Man-made 'climate change' SAVED America from icy doom: Study
So-called climate change gets a bad rap.
Manufactured fears over the climate have not only been weaponized for decades against Western industry, affordable energy, and consumer choice, but have also contributed to mental instability and the demographic crisis underway.
'We have jolted the system.'
Now, it turns out the alarmists may have been way off about everything — including the severity, impact, and timeline of anthropogenic climate change and even about climate change being a problem in the first place.
A new study published on Thursday in the esteemed journal Science shows that humanity's global heat generation has spared North America from freezing over once again.
During the most recent cold glacial period, better known as the Ice Age, most of Canada and the northern U.S. was buried under the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Ice thickness in some areas is estimated to have reached upwards of 2.48 miles, and the LIS, at its largest, stretched from Chicago to above the Arctic Circle.
Thousands of years ago, this sheet melted away such that today, all that remains of it is the Barnes Ice Cap on Baffin Island, Canada.
Having studied the LIS and its remains, researchers determined that roughly 3,600 years ago, the ice sheet had gotten as small as it was going to get, then began re-expanding around the time of the Resurrection, "marking the onset of the next glaciation."
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According to the study, warming temperatures in the latter half of the 20th century staved off further glaciation.
"The new LIS reached maximum dimensions in ~1960 CE, after which anthropogenic summer warming resulted in a negative mass balance, ice margin recession, and the termination of the next glaciation," the researchers noted in the abstract for their paper.
According to the study, rising summer temperatures "is mirrored by the increase in net effective radiative forcing associated with the measured increase in well-mixed greenhouse gases (GHGs) since ~1750 CE." In other words, the industrial revolution and its fruits have saved America from a slow and icy invasion.
Geochemist Nicolas Young, an associate research professor at Columbia Climate School and co-author of the study, stated that another ice age "was just getting started, everything was normal, the next glaciation was about to happen — and yet it stopped."
"It's a very powerful example of how we have jolted the system," added Young.
This study also gives an out to the alarmists of yesteryear who clutched pearls about global cooling.
"It actually was happening," said Young. "They couldn't quite prove it, but now we sort of have the evidence."
Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory noted that while human emissions saved the continent from an icy fate, "technically we are still living in an ice age — the Late Cenozoic Ice Age — which started about 34 million years ago."
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Big Tech libertarian goes all in to stop Democrats in states like Michigan
A major Big Tech investor who leans libertarian is doing all he can to try to keep Democrats from power in red and purple states.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Scott Banister is first and foremost a "capitalist." He was an early investor in some of the biggest tech-driven enterprises, including PayPal, Uber, and SpaceX, and co-founded the anti-spam solution IronPort.
'It's clear that state legislatures are the next frontier in expanding political power.'
Now, he is using his wealth to try to invest in America's future — by stopping radical Democrats.
Banister has pledged $40 million to Make Liberty Win, a right-leaning PAC dedicated to sending mailers, knocking on doors, and making phone calls to share with voters the truth about the Democrat agenda.
State filings confirm that Banister, through Make Liberty Win and First Amendment LLC, has spent more than $6.7 million to oppose state House and Senate Democrats just in Michigan alone. All of the nearly two dozen Michigan filings from First Amendment LLC note that Banister made the donation on September 21 and list his occupation as "angel investor."
One of the Michigan Democrats targeted by Make Liberty Win is state Sen. Chedrick Greene. Back in May, Greene won a special election to represent Senate District 35, a blue-collar area in the web of the thumb of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.
The district is light blue, so Republicans have a shot at flipping it red on Tuesday. Make Liberty Win has allocated an eye-popping $625,000 toward that effort.
Some of the direct mail has already reached registered voters:
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"These paid, third-party advertising efforts are shining a spotlight on Michigan Democrats’ record of failure," Greg Manz, senior communications adviser for the Michigan GOP, told Blaze News.
"It’s crucial that Great Lakes State voters are provided proven facts, transparency, and a clear picture of what’s happening in Lansing in order to hold these Democrat senators accountable for their reckless policy positions."
Make Liberty Work did not respond to a request for comment, and efforts to reach Banister for comment were unsuccessful.
Michigan is not the only state infused with funding from Banister and Make Liberty Work. Funding has also been distributed to Arizona, Georgia, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, with plans to reach at least three more before Election day on Tuesday, Fox News reported.
A press release about Banister's largesse said, according to Fox News:
Self-described socialists are running for office and winning in the Democratic Party, like recently elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Make Liberty Win’s campaign will stem the tide of the far-left by mobilizing student and youth activists to knock on the doors of more than two million voters in key states.
The Republican State Leadership Committee, a national group dedicated to assisting the GOP at all levels of government, believes the resources could help close the funding gap between state-level Democrats and state-level Republicans.
"Democrats are making clear that no amount of money is too much when it comes to taking control of state legislatures. With more than $200 million already committed by the largest Democratic state legislative groups, and wealthy outside donors pouring even more money into the fight, it’s clear that state legislatures are the next frontier in expanding political power," RSLC President Edith Jorge Tuñon told Blaze News in a statement.
"Their growing investment in DSA-aligned candidates makes the stakes even higher. That’s exactly why Republicans in every state across the country need to get out and vote Tuesday. The fight for our state legislatures, congressional majorities, and the political map heading into 2028 depends on it."
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9th Circuit denies Trump DOJ's demand for California to set aside likely noncitizen ballots — but it's not over
The Trump administration lost a bid to force California to set aside ballots from a list of likely noncitizen voters.
The Department of Justice had flagged about 20,000 likely noncitizen voters and asked California to either verify their status as legal voters or segregate any ballots from those on the list.
'There is a public interest in maintaining the integrity of elections. But as discussed, the district court found that the risks that noncitizens are voting are, at best, uncertain.'
California officials resisted, claiming that the list was vague and could lead to the disenfranchisement of legal voters.
The legal battle has worked its way through the court system and now may go to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A two-judge majority on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the list was not credible, as a lower court had found.
"As the district court found — and we discern no clear error — there is no feasible way to identify and segregate the ballots of specific individuals without potentially catastrophic effects on the entire system," the unsigned ruling reads.
U.S. Circuit Judge Patrick Bumatay dissented from the majority.
"Throughout history, federal courts have acted to protect the voting and civil rights of our citizens by enjoining state action that violates the law," Bumatay wrote. "And common sense also tells us that the federal government shouldn't have to sit on its hands while a State allows the violation of federal law, especially when the integrity of federal elections is at stake."
California Secretary of State Shirley Weber previously accused the federal government of making "vague and unsubstantiated allegations" in the list from the Department of Homeland Security.
"If the federal government possesses proof that certain registered voters in California are ineligible, we will welcome the opportunity to review that evidence and any supporting data or methodology," Weber said.
The appeals court appeared to agree with that argument in its split ruling Friday.
"To be sure, there are countervailing public interests at stake," the majority ruling reads. "There is a public interest in maintaining the integrity of elections. But as discussed, the district court found that the risks that noncitizens are voting are, at best, uncertain."
The Trump administration could request that the entire Ninth Circuit Court review the case, or it could appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The election is in four days.
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Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom posted a brief statement about the ruling.
"The courts have thrown out Trump's desperate and dangerous attempts to meddle in the California election process. We'll continue to fight their illegal power grabs and deliver a free and fair election," he wrote on social media.
The appeals judges who signed the majority included one nominated by President Donald Trump and one appointed by former President Joe Biden.
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'You're already forgiven': Sophie Cunningham says her Christian faith helps her deal with haters in the WNBA
Popular and controversial women's basketball player Sophie Cunningham opened up about why her Christian faith is pivotal to her life.
On Thursday's episode of his "This Past Weekend" podcast, comedian Theo Von asked the Indiana Fever player to talk about her religious beliefs.
'There's nothing that you can or can't do that's gonna separate you from God's love and grace and forgiveness.'
"Let's talk about your faith. You got baptized as an adult, right?" Von asked.
"I'm gonna bring you to church with me," she responded.
Cunningham said she doesn't have a home church because of her lifestyle but said she is very connected to her faith.
"I was raised Catholic, but now I'm just like more Christian. I can never say this word — nondenominational? Just said it," she joked.
"I love Jesus, and I've actually listened to you a little bit that you're starting to kind of maybe get into it or intrigued by it a little bit," she added.
"Oh, yeah," Von responded.
"Or maybe that was just you not actually. I don't know, but it's OK. But all I'm saying is, I rely a lot on my faith because of what I do for a living. You get a lot of hate; you get a lot of praise. And I think that just morally in my head, everything, it just keeps me stable, and it keeps me to be who I am," she added.
"I don't care what people's opinions are about me because I'm not living for their praise," Cunningham said.
Von said that he really liked having a prayer connection with God but admitted that he felt bad when he neglected that connection.
"I feel you. ... There's nothing — I'm just gonna say this, and this is for the people listening too, but there's nothing that you can or can't do that's gonna separate you from God's love and grace and forgiveness," she responded.
"That's why Jesus came and died on the cross because He already knew everything you were going to do. So, I mean, that's up to you now to kind of educate yourself and read the Bible," Cunningham added.
"But you're already forgiven," she added.
"I understand that. ... I just feel more of personal connection when I'm prayed up," he said.
"Yeah!" she responded.
"My buddy say, 'Stay prayed up.' My buddy, he say that all the time. 'Stay prayed up.' It's almost like if you talk to somebody every now and then, then you don't have to catch up with them," he added.
"Well, that's a thousand percent what it is," she replied.
"That's what I'm saying," he added.
Von reiterated that sometimes he gets busy and neglects his prayer life.
"That's natural. That's what it is to be human. You just gotta prioritize the good," she replied.
Cunningham went on to praise the people who were "bold and courageous" about speaking out publicly about their faith. She said she believes there is a revival under way.
Cunningham also told Von he should bring on experts to talk more about the interaction between science and faith.
"Yeah. We want to have the pope on, but he won't. I don't even know if he has a phone," Von responded.
"I mean, someone has a phone around there," she responded. "They're not the Amish. And even the Amish have phones."
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Even WaPo forced to admit there's a BIG problem with election polling
The Washington Post has admitted that polling for the midterm elections may suffer from the same inaccuracy issues that plagued that of previous elections.
The outlet said in an article Friday that pollsters made more than 85,000 phone calls for their survey and sent out nearly 50,000 text messages to try to determine the state of the U.S. Senate contest in Kansas.
'Are Republican voters this late in the election cycle feeling so down about their party’s chances that they just don’t want to talk about it?'
Although the Post released the results, WaPo polling director Scott Clement admitted there was evidence once again that Republicans were being undercounted.
"Democrats were far more enthusiastic about taking the poll than Republicans were," he reported. "Registered Democrats were more than twice as likely as registered Republicans to complete the survey after answering an interviewer’s call — 32 percent versus 12 percent — with a similar partisan gap when texting voters to complete the survey online."
He called it a "supersize version" of a concern that has been "vexing" pollsters for a decade.
That same concern was voiced by polling expert and political strategist Frank Luntz in a recent segment with CNN.
"We know that they don't respond to phone calls. We know that in the exit polling back in 2016, and I say this publicly because I want people to hear this," Luntz said about supporters of President Donald Trump.
"I got 2016 wrong. I believed in the exit polls. Trump voters walked away, refused to participate, because they thought that it was against them," he explained.
"They thought that the polls were all biased," Luntz added. "And that's what Republicans are being told right now: 'Don't believe the polls. They're not accurate.' Well, they may be; we're about to find out."
A pollster trying to gauge a state Senate district in Iowa expressed similar problems.
Clement said pollsters took steps in the WaPo/George Mason University poll in Kansas to try to overcome the natural bias against polling among Republican voters.
"But it’s possible those efforts fell short," he added.
The WaPo article noted that historically polling underestimated support for the president in the presidential elections of 2016, 2020, and 2024, by three to five percentage points.
However, polling did not "consistently overestimate" support for Republicans in the 2018 and 2022 midterm elections.
"The partisan enthusiasm gap likely explains the disconnect between Democratic and Republican willingness to respond,” said Mark Rozell, dean of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, a poll co-sponsor.
"With an unpopular president, inflation, a war that Trump voters never asked for, the lack of GOP enthusiasm is not surprising," he added. "Are Republican voters this late in the election cycle feeling so down about their party’s chances that they just don’t want to talk about it?"
Election Day is just four days away.
Blaze News' Poll Watch shows Democrat Adam Hamilton ahead of incumbent Republican Sen. Roger Marshall in the Kansas Senate race by 2.6 points.
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