(Gateway Pundit) The recent snow storm that overtook Texas reportedly crashed the state’s wind and solar energy generators, leading to natural gas, coal, and nuclear providing most of the state’s electricity.
Kerry Clapp, an online writer cited by meteorologist Ryan Maue, reported in his Substack last week that “renewable generation declined almost immediately” as the snow storm took over.
“Wind, solar, and batteries fell from briefly supplying ~63% of generation to ~7% within roughly 48 hours,” he wrote. “Battery storage played a negligible role, constrained by high prices and lack of surplus electricity.”
In conclusion, Clapp reported that “natural gas, coal, and nuclear carried the grid, covering both lost renewables and rising demand.”
According to David Blackmon, an energy-related public policy analyst and consultant, by the early morning hours of Jan. 26, natural gas, coal, and nuclear were providing 89 percent of all the state’s power.
“Natural gas alone is chugging along at an impressive 68%,” Blackmon reported online on Substack later that same day.
Politico similarly reported that the U.S. energy grid “leaned heavily on coal and natural gas generation to satisfy the energy appetite from Winter Storm Fern.”
Thanks to natural gas, coal, and nuclear energy, Texas experienced far fewer outages and deaths than it did during the winter storm of 2021.
“No systemwide power outages were reported,” according to the Houston Chronicle.
Using "Global Warming" as the excuse, Marxist Democrats want to shut down California's economy, abolish the middle class and import millions of poor people from all over the world.
California under Governor Gavin Newsom may have staged its own economic demise (the final nail in the coffin) after laws were passed requiring even greater state interference into oil refineries and gas stations.
. . . companies are shutting down refinery operations in the state.
Lawmakers in California at both the state and federal levels are warning that refinery closures could push prices higher while leaving the state more dependent on foreign oil. At the center of the warning is the planned shutdown of two major refineries: Valero’s Benicia facility and Phillips 66’s Los Angeles plant. Together, the closures would eliminate nearly 20% of California’s in-state refining capacity.
Experts suggest prices could go as high as $10 - $12 per gallon as a result of the supply squeeze, spreading outside of CA to Arizona and Nevada. Republican lawmakers say that the loss of in-state production threatens not only consumer prices at the pump but also the state’s military readiness; a matter of national security.
The refineries make jet fuel and diesel and gasoline for military bases across California. California is home to more than 30 military bases, many of which rely on fuel refined in-state. Gavin Newsom has mostly dismissed concerns as exaggeration, asserting that foreign shipments of fuel will fill the supply gap.
Blue states like CA have been increasingly subjecting their citizens to an experiment in artificial energy scarcity; reducing access to “fossil fuels” while raising taxes to force consumers into the electric car market.
All of this is being down in the name of stopping “man-made global warming”, a problem which does not exist. Newsom claims that he is trying to help CA citizens by lowering gas prices, but all of his actions are leading to a price explosion.
WHAT HAPPENED: Scientists have found plastic nanoparticles in the edible parts of vegetables for the first time, raising concerns about the implications for the food chain.
Scientists at the University of Plymouth, England, have discovered plastic nanoparticles inside the edible parts of vegetables, raising new concerns about how deeply plastic pollution has infiltrated the food chain. Researchers found that nanoplastics, some as small as one millionth of a centimetre, can bypass natural root barriers in plants and accumulate in both roots and leaves.
The study involved growing radishes hydroponically in water containing polystyrene nanoparticles. To track the particles, scientists used radiolabelled carbon. Within five days, nearly five percent of the nanoparticles had entered the root system. Of those, around 25 percent remained in the radish root itself, while approximately ten percent entered into the leaves.
Dr. Nathaniel Clark, the study’s lead author, said the findings are unprecedented. “This is the first time a study has demonstrated nanoplastic particles could get beyond that barrier, with the potential for them to accumulate within plants and be passed onto anything that consumes them,” he said. Clark noted that radishes were used as a model, but other crops could likely absorb plastic in similar ways.
Richard Thompson, head of the university’s International Marine Litter Research Unit, said the findings build on earlier research that found microplastics in seafood, salt, and bottled water. “This study provides clear evidence that particles in the environment can accumulate not only in seafood but also in vegetables,” he said.
The study comes as other research has revealed alarming signs of plastic exposure in humans. A 2025 report from researchers in New Mexico detected microplastics in human brain tissue, particularly in the frontal cortex. The particles were small enough to cross the blood-brain barrier, though the health effects remain unknown.
Separately, a 2024 investigation found that people may be consuming more than 1,000 microplastic particles each year through ordinary table salt. All 21 salt brands examined were found to contain various forms of plastic contamination, including fragments, fibers, and pellets.
Another study linked microplastic exposure to increased spread of cancer cells in lab experiments.
Climate activists and Democrats better hope it never reaches this Supreme Court.
On August 1st, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin formally kicked off the process to rescind the EPA’s 2009 Endangerment Finding.
The EF is the 2009 Obama-era EPA determination that CO2 and greenhouse gases (GHGs) endanger public health and welfare and is the basis for all related U.S. CO2/GHG-related regulation of vehicles, power plants, and other industry.
Zeldin announced the formal Notice of Public Rulemaking (NPR) with a presser at a truck dealership in Indianapolis, Indiana three days earlier with U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chris Wright in tow.
An ancient sediment core revealed a shocking discovery: pollen and spores, indicating a long-lost rainforest that was shrouded in perpetual darkness for months at a time.
Antarctica is the most remote and barren continent on Earth; a land where only the hardiest creatures can survive the punishing year-round conditions. But dial the clock back by 90 million years to the age of dinosaurs, and this icy landscape transforms into a lush temperate rainforest that somehow braved months of perpetual darkness.
The story of this ancient Antarctic rainforest is written in sediment buried 25 meters under the seafloor off Pine Island Glacier, according to a study published on Wednesday in Nature. The fossils preserved in an ultra-rare core represent the first glimpse of Cretaceous ecosystems at latitudes this far south, just 500 miles from the South Pole.
Based on comparisons with similar Cretaceous biomes found much farther north, dinosaurs may well have roamed through this biodiverse Antarctic landscape. “It’s very likely that there were insects and dinosaurs and all of that there too,” Klages said, “but we can’t say for sure because we did not find anything like that. We only can say a lot of stuff about the paleobotany that we found in the core.”
That fuel (to warm Antartica) may have been supplied by extraordinarily high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, which could have staved the forests over until the return of the Sun. In fact, the discovery of this rainforest strongly suggests that CO2 levels in this era were higher than previously assumed, perhaps reaching 1,680 parts per million (ppm).
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe."
–Albert Einstein
Visitors to Hawaii will now be charged a “climate-change tax,” in a US first.
On Tuesday, Hawaii’s Democrat governor Josh Green signed into law a “green fee” for visitors, which will be used to offset their carbon footprint for visiting the islands. It will consist of a 0.75% tax on visitors staying at hotels and rental properties, and cruise-ship passengers will also have to pay a prorated tax for the number of days their ship is in port on the islands.
The new law will take effect in January of next year.
Hawaii has consistently gone further than other US states in imposing restrictions on carbon emissions, whether as a voluntary measure from government or in response to legal action from citizens.
Last year, Hawaii’s Department of Transport (DoT) reached a settlement with 13 teenagers who alleged it was violating the state constitution by operating a transportation system that harms the environment and infringes their right to a pollution-free environment.
Under the settlement, the Hawaii DoT will adopt a plan to hit net-zero emissions by 2045 for ground, air and marine transportation. Emissions targets are set for five-year intervals.
The DoT has promised to take “any actions necessary” to meet the emissions targets, including creating a volunteer youth council to advise the department and the establishment of a special unit under the direction of a “Climate Change Mitigation and Culture Manager.”
John Podesta, Biden’s top climate czar, was in charge of doling out $375 billion in climate change spending, which had been sent to many charities founded only months ago.
The New York Post wrote:
The Biden administration funneled at least $20 billion dollars into environmental groups, most of which had only recently been founded, The Post has discovered.
In one case, former Vice President Kamala Harris handed over a check for nearly $7 billion to Bethesda, Maryland, based group Climate United Fund, which does not appear in the IRS’s charities database, and has no federal filings.
in 2024, EPA adviser Brent Efron was caught on video saying the environmental regulatory agency had rushed out its $20 billion in climate funding.
“Get the money out as fast as possible before they [Trump administration] come in … it’s like we’re on the Titanic and we’re throwing gold bars off the edge,” Efron said in a video posted by Project Veritas.
According to Blacklocks Reporter, The Privy Council Office a focus group in April (taxpayer funded, obviously) in order to test out the labels ‘climate-flation’ and ‘heat-flation’.
Nobody in the focus group had ever heard those terms,
“participants were informed ‘heat-flation’ is when extreme heat caused by climate change makes food and other items more expensive, and that ‘climate-flation’ was a broader term that encompassed all of the ways in which climate change can cause prices to go up including but not limited to extreme heat,”
It’s a stunning example of Orwellian “Newspeak”, where public opinion was controlled through arbitrarily redefining the meaning of words.
Let’s be super-clear: Inflation is an increase in the money supply.
Bill Gates and other globalist billionaires are now investing in newly established climate companies like Kodama Systems to harvest and bury one billion tons of "biomass" to "save the planet."
Millions of trees, which provide us with oxygen and could have been valuable timber, will be buried instead. This will lead to soaring prices for timber, firewood, pulp, and other wood products as a consequence. The mostly deliberately set forest fires around the world this summer are now being used as a primary argument for deforestation.
The destruction of American forests "for the sake of climate" is being led by a Chinese professor. Along with tree planting on arable land and economic incentives for farmers to switch to "Carbon farming" instead of food production, the already strained global food production will soon no longer be able to feed the world's population.
Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and one of the world’s richest globalists, is now funding a new initiative to “combat global warming” and “save the planet.” Gates’ organization, Breakthrough Energy, has invested $6.6 million in the project led by a company called Kodama Systems, founded in 2021.
The plan is to harvest no less than 70 million acres of forest, mostly in the western United States. After mass harvesting, the millions of trees will be buried in the ground so that no one can use them. This is because climate alarmists believe that “burying trees will reduce global warming” as it prevents them from releasing carbon dioxide into the air.
"Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance."
Theodore Roosevelt
One government climate scientist made the mistake of blurting out the real end-game of so many radical environmental activists in a bid to preserve the planet: Killing off the human population.
Bill McGuire, a Professor of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at University College London (UCL), authored a tweet Sunday that lamented the fact carbon emissions were not falling nearly as fast as needed and suggested solving the “climate crisis” with a deadly pandemic to wipe out swaths of the human population.
“If I am brutally honest, the only realistic way I see emissions falling as fast as they need to, to avoid catastrophic #climate breakdown, is the culling of the human population by a pandemic with a very high fatality rate,” he wrote.
After righteous backlash from social media users, McGuire deleted his post and whined that people were deliberately taking his words out of context.
Victims who were involuntarily sterilized by state officials more than 30 years ago will be compensated.
More than 7,000 people were permanently made infertile between 1924 and 1979 under the Virginia Eugenical Sterilization Act.
The Act was widely accepted at the time and was even said to have partly inspired Adolf Hitler to create a master race in Germany.
But now the 11 victims who are still alive will receive $25,000 in compensation, Virginia General Assembly decided on Thursday.
Eugenics sought to improve the genetic composition of humankind by preventing those considered 'defective' from reproducing.
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Sadly Dean Wormer correctly saw the future and it is us.
(Infowars) New York City artist and activist Scott LoBaido was arrested Wednesday after tossing slices of pizza over the fence surrounding the Big Apple’s Manhattan City Hall building.
LoBaido was protesting the city’s recently approved plan by Democrat Mayor Eric Adams’ Department of Environmental Protection to crack down on pizzerias and bakeries that use wood and coal-fired ovens.
These ovens allegedly create “smoky pollutants” the department views as dangerous for New Yorkers.
A crowd of supporters gathered around the activist as he grabbed a couple of slices of pizza, said, “Here we go pigeons,” and threw the food over the gate.
Several police officers immediately swarmed LoBaido and handcuffed him while the crowd shouted at them in anger.
“This is a fine!” a man filming the scene shouted in video footage, claiming throwing pizza on the ground is “not an arrestable offense.”
Another bystander said, “Illegals are coming in and murdering people and he’s getting arrested for throwing pizza.”
LoBaido protested the ridiculous NYC proposal when it was first introduced in June of 2023, tossing pizza over the City Hall gate and screaming, “You heard about the Boston Tea Party? Well, this is the New York Pizza Party. Give us pizza or give us death! New York City is nothing without pizza!”
During that incident, LoBaido was confronted by cops but not arrested and was instead given a summons.
