Israeli drones blast ABBA at Greta Thunberg’s aid fleet

Italy has sent a navy frigate to assist a flotilla of pro-Palestinian activists including Greta Thunberg, the Swedish campaigner, after the vessels were attacked overnight by drones.

The group of more than 50 vessels trying to deliver aid to Gaza was targeted in waters near Crete by drones that dropped explosives, damaging boats, as well as grenades containing irritant gas.

… An Italian MP on board one vessel also said ship radios were jammed and suddenly started playing Abba songs at top volume.

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Canada, other fossil fuel-producing nations, derailing world climate targets, report says

Canada and other major fossil fuel-producing countries are derailing the world’s chance to hit key climate change targets, a new international report suggests, with 2030 production levels expected to be more than double what would be compatible with the Paris agreement.

While some countries have committed to a clean energy transition, others appear to be turning back to “an outdated fossil-fuel dependent playbook,” the report said.

“The continued collective failure of governments to curb fossil fuel production and lower global emissions means that future production will need to decline more steeply to compensate,” states the Production Gap Report, which was  produced by three climate research non-profits.

I could care less what a few cranks think.

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Usual cranks stand in way of progress

‘Magical fairy dust’: A city report shows strong support for burning Toronto’s trash. Climate advocates are calling for the study to be scrapped

As Toronto’s landfill approaches capacity, there’s “strong support” from residents to consider incinerating the city’s trash, according to a new report that’s already drawing the ire of climate advocates.

A city report released Friday provided the results of public consultations held earlier this year on long-term plans for Toronto’s trash. The city-owned Green Lane Landfill southwest of London, Ont. is the current destination for almost all of Toronto’s garbage, but is expected to reach capacity by 2035.

The city has been exploring options that include either building a new landfill or using an existing one, as well as switching to so-called “energy-from-waste” technology, better known as incineration.

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Reef Madness: A Baseless Coral Panic

You might have gotten the impression that the Great Barrier Reef—the aquatic wonder off Australia’s coast—is in grave peril. Last month, headlines shouted in unison: Great Barrier Reef suffers worst coral decline on record. Environmental journalists paint a picture of immense devastation driven by climate change.

The truth is much less alarming. Australian scientists have meticulously tracked the reef’s coral cover since 1986. For many years, they published an annual average coral cover figure. The data show that the reef was mostly stable until 2000, then began declining, and by 2012 it had shrunk to less than half its original cover.

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Shut the System heralds new phase of eco-radicalism in UK

Climate activists from the underground movement Shut the System (STS) have launched “a period of sustained sabotage” against banks and insurance firms. Security experts believe that STS has the means and experience to carry out this threat, thereby posing the greatest challenge yet to the Labour government’s ability to maintain law and order — not least because of its close links to radical, pro-Palestinian activists.

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A First-Of-Its-Kind Lawsuit Seeks Wrongful Death Climate Damages From Oil Companies. Sealed Court Docs Show a Rockefeller-Funded Green Group Is Steering It.

A first-of-its-kind lawsuit seeks to compel oil companies to pay wrongful death damages by holding them responsible for climate change. Sealed court filings obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show a Rockefeller-funded green group is working on that suit behind the scenes.

Misti Leon filed the pioneering complaint in Washington state court on May 29, accusing seven oil companies of being responsible for the 2021 heat-wave death of her mother. Two days earlier, Leon quietly appointed climate activist and nonprofit leader Sarah Myhre to serve as the agent for her deceased mother’s estate, according to sealed court filings obtained by the Free Beacon. Myhre, who isn’t a lawyer, will be responsible for handling the estate’s papers as the case proceeds.

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Another year, another season of failed hurricane predictions from the NOAA

NOAA, the “experts,” predicted an “above-normal” hurricane season this year. Of course they predict that every year, and the public has been told for decades that humans and our use of natural resources is the cause of increased activity.

After Hurricane Katrina, the public was told that hurricanes would be more numerous and active than ever. Instead hurricane activity was extremely calm for ten years after Katrina. It was a record low for hurricanes.

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“Rally Round The EV Boys”

EVs have become a litmus test for whether we’re still America’s buddy — or ready to be a global Canada say two Cranks

There are few Canadian markets more integrated with the U.S. than vehicles. And not just the cars we build in Ontario, but the ones we drive across this country.

We rely on U.S. safety standards that effectively determine which cars end up on dealership lots, align our tailpipe emission standards and when the U.S. under Biden erected a 100 per cent tariff wall on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), did Canada look to Europe’s much lower tariff or the U.K.’s lack of one? No, we put up a 100 per cent tariff wall too.

And then a few things happened.


These are not serious people.

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Michael Taube: Of course Ontario’s activist judiciary would invent a right to bike lanes

Removing bike lanes is … unconstitutional?

I know it sounds completely insane. Yet, that’s exactly what the Ontario Superior Court ruled on Wednesday with respect to Premier Doug Ford’s plan to remove bike lanes on three busy Toronto intersections — Bloor Street, Yonge Street and University Avenue — to improve the flow of traffic and reduce congestion.

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EPA Proposes to Drive ‘A Dagger Into the Heart of the Climate Change Religion’

Trump’s EPA aims to rescind Obama-era climate restrictions, saving Americans $54 billion annually.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a proposal on Tuesday to repeal the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which has provided the legal basis for over $1 trillion in regulations, including infamous EV mandates under the Biden administration.

The proposal will undergo a period of public comment, but if finalized, would slash all the greenhouse gas emission regulations for motor vehicles and engines that have resulted from the finding.

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Car Lovers Rejoice! After 50 Miserable Years, CAFE Standards Are Dead

One of the most important provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill has gone completely unnoticed, but promises to make the auto industry great again.

For 50 years, the federal government has been forcing fuel economy standards on auto companies. If the average fuel economy of the cars sold in a year exceeded a federal standard, the companies had to cough up enormous penalties.

Passed in 1975 as a way to deal with an energy crisis (that was caused by government price controls), “corporate average fuel economy” (CAFE) standards – required the fleet of cars sold by an automaker to achieve an arbitrary miles-per-gallon goal. If they missed the goal, they paid hefty annual fines.

h/t DS

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The Absurdity of Climate Reparations

If an international court told the Western world to jump off a cliff, would we do it? We may be about to find out. The UN’s top court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), ruled on Wednesday that wealthy nations must meet their environmental targets, or else face being sued by the states most affected by climate change.

The case was brought to the ICJ by a group of law students from the Pacific Islands—where countries like Vanuatu are particularly at risk from rising sea levels—and was supported by 132 nations in total. As part of the ruling, Judge Yuji Iwasawa also called climate change an “urgent and existential threat,” said that a healthy environment is a human right, and declared that “states must cooperate to achieve concrete emission-reduction targets.” Those who fail to reduce their fossil fuel consumption could expect to cough up “full reparations to injured states in the form of restitution, compensation and satisfaction provided that the general conditions of the law of state responsibility are met.”


Related: Was this Carney’s plan to implement his eco-nuttery?

h/t Auntie Polly

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Amanpour Upset Over Rich Countries Won’t Pay UN-Ordered Climate Reparations

Christiane Amanpour – self important idiot

On Wednesday, PBS’s Amanpour & Company featured eponymous host Christiane Amanpour interviewing and lamenting to Vanuatu Minister for Climate Change Ralph Regenvanu that rich countries will ignore the United Nations’s International Court of Justice ruling that rich countries must pay reparations to poor countries over climate change.

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