UNITED NATIONS - Scientists used computer modeling to get accurate estimates of sea level rises. It is well known (?) that Earth's waters are rising because of global warming. But scientists now think they have a more accurate picture of just how much global sea levels will increase, after estimating the volume of water that will come from the melting of our planet's two ice sheets. Together, the Antarctic Ice Sheet and Greenland Ice Sheet – the two biggest sources of melting ice – contain about 99 per cent of the freshwater on Earth.
USA - We have been studying climate change and potentially associated sea level changes resulting from melting ice and warming oceans for a half century. In the 1970s our primary concern was global cooling and an advancing new ice age. Many believe that increasing quantities of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere could result in rising levels of the sea in general. The record does not show this to be true. There is no evidence whatever to support impending sea-level-rise catastrophe or the unnecessary expenditure of state or federal tax monies to solve a problem that does not exist.
USA - What the science says: Sea levels are measured by a variety of methods that show close agreement - sediment cores, tidal gauges, satellite measurements. What they find is sea level rise has been steadily accelerating over the past century.
UK - We are now approaching — albeit cautiously — a place where politicians and professionals should at the very least be able to question certain practices without being dismissed as bigots. That said, as we have seen from the recent debate around Nicola Sturgeon’s ill-thought-out self-identification legislation, a lot of people are still afraid of tackling the gender ideologues. And understandably so: the activists are very powerful and some are very persuasive. They dominate social media, targeting the young and impressionable, casting themselves as the enemies of old-fashioned and outdated values; pioneers of a newer, more progressive age of self-expression and tolerance.
USA - Why are global authorities suddenly so concerned that the bird flu might start spreading widely among humans? And why is the mainstream media suddenly filled with extremely alarming stories about the disease? Just a few days ago, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, made headlines all over the globe when he ominously warned that “we must prepare” for the possibility of a bird flu pandemic among humans. Why is he issuing such a warning now? Does he know something that the rest of us do not?
USA - If you’re from California and thinking of moving to Utah, think again. You may not be welcomed in the Beehive State. “This last census confirmed that Utah was the fastest-growing state over the past 10 years," Cox said. "Our biggest problems are more growth-related. We would love for people to stay in California instead of coming as refugees to Utah.” But Cox said the state “has grown so quickly” while it's simultaneously confronting ongoing water and housing supply dilemmas.
SPAIN - Two senior officials in Spain’s transport industry were sacked last week after the government spent approximately $276 million on new commuter trains too large for the network’s tunnels. The 31 trains, still in the design phase, were slated for completion in 2024 and intended to replace the ageing fleet in Spain’s autonomous northern regions of Asturias and Cantabria, Euronews reported.
SPAIN - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul revealed Sunday that the Chinese spy balloon that traversed the United States "did a lot of damage." Speaking on CBS News' "Face the Nation," the Texas Republican explained that by not preemptively downing the balloon, the Biden administration essentially allowed China to gather intelligence on areas sensitive to national security.
USA - Senator J D Vance (Republican for Ohio) reacted to the Biden administration’s handling of a toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. “We’ve had hundreds of train derailments after we spent over a trillion dollars on infrastructure in this country,” he said. “So the fact that this isn’t getting obviously better is a major indictment of the people spending the money and what they’re spending the money on.
USA - Overdose deaths more than doubled between 2019 and 2021 for those aged 10 to 19. Suicide attempts by the young jumped by 40 percent between 2019 and 2021. The last few years have been brutal for young people. Schools closed and activities shut down because of covid, widely available fentanyl due largely to our open southern border, constant racial attacks, especially on white kids, bizarre gender confusion, and hysteria over global warming have had devastating effects. No wonder suicide, depression and overdose deaths are spiking.
UK - The British Army is broken. It doesn't have the manpower to commit for a year to a mission such as NATO's Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF). The resources, the numbers, the training and the equipment just aren't there. To cover the gaps, the British Army tries to pretend that a unit can somehow be committed simultaneously to multiple missions. People choose to accept this at Army Command and in Main Building [MoD's Whitehall headquarters] but the UK's allies are less convinced.
ETHIOPIA - The miserably bloody war in Ethiopia has been going on for the last couple of years, largely out of view of the outside world. It’s the latest chapter in decades of factional and ethnic conflict in that country. The war in Ethiopia has largely been ignored by the outside world, and information has been hard to come by. But what we know about the conflict is horrific: at least 500,000 civilians have been killed, and 5 million have been displaced.
TURKEY - When the quake hit, the apartment block in Osmaniye, a city in southern Turkey, where Halise Sen had once lived collapsed like a house of cards, burying her former neighbours under nine floors of concrete. Mrs Sen, the head of the local chamber of architects, looks over the wreckage. “There’s no reinforced steel here,” she says, “so the concrete lost its strength and the columns collapsed, along with the floors, as soon as the ground started to shake.”
ISRAEL - For the second time in one week, structural damage as reported at a Muslim structure on the Temple Mount. Though the damage seems minor and its cause is undetermined, the Muslim structures standing on Judaism’s holiest site have a long history of collapse due to the earthquakes that are common to the region. Akiva Ariel, a spokesman for the Temple Mount activist organization, Beyadenu, told Israel365 News that it is not uncommon for the Muslim structures on the Temple Mount to experience minor structural collapses.
ISRAEL - Israel's president floated a compromise plan on Sunday to spare the country what he described as a "constitutional collapse" and possible violence, over a contested judicial overhaul sought by the hard-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The rare prime-time television speech by President Isaac Herzog, whose figurehead role is designed to unite an often fractious society, included an appeal to coalition lawmakers to hold off on initial legislation steps in parliament which some had planned to begin this week.
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