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Quote:Elon Musk thinks this has never happened before. He could google and learn that he is in serious error:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Warm Dry Weather, drained Lakes nobody collecting River Water running off mountains and hills
then mix in some Political Corruption
and sicko Arsonists are added to the mix
This is Malibu - one of the wealthiest affluent places on the entire planet, now it’s being burnt to ashes.
https://x.com/its_The_Dr/status/1876975165889814616
quote Elon Musk
DEI means people will DIE
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1878289952657560030#m
#1 Spitting Hot Fire: Malibu Wildfires and the Santa Anas
By Ryan Reft | July 11, 2013
https://www.pbssocal.org/history-society/spitting-hot-fire-malibu-wild
fires-and-the-santa-anas
#2 A brief history of Malibu wildfires
November 25, 2007
https://malibutimes.com/article_be86d151-e381-5db5-9a85-66cc05586070
With today’s year-long fire season, it’s comforting to know that Malibu pioneer Frederick Rindge had the same experience with wildfires that we do.
In his 1898 book, “Happy Days in California,” the last owner of the Spanish land grant, Malibu Rancho, wrote about the “Great Drought of 1897” and a three-day wildfire resulting from dreaded Santa Ana winds.
He described a family putting wet blankets on buildings exposed to flying embers; escaping to a nearby creek; and community aid to survivors.
“The dry year and the mountain fire just about ruined one of the settlers…,” Rindge wrote. “But he had friends. From far and near they gathered together… and each was requested to bring something for a woodland feast in the great sycamore grove.
“Besides this, each one was asked to give a dollar toward a purse to be presented to the unfortunate family… it was pleasantly agreed that the recipients should organize a like benefit for the next man burned out; thus all feeling of being an object of charity was removed.”
Since 1929, there has been an average of two wildfires per decade [see list at bottom]. Neighbors help neighbors and response and recovery have become more institutionalized.
In his 1958 book, “The Malibu,” Broad Beach resident Lawrence Clark Powell wrote of the December 26, 1956, “Newton Fire,” which burned 26,000 acres, destroyed 100 homes and caused one death.
An operator at the “County Fire Station at Zuma” told residents to evacuate, Powell wrote. He and his wife carried a toy poodle and a cat to the beach. Neighbors brought the Powell’s horse and burro to the beach, and the other Powell cats came out of hiding to join them. The Powells joined neighbors in putting out small fires on the beach. A county engine came from Downey and called for backup to save homes in the path of flames from Encinal Canyon. Edison Company lineman blasted chemical foam on the brush. Deputy sheriffs sealed off roads to keep away looters. The Zuma Fire Station was the staging area for firefighters from San Diego and San Luis Obispo, Powell wrote.
In her 1950 book, “My Fifty Years in Malibu,” Carbon Beach resident Dorothy Stotsenberg described devastation from the 1970 “Wright Fire” (28,000 acres, 10 deaths, 103 homes destroyed) in Malibu Knolls, Malibu Road and Serra Retreat. A clothing center set up at Malibu Presbyterian Church after that blaze was the genesis of The Artifac Tree thrift shop founded by the late Honey Coatsworth, Stotsenberg wrote.
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Catastrophic tipping point in Greenland reached as crystal blue lakes turn brown, belch out carbon dioxide
Live Science reports | Jan 24, 2025
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/catastrophic-t
ipping-point-in-greenland-reached-as-crystal-blue-lakes-turn-brown-belch-out-carbon-dioxide
Thousands of Greenland’s crystal-clear blue lakes have turned a murky brown thanks to global warming — and the worst part is that they’ve started emitting carbon dioxide.
Record heat and rain in 2022 pushed the lakes of West Greenland past a tipping point, so rather than absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2), they began to emit it into the atmosphere, according to a new study.
The changes began in fall, which is normally a snowy time for Greenland. However, heat waves turned snow into rain and thawed the island’s permafrost — frozen ground that stores carbon, iron and other elements. The rains then washed these elements into lakes, turning them brown.
Less sunlight was able to penetrate the lakes as they darkened, which had a ripple effect on the microscopic plankton living in the water. The number of plankton absorbing CO2 through photosynthesis — the process of turning sunlight into energy — declined, while the amount of plankton breaking down and releasing carbon increased, according to a statement released by the University of Maine.
The lakes normally absorb CO2 in the summer, but by the following year they had flipped to become carbon dioxide producers. These types of widespread changes would normally take centuries. Researchers have observed the browning of lakes across the Northern Hemisphere, including the U.S., but it typically takes multiple decades — much longer than the transformation of Greenland’s lakes.
“The magnitude of this and the rate of change were unprecedented,” study lead author Jasmine Saros, a professor of paleolimnology and lake ecology at the University of Maine, said in the statement.
The researchers published their findings Tuesday (Jan. 21) in the journal PNAS. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2413855122
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Trump tries to seize the power of the purse with ‘an illegal executive order’
‘It’s an Illegal Executive Order. And It’s Stealing.’
Trump wants to go around Congress and freeze enormous amounts of federal spending. Can he?
By Russell Berman | January 28, 2025, 10 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/01/trump-executive-o
rder-spending-congress/681484/
Buried within one of the dozens of executive orders that President Donald Trump issued in his first days in office is a section titled “Terminating the Green New Deal.” As presidential directives go, this one initially seemed like a joke. The Green New Deal exists mostly in the dreams of climate activists; it has never been fully enacted into law.
The next line of Trump’s order, however, made clear he is quite serious: “All agencies shall immediately pause the disbursement of funds appropriated through the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 or the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.” The president is apparently using “the Green New Deal” as a shorthand for any federal spending on climate change. But the two laws he targets address much more than that: The $900 billion IRA not only funds clean-energy programs but also lowers prescription-drug prices, while the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law represents the biggest investment in roads, bridges, airports, and public transportation in decades. And the government has spent only a portion of each.
In one sentence, Trump appears to have cut off hundreds of billions of dollars in spending that Congress has already approved, torching Joe Biden’s two most significant legislative accomplishments. The order stunned even some Republicans, many of whom supported the infrastructure law and have taken credit for its investments.
And Trump didn’t stop there. Yesterday, the White House ordered a pause on all federal grants and loans—a move that could put on hold an additional tens of billions of dollars already approved by Congress, touching many corners of American life. Democrats and government watchdogs see the directives as an opening salvo in a fight over the separation of powers, launched by a president bent on defying Congress’s will. “It’s an illegal executive order, and it’s stealing,” Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, told me, referring to the order targeting the IRA and infrastructure law.
Withholding money approved by Congress “undermines the entire architecture of the Constitution,” Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland told me. “It essentially makes the president into a king.” Last night, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that Trump’s freeze on federal grants and loans “blatantly disobeys the law.”
The Constitution gives Congress the so-called power of the purse—that is, the House and the Senate decide how much money the government spends and where it goes. Since 1974, a federal law known as the Impoundment Control Act has prohibited the executive branch from spending less than the amount of money that Congress appropriates for a given program or purpose. During Trump’s first term, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office found that the administration had violated that law by holding up aid to Ukraine—a move that became central to Trump’s 2019 impeachment.
Trump has argued that the Impoundment Control Act is unconstitutional, and so has his nominee for budget director, Russell Vought, who had the same job at the end of the president’s first term. Vought also helped write Project 2025, the conservative-governing blueprint that attracted so many attacks from Democrats that Trump disavowed it during the campaign.
In his Senate confirmation hearings this month, Vought repeatedly refused to commit to abiding by the impoundment act even as he acknowledged that it is “the law of the land.” “For 200 years, presidents had the ability to spend less than an appropriation if they could do it for less,” he told senators at his first hearing. During his second appearance, when Van Holl
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A transformer supply crisis bottlenecks energy projects
By Andrew Moseman | 11 Dec 2024
https://spectrum.ieee.org/transformer-shortage
The recent book Energy 2040 (Springer), coauthored by Georgia Tech’s Divan, lays out some of the staggering numbers. The capacity of all the energy projects waiting to connect to the U.S. grid amounts to 2,600 GW—more than double the nation’s entire generation capacity currently. An average estimate of U.S. EV adoption suggests the country will have 125 million EVs by 2040. The electricity demands of U.S. data centers may double by the end of this decade because of the boom in artificial intelligence.
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Record-smashing global temperature findings
By Chloe Bryant | February 19, 2025
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/record-smashing-weather-event-glo
bal-warming-climate-norm/
As reported by The Weather Network, the dates of Jan. 14 through Jan. 22 saw record-high global temperatures, a feat even more alarming considering the arctic blast that pummeled much of North America over the same period.
Global temperatures peaked on Jan. 19, reaching 55.9 degrees Fahrenheit, a 1.7 degree increase from normal temperatures for the same time of year, according to data released by Copernicus.
Why is the record-breaking warmth concerning?
Though a warm January doesn't necessarily mean the rest of the year will follow suit, it does reflect an alarming trend of rising temperatures seen in recent years.
2024 was the hottest year on record, confirmed by scientists at NASA, and the previous 10 years have been the warmest 10 on record.
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EPA tells White House to strike down landmark climate finding
By Maxine Joselow | February 26, 2025, 11:41 a.m. EST
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/02/26/epa-enda
ngerment-finding-trump-climate/
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has privately urged the White House to strike down a scientific finding underpinning much of the federal government’s push to combat climate change, according to three people briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly.
The 2009 “endangerment finding” cleared the way for regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act by concluding that the planet-warming gases pose a threat to public health and welfare. The Obama and Biden administrations used that determination to set strict limits on emissions from cars and power plants.
By repealing the endangerment finding, the Trump administration would be taking one of its most consequential steps yet to derail federal climate efforts. In recent days, the administration has also blocked work that is central to international climate research and barred federal scientists and diplomats from attending a major climate event in China.
EPA officials weighed whether to reverse the endangerment finding during President Donald Trump’s first term but opted not to do so.
Conservatives have argued that repealing the finding is critical to unraveling what they see as burdensome limits on emissions from various sectors of the economy. Environmentalists, in contrast, say the finding has justified stronger regulations that have yielded enormous benefits for the planet and public health.
On the first day of his second term, Trump signed an executive order that tasked the EPA with reviewing the “legality and continuing applicability of” the endangerment finding. The order gave Zeldin 30 days to submit recommendations to Russell Vought, the head of the White House budget office.
EPA officials have not shared the recommendations publicly. EPA spokeswoman Molly Vaseliou declined to comment on the matter Tuesday, saying in an email, “EPA is in compliance with this aspect of the President’s Executive Order.”
Mandy Gunasekara, who served as EPA chief of staff at the end of Trump’s first term and wrote the EPA chapter in the conservative blueprint Project 2025, has been advising the administration on repealing the endangerment finding, according to the three individuals briefed on the matter.
Jonathan Brightbill, who was a top deputy in the Justice Department’s environment and natural resources division during Trump’s first term, has also provided legal advice, these people said. Brightbill recently served on the Trump transition team at the Justice Department and is a partner at the law firm Winston & Strawn.
Gunasekara and Brightbill did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The endangerment finding has sparked legal and political battles in Washington for more than 15 years. In 2007, the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that the EPA has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases as pollutants under the Clean Air Act. In response, the EPA first issued the endangerment finding and then established the first-ever carbon limits for vehicles and power plants.
During Trump’s first term, skeptics of mainstream climate science filed a petition asking the EPA to repeal the determination. But agency lawyers rejected that petition on Trump’s last day in office in 2021.
Allies of the fossil fuel industry cheered the idea that the administration would revisit the issue.
“They unfortunately didn’t do this in the first term, so I’m pleased to see that they’re working on this in the second term,” said Tom Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, an advocacy group for the oil and gas sector.
Myron Ebell, who led the EPA transition team during Trump’s first term, said nixing the endangerment finding could make
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Wy Are We Ignoring The Most Powerful Climate Solution?
Thursday, Mar 06, 2025 - 05:05 PM
Authored by Mollie Engelhart
Everywhere I look, I see people talking about climate change. There’s no shortage of solutions being pushed—electric cars, lab-grown meat, carbon capture technology—but almost none of these address the root of the problem. Meanwhile, the most powerful solution, one that is already proven to work, is ignored: regenerative agriculture.
I am a regenerative farmer. I don’t just believe in the principles of rebuilding soil, restoring ecosystems, and managing land in a way that sequesters carbon—I live it. Every day, I see the results firsthand: healthier soil, stronger crops, increased biodiversity, and livestock that thrive without chemical inputs. I also see how the current system actively works against this approach, prioritizing profit-driven, industrial solutions over simple, nature-based ones.
So why is regenerative agriculture ignored while flashy, high-tech solutions dominate the conversation? The answer is simple: There’s no money in it for corporations.
Regenerative Farming Doesn’t Fit the Profit Model
Industrial agriculture is built on dependency—on chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and genetically modified seeds. It thrives on monocultures that strip the land of nutrients, requiring even more chemical intervention just to sustain itself. Companies make billions selling these inputs, and governments subsidize the entire system. Regenerative farming, on the other hand, restores soil naturally—through cover cropping, rotational grazing, and composting. When farmers build fertility through natural cycles instead of synthetic inputs, chemical companies lose customers.
This is why you don’t see billion-dollar ad campaigns promoting regenerative farming. There is no corporate giant profiting from farmers planting cover crops or integrating livestock with row crops. Instead, money flows to industries that keep farmers dependent on fertilizers, patented seeds, and ever-expanding government subsidies.
The Climate Narrative
The same forces that created our industrial food system also control the climate narrative. It’s a lot easier to sell wind turbines, solar panels, and electric cars than it is to fundamentally change the way we farm. The entire renewable energy sector has been built into a multitrillion-dollar industry, with subsidies, government incentives, and global investment pouring into its expansion.
Meanwhile, regenerative agriculture—the one approach that could actively reverse environmental damage and sequester carbon on a massive scale—is barely mentioned. Why? Because it’s nearly impossible for big corporations to monetize regenerative agriculture the way they can monetize other industries.
When a company sells an electric vehicle, a solar farm, or a wind turbine, they make money. When a farmer plants diverse crops, rotates livestock, and stops using chemical fertilizers, no one gets rich—except the farmer and the community that benefits from healthier land and food.
If climate change were truly about reducing emissions and restoring balance to our ecosystems, regenerative agriculture would be front and center. Instead, it’s pushed to the margins because it doesn’t generate profits for those who control the narrative.
Carbon Markets and Technocratic Fixes
Many of the climate solutions we hear about today—carbon credits, lab-grown meat, renewable energy offsets—aren’t about solving the problem. They’re about monetizing it. Instead of reducing emissions at the source, carbon markets allow big polluters to buy their way out of responsibility, trading credits rather than actually regenerating land.
MORE AT https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/why-are-we-ignoring-most-powerf
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DOGE Homes In On Shady Climate "Popup NGO Shell" That Received Billions From Biden
A noteworthy statistic from the National Council of Nonprofits reveals that NGOs employ 250,000 people in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. In the DOGE era, taxpayer funds for these nonprofits are under intense scrutiny, sending shockwaves across the Deep State.
The DOGE team appears to have set its crosshairs on a "popup nonprofit shell" company called Climate United Fund.
FOX Business' Elizabeth MacDonald wrote on X that the Climate United Fund received the largest nonprofit grant in history—a $7 billion award from the Biden-Harris regime to operate what has been described as a "massive climate slush fund." Just before the nonprofit shell received billions, it mysteriously blew through hundreds of thousands of dollars.
MacDonald provided more color on the shady Climate United Fund:
This is disturbing – Biden and Obama Democrats created a new beast, the "popup nonprofit shell" they suddenly launch to take in your taxpayer money supposedly for things like climate change and illegal immigration. Major front for taxpayer abuse with accusations of grift growing by the hour. Never saw it like this in decades covering IRS/taxes.
Check out the tax returns for one of these popup NGO shells, the Climate United Fund which got the biggest nonprofit grant in history out of Biden's massive climate slush funds.
Kamala Harris and Biden's EPA chief Michael Regan gave $7 billion total to the suddenly created Climate United Fund in April 2024 after it launched just five months earlier in November 30, 2022 when Its tax returns show it started with a tiny $547K in revs.
But it spent a massive $451K of that $547k in just two months in 2023, a quarter of that on legal fees and the majority $323K mysteriously blown on no one knows what because its tax returns don't say.
It has no stipulated plans for how it will spend your $7B in tax $$, just ephemeral solar projects in Idaho, Arkansas, and Oregon that amount to only about $50M total, a fraction of the $7B. It also gave money out of that $7b to Power Forward Communities linked to Stacey Abrams.
It has little to no details on how much its officers get paid that you typically see on NGO 990s, in fact virtually no details, red flags that it's a shell.
It supposedly is a partnership betw Dem insiders at investment firm Calvert Impact Capital, Community Preservation Corp. and a group called "Self-Help" (irony noted).
Beth Bafford is its CEO, a former "special assistant" in Obama's OMB and a regional field director for the Obama Campaign.
As we tweeted about a month ago, it has ties to Democratic Party of California chairman and California State Treasurer Phil Angelides, Obama's Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, United Farm Workers of America co-founder Dolores Huerta and Patrice Willoughby of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Judge Glock, the Director of Research and Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, noted on X that the Climate United Fund got your $7B after submitting a small 49-page report. That was all it took.
Jeff Carlson described the Climate United Fund as potentially "one of the primary vehicles to take advantage of the giant taxpayer-funded slush funds created by Biden—or whoever was running him."
"This is more than Grant Laundering. This is Program Laundering. And it looks like Obama's fingerprints are all over it," Carlson said.
MORE AT https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/doge-hones-shady-climate-popup-ngo-s
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Arctic sea ice sets a record low maximum in 2025
THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2025
https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today/analyses/arctic-sea-ice-sets-record-lo
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Arctic sea ice extent appears to have reached its annual maximum on March 22, 2025. This is the lowest maximum in the 47-year satellite record, with previous low maximums occurring in 2017, 2018, 2016, and 2015.
Quote:https://angrybearblog.com/2025/03/arctic-sea-ice-makes-new-record-low-
I am frankly surprised this page has not been taken down, which is one reason I wanted to make a record of the data here. Angry Bear is fortunate to have it also.
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https://bonddad.blogspot.com/2025/03/arctic-sea-ice-make-lowest-ever.h
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Climate Change Is A Chinese Hoax (Trump is convinced)
US federal agencies to 'unleash' coal energy after Biden 'stifled' it: 'Mine, Baby, Mine'
'Misguided policies from previous administrations have stifled this critical American industry,' Energy Secretary Wright said of coal production
By Emma Colton, Diana Stancy | April 8, 2025 5:37pm EDT
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-federal-agencies-unleash-coal-ener
gy-after-biden-stifled-it-mine-baby-mine
Trump signed an executive order Tuesday afternoon that will cut through red tape surrounding the coal industry, including directing the National Energy Dominance Council to designate coal as a "mineral," end a current pause to coal leasing on federal lands, promote coal and coal technology exports, and encourage the use of coal to power artificial intelligence initiatives, Fox News Digital learned of the upcoming executive order.
The order also instructs the Department of Justice to identify every "unconstitutional" state or local regulation that is "putting our coal miners out of business," according to Trump.
"The value of untapped gold in our country is 100 times greater than the value of all the gold at Fort Knox, and we're going to unleash it and make America rich and powerful again under this order," Trump said Tuesday ahead of signing the order.
"Pound for pound, coal is the single most reliable, durable, secure and powerful form of energy," Trump said. "It's cheap, incredibly efficient, high density, and it's almost indestructible. You could drop a bomb on it, and it's going to be there for you to use the next day, which you can't say with any other form of energy."
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