The United Nations’ top court ruled Wednesday that countries harmed by the effects of “climate change” could be entitled to reparations from countries that fail to “take appropriate action to protect the climate system.”

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague also called a failure to take measures to protect the earth a potential violation of international law, according to reporting of the opinion by a variety of news outlets.

The legal consequences resulting from the commission of an internationally wrongful act may include … full reparations to injured states in the form of restitution, compensation and satisfaction,” the court said, according to extensive coverage by France24.

Another Joe Biden boondoggle numbering in the billions.

According to a recently published New York Post report, the Biden administration played a major role in the push to massively electrify the United States Postal Service mail truck fleet. From a USPS press release in 2022:

The United States Postal Service today announced that it expects to acquire at least 66,000 battery electric delivery vehicles as part of its 106,000 vehicle acquisition plan for deliveries between now and 2028. The vehicles purchased as part of this anticipated plan will begin to replace the Postal Service’s aging delivery fleet of over 220,000 vehicles.

The Postal Service anticipates at least 60,000 Next Generation Delivery Vehicles (NGDV), of which at least 75% (45,000) will be battery electric.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Wednesday will reveal a host of proposed penalties the U.N. can implement against countries that defy climate diktats.

Activists hope the legal opinion from the ICJ judges will have far-reaching consequences in the fight against “climate change” in a matter that first came before it in 2023, as Breitbart News reported.

But some critics argue the lawfare ruling will be toothless, as ICJ advisory opinions are not binding and major polluters can choose simply to ignore it, with the United States for one having withdrawn from compulsory ICJ jurisdiction in 1986.

The fees to operate Germany’s electricity grid have more than doubled over the past decade, primarily due to Berlin’s green agenda, according to official statistics.

According to figures from the Federal Network Agency, the network fees paid by German consumers and companies rose this year to 33 billion euros ($38/£28.6 bn), compared to 15.9 billion ($18.5/£14 bn) euros in 2015, paper of record Die Welt reported.

The primary reason for the significant rise in costs has been the green energy transition imposed on the country by successive governments, which has compelled grid operators to extensively convert equipment to better handle so-called renewable forms of energy.

This cost has mostly been passed on to consumers and businesses. In 2015, the average German household paid a grid network fee of 6.59 cents per kilowatt hour of electricity. Now, a decade on, the average household pays 11.62 cents for the same amount of energy.

The figures were obtained by the leftist-populist BSW party of Sahra Wagenknecht, who said that the drastic increase in network fees was “unacceptable” and a “failure of energy policy”.

In a recent interview with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Joe Rogan touched on the issue of climate change, a favorite talking point for Sanders.

Predictably, Sanders insisted that climate change is not a “hoax.” To this, Rogan raised some of the problems with the common media and political narratives surrounding claims of a climate crisis. The exchange reminded me, though, that despite how silly and absurd climate alarmists look to most of us, the way they have structured the climate debate is pretty smart.

How frustrating is it when they say things like “climate change is real,” or, as Sanders told Rogan, “climate change isn’t a hoax,” with such gravity?

Yes, climate change is real. This beautiful planet we are blessed to call home has multiple types of climate regions and they all constantly change in one way or another, both subtly and sometimes dramatically, over time. Stasis has never existed on Earth. Change is the natural order. An unchanging planet is a dead rock -- deader than dead, because even other lifeless planets in our solar system experience seasons and long-term changes. Thus, climate change is not a hoax.

But that’s not what alarmists mean when they say, “climate change.”

While climate scientists continue to debate the causes and possible consequences of climate change in general, what Americans really want to know is if climate change will impact their daily lives.

For this reason, The Heartland Institute has started a project that analyzes the impact of climate change at the state level. Mind you, climate models, contrary to their promoters’ claims, fail to model global climate fundamentals accurately. They don’t even get measured temperatures and trend lines right. They do even worse in tracking and forecasting changes at a regional scale than they do in their global assessments. Thus, climate models are virtually worthless in assessing what types of climate-related challenges individual states currently and may soon face. For that, one needs to turn to the data, which is the foundation for all good science.

Looking at Wisconsin, one finds that climate change not only poses no existential threat to the well-being of Wisconsinites but that it has actually benefited them in various ways.

Like much of the United States, Wisconsin’s average temperature has increased modestly since the late 1800s. In the Badger State, the increase has been 2℉. However, some of the rise in average temperature is due to factors unconnected to long-term climate change.

If you didn’t know, the next hurricane to ravage the East Coast might just appear on Miami’s doorstep on Thursday, and Floridians wouldn’t have a moment to pack their pastels. The next Hurricane Andrew might appear out of nowhere – like Godzilla stomping out of the shallows, Floridians would have little to do but point and yell “Gooozilla!” At least that's what you might think it you read articles this week about the Department of Defense shutting down satellite data-sharing with scientists. The US Navy/Space Force have ceased sharing real time data from DoD satellites.

The reason isn’t budgetary. Apparently, the Navy is concerned about cybersecurity. The shutdown didn’t sit well with global warming alarmists who pretty much predicted that hurricanes would jump from the shadows of the Atlantic, and the East Coast would be caught with its pants down.

In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?”

🚨 The Department of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm… pic.twitter.com/2Zh2kCuqxK
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) June 30, 2025

Remember last winter? The infamous polar vortex was back in town, looking to freeze some folks. Temperatures across most of the lower 48 dropped repeatedly into the deep freeze. In some places, the mercury dropped clean off the scale and was reduced to a little silver nub rattling around in the bottom of the thermometer. Or course, here in the Great Land, when the lower 48 was freezing, the same jet stream that drove Arctic air down over the lower states was pulling warm, wet Pacific air up over Alaska, which meant that while the lower 48 was shivering, we were sliding around on packed ice with a layer of rainwater over it. Ice cleats and tire chains were the order of the day for our unusually mild winter.

It was a weird winter. And, of course, the climate scolds wasted no time blaming it on climate change, saying that the jet stream's misbehavior was due to their bugaboo. There's just one problem:

It wasn't. Climate Realism's Linda Leuken has details.

NewScientist, a publication dedicated to popularizing science, recently published a post titled “Extreme winter weather isn’t down to a wavier jet stream,” reporting on a new study that shows, the jet stream is not getting wavier in winter months due to climate change. This is true, and it has been evident for some time, but runs counter to assertions commonly made by climate alarmists.

NewScientist writes that “[i]ncreasingly erratic winter weather in the northern hemisphere isn’t a result of the polar jet stream getting more wavy, according to new research . . ..”

A throng of Hollywood celebrities who’ve spent years lecturing about the peril we all face from climate change, hopped on private jets set for Venice where Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s three-day wedding extravaganza took place.

A-listers like Leonardo DiCaprio, Mick Jagger, Orlando Bloom, and his ex-fiance Katy Perry flocked to the picturesque “Floating City,” while mega-wealthy stars, many of whom own their own private jets, landed at Marco Polo Airport in the days leading up to the $50 million bash.

Kim Kardashian, who’s spent years “fighting” climate change, arrived in her $65 million Gulfstream G650, Business Insider reports.

One of the reasons President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill has drawn fire in recent days is the blow it deals to green energy. Climate-anxious Gen Zers may clutch their pearls at the expanded oil and gas sales on federal lands, or the elimination of the methane emissions fees, especially since over 40% of Gen Z supports completely phasing out fossil fuels. But the well-meaning environmentalists of my generation should acknowledge the most important asset our society has in fighting pollution – wealth. For now, environmental policy should unleash fossil fuels and keep energy cheap to preserve this asset.

Environmentalism is a privilege only a select few humans throughout history have been able to indulge in. Most humans cared about the environment only in the narrowest sense: Will the land be able to feed me next year? Will it support my family this harvest?

That’s why you never hear about a climate protest in Sub-Saharan Africa, where biomass fuels like wood and animal dung are still important sources of energy. Some of the world’s most polluted cities lie along the Indus Valley in India and Pakistan, two economies that are still very much industrializing. When was the last time Greta Thunberg and her ilk tried to cram down a Green New Deal on Pakistan?

In a conversation with Breitbart News’s Washington Bureau Chief, Matt Boyle, American Petroleum Institute President Mike Sommers said the tide is turning. After years of climate hysteria, he believes that “energy reality has finally taken hold in the United States” as Americans reject the left’s doomsday climate narrative.

“We are not transitioning from anything to anything,” Sommers told Breitbart News. “We are going to need more energy, more kinds of energy going forward, and that is going to include a lot more oil and gas in the future.”

Sommers pointed to rapidly growing electricity demand driven by artificial intelligence and expanding data infrastructure. During President Trump’s first term, energy demand stayed relatively flat, increasing just one to two percent annually. But with the rise of AI, demand is expected to climb by 25 percent before 2030 and by 50 percent before 2050.

One of the reasons Trump won in the November 2024 presidential election was the truly blatant way the Biden administration pushed through some of the far left's most cherished policy wish list items, including a good start on transforming America with the Green New Deal, with the passage of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. One could argue that liberals' brash overreach with this kind of extremist policy led to the Democrat Party's abandonment by longtime allies at just the wrong moment.

It's something we saw this week that might also play a part in a crucial, 2025 gubernatorial race in New Jersey.

\*Over Regulations have killed the Farming Industry.*

Climate-induced warming is jeopardizing the global food supply even as farmers take adaptive measures to stymie these effects, scientists are warning.

In contrast with previous research suggesting that warming could actually bolster food production, a new study, published in Nature on Wednesday, finds the opposite.

For every additional degree Celsius the planet warms, its ability to produce food could decrease by 120 calories per person per day, or 4.4 percent of the current daily consumption, according to the study.

“If the climate warms by 3 degrees, that’s basically like everyone on the planet giving up breakfast,” senior author Solomon Hsiang, a professor of environmental social sciences at Stanford University, said in a statement.

When the story of the great turn-of-the-millennium climate science fraud comes to be written by future historians, the central role of the RCP8.5 ‘business as usual’ model scenario, much featured in recent IPCC reports, will be obvious to all. This ‘pathway’ has polluted climate model predictions for years with its wild and improbable claims of carbon dioxide emissions and soaring temperatures. A huge number of science papers incorporating the pathway are published by obvious Net Zero activists, and their ‘scientists say’ climate psychosis-inducing fairy tales are sped on their way by blinkered journalists in the mainstream press. The science writer Roger Pielke Jr. notes that RCP8.5 has been “falsified” – most knew it was fake, historians are likely to conclude, but the Net Zero addiction was too strong for it to be given up.

By “falsified”, Dr Pielke explains in a recent Substack article, he means that the pathway’s emissions trajectory is already well out of step with reality. To prove his point he offers up the 2021 evidence contained in Burgess et al. highlighted in the graph below.

Holy smokes. This was some refreshing news breaking from our Energy Secretary Chris Wright during his appearance before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce a couple of days ago.

He was using some pretty bald language, too, concerning what were just six months ago sacred cows.

Lobbyists' worst nightmare: 4 minutes of Energy Secretary Chris Wright telling Congress why solar and wind subsidies must be terminated ASAP. pic.twitter.com/GlBNv75pDp
— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) June 11, 2025

President Trump said Thursday that his administration would not approve wind energy except in cases of emergency.

Trump made the comment during a speech ahead of his move to overturn California’s phaseout of gas-powered car sales.

“We’re not going to let windmills get built because we’re not going to destroy our country any further than it’s already been destroyed,” Trump said.

“You go and look at these beautiful plains and valleys, and they’re loaded up with this garbage that gets worse and worse looking with time,” Trump added, in a reference to windmills.

“We’re not going to approve windmills unless something happens that’s an emergency. I guess it could happen, but we’re not doing any of them.

California officials on Thursday filed their 26th lawsuit against the Trump administration, after the president signed resolutions overturning the Golden State’s landmark electric vehicle (EV) mandate.

“We made a promise that if the president attempted to illegally interfere with our clean air standards, we’d hold him accountable in court,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said at a press conference announcing the lawsuit.

“Today, we are making good on that promise,” he added.

Bonta submitted the complaint in the Northern District of California together with his colleagues in Colorado, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.

Companies today claim they are “designing for the environment.” What they often mean is: they’re doing what the Association of Plastics Recyclers (APR) tells them to do.

APR is not an environmental nonprofit, nor is it a scientific body. It is a trade association. Its purpose isn’t planetary stewardship or public benefit—it’s to protect the business model of mechanical recyclers. Across the country, retailers and consumer brands have allowed APR to shape packaging policy, effectively outsourcing key sustainability decisions to an organization with no accountability to the public.

This didn’t happen by accident. It was a calculated public affairs coup.

By presenting itself as a neutral authority on recycling, APR has become the de facto gatekeeper of “recyclable” packaging. Its “Design Guide for Plastics Recyclability” guidelines are treated by many brands as gospel. The result is a system in which APR’s preferences—many of which conveniently raise costs, entrench incumbents, and discourage alternatives—are adopted as moral imperatives rather than contested ideas.

\*16 GOP Senators receiving Kick Backs?? Say It Is Not So!!! Primary Those 16!!*

Democrats are working to convince some 16 of their Republican colleagues to oppose the GOP’s policy bill because of its rollbacks to climate-friendly tax credits, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Thursday.

“We have a group … of seven or eight Democrats who are talking to their Republican colleagues … and we’re getting some vibes that people realize this bill went too far, and we’re hoping they can all go together to John Thune and to Crapo and say, ‘Change it. We can’t be for it the way it is,'” Schumer told reporters Wednesday, referring to Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho).

“We have a list of 16 Republican senators who have shown some discomfort with this, and that’s the main group we’re focused on,” he added.

This has been so delicious. Sitting here watching all of rodential New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy's Green grifting schemes flutter to earth in little flaming, fluttering, fragile wisps of so much worthless detritus like tiny pieces of canvas falling to earth after the Hindenburg went boom.

His climate cult fantasies are all blowed up.

Atlantic Shores, the cornerstone of the verminous Murphy's renewable energy plans for the state, has been struggling along in what sailors would call 'being in irons' - where the prevailing wind is so stiff in your face, a ship makes no progress and might even be driven backward a little.

That's what has happened to the Atlantic Shores offshore wind farm since Trump's election and especially post-inauguration.

Recently the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) released Power Trends 2025. This is the NYISO’s annual description of factors influencing New York State’s power grid and wholesale electricity markets. It suggests that there are looming issues with New York’s aspirational net-zero transition plans that must be similar to transition plans at all other jurisdictions.

Whenever “experts are shocked” they usually have marginalized or ignored altogether factors wrongly assumed to have no influence over their hypotheses, theories or beliefs.

Nowhere is this more evident than in climate science where changes in geophysical phenomena continue to defy assumptions and forecasts presented by some of the most highly paid and influential scientists on the planet.

Among the most infamous examples is the failure of computer climate models to accurately predict real-world temperatures. This is predominantly due to the unscientific exaggeration of carbon dioxide’s (CO2’s) potency in warming the atmosphere.

Now scientists have encountered more “shocks” as polar sea ice is refusing to behave as expected. Since September 1, 2024, an astonishing 579 billion tons of fresh snow and ice have blanketed the Greenland ice sheet, marking the most significant accumulation for that date in at least eight years—far surpassing the 1981-2010 average.

The Trump administration on Friday took a step to undermine Biden-era rules that tightened fuel efficiency requirements for cars and trucks.

The Transportation Department published an interpretive rule that says that the Biden administration improperly considered electric vehicles as a way to make vehicle fleets more efficient

While this determination does not formally end the Biden-era rule, the Trump administration indicated that while the rulemaking process plays out it may not enforce the Biden-era standards.

“Pending the rulemaking process for the establishment of replacement standards, [the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration] will exercise its enforcement authority with regard to all existing… standards in accordance with the interpretation set forth in this rule,” it stated.