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“The Year Of The Flood” Gets Even Worse: Monster Storms Cause Catastrophic Flooding in Hong Kong, India, South Korea, Taiwan And China | The Economic Collapse

We have never seen a year quite like this.  I wrote about “the year of the flood” on July 15th and July 27th, and now I am writing about it again.  If I haven’t convinced you by now that something really weird is going on, I don’t know what to tell you.  Record-breaking storms and record-breaking floods just keep hitting us again and again all over the world.  During this past week, it is Asia that has been really taking a beating.  Sometimes when I write articles about what is taking place on the other side of the world, a certain percentage of my readers tune out, but please don’t do that because what I have to share today is very important.

Let me begin with what is happening in Hong Kong.

According to the New York Times, torrential rain that has been going on for days is turning roads into rivers and is picking up cars and sweeping them away…

Days of relentless rain in Hong Kong set off major floods on Tuesday that swept cars away, inundated a hospital emergency ward and left buses stranded. Roads winding down the city’s steep hills turned into rivers.

Even for Hong Kong, a city accustomed to seasonal typhoons, the record-breaking deluge has pushed it to its limits, straining city services and testing the patience and wits of its residents.

Hong Kong has never experienced anything like this before.

In fact, Hong Kong just had “its highest daily rainfall in August since records began in 1884”

Parts of Hong Kong were brought to a standstill by flooding caused by heavy rains on Tuesday, after the highest-tier rainstorm warning was issued for the fourth time in eight days.

The city logged its highest daily rainfall in August since records began in 1884, at just over 355 millimetres recorded at the Hong Kong weather observatory’s headquarters at 2:00 pm (0600 GMT).

In India, flash flooding just sent a “wall of water, mud and debris” slamming into the Himalayan village of Dharali…

A surge of flood water tore through a mountainous village in northern India Tuesday, leaving at least four people dead and dozens missing, officials said.

Dramatic video from the Himalayan village of Dharali, Uttarakhand state, shows the wall of water, mud and debris tearing down the mountainside and through the village, destroying the homes and businesses in its path. The flooding occurred around 1:45 p.m. local time, according to District Magistrate Prashant Arya in the city of Uttarkashi.

At least four people were confirmed killed, Arya said. “There are a lot of guest houses, restaurants and hotels there, because of which we immediately requested the army to aid rescue operations,” he said.

Apparently dozens of local residents had just gathered at a temple for some sort of a religious festival when the wall of water struck.

It is being reported that about 100 people have been reported missing and “scores remained unaccounted for”

Dozens in the village had been gathered in a temple for a festival as the wave of dark water and debris struck at high velocity.

The Indian defence minister, Sanjay Seth, confirmed that four people had been killed in the disaster but officials feared the number could rise. Approximately 100 people were reported missing on Tuesday and scores remained unaccounted for and feared trapped in the mud, including about eight soldiers who were reported missing from a camp in the area.

In South Korea, 11 inches of rain in a 24 hour period caused “severe flooding across the southern regions of the country”

An extreme rainfall event struck South Korea between August 3 and 4, 2025, triggering severe flooding across the southern regions of the country. Over 280 mm (11 inches) of rainfall was recorded in Muan in just 24 hours, with the hourly rainfall rates reaching over extreme 140 mm (6 inches) on August 4.

But that is nothing compared to what just happened in Taiwan.

In one district in southern Taiwan, more than nine feet of rain has fallen since July 28th…

Storms dumped more than two metres of rain in parts of Taiwan over the past week, killing five people and triggering floods and landslides in central and southern areas, authorities said Monday.

Torrential rain has lashed swathes of the island since July 28, forcing several thousand people to seek shelter, damaging roads, and shuttering offices.

Maolin, a mountainous district in southern Taiwan, recorded more than 2.8 metres (nine feet) of rain since July 28, the Central Weather Administration (CWA).

That’s more than Taiwan’s annual rainfall of 2.1 metres last year, according to the agency’s data.

I can’t even imagine that much rain.

Needless to say, all of that water caused horrific flooding and severe landslides over a very wide area.

Of course I don’t want to leave the recent flooding in China out of this article.

Last week, Beijing was getting absolutely pummeled by torrential rain, and at least 30 people died as a result…

Days of torrential rain have killed at least 30 people in the northern outskirts of Beijing, state media reported Tuesday, as China grapples with yet another deadly rainy season marked by extreme downpours, devastating floods and landslides.

In recent days, intense rainstorms have battered much of northern China – a densely populated part of the country home to massive metropolises as well as agricultural heartlands.

As vast quantities of water rapidly rushed through the Miyun District in northern Beijing, it took vehicles and electricity poles with it…

Footage circulating on social media shows brown floodwater sweeping through residential communities, washing away cars, knocking down electricity poles and turning streets into rivers in Miyun.

Dozens of roads have been damaged, potentially complicating rescue efforts, and in more than 100 smaller, more rural villages, the downpours have also cut off electricity.

Can anyone point to a time when we have seen so much catastrophic flooding all over the world in a single year?

As I keep reminding my readers, we really are living in apocalyptic times.

I wish that I could tell you that all of this is temporary and that conditions will soon return to normal.

But I can’t.

I fully expect “the year of the flood” to continue, and I also expect quite a few other “surprises” in the months ahead as well.

Michael’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.  He has also written nine other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”“End Times”“7 Year Apocalypse”“Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”“The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse BlogEnd Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.

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Was The Earth Really Hit By 396 Earthquakes Of Magnitude 5.0 Or Greater In 30 Days, Or Is The True Number Even Higher? | The Economic Collapse

Why have there been so many large earthquakes in recent weeks?  This is something that people on social media are really buzzing about right now.  And I am certainly glad that they are buzzing about it, because what we have been witnessing is not even close to normal.  We really are in the early chapters of an extremely apocalyptic chapter in human history, and people need to hear the truth.

It is being claimed that there were 396 earthquakes of at least magnitude 5.0 during a recent 30 day period, and this claim is being heavily circulated on multiple social media platforms…

Twitter is buzzing, Reddit’s rumbling, and TikTok’s tilting — people are freaking out over the reported 396 earthquakes of Magnitude 5.0 or greater (M5+) recorded worldwide in the past 30 days.

The following is an example of the sort of graphic that is getting a ton of attention right now…

I wanted to independently verify that this figure was accurate.

What I discovered was extremely alarming.

I went to Volcano Discovery, and these are the latest numbers that we are being given for the past 30 days…

  • 1 quake above magnitude 8
  • 4 quakes between magnitude 7 and 8
  • 33 quakes between magnitude 6 and 7
  • 456 quakes between magnitude 5 and 6
  • 1,809 quakes between magnitude 4 and 5
  • 5,617 quakes between magnitude 3 and 4
  • 10,512 quakes between magnitude 2 and 3
  • 33,959 quakes below magnitude 2 that people normally don’t feel.

If these numbers are accurate, things are even worse than the claims that are being made on social media.

If you add together the top 4 lines, it gives you a grand total of 494 earthquakes of at least magnitude 5.0 within the past 30 days.

Nearly 500 earthquakes of at least magnitude 5.0 in a 30 day period is extremely unusual.

I asked Google AI about what is going on, and this is what I was told…

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Earth experiences an average of 1,300 to 1,500 magnitude 5+ earthquakes annually. This translates to approximately 110-125 earthquakes of that magnitude per month.

Therefore, while the reported 396 magnitude 5+ earthquakes in the last 30 days is significantly higher than the average, it is important to note that global earthquake activity tends to cluster, meaning there can be periods of higher activity followed by calmer periods, still within the realm of normal geophysical variation.

Hopefully things will start to calm down in the days ahead.

But for now, large earthquakes continue to hit diverse locations all over the globe.

For example, the Dominican Republic was just hammered by a magnitude 5.7 earthquake

A 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the southeast coast of the Dominican Republic early Tuesday, jolting residents awake in the Caribbean country and in neighboring Puerto Rico.

The quake occurred 24 miles (38 kilometers) southeast of Boca de Yuma at a depth of 104 miles (168 kilometers), according to the U.S. Geological Survey. No damage was reported.

Here in the United States, New York and New Jersey just got hit by an unusual earthquake for a second consecutive day

A 2.7-magnitude quake rattled the Tri-State area around midday Tuesday. The epicenter was located in Hillsdale, New Jersey, about 20 miles north of Manhattan, according to the United States Geological Survey. This is roughly the same area a 3.0-magnitude struck the New Jersey town of Hasbrouck Heights over the past weekend. On July 22, a 2.0 earthquake was measured near Randolph, New Jersey.

People in the city of Rye, New York, about 30 miles northeast of Manhattan, immediately reported feeling the earthquake on X. People from Rockland and Irvington, both cities along the Hudson River in New York, reported feeling the temblor.

Meanwhile, the “Year of the Fire” just continues to intensify.

“The Year of the Fire” began in southern California in January, and now another giant fire in the region is “out of control”

BREAKING: SANTA BARBARA IS BURNING TO THE GROUND – AND IT STARTED ON FEDERAL LAND

The Gifford Fire has already exploded to 50,000+ acres, forcing mass evacuations in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo.

Flames are out of control. Smoke is choking the sky from California all the way to Las Vegas.

Over 1,000 boots on the ground and barely any containment.

According to an update that was just published by ABC News, the Gifford Fire has now grown to over 72,000 acres, and it is just 3 percent contained…

Over 1,000 firefighters continue to battle a wildfire in California that has burned over 72,000 acres, prompted evacuation orders and caused three injuries, according to officials.

The Gifford Fire, which began on Friday afternoon, is situated within the Los Padres National Forest in Solvang, California, impacting those within Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, officials said. As of Monday, the fire has engulfed 72,460 acres and is only 3% contained, according to Cal Fire.

If the Gifford Fire reaches 100,000 acres, it will be considered to be a “megafire”.

Of course the fire that has been raging in Grand Canyon National Park for a month is already considered to be a “megafire”, and it just keeps getting even larger

A New Jersey hiker has been missing for more than a week in Arizona’s Grand Canyon National Park where a raging “mega-fire” has exploded to more than 123,000 acres.

Thomas Daniel Gibbs, 35, last spoke with friends and family around noon on July 22 and was officially reported missing six days later — the same day his Tesla Cybertruck was discovered abandoned at a parking lot at popular vista Grandview Point, according to the National Park Service.

The Freehold native was believed to have embarked on a hike on the arduous Grandview Trail and Horseshore Mesa the day he was last heard from.

Up in Canada, hundreds of wildfires are prompting air quality alerts in quite a few northern U.S. states…

Air quality alerts were issued across the U.S. Midwest and Northeast on Monday, August 4, 2025, and remain in effect on August 5, as over 740 wildfires burning across Canada send smoke to the U.S. Currently, 2025 is the third most destructive year for wildfires in Canada and is likely to become the second most destructive year surpassing 1989 when wildfires burned over 17 million acres of land across the country.

Despite all of our advanced technology, wildfires are raging out of control all over North America.

And the month of August is just beginning.

There is one last thing that I wanted to mention today.

Weather patterns in much of Europe have also gone nuts, and it is being projected that we could see crop losses of up to 85 percent in some parts of Turkey this year…

Prolonged drought and extreme weather events during the 2024/25 agricultural year have caused crop losses of up to 85% in parts of Türkiye, according to the Türkiye Agricultural Chambers Union (TZOB). The impacts are most severe in Central and Southeastern Anatolia, while national output of key cereals, pulses, and vegetables is expected to decline significantly.

In 2025, we have been hit by one major disaster after another.

It is almost as if we are living in a disaster movie that never ends.

And the truth is that what is ahead of us will make what we have gone through already look like a Sunday picnic.

The giant space rock that we all live on is being shaken in so many different ways.

Most of the population is not alarmed by what we are witnessing yet, but they should be.

Michael’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.  He has also written nine other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”“End Times”“7 Year Apocalypse”“Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”“The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse BlogEnd Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.

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WATCH: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin OBLITERATES CNN’s Kasie Hunt When She Tries to ‘School’ Him by Spreading Left-Wing Climate Propaganda | The Gateway Pundit

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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin gave a liberal CNN host an epic schooling on the law and actual facts when she spread climate propaganda and tried to shame him for supposedly not doing enough to combat climate change.

On Sunday, Zeldin appeared on CNN’s State of the Union with guest host Kasie Hunt to discuss the Trump Administration’s proposal to repeal the 2009 endangerment finding by the Obama regime, which states that human-caused climate change endangers human health and safety.

Zeldin said instituting the proposal would be the largest deregulatory action in American history. The plan also allows companies to plan appropriately and gives the American people more affordable choices when deciding to buy a car.

Moreover, repealing the endangerment finding makes it far more difficult for future Democratic regimes to try to suffocate fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas.

Hunt attempted to ambush Zeldin and paint him as a climate denier while trying to make audiences believe the U.S. would soon be less livable. Zeldin quickly embarrassed her right off the bat.

WATCH:

HUNT: Thank you so much for being here. Do you accept the overwhelming scientific consensus that these greenhouse gas emissions are the biggest drivers of man-made climate change?

ZELDIN: Great to be on with you. First, it’s worth pointing out that all eight or so images that you just posted on the screen have nothing to do with this week’s announcement.

CNN has been using a lot of photos that show smokestacks from stationary sources like power plants, which is not what we proposed. Now, going back to 2009, the science they were reviewing included both optimistic and pessimistic scenarios to reach the 2009 endangerment finding. They relied on the most pessimistic views of science.

The great news is that a lot of the pessimistic views ended up not panning out. We can rely on 2025 facts instead of 2009 assumptions. At EPA, we also don’t get to just create the law to whatever we want it to be. The Supreme Court overturned the Chevron doctrine; agencies like the EPA can’t just use vague language and statute and try to make it (the law) whatever we want it to be.

Later, Hunt tried to get Zeldin to admit that the federal government should regulate carbon emissions, which she says drive global warming. Instead, she got a brilliant explanation of how the American government and legal system work.

Hunt was left completely outwitted again.

HUNT: Do you think the federal government should have a role in trying to combat climate change?

ZELDIN: It’s a great question, and I’m at the EPA and running an agency. The Supreme Court made it clear that I have to follow the law. You have to follow the plain language of the law, and I can’t get creative.

So, when you read through the 2009 endangerment finding, they say that where there’s silence in the law…That I should be interpreting at my own discretion. The Supreme Court has made it very clear that this is not a power that I have.

This is a decision that Congress needs to make.

HUNT: With all due respect, a power that you have is to rewrite a regulation. You are taking an action; you could just leave it alone.

ZELDIN: No, the power comes from the law! I don’t get to just make up (a regulation) just because a predecessor decided to fill in vague language in the law to do many mental leaps, to try to justify an electric vehicle mandate…To strangulate out of existence entire sectors of our energy economy.

You were posting earlier a whole bunch of photos of stationary sources. Well, the Biden Administration did do a whole bunch of regulations to try to make, for example, the coal industry get regulated out of existence.

I come from a state where the governor says New York is a substitute for baseload power. It’s not.

In order to unleash energy dominance… we are not going to regulate out of existence entire sectors of our economy.

The power comes from the law and from Congress, not from our own creativity.

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Apocalypse Now: The Increasing Instability Of Our Planet Is On Full Display In 2025 | End Of The American Dream

Once dormant volcanoes have been erupting all over the globe, Mt. Rainier has been rattled by more than 1,000 earthquakes this month, one area of Japan has been getting hit by thousands of earthquakes, the largest supervolcano in Europe has been shaking like crazy, and a magnitude 8.8 earthquake just hammered the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia.  There have only been five earthquakes that have ever been recorded that have been larger than the earthquake that we witnessed on Tuesday.  2025 has been “the year of the disaster”, and we just keep getting hit by one thing after another.  For a long time I have been warning that our planet is becoming increasingly unstable, and finally a lot of people out there are starting to understand.

The shaking that we are experiencing is not normal.

We really are living in apocalyptic times.

And yes, things are going to get a lot worse.

I believe that we should regard the magnitude 8.8 earthquake that just occurred as a warning.  It sent tsunami waves all over the Pacific, but fortunately those tsunami waves did not do that much damage

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia’s Far East early Wednesday, sending tsunami waves into Japan and Hawaii and across the Pacific. No substantial damage has been reported so far, but authorities warned people away from shorelines and said the risk could last more than a day.

Ports on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia near the 8.8 magnitude quake’s epicenter flooded as residents fled inland, and frothy, white waves washed up to the shore in northern Japan. Cars jammed streets and highways in Hawaii’s capital, with standstill traffic even in areas away from the shoreline.

It could have been so much worse.

Once the earthquake struck, people living in Hawaii were scrambling to get to higher ground.

Thankfully, the tsunami waves that hit Hawaii were only a few feet high, and the tsunami waves that hit the west coast were not much of a problem at all

The first tsunami waves hit Hawaii at 8.20pm local time, 2.20am EST. Water levels were above 4 feet in Haleiwa on Oahu’s north shore, reaching 5 feet just minutes later and causing floods.

Oahu Emergency Management warned residents: ‘Tsunami waves are currently impacting Hawaii. Take action NOW!’

In California, the first waves hit the coast at Crescent City near the Oregon border just after midnight local time, while tsunami waves hit Washington state not long after.

But the fact that we were just hit by a magnitude 8.8 earthquake is a really big deal.

It was the largest earthquake anywhere in the world since the magnitude 9.1 earthquake that caused the giant tsunami that absolutely devastated Fukushima back in 2011

Wednesday’s earthquake was the sixth most powerful on record, and the strongest in Kamchatka region since 1952, with aftershocks of up to 7.5 magnitude expected.

It is the largest earthquake globally since 2011, when a 9.1 megaquake hit northeast Japan and left 19,747 people either dead or missing.

Dozens of very large aftershocks shook the Kamchatka Peninsula following the initial magnitude 8.8 earthquake, and the biggest active volcano in the northern hemisphere began spewing lava

The Klyuchevskoy volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula began erupting on Wednesday following a powerful earthquake off Russia’s far eastern coast.

Lava began flowing from what is the largest active volcano in the northern hemisphere.The Russian Academy of Sciences’ United Geophysical Service said in a post on Telegram: “A descent of burning hot lava is observed on the western slope. Powerful glow above the volcano, explosions.”

According to Volcano Discovery, 41 volcanoes around the world are currently erupting right now.

But don’t worry.

The “experts” are telling us that everything is fine.

You believe them, don’t you?

The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that we just witnessed happened on a “megathrust fault”

The 8.8 magnitude quake off Russia that triggered tsunami warnings across the Pacific occurred on what is known as a “megathrust fault”, where the denser Pacific Plate is sliding underneath the lighter North American Plate, scientists said.

The Pacific Plate has been on the move, making the Kamchatka Peninsula area off Russia’s Far East coast where it struck especially vulnerable to such tremors – and bigger aftershocks cannot be ruled out, they said.

Of course there is a “megathrust fault” just off the west coast of the United States too.

It is called “the Cascadia Subduction Zone”, and it is a ticking time bomb…

The Kamchatka Peninsula earthquake may not have brought the same devastation as previous shocks, but a far more deadly seismic event is looming for the US West Coast.

A major 600-mile-long fault line known as the Cascadia Subduction Zone runs from northern Vancouver Island in Canada to Cape Mendocino in northern California.

It is just a matter of time before a giant earthquake happens along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, and a recent study determined that a large enough quake “could cause coastal land to sink 6.5 feet within minutes”

A study from Virginia Tech in April showed an earthquake of force eight or above could cause coastal land to sink 6.5 feet within minutes, devastating cities such as Seattle and Portland and flooding hundreds of miles of roadway, airports, schools, hospitals and power plants.

Researchers determined that the most severe effects would hit densely populated areas in northern California, southern Washington and northern Oregon.

Not too far from the Cascadia Subduction Zone is the most dangerous volcano in North America.

A full-blown eruption of Mt. Rainier would cause tremendous death and destruction, and this month it has been shaken by more than 1,000 earthquakes

Over 1,000 earthquakes have rocked Washington’s Mount Rainier in the largest ever seismic swarm recorded at this active volcano, waiting to erupt.

Experts from the US Geological Survey (USGS) revealed that this record-breaking earthquake swarm started on July 8 and has continued ever since.

As of July 25, geologists have recorded at least 1,010 small earthquakes around the mountain, which is one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the US.

If you live near Mt. Rainier, these earthquakes are your warning.

It is capable of unleashing enormous tsunamis of super-heated mud that travel at speeds of up to 50 miles per hour, and those that currently live in homes that were constructed directly on top of old deposits of super-heated mud from Mt. Rainier would have very little time to escape.

Meanwhile, scientists are now telling us that there is “something large moving deep beneath New England”

There’s something large moving deep beneath New England.

This is the conclusion of a new paper by researchers from the University of Southampton, England, who have been studying a mysterious patch of unusually hot rock below the Appalachian Mountains.

This region—known as the Northern Appalachian Anomaly (NAA)—is some 200 miles wide and lies around 125 miles beneath the surface.

I never considered New England to be a high risk area.

But apparently researchers have discovered a “huge, slow-moving blob of hot material” directly underneath the region…

Imagine taking a CT scan of the Earth. That’s essentially what geologists did using seismic tomography, a technique that tracks how earthquake waves travel through different layers of the planet. What they found under New Hampshire was a huge, slow-moving blob of hot material.

This kind of anomaly is typically seen near volcanoes or tectonic boundaries—but New England has neither.

So why am I sharing all of this?

I am sharing all of this to warn the world about what is coming.

The shaking that we are experiencing is not normal.

We really are living in apocalyptic times.

And yes, things are going to get a lot worse.

Michael’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written nine other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”“End Times”“7 Year Apocalypse”“Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”“The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse BlogEnd Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.

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The “Year Of The Flood” Continues – The U.S. Was Just Hit By 4 More Catastrophic Flooding Events In Just 48 Hours | The Economic Collapse

How much flooding is it going to take before people realize that something truly out of the ordinary is going on?  This month, we have been hammered by “1,000 year storms” and “1,000 year floods” over and over again.  In a previous article, I documented 13 catastrophic flooding events in just 13 days.  Unfortunately, that wasn’t the end of it.  In fact, we were just hit by 4 more catastrophic flooding events in just 48 hours.  In the entire history of our country, we have never seen anything like we have witnessed this month.  Every region of the U.S. has been repeatedly hit by major flooding, and there seems to be no end in sight.

On Friday, 6 inches of rain fell on one area of Chicago in less than two hours, and as a result there was tremendous flooding

Severe thunderstorms brought flash flooding to the Chicago metropolitan area on Friday afternoon, July 25, with some locations receiving over 150 mm (6 inches) of rainfall in under two hours.

Chicago Midway International Airport recorded 38 mm (1.5 inches) of rain in just 37 minutes. Within 90 minutes, the total had reached 70 mm (2.77 inches). A ground stop was issued at Midway, and both Midway and O’Hare International Airports experienced delays to inbound and outbound flights.

In Bridgeview, more than 150 mm (6 inches) of rain fell in less than two hours, overwhelming storm drains and flooding streets. Located in one of the lowest elevation zones in the Chicago area, Bridgeview is particularly vulnerable to flooding.

On Saturday, 10 inches of rain caused historic flooding in Lincoln County, Missouri

Lincoln County is in a state of emergency following major flash floods overnight in and around the city of Elsberry. The Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency reports the northern part of Elsberry received over 10 inches of rain overnight.

The flooding in Lincoln County was so bad that rescuers in boats were going door to door to pull people out of their homes…

Severe flooding has hit Lincoln County, Missouri, particularly affecting the town of Elsberry, where emergency services have conducted multiple water rescues.

Quentin Laws, the Lincoln County Emergency Manager, stated, “We have multiple boat rescues going door to door.” He emphasized the importance of residents staying off the roads.

The flooding began around 11 p.m. Saturday night, with torrential rain causing flash floods in the area. Laws said the hardest hit area was between 2nd and 7th Street on the south side of Elsberry basically along Highway 79 and near the BNSF railroad. It’s a low lying area but doesn’t flood very often according to local officials.

Also on Saturday, violent flooding hit Ruidoso, New Mexico for the second time this month.  In this instance, the rapidly moving floodwaters actually picked up an entire mobile home and swept it away

Afternoon thunderstorms brought new flash floods to Ruidoso, New Mexico, where residents are still reeling from deadly floods at the beginning of July. One woman standing on her back porch recorded dramatic video of a mobile home being swept away in the muddy rapids.

New Mexico is not normally known for flooding.

But now everything is changing.

On top of everything else, several inches of rain within just a couple of hours caused widespread flash floods in three Ohio counties on Saturday night

Thunderstorms that swept through central Ohio on Saturday night prompted flash flood warnings in parts of Franklin, Pickaway, and Fairfield counties.

Parts of southeast Franklin and Fairfield counties reportedly experienced between two and four inches of rain within a few hours.

High water was reported at the Groveport golf course, with multiple cars trapped in the parking lot due to flood water.

When I was growing up, thunderstorms were considered to be just a nuisance.

But in our time, they have become so violent that they can often be life threatening.

Of course they wouldn’t be such a problem if we hadn’t built millions upon millions of homes in FEMA flood zones

In Louisiana, a nation-leading 23 percent of properties are located in a FEMA flood zone. In Florida, it’s about 17 percent. Arkansas, New Mexico, and Nebraska are perhaps less expected members of the top 10, as is New Jersey, which, with New York City, saw torrential rain and flooding that killed two people earlier this month.

Texas ranks seventh in the country, with about 800,000 properties, or roughly 6.5 percent of the state’s total, sitting in a flood zone.

What in the world happened to common sense?

If you currently own a home that is located in a FEMA flood zone, you might want to think about relocating.

Because our weather is only going to get wilder.

And it isn’t just happening in the United States.

Last week, flooding was a major problem all over China

Heavy rain around Beijing and across northern China killed two people and forced thousands to relocate as authorities warned of further widespread rain and the risk of disasters including landslides and flooding.

Two people were dead and two missing in Hebei province, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Sunday morning. Overnight rain dumped a record 145mm per hour on Fuping county in the industrial city of Baoding.

China’s water ministry issued targeted flood warnings to 11 provinces and regions, including Beijing and neighbouring Hebei, for floods from small and midsize rivers and mountain torrents.

On Friday, a year’s worth of rain fell on one part of China in just 24 hours

Record-breaking rainfall hit Yi County, Baoding City, northern China, on July 25, 2025, delivering nearly a year’s worth of precipitation in just 24 hours and forcing the evacuation of over 19 000.

According to the China Meteorological Administration (CMA), 448.7 mm (17.6 inches) of rain fell in Yi County, western Baoding, in the 24-hour period from 06:00 local time (LT) on July 24 to 06:00 LT on July 25. It was the highest single day rainfall on record for the area.

Local reports indicate that nearly all of the rainfall occurred in the 12 hours leading to the morning of July 25. Meanwhile, the highest hourly rainfall intensity was recorded in Renyizhuang village, with 98.1 mm (3.8 inches).

I really hope that people out there are starting to get the picture.

We truly are living in apocalyptic times, and things are going to get a whole lot crazier during the months and years that are ahead of us.

You see, the truth is that all of the flooding that we are experiencing is just one element of “the perfect storm” that we have now entered.

Everything that can be shaken will be shaken, and this period of history is about to get quite a bit more interesting.

Michael’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.  He has also written nine other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”“End Times”“7 Year Apocalypse”“Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”“The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse BlogEnd Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.

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Trump Administration Moves To Repeal Landmark Obama-Era Climate Finding | ZeroHedge

The Trump administration is taking steps to repeal a key climate policy from the Obama era, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin confirmed Wednesday, according to The Hill.

“EPA has sent to the Office of Management and Budget a proposed rule to repeal the 2009 endangerment finding from the Obama EPA,” Zeldin told Newsmax this week.

That 2009 determination, made under President Obama, found that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane posed a threat to public health. It provided the legal foundation for regulating emissions from vehicles and other sources under the Clean Air Act.

“Through the endangerment finding, there has been into the trillions worth of regulations, including tailpipe emissions and including electric vehicle mandates,” Zeldin said.

While Biden-era vehicle emissions standards didn’t explicitly mandate electric cars, they were expected to significantly shift the market toward them. The repeal of the endangerment finding could undercut such climate rules entirely.

The move, first reported by The New York Times, signals a major escalation in Trump’s rollback of environmental regulations. Although his first term saw the weakening of emissions limits, the endangerment finding itself remained intact—until now.

Critics warn repealing it would gut the EPA’s authority to address climate change. “We are right back to full-throated climate denialism of the early 2000s,” said Zealan Hoover, a former senior EPA advisor under Biden. He called it “insane” to deny climate change’s impacts on public health.

“Climate change impacts public health because it changes the Earth’s climate patterns in ways that are beyond both what the human body and our built systems, evolved to have been designed to adapt [to]… that looks like extreme heat… sea level rise… more damaging storm surges and even flooding on non-storm days,” Hoover added.

The 2009 endangerment finding followed a 2007 Supreme Court ruling requiring the EPA to determine whether greenhouse gases threaten public health. That ruling authorized the agency to regulate them if they did.

The Hill writes that although the agency has floated the idea of repealing the finding before, this is the first concrete proposal. In March, the EPA said it would “reconsider” the finding without specifying a direction.

The current proposal is not yet final. Formal revocation could take months or years, and the agency appears to still be developing its case. A similar recent EPA move argued that power plants’ emissions should not be considered “significant” contributors to dangerous air pollution—signaling a broader strategy to eliminate climate-based regulations.

Zeldin, during his confirmation hearing, declined to say whether he believes the EPA has a duty to regulate climate change.

Source: Trump Administration Moves To Repeal Landmark Obama-Era Climate Finding

“The Year Of The Disaster” Has Resulted In Record High Losses For Global Insurance Companies | The Economic Collapse

You don’t have to convince insurance companies that 2025 has been “the year of the disaster”, because they have been getting pummeled by record high losses. As you will see below, there have been tens of thousands of wildfires in the U.S. so far this year, and we just keep getting hit by one “1,000 year storm” after another.  Nobody can deny that what we have been experiencing is not even close to normal.  Of course if someone actually did want to try to make the argument that “everything is fine”, that individual would have to explain why insurance companies are facing “record-high global insurance losses” from the first six months of this year…

Raging wildfires and severe storms contributed to record-high global insurance losses — totaling an estimated $84 billion — for the first six months of the year, according to a report from reinsurance broker Gallagher Re.

That total does not even include any damage from the series of historic floods that we have witnessed during the month of July.

As CNN has noted, in recent weeks we have seen “100-year to 1,000-year deluges happening nearly simultaneously in multiple states on multiple days”…

This summer, in particular, has been defined by a tragic surge in deadly flash floods across the United States, underscoring the escalating volatility of our warming world.

It’s no accident this is the summer of flooding, climate scientists say, with 100-year to 1,000-year deluges happening nearly simultaneously in multiple states on multiple days.

Large parts of the US have seen an unusually humid summer with record amounts of moisture in the air. When cold fronts and other weather systems come along, that moisture can get wrung out, squeezed like a water-laden sponge, yielding heavy and often highly localized downpours.

None of us have ever seen anything quite like this.

Since July 4th, the U.S. has been hammered by one historic flooding event after another

First and foremost, there was the devastating Texas flood that killed more than 130 people on the night of July 4. But flash flood events have been focused elsewhere as well. Three people were killed in a flash flood related to torrential rains falling on a wildfire burn scar in Ruidoso, New Mexico, on July 8.

Some major roads in Chicago were suddenly under water when a 1,000-year rainfall event struck in early July. In portions of North Carolina, the remnants of Tropical Storm Chantal led to deadly heavy rain and flooding the same weekend as the Texas tragedy. In New York City, water rushed into the subway tunnels when the city saw its second-heaviest rainfall total in one hour on July 14, with widespread flash flooding lasting into the 15th. And this past week, it was Kansas City’s turn to flood on July 17.

And that CNN article didn’t even mention the terrible flooding that occurred in Maryland on July 19th

More than 100 flood-related emergency calls were reported in Montgomery County, Maryland, on Saturday evening, July 19, 2025, after thunderstorms brought up to 127 mm (5 inches) of rain in less than two hours, prompting a Flash Flood Emergency from the National Weather Service.

Sadly, similar floods have been happening all over the world.

For example, on Monday more than 11 inches of rain fell on one section of eastern China in just 12 hours

Very heavy rainfall inundated parts of eastern China today, with Lianjiang County in Fuzhou, Fujian Province recording 296 mm (11.65 inches) of rain within just 12 hours.

The extreme rainfall event caused widespread flooding in residential and commercial zones, overwhelmed underground infrastructure, and triggered a landslide that blocked a tunnel in central Fuzhou.

For those that wish to dig even deeper, I recently posted an article in which I listed 13 catastrophic flooding events that occurred within a period of 13 days.

This has certainly been “the year of the flood”, but it has also been “the year of the fire”.

It all started with the record-setting fires in southern California in January.  Overall, so far this year firefighters have been called out to battle more than 40,000 wildfires in the United States…

Year to date, wildland firefighters have been called to nearly 41,000 blazes, by far the highest number in federal data going back to at least 2015.

How is it possible for us to have record-setting flooding and record-setting wildfires in the exact same year?

I really encourage you to think about that question.

Something very unusual is going on.

The wildfires that absolutely devastated southern California in January were the costliest in the entire history of our nation, and they hit U.S. insurance companies really hard

The January wildfires that raged across Southern California were among the costliest and most destructive in Los Angeles County’s history. It forced tens of thousands of Californians to decide whether they would rebuild their homes or relocate from a state increasingly facing the risk of wildfires.

In February, State Farm General, which is California’s largest insurance provider, said it received more than 8,700 claims and paid over $1 billion to customers in the wake of the wildfires. Citing a “dire” financial situation, the company requested an emergency interim rate hike averaging 22% for homeowners from state officials, putting more pressure on California homeowners.

I feel really bad for those homeowners.

Moving forward, insurance rates in California are going to be absolutely insane.

In the eastern half of the country, approximately 200 million people are about to experience a “triple-digit heat wave”

According to AccuWeather, more than 200 million people across 37 states will experience the triple-digit heat wave by Friday.

Officials have issued extreme heat alerts for the Mississippi Valley, while the entire Chicago area is under an extreme heat watch through Thursday.

This week, humidity from cornfields has intensified the already severe heat dome, extending from Texas to the Great Lakes.

Over 100 cities are expected to challenge overnight heat records, raising serious risks for heat stress, especially where there is no air conditioning.

It is going to be really, really hot.

If you live in the eastern half of the nation, I hope that you are prepared.

Meanwhile, our planet just won’t stop shaking.

Since July 8th, there have been approximately 1,200 earthquakes at Mt. Rainier…

As of Friday, researchers had analyzed 780 of about 1,200 tremors recorded at the 20 seismic stations on or near the volcano since July 8, according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN).

There is a reason why I featured Mt. Rainier so prominently in my new book.

One of these days, it is going to blow.

When that day finally arrives, you won’t want to be anywhere around.

On the other side of the Pacific Ring of Fire, there have been 136 major aftershocks in the aftermath of a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that hit Kamchatka…

A powerful M7.4 earthquake occurred east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatky, Kamchatka, Russia, at 06:49 UTC on July 20, 2025.

According to data provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the mainshock was preceded by six foreshocks, the strongest of which was an M6.6 at 06:28 UTC, approximately 20 minutes before the main event.

Since the sequence began, the USGS has registered a total of 136 earthquakes of magnitude 4.0 or greater in the region through 09:00 UTC today. Of these, 40 had magnitudes above 5.0, and five exceeded magnitude 6.

And let us not forget that one area of Japan has been getting hammered by thousands of earthquakes in recent weeks.

I have a feeling that all of this activity is leading up to something really big.

On top of everything else, a small asteroid that almost just hit us wasn’t even discovered by our scientists until it had already flown past Earth

A newly discovered asteroid designated 2025 OS flew past Earth at a distance of just 0.03 LD (0.00007 AU / 10 457 km / 6 498 miles) at 03:21 UTC on July 19, 2025.

This is 79th known asteroid to fly past Earth since the start of the year and the 6th so far this month.

2025 OS was first observed by ATLAS Chile, Rio Hurtado at 07:26 UTC — about 4 hours after it made its close approach.

The good news is that space rock was very small.

But I am entirely convinced that very large space rocks will be making a lot of headlines in the not too distant future.

Of course I am also entirely convinced that we are going to see a lot more floods, a lot more fires and a lot more seismic activity.

We really have entered a time of great planetary chaos, and what we have been through so far is just the beginning.

Michael’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.  He has also written nine other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”“End Times”“7 Year Apocalypse”“Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”“The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse BlogEnd Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.

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Playing God: As Humanity Faces A Catastrophic Fertility Crisis, Scientists Are Creating “Synthetic Human DNA” From Scratch | End Of The American Dream

Will the elite soon be able to order “designer babies” that are free from all genetic abnormalities and all genetic diseases because they have been created in a lab using “synthetic human DNA”?  I realize that this may sound absolutely crazy to many of you, but we are dangerously close to such a scenario becoming a reality.  Mad scientists that are extremely well funded are trying to “play God” by inserting large sections of “synthetic human DNA” into skin cells “to observe how they function”

Scientists have taken a bold and controversial step toward creating synthetic human DNA from scratch, a move some critics liken to ‘playing God.’

The research aims to unlock new treatments for autoimmune disorders, heart failure, viral infections, and age-related diseases.

To do so, scientists are developing tools to build large, complex sections of human DNA in the lab and insert them into skin cells to observe how they function.

The ultimate goal is to construct entire human chromosomes, a foundational step toward assembling a fully synthetic human genome.

This is scary.

Once they are able to create a fully synthetic human genome, they will theoretically be able to create a fully synthetic human.

If you doubt this, you should consider the fact that scientists have already been able to create a fully synthetic bacterium

Making synthetic genomes isn’t an entirely novel endeavor. Back in 2010, scientists managed to make from scratch the whole genome of a simple bacterium, and then plugged its genetic material inside an empty cell of another bacterium, making something entirely new that they cleverly dubbed Synthia. Scientists have also synthesized viral and yeast cells in other research.

Just because scientists are capable of doing something does not mean that they should actually do it.

Yes, maybe scientists can “play God” and make “perfect” synthetic humans that have no genetic diseases at all.

But would such creatures even be human?

Would they have souls like we do?

There are so many unanswered questions.

Unfortunately, nobody is going to hold these scientists back.  In fact, many will eagerly embrace strange new technologies as the solution to the existential fertility crisis that we are now facing.

Since the 1970s, sperm counts all over the world have fallen precipitously

Hagai Levine, an epidemiologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and his colleagues published an analysis in 2017 and an update in 2022 that evaluated a combined total of more than 200 studies that used a counting chamber. These two papers found about a 50 percent decrease in sperm concentration—most notably in Western countries—since the 1970s.

So what happens if we see another 50 percent decline over the next five decades?

Theoretically, average concentrations could eventually get so low that the majority of the male population is simply no longer capable of fathering children.

What would we do then?

As you will see below, there is concern that the accumulation of microplastics in our bodies could be one of the factors that is causing our fertility crisis.

Since 1950, over nine billion tons of plastic has been produced, and all of that plastic is constantly breaking down into smaller and smaller pieces

More than nine billion tons of plastic are estimated to have been produced between 1950 and 2017, with over half of that total having been produced since 2004. The vast majority of plastic ends up in the environment in one form or another, where it breaks down, through weathering, exposure to UV light and organisms of all kinds, into smaller and smaller pieces, becoming microplastics and then nanoplastics.

Within our homes, microplastics are mainly produced when synthetic fibres from clothes, furnishings, carpets and other plastic objects are shed. They accumulate in large quantities in dust and float around in the air, which we then inhale.

If you are like most people, you literally use thousands of plastic products on a yearly basis.

One of the primary ways that microplastics get into our bodies is through the plastic packaging that most of our food is wrapped in

A painstaking review of 103 scientific studies on microplastic food contamination found actions as simple as opening a plastic drink bottle or using a plastic chopping board can shave off tiny particles of common polymers.

Even glass bottles that use a plastic gasket, plastic-lined pizza boxes, plastic-lined disposable coffee cups, plastic tea bags, plastic wrappings, and microwaveable plastic containers shed microplastic like a Persian cat sheds fur in spring.

History will look back on us as the “crazy plastic people”.

Our plastic waste gets everywhere.

In fact, one team of researchers recently discovered that the deepest part of the Mediterranean Sea is absolutely littered with our plastic waste

The Mediterranean has long been a crossroads of trade and tourism, yet its deepest pocket, the Calypso Deep, seemed beyond the reach of day-to-day pollution.

That hope ended earlier this year when researchers reported plastic bags, glass shards, and crumpled cans resting 16,770 feet beneath the waves in the Ionian Sea.

The researchers didn’t just find a few plastic items down there.

It is being reported that they literally found “thousands of objects per square mile”

The team used the submersible Limiting Factor to reach the bottom of a kidney-shaped trench roughly 12.4 miles long and 3.1 miles across.

During a 43-minute trek near the seafloor of the Calypso Deep, cameras captured thousands of objects per square mile, mostly plastic waste discarded by humans.

A single straight-line pass of 2,130 feet was enough to confirm that human trash blankets large stretches of the basin. Most pieces were flexible plastics; glass, metal, and paper rounded out the list.

All of that plastic will continue breaking down forever.

And once plastic particles get small enough, it is easy for them to get into the human body.

One recent study actually found that the average human brain now contains “a spoon’s worth of tiny plastic shards”

The human brain may contain up to a spoon’s worth of tiny plastic shards—not a spoonful, but the same weight (about seven grams) as a plastic spoon, according to new findings published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine.

Researchers detected these “almost unbelievable” levels of microplastics and nanoplastics in the brains of human cadavers, says study co-author Andrew West, a neuroscientist at Duke University, to Science News’ Laura Sanders. “In fact, I didn’t believe it until I saw all the data.”

Based on their analysis, the amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing over time: Concentrations rose by roughly 50 percent between 2016 and 2024.

Our heads are literally filling up with plastic.

This may be one of the primary reasons why most people can’t seem to think straight these days.

Scientists have also discovered that microplastics are accumulating in our reproductive fluids

Tiny bits of plastic no wider than a human hair have turned up in some unexpected places, including the human bloodstream.

Now, data presented at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology meeting shows that these fragments have breached the fluids that surround eggs and travel with sperm.

The research team led by Dr. Emilio Gómez‑Sánchez of Next Fertility Murcia in Spain scanned follicular fluid from 29 women and seminal fluid from 22 men.

The experts found microplastics in 69 percent of the women and 55 percent of the men they studied. According to Dr. Gómez‑Sánchez, the team was surprised to find that the particles were so widespread.

It is going to take time for scientists to determine exactly how these microplastics are affecting our reproductive health, but at this point they are not optimistic at all

The impact these microplastics — defined as plastic particles under 5 millimeters in size — have on reproductive health is unclear, but it’s unlikely to be anything good.

“What we know from animal studies is that in the tissues where microplastics accumulate, they can induce inflammation, free radical formation, DNA damage, cellular senescence and endocrine disruptions,” Gomez-Sanchez said.

Of course even if microplastics did not exist, there are so many other threats to our reproductive health these days.

The constant levels of electromagnetic radiation we are being bombarded with and the poisons in our food are just two of them.

Nobody can deny that we are in a crisis, because that is what the numbers are clearly telling us.  This is something that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. commented on recently during an interview with Fox News

“We have fertility rates that are just spiraling. A teenager today, an American teenager, has less testosterone than a 68-year-old man. Sperm counts are down 50%,” he told Fox News’ Jesse Watters in April, adding: “It’s an existential problem.”

I fully agree.

Humanity really is facing an existential fertility crisis.

But creating “synthetic human DNA” from scratch is not the solution.

“Playing God” never works out well in the end.

Hopefully our scientists will realize this before it is too late.

Michael’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written nine other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”“End Times”“7 Year Apocalypse”“Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”“The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse BlogEnd Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.

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Flaws in 150 Years of Global Temperature Data Blow Holes in Global Warming Narrative | The Gateway Pundit

Photo: U.S. Forest Service firefighters battle a California wildfire. Text added by Antonio Graceffo. Original image in the public domain.

As justification for their climate crisis hysteria, liberals keep insisting that average global temperatures have risen, with the most commonly cited figure being a 1.1°C to 1.3°C (2.0°F to 2.3°F) increase since the pre-industrial era (1850–1900). The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), however, begins its “reliable” records in 1880 and reports an increase of about 1.1°C (2.0°F) since then. Even NOAA acknowledges the limitations of early data, stating, “Earth’s surface temperature has risen about 2 degrees Fahrenheit since the start of the NOAA record in 1850.”

But these claims rest on flawed foundations. Ninety-six percent of U.S. temperature stations fail to meet NOAA’s own siting standards and are often surrounded by development, resulting in inflated readings from the urban heat island effect. The transition from mercury thermometers to digital sensors between the 1980s and 2000s introduced discontinuities in the data, right during the period of supposed accelerated warming. Early measurements were geographically concentrated in Europe and North America, ignoring vast regions, especially the 71% of the planet covered by oceans.

Measurement errors of ±0.5°C often exceed the very climate signals being used to justify sweeping policy changes. Worse still, much of the raw data has been adjusted or “homogenized” using subjective assumptions that can introduce as much bias as the trends being studied. These problems, taken together, undermine the precision required to detect the small temperature changes that underpin today’s aggressive climate agenda.

Approximately 96 percent of temperature stations used to measure climate change fail to meet the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s own standards for “acceptable” and uncorrupted placement. This finding comes from Anthony Watts’ Surface Stations Project, documented in multiple studies including “Corrupted Climate Stations: The Official U.S. Surface Temperature Record Remains Fatally Flawed.”

Watts and his team of volunteers found stations “located next to the exhaust fans of air conditioning units, surrounded by asphalt parking lots and roads, on blistering-hot rooftops, and near sidewalks and buildings that absorb and radiate heat.” Even more troubling, data from properly sited stations show “a rate of warming in the United States reduced by almost half compared to all stations.” This suggests that a significant portion of reported warming may be artificial, created by poor measurement practices rather than actual climate change.

One of the most persistent flaws in the temperature record is the urban heat island effect. Many weather stations originally placed in rural areas during the 1800s and early 1900s are now surrounded by urban development. Cities generate heat through concrete absorption, reduced vegetation, and dense human activity, producing temperature readings that are consistently 2–5°F warmer than nearby rural areas. This is not speculation, it’s basic physics.

Urban surfaces retain heat differently than natural landscapes, and as development grew around these stations, they began measuring the heat of human expansion rather than natural climate conditions. The result is an artificial warming trend unrelated to global climate change.

Economist Ross McKitrick’s peer-reviewed research, published in journals like Climate Dynamics, exposes another troubling trend: socioeconomic signals in temperature data. If these measurements were purely reflecting climate, no such patterns should exist. Instead, McKitrick found correlations between economic growth and recorded warming, indicating that long-term temperature trends may be partially driven by the development occurring around measurement sites, not by the climate itself.

Perhaps the most damning analysis comes from Stanford researcher Patrick Frank, whose statistical analysis reveals that “the average annual systematic measurement uncertainty is ±0.5°C, which completely vitiates centennial climate warming at the 95% confidence interval.” In practical terms, this means the measurement errors are larger than the climate changes being measured. Frank concludes that “we cannot reject the hypothesis that the world’s temperature has not changed at all.”

The transition from analog mercury thermometers to digital electronic sensors is one of the most significant discontinuities in the 150-year global temperature record. Before digitalization, temperatures were measured using mercury-in-glass thermometers, read manually by observers at specific times each day. In contrast, modern digital systems use electronic sensors that continuously sample temperatures, have different thermal response characteristics, and rely on automated data processing. This means the measurements taken with digital systems are dramatically more accurate and more complete than those collected manually using mercury thermometers.

In the United States, digital sensors began replacing analog instruments in the 1980s, rendering direct comparisons with earlier U.S. records unreliable. Globally, digital systems weren’t widely adopted until the 1990s and 2000s, making comparisons between U.S. and international temperature data invalid prior to full global standardization.

Early temperature records suffered from severe geographic bias. Measurements were heavily concentrated in Europe and North America, with vast regions including most oceans, polar areas, Africa, and Asia having sparse or no data. Ocean temperatures, covering 71% of Earth’s surface, were particularly poorly measured before the 1950s. This creates a fundamental sampling problem. Scientists attempting to calculate “global” temperature averages were actually working with data from a small fraction of the planet, then extrapolating to represent the entire Earth. The assumption that well-documented European and North American weather patterns represent global conditions is scientifically questionable.

To address acknowledged measurement problems, scientists apply extensive “corrections” and adjustments to raw temperature data through a process called homogenization. However, these adjustments involve assumptions and subjective decisions that can introduce their own biases.

Different research groups using different adjustment methods arrive at different temperature trends from the same raw data. The magnitude of these adjustments is often comparable to the climate signals being studied. When the corrections applied to data are as large as the trends being measured, the measurements lose all meaning.

Regardless of accusations that “climate deniers” are rejecting science, the implications of these flaws are serious. Trillions of dollars in policy decisions are being based on temperature records in which measurement errors exceed the very climate trends they claim to show.

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1900 Scientists Say ‘Climate Change Not Caused By CO2’ – The Real Environment Movement Was Hijacked | ZeroHedge

Authored by Mark Keenan via RealityBooks.com,

Millions of people worldwide are concerned about climate change and believe there is a climate emergency. For decades we have been told by the United Nations that Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from human activity are causing disastrous climate change. In 2018, a UN IPCC report even warned that ‘we have 12 years to save the Earth’, thus sending millions of people worldwide into a frenzy.

Thirty-five years ago, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the (World Meteorological Organization) WMO established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to provide scientific advice on the complex topic of climate change. The panel was asked to prepare, based on available scientific information, a report on all aspects relevant to climate change and its impacts and to formulate realistic response strategies. The first assessment report of the IPCC served as the basis for negotiating the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Governments worldwide have signed this convention, thereby, significantly impacting the lives of the people of the world.

However, many scientists dispute with the UN-promoted man-made climate change theory, and many people worldwide are confused by the subject, or are unaware of the full facts. Please allow me to provide some information you may not be aware of.

1. Very few people actually dig into the data, they simply accept the UN IPPC reports. Yet many highly respectable and distinguished scientists have done exactly that and found that the UN-promoted manmade climate change theory is seriously flawed. Are you aware that almost 2,000 of the world’s leading climate scientists and professionals in over 30 countries have signed a declaration that there is no climate emergency and have refuted the United Nations claims in relation to man-made climate change? See https://clintel.org/world-climate-declaration/

2. I have also signed this declaration. How can I make such an assertion? I have experience in the field as a former scientist at the Department of Energy and Climate Change, UK Government; and as former staff member at United Nations Environment, where I was responsible for servicing the Pollution Release and Transfer Register Protocol, a Multinational Environmental Agreement, involving the monitoring of pollutants to land, air, and water worldwide. Real pollution exists, but the problem is not CO2. Industrial globalisation has produced many substances that are registered as pollutants, including thousands of new man-made chemical compounds, toxins, nano-particles and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) that are in violation of the scientific pre-cautionary principle.

A book I published also provides ample evidence and testimony from renowned scientists that there is no ‘CO2-induced’ Climate emergency. The book titled ‘Climate CO2 Hoax – How Bankers Hijacked the Environment Movement’ is available on Amazon here

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3. Next, I will mention the Irish Climate Science Forum (ICSF) website, a valuable resource founded by Jim O’Brien. I am grateful to the ICSF for their excellent work in highlighting the scientific flaws in the UN climate narrative. The ICSF provides a comprehensive lecture series from renowned international scientists providing much evidence, analysis, and data that contradicts the UN assertions. The lectures are available at: https://www.icsf.ie/lecture-series

The ICSF scientific view coincides with those of the Climate Intelligence (CLINTEL) foundation that operates in the fields of climate change and climate policy. CLINTEL was founded in 2019 by emeritus professor of geophysics Guus Berkhout and science journalist Marcel Crok. Based on this common conviction, 20 Irish scientists and several ICSF members have co-signed the CLINTEL World Climate Declaration “There is No Climate Emergency” (see https://clintel.org/ireland/).

4. The reality is that the climate has always been changing, the climate changes naturally and slowly in its own cycle, and CO2 emissions (and methane from livestock, such as cows) are not dominant factors in climate change. In essence, therefore, the incessant UN, government, and corporate-media-produced climate hysteria in relation to CO2 emissions (and also methane from cows) has no scientific basis. It appears to me the UN narrative is yet another example of fake science being used to drive an ulterior agenda, see also the book Godless Fake Science.

In truth I am against ‘real’ pollution, and the reality is that the CO2 component is not a pollutant. Unfortunately, many misinformed environmentalists are driving around in electric cars, the battery production for which has caused vast amounts of ‘real’ pollution via the industrial mining and processing of rare earth metals, and the consequent pollution to land, air and water systems. See also this article. Note that the UN does not focus on the thousands of real pollutants that corporate industrial globalisation creates.

5. The conclusions of the Climate Intelligence foundation include the following

There is no climate emergency. Therefore, there is no cause for panic and alarm.

Natural as well as anthropogenic factors cause warming: The geological archive reveals that Earth’s climate has varied as long as the planet has existed, with natural cold and warm phases. The Little Ice Age ended as recently as 1850. Therefore, it is no surprise that we now are experiencing a period of warming.

Warming is far slower than predicted: The world has warmed significantly less than predicted by IPCC on the basis of modeled anthropogenic forcing. The gap between the real world and the modeled world tells us that we are far from understanding climate change.

Climate policy relies on inadequate models: Climate models have many shortcomings and are not remotely plausible as global policy tools. They blow up the effect of greenhouse gases such as CO2. In addition, they ignore the fact that enriching the atmosphere with CO2 is beneficial.

CO2 is plant food, the basis of all life on Earth: CO2 is not a pollutant. It is essential to all life on Earth. Photosynthesis is a blessing. More CO2 is beneficial for nature, greening the Earth: additional CO2 in the air has promoted growth in global plant biomass. It is also good for agriculture, increasing the yields of crops worldwide.

Global warming has not increased natural disasters: There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts and suchlike natural disasters, or making them more frequent.

It also appears to me that various catastrophes attributed to “CO2-induced climate change” are nothing of the sort. I note the following articles:

Carbon Is Not the Enemy. End Chemtrails!

Problem. Reaction. Solution. Wildfires About More than CO2 Induced Climate Change?

They’re burning from the inside out.” Robert Brame on the Unusual Properties of the Pacific Palisades Fires

6. In the above book I reference the relevant work and scientific presentations of some of the world’s leading climate scientists. Let us examine some of the work and testimonies of these scientists:

“deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that Co2 from human industry was a dangerous plant destroying toxin. It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world – that Co2 the life of plants was considered for a time to be a deadly poison.” – Professor Richard Lindzen, Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Sciences at MIT.

Dr Nils-Axel Mörner was a former Committee Chairman at the UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He was an expert involved in reviewing the first IPPC documents. He says the UN IPPC is misleading humanity about climate change.  He tried to warn that the IPPC were publishing lies and false information that would inevitably be discredited. In an interview, he stated: “This is the most dangerous and frightening part of it. How a lobbyist group, such as the IPPC, has been able to fool the whole world. These organised and deceitful forces are dangerous” and expressed shock “that the UN and governments would parade children around the place at UN Climate summits as propaganda props”. He states:

“solar activity is the dominant factor in climate and not Co2… something is basically sick in the blame Co2 hypothesis…  It was launched more than 100 years ago and almost immediately excellent physicists demonstrated that the hypothesis did not work.

I was the chairman of the only international committee on sea levels changes and as such a person I was elected to be the expert reviewer on the (UN IPPC) sea levels chapter. It was written by 38 persons and not a single one was a sea level specialist… I was shocked by the low quality it was like a student paper… I went through it and showed them that it was wrong and wrong and wrong…The scientific truth is on the side of the sceptics… I have thousands of high ranked scientists all over the world who agree that NO, CO2 is not the driving mechanism and that everything is exaggerated.

In the field of physics 80 to 90% of physicists know that the Co2 hypothesis is wrong… Of course, metrologists they believe in this because that is their own profession – they live on it.… I suspect that behind-the-scenes promoters… have an ulterior motive… It’s a wonderful way of controlling taxation controlling people” – Dr Nils-Axel Mörner, a former Committee Chairman at the UN IPPC, and former head of the Paleo Geo-physics and Geo-dynamics department in Stockholm

Another climate scientist with impeccable credentials that has broken rank is Dr Mototaka Nakamura. He asserts:  “Our models are mickey-mouse mockeries of the real world”. Dr Nakamura received a Doctorate of Science from MIT, and for nearly 25 years specialized in abnormal weather and climate change at prestigious institutions that included MIT, Georgia Institute of Technology, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, JAMSTEC and Duke University. Dr Nakamura explains why the data foundation underpinning global warming science is “untrustworthy” and cannot be relied on and that: “Global mean temperatures before 1980 are based on untrustworthy data”.

Professor John R. Christy, Director of Atmospheric and Earth Sciences, University of Alabama, has provided detailed analysis of climate data. I summarise the main points from his analysis below:

“The established global warming theory significantly misrepresents the impact of extra greenhouse gases; the weather that affects people the most is not becoming more extreme or more dangerous; temperatures were higher in the 1930s than today; between 1895 and 2015, 14 of the top 15 years with the highest heat records occurred before 1960; the temperatures we are experiencing now in 2021 were the same as 120 years ago…

the number of major tornadoes between 1954 and 1986 averaged 56/year, but between 1987 and 2020 the average was only 34/year; between 1895 and 2015 on average there has been no change in the number of very wet days per month, and no change in the number of very dry days per month, and the 20 driest months were before 1988. Between 1950 and 2019 the percentage of land area experiencing droughts has not increased globally – the trend is flat; the incidence of wildfires in North America between 1600 and 2000 has decreased substantially. Sea levels rose 12.5 cm per decade for 8,000 years and then it levelled off, now it rising only 2.5 cm per decade… worrying about 30 cm rise in sea level in a decade is ridiculous, in a hurricane the east coast of the U.S. gets a 20 foot rise in 6 hours, so a 30 cm rise will be easily handled!”

In a lecture titled The imaginary climate crisis – how can we change the message? Available on the Irish Climate Science Forum website, see Endnote [ii]. Richard L Lindzen, Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Sciences at MIT summarises the battle against the climate hysteria as follows:

“in the long history of the earth there has been almost no correlation between climate and co2… the paleoclimate record shows unambiguously that Co2 is not a control knob… the narrative is absurd…  it gives governments the power to control the energy sector… for about 33 years, many of us have been battling against the climate hysteria… There were more important leading people who were objecting to it, they were unfortunately older and by now most of them dead…

Elites are always searching for ways to advertise their virtue and assert their authority. They believe they are entitled to view science as a source of authority rather than a process, and they try to appropriate science, suitably and incorrectly simplified, as the basis for their movement.”

“CO2…  it’s not a pollutant… it’s the product of all plant respiration, it is essential for plant life and photosynthesis…  if you ever wanted a leverage point to control everything from exhalation to driving, this would be a dream. So it has a kind of fundamental attractiveness to bureaucratic mentality.” – Prof. Richard Lindzen, Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Sciences at MIT

Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, and President of Greenpeace in Canada for seven years, states:

“the whole climate crisis is not only fake news its fake science… of course climate change is real it’s been happening since the beginning of time, but it’s not dangerous and it’s not caused by people… climate change is a perfectly natural phenomenon and this modern warming period actually began about 300 years ago when the little ice age began to come to an end. There is nothing to be afraid of and all they are doing is instilling fear. Most of the scientists who are saying it’s a crisis are on perpetual government grants.

I was one of the (Greenpeace) founders… by the mid-80s… we were hijacked by the extreme left who basically took Greenpeace from a science-based organisation to an organisation based on sensationalism, misinformation and fear… you don’t have a plan to feed 8 billion people without fossils fuels or get the food into the cities…” – Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace

Professor William Happer, Princeton University, Former Director of Science at the US Department of Energy, is also a strong voice against the myth of man-made global warming. He states: “More CO2 benefits the Earth”.

7. The UN IPCC cherry picks data, uses flawed modelling and scenarios not remotely related to the real world

The UN climate crisis predictions are not based on physical evidence, rather they are based on complex computer modelling. One has to decode and analyse the modelling process to ascertain whether or not the models are valid and accurate or whether they have obvious flaws. The vast majority of scientists, economists, politicians and the general public have simply assumed that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) models are accurate. Very few people have the time or skills to analyse these models, not to mention actually dispute them. Nonetheless, there were many senior and highly distinguished scientists that did exactly that – they claimed the UN narrative was incorrect and that there was no climate emergency. Their voices have been drowned out by a vast money-driven political and media establishment of the globalised ‘system’. The vitally important work of some of these renowned scientists is referenced in the above book.

“The computer models are making systematic dramatic errors… they are all parametrised… fudged…  the models really don’t work” – Patrick J. Michaels, Director, Cato Institute Center for the Study of Science

Dr Roger Pielke Jr, University of Colorado, has conducted a detailed scientific review and analysis of the UN IPCC AR6 report, see Endnote [iii].  He describes that in relation to climate modelling, the IPCC detached the models from socio-economic plausibility. In creating the models, instead of first completing integrative assessment models (IAMs), the IPCC skipped this essential step and jumped straight to radiative forcing scenarios and thus these scenarios are not based on competed IAMs. This led much of climate modelling down the wrong track. I quote points from Dr Pielke’s analysis as follows:

“The four IPCC scenarios came from a large family of models so instead of splitting modelling from socio-economic assumptions the models already had the assumptions faked and baked in to them, because they had to have those assumptions to produce the required radiative forcing (to produce a desired climate ‘crisis scenario’ outcome).

In another fateful decision the 4 representative concentration pathways (RCPs) came from 4 different IAMs, which was a huge mistake.  These models are completely unrelated to each other, but the impression has been given that they are of a common set, only differing in their radiative forcing, this was a huge mistake. Furthermore, no-one has responsibility for determining whether these scenarios are plausible. The climate community decided which scenario to prioritise and they chose the two most implausible scenarios! There are thousands of climate assumptions, but only 8 to 12 of them are available currently for climate research. The IPCC report even states that “no likelihood is attached to the scenarios in this report”. The likelihood is considered low they admit – This is an incredible admission by the IPCC.

These extreme unlikely scenarios dominate the literature and the IPCC report; therefore, the IPCC report is biased. Bottom line is that there is massive confusion. The IPCCs’ Richard Moss warned that RCP 8.5 was not to be used as a reference for the other RCPs, but 5,800 scientific papers worldwide misuse it like that… The whole process is seriously flawed… Nothing close to the real world is represented by the IPCC scenarios. Climate science has a huge problem! The IPCC currently uses RCP 8.5 as the ‘business as usual’ scenario, but RCP 8.5 is wild fantasy land and not remotely related to current reality at all… climate science has a scientific integrity crisis.” – Dr Roger Pielke Jr, University of Colorado

8. Financialization of the entire world economy is now based on a life-killing ‘net-zero’ greenhouse gas emissions strategy.

The UN Agenda 2030 plan and the Paris Agreement goal to reduce CO2 emissions by 7% per annum until 2030 is in effect a plan that would seemingly disable the current fossil-fuel-based mechanisms of the industrial economy for the food, energy and goods that enable human life and survival. Yet the narrative is quite hypocritical as the production of green energy infrastructure, and mining of rare earth metals for batteries for electric vehicles, is, and will most likely continue to be, very fossil-fuel intensive. Globalisation resulted in much of humanity becoming largely dependent on the trans-national industrial economy rather than on traditional more self-sufficient local/regional economies. Therefore, one has to ask where is this all going to lead if the plug is truly pulled on fossil fuels? Almost all of us are seemingly locked into, and have become dependent upon, the current economic paradigm of globalisation. A system rigged by debt-money created from nothing; created and controlled by private mega-banks and behind the scenes money-masters; and which can induce boom, bust, bailout scenarios that detrimentally effect the populace.

It should be noted that for decades, these same political, government, and corporate powers have rampantly promoted corporate economic globalization and fossil fuel dependency. Whilst, at the same time actively hindering the funding, creation, or government support of, more self-sufficient local communities/regions, and local co-operatives. Most of the world population thus became reliant on the globalized fossil-fuel driven system. I explore this topic in the books Demonic Economics and the Tricks of the Bankers and Transcending the Climate Change Deception Toward Real Sustainability

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Zero carbon emissions, in essence, means pulling the plug on current systems of industrial agriculture, transport, goods production, electricity production, etc. This could have terrible consequences, particularly in locations and countries, that are currently unable to produce much food. In Ireland, the deluded greens in government had planned to close the coal-fired power station Moneypoint, in the name of reducing CO2 emissions. However, as the price of electricity increased and the dawn of so-called ‘green energy’ began to evaporate like the Irish morning mist, the government scrapped this plan in 2022, instead deciding to convert the station to an oil-burning facility. The Irish Times newspaper reported:

“With growing concerns over security of the energy supply in the State, the Government is not in a position to decommission Moneypoint as a fuel-burning station in the near future. It was confirmed by the Irish Government in 2022 that Moneypoint will convert to oil generation from 2023.” 

The so-called ‘green economy’ (for it is not environmentally friendly in reality) and UN Agenda 2030 are resulting in increased energy poverty and decreased energy independence for the masses, while also developing trillions of dollars for the behind-the-scenes mega-banks. “Stop burning coal and wood logs that causes climate change don’t ya know” my deluded neighbour informed me last year, having threw out her wood burning stove and installed solar panels. Then a typical winter storm in Ireland last month left many thousands of people without electricity or heating for almost a week, shivering and wishing for a wood burning stove, while their solar panels produced little electricity in winter.

9. Central bankers are entirely funding / controlling the advancement of the worldwide climate change ‘project’

The decision to drastically reduce CO2, one of the most essential compounds to sustain all life, is no co-incidence. It should be noted that it is the world’s central bankers that are behind this decision and are entirely funding and controlling the advancement of the worldwide project of ‘combatting man-made climate-change’.

This project involves an attempt to de-carbonise the activities of the entire world population. In December 2015, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) created the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD), which represents $118 trillion of assets globally. In essence this means that the financialization of the entire world economy is based on meeting nonsensical aims such as “net-zero greenhouse gas emissions”. The TCFD includes key people from the world’s mega-banks and asset management companies, including JP Morgan Chase; BlackRock; Barclays Bank; HSBC; China’s ICBC bank; Tata Steel, ENI oil, Dow Chemical, and more.

The fact that the world’s largest banks and asset management corporations, including BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, the UN, the World Bank, the Bank of England and other central banks of the BIS, have all linked to push a vague, mathematically nonsensical ‘green’ economy, is no coincidence. There is another agenda at play that has nothing to do with environmentalism. When the world largest banks, corporations, and institutions, all align to push a climate change agenda that has zero evidence, one can see there is another major agenda going on behind the scenes. This agenda tries to convince the common people of the world to make huge sacrifices under the emotive guise of “saving our planet.”. While all the time the corporations and banks make vast profits, and political institutions implement worldwide technocratic control systems under the banner of combatting, and adapting to, so-called man-made climate change.

“The links between the world’s largest financial groups, central banks and global corporations to the current push for a radical climate strategy to abandon the fossil fuel economy in favor of a vague, unexplained Green economy, it seems, is less about genuine concern to make our planet a clean and healthy environment to live. Rather it is an agenda, intimately tied to the UN Agenda 2030 for “sustainable” economy, and to developing literally trillions of dollars in new wealth for the global banks and financial giants who constitute the real powers that be… “ – F. William Engdahl, strategic risk consultant and lecturer

Back in 2010, the head of Working Group 3 of the UN IPCC, Dr Otmar Edenhofer, told an interviewer, “…one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.”

To better perceive what is ‘behind the curtain’ of the climate hoax and the UN/WEF agenda it also helps to examine what has happened in the decades beforehand. It is important to perceive the implications of the worldwide fractional-reserve debt-money banking scam and the subtle system of debt-slavery that has existed for decades.  If you look at the World Bank website you will see that virtually every nation on Earth is in vast debt. In debt to who you may ask? The answer is to privately owned mega-banks. See also the book Demonic Economics and the Tricks of the Bankers.

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For many decades the so-called banking and corporate elites have had full control of the source of money creation and its allocation, via the debt-money system, and have therefore, by default, been able to fund, and increasingly control and manipulate the entire world spectrum of industry, media, government, education, ideological supremacy and war to their own design, agenda and benefit. Mayer Amschel Rothschild (banker) is widely reported to have said:

 “Give me control of a nation’s money supply and I care not who makes its laws.”

10. Central bankers hijacked the real environmental movement in 1992 creating the fake climate change agenda

Psychopaths can utilise any ideology and, change it from within to something that may eventually be entirely different to its original purpose.  Meanwhile, the original followers and advocates continue to pursue what they believe is the original ideology, but gradually become mere pawns in the agenda of a self-serving elite. Unfortunately, over the past decades, this is exactly what has happened in the environmental movement.

Whistleblower George Hunt served as an official host at a key environmental meeting in Denver, Colorado in 1987, and states that David Rockefeller; Baron Edmund De Rothschild; US Secretary of State Baker; Maurice Strong, a UN official and an employee of the Rockefeller and Rothschild trusts; EPA administrator William Ruccleshaus; UN Secretary General in Geneva MacNeill, along with World Bank and IMF officials were at this meeting. Hunt was surprised to see all these rich elite bankers at the meeting and questioned what they were doing there at an environmental congress.

In a video recording available here Hunt later provided important evidence from the documents of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3-14 June 1992. This conference was the well-known UN ’92 Earth Summit and was run by UNCED. According to Hunt, via the Earth summit, the UN was setting a net, an agenda, to place the power over the Earth and its peoples into their own hands. The world private banking cartel are the same ultra-rich banking families that had been instrumental in the setting up of the World Bank, the UN, and other international institutions, after WW2. Their political cohorts included Stalin (the leader of a brutal communist regime in the USSR that committed genocide of millions of people), UK Prime minister Churchill, and US President Roosevelt. Hunt refers to these banking families and their financial and international institutional networks as:

“The same world order that tricked third world countries to borrow funds and rack up enormous debts… and purposely creating war and debt to bring societies into their control. The world order crowd are not a nice group of people…”– George Hunt, Whistleblower speaking about the UN Earth summit of 1992

As a consequence of the UN Earth Summit, it appears the genuine environment movement that actually cared about real pollution to land, air and water, was politically hi-jacked by powerful political and financial interests with a different agenda. Maurice Strong, a UN official and an employee of the Rockefeller and Rothschild trusts, had convened the first UNCED congress in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1972. Then, 20 years later he was the convenor and secretary general of UNCED. Hunt also provided video evidence from the Fourth UNCED World Congress meeting in 1987 of an international investment banker, stating that:

“I suggest therefore that this be sold not through a democratic process that would take too long and require far too much funds to educate the cannon-fodder, unfortunately, which populates the Earth. We have to take almost an elitist program…”

Thus, the decrees leading to the 1992 UN Earth summit were dictated without debate or opportunity for dissent and would supersede national laws. According to Hunt, the decrees were dictated into existence by the banker Edmund de Rothschild, who got these major decrees into the ’92 UN resolutions without debate or challenge. Hunt asserts that he was denied the opportunity to openly challenge Rothschild’s remarks by the meeting Chairman; and that the Rothschild bank of Geneva is the nucleus of the World Conservation bank and the wealthy elite are integrated into the bank via the Rothschilds private offering of shares.

11. Despite the deceptive and fake environmental facade, it has adopted, the vast institutional entity of the UN has fully endorsed environmentally destructive industrial globalisation for the past 70 years.

The UN climate change, sustainable development and green economy policies over the past 30 years are little more than worldwide marketing tricks that have tragically brainwashed two generations of young people who do not understand what the UN actually is, and who is it is really designed to serve.

This current globalised system involves the promotion of beliefs and fake science that claim to be unchallengeable truths, but are, in fact, ideologies in which evidence is manipulated, twisted, and distorted to prove the ‘governing idea’, and thus promote its worldwide dissemination. They start with the conclusion they want and then wrench and manipulate what scant evidence they can to fit that conclusion. Man-made climate change due to anthropogenic carbon emission is a major example of this.

Institutions, including the UN, the World Economic Forum (WEF), and the World Health Organisation (WHO), are privately-motivated unelected unaccountable organisations controlled by the source of debt-money creation, i.e., the world private-banking cartel; and are just clever marketing tools and political mechanisms for implementing and maintaining a corrupt worldwide system, under the clever guise of ‘fixing the problems of the world’.

These powerful special interests have been promoting certain ‘ideologies’ for decades to advance their corporate and political aims. The word “sustainable” was hijacked decades ago, and it is now deceptively used to advance the agendas of globalist mega-corporate interests who couldn’t care less about the environment. The aim is to catapult humanity into the arms of UN Agenda 2030 and the WEF ‘reset’ plan, which are clever marketing plans entirely designed by the so-called elite mega-corporate interests of the WEF Davos group.

12. Furthermore, the current green energy/renewable technologies being promoted by the UN and WEF, are not a viable solution for the world’s energy supply. Although these technologies have some limited viability in certain locations and scenarios, the fact remains that the Energy Returned on Energy Invested is much too low – in essence the entire process is mathematically flawed. This is evidenced by the work of scientists, including Professor David MacKay (1967 – 2016), former Regius Professor of Engineering at Cambridge University, and former Chief Scientific Advisor at the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Summary

In summary, CO2 reduction is the main focus of the UN-promoted climate-change-hysteria that has been rampant among the world’s population. However, the proclaimed climate crisis exists in computer models only.  The cult of ‘manmade climate change’ is a media and UN politically-promoted ‘ideology’, that is used for a wider political and corporate agenda. Manmade climate change is not based in fact, and has hijacked real environmental concerns.

Due to incessant UN, government, and corporate-promoted climate change propaganda, many people are, thus, in a media-induced state of confusion, and, thus, blindly assume their pre-determined role in society under this ‘dictatorship of words’ without even being aware of it. The unpalatable reality is that people’s access to energy and resources is being intentionally reduced via bogus climate change policies, inflation, ongoing geo-political theatre and intentionally instigated war.

We cannot understand how to create a truly resilient society unless we correctly perceive the current society we live in and how it came to exist. Unless we recognize the untruths of the current paradigm, even if it is not ‘politically correct’ to do so, then we will not be able to make the correct adjustments to our communities and local/regional networks, or create a truly resilient thriving society. In this spirit of truth, new networks are emerging worldwide.

Source: 1900 Scientists Say ‘Climate Change Not Caused By CO2’ – The Real Environment Movement Was Hijacked

Saturday Selections – May 31, 2025 | Reformed Perspective

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Winnie’s song

Father Brian Sauvé, sharing some of the prayers he has for his little girl, Winnifred.

Doubling Alberta’s natural gas production could slash global CO2 emissions

If someone told you they were desperate for work, but refused to apply for any jobs, you’d understand they shouldn’t be taken seriously. As Jesus tells us, we can judge a tree by its fruit (Matt. 7:15-20).

So, when climate catastrophists steer us away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy too, that’s some fruit. Solar and wind might be their ideal, but these are more expensive than fossil fuels, and higher energy costs would hurt billions. Nuclear does have considerable downsides, but it is the only CO2-free energy source that could produce the energy we need at the prices we’d need to fill the gap that banning fossil fuels would create. So, to not have it as an option is to mark these “environmentalists” – their fruit shows them to be either uncaring or naive.

Now Alberta is offering the country another option – natural gas. It’s still a CO2 emitter but an improvement on coal and other CO2 sources. This option could effectively scrub all of Canada’s CO2 emissions. Great news, right? Well, we’ll see if the federal government thinks so. Their response will provide us with some more fruit we can assess.

Answering kids’ hardest questions…

“Why can’t I have screen time all the time, Mom and Dad?”

“Maple-washing” misleads the public

Does buying Canadian really have an impact on American producers? Not if those “Canadian goods” are actually American. It seems some stores are mislabeling goods to funnel patriotic outrage towards padding their bottom dollar.

Ontario shows why euthanasia “safeguards” can’t work

“Ontario’s euthanasia regulators have tracked 428 cases of possible criminal violations — and not referred a single case to law enforcement, say leaked documents.”

Murder is the unlawful and euthanasia the lawful taking of a human life. So what would it be then, if someone committed euthanasia unlawfully? Well, isn’t an unlawful taking of a life murder?

But how many doctors do you think would be willing to do a procedure that, if they ever didn’t do it quite right, would send them to jail for murder? Not many, right? That kind of chill might put an end to euthanasia altogether. And that’s what pursuing these 428 cases could do for any doctors considering killing as their living – put a chill on that  So, for euthanasia to be both legal and available, the government is motivated to overlook any irregularities.

Jeff Durbin: A bro in a skirt doesn’t care about biology (or logic)

God’s people too often seem intent on logic-ing our culture into the Kingdom. We address sins like abortion and transgenderism with arguments that are common sense but not specifically Christian – we channel Ben Shapiro and Pierre Poilievre but we don’t talk about God.

And how’s that working out?

We’ve misunderstood the fight we’re in. This isn’t a debate that we’ll win on points. What we’re contending with is a rebellious world that needs to be called to repentance by the power of the Holy Spirit.

We profess that God’s Word is “like fire…and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces” (Jer. 23:26), it is “alive and active, sharper than any two-edged sword” (Heb. 4:12), and “it will not return to Me empty but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it” (Is. 55:10-11). What might God work through us, if we were willing to stand with Him instead of just with logic?

Source: Saturday Selections – May 31, 2025

News Weakly – 5/24/2025 | Winging It

Darwin Award
A terrorist exploded a bomb at a Palm Springs, CA, fertility clinic killing one and injuring four. The 25-year-old male suspect was the only fatality. He was a self-identified “antinatalist,” someone who believes that humans should not procreate. He succeeded in removing himself from the gene pool. Antinatalism has been around, but really rose after the global warming “pandemic” where the obvious only answer to climate change is the elimination of the “anthropogenic” part of climate change — humans. Need I say more?

Not What They Wanted to Hear
Pope Leo recently called for “investing in the family, founded upon the stable union between a man and a woman.” Bad news for those hoping for more a more “LGBT-friendly. He spoke out against “gender ideology and claimed “God created man and woman.” And he argued that abortion “is at odds with the Gospel.” The loon. I can’t comment on the pope’s spiritual condition, but I do think he’s not a Pope Francis. He seems to be … more biblical.

The Leadership We Need
Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver is being charged with assault in a skirmish at an ICE center. When we vote for leaders to fight for us, that’s not quite what we mean.

Wrong Way
COP30 is the United Nations Climate Change Conference coming up in November. It’s being held in Belém, Brazil, a smaller city, so Brazil is cutting down thousands of Amazon rainforest trees to make a road to get there.One obvious topic at this COP30 will be the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Kind of like California clearing hundreds of acres of desert habitat … to save the planet with solar panels … only worse.

All the Fake News That’s Fit to Print
A Mexican ship crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge (actual story), prompting Trump to declare war on Mexico after their heinous attack. Experts say AI will never replace Congress because it’s not soulless enough. And Democrats have started a strategy of complaining loudly about Trump every day since “lawfare,”slander, and false accusations haven’t worked.

Must be true; I read it on the Internet.

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“Climate Anxiety”: The Manufactured Hysteria Spreading Across America’s Urban Centers and College Campuses | Natural News


A new term called “climate anxiety” has been invented, depicting the hysteria that now plagues a young generation, who have been subconsciously brainwashed to believe that the world is ending because of climate change. A Yale study surveyed individuals across the US. 

Key points from the survey:

 

 

    • 63.3% of U.S. adults are worried about global warming, according to a Yale study.

 

    • Climate anxiety is concentrated in large metropolitan areas and coastal communities.

 

    • The study highlights the role of politics, education, and media in shaping climate attitudes.

 

    • Critics argue that climate change hysteria is being used to push a political agenda and control the narrative on energy resource allocation, government subsidies, and for enacting geoengineering projects.

 

 

Politicizing the weather has left a generation in fear and anxiety

In a nation where the political climate is as polarized as the weather, a recent Yale study has revealed a troubling trend: 63.3% of U.S. adults are “somewhat” or “very” worried about global warming. This anxiety is not evenly distributed; it is concentrated in large metropolitan areas and coastal communities, painting a stark picture of how attitudes toward climate change vary across the country. The study, based on statistical modeling using data from nationally representative Ipsos surveys, underscores the extent to which climate change has become a central issue in the lives of many Americans, particularly those living in urban and coastal regions.

 

The findings are hilariously concerning, but not surprising to those who have been following the relentless push for climate change propaganda in the media, education, and politics. Climate anxiety, as it is now called, has become a pervasive force, particularly in big U.S. metros and coastal communities. For instance, in Queens, New York, a staggering 79.8% of adults are worried about global warming. These areas are often more vulnerable to climate-driven threats like flooding, but the study also reveals that individual attitudes are influenced by a complex mix of factors, including politics, education, and media exposure.

 

The psychology of climate anxiety

Jennifer Marlon, executive director of the Yale Center for Geospatial Solutions and senior research scientist at the Yale School of the Environment, notes that while the map of climate concern may appear uniformly purple, “it’s crucial to remind people that the vast majority of the population exists in some of these green places.” This observation highlights the disconnect between the perceived reality of climate change and the actual lived experiences of many Americans.

 

The psychological impact of climate anxiety cannot be overstated. Young people, in particular, are being bombarded with apocalyptic narratives that suggest the world is on the brink of collapse. This has led to a generation of individuals who are not only anxious about their future but are also being mobilized into political action based on a sense of impending doom. The Yale study reveals that this anxiety is not just a product of local environmental risks but is heavily influenced by the media and political discourse.

 

The role of climate propaganda in media and education

The media has played a significant role in shaping public perception of climate change. Mainstream news outlets often present climate change as an existential threat, with headlines that are designed to elicit fear and urgency. This has created a feedback loop where the more people are exposed to these narratives, the more anxious they become, and the more they demand action from their government.

 

Education has also been a battleground for climate change propaganda. Schools across the country are incorporating climate change into their curricula, often with a one-sided perspective that fails to present a balanced view of the science. This has led to a generation of young people who are not only anxious but are also being primed to support policies that may have significant economic and social consequences.

 

The political agenda behind climate hysteria

Critics argue that the climate anxiety being experienced by many Americans is not a natural response to environmental changes but is, in fact, a calculated effort to push a political agenda. The push for big government solutions, such as higher taxes, unaffordable energy, and geoengineering projects, is often presented as the only way to combat climate change. However, these “solutions” are often more about control and power than they are about genuine environmental stewardship.

 

The Yale study, while providing valuable insights into the distribution of climate concern, also raises questions about the broader implications of this anxiety. If 63.3% of U.S. adults are worried about global warming, what does this mean for the future of American politics and society? Is this anxiety being used to justify policies that may do more harm than good?

 

As the debate over climate change continues to heat up, it is crucial for Americans to seek out alternative perspectives from cool and collected people, and to question the narratives being presented by the mainstream media and political establishment. The Yale study serves as a reminder that climate anxiety is not just a product of environmental factors but is also shaped by a complex interplay of politics, education, and media. The solution to this manufactured hysteria may not lie in more government intervention but in empowering individuals with accurate information and a balanced view of the science.

 

Sources include:

 

ClimateDepot.com

 

Axios.com

 

ClimateCommunication.Yale.edu

Source: “Climate Anxiety”: The Manufactured Hysteria Spreading Across America’s Urban Centers and College Campuses

Al Gore’s Phony Climate Alarmism Exposed | The Gateway Pundit

Guest post by Hollywood film director Joel Gilbert

In my new film, The Climate According to AI Al GoreI expose the foundational lies of climate science of Al Gore, the godfather of the climate change movement.

Because of Gore, today, governments worldwide spend billions on carbon dioxide reduction policies.

It all began in 1992 when Gore published his climate emergency manifesto, Earth in the Balance, where he claimed that carbon dioxide was dooming the planet and called for environmental control to become “the central organizing principle for civilization.”

Then, in 2006, with the release of his film An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s climate change movement exploded.

Watch the trailer below:

Al Gore admitted he was no scientist. The source Gore cited for his climate alarmism was his Harvard professor, Roger Revelle. Gore cited an unnamed course he took from Revelle in the fall semester of 1969.

To get some answers, I went to the University of California San Diego where Roger Revelle’s lifelong papers are stored.

First, I discovered that the course Gore took from Revelle at Harvard was called “Human Populations”, and was all about world population growth. Gore scored a “C” in the class.

There was absolutely nothing about the climate or atmospheric science.

Next, I reviewed Revelle’s numerous articles and interviews over 40 years and discovered that Revelle did not agree with Gore’s theories about greenhouse gases, global warming or climate change.

Yet Al Gore credited Revelle for his extreme apocalyptic environmental positions, which Gore repeatedly called “a spiritual crisis”.

So where did Al Gore’s climate science really come from?

In early 1971, after serving only four months in Vietnam as a journalist, Gore applied to the Vanderbilt Divinity School, a draft dodgers’ haven, to cut short his time in service.

It was at Divinity School that Gore studied with radical environmental preachers, and where the reading list included a popular 1940s environmental cataclysm book called Our Plundered Planet which maintained humanity was destroying the planet.

My analysis of the book reveals that Gore borrowed heavily from Our Plundered Planet to write his 1992 manifesto, Earth in the Balance. However, in order to secularize his apocalyptic religious vision of a “climate emergency,” Gore credited his Harvard professor Roger Revelle.

Had Gore told the truth, namely that he just rewrote the apocalyptic ravings of the whacky Our Plundered Planet bookGore’s climate alarmism would have been dismissed as unacceptable and absurd.

Researching Al Gore’s greenhouse gas theory revealed what the media will never say: that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant or a bad gas. In fact, carbon dioxide is our friend.

Without it, life on Earth would not be possible. As humans, we release it every time we exhale.

Carbon dioxide is the food of nearly all plants on earth. We need more carbon dioxide, not less. More carbon dioxide would result in more crops, more food yield, and the greening of the deserts.

Earth’s atmosphere contains only 370 parts per million of carbon dioxide. That’s just .0037 percent. Not even one percent! Even if its concentration were tripled, carbon dioxide would still be miniscule.

It is the sun, volcanoes, the tilt of the earth’s axis, water vapor, sunspots, clouds, and ocean cycles, that affect world temperatures, not carbon dioxide.

I also learned that the only scientists who agree with climate change theories are those dependent on government funding. Universities and green organizations also reap financial benefits from climate panic. They are all in effect being paid by the government to agree.

Why don’t the simple facts about carbon dioxide take hold?

Unfortunately, today’s climate movement has taken on the characteristics of a religion. And, religions don’t worry too much about facts. It’s a belief system.

Mass movements can rise and spread, without belief in a god, but never without belief in a devil.

That’s why people who disagree with climate change are treated as heretics, they are evil, and deserve to be punished.

I concluded that “climate change” today is merely the latest scam with the same socialist solutions that Americans would never vote for: central planning and wealth redistribution.

It’s really all an assault on freedom and prosperity to try to stop the existence of the free market system. This is because Marxists are furious that free markets have achieved wealth for common workers and want to reverse this economic success to validate Marxism.

In my film, I demonstrate that Al Gore pushed his climate alarmism theories to try to garner political support. He felt the environmental issue was a popular one that crossed all class lines and could get him into the White House – and the rest is history.

Please check out my new film at: The Climate According to AI Al Gore.

 Hollywood film director Joel Gilbert is president of Highway 61 Entertainment.

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‘Climate Change’: Grift of the Century? Part I | Gatestone Institute :: Articles

  • Perhaps the climate hoax is actually not about saving the environment? What is it, then?
  • Some environmental problems of pollution are clearly caused by man; the effect of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), as in certain hairsprays for instance, on the ozone layer over the Antarctica. CFCs thin, or make a “hole,” in the planet’s ozone layer that protects the people from harmful ultraviolet rays. There is also the very real man-made problem of insoluble trash in the oceans. Generally, however, the problems of pollution are separate from those of climate change. Whatever can reasonably be done to curb man-made pollution should, of course, be advanced, but sometimes climate change and pollution overlap – seen by many, apparently, as an invitation to muddle and conflate them.
  • Climate change is largely caused by solar flares. So far, at least, there is not a blessed thing anyone can do about them. Many industries offer grants for papers that support the efficacy of their products that relate to climate change. Solar flares, regrettably, do not offer grants.
  • [Former Special Presidential Envoy for Climate] Kerry and his family flew on 48 trips and emitted more than 300 metric tons of carbon dioxide in just the 18 months between January 2021 and July 2022. Private jets “are 10 times more carbon intensive than airliners on average, and 50 times more polluting than trains,” according to a 2021 report. Kerry justified his polluting by declaring, unfortunately without a trace of irony, that private jets were the “only choice for somebody like me.”
  • The answer was supplied as early as 2015 by Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change: “This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.”
  • That would mean the destruction of capitalism and the world economy, however long that takes.
  • When the global elites arrived in Davos, Switzerland, in 2023 to discuss the urgent need to declare climate emergencies, they did so using more than 150 private jets.
  • Any journalists or commentators who dare to question or oppose the climate change orthodoxy are immediately shunned as “climate deniers” and met in the legacy media with an instant end to their careers.
  • “What is, in my view, even more dangerous, is the quasi-scientific form that their many times refuted forecasts have taken upon themselves.” — Former Czech President Vaclav Klaus, The New American, December 22, 2009.
  • Klaus stressed that environmentalism disguises itself as science. Under this disguise, it attempts to force its precepts on humanity. When it comes to global warming or climate change, that process is made easier: the topic is scientifically complex, which makes it hard for most people to refute the climate scammers.
  • “For the last 16 years, temperatures have been going down and the carbon dioxide has been going up and the crops have got greener and grow quicker. We’ve done plenty to smash up the planet, but there’s been no global warming caused by man…. I still say it’s poppycock! If you believe it, fine. But I don’t and there’s thousands like me.” — David Bellamy, English botanist and former BBC broadcaster, The Daily Mail, January 22, 2013.
  • It is no wonder that the climate change scam won the day. Few people have been willing to risk their livelihoods to fight against the manipulation.
  • Meanwhile, at the latest UN Climate Conference, COP29, which took place in Baku, Azerbaijan in November 2024, the agenda to destroy the world’s economy and the West by forcing wealth redistribution made new strides…. [Developing countries] apparently demanded $1.3 trillion annually. In the words of energy expert Alex Epstein: “The basic idea here is what they call ‘climate reparations,’ which is the idea that the US and others have ruined the world with fossil fuels, and so we have to pay a trillion dollars a year to make up for it, which, by the way, if the US paid that, that’s $7,700 per household per year.”
  • Notably, China retained its status as a “developing country” at the COP29, thereby exposing the enormous extent of the climate hoax. According to the International Energy Agency, “China’s total CO2 emissions exceeded those of the advanced economies combined in 2020, and in 2023 were 15% higher.” In addition, while China continues to build more coal-fired power plants than the rest of the entire world combined, the West continues on the path of deindustrialization in the name of the climate.
  • Thankfully, President Donald Trump, once again, has withdrawn the US from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. As the past has shown, however, such a withdrawal holds no future guarantees. Trump also withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement during his first term, but President Joe Biden then brought the US back the first chance he got. For this reason, it is crucial that the current US administration do all it can to publish the truth about the climate scam and work towards ending it across the board.

Source: ‘Climate Change’: Grift of the Century? Part I

VA Secretary Doug Collins has ‘Full Authority’ to Recognize the Once-Mandated COVID-19 Shot as a Toxic Exposure Risk Activity | The Gateway Pundit

Image: Wikimedia Commons (Fort Hunter Liggett)

A combat veteran and federal whistleblower continues to advocate for veterans harmed by former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s tyrannical enforcement of the 2021 COVID-19 shot mandate.

In a recent article for The Gateway Pundit, Sonny Fleeman described how a “fraudulent” standard operating procedure note within the Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxic (PACT) Act denies vaccines and medications from being considered under the Toxic Exposure Risk Activity (TERA) provision of the act. The PACT Act provides compensation for veterans exposed to toxic substances like burn pits and hazardous chemicals.

Considering the number of adverse side effects he revealed through VA claims, Fleeman is greatly concerned about the VA’s decision to knowingly downplay what the data confirms as it relates to the COVID-19 shot in service members and veterans.

As a result of his efforts to expose the truth, several people have contacted the author of Fleeman’s previous article to inquire whether the VA Secretary has the authority to change the TERA standard operating procedure to allow the harm caused by the once-mandated COVID-19 shot to be included under the PACT Act without congressional action.

The Gateway Pundit reached out to Fleeman to find the answer. Emphasizing that the views and opinions expressed in this article are solely his own and do not reflect the official policies, positions, or views of the VA, the United States Government, or any organization or employer, current or former, with which he is or has been affiliated, the combat vet whistleblower simply replied, “yes.”

He explained, “The VA Secretary does have the legal authority to recognize COVID-19 vaccines as a toxic exposure risk activity, TERA, through a policy change—without the need for congressional approval.”

“Under 38 U.S.C. § 1710(e)(4)(C),” Fleeman pointed out that “a toxic exposure risk activity is defined as either an event recorded in an exposure tracking system or any exposure that the Secretary determines qualifies as ‘reasonably prudent’ to protect veterans’ health.” For Fleeman, “It is reasonably prudent for the VA Secretary to remove this policy because the COVID-19 injections were a mandated exposure, making them an occupational risk by definition.”

“Since this law gives the Secretary full discretion,” he argued, “they could designate COVID-19 vaccines as a toxic exposure risk if they determine it is necessary for veteran health protection.”

The VA already concedes TERA for environmental and chemical exposures based on potential health risks, not just proven harm. Given the documented toxic mechanisms of lipid nanoparticles, spike protein, and DNA contamination, Fleeman said, it is both rational and necessary to recognize these injections under TERA. “Denying this designation is an arbitrary policy choice, not a scientific or legal one,” he asserted.

“At a minimum, veterans who were required to take these shots deserve the same opportunity for medical review and benefits consideration as those exposed to other toxic substances.” The exclusion of vaccines and medications from being considered toxic exposures is nothing more than “fraudulent,” Fleeman argued.

“It’s a procedural directive, not statutory law, meaning the Secretary has the authority to modify or remove it at any time,” Fleeman shared. “If the standard operating procedure were revised,” he said, “vaccine administration could then be examined under 38 CFR § 3.303(a), which requires that exposure claims align with the places, types, and circumstances of a veteran’s service.”

A simple revision would require the VA to recognize COVID-19 injections as a toxic exposure risk activity under the existing framework, forcing claims processors to consider them as a potential cause of service-connected disabilities—even in cases where they were not explicitly claimed, he explained.

“Thus,” according to Fleeman, “the only barrier preventing COVID-19 pseudo vaccines from being classified as a toxic exposure risk activity is the VA’s own policy, which the Secretary has full authority to change,” he said.

The question remains: Will VA Secretary Doug Collins acknowledge the need to recognize COVID-19 injections as a toxic exposure risk activity?

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Global Famine Is Literally Inevitable As 77.6% Of The Earth Becomes More Arid And The Ground Beneath Our Feet Becomes More Unstable | End Of The American Dream

Did you know that more than three-quarters of the land on the surface of our planet has been steadily getting drier?  All over the world, forests are being ripped out, greenery is disappearing and once vibrant soil is being degraded.  Meanwhile, governments are monkeying around with the weather and conducting all sorts of secretive geoengineering experiments.  As a result, we now have an unprecedented crisis on our hands.  Approximately half of the population of Africa now lives on drylands, and that continent is being plagued by endless famines right now.  Unfortunately, much of the rest of the world is headed in the exact same direction.  In particular, Europe, Brazil and the western half of the United States are drying out at a very alarming rate.  If current trends continue, global famine is literally inevitable.

According to a report that was released by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, 77.6 percent of the land on the surface of our planet is drier now than it was 30 years ago

77.6% of Earth’s land has become drier in the last three decades compared to the 30 years prior, with drylands expanding by an area larger than India to cover 40.6% of the land on Earth, except for Antarctica.

And the findings, released in a new report by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification ((UNCCD), warn that if the trend continues, up to five billion people could live in drylands by the century’s end — causing soils to deplete, water resources to dwindle, and vital ecosystems to collapse.

Needless to say, when land dries out it can have a whole host of absolutely disastrous consequences

Indeed it is. According to the UNCCD, the transformation over the three studied decades is leading to loss of GDP, forced migration, increased mortality due to dust storms, worsening of wildfires, land erosion, vegetation degradation, salinization of water and soil, and more.

They are telling us that 5 billion people will be living on drylands by the end of this century.

But there is no way that we will ever get to that point.

Just look at what is happening in Africa.  It is the driest continent by a wide margin, and people are constantly dropping dead from starvation even though Africa is receiving mountains of food assistance from the rest of the world.

So what is going to happen when most of the world is as dry as Africa is right now?

The truth is that we are entering a time when we simply are not going to be able to feed everyone and a lot of people are going to die.

I honestly do not know what Europe is going to do during the years ahead.  At this point, 95.9 percent of that continent is steadily drying…

Europe is feeling the current burn especially acutely, with a whopping 95.9% of the continent experiencing drying. Also hard hit are Brazil, parts of the western U.S., the Mediterranean region, central Africa, and eastern Asia. Water, of course, is neither created nor destroyed, merely relocated. As 77.6% of the planet has grown drier, 22.4% has grown wetter, especially in the central U.S., Angola’s Atlantic coast, and southeast Asia—regions that have seen increasingly powerful storms and flooding. But it is drying that is the dominant trend globally, and it’s coming at a steep price.

The Europeans like to brag that they are such wonderful “environmentalists”, but they have been ruthlessly ripping out their forests and grasslands.

Of course the exact same thing has been happening in Brazil

For example, in cocoa-producing regions like northeastern Brazil, deforestation to make room for agriculture disrupts local water cycles and exposes soils to degradation. Without vegetation to anchor it, topsoil – critical for plant growth – washes away during rainfall or is blown away by winds, taking with it vital nutrients.

These changes create a vicious cycle: Degraded soils also hold less water and lead to more runoff, reducing the land’s ability to recover.

Chopping down millions of trees is an incredibly foolish thing to do.

When you chop down millions of trees, the land dries out and you lose valuable topsoil.

Back during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, our government actually planted 220 million trees in a desperate attempt to prevent topsoil from blowing away in the middle of the country.

A drought is just temporary, but unless something dramatic is done the aridity crisis that much of the world is facing will be permanent

“For the first time, the aridity crisis has been documented with scientific clarity, revealing an existential threat affecting billions around the globe,” Ibrahim Thiaw, the UNCCD executive secretary, said in a statement. “Droughts end. When an area’s climate becomes drier, however, the ability to return to previous conditions is lost. The drier climates now affecting vast lands across the globe will not return to how they were and this change is redefining life on Earth.”

Unfortunately, very few seem to be taking this threat seriously.

With each passing day, more trees are being chopped down and more grasslands are being eliminated.

So we continue our march toward disaster.

According to one expert, “billions face a future marked by hunger, displacement, and economic decline”…

“Without concerted efforts, billions face a future marked by hunger, displacement, and economic decline,” said Nicole Barger, chair of the UNCCD’s science-policy interface in a statement.

Of course even if we could completely solve the aridity crisis, we would still be facing global famine because of the loss of nutrients in our soil, the killing off of our pollinators, and the trillions of microplastic particles that are saturating the ground that we grow our food in.

Meanwhile, the Earth continues to become more unstable and scientists have discovered that the the inner core of our planet has actually been changing shape

Scientists who just months ago confirmed that Earth’s inner core recently reversed its spin have a new revelation about our planet’s deepest secrets — they identified changes to the inner core’s shape.

Earth’s innermost layer is a hot, solid ball of metal surrounded by a liquid metal outer core. For decades, planetary scientists suspected that the solid inner core deformed over time as it spun. Now, researchers have found the first evidence of changes taking place over the past 20 years in the shape of the inner core. Signs of the core’s deformation appeared in waves from earthquakes that were strong enough to reach Earth’s center.

The research team used that same earthquake data for a 2024 study to resolve a longstanding debate over the inner core’s rotation. They found that the inner core once spun faster than Earth itself. But beginning around 2010, the solid inner core’s spin slowed. It’s now revolving backward, relative to the rest of the planet.

Should we be concerned that the Earth’s core has slowed down dramatically and is now spinning backwards?

I don’t know.

But I do know that we have been witnessing lots of very unusual seismic activity.

For example, in recent days Santorini has been shaken by more than 6,000 earthquakes

Santorini, one of the most popular tourist destinations in Greece, could soon be swamped by volcanic eruptions and tsunamis. The island has been rattled by 6,400 minor and moderate earthquakes this week, sometimes only minutes between each quake.

Meanwhile, a very strange quake was just reported near Area 51 in Nevada

An earthquake has hit a secret military testing base near Las Vegas after a gigantic tremor sparked tsunami warnings in the Caribbean.

The United States Geological Survey said there was a 2.8 magnitude shake near the highly classified Area 51 base in Nevada. The agency revealed the quake’s epicenter was East of Amargosa Valley, around 50 miles from the United States Air Force facility, infamous for conspiracies concerning its connection with aliens and UFOs.

The very alarming changes that are happening to our planet have been a major theme of my work for many years.  Unfortunately, most of the population still has no idea what is taking place.

What we are witnessing is not even close to normal.

We really are living in apocalyptic times, and that won’t change no matter how hard some people try to ignore the facts.

Michael’s new book entitled “Why” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

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Microplastics Found In Brain Weighs As Much As A Plastic Spoon: Study | ZeroHedge

Authored by Cara Michelle Miller via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Microplastics are making their way into human brains at higher levels than in other vital organs, according to new findings.

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The study, published in Nature Medicine on Feb. 3, confirms that tiny plastic fragments are passing through the brain’s protective blood-brain barrier, potentially impacting health and cognitive function.

Researchers from the University of New Mexico (UNM) tested autopsy samples from 2016 and 2024. They found that over just 8 years, the amount of microplastic fragments in the brain has increased by about 50 percent. Brain samples from 2024 contained microplastics equal in weight to a plastic spoon.

Brains affected by dementia showed significantly higher concentrations of these plastic particles.

Finding such high concentrations in the brain was unexpected and alarming, Matthew Campen, lead researcher and toxicologist, told The Epoch Times during a press conference.

People are simply being exposed to ever-increasing levels of micro- and nanoplastics,” said Campen. The particles are so small, they’re roughly the width of two COVID viruses standing side by side, he noted.

The rate of accumulation “is simply mirroring the environmental buildup and exposure.” As plastic breaks down over time, it degrades and becomes small enough to enter the human body and brain.

Plastic Pollution in Organs

Brain tissue contained 7 to 30 times more microplastics than other vital organs like the livers or kidneys, making it one of the most plastic-polluted tissues yet examined.

Researchers tested 52 human brain samples from both 2016 and 2024, all taken from the frontal cortex—the part of the brain responsible for judgment, decision-making, and muscle movement.

In the brain, the microplastic concentration reached around 5,000 micrograms per gram—far higher than the liver and kidneys, which carried around 400 micrograms of plastics per gram.

The study also compared earlier brain samples from the eastern U.S. (1997–2013), which had lower microplastic levels, around 1,250 micrograms per gram. Their findings support a trend of gradual increases in plastic accumulation in the organs over time, with 2024 showing the highest levels.

To visualize the amount of microplastics in the brain, Campen held up a plastic spoon. Since the brain weighs around 1,400 grams (or three pounds), having 5,000 micrograms of plastic per gram would amount to over 5 grams of plastic in total—roughly the weight of a plastic spoon.

In deceased people with dementia, levels reached much higher levels of over 26,000 micrograms per gram. In the dementia samples, some particles were clumped together in areas with inflammation, raising concerns about a possible link between microplastics and brain tissue damage, according to the researchers.

However, while the study correlates microplastics to dementia, the study does not prove that higher plastic levels in the brain directly cause dementia symptoms.

It is also possible that the disease process itself may hinder the brain’s ability to clear out the accumulated plastics, Campen added.

Common Plastic Found in the Brain

Researchers found 12 types of plastic in the brain, with polyethylene (PE), commonly used in bottles, bags, and containers, making up 75 percent of the total. Other plastics included types commonly found in packaging, car parts, pipes, flooring, bottles, containers, fabrics, and other industrial products.

“It was notable that these are largely mirroring proportions of polymers that we do see in our environment,” Marcus Garcia, study co-author and postdoctoral researcher at UNM, explained to The Epoch Times during the press briefing.

The particles in the brain were mostly sharp nanoscale shards and flakes. These tiny particles are small enough to cross the blood-brain barrier, although Campen says it’s still unclear how exactly the particles enter the brain.

Researchers believe that micro- and nanoplastics may enter the body through eating, drinking, and breathing. These particles have been found in various parts of the body, including arteries, hearts, lungs, blood, and placentas. A study published on Jan. 30 found plastic pollution to be significantly higher in placentas from premature births.

One possible reason for the buildup, according to Garcia, is that organs like the liver and kidneys are designed to filter toxins, while the brain has more limited clearance systems.

Another theory is that brain tissue, which is about 60 percent fat, may better “trap” plastic particles.

If you’ve ever cleaned a Tupperware bowl that had bacon grease or butter in it, you know, it takes a lot of soap and hot water. It’s really hard to get the plastics and fats apart,” Campen said. He suggests that microplastics might be “hijacking” their way into the brain along with dietary fats being metabolized.

The finding also lends concerns to plastics being used in some medical applications, like heart stents or artificial joints.

According to Campen, the physical properties of the plastic particles could be the main issue, rather than any chemical toxicity.

These plastics might obstruct blood flow in capillaries, he speculated. There is also the potential that they could interfere with the connections between brain cells. But “we just don’t know for sure.”

Bigger Picture

Despite the concerning rise in microplastics, Campen believes the data provide some optimism: The observation that plastic levels are similar in both older and younger people suggests that there may be natural processes at play to help manage or rid the body of them over time.

The researchers believe that many of these particles come from older “decades old, degraded plastics” that have been discarded and left to break down in the environment over the years, Campen said. This insight can help guide environmental policies that include older sources, rather than focusing solely on newer products.

Effective environmental policies aimed at reducing plastic pollution could help limit future exposure, Campen said. Microplastic pollution is increasing rapidly, with levels in the environment doubling every 10 to 15 years, he said, and adding that addressing the source of this pollution could help slow down this build up in our bodies.

Currently, no treatment exists to remove microplastics from the body. To help reduce exposure, Campen and his colleagues are investigating the sources of microplastics in the environment, including in soil, plants, and even meat.

“I don’t feel comfortable with this much plastic in my brain,” Campen said. “I don’t want to wait 30 more years to see what happens if the concentrations keep rising.”

Source: Microplastics Found In Brain Weighs As Much As A Plastic Spoon: Study

What Christians Need to Know About the Climate Justice Religion | G3 Ministries

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The politics of our society flow from various streams, each shaping cultural values, policies, and beliefs of people. One of the most influential streams of influence has been the progressive critical social justice movement, fueled by Marxist ideologies. This movement functions as a wrecking ball with a singular agenda: divide the people and conquer. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the critical social justice movement known as “climate justice.”

According to a 2022 Pew Research survey, “Nine-in-ten atheists say the Earth is getting warmer mostly due to human activity, as do 78% of agnostics. Evangelical Protestants are the least likely to express this view (32%).”1Pew Research Survey, “Religious groups’ views on climate change”: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/11/17/religious-groups-views-on-climate-change/ [accessed 12-2-24] What drives these statistical divisions is not objective truth but allegiance to an ideology—a radical worldview that thrives on polarizing societies. By attaching “justice” to issues such as the environment, proponents of critical social justice weaponize the concept to sow division and expand their influence.

The Emergence of “Climate Justice”

While the exact date of the first use of “climate justice” is difficult to pinpoint, the term gained significant traction around the year 2000 when the first “Climate Justice Summit” was held in The Hague, Netherlands, coinciding with the United Nations’ COP6 conference. The methodology of social justice activists is to append “justice” to virtually every domain they seek to control—whether societal, economic, academic, or, in this case, environmental.

Climate justice has become a powerful industry that’s both influential and lucrative. The NAACP claims that “Environmental and climate justice is a civil rights issue.”

Climate justice has become a powerful industry that’s both influential and lucrative. The NAACP claims that “Environmental and climate justice is a civil rights issue.” Similarly, the United Nations promotes the idea that “The impacts of climate change will not be borne equally or fairly, between rich and poor, women and men, and older and younger generations.”2 See “Climate Justice” on the United Nations’ website under “Sustainable Development Goals”: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/climate-justice/ [accessed 12-2-24] This language creates a sense of urgency and moral imperative, but it also entrenches division along lines of class, gender, and age.

A telling example comes from U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who warned, “The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change,” linking this claim to a broader call for systemic change.3Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Speech at “MLK Now” 2019 Event, January 21, 2019. Similarly Sarah Kaplan in a Washington Post column titled “Climate Change is also a racial justice problem,” wrote, “You can’t build a just and equitable society on a planet that’s been destabilized by human activities. Nor can you stop the world from warming without the experience and the expertise of those most affected by it.”4Sarah Kaplan, “Climate Change is also a racial justice problem” an article in Washington Post, June 29, 2020. These perspectives, widely circulated in the media, political circles, and the world of academia, illustrate how climate justice rhetoric often substitutes alarmism for substantive debate and assigns blame along ideological lines.

When Environmentalism Becomes an Ideology

The climate justice movement is less about genuine environmental stewardship and more about advancing a broader ideological agenda. Progressive climate activism majors on protecting the planet while elevating creation above the Creator and attributing godlike agency to human actions. This anthropocentric worldview undermines biblical principles and leads to idolatry, with nature itself becoming an object of worship.

Scripture offers a radically different perspective. Genesis 1:1 declares, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth,” grounding all discussions of creation within the scope of God’s sovereignty. Humanity, created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26-27), is tasked with stewarding the earth—not as autonomous rulers, but as accountable servants. This stewardship is beautifully expressed in Psalm 8, where the psalmist marvels at humanity’s dominion over creation as designed by God.

Biblical Stewardship vs. Climate Idolatry

The Bible calls believers to a balanced approach to the stewardship of our environment. The ultimate goal of environmental stewardship is not merely to save whales or improve the climate in urban landscapes dominated by asphalt. Colossians 1:16-17 reminds us that all things were created by and for Christ, underscoring that the ultimate purpose of creation is to glorify God.

Christians are called to care for the environment not out of fear or guilt, but as an act of glorifying the God of all creation. This stands in stark contrast to the climate justice movement, which often weaponizes fear to justify sweeping policy changes and government overreach. If we lose sight of this truth, we risk becoming enslaved to progressive ideologies that bind our conscience and obscure the ultimate purpose of creation—from the farthest galaxies to the bustling cities—which is to glorify the God of all creation.

In Genesis 8:22, the psalmist writes, “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” This assurance of God’s providence should bring comfort to believers, freeing them from the anxiety that dominates secular environmentalism. While humanity’s actions can impact the environment, ultimate control belongs to God alone (Psalm 24:1).

The Cultural and Spiritual Implications

The progressive push for climate justice is not merely a political issue—it is a spiritual battle. By removing God from the equation, this movement elevates human autonomy and divides people along lines of class, ethnicity, and geography. For example, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2023 announcement of a $2 billion investment in environmental justice, funded by the Inflation Reduction Act, reveals how lucrative and expansive this industry has become. These initiatives often prioritize equity over stewardship, creating an economic and political structure that thrives on division.

As Darrell Harrison and Virgil Walker argue, such policies are rooted in a secular worldview that views the earth as an end in itself. This naturalistic perspective not only denies God’s sovereignty but also fosters a form of earth worship that is fundamentally idolatrous. Romans 1:25 warns of this tendency, describing those who “exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator.”

A Call to Biblical Faithfulness

Christians must learn to reject the two extreme ditches of neglect and obsession on opposing sides of the road. The church’s aim must be centered on embracing a biblically grounded approach to environmental stewardship. This approach acknowledges the reality of sin’s effects on creation (Romans 8:20-22) while affirming the eschatological hope of restoration through Christ.

This book is more than a critique of climate justice; it is a formidable tool for believers to think biblically about their role as stewards of creation. The authors provide a roadmap for faithful living, equipping readers to discern between responsible stewardship and the progressive ideologies that are at the heart of the climate debate.

A Biblical Theology of Climate Change is a timely and essential work. Darrell Harrison and Virgil Walker have crafted a resource that is both rigorous and accessible, theological and practical, and extremely well researched. In a way that Darrell Harrison and Virgil Walker have proven through the years, they equip Christians to engage the climate debate with wisdom, courage, and a steadfast commitment to the sufficiency of Scripture.

For those who seek to navigate the complexities of our cultural moment without losing sight of God’s sovereignty, this book is an invaluable guide. It is my prayer that as you read this book you will learn to stand firm in your faith, to steward God’s creation faithfully, to refuse to be gripped by the fear of climate justice politics, and to glorify God in all things.

—This is a foreword for the new book by Darrell Harrison and Virgil Walker titled, A Biblical Theology of Climate Change. You can purchase it from the G3 Ministries store.

References

1Pew Research Survey, “Religious groups’ views on climate change”: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/11/17/religious-groups-views-on-climate-change/ [accessed 12-2-24]
2See “Climate Justice” on the United Nations’ website under “Sustainable Development Goals”: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/climate-justice/ [accessed 12-2-24]
3Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Speech at “MLK Now” 2019 Event, January 21, 2019.
4Sarah Kaplan, “Climate Change is also a racial justice problem” an article in Washington Post, June 29, 2020.

Of Gaslighting and Blame Shifting :: By Bill Wilson

The extreme left never misses a chance to use a crisis for political purposes. The tragic Los Angeles fires are just one example. Liberals are screaming global warming as the cause, even though suspects have been arrested for arson. News sources report the LA Police Department has launched an arson investigation and arrested an illegal alien homeless suspect near the Kenneth fire. Another suspect, 60-year-old Gloria Lynn Mandich, was taken into custody on suspicion of starting a fire and booked on a felony charge of arson. She is held on $20,000 bail, but People.com says she is not suspected of starting one of the major fires engulfing LA. Two suspects for arson, no admission of guilt.

The NY Post reports that the homeless man was riding around on a bicycle with a propane blowtorch, setting fire to old Christmas trees and garbage cans at about the same time the Kenneth fire started. Police, however, could not confirm the suspect was involved in arson but held him on another felony charge.

Meanwhile, the NY Times is guiding people toward global warming as the cause of the fire. The LA Times reported on January 10 that the fires “erupted following a stark shift from wet weather to extremely dry weather — a phenomenon scientists describe as “hydroclimate whiplash.” New research shows these abrupt wet-to-dry and dry-to-wet swings, which can worsen wildfires, flooding, and other hazards, are growing more frequent and intense because of human-caused climate change.”

The Columbia Climate School weighed in with a January 9 article: “In general, wildfires are something where we do see a clearer signal for the impacts of climate change. It’s pretty well established that we’re seeing increases in the frequency of wildfires, and that’s driven by an increase in droughts and a lot of other factors. There have been numerous studies in Europe, in the US, and elsewhere that show there’s that influence [from climate change], and we would expect that influence to grow.”

Of course, they do not mention how scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU), the official source of global warming/climate change data, fabricated the data according to 1,079 emails and 72 documents from the CRU obtained in 2008 by the UK Telegraph. In the same year, 650 scientists refuted the concept of global warming.

This is no different than when there is a shooting, liberals cry out to ban guns—ignoring the choice and character of the one pulling the trigger. No different than limiting abortion will result in the deaths of many innocent women—ignoring that with abortion there is always the death of an innocent child. No different than demanding Palestinian rights when a terrorist kills people—ignoring the true motivation of Islam to exterminate all Jews and Christians. The gaslighting and blame-shifting is shameless.

Just as is written in 2 Timothy 3:13, “But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.”

They are and they do. Use God-given; Holy Spirit-revealed common sense to discern the words and deeds of these people.

Sources:

https://www.newsweek.com/california-fires-suspect-lapd-arson-arrest-2012894

https://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/1347

https://people.com/woman-charged-with-arson-amid-la-fires-but-not-suspected-in-major-blazes-8773129

https://nypost.com/2025/01/09/us-news/kenneth-fire-in-west-hollywood-hills-being-probed-as-arson-1-in-custody-reports/

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-01-09/climate-whiplash-study-california-fires

https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2025/01/09/a-disaster-expert-explains-why-the-la-fires-have-been-so-catastrophic/

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