Day: February 13, 2026

Net Zero is a Downer, Choose the Way Up

How did Britain get to where it did? How did this damp little corner of northwestern Europe become the economic superpower of the Victorian age? A lot of people point to our temperament, our system of government, our heritage, our scientific tradition. But I’d offer a rival explanation. It’s because of this.

An abandoned street lined with old, rusted cars and scattered debris, leading to a large building shrouded in mist, featuring the text 'NET ZRO' prominently displayed.

From The Science Matters

By Ron Clutz

In this Net Zero Watch video, Colin Brazier takes us on a journey through Britain’s energy transformation as he looks at how energy abundance spawned the modern world. For those who prefer reading, below is a transcript with my bolds and added images. H/T Not a Lot of People Know That.

How did Britain get to where it did? How did this damp little corner of northwestern Europe become the economic superpower of the Victorian age? A lot of people point to our temperament, our system of government, our heritage, our scientific tradition. But I’d offer a rival explanation. It’s because of this.

Stacked area chart showing the evolution of energy sources from 1700 to 2014, including biomass, coal, oil, natural gas, hydroelectricity, nuclear electricity, and new renewables.

This battery, like coal before it, represents energy and Britain’s story is a story of energy, a story of how people climbed out of the cold and darkness and built a girdle around the earth. And it’s a story which began here.

Iron bridge arching over a river surrounded by lush greenery and cloudy skies.

This is Ironbridge Gorge, the Silicon Valley of the 18th century, where coke was first smelted with iron and where the industrial age really began.

A warm, inviting fireplace with a roaring fire, set against a rustic brick wall, accompanied by a broom and firewood.

For centuries, life was fragile. Families lived by candlelight, worked the land, subject to storm and famine. In this truly organic green economy, energy was provided by muscle, by wind, water and wood. And life was constantly on the brink of collapse.

Three men in historical mining attire standing near a mine entrance, pushing a mining cart on tracks.

Then came something extraordinary, coal. Dense, powerful, reliable. Unlike wood or wind, coal delivered more power, more consistently and with a surplus. That surplus transformed Britain. It wasn’t just fuel, it was freedom.

A vintage steam locomotive illustration featuring a large cylindrical boiler, chimney, and wooden wheels, showcasing early 19th century engineering.
One of the early steam engine locomotives.

Coal powered factories, cities and ships. It broke the stranglehold of the aristocracy because land was no longer the source of all wealth. Energy abundance spread prosperity, dignity and opportunity far beyond the manor house.

Life expectancy rose, death rates fell, cities grew. Children left fields, found trades, found schools, found new futures. Coal wasn’t just about energy. It was the very beginning of the modern world. Energy abundance spread opportunity, dignity and choice. Energy is the fuel of civilisation.

Infographic illustrating the various industries supported by oil and gas, including vehicles, fuels, construction, medical, electronics, agriculture, and more.

Freedom requires means, the ability to travel, to act, to think, to choose. All of it depends on energy. Energy is not just another input to the economy. It is the foundation of every input. It’s the key to every human action. This was the way up.

Graphic featuring a red circular design with a blue horizontal bar displaying the text 'ZERO CARBON'.

But from the late 20th century onwards, something changed. A new philosophy took hold. Instead of celebrating energy as the lifeblood of prosperity, it was recast as the villain. Coal was demonised. Oil and gas became suspect.

Energy abundance, once a mark of progress,
was rebranded as a threat to the planet.

Net zero requires us to make big changes today. “Net zero is our best chance for a sustainable future.” The logic of net zero spreads into almost every aspect of daily life. What cars we drive, what we eat, how we heat our homes, even how many children we are encouraged to have. Petrol and diesel cars banned. Gas boilers ripped out. Smart meters to ration our use of power. Meat consumption cut. Families told to fly less, to travel less, to live with less.

This is not abundance. This is managed decline. Think about it. Not power when you need it, but when the state sees fit. That’s not freedom. That’s rationing. Net zero isn’t about emissions. It’s about control. It is central planning extended into every aspect of life.

Logo featuring a green globe with 'NET ZERO' prominently displayed, along with various symbols representing environmental initiatives and political affiliations.

The state tells you what you can and what you can’t eat, how to travel, when to use power. They call it green, but to me it feels like a command economy. And like all command economies across the world, it ends up in the same way, in poverty and in misery.

We cannot let it happen here. Claire Coutinho was Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero and retains the brief in opposition. She knows just what effect such a policy will have on the country.  Claire, what does net zero mean for growth overall?

A political cartoon depicting two knights on horseback looking at a windmill with the words 'GREEN ECONOMY' on it. One knight expresses concern about a 'dragon' being the answer to economic issues.

The problem with net zero is it’s making us all poorer. Every time a business leaves this country for another country with more polluting energy regime, we are losing jobs, we are losing growth. And for what? So, we can become more reliant on other countries for the products that we used to make here. That means fewer jobs here, but higher carbon emissions. It simply doesn’t make sense. And if we carry on down the route that we’re currently travelling, what does the future from a pessimistic position begin to look like? Higher energy bills, fewer jobs. I mean, it simply is not the right path for this country.

Sometimes this whole conversation can be so steeped in declinism. What is the positive vision if we change direction on net zero?

Look, for the last 200 years, Britain has been at the forefront of every industrial revolution. And we can do that again, whether it’s AI, whether it’s robotics, whether it’s space. There are so many things that this country could do if we have access to cheaper energy. Britain is there. We can do this. But we need ministers and governments to focus on providing that cheap energy the country needs.

Bar chart and line graph showing greenhouse gas emissions in 2021 and trends since 2000 for various countries including China, the USA, India, EU27, Russia, Brazil, and Indonesia. The left side displays emissions in a stacked bar format, while the right side shows trend lines for each country over time.

And here is the twist. Britain gets to make the sacrifice while others get to race ahead. Our emissions in the global scheme of things are negligible.

China’s annual increase alone dwarfs our entire output.


We get to pay the cost. They get to enjoy the growth. What we’re left with is the worst of both worlds.


Economic decline at home. No meaningful effect on the climate abroad.

An individual tending to a fire in a hearth, with a map of the UK overlay showing varying levels of fuel poverty and statistics indicating that 69% of surveyed individuals are affected by fuel poverty.

And yet we’re told this is virtuous. That living with less is noble. That accepting decline is moral. But ask yourself, is poverty moral? Is coldness in winter moral? Is telling working families they cannot afford to travel or eat moral? This is not morality. This is coercion dressed up as compassion.

And this is the way down. But decline is not inevitable. We can choose the way up again. Britain has the resources, the ingenuity and the history of leading the world in energy innovation. Coal, oil, gas, nuclear. These are not enemies. They are the foundation stones of modern life. And yes, new technologies can play a part. But they must serve freedom and prosperity, not restrict them.

We need energy abundance, not energy rationing.
Competition, not central planning.
Innovation, not authoritarian diktats.

A person in a lab coat walking down a corridor in a facility, with the text 'Electronics Weekly' and 'UK EXCELLENCE IN THE SPACE INDUSTRY' overlayed.

Britain’s national story really is a story all about energy. Abundance built our freedom. Scarcity may well yet destroy it. We now face a choice. Energy prosperity the way up, or energy poverty the way down. Which future will we choose?

A Reply to Trump is Wrong to Abolish the Endangerment Finding

Scientists should make an effort when they try to defend their positions, rather than simply trotting out tired alarmist talking points.

A large figure with a human head appears to be chasing a crowd of medical professionals in white coats, set against a city skyline.

From Watts Up With That?

Essay by Eric Worrall

Scientists should make an effort when they try to defend their positions, rather than simply trotting out tired alarmist talking points.

Trump says climate change doesn’t endanger public health – evidence shows it does, from extreme heat to mosquito-borne illnesses

Published: February 13, 2026, 6.11am AEDT
Jonathan Levy Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Health, Boston University
Howard Frumkin Professor Emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington
Jonathan Patz Professor of Environmental Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Vijay Limaye Adjunct Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison

As physicians, epidemiologists and environmental health scientists, we’ve seen growing evidence of the connections between climate change and harm to people’s health. 

Extreme heat

Heat deaths have been rising globally, up 23% from the 1990s to the 2010s, when the average year saw more than half a million heat-related deaths. Here in the U.S., the 2021 Pacific Northwest heat dome killed hundreds of people. 

Extreme weather

Warmer air holds more moisture, so climate change brings increasing rainfall and storm intensity and worsening flooding, as many U.S. communities have experienced in recent years. Warmer ocean water also fuels more powerful hurricanes.

Climate change also worsens droughts, disrupting food supplies and causing respiratory illness from dust. Rising temperatures and aridity dry out forests and grasslands, making them a setup for wildfires.

Air pollution

Wildfires, along with other climate effects, are worsening air quality around the country.

Infectious diseases

Because they are cold-blooded organisms, insects are directly influenced by temperature. So, with rising temperatures, mosquito biting rates rise as well. Warming also accelerates the development of disease agents that mosquitoes transmit. 

…Read more: https://theconversation.com/trump-says-climate-change-doesnt-endanger-public-health-evidence-shows-it-does-from-extreme-heat-to-mosquito-borne-illnesses-275619

Extreme heat

The argument global warming is worsening health outcomes by causing more heat deaths in Summer ignores that far more people die in winter. Even in hot countries like India, cold deaths outweigh heat deaths. If global warming reduces the severity of winter, any rise in heat deaths in Summer will be more than offset by a reduction in cold deaths in winter.

New Study: Total Number of Attributable Deaths Due to Cold In Pune, India, Nearly 7 Times Higher Than Heat Deaths

Extreme weather

It’s a pity they didn’t include a meteorologist in their group. The prediction global warming will increase hurricane intensity still isn’t supported by the evidence.

STEVE MILLOY: The Hurricane Season That Still Isn’t

There have been studies pointing out the thermodynamic absurdity of unconstrained predictions of more severe weather, but sadly mostly ignored by alarmists. There is also significant disagreement between models as to what will happen, which suggests scientists don’t know what will happen.

Air pollution

Faster growth rates caused by CO2 fertilisation and more benign weather do have the potential to increase smoke hazards. But this could be counterbalanced by proper forestry management, a practice which has been severely lacking in recent decades.

Green Fury: California Fires Caused by Environmentalists, Not Climate Change

Infectious Diseases

I can’t believe epidemiologists are still waving this tired claim.

Mosquitoes do not need warm weather to cause severe disease outbreaks, what they need is a failure to control mosquitoes. Diseases like Malaria used to be the scourge of Northern Europe and Russia. Anyone who has visited Northern countries in the Spring would be well aware that potentially disease carrying biting insects have no problem thriving in cold climates.

Claim: Global Warming is Spreading Malaria and Dengue to Europe

The reason we don’t associate Malaria with cold climates is our ancestors did not use the word “Malaria”. The old English word for Malaria was “Ague”. The famous playwright William Shakespeare, who himself may have died from Malaria in 1616, referenced “Ague” at least 16 times in his plays. It was a big deal back then – a known killer of the young and infirm, a terrible illness which arose when mild Spring weather warmed and melted the Malarial ponds where mosquitoes bred. All this happened during the Little Ice Age.

Historians are going to look back on the climate crisis and wonder how we ever believed that today’s mild warming was any kind of threat to our civilisation. Our descendants will think of such warnings the same way we think of the scientists who promoted The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894, the prediction that by 1944 the streets of the City of London would be buried under 9ft of horse manure.

In my opinion the 1894 horse manure prediction and today’s climate doomsday predictions share a common factor – scientists who didn’t make enough effort to question the flaws in their own reasoning.

Just as there is evidence today’s climate doomsday predictions are wrong, there was plenty of evidence by 1894 that horses would shortly be replaced by motor vehicles.

By the time of the horse manure prediction, the first automobile companies had already been selling vehicles for over a decade. Carl Benz, who founded Mercedes Benz, started producing and selling automobiles in 1885.

The Endangerment Finding Is Dead. Here’s Why It Matters — The Climate Realism Show #190

The Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and special guest Lois Perry will tackle this subject, plus other Crazy Climate News of the Week. Join us LIVE at 1 p.m. ET on YouTube, Rumble, X, and Facebook. Participate in the show by leaving your comments and questions in the chat.

A promotional graphic for 'The Climate Realism Show #190' featuring a scene with a character in a blue uniform looking down at a person on the ground, with text overlay stating 'IT'S DEAD, JIM' and 'THE CLIMATE HOAX'.

The Heartland Institute

It’s finally done. The Trump administration on Thursday announced that the Endangerment Finding for carbon dioxide is dead. No longer will the federal government treat CO2 as a gas that harms human health and welfare. It has been the lynchpin of regulatory overreach for nearly two decades, morphing into a way for the Biden administration to all but outlaw the internal combustion engine. President Trump said the Endangerment Finding has cost the U.S. economy more than $1 trillion, and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the repeal will make the annoying “auto off” switch in new automobiles no longer mandatory.

Does the end of the Endangerment Finding mean the death of the climate hoax? How significant is this move, really, if it doesn’t directly address CO2 emissions from coal and natural gas power plants? Will it survive a court challenge? What more must be done to restore science and common sense to public policy?

The Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and special guest Lois Perry will tackle this subject, plus other Crazy Climate News of the Week. Join us LIVE at 1 p.m. ET on YouTube, Rumble, X, and Facebook. Participate in the show by leaving your comments and questions in the chat.

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U.S. judges saved from alarmist tome

Quick action by a coalition of States has saved the American judicial system from being presented with a huge hunk of climate alarmism in the guise of guidance. Sounds like a lot and it is.

The story starts with a massive judicial tome called the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. This 1600-page manual is designed to give federal and state judges a basic introduction to scientific issues that frequently show up in their courts.

A person painting a mural with a globe, leaves, and a raised fist, emphasizing climate justice on a brick wall.
Street artist painting a climate justice mural on a brick wall, symbolizing environmental activism and the fight against climate change

From CFACT

By David Wojick

Quick action by a coalition of States has saved the American judicial system from being presented with a huge hunk of climate alarmism in the guise of guidance. Sounds like a lot and it is.

The story starts with a massive judicial tome called the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. This 1600-page manual is designed to give federal and state judges a basic introduction to scientific issues that frequently show up in their courts.

The Manual has been produced since 1994 by a federal judicial branch agency called the Federal Judicial Center. It is reported to be widely used and cited by both state and federal courts.

The Judicial Center just produced the fourth edition of the Manual which promptly hit the fan. It contained a new 100-page section called the “Reference Manual on Climate Science” which was pure alarmism.

Especially egregious was a long sub-section titled “Climate Change Detection, Attribution, and Projections.” Attribution here refers to claims to know just how much of a specific nasty weather event was caused by anthropogenic global warming.

This absurd concept of attribution is the core of the climate hoax. But the Manual presents attribution as settled science. Judges are encouraged to accept absurd attribution claims as expert knowledge.

The combined state and federal court systems presently include many trillions of dollars’ worth of climate change damage lawsuits, all based on attribution claims. These attribution claims are the central issue in the damage lawsuits, so it is breathtakingly wrong for the Manual to take a strong (and wrong) position on them.

Fortunately, the States quickly jumped in and objected to this obviously wrong interference with judicial procedure.

Led by West Virginia a coalition of 27 State Attorney’s General sent a strong letter of protest to the head of the Federal Judicial Center asking that the entire Reference Manual on Climate Science be withdrawn.

As of this writing the West Virginia Attorney General just received this reply from the Federal Judiciary Center Director:

“In response to your letter dated January 29, 2026, I write to inform you that the Federal Judicial Center has omitted the climate science chapter from the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, Fourth Edition.”

The climate junk is out. Reason wins! There is likely to be pushback from alarmists but the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court chairs the Center’s Board and he is not much pushable.

West Virginia’s letter is also signed by the Attorney’s General of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.

The letter is here

0,2026.01.29 — AG Climate Science Manual LetterHerunterladen

Here are two excerpts from the letter to give you the gist of the primary issue:

“…. the Fourth Edition places the judiciary firmly on one side of some of the most hotly disputed questions in current litigation: climate-related science and “attribution.” Such work undermines the judiciary’s impartiality and places a thumb on one side of the scale. It does so even as these issues are pending before the Supreme Court and other parts of the federal judiciary.”

“…. the authors offer unsolicited, ex parte expert opinions on matters that they recognize are directly at issue in ongoing suits. In several places, for instance, the authors dismiss any suggestion that climate science is too speculative or uncertain to justify relief. They do so even though those concerns present one of the central problems in climate-related cases (and even though certainty is an essential element of expert admissibility standards).”

The entire letter is well worth reading.

Perhaps this is a step in the direction of ridding the Courts of all these frivolous climate lawsuits. Let’s hope so. In any case, well done West Virginia!

Guardian Claims We’re Still Only Approaching the Climate Point of No Return

Please, please, let’s cross one of these imaginary tipping points.
This is nonsense. We already know with absolute certainty from paleo evidence that 3-4C global warming does not represent the end of economic activity.

A dramatic landscape featuring a swirling storm, lightning in the sky, and large rocky formations, with an explosion of water and energy in the foreground.

From Watts Up With That?

Essay by Eric Worrall

World map illustrating climate tipping points, highlighting areas of significant environmental change such as Greenland Ice Sheet loss, Amazon Rainforest dieback, and Arctic Winter Sea Ice collapse.

Please, please, let’s cross one of these imaginary tipping points.

Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say

Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware

Damian Carrington
Environment editor Thu 12 Feb 2026 03.00 AEDT

The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said.

Continued global heating could trigger climate tipping points, leading to a cascade of further tipping points and feedback loops, they said. This would lock the world into a new and hellish “hothouse Earth” climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach. The climate would also be very different to the benign conditions of the past 11,000 years, during which the whole of human civilisation developed.

At just 1.3C of global heating in recent years, extreme weather is already taking lives and destroying livelihoods across the globe. At 3-4C, “the economy and society will cease to function as we know it”, scientists said last week, but a hothouse Earth would be even more fiery.

The public and politicians were largely unaware of the risk of passing the point of no return, the researchers said. The group said they were issuing their warning because while rapid and immediate cuts to fossil fuel burning were challenging, reversing course was likely to be impossible once on the path to a hothouse Earth, even if emissions were eventually slashed.

…Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/point-of-no-return-hothouse-earth-global-heating-climate-tipping-points

This is nonsense. We already know with absolute certainty from paleo evidence that 3-4C global warming does not represent the end of economic activity.

That evidence is the PETM. CO2 levels during the PETM may have been as high as 2520ppm – 6x higher than today. There is no evidence life suffered during the PETM, quite the opposite. The Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, 5-8C hotter than today, was the age of monkeys. Our mostly fruit eating monkey ancestors thrived on the abundance of the hothouse PETM, and colonised much of the world, only retreating when the cold returned.

If a bunch of monkey ancestors with brains the size of match boxes prospered in such conditions, then we could definitely cope.

Fish also did well during the PETM.

Study: Ancient Fish Thrived During PETM Extreme Global Warming

With abundance on the land, and a sea teaming with fish, and proof that our monkey ancestors did really well during previous periods of extreme warmth, how could a few degrees of warming possibly mean “the economy and society will cease to function as we know it “?

The answer is it can’t. Even if such extreme warming were to occur, our society and economy would do just fine.

And there is no possibility anthropogenic CO2 emissions could cause anything like PETM levels of global warming. The world today is very different from the world of the PETM, powerful geological forcings which appeared after the PETM have kept our world locked in the Late Cenzoic Ice Age for the last 34 million years.

Double The Atmospheric CO2? Fuggeddaboutit!

The truth is, our world is not too hot, our world is dangerously cold. During the last glacial maximum, CO2 levels dropped so low it was almost an extinction event.

Life on Earth was nearly doomed by too little CO2

We are currently in one of the coldest periods of the Late Cenzoic Ice Age. We are also in the cooling phase of the Holocene, our current interglacial, which is a serious concern. Sea level today is around 3ft lower than 6000 years ago, during the warm phase, the Holocene Optimum.

The truth is we need all the warming and CO2 emissions we can produce, to try to hold back the next 100,000-year ice age. Because when the next glacial maximum strikes, next time ice age conditions cause CO2 levels plummet, our species might not get so lucky as we were last time glacial maximum conditions brought our species to the brink of extinction.

Illustration of a distant planet in space, characterized by a smooth, icy surface and surrounded by stars.

Trump and Zeldin Deliver Single Largest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History

On February 12, 2026, President Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced what they described as the single largest deregulatory action in U.S. history. This occurred during an event in the White House Roosevelt Room.

The core of the action is the EPA’s final rule repealing the 2009 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Endangerment Finding from the Obama administration. This finding determined that greenhouse gases (like CO₂) endanger public health and welfare, serving as the legal foundation under the Clean Air Act for most federal climate regulations, including vehicle emissions standards, power plant rules, and more.

Former President Donald Trump and an official standing by a table filled with documents in a room with a fireplace and a painting in the background.

On February 12, 2026, President Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced what they described as the single largest deregulatory action in U.S. history. This occurred during an event in the White House Roosevelt Room.

The core of the action is the EPA’s final rule repealing the 2009 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Endangerment Finding from the Obama administration. This finding determined that greenhouse gases (like CO₂) endanger public health and welfare, serving as the legal foundation under the Clean Air Act for most federal climate regulations, including vehicle emissions standards, power plant rules, and more.

Key elements of the announcement and rule include:

Elimination of the 2009 Endangerment Finding itself.

Removal of all subsequent federal GHG emission standards for vehicles and engines (model years 2012–2027 and beyond).

Elimination of off-cycle credits, including those for features like the start-stop system in vehicles (which Zeldin called “almost universally hated”).

Projected savings of over $1.3 trillion for American taxpayers and consumers, with claims of lower vehicle costs, restored consumer choice, and reduced living expenses (e.g., cheaper trucks impacting product prices).

The move follows legal precedents like Supreme Court decisions in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (overturning Chevron deference) and West Virginia v. EPA.

Trump called it “the single largest deregulatory action in American history, by far,” describing the prior policy as disastrous for the auto industry and a driver of higher car prices. Zeldin echoed this, labeling the endangerment finding the “holy grail of federal regulatory overreach” and emphasizing benefits for taxpayers, the auto sector, and energy production.

Former President Donald Trump and another man smiling in the Oval Office, standing beside a table with documents.

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From The US EPA

President Trump and Administrator Zeldin Deliver Single Largest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History

Trump Admin Eliminates Obama-Era Endangerment Finding, off-cycle credits, start-stop feature

February 12, 2026

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WASHINGTON – Alongside President Trump in the White House’s Roosevelt Room, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the single largest deregulatory action in U.S. history.

In this final rule, EPA is saving American taxpayers over $1.3 trillion, eliminating both the Obama-era 2009 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Endangerment Finding and all subsequent federal GHG emission standards for all vehicles and engines of model years 2012 to 2027 and beyond.

The action also eliminates all off-cycle credits, including for the almost universally hated start-stop feature.

EPA’s historic move restores consumer choice, makes more affordable vehicles available for American families, and decreases the cost of living on all products by lowering the cost of trucks. This major deregulatory process included substantial public input and robust analysis of the law following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and West Virginia v. EPA.

“The Endangerment Finding has been the source of 16 years of consumer choice restrictions and trillions of dollars in hidden costs for Americans,” said Administrator Zeldin. “Referred to by some as the ‘Holy Grail’ of the ‘climate change religion,’ the Endangerment Finding is now eliminated. The Trump EPA is strictly following the letter of the law, returning commonsense to policy, delivering consumer choice to Americans and advancing the American Dream. As EPA Administrator, I am proud to deliver the single largest deregulatory action in U.S. history on behalf of American taxpayers and consumers. As an added bonus, the off-cycle credit for the almost universally despised start-stop feature on vehicles has been removed.”

The 2009 Endangerment Finding was used to justify trillions of dollars in regulations, including the Obama and Biden Administrations’ illegal push towards Electric Vehicle (EV) mandates and compliance requirements, while simultaneously driving up the cost of vehicles for American families and small businesses— limiting economic mobility and the American Dream.

The final rule will save Americans over $1.3 trillion by removing the regulatory requirements to measure, report, certify, and comply with federal GHG emission standards for motor vehicles, and repeals associated compliance programs, credit provisions, and reporting obligations that exist solely to support the vehicle GHG regulatory regime. Americans will have certainty, flexibility and regulatory relief, allowing companies to plan appropriately, and empowering American families.

Returning the Rule of Law to EPA Regulations

In finalizing this rule, EPA carefully considered and reevaluated the legal foundation of the 2009 Endangerment Finding and the text of the Clean Air Act (CAA) in light of subsequent legal developments and court decisions.

The agency concludes that Section 202(a) of the CAA does not provide statutory authority for EPA to prescribe motor vehicle and engine emission standards in the manner previously utilized, including for the purpose of addressing global climate change, and therefore has no legal basis for the Endangerment Finding and resulting regulations.

EPA firmly believes the 2009 Endangerment Finding made by the Obama Administration exceeded the agency’s authority to combat “air pollution” that harms public health and welfare, and that a policy decision of this magnitude, which carries sweeping economic and policy consequences, lies solely with Congress. Unlike our predecessors, the Trump EPA is committed to following the law exactly as it is written and as Congress intended—not as others might wish it to be.

Creating Policy Rooted in Reality

The Endangerment Finding was a legal prerequisite used by the Obama and Biden Administrations to regulate GHG emissions. In the 16 years since the Endangerment Finding, many of the predictions and assumptions used to justify the rule did not materialize.

Using the same types of models utilized by the previous administrations and climate change zealots, EPA now finds that even if the U.S. were to eliminate all GHG emissions from all vehicles, there would be no material impact on global climate indicators through 2100.

Therefore, maintaining GHG emission standards is not necessary for EPA to fulfill its core mission of protecting human health and the environment, but regardless, is not within the authority Congress entrusted to EPA.

Today’s action is only related to GHG emissions and does not affect regulations that combat criteria pollutants and air toxics. The Trump EPA’s final rule dismantles the tactics and legal fictions used by the Obama and Biden Administrations to backdoor their ideological agendas on the American people.

Restoring the American Dream

Affordable vehicle ownership is essential to the American Dream and a primary driver of economic mobility out of poverty in the United States. The Endangerment Finding led to vehicle and engine regulations with an aggregate cost of more than $1 trillion and played a significant role in EPA’s justification of regulations of other sources beyond cars and trucks, resulting in additional costly burdens on American families and businesses.

Americans rely on vehicles to reach jobs, education, health care, and essential services. This is especially true in rural areas and regions without robust public transit.

The costs imposed by these climate policies have placed new cars out of reach for many American families and harmed Americans’ ability to climb out of poverty or reach essential services.

The Trump EPA is expected to deliver Americans over $1.3 trillion in cost savings, which includes reduced costs for new vehicles and avoided costs of purchasing equipment related to EVs.

This action will result in an average cost savings of over $2,400 per vehicle. By lowering vehicle and regulatory compliance costs, EPA is improving affordability and expanding consumer choice and ultimately advancing the American Dream by making it easier to reach jobs, grow small businesses, and participate fully in the transportation and logistics systems that power the U.S. economy.

Prioritizing Consumer Choice

The Endangerment Finding enabled the Obama and Biden Administrations’ illegal push toward EV mandates. These mandates pressure the vehicle industry to phase down production of various models of traditional gasoline and diesel trucks and to reengineer their fleets towards uneconomic and infeasible electric technologies.

The Obama and Biden Administrations also used the Endangerment Finding to support off-cycle credits to forcibly incentivize automakers into adopting unpopular systems, undermining consumer choice.

An off-cycle credit is a government-created concept that let auto manufacturers meet federal GHG standards on paper, by adding features like the almost universally hated start-stop feature, resulting in questionable emission reductions.

 Automakers should not be forced to adopt or rewarded for technologies that are merely a climate participation trophy with no material benefit. The Trump EPA chooses consumer choice over posturing to climate change zealots every time. Today’s announcement ends all off-cycle credits, eliminates EPA incentives for the start-stop button, and restores consumer choice.

Americans will be able to buy the car they want, including newer, more affordable cars with the most up to date safety standards and that emit fewer criteria and hazardous air pollutants.

Collecting Substantial Public Input

Understanding the importance of this action, EPA conducted a transparent and inclusive rulemaking process. The agency held an extended 52-day public comment period, which included four days of virtual public hearings where more than 600 individuals testified. EPA received about 572,000 public comments on the proposed rule and made substantial updates to the final rule in response to comments. A summary of public input and EPA’s responses to all comments can be found in the final rule preamble and accompanying documents, and all comments received, including entries summarizing several hundred mass-mailer campaigns, are available in the rulemaking docket.

Background

Congress tasked EPA under Section 202(a)(1) of the CAA with prescribing emission standards for new motor vehicles and engines when the Administrator determines that emissions from a class or classes of new motor vehicles and engines cause or contribute to air pollution that may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare. In an unprecedented move, the Obama EPA found that carbon dioxide emissions emitted from automobiles – in combination with five other gases, some of which vehicles don’t even emit – contribute an unknown amount to greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere that, in turn, play a role through varied causal chains that may endanger human health and welfare.

These mental leaps were admittedly novel, as EPA had for decades understood that the “air pollution” targeted by the statute means pollution that harms health or the environment through local and regional exposure. However, this creative interpretation of the law was the only way the Obama-Biden Administration determined they could potentially access EPA’s authority to regulate under Section 202(a)(1). This flawed legal theory took the agency outside the scope of its statutory authority in multiple respects.

Additionally, major Supreme Court decisions in the intervening years, including Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, West Virginia v. EPA, Michigan v. EPA, and Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA, have significantly clarified the scope of EPA’s authority under the CAA and made clear that the interpretive moves the Endangerment Finding used to launch an unprecedented course of regulation were unlawful.

The decisions emphasized that statutes have a single, best meaning fixed at the time of enactment; that major policy determinations must be made by Congress, not by administrative agencies, and that agencies cannot bury their heads in the sand as to the consequences of their actions when considering regulations that impose immense costs.

President Trump’s Day One Executive Order 14154 “Unleashing American Energy” tasked EPA with submitting recommendations on the legality and continuing applicability of the 2009 Endangerment Finding in the first 30-Days of this term. On March 12, 2025, Administrator Zeldin announced that the agency was kicking off a formal reconsideration of the 2009 Endangerment Finding and resulting regulations in collaboration with the Office of Management and Budget and other relevant agencies. Administrator Zeldin formally announced the agency’s proposal to reconsider these actions on July 29, 2025, at a truck dealership in Indiana.

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US Environmental Protection Agency to Declare CO2 is Not a Dangerous Gas

American forces are massing to release an innocent hostage long held as a political prisoner in a neo-Marxist jail. The prisoner has been confined on a trumped up ‘pollution’ charge which includes causing bad weather, producing climate tipping points and leading crops to fail. Supporters have long argued that the charges have been invented to serve a global collectivist plan to control where humans travel, what they eat and how they spend their money.

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From The Daily Sceptic

By Chris Morrison

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American forces are massing to release an innocent hostage long held as a political prisoner in a neo-Marxist jail. The prisoner has been confined on a trumped up ‘pollution’ charge which includes causing bad weather, producing climate tipping points and leading crops to fail.

Supporters have long argued that the charges have been invented to serve a global collectivist plan to control where humans travel, what they eat and how they spend their money.

Over the last 20 years, vast amounts of cash have been diverted from the productive economy and wasted on projects that would not raise a dime in a free and open capital market.

But freedom and a full pardon are expected imminently.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will release carbon dioxide – the gas of human and plant life – from a 2009 ‘Endangerment Finding’ that demonised the trace atmospheric molecule and elevated it as the prime suspect in the Great Climate Hoax.

The release has been expected, although it is likely to face well-funded Green Blob lawfare challenges. The endangerment claim states that six ‘greenhouse’ gases pose a threat to public health. Since 2009, the finding has underpinned all EPA climate rules that have cascaded through the American economy limiting emissions from power plants to motor vehicles.

The head of the EPA Lee Zeldin is firmly committed to the cause of destroying the senseless and unscientific findings. Last year, he said that by overhauling the massive rules on the endangerment findings, the social cost of carbon and similar issues, “we are driving a dagger through the heart of climate change religion and ushering in America’s Golden Age”.

He said the EPA’s work “marks the death of the Green New Scam”. The actions will roll back trillions of dollars in regulatory costs and hidden taxes, he claimed. “As a result, the cost of living for American families will decrease and essentials such as buying a car, heating your home and operating a business will become more affordable. Our actions will also reignite American manufacturing, spreading economic benefits to communities,” he added.

It can be argued that this move will also put a dagger through the heart of industrial economies that are still fantasying about moving to Net Zero. Steadily deindustrialising countries such as the United Kingdom and Germany are increasingly alone in ‘leading’ the world towards the Net Zero calamity. Sky-high energy costs and overwhelming regulatory burdens will inevitably push new national and international capital in the direction of the re-invigorated American economy.

The ground for kicking the endangerment findings into touch has been well prepared by the American Government. Last July, the Department of Energy published a devasting, fact-based report that concluded computer models, a mainstay for decades in pumping up climate alarm, offer “little guidance” on how much the climate responds to higher levels of CO2.

It also noted that most extreme weather events are not increasing and sea levels in North America show no increasing trend, while weather attribution claims – now admitted to have been originally designed with ‘lawfare’ in mind – are challenged by natural variation. The report also noted that there had been extensive recent plant and crop growth due to the CO2 atmospheric fertilisation that has enhanced photosynthesis and improved water efficiency.

Self-identifying activist fact-checkers are not, despite their name, used to debating fact in their closed world of ‘settled’ science and commonly resort to opinion and ‘denial’ epithets. As a result, the numerous attempts to debunk the devastating report failed to lay a worthwhile punch.

One benefit that is already flowing to American consumers and manufacturers is the resetting of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) automobile standards. These requirements had been raised by the Biden Administration to levels so aggressive they could not be met with available technology for gas-powered cars, and, in effect, acted as a federal EV mandate.

The EPA rescission proposal includes repealing vehicle ‘greenhouse’ gas standards, thereby complementing CAFE standards by rolling back punitive rules directly tied to vehicle fuel use.

Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor. Follow him on X.

Stop Press: The EPA has now made the announcement, which Politico calls “one of the most significant blows to domestic climate efforts by the Trump administration”.

Lake Erie is Nearly 100% Ice-Covered After Great Lakes Region Slammed by Cold Stretch

The Midwest is so cold that even the “Global Warming” jokes froze over.

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From Watts Up With That?

From Legal Insurrection

Map showing ice cover percentages in the Great Lakes, with a color gradient indicating levels from 0% to 100% ice coverage, dated February 10, 2026.

The Midwest is so cold that even the “Global Warming” jokes froze over.

Posted by Leslie Eastman

Weather report showing the ice coverage of the Great Lakes on January 26, 2026, with total coverage at 43%. Ice coverage percentages for each lake are displayed: Superior 30%, Huron 54%, Ontario 31%, Erie 94%, St. Clair 99.9%, and Michigan 35%. A meteorologist is presenting the information.

Last November, we examined a controversial scientific report asserting that a vital Atlantic current could falter within decades, an event they claim could trigger a new Ice Age.

This winter, Lake Erie is experiencing one of its iciest in decades, with ice coverage reported above 95% and the possibility of reaching a rare 100% freeze for the first time since 1996.

As of Feb. 3, 2026, Lake Erie is 94% frozen over, a figure that far exceeds the average ice peak of 65-70%, according to the National Weather Service Cleveland. Data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory shows that the lake also reached near-100% coverage in 2025 (95.8%), 2018 (95.1%), 2015 (98.1%), 2014 (96.1%) and 2011 (95.8%).

Over the past five years especially, peak ice coverage has swung dramatically, ranging from a high of 94% this winter to just 11% in 2023.

Meteorologists attribute this year’s coverage to the prolonged stretch of extreme cold and this year’s record low temperatures.

According to Alexa Maines, a meteorologist at NWS Cleveland, January held one of the longest cold stretches ever recorded, with eight consecutive days below 20 degrees Fahrenheit from Jan. 24-31. Only two years — 1899 and 1961 — have experienced longer streaks, each lasting nine days.

Check out the massive crack that developed in Lake Erie’s ice sheet. This was driven by strong winds. Crack is just under 100 miles long. pic.twitter.com/l7d5wwTndI

— Max Claypool (@MadMaxClaypool) February 9, 2026

Several factors are contributing to this development, including the lake’s shallowness and a “La Niña” weather pattern.

While recent cold snaps accelerated the freeze, Arnold said Lake Erie icing over this time of year is not unusual.

“It is very shallow compared to the other lakes so that’s why it does end up freezing, or at least the majority of it, over the course of the winter season,” Arnold said. “I wouldn’t call it abnormal for what we’re seeing currently, other than just it peaked a little bit earlier than the historical average.”

Typically, Lake Erie reaches peak ice coverage during mid-to-late February.

The colder conditions are being driven by a mix of factors, including the return of La Niña, a climate pattern that can shift the jet stream and bring colder, stormier weather to the region.

Lake Erie is nearing full ice coverage, something that hasn’t happened since 1996.

In modern records, the lake has only reached 100% ice coverage a few times. Most recently in 1996, and before that in 1979 and 1978, making a full freeze extremely rare, even for the shallowest… pic.twitter.com/0uKdTFPLQT

— I’m From Cleveland (@ImFromCle) February 8, 2026

The other Great Lakes of Michigan aren’t quite as icy. However, they are a bit above average for ice coverage at this time of year.

Lake Superior’s surface was 50% frozen over as of Feb. 9, about a 10 percentage point increase from Sunday, Feb. 8, and the highest percentage of ice cover for the season. The shoreline from Sault Ste Marie to Duluth, Minnesota, and north to Thunder Bay is covered in ice.

On Sunday, Feb. 8, ice on the Great Lakes totaled 54.29%, according to the latest charts by the U.S. National Ice Center. Ice cover dipped slightly to 53.01% coverage on Monday, Feb. 9.

Lake Erie remains nearly completely frozen over — about 95% coverage. Lake St. Clair Lake, which is included in the Great Lakes ice data, located between the St. Clair River and the Detroit River systems, is completely frozen over, according to the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, a National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration program.

Lake Huron is nearly three-quarters iced over at 66.64%, down from last week when the total was 77.49%.

Ice is more than 2 feet thick in many places, including along Lake Superior shorelines, Lake Huron’s northern shores, the inner Saginaw Bay, parts of northern Lake Michigan, nearly all of Lake Ontario, and the western portion of Lake Erie, according to U.S. National Ice Center’s thickness map.

After weeks of bone-chilling cold and headlines about record ice, it’s hard not to wonder if that “New Ice Age” theory is inching a little too close for comfort. For now, winter seems determined to overstay its welcome…making even the most skeptical among us start rooting for a little global warming and a more active Sun to hurry things along.

Macron says Spain’s mega-blackout was due to the country’s reliance on renewable energy

French President Emmanuel Macron recently stated that Spain’s major blackout in April 2025 was caused by the country’s over-reliance on renewable energy.

Note that Spain’s actual renewable share is around 60% (from solar, wind, hydro, etc.), with nuclear at about 20%, though periods of very high renewable output (even approaching or hitting 100% momentarily) have occurred.

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French President Emmanuel Macron recently stated that Spain’s major blackout in April 2025 was caused by the country’s over-reliance on renewable energy.

Note that Spain’s actual renewable share is around 60% (from solar, wind, hydro, etc.), with nuclear at about 20%, though periods of very high renewable output (even approaching or hitting 100% momentarily) have occurred.

The Spanish government reportedly denied renewables as the cause, instead pointing to issues like solar farms switching off or other technical factors.

The blackout lasted up to 10-12 hours in most affected areas, causing widespread disruptions including halted trains, trapped elevators, and at least five reported deaths from related incidents like fires or generator failures.

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Emmanuel Macron has blamed Spain‘s mega-blackout on the country’s overreliance on renewable energy.

The French President said the debate over the cause of the enormous power outage, which plunged Spain into darkness in April leaving five dead and millions without power, was ‘a false one’. Daily Mail Online has the story.

The disruption, which also impacted Portugal and southwestern France, left areas in total darkness for nearly a day, cutting internet and telephone connection, while hampering transport. 

School pupils and workers were sent home for the day, but many others were stuck in lifts or stranded on trains in isolated rural areas. 

Madrid’s socialist government did not provide an explanation in the immediate aftermath of the outage, instead calling for patience while it was investigated. 

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has repeatedly rejected criticism of the country’s heavy reliance on renewable energy sources. 

And Spain’s electric grid operator Red Eléctrica de España pinned it on a significant and unprecedented drop in power generation. 

Mr Macron has now hit out at Spain’s reliance on renewable energies, claiming ‘no system can withstand such dependence’. 

He said: ‘The debate about Spain is a false one. Its problem is that it has a 100 per cent renewable energy model that its own domestic grid cannot support’

The blackout had nothing to do with the interconnections, he said, ‘but with the fact that no system, at least with current technology, can withstand such dependence on renewable energies.’

‘Stability in the energy mix is ​​needed, because otherwise, shocks that are too big occur. But it’s not just about interconnections. Networks are needed,’ he added.

Experts have also claimed that the nation’s heavy reliance on solar power leaves it vulnerable to future blackouts because of how renewable generators work compared with traditional power plants.

It has also prompted warnings about Ed Miliband’s race to net zero in the UK. 

Read the full story here.

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The coming El Niño

We are hearing about the coming El Niño. I will deal with the weather aspects in a post later in the week. But look at this quote, I pulled in the Washington Post.

Defense Department meteorologist Eric Webb described this change in global temperatures during major El Niño events as an upward “stairstep.”

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From CFACT

By Joe Bastardi

We are hearing about the coming El Niño. I will deal with the weather aspects in a post later in the week. But look at this quote, I pulled in the Washington Post.

Defense Department meteorologist Eric Webb described this change in global temperatures during major El Niño events as an upward “stairstep.”

“Due to the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases, the climate system cannot effectively exhaust the heat released in a major El Niño event before the next El Niño comes along and pushes the baseline upward again,” he said.

1) How long have I been showing this is a step-up function?

Decades now.

Line graph depicting the UAH satellite-based temperature variations of the global lower atmosphere from 1970 to January 2026, showing temperature departures from the 1991-2020 average, with a red trend line and blue data points.

And it’s the excess WV that we cannot get rid of, not the trace GHGs that man is putting into the atmosphere.

BUT YOU WILL NEVER GET THAT ADMISSION OUT OF PEOPLE PUSHING THIS. 

So now they acknowledge that the source region is the oceanic El Niño Step ups. 

So, what is causing the step up?

Let’s get to the source. So, without El Niños, there is no extra WV and now warming right. Again, as I have pointed out thousands of times there would have been little if any warming if the oceans were the same way 40 years ago.

World map showing sea surface temperature anomalies in degrees Celsius for February 7, 1986, with color gradients indicating various temperature ranges.

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Global sea surface temperature anomaly map showing various color-coded temperature differences in degrees Celsius, updated for February 7, 2026.

I have gone through this in previous blogs. Notice another hot spot developing right over where the Hunga source region for underwater volcanic activity is.

So, the steady state increase of CO2 is clearly seen since the 1950s.

Line graph showing carbon dioxide concentration in parts per million from 1960 to 2020, with three data series: Mauna Loa CO2 (blue), NOAA CO2 (orange), and WDCGG CO2 (red).

There was little change in SST from the 50s through the 80s (I have gone over this a thousand times, but since they are at least admitting the step-up function lets counter the idea that its man-made GHG that is causing all this.)

Here is what changed.  The increase in geothermal input, which PRECEDED THE RISE, indicates likely causation.

A line and bar graph illustrating the relationship between ocean heat content anomaly and mid-ocean seismic activity from 1977 to 2022. The bars represent seismic activity, while the line indicates changes in ocean heat content anomaly over the years.

The hypothesis is simple.

This is a different aspect of the forcing that was not there 40 years ago.

Its input, which the scientific community refuses to acknowledge or take the steps to test (Saturate the ocean floor with sensors, so they have plausible deniability if they never measure it) causes a cumulative build-up of heat.

This distorts the global wind pattern, so we are in a La Niña base State to counter it. Plainly seen in the Multivariate Enso Index data since the super El Niño of 97-98.

A line graph depicting the Multivariate ENSO Index Version 2 from 1980 to 2025, with red bars indicating positive anomalies and blue bars indicating negative anomalies.

Notice how the last El Niño was not as strong as the other big ones in the data.

This suggests that the spike in global temperatures was driven in part, and perhaps a major part, by Hunga. So, the 2 coincided, and as far as the Oceanic Niño Index, 23-24 was strong, but the impact on the atmosphere was blunted (that is why this is a multivariate index), likely because the difference in SST between the ENSO areas and the non-ENSO areas is not as great anymore.  It’s the difference that drives the weather, and if the ocean is simply warm all over, the impact would not be as great. This is part of the distortion I speak about.

That distortion is also leading to distorted cloud patterns as vertical velocities over the tropics have decreased with a weakened Hadley cell. The result is less clouds, so more incoming radiation to the tropics, and more heating.

Now here is the kill shot. If there is continuous high input of geothermal, then there is a cumulative buildup of heat in the oceans, so when the La Niña base state is disturbed, the El Niño comes back.  The La Niña base state is to counter the warming and is only because of the warming.  But the heat as to eventually overwhelm it until it can recalibrate. 

But how strong the El Niño is and how much input it has needs to be questioned. The more WV already in the air, the less the input, unless it’s very great, will impact the system.  It’s already warm, and it’s cooling back now.   

So, while climate activists can jump up and down screaming another spike is coming, 1) that admits the ocean is in control, and not man-made gasses, which is why they run to the argument that man-made gases won’t let it cool down, when in reality it’s the WATER VAPOR FROM NATURAL INPUT THAT IS DOING IT.  2) This may just be a bounce up and down in the new plateau from the last event, which ignores Hunga’s input, which IMO is an absurd avoidance of the issue.  Again, that would point to nature, not man, as the cause, and we can’t have that.

I suspect over the years (it’s taken 2 decades to get that admission) much of what I have been showing will be shown to have merit.  But in the meantime, remember the bottom line in this is that man is still the cause. They are not going to stop and any novel ideas, even if they are based on simple natural ideas, will be shot down. In fact, that’s the biggest danger. What if the simple answer is the correct answer? Down goes the whole cottage industry.  

Its political and the current administration is not going to be there forever. Remember, this is the ultimate weapon (climate) to take down the foundation system of this country.  So, anything countering that will be hidden.

Again, anyone who has followed me has seen me opine on this for close to 2 decades. So, if what I am saying has merit, it won’t be acknowledged till such a time when the political agenda at work here has made it so it’s too late.