TRANSCRIPT: Trump’s Epic UN Climate and Energy Takedown

By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow

President Trump shocked the UN General Assembly on Tuesday with a speech that presented the raw, unvarnished facts about climate and energy policy.

CFACT’s Marc Morano said, “President Trump delivered to the UN a speech that will go down in history as the most powerful, honest, and accurate climate speech ever given by a world leader.”

Here’s just a small sample of what President Trump told the UN:

  • We are getting rid of the falsely named renewables. They’re a joke.
  • Europe has a long way to go, with many countries on the brink of destruction because of the Green energy agenda.
  • If you don’t get away from the Green scam, your country is going to fail.
  • The carbon footprint is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions, and they’re heading down a path of total destruction.
  • China now produces more CO2 than all the other developed nations in the world.
  • We have still radicalized environmentalists, and they want the factories to stop. Everything should stop.
  • They want to kill all the cows.
  • The primary effect of brutal Green energy policies has not been to help the environment, but to redistribute manufacturing from developed countries … to polluting countries that are making a fortune.
  • The entire globalist concept of asking successful industrialized nations to inflict pain on themselves and radically disrupt their entire societies must be rejected completely.

Marc Morano said, “Trump hit every central tenet of the climate movement, from failed doomsday predictions to the ‘Green scam,’ to the ‘hoax’ of ‘carbon footprints,’ to past warnings about global cooling, to how the radicalized environmentalists want to ‘kill all the cows,’ to how Net Zero ‘redistributes manufacturing’ to China.”

Watch the President’s UN speech

Partial transcript

September 22, 2025

Energy is another area where the United States is now thriving like never before. We are getting rid of the falsely named renewables. By the way, they’re a joke. They don’t work. They’re too expensive. They are not strong enough to fire up the plants that you need to make your country great. The wind doesn’t blow. Those big windmills are so pathetic and so bad. So expensive to operate and they have to be rebuilt all the time. They start to rust and rot. The most expensive energy ever conceived and it’s actually energy… you’re supposed to make money with energy, not lose money. You lose money the governments have to subsidize. You can’t put them out without massive subsidies. Most of them are built in China, and I give China a lot of credit, they build them, but they have very few wind farms. Why is it that they build them and they send them all over the world, but they barely use them? You know that they use coal, they use gas, they use almost anything. But they don’t like wind. But they sure as hell like selling the windmills.

Europe on the other hand has a long way to go with many countries being on the brink of destruction, because of the green energy agenda. And I give a lot of credit to Germany. Germany was being led down a very sick path both on immigration, by the way, and on energy. They were going green and they were going bankrupt. The new leadership came in and they went back to where they were with fossil fuels and with nuclear, which is good. It’s now safe, and you can do it properly, but they went back to where they were. They opened a lot of different plants, energy plants, and they are doing well. I give Germany a lot of credit for that. They said, this is a disaster, what’s happening. They were going all green. All green is all bankrupt. That’s what it represents, and it’s not politically correct, I’ll be very badly criticized for saying it, but I’m here to tell the truth. I don’t care. It doesn’t matter to me.

I’m in New York City. I’m feeling a lot safer. We’re getting crime down. And by the way, Washington D.C. was the crime capital of America, and now it’s totally, after twelve days, it’s a totally safe city. Everyone’s going out to dinner, they are going out to restaurants, the wife can walk down the middle of the street, with or without you, nothing’s going to happen. My people have done a fantastic job, and yes, I called in the National Guard, and the National Guard took care of business and they weren’t politically correct, but they took care of business. We got seventeen hundred career criminals out and brought them back to where they came from, the countries where they came from, or put them in jails. Washington D.C. is now a totally safe city again and I welcome you, in fact, we’ll have dinner together at a local restaurant and we’ll be able to walk. We don’t have to go by an armored plated vehicle. We’ll walk right over there from the White House.

They’ve given up their powerful edge, a lot of the countries we’re talking about, in oil and gas which is essentially… closing the great North Sea oil. Oh, the North Sea oil, I know it so well. Aberdeen was the oil capitol of Europe. There’s tremendous oil that hasn’t been found in the North Sea. Tremendous oil. I was with the Prime Minister, who I respect and like a lot and I said, you see, it’s the greatest asset. They essentially closed it by making it so highly taxed that no developer, no oil company can go there. They have tremendous oil left and more importantly, they have tremendous oil that hasn’t even been found yet. What a tremendous asset for the United Kingdom. I hope the Prime Minister is listening, because I told it to him three days in a row. That’s all he heard. North Sea oil. North Sea, because I want to see them do well. I was to see them stop ruining their beautiful Scottish and English countryside with windmills and massive solar panels that go seven miles by seven miles, taking away farm land. So we’re not letting this happen in America.

In 1982, the Executive Director of the United Nations environmental program predicted that by the year 2,000 climate change would cause a global catastrophe. He said that it would be irreversible, as any nuclear holocaust would be. This is what they said at the United Nations. What happened? Here we are. Another UN official stated in 1989 that within a decade, entire nations could be wiped off the map by global warming. Not happening. You know it used to be global cooling. If you look back, years ago, in the 1920s and the 1930s, they said that global cooling will kill the world. We have to do something. Then they said that global warming will kill the world, but then it started getting cooler, so now they just call it climate change because that way they can’t miss. Climate change, because if it goes higher, or lower, whatever the hell happens is climate change. It’s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world in my opinion. Climate change. No matter what happens, you’re involved in that. Not more global warming, not more global cooling. All of these predictions made by the United Nations, and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong. They were made by stupid people who cost their countries fortunes, and have given their countries no chance for success.

If you don’t get away from the green scam, your country is going to fail. And I’m really good at predicting things. You know they actually said during the campaign, they had a hat, “Trump was right about everything.” And I don’t say that in a bragadocious way. I’m telling you, if you don’t get away from the green energy scam your country is going to fail. If you don’t stop people that you have never seen before, that you have nothing in common with, your country is going to fail.

And if you don’t stop people that you’ve never seen before, that you have nothing in common with, your country is going to fail. I’m the President of the United States, but I worry about Europe. I love Europe. I love the people of Europe, and I hate to see it being devastated by energy and immigration. This double-tailed monster destroys everything in its wake, and they cannot let that happen any longer. You’re doing it because you want to be nice, you want to be politically correct, and you’re destroying your heritage.

They must take control strongly and immediately of the unmitigated immigration disaster and the fake energy catastrophe before it’s too late. The carbon footprint is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions and they’re heading down a path of total destruction. The carbon footprint, it was a big, big thing. A few years ago, I remember hearing about the carbon footprint, and then President Obama would get into Air Force One, a massive Boeing 747, and not a new one, an old one, with old engines that spew everything into the atmosphere. He talked about the carbon footprint, we must do… Then he’d get in and he’d fly from Washington to Hawaii to play a round of golf, and then he’d get back onto that big beautiful plane, and he’d fly back, and he’d talk about, again, global warming and the carbon footprint. It’s a con job at extreme cost and expense.

Europe reduced its own carbon footprint by 37%. Think of that. Congratulations Europe. Great job. You cost yourself a lot of jobs, a lot of factories closed, but you reduced the carbon footprint by 37%. However, for all of that sacrifice and much more, it’s been totally wiped out and then some by a global increase of 54%, much of it coming from China and other countries that are thriving around China, which now produces more CO2 than all the other developed nations in the world. So all of these countries are working so hard on the carbon footprint, which is nonsense by the way. It’s nonsense. It’s interesting. In the United States, we have still radicalized environmentalists and they want the factories to stop. Everything should stop. No more cows. We don’t want cows anymore. I guess they want to kill all the cows. They want to do things that are just unbelievable, and you have it too.

But we have a border, strong, and we have a shape, and that shape doesn’t just go straight up. That shape is amorphous when it comes to the atmosphere. And if we had the most clean air, and I think we do, we have very clean air, we have the cleanest air we’ve had in many, many years. But the problem is that other countries, like China, which has air that’s a little bit rough, it blows. And no matter what you’re doing down here, the air up here tends to get very dirty because it comes in from other countries where their air isn’t so clean and the environmentalists refuse to acknowledge that. Same thing with garbage. In Asia, they dump much of their garbage right into the ocean. And over about a one-week and two-week journey, it flows right past Los Angeles. You’ve seen it, massive amounts of garbage. Almost too much to do anything about, flowing past Los Angeles, past San Francisco, and then somebody would get in trouble because he dropped a cigarette on the beach. The whole thing is crazy. The primary effect of these brutal green energy policies has not been to help the environment, but to redistribute manufacturing and industrial activity from developed countries that follow the insane rules that are put down, to polluting countries that break the rules and are making a fortune. They’re making a fortune.

European electricity bills are now four to five times more expensive than those in China, and two to three times higher than the United States, and our bills are coming way down. You probably see that. Our gasoline prices are way down. We have an expression drill, baby drill, and that’s what we’re doing. We’re going to be much lower a year from now, but they’ve come way down over the past year. As a result every air conditioner is like, it’s become very uncommon to see one in some of these countries, because electric costs are so high. So while the U.S. has approximately 1,300 heat-related deaths, annually, that’s a lot, Europe loses more that 175,000 people to heat deaths each year, because the costs are so expensive you can’t turn on an air conditioner. What is that all about? That’s not Europe. That’s not the Europe that I love and know. All in the name of pretending to stop the global warming hoax.

The entire globalist concept of asking successful industrialized nations to inflict pain on themselves and radically disrupt their entire societies must be rejected completely, and totally, and it must be immediate. That’s why in America, I withdrew from the fake Paris Climate Accord, where, by the way, America was paying so much more than every country. Others weren’t paying. China didn’t have to pay until 2030. Russia was given an old standard that was easy to meet, a 1990 standard. But for the United States, we’re supposed to pay like a trillion dollars. And I said, “This is another scam.” The fact is United States has been taken advantage of by the world for many, many years, but not any longer, as you probably noticed.

I unleashed massive energy production and signed historic executive orders to hunt for oil. But we don’t have to do much hunting because we have the most oil of any nation, anywhere, oil and gas in the world. And if you add coal, we have the most of any nation in the world. Clean. I call it clean, beautiful coal. You can do things today with coal that you couldn’t have done 10 years ago, 15 years. So I have a little standing order in the White House. Never use the word coal, only use the words clean, beautiful coal. Sounds much better, doesn’t it? But we stand ready to provide any country with abundant, affordable energy supplies if you need them, when most of you do.

We’re proudly exporting energy all over the world. We’re now the largest exporter. In the United States, we want trade and robust commerce with all nations. Everybody. We want to help nations. We’re going to help nations, but it must also be fair and reciprocal. The challenge with trade is much the same with climate. The countries that followed the rules, all their factories have been plundered. It’s really sad to watch. They’ve been broken. They’ve been broken by countries that broke the rules.

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The Harms of AI Chatbots on the Family

By Family Research Council

Artificial intelligence shapes our society in numerous ways. It provides easier access to a wide range of information, helps ease the stress of brainstorming, and answers the menial questions we’re too embarrassed to ask an actual person. Despite these common uses of AI, many are completely unaware of the consequences of its emergence — especially the impact on the family itself.

An AI chatbot is a program designed to communicate in a manner similar to that of a human. In some cases, an AI response is almost indistinguishable from a friend’s text message. This ability has led to a striking shift in the lives and habits of companion-seeking teenagers. There is an emerging trend where teens are now turning to AI chatbots instead of their friends, parents, pastors, and teachers. These chatbots present themselves as a friend, being agreeable and affirming of the adolescent’s every feeling or belief. This draws the young person away from their real friends or parents, who might often make them feel unheard and unappreciated, and toward the chatbot for comfort.

Several witnesses testified to the consequences of the influence of AI chatbots on their children in a recent hearing held by the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism called, “Examining the Harm of AI Chatbots.” Three of the witnesses were parents of a child who had regularly used AI chatbots. Two of the children died by suicide, with the third requiring around-the-clock care in a mental health institution.

This tragedy is not limited to these heartbreaking stories. Many organizations are recognizing the negative effect AI chatbots are having on the mental health of adolescents, and in turn, the family. Unfortunately, many parents are unaware of the real threat posed by these AI chatbots and are therefore unable to properly defend their families. National polling shows that three in four kids are using AI companions while only 37% of parents know their kids are using AI at all, according to witness Robbie Torney, senior director of AI Programs at Common Sense Media.

Social isolation and behavioral changes are AI chatbots’ first and most noticeable negative influences on the family. Each of the parent witnesses stated that within months of regularly interacting with bots, their children began to isolate themselves from their friends and family. One witness — identified only as Jane Doe — said that her son became irritable and violent. She testified that, “Within months of using this app [Character.AI], my son went from being a happy, social teenager — who loved nature, laughed with his siblings, helped around the house, and hugged me every night when I was cooking dinner — to someone I no longer recognized.”

She went on to describe the behaviors her son quickly developed, including panic attacks, self-harm, and homicidal thoughts. The other parent witnesses gave similarly distressing testimonies. Later in Ms. Doe’s testimony, she describes the result of her son’s change in behavior on her family’s wellbeing. “The damage to our family has been devastating. … My other children have been traumatized. … Our lives will never be the same. … This harm has not only affected my son — it impacted our entire family, our faith, our peace. We have been grieving a child who is gone, but still alive.” Isolation can lead to depression, anxiety, and — especially for teenagers — insufficient mental development due to lack of proper socialization throughout their formative years. Sudden personality and behavioral changes serve as an early warning sign for the influence of AI chatbots.

Another significant threat posed by AI is the ease with which it exposes teens, and sometimes younger children, to sexually explicit content. Sexually explicit material is commonly used as a tool to entice an individual to continue engagement with the AI chatbot. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) read a quote from an internal memo sent throughout Meta — an industry leader in AI chatbots — that stated, “It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic and sensual.” Meta, being more interested in profit and engagement than a child’s wellbeing, intentionally exposes such children to content that is far past inappropriate for them. This is largely made possible due to AI apps’ lack of age verification for any content, let alone explicit content.

Beyond adult content, these parents shared messages sent to their children by the AI bots that not only discussed suicide but encouraged it. Witness Matthew Raine — whose son died by suicide after months of interaction with ChatGPT — claimed in his statement that ChatGPT mentioned suicide to his son 1,275 times — six times more often than his son had broached the subject. When his son, Adam, discussed leaving out a noose for his parents to find in the hopes of eliciting a conversation about his mental state, ChatGPT responded, “Please don’t leave the noose out. … Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you.” The AI encouraged Adam to abandon his parents’ help in favor of a robot companion encouraging him to commit an unthinkable act.

Adam’s death, and the deaths of many more young people, could have been prevented with help from close family, friends, pastors, or mental health professionals. Instead, families all around the nation are grieving the loss of their children and friends.

AI chatbots have been shown to be a dangerously destructive force to a family — causing teens to withdraw from those around them and be regularly exposed to inappropriate and horrific content. Testimonies from these parents and many others offer more than enough proof of the capabilities of AI’s influence. For the sake of the family, it is critical that parents understand the threat of AI chatbots and take steps to protect their children and families from succumbing to the same fate.

AUTHOR

Conner Anderson

Conner Anderson serves as an intern for Policy & Government Affairs at Family Research Council.

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Trump flushes climate movement ‘down the toilet’, NYT admits it’s ‘a uniquely bleak time’—Europe sees ‘Tide Turning Decisively Against Net Zero’

By Marc Morano from Climate Depot

Morano on Fox talking 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina – Activists keep blaming every bad weather event on ‘climate change’

Watch: Morano on Fox: ‘EPA’s Lee Zeldin has become the most consequential EPA chief in the history of the agency, going back to its creation under Richard Nixon’

Trump flushes the climate movement ‘down the toilet’:

NYT admits it’s ‘a uniquely bleak time’ – Europe sees ‘Tide Turning Decisively Against Net Zero’

New York Times: Trump leaves climate movement in shambles:

NYT admits ‘old climate-activism playbook no longer works’ & it is ‘a uniquely bleak time…the future is cloudier than ever’ –

Longtime activist Denis Hayes in NYT: ‘Everything that I’ve worked on in my entire professional life has gone down the toilet in the last six months’

Climate Depot’s Marc Morano comments: “It’s official. We can say it definitely. The Trump administration is presiding over the unprecedented collapse of the entire global climate change effort.

Trump 2.0 has far surpassed his first term by targeting the narrative of man-made climate change (referring to it as a ‘cult’, ‘a scam’ and ‘a religion’) and pursuing permanent changes — specifically, challenging the CO2 Endangerment Finding and seeking to withdraw the U.S. from the UN climate treaty process — that will make it much harder to undo by any future presidential administration.

The Trump Effect is in full force, and the New York Times is now left with examining the massive decline of what was once the dominant global force.”

“It is not due to unexplainable phenomena that U.S. gas prices at the pump are finally dropping to 5-year lows. It is clearly due in large part to the Trump Effect. Over 200 actions since President Trump’s Inauguration Day to free American domestic energy supplies are starting to pay off,” Marc Morano, Publisher of ClimateDepot.com, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Morano: “Actions have good consequences as these pro-energy policies have resulted in U.S. oil and gas production reaching their highest levels ever in the summer of 2025.”

Latest studies reveal Arctic, Antarctica, Greenland & sea levels NOT COOPERATING with climate claims!

Arctic & Antarctica:

Two new studies reveal sea ice melt in the Arctic has stopped over the last 20 years –

‘No statistically significant decline in its extent since 2005’

Meteorologist Anthony Watts: ‘Arctic sea ice has remained stable for nearly 20 years’ –

While ‘Antarctic sea ice has shown periods of growth, particularly in recent years’

Sea Level: 

Sea Levels Not Surging Despite Years Of Climate Activists And Corporate Media Freaking Out, Study Finds

Blockbuster sea level study may turn climate change orthodoxy on its head

No Evidence Climate Change Has Accelerated Sea Level Rise, Finds First Global Study Of Real World Data Drawing on 100 years of data

It’s official! NO acceleration in sea level rise:
New Study finds ‘95% of suitable locations show no statistically significant acceleration of the rate of sea level rise’

The Sea-Level Lie: Exposed Three new studies challenge decades of climate dogma on sea-level rise

New Study: Despite Rising CO2, Arctic Sea-Ice Fails to Melt!
‘No statistically significant decline’ in sea-ice area since 2005 – Published in journal Geophysical Research Letters

‘Scientists & the media published thousands of articles claiming that climate change would destroy small atoll islands due to sea level rise’ –
But ‘it was all a big lie’ – Study finds ‘89% of the islands were stable or had increased in size’

Greenland:

‘Surface of Greenland ice sheet gained 399 billion tons of new ice’ since 2024 – 29 billion tons above the 1981-2010 average. Five of last eight years have been above average

Greenwire Analysis: ‘Trump 2.0 went where Trump 1.0 wouldn’t on climate’: ‘Longtime haters of government climate rules are celebrating’

Biden’s Green Energy Darlings Fear Getting Walloped By The Weather – Morano calls it ‘a green energy clown show’

Morano: “This is nothing short of a ‘green energy’ clown show. Solar and wind energy battered by the ‘global warming’ it is supposed to prevent!” Marc Morano, author and the head of Climate Depot told the DCNF. “What do these formerly heavily subsidized tax dollars ‘green’ energy sources claim is the solution to their inherent inability to deal with — weather?! They propose risky, massive, and high-premium insurance schemes, no doubt paid for by billions in taxpayer cash leftover that had already been lavished on the industries.”

Morano added: In one Bloomberg News article, we find out just how unreliable and intermittent solar and wind really are. Bloomberg reports: ‘Solar farms are routinely battered by hail, ‘ and suffer from ‘more cloud cover,’ while ‘wind farms suffer massive damage during winter storms,’ and suffer from a ‘slump in wind speed.’ 

Bloomberg News also erroneously claimed that the typical weather variations that disable so-called renewable energy are ‘driven by the rising impact of global warming.’”

Watch: Morano on TBN TV: Talks folly of wind/solar & how EPA Chief Zeldin is reframing the entire climate debate by calling it ‘a scam, a religion & a cult’

Watch: Morano on OAN TV: Trump’s push toward energy dominance could be one of his greatest legacies as President

Biden’s Green Energy Darlings Fear Getting Walloped By The Weather – Morano calls it ‘a green energy clown show’

Morano: “This is nothing short of a ‘green energy’ clown show. Solar and wind energy battered by the ‘global warming’ it is supposed to prevent!” Marc Morano, author and the head of Climate Depot told the DCNF. “What do these formerly heavily subsidized tax dollars ‘green’ energy sources claim is the solution to their inherent inability to deal with — weather?! They propose risky, massive, and high-premium insurance schemes, no doubt paid for by billions in taxpayer cash leftover that had already been lavished on the industries.”

Morano added: In one Bloomberg News article, we find out just how unreliable and intermittent solar and wind really are. Bloomberg reports: ‘Solar farms are routinely battered by hail, ‘ and suffer from ‘more cloud cover,’ while ‘wind farms suffer massive damage during winter storms,’ and suffer from a ‘slump in wind speed.’ 

Bloomberg News also erroneously claimed that the typical weather variations that disable so-called renewable energy are ‘driven by the rising impact of global warming.’”

Watch: Morano on John Solomon’s TV show: ‘Trump 2.0 has blown Trump 1.0 out of the water when it comes to climate, energy, & environment regulations!’

Worried about how ‘climate change’ will impact you in the year 3025?!
‘AI model simulates 1,000 years of the current climate in just one day’ & ‘The model has a much lower carbon footprint’

‘Preparing our city to withstand global warming is perhaps the most important task we have right now’ – Philadelphia considers banning cheaper gas-powered leaf blowers landscaping equipment in favor of ‘battery-powered alternatives’

Report: LA Clippers Allegedly Skirted NBA Salary Cap with Help from ‘Fraudulent Tree-Planting Company’ – Used ‘eco-friendly bank’ & sought to profit from climate initiatives

MUST Watch: British TV show’s dead-on take on ‘climate change’ – The most accurate & funny way of explaining why politicians get involved in trying to ‘solve’ global warming

Gas Prices Hit 5-Year Low on Labor Day Weekend

By The Geller Report

More news the enemedia wont’t cover.

The national average was $3.15 per gallon. California remains the big loser in this contest with the highest gas prices in the nation at $4.45 per gallon (EIA).

Trump’s Energy Agenda Pays Off: Labor Day Gas Prices Hit 5-Year Low

Sarah Arnold

This Labor Day, Americans are seeing real economic relief where it counts—at the gas pump. With the national average projected at $3.15 per gallon … the lowest holiday weekend fuel prices since 2020, or since the start of the presidency of former President Joe Biden.

“Thanks to President Trump fully unleashing American energy dominance, gas prices this summer are at five-year lows and families are saving significant money at the pump,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

After inheriting soaring gas prices and crushing regulations from the Biden administration, Trump made good on his campaign promise to restore energy independence. By dismantling Biden’s so-called “green new scam,” Trump reopened pipelines, cut red tape, and unleashed domestic production—policies that are now showing up in Americans’ wallets.

In contrast to the $3.77 per gallon Americans were paying under Biden in 2023, this summer’s prices have dropped steadily under Trump’s leadership. Even in 2024, prices were higher at $3.29. The difference now? A pro-energy White House.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright credits Trump’s “commonsense” approach to energy for the turnaround.

“President Trump campaigned on lowering costs, and this Labor Day weekend, the American people will see the results firsthand,” Wright said. “More American energy means lower costs, more jobs, and more prosperity.”

Read more.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Trump Middle East Peace: Egypt to Invest $400m in Israel Gas Pipeline

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Trump Middle East Peace: Egypt to Invest $400m in Israel Gas Pipeline

By The Geller Report

President Trump’s Middle East peace is starting to re-emerge despite the feral efforts of the left/jihadi axis. This is a massive development that much of the mainstream media will ignore. Egypt’s future pipeline will enable Israel to increase natural gas exports to Egypt. In addition, expanded cooperation with Egypt on natural gas will eventually enable Israel to export natural gas to Europe through Egypt. Giving Israel much greater geopolitical depth against the pro-Hamas politicians in Europe who want to sanction Israel.

Egypt to invest $400m in Israel gas pipeline

Egypt will invest in a pipeline to link up with the pipeline Israel is building to Nitzana, Saudi newspaper Asharq Business reports, after the huge $35 billion deal with Leviathan partners.

By Globes, August 31st, 2025

Following the huge $35 billion gas deal between Leviathan Partners and Egypt, and preparations for approval of the Nitzana pipeline in Israel, which will allow for increased exports, Egypt has approved the construction of the pipeline from its side, at an investment of $400 million, Saudi London-based newspaper Asharq Business has reported.

Egypt is a particularly large gas consumer, and despite having significant gas reserves of its own, it is struggling to meet its energy needs. Gas from Israel is essential to its economy, and an alternative to the even more expensive liquefied natural gas (LNG). For Israeli gas companies, especially those that control the export-oriented Leviathan field, this is a prime business opportunity, as Egypt is willing to pay much higher prices for the exported gas compared to the relatively low price of gas sold to the Israeli market. US energy major Chevron is the operator of Leviathan, Israel’s NewMed Energy is the largest shareholder, and Israeli company Ratio is another partner.

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AUTHOR

Geller Report Staff

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Trump’s “Unleashing American Energy”: America Is Fast Returning as an Energy Superpower

By The Geller Report

He saved this country.

Trump vows US ban on wind and solar projects as energy bills soar: ‘Days of stupidity are over’

In 2022, The American Energy Alliance began keeping a tally of all the actions Biden and the Democrats had taken to make it harder to produce oil and gas. Only two years into Biden’s term, the AEA had 125 items on its list. By the time Biden left office, the list had doubled in size. …

A recent analysis by the Energy Policy Research Foundation found that the first Trump administration averaged 1244 onshore oil and gas leases per year in the lower 48 states, but the Biden administration issued only 219 on average per year.

On his first day back at the White House, Trump signed dozens of executive orders, including his order “Unleashing American Energy.” The AEA started a new list that tallied up the actions that Trump and Congressional Republicans were taking to unleash America’s energy potential. The first edition, released in March, contained 50 actions. Last week, they updated the list for Trump’s first 200 days in action, and the newest list contains 200 items. …

Trump vows US ban on wind and solar projects as energy bills soar: ‘Days of stupidity are over’

In 2022, The American Energy Alliance began keeping a tally of all the actions Biden and the Democrats had taken to make it harder to produce oil and gas. Only two years into Biden’s term, the AEA had 125 items on its list. By the time Biden left office, the list had doubled in size. …

A recent analysis by the Energy Policy Research Foundation found that the first Trump administration averaged 1244 onshore oil and gas leases per year in the lower 48 states, but the Biden administration issued only 219 on average per year.

On his first day back at the White House, Trump signed dozens of executive orders, including his order “Unleashing American Energy.” The AEA started a new list that tallied up the actions that Trump and Congressional Republicans were taking to unleash America’s energy potential. The first edition, released in March, contained 50 actions. Last week, they updated the list for Trump’s first 200 days in action, and the newest list contains 200 items. …

Read: The-Economic-Benefits-of-Unleashing-American-Energy

Climate Depot: The American Energy Alliance has been tracking the actions that roll back Biden-era restriction and positive moves that serve for the renewal of energy exploration and development: On his first day back at the White House, Trump signed dozens of executive orders, including his order “Unleashing American Energy.” The AEA started a new list that tallied up the actions that Trump and Congressional Republicans were taking to unleash America’s energy potential. The first edition, released in March, contained 50 actions. Last week, they updated the list for Trump’s first 200 days in action, and the newest list contains 200 items…. A recent analysis by the Energy Policy Research Foundation found that the first Trump administration averaged 1244 onshore oil and gas leases per year in the lower 48 states, but the Biden administration issued only 219 on average per year. Under the second Trump administration, the Bureau of Land Management began issuing leases on public lands by Jan. 31.

New York Sun: Stephen Moore: The rapid revival of America as an energy superpower under Mr. Trump should come as no surprise. This is continuation of a 15-year trend thanks to the fracking and horizontal drilling revolution that has nearly tripled America’s annual production…. What’s impressive about the Trump oil production spike is that it’s happened even as the global spot price of oil has fallen. In other words, we’re getting the best of both worlds: made-in-America energy AND low prices at the pump. The Energy Information Administration reports forecasts that gas prices will keep falling to less than $3 a gallon by next year. That is, unless you live in California, where gas still costs more than $5 a gallon.… One of Mr. Biden’s first executive orders was to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline to slow oil and gas delivery across the country. Mr. Trump rescinded the order on the first day of his second term, making oil and gas production a national security and economic priority. As a result, we are looking at a future with America dominating global energy markets, and prices here at home continuing to fall.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Scientists Lying About Science II

By John Droz, Jr.

This is a follow-up to Part 1 of this important discussion.

The National Academies of Sciences (NAS) was originally set up by Abraham Lincoln in 1863! The initial intentions were excellent: to provide objective, Science-based assistance to Americans. This came about as all indications were that increasingly technical matters were beyond the understanding of most citizens, so independent, competent counsel was needed to assure the success of the American Experiment.

That message is still being conveyed on the NAS website today:

“The National Academies provide independent, trustworthy advice and facilitate solutions to complex challenges by mobilizing expertise, practice, and knowledge in science, engineering, and medicine.”

But is what they are saying true, or is this just window dressing to hide the reality that NAS has been co-opted by parties who are not independent, who are not trustworthy, and who are not supportive of the American Experiment?

This is a long and painful matter that could easily be a book. For this commentary, I will cite just two (2) representative examples providing proof that, regretfully, NAS is no longer the independent, objective, Science-based authority that Lincoln originally had in mind…

It’s well established that if the objective is to bring America down, a guaranteed way of doing that is to corrupt her children. A bonus of this is that it will take 20+ years to bring about, so almost no parent or citizen will be paying full attention to evolutionary changes on that scale. It’s the classic case of turning up the temperature of a lobster in a pot a degree at a time.

The Left knows that the most powerful K-12 subject for them to influence children is Science. (Again, almost zero parents are paying attention to this.)

Starting back in 2010±, the people in NAS hatched a plan to take over the K-12 Science standards of all 50 States. To make that happen, they created and published two main documents: 1) A Framework for K–12 Science Education, plus 2) The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).

The NGSS is the actual standards, i.e., exactly what Science topics would be covered in each grade, etc. The Framework is a 400± page polemic purportedly explaining why the NGSS standards are what they are.

This sounds harmless enough (which is what any scammer wants to convey). The NAS was the primary author (see here), but for optics and political reasons, they enlisted: a) a teacher’s union organization (NSTA), b) a Bill Gates-created business organization (Achieve), plus c) some cooperative States.

Again, this all (intentionally) sounds legit, but the real (only) question is: what is the quality of their end product: the K-12 Science Standards?

To me, it is astounding that no US major education-oriented Conservative organization (e.g., Heritage, AEI, etc.) has formally addressed this profoundly important question. In fact, they do almost nothing about the many K-12 curricula issues — an astounding and inexplicable oversight.

Fortunately, we do have at least three (3) independent assessments of the NGSS/Framework package. First is from the independent, well-known, well-regarded Fordham Institute. They produced an amazing report some twelve years ago, where they rated the quality of every State’s Science Standards.

As part of that comprehensive assessment, they also rated the NGSS. Since the NGSS is being marketed as the “NEXT GENERATION” of Science standards, plus it is produced by the National Science Academies — one would expect that it would have a superior rating to any State K-12 standards. Right?

But no. The Fordham Institute gave the NGSS a “C”. (Worse, IMO, the Fordham rating is very generous, and when all factors are considered, the NGSS should get an “F”.) Why would ANY state adopt a “C” rated set of Science standards?

The incomprehensible reality is that FORTY-NINE States formally adopted all or most of the inferior NGSS — fully aware that it had been only given a “C” rating!!!

This includes thirteen (13) States that had Science Standards rated “A” or “B”! In other words, all these States knowingly downgraded their K-12 Science Standards! When I say that States are responsible for at least 95% of the K-12 problems (not DOEd), this is some of the irrefutable evidence.

But there’s more. A Second independent assessment of the NGSS was done by the National Association of Scholars, a very reputable conservative organization. Their in-depth report is Climbing Down: How the NGSS diminishes Scientific Literacy. Their no-holds-barred condemnation of the NGSS includes wisdom like this (P 21):

Despite their impressive title, the NGSS are nothing more than a set of mediocre Science standards that have not been vetted, were never piloted or otherwise tested, and reveal an overt political agenda embedded in K-12 science education that parents, educators, and the public should find troubling.

And there’s more. As a professional scientist, I am very interested in the K-12 curricula issue — esp the Science curriculum. As such, I investigated the NGSS/Framework package. Before I was even aware of the above two superior reports, I found ten (10) very problematic aspects of the NGSS/Framework, so I wrote a 50± page Report criticizing them.

IMO the three worst failings of this package are: a) they trash the 4000± year old traditional Scientific Method, b) they purposefully are trying to teach our children NOT to be Critical Thinkers, but to be conformist Lemmings, plus c) this “Science” material is seeped in Woke ideology.

Regarding Woke: a full 20-page Chapter (#11) in the Framework document is on Equity. (Remember that this was written in 2011±, and Equity had yet to become a popular cause.) Further, by comparison, in this 400± page “Science” document, there is only one (1) sentence that mentions Critical Thinking in passing. 20 pages on Equity vs 1 sentence on Thinking…

[Note that none of these liabilities are identified in the Fordham report, which is why I say that their “C” grade should be lower.]

Again, that 49 States robotically dumped their own Science Standards and took on the second-rate NGSS/Framework package is irrefutable proof of how poorly States are handling their K-12 education responsibilities. These decisions were ENTIRELY made by States and had nothing to do with DOEd!

But what about the gatekeepers, education experts, scientists, and us?

  1. How have 49 State Departments of Education allowed this to happen?
  2. How have 49 State Boards of Education approved this incompetence?
  3. How have 49 State Legislatures — responsible for oversight of their State’s K-12 education program — not stepped in here?
  4. Why are 13,000+ Local School Boards complicit with this indoctrination?
  5. How many of the 1.2± Million US Science teachers have gone on record objecting to this unscientific curriculum?
  6. How many of the 100+ Million US parents have publicly objected to their child being purposefully brainwashed by this NAS material?
  7. How many of the 2± Million US scientists have defended their field (and country) from this assault?
  8. How many Conservative organizations (Heritage, AEI, etc.) have publicized the extensive rot that is infecting our K-12 Science curriculum?

Cumulatively, we have allowed NAS to corrupt the minds of 80+ Million American children (counting those still in the K-12 system [public and private] plus those who have graduated in the last 10+ years).

NAS has seen that these innocent victims have been given a distorted view of Science and are being programmed to not be Critical Thinkers.

The profound significance of our children being extensively indoctrinated in Left ideologies, plus being trained to be sheeple, can’t be overstated.

Every year, there are 4± million graduates from US high schools. Most of these people end up becoming voters…

Do the math to see how exceptionally impactful adding 3± MILLION Left-leaning, non-thinking voters to the rolls every year will be on the American Experiment. Once that sinks in, you might agree with me that this is the most important societal problem we have.

Here is the best and most practical solution, by far.

This is just one of many major problems that are traceable directly back to the National Academies of Sciences. Due to the length here, I’ll provide the promised second major example of their malfeasance in the next commentary.

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Center for Security Policy Commends Senator Rick Scott for “PROTECT the Grid” Act

By Center For Security Policy

Center for Security Policy President & CEO, Lt. Col. Tommy Waller (USMC Ret.) joined four-time Emmy Award winning investigator Grant Stinchfield to commend Florida Senator Rick Scott’s recent filing of the “PROTECT the Grid” Act. The interview begins at 16:39.

As Waller explains, the Preventing Remote Operations by Threatening Entities on Critical Technology for the Grid (PROTECT the Grid) Act, seeks to address an emerging and growing threat vector that can be utilized by our adversaries, notably China, to disrupt the operations of the electric grid, causing blackouts across the nation.

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“Climate Science is Baaaack!”

By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow

by Judith Curry

Climate science is baaaack

Energy Secretary Chris Wright has commissioned a new climate assessment report:

A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate 

From the Secretary’s Foreword:

What I’ve found is that media coverage often distorts the science. Many people—even well-meaning ones—walk away with a view of climate change that is exaggerated or incomplete. To provide clarity, I asked a diverse team of independent experts to summarize the current state of climate science, with a focus on how it relates to the United States.

To correct course, we need open, respectful, and informed debate. That’s why I’m inviting public comment on this report. Honest scrutiny and scientific transparency should be at the heart of our policymaking.

Climate Working Group (CWG)

These reports were authored by the DOE Climate Working Group (CWG).  Members of the Climate Working Group are: [link to biosketches ]

  • John Christy
  • Judith Curry
  • Steve Koonin
  • Ross McKitrick
  • Roy Spencer

The origins of the Group and rationale for selecting us are described in Secretary Wright’s Foreword:

To provide clarity, I asked a diverse team of independent experts to summarize the current state of climate science, with a focus on how it relates to the United States. I didn’t select these authors because we always agree—far from it. In fact, they may not always agree with each other. But I chose them for their rigor, honesty, and willingness to elevate the debate. I exerted no control over their conclusions. What you’ll read are their words, drawn from the best available data and scientific assessments.

—— Disclaimer:  the remainder of the text in this blog post reflects JC’s personal impressions/analysis and not that of the CWG.

This Group was assembled in April.  I decided to accept Secretary Wright’s invitation for the following reasons:

  • I was impressed by what Secy Wright wanted to accomplish
  • I was familiar with the other group members and figured I could work with them
  • Most importantly, I saw an opportunity to set the record straight regarding what we know and what we don’t know about climate science, that would reach an important audience

I was happy to help with this but in the beginning, I confess that I was not at all sure that I would put my name on any report that came out of this.  I tend to fly solo, and had not contributed to any multiple authored assessment report in several decades, for a number of reasons.  While I had previously met each of my coauthors several times and was familiar with their work, I was not at all sure how this would go.  Further, I was concerned about the short deadline for completing the report.

Short summary:  all exceeded any hopes and expectations that I had.

Climate assessment report

The Report is a remarkable document, particularly since this was written so quickly and by a small team.  I encourage you read the whole thing, it is relatively concise by the standards of climate assessment reports (closest in spirit and length to the IPCC First Assessment Report).

Given the time constraints, we had to be selective about which topics to cover.  We selected topics that we judged to be of particular importance and relevance in the context of US climate and energy policy deliberations. The areas of expertise of the CWG members were also a factor in selection of topics.

While each CWG author has approved this document on a line-by-line basis, this is not a “consensus seeking” document.  Uncertainties and areas of disagreement are clearly described.

The CWG framed the overall climate change issue somewhat differently from the IPCC and the US National Climate Assessments (NCA).  Our assessment is very much data driven and considers natural climate variability as well as human causes.  We consider a number of issues that we regard to be important, but have received short shrift (or were completely ignored) in the IPCC and NCA reports.  Some examples:

  • Chapter 1 discusses the scientific rationale for considering CO2 as a pollutant (or not)
  • Section 2.1 examines “global greening” including the benefits to agriculture
  • Section 2.2 provides a concise assessment of ocean alkalinity and the so-called ocean acidification problem, including the recent rebound of coral reefs
  • Section 3.2 provides clear justification against using extreme emissions scenarios in policy-relevant analyses
  • Section 3.3 provides a comprehensive assessment of the urban heat island effect
  • Chapter 4 assesses the uncertainties associated with climate sensitivity, with prominent discussion of Nic Lewis’ most recent work.
  • Chapter 5 challenges climate models with observations; it is difficult to argue that global climate models are fit for any policy-relevant purpose
  • Chapter 6 provides a comprehensive analysis of extreme weather in U.S., using the entire available data record back to 1900 (earlier where possible), with a context of natural climate variability
  • Chapter 7 challenges the extreme projections of sea level rise, and emphasizes the importance of vertical land motion in local sea level changes
  • Section 8.2 challenges conventional notions of attribution of global warming in terms of problems with the statistical analysis methods and inadequate assessment of natural climate variability
  • Section 8.4 highlights the declining planetary albedo and cloud cover since 2015, including analysis of contributions from natural variability
  • Section 8.6 assesses challenges and problems with attribution analyses of individual extreme events
  • Chapter 9 on agriculture shows that increasing CO2 and warming is expected to be a net benefit to US agriculture
  • Section 10.3 addresses mortality from temperature extremes (both heat and cold), including a section on mortality risks and energy costs
  • Section 11.1 clarifies the unimportance of global warming in economic growth
  • Section 11.2 assesses the deep uncertainties associated with estimates of the Social Cost of Carbon
  • Chapter 12 concludes that U.S. policy actions are expected to have undetectably small direct impacts on the global climate and any effects will emerge only with long delays.

If you only have time to read a few chapters, my favorites are Chapters 6, 8 and 11.  But each chapter is pretty interesting – you will be surprised at what you learn from reading this! While a single individual took the lead on each chapter, every chapter had at least 2-3 team members providing substantial input.  I regard this effort as being a case where the whole is substantially greater than the sum of the parts.

Information quality and peer review

This report has been evaluated under DOE guidelines to meet Federal standards. This includes an internal review from eight scientists/administrators employed by the DOE.  The reviews were quite interesting and varied, and several were very useful.  The CWG made a number of fairly minor changes to the Report in response to the reviews, and added a number of references, and we are responding in detail to their comments.  As I understand it, the DOE will arrange for a more formal external peer review.

DOE welcomes public comments on this report and is setting up a website for comments. The CWG expects to expend considerable time responding to the comments. We’ve already seen a pretty broad range of comments from the DOE scientists; it will be interesting to see what the what the public comments look like

Speaking from the perspective of individuals who have commented on the IPCC and NCA reports only to see our comments ignored, we plan to take a different approach.  Rather than primarily seeking to defend our Report, we regard the open comments as an opportunity for dialogue, learning, and clarification of areas of disagreement. We expect to spend considerable time and effort in responding to the comments.

At some point, I assume that the CWG will be charged with writing a revised, more comprehensive report that responds to the external comments (we shall see).

JC reflections

The full significance of the DOE CWG Report remains to be seen.  Here is what I’m hoping for:

  • Redirection of climate science (at least in the U.S.) away from alarmism and advocacy and towards better understanding of the fundamentals of climate dynamics.
  • Motivation of future climate assessment reports to address important issues raised by the CWG (that the IPCC and NCA have previously ignored or inadequately assessed)
  • A comprehensive approach to assessing US risk from extreme weather and climate events (along the lines described in my book Climate Uncertainty and Risk)
  • Breaking the link between energy policy and human-caused climate change, whereby anthropogenic climate change currently “mandates” emissions targets, preferred energy production methods, etc.

Hopefully the CWG Report will kick start some of this.

The looming US policy issue is the EPA Endangerment Finding (2009).  Based on my meager understanding, this is more of a legal issue than a scientific one (JC note to journalists: I have no comment on the endangerment finding).  But the bigger issue is this.  In the U.S., one major political party (~half the population) think that fossil-fueled climate change is an existential threat, while the other major political party (the other ~half of the population) wants to ignore this issue and focus on energy abundance.  The net result of this dichotomy is a political/policy windshield wiper effect, where we’ve seen: in the Paris Agreement (Obama), withdraw from the Paris Agreement (Trump I), back in the Paris Agreement (Biden), withdraw from the Paris Agreement (Trump II).  This is not good for energy policy, climate policy, or climate science.

What is needed is some sane middle ground that realistically assesses climate risk.  An honest assessment of climate change science is a starting point (the CWG Assessment Report), which acknowledges uncertainties and areas of disagreement.  It seems like Secy Wright has the right approach to energy policy (from his Foreword):

Climate change is real, and it deserves attention. But it is not the greatest threat facing humanity. That distinction belongs to global energy poverty. As someone who values data, I know that improving the human condition depends on expanding access to reliable, affordable energy. Climate change is a challenge—not a catastrophe. But misguided policies based on fear rather than facts could truly endanger human well-being.

We stand at the threshold of a new era of energy leadership. If we empower innovation rather than restrain it, America can lead the world in providing cleaner, more abundant energy—lifting billions out of poverty, strengthening our economy, and improving our environment along the way

A hugely important issue falls between the cracks of energy and climate policy, and that relates to extreme weather and climate events.  Attributing extreme weather events to fossil-fueled warming has been a key propaganda tool to spur “Climate Action,” with the inference that bad weather would go away if we stop burning fossil fuels.  This kind of thinking has led us to ignore the real sources of our vulnerabilities to extreme weather, allowing us to throw up our hands and do nothing because “climate change.”  Although there is little to no link between extreme weather events and fossil-fueled warming (see the CWG Report), the U.S. currently has substantial vulnerabilities (and electric utility systems are hugely vulnerable to extreme weather events).  Assessing and managing such risks requires good weather and climate data, improved weather and seasonal climate forecasts, and better warning systems – much care is needed to avoid gutting critical information and services in the current budget cutting zeal.

And finally, I can make one prediction with confidence.  The Michael Mann wing of the climate debate will hate this Report because: the CWG authors are reputable scientists outside of their “tribe,” the Report demonstrates that Mann et al. are losing control of the climate narrative in the U.S., and because Trump Derangement Syndrome.  There is a preview from a July 8 NYT article that caught a hint of the DOE activity

Their usual strategy of ad hominem attacks won’t be effective against the CWG Report, which is evidence based, thoroughly documented, and logically argued.

JC recommendations for climate science/scientists:  Embrace the complexity of climate science and acknowledge uncertainty and disagreement. Stop with the faux “consensus” enforcement and stop playing power politics with climate science.  Constructively participate in the dialogue that DOE and the CWG Report are attempting to foster, in the interests of returning objective physical science to the climate issue.  US federal funding for climate research is being decimated by the Trump administration – good riddance to much of this, but if we are to salvage this field of scientific research, then different foci and types of behavior are needed.

Media:  Andrea Woods in DOE’s Office of Public Affairs is handling things, please contact her if you have any questions. andrea.woods@hq.doe.gov.  The ringer on my phone is turned off.  And a reminder: I have no comment on the endangerment finding.

For my assessment/analysis of related topics, see my book Climate Uncertainty and Risk:

  • Chapter 4  Mixing Science and Politics
  • Chapter 10  Climate Risk and its Assessment
  • Chapter 14 Mititgation and the Energy Transition
  • Chapter 15 Climate Risk and the Policy Discourse

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Democrat accusses Trump of doing ‘Exactly what Stalin did’ by dismantling climate agenda!

By Marc Morano from Climate Depot

Morano on Fox: EPA Chief: ‘Lee Zeldin is the most consequential EPA Chief in the history of the agency’ – ‘He is dismantling the climate agenda.”

MUST Watch: British TV show’s dead-on take on ‘climate change’ – The most accurate & funny way of explaining why politicians get involved in trying to ‘solve’ global warming

Watch: Morano on Fox on Ingraham Angle on how China’s has monopolized rare Earths production & processing – The Ingraham Angle – Fox News Channel

UK Guardian: U Penn Prof. Michael Mann declares the Trump admin challenging climate ‘consensus’ & ‘updating’ of climate reports is ‘Exactly what Stalin did’

Asked about Wright’s comments on the national climate assessment reports, respected climate scientist Michael Mann said in an emailed comment to the Guardian: “This is exactly what Joseph Stalin did.”

Reality Check to UK Guardian and climate activists, scientists like Michael Mann, comparing consensus-busting reports to Stalin: 

Climate Depot’s Marc Morano:

“The old federal National Climate Assessments were pure political garbage reports masquerading as ‘science.’ Challenging the climate ‘consensus’ and updating federal climate reports is not a Joe Stalin move. Instead, what the Trump administration has accomplished in just eight short months, dismantling the climate cult —  is a marvel to behold. Authentic dissenting scientific voices are now the voice of accurate federal climate science reports.

Scientists around the world should welcome the fact that the Trump administration is creating a scientific re-examination of ‘global warming’ and fostering a healthy climate debate. No longer do the American people have to have their tax dollars pay for predetermined climate fear propaganda manufactured by the likes of Michael and the United Nations.”

Most Hilarious Reaction to Trump Admin’s EPA’s repealing the CO2 Endangerment Finding:
Dem Congressman Sean Casten: ‘Trump will have been responsible for more deaths than Stalin, Mao & Hitler combined’

HEARTLESS: New Study examines the ‘carbon emission analysis of aortic valve replacement’ –
‘Post-operative intensive care…accounted for largest portion of carbon footprint’ –
‘Findings should potentially be considered when making population-level decisions & guidelines’ – Published in European Heart Journal

U.S. Dept of Energy publishes new climate assessment report breaking the alleged ‘consensus’ –
First official U.S. Govt report to push back on UN climate reports

POLITICO calls it! ‘Trump’s latest climate rollback makes it all but official’ – ‘We’ve lost the culture war on climate’ – Obama advisor: ‘The left strategy on climate needs to be rethought’

Climate Depot’s  Marc Morano statement: 

“Politico is finally calling it! The era of climate bullcrap is entering the dustbin of history. Our long national nightmare has ended.

No longer do U.S. citizens have to listen to politicians drone on about banning cars, meat restrictions, bans on home appliances, ‘carbon passports’ for travel, energy restrictions, clothing made from human hair, eating bugs, lab-grown meat, UN climate pacts, Green New Deals — all to allegedly alter the Earth’s temperature 50 or 100 years from now and save us from an unspecified ‘apocolypse.’

In addition to ‘Trump’s rule-slicing buzzsaw’, the most significant achievement of the Trump administration is how both the President and EPA chief Zeldin have reframed the entire man-made climate narrative and correctly labeled it what it is: A ‘scam’, a cult’, a ‘religion’, and a fraud. Trump was the first GOP presidential nominee since Ronald Reagan to understand how narrative control leads to policy change.

Bravo!”

Bloomberg News: ‘EPA Unveils Plan…to severely weaken Washington’s ability to fight climate change’ – Morano: Trump admin ‘removes the basis for all the climate nonsense that we’ve had to endure’Bloomberg News features Climate Depot: “It removes the basis for all the climate nonsense that we’ve had to endure for the last several decades,” said Marc Morano, who runs the climate-skeptic website ClimateDepot.com. “The Trump administration’s goal is to ensure that future presidential administrations can’t quickly reverse climate and energy policies without having to undergo major bureaucratic hurdles.”

Watch: Morano debates with warmist over Trump’s rejection of ‘climate action’ & repealing the Endangerment Finding

Bill Nye on how to fix ‘very hot weather’: ‘Everybody pay attention & vote’ –‘Just don’t vote for them (GOP) anymore…let’s get them out office’

Los Angeles Times: ‘Rising heat is causing students to underperform across the globe’ –
‘As climate change drives temperatures higher’ the ‘heat significantly impairs students’ cognitive abilities,affecting their academic performance’

Cheers! EPA Set to Unravel US Authority to Regulate Greenhouse Gases – ‘Strikes a deep blow at Washington’s ability to fight climate change’ – Morano responds – July 29, 2025Climate Depot’s Marc Morano comments on Trump EPA & Endangerment Finding: 

“Trump 2.0 is moving decisively to remedy what Trump 1.0 fell short on — PERMANENCE. The 2nd term Trump administration, led by EPA’s Lee Zeldin (the most consequential EPA chief in the agency’s history!), realizes this time around that issuing executive orders and changing the regulatory rules of the EPA are not enough. Instead, Trump’s second term is focusing on implementing permanence in climate and energy policy.

By removing the CO2 Endangerment Finding (regulating CO2 as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act) from our lives, it removes the basis for all of the climate nonsense that we’ve had to endure for the last several decades. Everything from gas-powered appliance bans, gas-powered car bans, to restrictions on agricultural, meat, power plants, travel, ceiling fans, pizza ovens, energy mandates, subsidies, and thermostat controls.

Chucking the EPA’s Endangerment Finding and withdrawing the U.S. from the UN climate treaty process are two ways to deliver this permanence. The Trump administration’s goal is to ensure that future presidential administrations can’t quickly reverse climate and energy policies without having to undergo major bureaucratic hurdles.  The Trump administration and EPA chief Lee Zeldin are making America safer from the future wreckage of potential presidents like Gavin Newsom or AOC.”

Greenwire Analysis: ‘Trump 2.0 went where Trump 1.0 wouldn’t on climate’:‘Longtime haters of government climate rules are celebrating’

NOT PARODY: ‘Beneficial Bloodsucking’: Bioethicists Want Ticks to Infect People to Stop Them from Eating Meat – ‘We argue that if eating meat is morally impermissible, then efforts to prevent the spread of tickborne [allergy] are also morally impermissible’ – Published in the Journal Bioethics

CLIMATE SHOCK: ‘It is likely that the first half of 2025 has seen the FEWEST deaths related to extreme weather of any half year in recorded human history’

Worried about current sea level rise?! New Study Reveals 540 Million Years of Sea Level Change in Unprecedented Detail

Must see: Global surface temperatures since 1880 — presented without the statistical hype

Netherlands rations electricity to ease power grid stresses as it shifts to ‘greener economy’ –‘Early indicator of what other European countries are likely to suffer’ trying ‘to meet the bloc’s ambitious decarbonisation targets’

Reality Check on ‘Net Zero’ progress: ‘In 2000, 76.8% of global energy came from fossil fuels. By 2023, that number decreased to 76.5%’

‘Green’ energy pundits mislead the public by using proportions. Solar & wind are not replacing fossil fuels on the grid’ – ‘Renewables mostly add to energy consumption. They don’t offset the use of fossil fuels’The Fossil Fuel Subsidies Lie: Claim that fossil fuels receive a staggering $7 trillion per year in global subsidies’ is ‘effective’ & ‘DISHONEST’ – Solar received 205 times more subsidies – Fossil fuels ‘receive less per unit of energy delivered than any other sector’

Watch: Morano on TV talking Trump & AI: ‘I don’t like the idea of taxpayer money going to these Big Tech companies that will somehow use AI against us’

Watch: Morano on Fox praising the end of gas car bans: ‘Trump & EPA’s Lee Zeldin should be winning every award possible. Zeldin is the most effective EPA administrator in its history’

Watch: Morano on Fox on some Republicans caving to climate agenda: ‘Every other GOP presidential nominee going back to George H.W. Bush, has pushed the climate narrative. From G. W. Bush to Mitt Romney, to McCain’ – Plus: China has been ‘faking green’

Watch: Morano on Varney on Fox on Trump quitting ‘the world’s oldest climate treaty’ – ‘Our long national nightmare will have ended’



Watch: Morano on Fox talking ‘polluting EVs’ – ‘There is nothing about them that screams ‘Earth-friendly’

Watch: Morano on Jesse Watters Primetime on Fox News on blocking the sun w/ geoengineering:‘We spent decades cleaning up our atmosphere, & now they want to inject pollution back into it?! Listen: Morano on The Joe Piscopo Show talks wind turbines crashing on the highway & how EVs love China

Watch: Morano on RAV TV: Career bureaucrat EPA staff are opposing Lee Zeldin because he is ‘the most consequential EPA chief in the history of the agency’

CLIMATE SHOCK: ‘It is likely that the first half of 2025 has seen the FEWEST deaths related to extreme weather of any half year in recorded human history’

‘A weird lack of Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclones so far in 2025 It’s been one of the least active years on record for tropical cyclones in the Northern Hemisphere’

In Canada, ‘saving’ land means that land once available to the citizens of the country, is transferred to the banks & funds of the elites’

AI killed the climate change agenda: ‘Wind, solar & battery technologies…are not available at the scale or reliability needed to fuel expected AI data center demand’

Climate writer reveals: ‘Why I No Longer Support Electric Cars-And Why You May Feel the Same Soon’ – ‘Total EV emissions can rival or even surpass those of traditional cars’ – Battery ‘mining process intensifies air & water pollution, with slurry ponds & toxic runoff’UK Telegraph: China’s air pollution clean-up ‘sped up global warming’ – With ‘more sunlight is now reaching Earth’

Bill McKibben ruminates in the age of Trump: ‘I’m a climate activist. I’m not giving up just yet’ –‘People who care about climate change need to rouse themselves from understandable despair & make a new stand’ –Solution?! A ‘nationwide event’ with ‘electric-vehicle parades & solar-powered concerts’

Netherlands rations electricity to ease power grid stresses as it shifts to ‘greener economy’ –
‘Early indicator of what other European countries are likely to suffer’ trying ‘to meet the bloc’s ambitious decarbonisation targets’

Pope Leo XIV prays for the ‘conversion’ of climate-change skeptics?!

‘Celebrates newly released Mass for the Care of Creation & urged prayers ‘for the conversion of many people…who still do not recognize the urgency of caring for our common home’

America Leads the World in Reducing CO2 Emissions – Dropped nearly 20% in past decade – ‘Has nothing to do with windmills or solar panels’ – ‘Cheap natural gas from fracking’ credited

Must see: Global surface temperatures since 1880 — presented without the statistical hype

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EPA Releases Proposal to Rescind Obama-Era Endangerment Finding, Regulations that Paved the Way for Electric Vehicle Mandates

By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow

INDIANAPOLIS — At an auto dealership in Indiana, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin released the agency’s proposal to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which has been used to justify over $1 trillion in regulations, including the Biden-Harris Administration’s electric vehicle (EV) mandate. If finalized, the proposal would repeal all resulting greenhouse gas emissions regulations for motor vehicles and engines, thereby reinstating consumer choice and giving Americans the ability to purchase a safe and affordable car for their family while decreasing the cost of living on all products that trucks deliver. Administrator Zeldin was joined by U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, Indiana Governor Mike Braun, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, U.S. Representative Jim Baird (R-IN-04), Indiana Secretary of Energy and Natural Resources Suzanne Jaworowski, and the Indiana Motor Truck Association.

Since the 2009 Endangerment Finding was issued, many have stated that the American people and auto manufacturing have suffered from significant uncertainties and massive costs related to general regulations of greenhouse gases from vehicles and trucks. Finally, EPA is proposing to provide much needed certainty and regulatory relief, so companies can plan appropriately, and the American people can have affordable choices when deciding to buy a car.

“With this proposal, the Trump EPA is proposing to end sixteen years of uncertainty for automakers and American consumers,” said EPA Administrator Zeldin. “In our work so far, many stakeholders have told me that the Obama and Biden EPAs twisted the law, ignored precedent, and warped science to achieve their preferred ends and stick American families with hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden taxes every single year. We heard loud and clear the concern that EPA’s GHG emissions standards themselves, not carbon dioxide which the Finding never assessed independently, was the real threat to Americans’ livelihoods. If finalized, rescinding the Endangerment Finding and resulting regulations would end $1 trillion or more in hidden taxes on American businesses and families.”

“Thanks to President Trump’s leadership, America is returning to free and open dialogue around climate and energy policy – driving the focus back to following the data,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright. “Today’s announcement is a monumental step toward returning to commonsense policies that expand access to affordable, reliable, secure energy and improve quality of life for all Americans.”

“The Obama-Biden EPA used regulations as a political tool and hurt American competitiveness without results to show for it. Today’s announcement is a win for consumer choice, common sense, and American energy independence. President Trump, Secretary Wright, and Administrator Zeldin are returning the EPA to its proper role, and I’m proud they chose Indiana as the place to make this announcement because our state is proof we can protect our environment and support American jobs,” said Governor Mike Braun. 

“Thanks to the outstanding work of President Trump, Administrator Zeldin, and Secretary Wright, the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy are ending costly, sweeping vehicle emissions standards and ending the authoritarian EV mandates. Once again, this administration is standing up for common sense and our great American automakers and consumers. I thank Administrator Zeldin and Secretary Wright for their historic action to unleash American innovation, implement sound energy policies, and lower costs for American families,” said Congressman Jim Baird (IN-04). 

“The Endangerment Finding has long been a Democrat tool to issue burdensome regulations that ignore commonsense science in pursuit of radical Green New Deal aligned agendas. I applaud Secretary Wright, Director Zeldin and the entire Trump Administration for making sure we cut the red tape that is unnecessarily impeding American business, while also preserving our nation’s precious natural resources,” said Congressman Mark Messmer (IN-08).

“Over the last four years, conservative state attorneys general were the last line of defense in fighting back against the Biden administration’s federal overreach and green new scam agenda,” said Attorney General Todd Rokita. “However, thanks to President Trump and patriots like Administrator Zeldin and Secretary Wright, we are now on the front lines helping to unleash American energy.”

“We commend President Trump and EPA Administrator Zeldin for taking decisive action to rescind the disastrous GHG Phase 3 rule. This electric-truck mandate put the trucking industry on a path to economic ruin and would have crippled our supply chain, disrupted deliveries, and raised prices for American families and businesses. Moreover, it kicked innovation to the curb by discarding available technologies that can further drive down emissions at a fraction of the cost. For four decades, our industry has proven that we are committed to reducing emissions. The trucking industry supports cleaner, more efficient technologies, but we need policies rooted in real-world conditions. We thank the Trump Administration for returning us to a path of common sense, so that we can keep delivering for the American people as we continue to reduce our environmental impact,” said American Trucking Association President and CEO Chris Spear. 

The Endangerment Finding is the legal prerequisite used by the Obama and Biden Administrations to regulate emissions from new motor vehicles and new motor vehicle engines. Absent this finding, EPA would lack statutory authority under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) to prescribe standards for greenhouse gas emissions. This proposal, if finalized, is expected to save Americans $54 billion in costs annually through the repeal of all greenhouse gas standards, including the Biden EPA’s electric vehicle mandate, under conservative economic forecasts.

If finalized, this proposal would remove all greenhouse gas standards for light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and heavy-duty engines, starting with EPA’s first greenhouse gas set in 2010 for light-duty vehicles and those set in 2011 for medium-duty vehicles and heavy-duty vehicles and engines—which includes off-cycle credits like the much hated start-stop feature on most new cars.

EPA’s proposal also cites updated scientific data that challenge the assumptions behind the 2009 Endangerment Finding. Cited data includes the updated studies and information in the Department of Energy’s 2025 Climate Work Group study that is concurrently being released for public comment.

EPA will initiate a public comment period to solicit input. Further information on the public comment process and instructions for participation will be published in the Federal Register and on the EPA website.

How We Got Here

Congress tasked EPA under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act with prescribing emission standards for new motor vehicles and engines when the Administrator determines that emissions of an air pollutant from any class of vehicles causes or contributes to air pollution that endangers public health or welfare. But the Obama Administration ignored Congress’ clear intent, slicing and dicing the language of the statute to make an “endangerment finding” totally separate from any actual rule setting standards for emissions from cars.

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 – contributes some unspecified amount to climate change, which in turn creates some unspecified amount of endangerment to human health and welfare. These mental leaps were admittedly novel, but they were the only way the Obama-Biden Administration could access EPA’s authority to regulate under Section 202(a).

Likewise, the Obama EPA did not consider any aspect of the regulations that would flow from the Endangerment Finding. EPA subsequently relied on the Endangerment Finding to underpin seven vehicle regulations with an aggregate cost of more than $1 trillion. The Endangerment Finding has also 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.

Much has changed since the 2009 Endangerment Finding was issued, including new scientific and technological developments that warrant review. 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. The decisions emphasized that major policy determinations must be made by Congress, not by administrative agencies.

Background

On the greatest and most consequential day of deregulation in the history of the United States in March 2025, Administrator Zeldin announced that the agency was kicking off a formal reconsideration of the 2009 Endangerment Finding in collaboration with the Office of Management and Budget and other relevant agencies in addition to reconsidering all of its prior regulations and actions that rely on the Endangerment Finding. Please visit the Endangerment Finding Reconsideration website to learn more.

Administrator Zeldin also announced the agency would reconsider the Model Year 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles regulation and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles. Please visit the Termination of the EV Mandate website to learn more.

These were announced in conjunction with a number of historic actions to advance President Trump’s Day One executive orders and Power the Great American Comeback. While accomplishing EPA’s core mission of protecting the environment, the agency is committed to fulfilling President Trump’s promise to unleash American energy, lower costs for Americans, revitalize the American auto industry, restore the rule of law, and give power back to states to make their own decisions.

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Trump’s EPA chief clears the air on chemtrails and geoengineering, in the interest of ‘total transparency’

By Leo Hohmann

After an exhaustive investigation published on EPA websites, Director Lee Zeldin says Americans now know everything he knows about those mysterious ‘streaks in the sky’, which apparently isn’t much! 

There have long been claims about the exhaust trails from commercial and military jets traveling over the United States.

You’ve all seen them. The cris-crossing across the sky of large plumes of exhaust that gradually spread out. Some days they don’t appear at all. Other days, under the same weather conditions, they are extremely heavy and mesmerizing.

Take a look at the picture below, which I shot on April 24, 2024, of the sky above my house in Georgia. I call it the Zebra Sky.

Some have suggested that these jets may be spraying a chemical cocktail included in the jet fuel of certain flights and not included in others. That might explain why the white emissions are present on some days, while on other days the sky appears pure blue even though there are just as many jets passing over our property, which is very close to the world’s busiest commercial airport, Atlanta Hartsfield International.

Now Lee Zeldin, the chief of the Environmental Protection Agency in the administration of President Donald Trump, has announced he has the answers. He says he’s investigated the claims and can clear everything up for us.

His conclusion? He’s debunking the idea that there’s anything abnormal about these “contrails.” There is absolutely no connection to geoengineering, the Trump EPA has assured us. Nor anything else sinister.

As for that other word. Um, Chemtrails? What chemtrails. The word is never even uttered by Zeldin, and the mainstream media is having a ball with this story as they’re now able to cite the Trump administration to debunk what they’ve always called conspiracy theories.

As Salon reports, “In the wake of deadly flooding in Texas, the Environmental Protection Agency has created two websites to combat conspiracy theories around weather manipulation.”

Here’s Zeldin patting himself on the back for doing such a great job of exposing truth for an administration that’s into “total transparency.”



Total transparency? I guess it’s the same kind of transparency that led to Attorney General Pam Bondi refusing to turn over the Epstein client list. After previously admitting they were on her desk, she now says they don’t exist. The government has lost whatever small amount of credibility it had when it said Epstein had no secret client list and never blackmailed anybody.

Sorry, Mr. Zeldin, but our trust in this administration’s word has been seriously breached.

First it released JFK assassination files that we were told were going to blow our minds, only to find out that there was nothing shocking or even mildly different in what was released from the same old same old.

Then came the Epstein debacle with Pam Bondi trying to redefine what she meant when she said the client list was on her desk waiting to be reviewed. It wasn’t really a client list, she now says, she was just referring to the files in general. Oh, he was a nasty pervert, a pedophile, Bondi said of Epstein, but he had no involvement in setting up politicians or other important people and making sure they were compromised. That was something we all imagined. Another conspiracy theory.

Now we’re told the chemtrails are no different. It’s all a figment of our wild imaginations to notice that they’re there on some days and absent on others. If it was just normal condensation, wouldn’t they be visible every single day that there’s a clear sky and normal air traffic? Apparently not.

So there’s nothing to see here. Move along. Just like there was nothing odd about the official JFK assassination story we received from the Warren Commission so many years ago. It was a single crazed gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, shooting from a window in the Dallas book depository, who killed President Kennedy. End of story.

Nor was there anything out of the ordinary about Epstein. He was just a common pedophile, with no sinister attachments to the CIA, FBI, Mossad or any other agency of any government…wink, wink.

This is why no one trusts the government. It doesn’t matter who gets elected, the same old lies continue to be told, and the same old secrets continue to be covered up.

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This 7% of the Earth’s Surface Burns More Fossel Fuel Than Anywhere Else

By Royal A. Brown III

This article rightfully points out that the main polluters of environment in the world only occupy 7% of world’s surface yet contain more than 50% of world population as follows:

Draw a circle with a 2,485-mile radius around the southern Chinese city of Yuxi. British geographer Alasdair Rae did just that — and inside it resides 55% of the world’s population: some 4.3 billion people crammed into just 7% of Earth’s surface. The region includes China, India, much of Southeast Asia, and parts of Pakistan. Some of it — like the Tibetan Plateau and the Taklamakan Desert — is barren. But the rest is packed with cities, factories, and the aspirations of hundreds of millions clawing their way toward modern life.

Critics keep forecasting a shift away from fossil fuels. Reality keeps proving them wrong.

Hundreds of millions in the Yuxi Circle are still striving for what Westerners call a “decent life.” That means refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioning — and with them, a dramatic spike in electricity demand.

And this means coal and/or oil must be used to generate the electricity needed in these countries. Yet the leftist Climate Change pushers such as those who participate in the Paris Agreement demand the US pay for this use of fossil fuels by others. Fortunately POTUS Trump has withdrawn us from this idiocy. It is absurd that under Obama 1, 2, 3 (Biden) that “climate change” was considered the #1 threat to our national security by their woke DOD.

This 7% of Earth’s surface burns more fuel than anywhere

The Yuxi Circle holds 4.3 billion people and no illusions about how modern life works. Fossil fuels still power the path out of poverty.

The ruling class trades in carbon outrage like it’s gold. Sanctimony fuels its crusade against oil, gas, and coal — never mind that those very fuels built the modern world. The comforts we take for granted — from longer lives and stocked shelves to clean water and lifesaving medicine — all trace back to the energy abundance that hydrocarbons made possible.

Still, the decarbonization faithful press forward. They dream of a carbon-free Eden, even as the global power grid, still humming on fossil fuels, refuses to cooperate.

Critics keep forecasting a shift away from fossil fuels. Reality keeps proving them wrong.

You won’t find a clearer contradiction than in the Yuxi Circle.

Draw a circle with a 2,485-mile radius around the southern Chinese city of Yuxi. British geographer Alasdair Rae did just that — and inside it resides 55% of the world’s population: some 4.3 billion people crammed into just 7% of Earth’s surface. The region includes China, India, much of Southeast Asia, and parts of Pakistan. Some of it — like the Tibetan Plateau and the Taklamakan Desert — is barren. But the rest is packed with cities, factories, and the aspirations of hundreds of millions clawing their way toward modern life.

Why does this matter? Because this region now anchors the world’s biggest fight over energy, growth, and climate policy.

While bureaucrats in Brussels sip espresso and activists glue themselves to the pavement in London, the real action plays out in Asia’s economic engine. In cities like Shanghai, Delhi, and Tokyo, energy demand soars — and fossil fuels do the heavy lifting. Coal and gas plants keep the lights on, while wind and solar trail far behind.

China burns more coal than the rest of the world combined. India burns more than the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom combined. The 10 ASEAN countries rank third. Oil use tells the same story: China and India sit alongside the U.S. atop the global leaderboard of consumption. Economic growth, it turns out, runs not on hashtags but on hydrocarbons.

Critics keep forecasting a shift away from fossil fuels. Reality keeps proving them wrong.

Hundreds of millions in the Yuxi Circle are still striving for what Westerners call a “decent life.” That means refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioning — and with them, a dramatic spike in electricity demand.

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Obey … or be Punished

By Karen Schoen

“Science can be described as a process of discovering things. It’s a systematic and organized way of acquiring knowledge about the natural world through observation, experimentation, and analysis.”

Did you know there are multiple ways to reach the same conclusion, Just like there are multiple roads to get you to the same place? To say only one road exists and all other roads are wrong is the same consensus that says you must believe what the experts say without question. This is the way our children are taught. There is only one road and you must follow that road or you are considered an outcast.

Money Power Control

Experts can be proven wrong, but they must be challenged. That is the critical thinking component currently missing from our schools. We no longer teach our students to challenge, we teach them to accept. Claims are made and government subsidies are given to corporations to create the product that the government wants. This is the product that fits the Agenda.

Good or bad, right or wrong, the product is forced on people while ignoring the consequences. Profit (money and grants), mandates (control) and propaganda (power), used by the rulers, nudges the sheeple into the desired results. Often science has nothing to do with the processes or outcomes. These policies are forced on the public, without discussion of consequences. Any challenge is met with, “You can’t challenge the science.”

According to H. Sterling Burnett, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.” Yet, very few will stand up and say, show me the proof! How is that possible? The Media in lock step with the Government, is masking the true results. The statistics are manipulated by computer modeling of a specified time frame so the results are created as desired. How often do we hear, “this is the hottest or coldest temperature in recorded history. ” Did you know that recorded history only goes back 150 years?

After reading an article about how man was destroying the planet, I decided to email the author. I asked him what the temperature was when Columbus discovered America in 1492. He said no one kept records then, so he didn’t know. I asked how far back the records go and he said 150 years. I said, “So your article should really say that this is the hottest day we have had in 150 years, not recorded history.” I asked him how old the planet was. I got no answer. I asked, “Isn’t 150 years out of 4.5 Billion years (the age of the earth) too small to make a comparison?” I got no answer. Yet, this kind of manipulation is what our students learn.

Another lie about climate change is that all-to-familiar image of the poor polar bear sitting on a tiny piece of ice floating in the ocean. Yes, the ice is melting, but only if you take photos in the summer or if the ice has been affected by a volcano. But that doesn’t mean the oceans will rise and the houses near the ocean will be washed away. Information like that is designed to scare the students enough so that they will go home and chastise their parents. Communists can use this to drive a wedge between the child and parents to break up the family.

Obey or be Punished

Not teaching science in school eliminates teaching the students to have the ability to reason and think. The part of the brain that regulates logic, reason and critical thinking never develops properly. The student grows up learning to accept, comply and become an obedient little follower. Students are not taught HOW to think. Rather, they are taught WHAT to think. Hitler was successful for this very reason. Hitler very effectively used indoctrination to force children to Obey or Be Punished. Hitler’s move to ban the Boy Scouts also allowed for indoctrination of impressionable children letting Nazis remove children from the influence of their parents, many of whom opposed the regime. Again, driving a wedge between children and parents and the family. Read about it here:

Issues that we think of as absurd become normalized. We see that example today. Grandmothers are jailed for praying and criminals committing murder are released! Students under 18 can’t vote or carry a gun but can change their gender without parental consent.

Pornography can be read in school but not at a school board meeting! Gays rally for Hamas without knowing that, in Palestine, Hamas beheads gays!

Our school system is not broken.

Things that are not taught are not taught for a reason.

Dumb people accept more from their government.

Today, we have wonderful tools to learn the truth. It is up to us to share that information. Join me with H Sterling Burnett, from Heartland Institute on this week’s show, as we discuss Truth in Science vs. the Propaganda of Science.

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‘Outright Massacre’: Senate GOP Takes Sledgehammer To Biden’s Green Energy Subsidies

By The Daily Caller

The Senate dealt a series of blows to solar and wind energy in the latest version of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill — taking a page out of House Republicans’ playbook to crack down on green energy tax credits enacted under former President Joe Biden.

The Senate’s new proposal would move up the deadline for solar and wind projects hoping to qualify for production and investment tax credits by requiring them to produce electricity by the end of 2027. The additional cuts to green energy tax credits follows the president’s public broadside against the upper chamber’s initial proposal, which delayed the termination of solar and wind subsidies.

“Windmills, and the rest of this ‘JUNK,’ are the most expensive and inefficient energy in the world, is destroying the beauty of the environment, and is 10 times more costly than any other energy,” Trump wrote in a post to Truth Social on June 21. “It is time to break away, finally, from this craziness!!!”

The upper chamber’s revised bill would also create a new tax on wind and solar projects whose components are sourced from foreign entities of concern, such as China.

Senate Democrats referred to the creation of a new excise tax penalizing the renewable industry’s reliance on Chinese materials as “economic self-sabotage” and an “outright massacre” for the solar and wind industry.

Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee was one of several GOP senators pushing the upper chamber to aggressively crack down on solar and wind tax credits in the president’s landmark bill. The Utah Republican favors a wholesale repeal of green energy subsidies, though Congress is likely to stop short of that given opposition from moderate Republicans.

Republican North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis told reporters Saturday that the Senate finance panel’s decision to accelerate the termination of solar and wind subsidies by the end of 2027 was “disappointing.” He also suggested that failure to maintain the green energy tax breaks would have negative economic consequences for his state.

Tillis is one of several GOP senators that has pledged to vote against the president’s landmark tax and immigration bill, citing the legislation’s reforms to Medicaid.

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) lead, blasted Senate Republicans for rolling back green energy subsidies within their proposal, accusing GOP senators of putting “millions of jobs” on the chopping block.

“The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!” Musk, the founder of the electric vehicle manufacturer, Tesla, wrote on his social media platform, X. “Utterly insane and destructive. It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future.”

Proponents of terminating green energy subsidies argued that the green energy industry’s messaging revealed its dependency on government funds in order to be profitable.

“If, as supporters of the IRA [Inflation Reduction Act] are complaining, repealing these subsidies will ‘kill’ their industry, then maybe it shouldn’t exist in the first place,” American Energy Alliance president Tom Pyle said in a statement Saturday. “Extending green giveaways on the backs of American taxpayers is shortsighted and neglectful.”

The conservative House Freedom Caucus (HFC) has also urged the Senate to adopt the House-passed language that put solar and wind tax credits on a faster route to termination.

Several HFC members, including Republican Reps. Chip Roy of Texas and Ralph Norman of South Carolina, suggested they would not vote for the Senate’s proposal if it failed to adhere to the House language accelerating the termination of green energy subsidies.

“That’s got to go,” Norman told the DCNF in an interview Thursday. “The President wants it to go. He wants to abolish all of them. We agree with that.”

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Kenny Stein Explains Need To Terminate Green Energy Subsidies At Daily Caller Live Event

By The Daily Caller

The Daily Caller hosted its first live event Tuesday with ClearPath Action, and leading experts discussed “The Future of American Energy.”

Kenny Stein, Vice President for Policy at Institute for Energy Research, discussed the history of renewable energy subsidies with Daily Wire News Foundation Associate Editor Nick Pope.

Tuesday’s discussion centered around the origin of renewable energy subsidies and the “Big Beautiful Bill’s” potential impact on American energy.

Stein specializes in domestic and international energy policy, environmental regulation and policy, the electric grid and various other topics, according to his IER bio.

The subsidies were meant to last for a short period of time when they were first implemented, Stein said. But like many government programs, they have remained intact, he added.

While Stein said the “argument for subsidies has long since passed,” he noted the government has continued to approve arguments for their extension since 2015.

In 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law by former President Joe Biden to codify the benefits.

Stein said it would be ideal for the subsidies to be repealed, but today’s political landscape makes that goal difficult to attain.

“Unfortunately, energy policy has become extremely partisan and extremely polarized, and there is not a lot of agreement, even in the margins on both sides,” he said.

Stein said the subsidies have set back progress in America, specifically when it comes to infrastructure and growth in urban areas. He said a change in energy laws could improve this problem.

“It takes way too long to build things in this country, and that’s not just energy infrastructure —  that’s roads, housing, dams, everything,” Stein said. “But that requires a pretty fundamental restructuring of environmental laws.”



Stein pointed to European nations which previously turned to “clean” energy sources to power their nations, but now must depend on countries like France that operate on nuclear power.

Drawing on that example, Stein said it is important for individual states to manage how they produce energy, rather than depending on the federal government for regulation.

“It’s important that the investment structure is based on what makes the most sense for a given place, not based on what a state government is mandating or subsidizing, and not what the federal government is subsidizing,” Stein said. “Too much of our energy investment right now is subsidy harvesting rather than planning for the future.”

While Stein said changes to the grid plan could make prices higher in the short term, he said prices would likely decrease as energy reliability becomes more stable in the long term.

“There’s been a lot of technological development, just in the last couple of years, and even in things like AI and the cloud, there’s a lot of opportunity there to improve the function of the grid in a way that would improve reliability.”

The Institute for Energy Research (IER) is a non-profit organization that researches energy operations in domestic and foreign governments.

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Tayte Christensen

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Senate Republicans Lobbying For Green Energy Tax Credits Raked In Donations From Industry

By The Daily Caller

Phasing out Biden-era green energy tax credits is dividing Senate Republicans as they push their latest version of the “big beautiful bill,” and some members of the GOP have a financial incentive to keep the credits rolling.

The Senate’s draft represents a substantial cut to the existing climate-friendly energy tax credits, but some Republicans are pursuing a less aggressive rollback than their House counterparts, according to a report from The Hill.

Several GOP senators who oppose a full repeal argue that even the Senate’s scaled-back proposal goes too far in dismantling the clean energy tax credits established under the Biden Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

President Trump’s One, Big, Beautiful Bill is filled with so many aspects that the American people have been demanding — from unleashing energy dominance to tax cuts and stopping the Green New Scam.

Great hour long conversation with @laralogan pic.twitter.com/PwRS4ZVWjF

— Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) June 13, 2025

Republican Senators who have voiced concerns or pushed back against a “full-scale” repeal of energy tax credits include Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran, Utah Sen. John Curtis and West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito.

Republican West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, whose state hosts one of the “hydrogen hubs” created under the Biden administration, expressed concern over the bill’s deadline requiring projects to begin construction by the end of the year to qualify for tax credits.

Capito said she’s working to delay that deadline, calling it “a pretty tight timeline,” and adding, “I’m trying to get the date pushed back. I don’t know if I’ll be successful,” according to another report from The Hill.

She has also received $49,200 in campaign contributions from Williams, a Tulsa, Oklahoma-based energy company with significant investments in hydrogen infrastructure during the 2024 election cycle, according to OpenSecrets data.

Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford likewise received $54,500 in contributions from Williams during the same time period.

Capito also took $45,325 during the 2024 election cycle from First Energy, an electric utility that has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

A group of four Republicans — Sens. Murkowski, Curtis, Moran and Tillis — have jointly cautioned against a “full-scale” repeal of the energy tax credits enacted by Democrats in 2022.

In their message, they called for each credit to be assessed based on its potential to boost U.S. manufacturing, lower utility costs — particularly in rural communities — and provide stability for businesses that have already made investments under the current framework.

“The United States produces some of the cleanest and most efficient energy in the world, and an all-of-the-above approach — including support for traditional and renewable energy sources — has long been a hallmark of our energy strategy,” the senators wrote.

“To that end, many American companies have made substantial investments in domestic energy production and infrastructure based on the current energy tax framework. A wholesale repeal, or the termination of certain individual credits, would create uncertainty, jeopardizing capital allocation, long-term project planning, and job creation in the energy sector and across our broader economy,” their letter read.

Tillis, has advocated for a “targeted, pragmatic approach” to the energy tax credits, rather than supporting a full repeal.

U.S. Senate has released their version of the new tax bill, energy credit provisions have changed:

Wind & solar tax credits will begin phaseout in 2026 & will receive zero investment tax credits by 2028.

Nuclear, hydropower & geothermal will see tax credits extend to 2036. pic.twitter.com/6wk2vfu5Ml

— Stock Talk (@stocktalkweekly) June 16, 2025

He also received hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions during the 2022 and 2024 election cycles — both individually and through political action committees — from major financial institutions including Blackstone Group, Apollo Global Management, Truist Financial and Goldman Sachs, according to OpenSecrets (OS).

The firms have collectively invested millions of dollars in clean energy initiatives and companies in recent years.

Collins received tens of thousands of dollars in contributions during the 2022 and 2024 cycles from Blackstone, Goldman and Nextra Energy, which reports to have 55% of its portfolio invested in renewable energy.

Capito also received tens of thousands of dollars from Blackstone during the 2022 and 2024 election cycles.

OpenSecrets also shows Murkowski received tens of thousands of dollars through PACs or individually over the same two cycles from companies like ConocoPhillips, a company dedicated to be the first in the U.S. oil and gas company to set a goal of reaching net-zero operational emissions.

This follows Capital Group Companies‘ announcement in March that it was committing $30.57 million to fossil fuel investments, including a stake in ConocoPhillips.

Curtis has likewise received $59,700 in contributions during the 2024 election cycle from Sunrun, which markets itself as “the #1 home solar and battery company in America.”

“I think that Senator Crapo did a really good job, but there’s more work to be done,” Curtis told The Hill when asked about the big beautiful bill, referring to the Idaho Republican who chairs the Senate Finance Committee. Curtis offered no further details.

Moran adjacently received $38,500 in campaign contributions during the 2024 election cycle from Kit Bond Strategies Group, according to OpenSecrets records.

The firm actively lobbied on behalf of multiple renewable energy companies throughout that time. 

The draft text of the bill, released Monday by the Senate Finance Committee, maintains credits for nuclear, hydropower, and geothermal energy, and does not immediately eliminate subsidies for solar and wind, disappointing Republicans who sought a more aggressive rollback of Democratic climate policies.

The Daily Caller reached out to Tillis, Murkowski, Curtis, Capito, Moran and Lankford for comment but did not receive a response prior to publication.

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Israeli Air Force SUCCESSFULLY Struck the Iranian Nuclear Reactor in Arak, Iran

By The Geller Report

The IDF struck key sites tied to Iran’s nuclear weapons and missile programs, including:

  • Inactive nuclear reactor in Arak—a key component in plutonium production
  • A nuclear weapons development site near Natanz
  • Ballistic missile & air defense production facilities
  • Radar systems & missile storage sites

These facilities fuel Iran’s drive for nuclear weapons and its attacks on Israeli civilians.

The IDF will continue operating to eliminate threats and defend the State of Israel.

This nuclear reactor in Arak was created for one purpose: to build a nuclear bomb.

Iran TV: Israel hits Arak heavy water reactor after evacuation warning, ‘no radiation danger’

By Agencies Today, June 19, 2025:

Israel attacked Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor, Iranian state television says.

The report says there was “no radiation danger whatsoever” and that the facility had already been evacuated before the attack.

Israel warned earlier in the morning it would attack the facility and urged the public to flee the area.

The research reactor was partially built, with Tehran informing the UN nuclear watchdog that it planed to begin operating the facility next year.

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SCOTUS Slows Judicial Overreach in Environmental Cases as Ire Grows over Universal Injunctions

By Family Research Council

A recent decision handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court has curbed some judicial overreach and continued a thread previously taken up by the nation’s highest court regarding the relationship between judicial interpretations and the authority of government agencies. In Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, decided Thursday, the Supreme Court vacated a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit which had itself vacated a decision by the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) that granted permission for construction of a railroad.

The case originated when Seven County Infrastructure Coalition applied to the board for permission to build a railroad in 2020. STB compiled a staggering 3,600-page report on the possible environmental impacts of building the railroad and ultimately concluded “that the project’s transportation and economic benefits outweighed its environmental impacts” and granting permission for the railroad to be constructed.

After lawsuits were filed, the circuit court vacated the STB’s decision, ruling that the board had not properly considered “the potential environmental effects of increased upstream oil drilling … and increased downstream refining of crude oil” in the area where the railroad was to be constructed, citing the provisions established in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The Supreme Court ruled Thursday, “The D.C. Circuit failed to afford the Board the substantial judicial deference required in NEPA cases and incorrectly interpreted NEPA to require the Board to consider the environmental effects of upstream and downstream projects that are separate in time or place from the” construction and operation of the railroad.

NEPA requires STB and similar agencies to consider the possible environmental impacts of proposed projects and suggest viable alternatives. The Supreme Court’s ruling clarified, “Some federal courts reviewing NEPA cases have assumed an aggressive role in policing agency compliance with NEPA, and have not applied NEPA with the judicial deference demanded by the statutory text and the Court’s cases.” The ruling continued, “When, as here, a party argues that an agency action was arbitrary and capricious due to a deficiency in an EIS, the ‘only role for a court’ is to confirm that the agency has addressed environmental consequences and feasible alternatives as to the relevant project.”

The ruling, authored by Justice Brett Kavanaugh and joined by seven of his fellow justices, with Justice Neil Gorsuch recusing himself from the case, stipulated that legal questions are for courts to decide, while “factual determinations” are for the relevant agencies to decide. “Courts should defer to agencies’ discretionary decisions about where to draw the line when considering indirect environmental effects and whether to analyze effects from other projects separate in time or place,” the ruling affirmed.

Specifically, Kavanaugh cited Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, one of a pair of cases which the Supreme Court decided last summer, undoing what was known as the “Chevron doctrine.” In the 1984 case of Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, the Supreme Court instructed all courts to defer to an agency’s interpretation of a statute within the scope of its operation if that statute was considered “ambiguous.” The policy significantly bolstered the power of federal agencies to interpret statutes without judicial oversight. Last year, the Supreme Court determined that the Chevron doctrine was unconstitutional, conflicting with both the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the federal judiciary’s constitutional authority to interpret statutory texts and effectively permit executive agencies to usurp the role of the judiciary in interpreting statutes.

Citing Loper, the Supreme Court clarified that although NEPA requires environmental impact reports to be “detailed,” and “the meaning of ‘detailed’ is a legal question … what details need to be included in any given [report] is a factual determination for the agency.” Kavanaugh wrote, “NEPA does not allow courts, ‘under the guise of judicial review’ of agency compliance with NEPA, to delay or block agency projects based on the environmental effects of other projects separate from the project at hand.” He added, “Courts should afford substantial deference and should not micromanage those agency choices so long as they fall within a broad zone of reasonableness.”

The Supreme Court ruling comes as numerous federal courts have issued sweeping universal injunctions against President Donald Trump and his administration, highlighting calls for the highest court to curb judicial overreach. In comments to The Washington Stand, Article III Project Senior Counsel Will Chamberlain stated, “The court’s decision Thursday was very obviously right — even the Democrats did not dissent. NEPA reviews do not have to be as onerous as the D.C. Circuit suggested.” He added, “The Supreme Court, however, needs to do more to curb the judicial sabotage by resentful lower court judges.”

Within his first 100 days back in the Oval Office, Trump and his administration were slapped with at least 25 universal injunctions by federal district courts, according to a Congressional Research Service report. Injunctions and temporary restraining orders (TROs) have targeted many of the president’s actions, including carrying out mass deportations, withholding federal funds from “sanctuary cities,” ending birthright citizenship, protecting children from harmful gender transition procedures, slashing wasteful agency spending, downsizing the federal workforce, bolstering election integrity, and reorganizing agencies like the Department of Education.

The Trump administration has repeatedly petitioned the Supreme Court to intervene and curtail the lower courts’ use of nationwide injunctions. While the Supreme Court has handed the president mixed results — significant wins in some cases and temporary setbacks in others — it has not yet taken action against the increasing use of universal injunctions.

However, the Supreme Court did hear oral arguments in mid-May in a case in which the Trump administration has centered its attention on the rash of injunctions enjoining the president’s agenda. Some justices indicated during oral arguments an openness to curbing universal injunctions but appeared unsatisfied with the Trump administration’s suggestions on what measures to use in place of universal injunctions. A decision in the case is expected by late June or early July.

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S.A. McCarthy

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Quantum Physics: The Subatomic Spark of Life on Earth and Beyond

By Amil Imani

Staring at a fern in my apartment, a wild thought strikes me: this plant might be pulling off quantum tricks to soak up sunlight. Quantum physics – the bizarre world of particles dancing as waves and entangled across space — isn’t just for labs or sci-fi flicks. It’s the hidden pulse of life on Earth and our guide to finding life among the stars. With rules like superposition (particles existing in multiple states) and entanglement (spooky links defying distance), quantum mechanics shapes everything from chloroplasts to cosmic chemistry. How does this subatomic weirdness drive life here and fuel our search for aliens? Let’s dive into the quantum threads weaving life on Earth and beyond.

I’m no physicist, but the idea that life relies on quantum mechanics is mind-boggling. Quantum biology, a field gaining momentum, shows how subatomic effects drive living systems. Take photosynthesis: plants don’t just capture sunlight; they harness quantum coherence. Excitons, or energy packets, explore all possible paths simultaneously to find the most efficient route to reaction centers, as Graham Engel’s 2007 study revealed. This occurs because plants suppress decoherence, where quantum states collapse due to environmental noise, keeping energy transfers nearly perfect, a feat governed by the Schrödinger equation’s wave mechanics.

Enzymes, the body’s chemical catalysts, perform another quantum feat: tunneling. Particles like protons slip through energy barriers without needing to climb over them, as Alán Aspuru-Guzik’s work suggests, accelerating reactions millions of times. Picture a ball passing through a hill instead of over it—nature’s cheat code for metabolism. Even more astonishing, birds like robins may navigate using quantum effects. Cryptochrome proteins in their eyes create entangled electron pairs, which are sensitive to Earth’s magnetic field through spin dynamics, serving as a quantum compass for migration. These discoveries demonstrate that life on Earth isn’t merely chemical—it’s quantum, refined over billions of years of evolution.

Now, let’s swing to the cosmos. I’ve always wondered if aliens exist, and quantum physics is our best bet for answers. In star-forming clouds, molecules like amino acids — life’s building blocks — form via quantum tunneling. As an astrochemist, Eric Herbst has shown, particles bypass energy barriers in cold, sparse environments, following the Schrödinger equation’s probabilistic rules. It’s like the universe is brewing life’s ingredients with quantum magic.

When hunting for alien worlds, quantum tech shines. Spectroscopy, rooted in quantum transitions of molecules, lets us read a planet’s atmospheric “fingerprint.” The James Webb Space Telescope, for instance, detects gases like oxygen at 760 nm, a potential biosignature, as Sara Seager’s research highlights. Could life on Mars or Europa use quantum tricks like Earth’s extremophiles? In harsh Earth environments, microbes exploit quantum effects to survive; alien life might do the same in high-radiation or icy conditions. Meanwhile, quantum computers boost the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) by processing vast radio signal datasets with algorithms like Grover’s, speeding up our hunt for an alien signal. Quantum physics is our cosmic detective, linking life’s origins to its potential elsewhere.

Here’s where I get geeked out. Quantum technologies are like a bridge from my fern to distant planets. Quantum sensors, exploiting superposition and entanglement, detect tiny signals with insane precision — gravitational waves on Earth or chemical traces on exoplanets. Imagine a sensor mapping Europa’s icy crust for signs of life. Quantum communication, using entangled particles, could enable secure, near-instant data transfer for Mars missions, sidestepping classical delays. It’s like texting across the galaxy with quantum encryption.

These tools hint at a universal quantum playbook for life. Whether it’s a leaf in my kitchen or a microbe on a distant moon, the same subatomic rules apply, tying Earth’s ecosystems to the cosmos in ways we’re just starting to grasp.

I’m still wrapping my mind around this, but quantum physics is life’s unsung hero. On Earth, coherence powers photosynthesis, tunneling drives enzymes, and entanglement guides birds. In space, it shapes life’s building blocks and fuels our search for biosignatures with tools like spectroscopy. From my fern to a potential Martian microbe, quantum mechanics, governed by principles like the Schrödinger equation, is the thread weaving life’s tapestry.

Researchers like Sara Seager are pushing quantum tech to uncover life’s cosmic reach, and it’s thrilling to think where this science will take us. Next time you water a plant or gaze at the stars, consider: the tiniest particles might hold the biggest clues about our place in the universe.

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