Cryosphere faces permanent damage when world overshoots 1.5C, scientists warn

Bill Hare, a climate scientist and the CEO of Climate Analytics, a policy institute, who was not involved in the report, said: “Ice sheets melting six times faster than 30 years ago, sea ice and mountain glaciers disappearing at record speed, sea levels inexorably rising, the life-giving polar oceans acidifying: all irreversible now on human timescales, all laden with worldwide consequences, and all taking climate impacts past limits of adaptability.” 

He added: “Every government minister and every fossil fuel executive who’s ever succeeded in watering down climate action can look at this report and see how their actions have fundamentally damaged the world we live in.”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/nov/02/permanent-damage-crysophere-overshoots-15c-scientists-warn

 

Woody Harrelson: "No one loves you more than Exxon" | New Exxon El Nino commercial

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6iObgyyYYuo

 

Trump says government to ‘terminate’ Biden-era methane emissions rules

Critics warn of climate danger as president in Texas claims change will save companies and consumers billions

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/27/trump-biden-era-methane-emissions-rules-oil-gas

 

Botkin Sisters: We Were Wrong to Promote Submission (Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke, The Friendly Atheist podcast #658)

— They told Christian girls to submit. Now the Botkin Sisters say they were wrong. (0:17)

— Kenyan starvation cult leader Paul Mackenzie convicted in deaths of 191 people. (23:57)

— Americans are deeply divided over empathy. White evangelicals oppose it. (34:30)

— Colorado parolees can now choose secular addiction recovery programs. (40:19)

— Salem Witch Museum to give Batavia High students free tickets after pastor’s objection. (48:52)

— Florida’s new science standards downplay evolution and climate change. (56:49)
Interview: 

• Audio only podcast, with Jessica: https://friendlyatheistpodcast.com/2026/10/21/botkin-sisters-we-were-wrong-to-promote-submission/

• YouTube video, with Jessica:  https://youtu.be/0DsgdWAoML0?si=W3M4CFBP861Q60mp

• YouTube video, without Jessica: https://www.youtube.com/live/j8IrM5E_1t0?si=1270ToSLSZTgCXmf 

U.S. greenhouse gas emissions grew the most of any G20 country last year : NPR

U.S. emissions grew because of increased electricity demand, as well as Trump administration policies that support the burning of fossil fuels. The Trump administration has ordered coal-fired power plants in the U.S. to stay open longer than planned, rolled back fuel-efficiency standards for vehicles and ended tax credits for solar and wind projects…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/10/21/nx-s1-6003553/america-oil-gas-coal-climate-change-trump-carbon-emissions

 

How the Global Climate Fiasco Fueled France’s Student Revolt – Mother Jones

Sweltering school conditions—and government’s failure to adapt—helped spawn a political crisis…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/france-student-revolt-riots-school-conditions-extreme-heat-climate-crisis/

 

Florida's proposed science standards DOWNPLAY evolution & climate change!

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gQApjAvsPhk

New Data Centers in Texas and New Mexico Could Upend Climate Goals — ProPublica

More Emissions: Three new data centers near the Texas-New Mexico border, including two in El Paso, could significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions in the region. 

Across State Lines: Regulators have largely considered the environmental impacts of these data centers separately, partly because they are in two different states. 

Conflicting Goals: Plans for these projects are moving forward even though both places had previously adopted strategies for reducing emissions...

 https://elpasomatters.org/2026/10/14/el-paso-data-centers-meta-project-jupiter-climate-emissions/

 

Golden, naked Trump statue on display at European Parliament

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XwCXabtpjE0

 

"It is Time to Ready Ourselves for Battle": Sen. Whitehouse Delivers Remarks to the OSCE conference

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeLruf8Ub4k

“They Knew, They Lied”: Fire Survivors Bring Their Fight to the Supreme Court’s Steps – Mother Jones

As justices weighed the merits of Boulder’s case against Big Oil, those who lost everything want accountability…

 https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/10/they-knew-they-lied-fire-survivors-bring-their-fight-to-the-supreme-courts-steps/ 

Missing justice scrambles Supreme Court oil liability fight - POLITICO

Alito’s recusal from the case has the potential to result in a tied ruling in a battle over oil companies’ liability to pay for climate impacts… 

 If the court can’t form a majority, dozens of climate cases across the country would continue forward with looming question marks about their legality. At least four justices expressed skepticism about the oil industry’s argument that the Clean Air Act explicitly prevents such lawsuits against polluters…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/05/supreme-court-deadlock-climate-case-01106662

 

Supreme Court's new term kicks off with blockbuster climate change case : NPR

"This case represents whether or not we believe as a society that corporations should be held to the same standards that all of us are, right?" Riday-White said. "If you know you are going to cause harm, and you don't tell someone, then you should help clean up that harm."…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/10/05/nx-s1-5970070/supreme-court-climate-change-boulder-county

 

Burned Cattle, Drought, Smoke-Choked Pastures—and the SCOTUS Case to Make Exxon and Suncor Pay – Mother Jones

“You could call it deception, misrepresentation, but frankly it’s fraud,” Parenteau told me. “What [Boulder is] saying is, the companies lied about what they knew about the dangers of climate change. Fraud is the heart of it.” …

 https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/10/burned-cattle-drought-smoke-choked-pastures-and-the-scotus-case-to-make-exxon-and-suncor-pay/

 

‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years

Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution…

 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/01/switzerland-glacier-loss-fossil-fuel-pollution-europe

 

Judges Keep Striking Down Climate Laws. Some States Are Fighting Back. – Mother Jones

Hollins, who introduced and co-sponsored Minnesota’s superfund bill earlier this year, told me that Minnesotans could face $20 billion or more in climate-related costs by 2040. “That’s roughly a third of our state’s current budget,” she said. Her state’s superfund legislation would charge major polluters for damages to bridges, roads, and buildings caused by greenhouse gas emissions. That money would pay for natural disaster recovery, infrastructure projects, and public health efforts linked to pollution. 

Infrastructures costs, Hollins notes, are inevitably going to rise. “So is it taxpayers who are going to pay for it?” she asks. “Or is it billionaires?”

 https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/09/climate-superfund-new-york-supreme-court-suncor-boulder/

 

Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers - POLITICO

It’s the latest strategy in a decades-long campaign by right-leaning groups to discredit scholars whose work could persuade judges and juries in the high-stakes climate cases. Now it’s gathering steam amid a growing push by the Trump administration to block dozens of lawsuits levied at energy companies by communities that were affected by extreme weather…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/28/climate-science-conservative-documents-universities-01065669

 

‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak

‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world…

 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/21/super-el-nino-temperature-record

 

Spermageddon, ‘greedy jobs’ and abject fear: why birth rates are plummeting – and why it matters

Talking about “996” culture in China (working 9am to 9pm, six days a week), Cavendish quotes one guy: “Not only do I struggle to find time for reproductive behaviour, but I also can’t find a reason to have a baby who will eventually grow into another human labourer for capitalists to exploit.” And then another: “The entire situation is incredibly depressing. I feel like a cow surrounded by breeders who are discussing whether to play Mozart or Chopin to make my meat more tender.” Whatever you feel instinctively about the drive to have children being outside the rational, homo economicus self, it’s hard to really argue with those…

 https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/sep/17/spermageddon-greedy-jobs-and-abject-fear-why-birth-rates-are-plummeting-and-why-it-matters 

 

The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy Theory (w/AJA Woods) (Conspirituality podcast Brief)

AJA Woods (The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy) joins Matthew to trace how "cultural Marxism" mutated from Nazi "cultural Bolshevism" and the British Union of Fascists' attacks on modernist art, through Lyndon LaRouche's CIA-brainwashing lore, into Paul Weyrich and William Lind's 1990s "political correctness" rebrand, Pat Buchanan and the Tea Party's free-floating panic, Andrew Breitbart's arugula jokes, before finally landing as Christopher Rufo's anti-CRT crusade and James Lindsay's "Race Marxism."

Woods argues the throughline isn't honest scholarship on the Frankfurt School but a recurring move: relabel any liberation struggle—civil rights, feminism, trans rights, climate action—as an elite conspiracy, so its gains can be revoked as "foreign" corruption. Should sane people keep participating in these "debates" or refuse the frame and point to material stakes instead?
Interview: 

https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-cultural-marxism-conspiracy-theory-aja-woods