- Oh, look, weather. The San Bernardino Sun reports that “A recent series of winter storms that dumped rain across Southern California and snow in the Sierra Nevada has recharged local reservoirs, leaving many water agency officials confident in their supplies and the state officially drought-free for the first time in a quarter century.” Of course when the state was dry, something that had happened repeatedly throughout known history, it was declared a condition that would never end, and proof positive of man-made climate breakdown, including by noted climate scientist Leonardo DrCaprio. Whereas we declare that the current situation will end, the wet being followed by some dry then other dry then wet and wet and dry. It’s called weather. P.S. Which alarmist, or alarmist computer model, predicted this happy weather?
- Aaaaaaah weather! A certain airline which shall remain infamous (slogan: “We’re not happy until you’re not happy”) massively inconvenienced one of us recently because it evidently cannot operate aeroplanes in Canadian winter, pleading “Extreme cold” at a major international airport where the temperature was approximately 1C. Not, you’ll notice, something that happens with warm weather even with that blasted airline. To make up for it, the airline provided no accommodation whatsoever, not even a meal voucher, never mind access to their lounge for actually valued clients despite an unscheduled 12-hour wait in the airport, as it was allegedly inflexible corporate policy to treat customers like dirt and no, there was no number to call. But the airline did perkily offer a chance to “Offset my emissions” by throwing money into an international black hole while not even getting on the flight in question.
- From the world of predictions that didn’t age well, the New York Times “Climate Forward” declares, as if there were nothing to see, that “Last year, greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. jumped 2.4 percent, according to new estimates by the Rhodium Group, a research firm. What caused the jump? More coal burning and colder weather.” Say, didn’t you tell us there was an unstoppable green energy transition and unstoppable warming?
- While happy to debate climate alarmism on its merits, we do notice that adherents of that worldview, like a great many radicals, seem so determined to make normal people do abnormal things that a hatred of normalcy does appear to be baked into their ideological foundations. For instance Bloomberg Green emails demanding to know “Would you eat trash?” Our answer, prosaically, is “only if desperate”. But theirs is “bon appetit” as “Fine Dining Restaurants Turn to Trash for the Climate”. What’s especially galling is that the actual story is about trendy chefs trying to throw less away and turn “ingredients that might otherwise have been tossed” into meals that will cost you $160 or more. So not actually trash. But they apparently want to force us to eat garbage… including mentally. Which has us turning to our own stove for food, and our own brains for thought. Especially once they make a lunge at pinning rising food prices on “climate change” as if crops flourished in snow and wilted in sunshine.
- Now put down your lifestyle and crawl away slowly. As we’ve observed, the withering of the climate scare in the presence of extreme lack of heat has led some chronic malcontents to pivot to plastic pollution as a reason to shut down the fossil fuel industry rather than handle waste better and avoid hysteria. Different joke, same punchline. And now Scientific American shrieks “World has entered an era of ‘global water bankruptcy,’ U.N. warns”. And we all know what the UN’s opinion is worth. But while advising Scientific Unamerican to write more about science and less about politics, we also predict that the remedy will be to end free enterprise, destroy western civilization and eat government-rationed bugs. It usually is.
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28 Jan 2026 | News Roundup
I read that article, the entire time it felt weird that they're using the word "bankruptcy". Why that word? did they focus test it and conclude it was the scariest? or the one that would hit most close to home as people go into actual bankruptcy over rising costs due to ridiculous climate policy?
@Santi, they're desperate to get everybody to accept their digital currencies, which will only happen if they can declare some kind of bankruptcy of the existing physical money. This is also why they're throwing trillions of euros and dollars away 'for the climate'. At some level causing the current financial system to fail and replacing it with 'a better one' is part of the multi-headed plan that is supposed to be complete by 2030. This new financial system will still be managed by the same people that broke the first system, so it will NOT be better, just more under their control.
Using the term bankruptcy will likely be happening more in the coming months in various fields so people will accept the use when it finally is applied to the financial system and they will accept the proposed 'solution' instead of firing the bunch of lunatics that are mismanaging the world.