practices in New York and Philly. When the Phillies left Clearwater, Fla., after their final spring training game Monday, the high was 83 degrees, and daily highs since the team began playing their practice games in Florida on Feb. 25 have averaged...
  • Idaho leaders 'strongly condemn' reported racism against Utah during NCAA tourney trip (why no videos?)

    03/27/2024 3:55:16 PM PDT · by PghBaldy · 38 replies
    KUTV ^ | 26 March | Victoria Hill
    COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (KUTV) — Idaho leaders have responded to allegations of racism toward University of Utah women's basketball players while they were staying in Coeur d'Alene for the NCAA Tournament. Mayor Jim Hammond, Police Chief Lee White and representatives with the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations were among speakers at Tuesday's press conference.
  • Pakistani family blamed the far right for torching their house. A few candlelit vigils later, the truth has come out

    03/26/2024 7:05:14 AM PDT · by Twotone · 30 replies
    The Blaze ^ | March 25, 2024 | Joseph Mackinnon
    A home belonging to a family of Pakistani migrants was set ablaze in the German town of Wächtersbach on Christmas Day 2023. Phantasmal right-wingers were immediately blamed for the arson. The family members, meanwhile, were depicted as victims of so-called Islamophobia and xenophobia. This narrative, agreeable to European leftists and the liberal media, recently went up in smoke. A convenient spark The fire began around 1 a.m. on Christmas morning and did roughly $379,000 in damage. The fire brigade found anti-migrant slogans scrawled inside the smoldering ruins. Der Spiegel reported that the words "foreigners out" had been spray-painted on some...
  • ‘The Planet Is Going Bankrupt’: Human Survival Depends On Managing Climate Risk

    03/25/2024 7:46:10 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 49 replies
    Forbes ^ | March 25, 2024 | By Nina Seega
    2023 has been a record-breaking year in terms of temperature rise, ocean warming, wildfires and pretty much every other weather event the world over. Various climate attribution reports show that climate change had a guiding hand in making these events more frequent and more intense. Yet, the climate modelling used to plan for and finance adaptation to a warmer world has failed to keep up. This disconnect between models and the likely future that awaits us is deeply problematic. The first European climate risk assessment from the European Environment Agency, published in March, shows Europe has heated up faster than...
  • In a surprise vote, major European climate protection plan shelved following farmer protests

    03/25/2024 7:39:16 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 20 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | March 25, 2024 | BY RAF CASERT
    BRUSSELS (AP) — A major European Union plan to fight climate change and better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc has been indefinitely postponed Monday, underscoring how farmers’ protests sweeping the continent influence politics ahead of the June EU parliamentary elections. The member states were supposed to give final approval to the bill on Monday following months of proceedings through the EU’s institutional maze. But what was supposed to be a mere rubber stamp has now been possibly shelved forever. “(The plan) is in a very difficult position at the moment and with the upcoming European elections, it won’t be...
  • Sen John Kennedy destroys Olympic skier Gus Schumacher after Democrats invited him as 'expert witness' on climate change - and quotes his old tweets

    03/25/2024 4:27:55 AM PDT · by Libloather · 41 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 3/25/24 | Dominic Yeatman
    Senate Democrats were left red-faced at a hearing on climate change as their 'expert witness' proved to be anything but when faced by veteran senator John Kennedy. Budget Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse invited Olympic skier Gus Schumacher to give his perspective as the committee considered the impact of climate change on the recreation industry. But it was all downhill for the 23-year-old as he struggled to answer basic questions and could not remember his tweets claiming the war on drugs was designed to jail black people, and calling for the police to be abolished. The excruciating exchange continued with Schumacher insisting...
  • Election Year Encore: Christine Blasey Ford’s Resurgence

    03/22/2024 1:06:16 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 22 replies
    AMAC Newsline ^ | 22 Mar, 2024 | Tammy Bruce
    Just in time for the presidential election year, Christine Blasey Ford is back. The woman who the Democrats put on national television in 2018 to accuse SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her in the early 1980s without any evidence, is promoting her new book. About what exactly? Oh yes, detailing what life was like before, during, and after, her testimony. Of course. During those confirmation hearings’ six years, the media held Ford up as a martyr and hero, standing up for victims everywhere. We were told to “believe all women,” and that then-Judge Kavanaugh was not worthy of...
  • Despite ‘no increase’ in hurricane ferocity overall, a predicted ferocious season is set to be a ‘political football’ for green agenda

    03/22/2024 10:33:15 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 16 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 22 Mar, 2024 | Jack Hellner
    Real scientists are expecting an aggressive hurricane season, and even more aggressive “alarmist” messaging. Katie Spence at The Epoch Times wrote this in her new article: This year’s hurricane season, which officially starts June 1, is being predicted by WeatherBELL as the ‘hurricane season from hell,’ with weather patterns similar to those of 2005, 2017, and 2020. Along with it, says the firm’s meteorologist and chief forecaster Joe Bastardi, will come the climate change blame game, which he calls a false narrative. … After Irma, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called the 2017 season ‘the most violent on record.’ ‘Changes...
  • Easter eggs costs rise as climate change hits crops

    03/22/2024 6:03:19 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 41 replies
    BBC News ^ | March 22, 2024 | By Justin Rowlatt
    You may have noticed that Easter eggs are more expensive this year. But did you know that climate change is one of the reasons? Most chocolate is made from cocoa grown in West Africa, but a humid heatwave has blasted the crops and massively cut yields. Experts say that human-induced climate change has made the extreme heat 10 times more likely. Which? found some popular eggs have risen in price by 50% or more. The shortage of cocoa resulting from the heatwave has seen prices soar to almost $8,500 (£6,700) a tonne this week. Cocoa trees are particularly vulnerable to...
  • Climate cafés open worldwide to help 'ease the anxiety' of global 'crisis'

    03/22/2024 5:53:50 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 29 replies
    FOX News ^ | March 22, 2024 | By Lindsay Kornick
    "Climate cafés" have been popping up worldwide over the past few years to help people deal with their global warming anxiety, according to a recent New York Times report. The article "Can Climate Cafes Help Ease the Anxiety of Planetary Crisis?" documented a new phenomenon of groups meeting, whether publicly or privately, to "discuss their grief, fears, anxiety and other emotions about the climate crisis." One organization, Climate Psychology Alliance North America, claimed to the NYT that it has trained 350 people to run climate cafés in the U.S. and Canada with 300 people on the "climate-aware therapist directory." "The...
  • Warming climate threatens rodent population that feeds Arctic foxes

    03/22/2024 4:42:39 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 24 replies
    CBS News Local ^ | March 22, 2024 | By Molly McCrea
    PALO ALTO -- The Arctic fox is a natural beauty but this captivating creature with its playful nature and distinctive look is under threat. Experts say Arctic foxes need to hunt rodents to survive long winters and climate change is thinning the rodent population. "If we get warmer and more unstable climate, where you can get snow melt and you get icing on the ground, that is going to affect how well the rodents can survive," explained conservation biologist Kristine Ulvund with the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research. Stanford professor of biology Elizabeth Hadley, who has studied biodiversity for decades,...
  • Food prices could increase further due to climate change's effect on inflation around the world: Study

    03/22/2024 4:34:53 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 43 replies
    ABC News | Disney ^ | March 21, 2024 | ByJulia Jacobo and Daniel Peck
    The strain that rising global temperatures could have on on the agriculture industry and inflation around the world will likely cause food prices to increase even more, according to new research. Changes in average monthly temperatures have the strongest and most consistent correlation to productivity and inflation figures, according to a paper published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment on Thursday. Researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany looked at historical food prices in different categories of food goods across countries around the world to explore how fluctuations in different climatic conditions have historically impacted...
  • Editorial: Hold the applause. Biden’s new EV rules don’t go fast enough for the climate crisis

    03/20/2024 3:50:41 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 26 replies
    The Los Angeles Times ^ | March 20, 2024 | BY THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD
    It may be tempting to look at new rules finalized Wednesday by the Biden administration boosting sales of electric vehicles as a big step toward slashing climate-changing pollution. But the Environmental Protection Agency rules are more an incremental move, too weak and slow to respond appropriately to the gravity of the unfolding environmental crisis. And that’s a shame, because with a divided Congress, administrative action is the only way for the federal government to do big things such as protect the public from climate change and pollution. Speed matters, after all, in preventing catastrophic climate impacts, and the longer we...
  • UN weather agency issues ‘red alert’ on climate change after record heat, ice-melt increases in 2023

    03/19/2024 6:43:04 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 35 replies
    The Associated Press | DNC ^ | March 19, 2024 | BY JAMEY KEATEN AND SETH BORENSTEIN
    GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming, citing record-smashing increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and melting of glaciers and sea ice, and warning that the world’s efforts to reverse the trend have been inadequate. The World Meteorological Organization, in a “State of the Global Climate” report released Tuesday, ratcheted up concerns that a much-vaunted climate goal is increasingly in jeopardy: That the world can unite to limit planetary warming to no more than 1.5 degrees. “Earth’s issuing a distress call,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. “The latest...
  • Biden Campaign Hypes ‘Bloodbath’ Hoax in Ad

    03/18/2024 12:07:38 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 29 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/18/2024 | WENDELL HUSEBØ
    The Biden campaign released an ad Monday that features out-of-context remarks by former President Donald Trump about the “bloodbath” that will occur in the American auto industry if President Joe Biden wins reelection. The ad is the Biden campaign’s latest effort to seize America First policy and spin it into an anti-Trump narrative. “The Trump campaign can try to spin all they want, but the context is clear: their candidate has spent every moment since his first campaign encouraging and excusing political violence,” Biden campaign spokesperson Sarafina Chitika told Politico. “Repeatedly. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature of Donald...
  • Climate protesters lose legal battle over right to cause damage

    03/18/2024 11:08:20 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 6 replies
    The Telegraph UK ^ | March 18, 2024 | By Charles Hymas
    Eco-activists’ claims that they have a right to cause damage as part of their protests have been rejected by Court of Appeal judges. Victoria Prentis, the Attorney General, asked the Court to rule on whether eco-protesters could use a defence of “lawful excuse” to cause criminal damage to banks, businesses and private property and avoid conviction at trial. It follows the acquittal of a protester from a climate action group known as Burning Pink who threw paint at the offices of Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Christian Aid, Friends of the Earth, plus the Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem and Green parties, causing...
  • A New Surge in Power Use Is Threatening U.S. Climate Goals

    03/18/2024 6:16:10 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 57 replies
    The Seattle Times ^ | March 17, 2024 | By Brad Plumer |The New York Times
    Something unusual is happening in America. Demand for electricity, which has stayed largely flat for two decades, has begun to surge. Over the past year, electric utilities have nearly doubled their forecasts of how much additional power they’ll need by 2028 as they confront an unexpected explosion in the number of data centers, an abrupt resurgence in manufacturing driven by new federal laws, and millions of electric vehicles being plugged in. Many power companies were already struggling to keep the lights on, especially during extreme weather, and say the strain on the grid will only increase. Peak demand in the...
  • You Can Start Applying For The American Climate Corps Next Month

    03/18/2024 5:27:50 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 46 replies
    LAist ^ | March 18, 2024
    The long-awaited jobs board for the American Climate Corps, promised early in the Biden administration, will open next month, according to details shared exclusively with Grist. The White House plans to officially launch an online platform in April. At first, only a couple of hundred jobs will be posted, but eventually up to 20,000 young people are expected to be hired in the program’s first year. “The American Climate Corps is a story of hope and possibilities,” said Maggie Thomas, a special assistant to the president for climate change. “There’s an incredible demand signal from young people who we see...
  • Something Serious Has Occurred in UK

    03/17/2024 5:59:34 PM PDT · by shadowlands1960 · 225 replies
    Twitter ^ | March 3rd 2024 | Self
    Flags at half staff... major announcement imminent... any guesses on what's going on? I believe the King may have passed.
  • Opinion: Biden wants 50,000 new climate activists and the consequences will be devastating

    03/16/2024 7:00:06 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 52 replies
    FOX News ^ | March 16, 2024 | By Daniel Turner
    With the national debt racing toward a record $35 trillion, President Joe Biden released his budget proposal Monday, including an eye-popping $8 billion for a "Climate Corps" program. Enthusiastically supported by Green New Deal architects,Biden’s Climate Corps would hire 50,000 government workers annually by 2031 with the explicit yet vague mission of "tackling climate change." Any guesses which political party these workers will be supporting? The Climate Corps has been likened to President Franklin Roosevelt’s Depression Era jobs program, but there has never been legislation nor appropriation of such an expansive government program without congressional approval. For context, the National...