Huge thanks to this month’s donor, who wishes to remain anonymous but has asked me to post a link to this poem by their friend, Arthur L Wood. I’m no great shakes when it comes to literary criticism but I was moved by its tenderness and honesty, and heartily recommend giving it a listen.
“I just updated this graph with three more months of NASA CERES data it needs a bigger y-axis, again…
“There is so much more regional and global warming in the pipeline than most realize!
“This graph shows the regional increases in absorbed sunlight and outgoing heat radiation:”
[Leon Simons]
https://x.com/LeonSimons8/status/1996320940427530609
“Breaking News! Code Yikes!
“PIOMAS just posted their Arctic sea-ice volume data for September, October and November (catching up after the Gov’t shutdown). Here is the volume data, 1979 – 2025, showing a record low for both October and November… And “thickness” just set an all-time record low in October. [Prof Eliot Jacobson]
https://x.com/EliotJacobson/status/1996354466065592466
“Why glaciers are reaching their top speeds earlier each year…
“Using almost ten years of NASA satellite images, researchers tracked the seasonal speed of every land glacier on the planet larger than about two square miles. They found that warmer glaciers not only speed up more each year, they also tend to reach their top speeds earlier in the calendar.”
https://www.earth.com/news/why-glaciers-are-reaching-their-top-speeds-earlier-each-year/
“Breiðamerkurjökull (SE Iceland) 1984 | 2025
“6 km frontal retreat over 40 years for the 4th largest glacier in Iceland (900 km² in 2010), an outlet of the Vatnajökull ice cap! LIA max is tangent to coastline.” [Melaine Le Roy]
https://x.com/subfossilguy/status/1995914840313876747
“Autumn 2025 marked by record rainfall in Luxembourg.
“If the last three months have seemed a damp, it’s because they officially were – especially September… September saw several precipitation records broken across the Grand Duchy, with all weather stations registering unusually high rainfall, as the month marked the start of a notably damp autumn.”
“A tornado hits the Taranto coast, uprooting trees in Manduria and San Pietro in Bevagna [Italy].
“A tornado struck Manduria, in the province of Taranto. The vortex hit a predominantly agricultural area toward San Pietro in Bevagna. The severe weather struck the Taranto area late this afternoon, Tuesday, December 2nd, causing damage…
“Storm sweeps into Greece, raising alert level…
“On Friday, storms are forecast to intensify, with red alerts issued for Pieria, Imathia, Halkidiki, Thessaloniki, Thessaly, the Sporades, Evia, the eastern Aegean islands and the Dodecanese, with localized high risk also in the Cyclades and Crete.”
“While Central Mediterranean has been wintry for weeks, abnormal warmth never ends in Eastern Mediterranean.
“Next days we will see insane tropical nights in parts of Turkey, perhaps Cyprus and the Levant. There had never been anything like this in December: expect dozens of records.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1996277920000770282
“Severe weather: several neighborhoods flooded in Algiers…
“Cities were indeed flooded. This was especially the case in the capital, Algiers, where several neighborhoods were submerged in the early evening following heavy rains that continued for several hours.”
https://lalgerieaujourdhui.dz/intemperies-plusieurs-quartiers-inondes-a-alger/
“When a Prayer Is Also a Climate Signal.
“New research in North Africa is validating calls for communal rain prayers as a means of tracking droughts in the region… “I was trying to find a proxy, something that would tell me when food production was impacted or soil moisture was impacted at this regional [scale],” he said. The call for rain prayers, he realized, could be a key data point…”
https://eos.org/articles/when-a-prayer-is-also-a-climate-signal
“Gauteng and KZN face severe weather: Flooding and hail warnings in effect [South Africa].
“Authorities in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal have issued urgent warnings as Level 4 and Level 5 severe weather alerts remain in place, with thunderstorms already causing flooding, hailstorms and disruptions to services.”
“Israel braces for weekend storms after record-warm November.
“After an unusually hot, dry November marked by two heat waves, Israel faces a sharp weather shift with thunderstorms, cooler temperatures and flash flood risks in the south and east as conditions turn unsettled heading into the weekend.”
https://www.ynetnews.com/environment/article/s1wxrv6bwe
“Experts warn of looming water crisis in northwestern Türkiye.
“Water levels at two vital reservoirs supplying Çanakkale, northwestern Türkiye, have fallen dramatically amid persistent drought conditions, triggering serious concerns about the city’s ability to meet drinking, irrigation and general water needs in the coming months.”
“HISTORIC WINTER HEAT IN MIDDLE EAST – records destroyed with insane margins. 100% UNPRECEDENTED.
“KUWAIT: 33.6 [92.5F] Managish, 33.3 Al Wafra, 32.5 Int. AP; December National record smashed by 2C. All stations broke their records! IRAN: 31.6 Abadan, 31.0 Omidieh; IRAQ: 31.3 Al Salman, 31.2 Basra.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1995779979519377471
“Facing Severe Drought Iran Plans to Purchase Water From Neighboring Countries.
“Iranian Energy Minister Abbas Ali Abadi said that the government is now exploring external options to meet urgent domestic needs. “If there is a country willing to sell water, we will buy it,” he stated, according to remarks carried by German news agency DPA.”
“Himalayan Glaciers Melting Faster: India Intensifies Large-Scale Monitoring Through Multiple National Missions And Early Warning Systems.
“The Centre has informed Parliament that Himalayan glaciers are showing signs of accelerated and uneven mass loss, prompting an expansion of monitoring efforts and early-warning mechanisms across the region.”
“Will glacier melt lead to increased seismic activity in mountain regions?
“…The scientists sought to determine whether glacial meltwater driven by global warming could play a hand in increasing seismic activity too. “Our study provides the first direct observational link between climate-change-driven snow and glacier melt and a measurable increase in short-term seismic hazard.””
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-glacier-seismic-mountain-regions.html
“Climate disasters deepen food insecurity in the Punjab…
“The child has faced circumstances far beyond anyone her age should have. The floods that wreaked havoc on the Punjab region in India and Pakistan in August submerged her family’s farm for over a month, destroying an entire season’s worth of crops and killing some of their livestock. Her only cow was not spared.”
https://dialogue.earth/en/climate/climate-disasters-deepen-food-insecurity-in-the-punjab/
“Tamil Nadu Reels Under Torrential Rain; Chennai Residents Rescued by Boats.
“Coastal and interior Tamil Nadu were battered by torrential rainfall throughout Wednesday as the remnants of cyclonic storm Ditwah, now degraded into a well-marked low-pressure area over the north Tamil Nadu-Puducherry coast, continued to dump massive volumes of water, transforming streets into rivers and residential colonies into isolated islands across multiple districts.”
“‘No one helped us’: The Sri Lanka community left in a mass of mud and loss after cyclone…
“Many locals say they were not warned about the threat Cyclone Ditwah posed here before it struck last Friday, and weren’t told to evacuate. They say they’ve received very little help since. Resourceful neighbours were left to try to help rescue survivors.”
“Families on rooftops, homes buried by mud: Asia floods show water is overtaking wind as main threat…
“A review by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected that south and south-east Asia will suffer more intense rain as temperatures rise, with a “large increase” in flood frequency striking monsoon regions.”
“Forecasts of fresh rain on Thursday raised fears of more damage in flood-hit Indonesia and Sri Lanka, after earlier deluges killed more than 1,500 people in four countries…
“Two separate weather systems dumped massive rainfall on all of Sri Lanka, Sumatra, parts of southern Thailand and northern Malaysia last week.”
“South Korea’s Autumn Was the Second-Warmest and Second-Rainiest on Record.
“This year’s autumn was characterized by sustained high temperatures, resulting in the second-highest average temperature on record. Frequent rain from September through October also led to the second-highest number of precipitation days for the season.”
https://www.dongascience.com/en/news/75389
“14 rain records shattered as November storms devastate central Vietnam.
“Fourteen rainfall records were shattered as three consecutive storm systems devastated central and south-central Vietnam in November, causing historic flooding and economic losses estimated at VND29.32 trillion (US$1.11 billion).”
“Floods paralyze National Highway 1 in Lam Dong, boats swept away [Vietnam]…
“Torrential rain overnight caused severe flooding across Lam Dong province, submerging key areas and rendering National Highway 1 impassable. Emergency evacuations were carried out as water levels continued to rise.”
“Filipinos wade through floodwaters due to sinking land, rising sea & corruption.
“Flooded homes and submerged roads are now reshaping life in coastal and island communities in the Philippines, showing how a combination of hazards are influencing the way communities adapt and struggle to cope with climate change.”
“WINTER SCORCHER IN THAILAND – after the November cool, heat came back with strength in Thailand.
“Today up to 36.7C [92.3F] at Chachoengsao and some December records broken or tied: 35.7 Samut Prakan (Southern Bangkok), 34.9 Trang, 34.3 Hat Yai.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1996173265765798171
“Thailand pushes for climate change legislation to address rising weather extremes…
“Pirun stressed that while policy collaboration could help Thailand meet its 2030 targets, achieving the 2035 and Net Zero 2050 goals will require new tools, such as the Climate Change Act.”
https://www.nationthailand.com/sustainability/net-zero/40059213
“Where Floodwaters Turned Piles of Timber Into Floating Battering Rams [Sumatra]…
““Everywhere you look — left and right along the road — there are piles of timber,” said Sarma Hutajulu, a voluntary rescue worker who was helping clear debris in Tukka District. “Those are what smashed into people’s homes.””
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/world/asia/indonesia-sumatra-floods-timber-logs.html
“‘Holy crap, this is insane’: mineworkers describe being caught in huge outback dust storm [NT, Australia].
“Lachlan Marchant and his colleagues were driving their golf buggies back to their shed when they saw the earth sweeping towards them. “It reminded us of Uluru, the sheer size and width of this thing,” Marchant said. “It was just rolling at us.””
“Tens of thousands of cars damaged after hailstorms lash Queensland and parts of New South Wales.
“The Insurance Council of Australia says about 40,000 motor vehicle insurance claims have been made after storms in Queensland and parts of New South Wales since late October. Claims have included things like smashed windscreens and dents, with some vehicles written off completely.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-04/hail-damage-to-cars-what-to-do/106097274
“Heatwave warning for large parts of Australia as temperatures expected to reach low 40s.
“Communities across large parts of Australia have been urged to take precautions as temperatures begin to soar ahead of severe and extreme heatwave conditions, with parts of western Sydney expected to reach the low 40s by Saturday.”
“‘Seek shelter now’: Bushfire emergency warning issued in Tasmania amid multiple uncontrolled blazes.
“A bushfire emergency warning has been activated in Tasmania amid multiple uncontrolled blazes across the state. Tasmania Fire Service (TFS) issued the warning for an area at Dolphin Sands in the state’s east, with an emergency alert advising people to “seek shelter now”.”
“Marinelli Glacier (Cordillera Darwin) 1913 | 2024 – another mind-boggling comparison!
“Marinelli Glacier [Chile] has lost >15 km during this period!
[Melaine Le Roy]
https://x.com/subfossilguy/status/1996312533934751877
“Global warming accelerates in the mountains.
“The mountains are sick…
“As for temperature, not only is it increasing in all the mountainous areas of the planet, but it is growing more rapidly than in the surrounding plains.”
https://evidencenetwork.ca/global-warming-accelerates-in-the-mountains/
“Ulapes: Classes and activities suspended after severe storm [Argentina]
“Norma Corzo, deputy mayor of Ulapes, one of the towns hardest hit by the severe storm that struck Tuesday afternoon, reported this to MEDIOS RIOJA. “More than 100 millimeters [4 inches] of rain fell in 40 minutes,” she stated…”
https://mediosrioja.com.ar/ulapes-suspenden-clases-y-actividades-tras-el-fuerte-temporal/
“Brazil enters red alert: rainfall of up to 100 mm/day, flooding and landslides put 3 states at extreme risk..
“Forecasts of heavy rain, risk of flooding, and instability on slopes have put three states on high alert, while meteorological agencies and emergency teams are reinforcing their precautions for possible impacts in the coming hours.”
“GUYANA AGAIN – 2023, 2024, 2025 : 36 months out of 36 breaking records in Guyana. December didn’t have to wait much: – min 26.2 [79.2F] Lethem December hottest night on record.
“Here we are again and again – record after record in every corner of the tropics.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1995889862772486145
“Forest loss, fires and invasions soar in Nicaraguan wildlife refuge, watchdog warns.
“The Rio San Juan Wildlife Refuge in southern Nicaragua is part of the best-preserved humid forest in Central America, but illegal invasions, deforestation and mining have destroyed nearly a third of this protected area in less than 10 years, according to an NGO.”
“While a harsh cold spell in battering USA and Canada, the abnormal heat persists in Mexico, Central America and Caribbean, almost all countries are with record heat.
“In Mexico 32C/90F is being reached every day above 1600m asl/5250 ft like at Huajuapan de Leon, Oaxaca State.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1996400965399060896
“Fire in Everglades explodes in size; smoke impacts South Florida…
“Billowing clouds of smoke from the fires has begun drifting toward populated areas, including the inland towns of Coral Springs and Miramar as well as coastal beach communities such as Fort Lauderdale, Pompano Beach and Deerfield Beach.”
https://www.aol.com/fire-everglades-explodes-size-smoke-131521757.html
“California wildfires extinguished but investors’ concerns remain…
“The January 2025 California wildfires continue to affect the communities and individuals that endured them. The wildfires are also having an impact on investors, with climate risk now being factored in or at the very least considered.”
“Where low temperature records from the 1800s may be broken this week.
“Temperature records from the 1800s are forecast to be broken on Thursday and Friday as an air mass from Nunavut, Canada, reaches the Midwest and Northeast. Then, more record-breaking cold is possible late in the weekend and next week when more freezing air, currently located near the North Pole, reaches the central and eastern United States.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/12/03/record-cold-midwest-northeast-forecast/
“Tiny cup corals show accelerating ocean acidification in the Salish Sea [off British Columbia]…
“The findings shocked them. Their research showed that the Salish Sea has become 40% more acidic than other parts of the ocean in the 200 years since the start of the industrial revolution. This much faster pace is due to the constant deep upwelling off the west coast…”
“‘Creeping catastrophe’: Climate change is driving global rise in infectious diseases, leading health experts warn.
“Data gathered in countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America identified that experts throughout the world consider vector-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue as the most rapidly escalating threats, followed by tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.”
“Why Solar Geoengineering Is Now a Moral Imperative.
“As we confront the aftermath of a disastrous COP30, we not only face a warming planet, but we also find ourselves approaching a crisis of hope… one of America’s most influential climate scientists, James Hansen, believe that solar geoengineering may be the only tool that could allow us to avoid these tipping points.”
https://earth.org/why-solar-geoengineering-is-now-a-moral-imperative/
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Bird flu is raging: https://www.dw.com/en/virus-has-killed-almost-9-million-birds-and-counting/a-74972319
Devolping in Spain . Black swine fever .
https://www.thepigsite.com/news/2025/12/catalonia-steps-up-boar-culls-after-swine-fever-detected
Sheep and goat pox in Greece:
“Hundreds of thousands of sheep and goats are being culled in Greece, due to the outbreak of an infectious disease. It may affect production and exports of the country’s famous feta cheese.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgex9d0212xo
Following is the current natural gas spot price for New England. Granted it is very cold. At this rate it is more profitable to keep the gas here in America instead of turning it into LNG and sending it all around the world. Also keep in mind there are currently 8 LNG export facilities under construction here in the USA with more in the final stages of permitting. Marcellus has peaked and Permian isn’t far behind.
https://www.eia.gov/dashboard/newengland/naturalgas
One factor is that the customers will often provide some or all of the funding for the plant development, but in return they get guaranteed supplies for the production life of 20 to 25 years. There’s a growing oil-like spot market for LNG but I think most is still sold in long term contracts with the price often linked to oil prices, especially for Asian markets. That is mostly speculation though as I don’t know exact recent details in the US.
LNGGuy
12/01/2025
LNG facilities are very expensive to build and maintain/operate. For one example, in 2023, a world scale (5MTPA) dual-string facility I worked with had an annual O&M budget of around $60M. That was a new facility with minimal equipment failures so that just covered salaries and preventative maintenance. They had another $60M for capital equipment costs annually back then (on mostly new equipment). Of course as the facility ages those costs go up and that doesn’t count feed gas or fuel gas costs. And the inevitable flaring of several million dollars of refrigerant on each plant trip. It’s rough to make gas really cold.
Copy/paste ;
That covers the operating costs. I was really talking about the capital cost that would have to be put up before any income is seen, so that any interest and risks on loans (or loss of future income from using the money somewhere else) would be born by the customers, who would be very lrge national utilities and might have ultimate protection from their national government. The operating company for the LNG might be co-owned by the utility and the operator who owns and developed the natural gas resources and, if so, would be a separate profit centre that would have to balance the operating costs and sales income.
George , I understand where we are going with this NG/ LNG discussion . I am a fan of yours on the offshore GOM . Learnt a lot . Good news , our common friend and real oilman is on substack . Here is the link .
https://substack.com/inbox/post/180664717?r=3ncu5i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
AI data centers are crushing the US aluminum industry by outbidding smelters for electricity. Aluminum smelters need 10-20 year power contracts at $30-40 per megawatt-hour to operate profitably. Amazon and Microsoft are willing to pay over $100 per megawatt-hour. Alcoa is now considering selling assets to Big Tech companies that might get more use out of the power generation equipment than the aluminum it produces.
https://x.com/HedgieMarkets/status/1994458830768419284
What a round-up
Freaking cold here in Upstate NY
SURVIVE
I’m in Upstate NY too. Calling for 6F tomorrow morning (during my walking time). I just put on an extra layer – I can handle single digits, even negative cold temps, but anything over 85 is tough for me.
Found this of note, since I lived in the region a while ago and do not miss the wicked cold..
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/new-england-warming
The breakneck speed of New England’s transformation makes it the fastest-heating area of the US, bar the Alaskan Arctic, and the pace of its temperature rise has apparently increased in the past five years, according to the study.
“The temperature is not only increasing, it’s accelerating,” said Stephen Young, a climate researcher at Salem State University, who conducted the study, published in the Climate journal, with his son Joshua Young.
“It’s really sped up in recent years, which surprised me. Our climate is moving in a new direction, after being relatively stable in the past 10,000 years.
Along with the Arctic and parts of Europe and China, the north-east US is one of the fastest-warming regions in the world. New England is now heading towards being like the south-eastern US.”
They found that New England has heated up by 2.5C (4.5F) on average from 1900 to 2024. This is far in excess of the global average, with the world warming by around 1.3C in this time due to the release of heat-trapping gases from the burning of fossil fuels. “That is very fast, which is worrying,” said Young.
But because of the the record cold event will discount any worry of such crisis of “warming”.
Strange Days as the Jim Morrison would sing
Trucks are still hauling around fun-size plastic bottles of ice-cold GatorDew, so everything is still going great and we’re definitely not living in a global ecological dark age!
The last article on SRM;
“the top priority for the climate movement should be the human impacts of climate change.”
Because other animals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, insects, trees, plants, etc. are waaaay lower on the “priority list.” What do they matter as long as we can still have our internet and Doritos?
Have you checked out the documentary The Dimming on SRM?
I am not tech savy , so assist .
RAM Shortage = Technology Mass Extinction Event
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7sB1-8jKno&t=7s
It’s a pity the author of the geoengineering article, Jake Schwartz, doesn’t have the capacity to look up and observe our already geoengineered skies.
24,000 times more harmful to the climate than CO₂: Measurements reveal SF₆ gas emissions in Germany
by Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-climate-co8322-reveal-sf-gas.html
Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is a chemically stable, colorless, odorless, and non-toxic gas. It is used all over the world, primarily as an insulating and protective gas in electrical switchgear within medium- and high-voltage engineering. In the past, it was also used in Germany as a filling gas for sports shoes and as an insulating gas in soundproof windows until this application was banned in 2006.
Researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt, in collaboration with European partners, have now demonstrated for the first time that actual emissions from a source in southwestern Germany are likely to be significantly higher than previously estimated.
The results showed that the highest emissions come from the Heilbronn region in southwestern Germany, amounting to approximately 30 tons per year or about one-third of Germany’s total SF6 emissions. However, the scientists emphasize that these amounts are relatively small compared to global SF6 emissions of around 8,000 tons, of which China alone contributes some 5,000 tons annually.
Interview
‘The dinosaurs didn’t know what was coming, but we do’: Marina Silva on what needs to follow Cop30
I’ll correct that…we only think of what is coming and what needs to be done and what can be done are two different kettles of fish
PS..wonder what other man made greenhouse gases are leaking that are unaccounted for?
”‘The dinosaurs didn’t know what was coming, but we do’: Marina Silva on what needs to follow Cop30 ” ,
Heck , must grab another single malt .
Ravi I recommend buying single malts made in Islay. Some are quite good. It will help the owner of this site in an indirect way And it will put a smile on your face.
Duke , I only drink Laphroaig . Best of the best . Euro 50 for a bottle here ,
The Laphroaig lounge bar is a very pleasant place to sit. I’m not a huge whisky drinker tbh, but Ardbeg is my favourite distillery. It is the prettiest and has the best open day at Fèis Ìle, IMO.
Let us hope that the geo-engineers that want to inject sulfur molecules into the stratosphere make sure that high altitude radiation and solar plasma bursts Do Not somehow combine sulfur with other elements to make other long lived, very potent GHGs like SF6.
Murphy’s Law says we will probably screw up this solar modification attempt too.
Bob Shaw Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?
I am always shocked to see so many people wading thru floodwaters like they are out for a pleasant neighborhood walk. This highly contaminated fluid should be avoided at all costs.
https://www.fasttrackurgentcare.com/the-dangers-of-wading-in-flood-waters-why-its-more-than-just-water/#:~:text=In%20flooded%20areas%2C%20debris%20like,waters%20perilous%20to%20walk%20through.
We have all seen pics of poor people carrying water jugs great distances in drought areas. Now imagine carrying water jugs through 3 feet of flowing pollution and submerged metal & glass debris. It is physically not possible for most people to wade with a 5 gallon jug in each hand.
Worst of all is just finding out where to go to get clean & fresh water so your family won’t get sick. Can these people even afford fancy in-home emergency water filter systems? I doubt it.
Bob Shaw Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?
Thank you all, as ever, for your comments. My apologies but I have a video-call this evening and must put up the Christmas tree, so may not be around until tomorrow. 🎄
Hope those of you in the Midwest/NE US are surviving that fearsome cold snap. It may not feel like it now but, “The breakneck speed of New England’s transformation makes it the fastest-heating area of the US, bar the Alaskan Arctic, and the pace of its temperature rise has apparently increased in the past five years…
““The temperature is not only increasing, it’s accelerating,” said Stephen Young, a climate researcher at Salem State University, who conducted the study. “It’s really sped up in recent years, which surprised me. Our climate is moving in a new direction, after being relatively stable in the past 10,000 years.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/new-england-warming
Sound’s like Thailand’s learning from the MAGAts … in the face of Climate Change Act like it’s a hoax. Which is certainly better than geoengineering the world even more disastrously. Mr. Hansen seems to be suffering from the political/economic naïveté I’ve noticed in the scientific community. It’s as though Germany’s Energiewende never existed. But the most ballyhooed commitment of gov’t/industry cooperation to replace fossil fuel with renewables has pushed Germany’s industry and political environments over the cliff, resulting in the country’s collapse from the powerhouse economy of the EU to one giving rise to neoNazi parties gaining power for the first time since WW2.
Geoengineering would, from all signs, follow the same arc: huge government/pvt investment in untested technologies that have the governments assume all the losses, with the pvt sphere skimming off the government’s largesse to siphon it into their shareholders and exec’s pockets. Somehow the most brilliant scientists in the world have failed to notice that the governments around the globe have legalized CEO’s actions in turning the companies they run into their own personal ATM.
Ergo, whether it works or not, whether it does more harm than good, will matter not a jot. It will do what the capitalist economy has allowed AI and LNG and CSS (biofuels were developed and produced and sold to the American public, then forced onto the “free market” via gov’t mandate, under the rubric of making America “energy independent”. Yet that same public is totally mute as the same government sells the last of the country’s natural gas – the bridge fuel – to the highest bidder…the result? Lowest price for gasoline (which is not a gas), highest, and climbing, for what actually IS a gas, expending vast quantities of it to first build the facility to ship it and then to freeze it).
Making billionaires is the total thrust of the 21’st century’s neocapitalism, and Fraud, the most powerful tool used to churn them out. No other metric has a greater effect on Corporate behavior. And the public can’t idolize them enough.
Thank you, Rob. I fear you are on point, especially re geoengineering:
“Profit-seeking solar geoengineering exemplifies broader risks of market-based climate governance… Despite uncertainties about its feasibility and desirability, start-up companies seeking to profit from solar geoengineering have begun to emerge…
“With a climate governance regime wherein private, for-profit actors significantly influence and weaken climate policy, de facto governance of solar geoengineering has emerged, dominated by actors linked to Silicon Valley funders and ideologies.”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811625000084
If flooding, droughts, record heat doesn’t get 8 billion fools’ attention, cancelled insurance policies, due to weather weirding, might do the job. If it’s not about money, it’s not important. Main Slime Media will report on anything, including AGW, if it can make a few bucks. Global warming must not be a profit maker, yet. At least the MSM is immune to the laws of nature. Where can others find an exemption from NTHE?
I can’t remember the last time I saw any mention of overpopulation, anywhere, without searching. I’m astoundingly astonished & awed at the denial. The silence is deafening.
Are Third Eyes also blind?
Over population isn’t really a thing anymore. Have you seen the birth rates across the world?
Most likely the population will gradually reduce naturally due to birth rates and possibly natural disasters.