New York state sues chemical companies over PFAS pollution. Really!

Another frivolous lawsuit by Dimocratic Party member and New York state attorney general Letitia James!

New York state sues chemical companies over PFAS pollution | Business | Chemistry World "Lawsuit alleges 3M, Chemours, DuPont and others knowingly sold polluting products, and seeks damages and cleanup cost payments"

New York state attorney general Letitia James

The Myth of Green China

Recommendable! Sweet and short! To the point! Anyone, who traveled extensively in China in recent times can easily confirm this too.

"That is, a lot of U.S. [Western] environmentalists use the “climate crisis” as a lever to abolish capitalism and change the whole nature of American [Western] society. ..." Who pays these Western agitators? Some Western billionaires, China, Russia ...

The Myth of Green China | American Enterprise Institute - AEI

Through the roof!

Trump EPA Ends Exorbitant Pay-Outs to Litigious Environmental Nonprofits

Good news! Bravo!

"Since 2013, millions of dollars in attorneys’ fees have been awarded to entities, usually nonprofits, to resolve environmental law litigation against the federal government. New data collected via Freedom of Information Act shows that in the first year of the Trump administration, environmental attorney fee pay outs have seen record lows.

As Open the Books has reported in the past, these fees are often part of “sue-and-settle” schemes where environmental nonprofits friendly to a presidential administration (typically Democratic) will sue the federal government to initiate a back-door rule making process that can exclude Congress and the public. ...

While Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin hasn’t made many public statements about sue-and-settle practices since taking office at the head of the agency, a spokesperson told Open the Books last year:

“Outside activist groups should not dictate EPA’s agenda or federal environmental policy. The Trump Administration is keenly aware of concerns with sue-and-settle practices and commits to not engage in them. The Trump EPA will respect the rule of law and the will of the American people in setting policy based on its statutory mandates and Gold Standard Science, not based on side deals with outside activist groups dead-set on driving up costs to Americans or advancing the interests of our foreign adversaries.”

New data indicates Zeldin has kept his word, as attorney fee payouts in 2025 for litigation under the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and Endangered Species Act (three of the most important laws under which most environmental litigation is filed) have been at their lowest level since 2013, when our records begin, at a little more than $510,000. ..."

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More than 230 Environmental organizations call for the US Congress to halt new data center construction in a public letter. Really!

The Luddites again spread alarmism and hysteria! It is donation solicitation season! Who is behind it? China, North Korea, Russia, Iran?

Keep in mind: Global Warming is a hoax and Climate Change is a religion!

One day in the not so distant future (perhaps as early as 2030), I am sure machine learning & AI will help humanity to find better solutions for our energy supply and energy conservation. But until then, we need energy hungry data centers!

"As energy demand for data centers soars, environmental groups are calling for a moratorium on the approval and construction of new facilities.

More than 230 organizations, including Food & Water Watch, Friends of the Earth, and Greenpeace signed a public letter urging members of Congress to support a national moratorium on the approval and construction of new data centers, citing rising electricity and water consumption. ..."

"Dear Members of Congress:

We, the undersigned organizations collectively representing millions of people in all 50 states [???], call on you to support a national moratorium on the approval and construction of new data centers. ...

The rapid, largely unregulated rise of data centers to fuel the AI and crypto frenzy is disrupting communities across the country and threatening Americans’ economic, environmental, climate and water security. ..."

Environmental groups call for halt to new data center construction | TechCrunch

National Data Center Moratorium Now! (the pamphlet)

WE CAUGHT THEM! UN climate elites dumped their COP30 conference garbage on a poor Brazilian neighbourhood

Another headline of the day! The show must go on!

"Well, so much for COP30. ... nothing of substance was achieved. The conference merely highlighted the air of unreality around wealthy Westerners, and wealthy elites from poor nations, throwing fits over tiny temperature increases and speculative science while real issues go neglected.

Including, as Canada’s upstart Rebel News documented disgustingly, that in the streets of Belém not far from the conference, geographically at least, the gutters literally run with human waste.

Rebel News also located a dump in the poor neighborhood of Vila de Barca where the UN was tossing the construction waste from the conference facilities. What was that Bill Gates was saying again about the world’s poor having far worse problems than the climate change he recently treated as a looming apocalypse?"

WE CAUGHT THEM! UN climate elites dumped their conference garbage on a poor Brazilian neighbourhood - Rebel News "The United Nations has been dumping its construction waste from conference facilities in a vulnerable community."

Source: Climate Discussion Nexus

We don’t need deep-sea mining, or its environmental harms. Here’s why. Really!

A manifest of a bunch of nutty professors (globalism, environmentalism) in alarmism and hysteria! Of course, thes professors also exploit the indigenous people for their propaganda and demagoguery.

Finally, after several decades being fairly limited deep sea mining, humans will be able to do commercially viable deep sea mining on a larger scale with current, more advanced technologies like robotics.

Human ingenuity will provide the means to make deep sea mining as harmless as is possible.

Since about 1947, humans were able to drill for crude oil using offshore  drilling rigs without major, lasting environmental impact. Since then many such oil rigs came online.

"Deep-sea mining promises critical minerals for the energy transition without the problems of mining on land. It also promises to bring wealth to developing nations. But the evidence suggests these promises are false, and mining would harm the environment. ...

The best course of action is a ban on international seabed mining, building on the coalition for a moratorium. ..."

We don’t need deep-sea mining, or its environmental harms. Here’s why

US Senate GOP scrutinizes China's role in climate lawsuits, which Dimocrats call a 'conspiracy theory'

I would not dismiss these charges! Beware!

During the long Cold War we have abundantly learnt how many useful idiots in the West would do the work for and get paid by the Communist Party of the former Soviet Union to obstruct, delay or even sabotage the progress of the West.

Senate GOP scrutinizes China's role in climate lawsuits, which Dems call a 'conspiracy theory' | Just The News "The whole climate litigation campaign, Cruz argued, is part of a “strategic alliance” between leftist billionaires, radical environmental groups, and the Chinese Communist Party. It is yet another issue dismissed as a "conspiracy theory" by Democrats."

End the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Endangerment Finding

Recommendable! CO2 is not a pollutant nor a so called greenhouse gas, but a life essential trace atmospheric trace gas!

End the EPA’s Endangerment Finding - American Thinker

Human activity moves earth's poles and changes global sea levels via water dams. Really!

This appears to be another piece of junk science promoted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)!

This is more propaganda and demagoguery of the environmentalism ideology!

All these human impoundments of water represent only a minuscule amount of water compared to the oceans!

I guess, if humans continue like this, the earth will stop rotating in the not so distant future. Caution: satire.

"Human activities have been conducted at such immense scales that they literally have affected how the world turns. Valencic et al. discuss one dimension of that impact: movement of the poles due to water impoundment. Using data on how the construction of dams has altered the distribution of terrestrial surface water in reservoirs, the authors calculated the path of true north polar wander from 1835 to 2011 CE.

A dramatic change in the direction and rate of polar wander around 1950 reflects a shift from dominantly North American impoundment to greater storage in East Asia, Africa, and the rest of the world, providing a stark reminder of our growing footprint on the environment."

From the abstract, key points, and plain language:

"Artificial water impoundment contributed significantly to global mean sea level change during the 20th century and is included in recent studies of the budget of 20th century true polar wander (TPW).

We adopt a recent global database of water impoundment that accounts for 72% of an integrated global volume estimate and compute the associated TPW path from 1835 to 2011 CE. We find a highly non-monotonic pole path, with an integrated path length of 113.4 cm, a net displacement of 20.5 cm in the direction 103.4°E from 1835 to 1954 CE and 57.1 cm in the direction −117.5°E from 1954 to 2011. Across the first half of the 20th century, the mean rate of TPW was 0.30 cm/yr, while in the second half of the century it was 0.95 cm/yr.

Finally, we demonstrate that the 28% of the total global water impoundment missing in our database likely had a negligible impact on polar motion.

Key Points

• A recent study compiled a global database of artificial water impoundment (dams) from 1835 to 2011
• We adopt this database to compute the signal of the impoundment in the reorientation of the Earth's rotation axis, true polar wander (TPW)
• The calculation differs in both magnitude and orientation from previous estimates and has implications for the budget of 20th century TPW

Plain Language Summary

Any movement of mass within the Earth or on its surface changes the orientation of the rotation axis relative to the crust, a process termed true polar wander (TPW). In this study, the authors compute TPW driven by the impoundment of water in globally distributed dams from 1835 to 2011. The calculation is based on a recent, comprehensive database of water impoundment, and the resulting polar wander path and magnitude is significantly different from an earlier estimate of the signal. Constraining TPW due to impoundment and using it to correct the observed 20th century rate of TPW, will help to constrain other physical processes contributing to the signal, including melting of polar ice sheets and glaciers in our warming world."

In Other Journals | Science

True Polar Wander Driven by Artificial Water Impoundment: 1835–2011 (open access)

Figure 1 Reservoir locations in the Hawley et al. (2020) database. Location of 6,862 artificial reservoirs in the database adopted in this study. Symbol size is proportional to the logarithm of the reservoir capacity.

US Supreme Court in 8-0 decision limits judicial authority to block infrastructure projects over environmental concerns

Good news! Environmental concerns have become way too exaggerated and dominant allowing for far too much interference since the 1970s in Western countries. A correction is long overdue! Hopefully, the pendulum finally swings back!

Environmentalism is like a pseudo religion!

"Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County (23-975)

The D. C. Circuit failed to afford the U. S. Surface Transportation Board the substantial deference required when reviewing agency action under the National Environmental Policy Act, and incorrectly interpreted NEPA to require the Board to consider in its environmental impact statement the environmental effects of temporally and geographically separate upstream and downstream projects unrelated to the Uinta Basin Railway." US Supreme Court

SCOTUS limits judicial authority to block infrastructure projects over environmental concerns | Just The News ""Courts should afford substantial deference and should not micromanage those agency choices so long as they fall within a broad zone of reasonableness," Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote."

You wish these men and women were wiser more often!

The first decade of Earth Day and Global Cooling

Today is Earth Day! A dubious day! A day for doomsayers and misanthropes!

Many people may not remember when the Earth Day was introduced in 1970 and in the following years the alarmism and hysteria of the time was about Global Cooling!

Well, that demagoguery turned out to be wrong! Today, Global Cooling is conveniently dismissed by claims like there was no consensus.

Then came the Global Warming hoax, which morphed into the ominous Climate Change religion over the years.

Climate and how climate evolves over long time periods (like over hundreds of years) is a very complex natural phenomenon! Our current understanding is still very poor and sorely lacking!

Humans survived the Little Antique Ice Age (about 536-660 CE),  Medieval Warm Period (about 950-1250 CE) and the Little Ice Age (about 1300-1850 CE). Humans will do just fine! Humans would even do much better without all this grotesque alarmism, scaremongering, and pseudoscience of climate change!

How hat fashions ruffled feathers, spurring a conservation movement in the early 20th century

Recommendable!

North Dakota Jury finds Greenpeace liable for hundreds of millions over pipeline protests

Good news! Hopefully, Greenpeace goes finally bankrupt!

Businesses should have already sued Greenpeace decades ago!

To some, environmentalism is a modern religion!

Lawsuit over Dakota Access Pipeline protests could bankrupt Greenpeace

Good news! Greenpeace has been morally bankrupt for decades!

Steuer auf Einwegverpackungen aus Tübingen laut BVerfG verfassungskonform. Wirklich!

Mag verfassungskonform sein, aber ist trotzdem unsinnig und wenig hilfreich!

Bin ich froh, dass ich seit langem in den USA lebe, wo dieser Unsinn weitgehend nicht vorkommt und generell nicht mal versucht wird zu praktizieren!

Seit einigen Jahrzehnten laboriert die Bananenrepublik D an diesem Thema der Einwegverpackungen und deren Besteuerung, Abschaffung etc. Welch eine Besessenheit!

Verpackungssteuer aus Tübingen laut BVerfG verfassungskonform "McDonald’s unterliegt im Verfassungsstreit zu Kommunalsteuern auf Einweg. Tübingen darf eine solche Steuer erheben. Der Städtetag warnt vor einem Flickenteppich und fordert eine bundesweite Regelung."

Why is California Burning? PragerU (from 2020)

Recommendable! Recent wildfires in CA are nothing new and still due to bad policies!

Settling the Debate on Whether Green Investing Pays. It is slightly negative. No greenium for ESG!

Yale University admits it! Common sense and reality are hard to beat!

And this despite massive government promotion and subsidies!

What are "brown assets" anyway??? This study smells like junk/pseudo science.

"... In a new study ... replicated several papers from the green finance literature based on different measures of an asset’s “greenness,” testing their methodology with realized stock returns—that is, the actual profit or loss from stock sales—in multiple markets around the world. But they found that the results were sensitive to the specific measure of greenness and varied substantially from market to market. So the researchers instead proposed their own methodology for constructing a more comprehensive—and useful—green score, and moved from using backward-looking realized returns to forward-looking expected returns. 

The researchers found that their own green score, which they constructed by averaging key greenness measures from leading data providers, revealed a small cost of investing in climate-friendly stocks, meaning that investors is expected to get 0.50% less in returns each year when investing greenest tercile of stocks relative to the brownest. Corporate bonds and sovereign bonds displayed similar patterns as their greenness increased. ‌..."

From the abstract:

"The greenium (the expected return of green securities relative to brown) is a central impact measure for ESG investors. Replicating the literature’s wide range of equity greenium estimates based on realized returns, we find that these are not robust to changing the greenness measure or time period. Instead, we propose a robust green score combined with forward-looking expected returns, yielding a more precisely estimated annual equity greenium of -25 basis points per standard deviation increase in greenness. The greenium is more negative in greener countries and over time. Finally, we provide greeniums for corporate bonds, weighted-average costs of capital, and sovereign bonds."

Settling the Debate on Whether Green Investing Pays ‌‌ | Yale Insights "Does climate-friendly investing earn a higher return? In a new study, Yale SOM’s Theis Jensen and his co-authors find that the “greenium”—the return from green investments relative to brown ones—is slightly negative. He says that’s actually good news for the planet."

In Search of the True Greenium (open access)

Stimmenschwund: Brandenburg ist für die Grünen das vierte Wahl-Desaster in Folge

Gute Nachrichten! Das Ende des deutschen Wahns mit/Sucht nach der Grünen Partei ist schon seit vielen Jahren überfällig!

Nicht nur die schreckliche SED Kanzlerin Merkel sondern insbesondere diese Partei hat auch mächtig dazu beigetragen D. in eine Bananenrepublik zu verwandeln!

Stimmenschwund: Das grüne Bermuda-Dreieck "Brandenburg ist für die Grünen das vierte Wahl-Desaster in Folge. Die Daten verheißen nichts Gutes für die Partei, die vor nicht allzu langer Zeit noch das Bundeskanzleramt erobern wollte. Die Schuld suchen die Verlierer überall – nur nicht bei sich selbst. Jetzt soll sogar Moskau mitverantwortlich sein."

EU Regulation on Deforestation-free products. A case of environmentalism and trade protectionism?

Using the pretense/pretext/presumption of the Global Warming hoax and Climate Change religion, the EU enforces extreme environmentalism and trade protectionism on the rest of the world. Shame on the EU!

Hopefully, the EU will be sued left and right before the WTO and other courts!

In June of 2023, this EU regulation came into force.

"By promoting the consumption of ‘deforestation-free’ products and reducing the EU’s impact on global deforestation and forest degradation, the new Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 on deforestation-free products is expected to bring down greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss. ..."

Regulation on Deforestation-free products - European Commission

Die neue EU-Verordnung European Deforestation Regulation – EUDR soll verhindern, dass in der EU gehandelte Waren zur fortschreitenden Entwaldung beitragen. Wirklich!

Die Europäer spinnen und sie massen sich allerhand an! Was für ein bürokratischer Unsinn!

Das ist auch knallhart Einfuhrbeschränkung unter dem Vorsatz Umweltschutz! Wahrscheinlich nicht vereinbar mit WTO!

"... Wer zum Beispiel ein Holzprodukt in den EU-Markt einbringt, muss dokumentieren, welche Holzarten zur Herstellung verwendet wurden, und dessen legale Herkunft belegen. Schon die erste Überprüfung der deklarierten Holzart ist – je nach Material – keine leichte Aufgabe. ..."

KI im Einsatz gegen globale Entwaldung

EU Regulation on Deforestation-free products "EU rules to guarantee that the products EU citizens consume do not contribute to deforestation or forest degradation worldwide."