London. Feb. 2025. A newly published study in Nature, Parks, et al, “A fire deficit persists across diverse North American Forests,” indicates that wildfire burns were some four times more prevalent between 1600 and 1880 …
UK. June 2, 2025. British rapper Zuby says in a recent X post that over 1,000 people per month are arrested in the United Kingdom over social media posts. When challenged for a source, Zuby …
Dr. Roger Roots, J.D., Ph.D., founder of Lysander Spooner University, has confronted a new climate catastrophe prediction. A recent (April 11, 2025) Mexico News Daily article states that “Mexico’s 12 surviving glaciers — nine on Pico …
REMEMBER I HAVE 4 OPEN BETS WHICH HAVE BEEN PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED: I’ve bet $5,000 that glaciers will still exist in Glacier National Park in 2030. (At present, the film shown at the St. Mary Visitor …
Iceland. May 2025. Paul Homewood writes that Climeworks, a Swiss company that claims to operate 15 “carbon capture” plants across Europe, ACTUALLY EMITS MORE CO2 than it “captures.” The company has been blessed with worshipful …
London. Feb. 2025. A newly published study in Nature, Parks, et al, “A fire deficit persists across diverse North American Forests,” indicates that wildfire burns were some four times more prevalent between 1600 and 1880 than today.
This new study relies on a tree ring dataset . The result is consistent with prior studies of ice core samples which showed (by examining ash layers in the ice) that earth was far smokier prior to the industrial revolution than it is today.
This means that humans are net controllers and suppressors of wildfires. The industrial revolution (and fossil fuels) have not increased wildfires; they have decreased wildfires.
UK. June 2, 2025. British rapper Zuby says in a recent X post that over 1,000 people per month are arrested in the United Kingdom over social media posts.
Dr. Roger Roots, J.D., Ph.D., founder of Lysander Spooner University, has confronted a new climate catastrophe prediction.
A recent (April 11, 2025) Mexico News Daily article states that “Mexico’s 12 surviving glaciers — nine on Pico de Orizaba and three on Iztaccíhuatl — are on the brink of disappearing within five years, according to research from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).” UNAM volcanologist Hugo Delgado Granados argues that Mexico’s 11 glaciers are “already beyond saving.”
Dr. Roots visited Mexico’s glaciers in January 2019 and summited Pico de Orizaba–Mexico’s highest mountain and the 3rd highest mountain in North America. There were acres of snow-covered glaciers on Mexico’s 1st and 3rd highest mountains at that time.
Dr. Roots is now offering to bet $5,000 that Mexico will still have glaciers in five years–thus on April 11, 2030.
This bet offer is open to any taker.
This is Roger’s 5th offered bet over climate and environmental conditions. See here.
REMEMBER I HAVE 4 OPEN BETS WHICH HAVE BEEN PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED:
I’ve bet $5,000 that glaciers will still exist in Glacier National Park in 2030. (At present, the film shown at the St. Mary Visitor Center says they’ll all be gone. GNP formerly had several large signs up telling visitors the glaciers would be gone by 2030. A couple signs even said the glaciers would be melted by 2020!) No one has taken me up on this bet.
I have a friendly bet (for a steak dinner) with my friend Ted Kocienzski III of Minnesota that by the end of harvest 2028, major U.S. commodity crops will produce yields no lower than those of 10 years earlier. The US government–in it’s 2018 “Climate Assessment”–predicted crops would decline due to “climate change” within a decade.
I have extended an offer of a $500 bet to Extinction Rebellion and Just-Stop-Oil founder Roger Hallam that 12 percent of the population of Phoenix, Arizona (thus some 180,000 residents) will NOT die during the 2030s from climate change. Note that Mr. Hallam recently had to check into a British prison to serve a 5-year sentence because in July 2024, he was convicted of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance by blocking major motorways. (For the record I believe this is an unjustly long sentence.)
Mr. Hallam predicted in 2024 that “12 per cent of the population of Phoenix, Arizona will die of extreme heat in the 2030s.” Hallam calculated that “climate” will kill 180,000 Phoenix residents during the 2030s. “Phoenix will experience social collapse at some point in the 2030s, along with the rest of the world’s cities in the new death zones of the planet.” Mr. Hallam has not accepted my offer to bet regarding his predictions. (Note that for the record, Phoenix continues to grow as Americans continue to flee colder areas to the Arizona city.)
I also have extended a $100 bet that that rhinos, orangutans, cheetahs, and blue whales will still exist among living species on May 3, 2034. An X poster named Little Grey Mouse lamented that he or she expected to see the extinction of “dozens” or cherished iconic animals “such as” the four described above, on May 3, 2024.
Little Grey Mouse (whoever that is) has not accepted my offer as of now.
Note that as of yesterday, I have a new–thus FIFTH–climate-related bet. I am betting that Mexico’s glaciers will still exist five years from now. See here.
Iceland. May 2025. Paul Homewood writes that Climeworks, a Swiss company that claims to operate 15 “carbon capture” plants across Europe, ACTUALLY EMITS MORE CO2 than it “captures.”
The company has been blessed with worshipful headlines around the globe. Founded by two engineers, Climeworks proports to offer technological solution to “the problem” of supposed excess CO2 in the atmosphere by building massive metal filter-and-fan machines designed to suck CO2 from the air.
(Of course, CO2 levels in the atmosphere are presently LOWER than levels during most of the earth’s history. Earth’s flora and fauna evolved in higher-CO2 climates and thrives in higher-CO2 environments.)
Now, according to Paul Homewood, “Climeworks in Iceland has only captured just over 2,400 carbon units since it began operations in the [Iceland] in 2021, out of the twelve thousand units that company officials have repeatedly claimed the company’s machines can capture. This is confirmed by figures from the Finnish company Puro.Earth on the one hand and from the company’s annual accounts on the other. Climeworks has made international news for capturing carbon directly from the atmosphere. For this, the company uses large machines located in Hellisheiði, in South Iceland. They are said to have the capacity to collect four thousand tons of CO2 each year directly from the atmosphere.“
“According to data available to Heimildin, it is clear that this goal has never been achieved and that Climeworks does not capture enough carbon units to offset its own operations, emissions amounting to 1,700 tons of CO2 in 2023. The emissions that occur due to Climeworks’ activities are therefore more than it captures. Since the company began capturing in Iceland, it has captured a maximum of one thousand tons of CO2 in one year.“
“DAC [direct air capture] is an unproven process at scale, but will almost certainly be unimaginably expensive. In particular, DAC needs phenomenal amounts of energy, which itself produces CO2 emissions one way or another.”
So part of the scam is to “sell carbon credits.”
“More than 20,000 people pay Climeworks monthly for CO2 capture.”
“According to the company, one third of all the credits that the Mammoth capture plant [in Iceland] is expected to capture from the atmosphere over the next 25 years have already been sold.”
Sunday, July 27, 2025, Beall Park Recreation Center, 415 N. Bozeman Avenue, Bozeman, Montana
11:00 am to 10:30 pm.
Schedule to be announced.
“Climate Skepticism 101: featuring Dr. Roger Roots, J.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Roots is a noteworthy lawyer, educator, scholar and libertarian activist. He was the first person to break the story that Glacier National Park had quietly removed signs saying that all the Park’s glacier would be melted by 2020. Since 2015, Roots has led an annual field trip at the end of the melt season to check on the Park’s glaciers. Dr. Roots has also attended and reported on the climate debate in various courts, including the Held v. Montana trial, the “Exxon Knew” trial in New York City and the Mann v. Steyn trial in Washington, D.C. Dr. Roots has also visited thermometer stations across the country and explored glaciers in Mexico and Ecuador.
In this lecture, Dr. Roots will describe his own journey and insights into the climate doomsday religion. Dr. Roots loves scientific debate and will be inviting professors to join him in this lively debate. Please bring questions and an inquiring mind.
The Telegram chat communication platform says that the French government pressured it to use censorship to interfere in then-upcoming Romanian elections.
Big-government-advocating globalist elites have waged a war against Romanian democracy, overturning the 2024 presidential election by claiming the presidential winner was secretly backed by Russia. (Romanian courts “annulled” the victory of conservative Călin Georgescu with claims that Georgescu was secretly promoted by Russia.)
Then–after banning and even arresting Georgescu on bogus charges, Romania scheduled a second election. But the pro-government-extremist elites AGAIN interfered in the people’s vote. As The Gateway Pundit reports, “a scandal has already tainted the ‘re-do’ of the vote that was originally cancelled when now-banned right-wing Calin Georgescu appeared to be unbeatable.”
“Telegram says a Western European government — hints that it’s France — asked it to block conservative voices in Romania ahead of today’s presidential election.“
“CEO Durov says he ‘flatly refused’, calling the request undemocratic and warning: ‘You can’t ‘defend democracy’ by destroying democracy’.“
“On August 24, 2024, Durov was arrested at Le Bourget Airport near Paris as part of a French National Judicial Police investigation into criminal activity on Telegram.”
“He was indicted on twelve charges, including complicity in distributing child sexual abuse material, drug trafficking, and money laundering, as well as refusing to cooperate with authorities by not providing requested information.”
“X,” the social media platform formally known as Twitter, was purchased by Elon Musk three years ago. Musk lifted the “moderation” systems which had previously kept climate change discussions controlled by pro-government-extremist perspectives.
A recent discussion on “The Climate Realism Show” podcast described the increasing isolation of “mainstream” (meaning government supporting, government supported) climate science. It seems more and more “mainstream” climate professors and scientists are fleeing debate–to establish a like-minded community on the new “bluesky” social media platform. See here.
By avoiding contact with people who ask questions or criticize their conclusions, mainstream climate professors are becoming marginalized. While a thriving debate exists on X, proponents of the government’s climate doomsday hysteria are insulating themselves from the debate.
Dr. Judith Curry, a guest on the Climate Realism podcast, said that “mainstream” university climate science is churning out less diverse Ph.D. graduates than ever before. The current cohort of new climate scientists are almost entirely aligned with climate doomsday alarmism, said Curry.
You don’t hate government enough. During Catherine Austin Fitts’ April 2025 interview on the Tucker Carlson show, Fitts said that the U.S. government had dispensed some $21 TRILLION into the construction of an immense underground city and transportation network for government officials and wealthy elites.
These officials and elites intend to save themselves during a future “near extinction event,” while the rest of humanity dies above ground. Fitts served as the assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing between 1989 and 1990, and has studied the deep state for years since.
“To help back up her allegation, the 74-year-old Fitts cited a report released by Michigan State University economist Mark Skidmore. The economist and their team said in their paper that they had uncovered $21 trillion in “unauthorized spending” in both the Department of Defense and Housing and Urban Development from 1998 to 2015.“
This project, and these immense dollar amounts, have been hidden from the entire country. No lawmaker has spoken about this immense secret spending.
Interestingly, this $21 trillion seems to correspond with the $21 trillion which the Pentagon has claimed it “can’t account for.”
To put this figure in perspective, it is greater than the annual output of the entire country. The amount of money supposedly in the stock market is $30 trillion.
New York City’s high taxes and overregulation are driving thousands to flee.
The top 1% of New York City’s tax filers pay 40% of the income taxes. This has caused a net 30,000 New Yorkers to flee the city for Florida’s Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties in the five years through 2022. These tax fugitives took with them a combined $9.2 billion in income.
Florida has no state income tax.
“Almost 20,000 people with a per capita income of about $190,000 left New York City for Palm Beach during that time, while more than 26,000 individuals with a per capita income of about $266,000 went to Miami-Dade, according to the group.”
Thousands more fled the City for nearby Long Island.
According to Bloomberg, “[n]ot everyone leaving the city left the state. A net of nearly 138,000 city residents relocated to New York’s Long Island during those years, reducing the Big Apple’s adjusted gross income by a combined $11.1 billion, according to the CBC data. Westchester County, just north of the city, gained almost 60,000 net new residents, cutting the city’s adjusted gross income by $5 billion.”
New York State’s share of US millionaires actually declined, according to the report. In 2010, New York was home to 12.7% of the county’s millionaires, a percentage that fell to 8.7% by 2022, even as states like California, Texas and Florida saw their shares of the country’s wealthiest people increase.
