Comments not related to oil or natural gas production in this thread please. Thank you.
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The easiest way to get to a lower population-
““Financial constraints big driver of global ‘fertility crisis,’ UN finds…
““I want children, but it’s becoming more difficult as time passes by,” a 29-year-old woman from Mexico said in the survey. “It is impossible to buy or have affordable rent in my city. I also would not like to give birth to a child in war times and worsened planetary conditions if that means the baby would suffer because of it.””
Trump’s EPA announces major rollbacks to power plant pollution limits
• More than 200 health experts say regulatory proposals will lead to biggest increase in pollution in decades
The Trump admin essentially fired all the scientists working the Climate.gov blog and web site. So likely no more monthly blogging about ENSO predictions and polar vortex.
Members of the prestigious Fulbright program’s board have reportedly resigned in protest of what they describe as unprecedented political interference by the Trump administration, which has blocked scholarships for nearly 200 American academics.
The board, according to a memo obtained by the New York Times, accused the state department of acting illegally by cancelling awards already approved for professors and researchers due to travel overseas this summer, following a year-long selection process that concluded over the winter.
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According to sources who spoke anonymously to the New York Times, the department’s public diplomacy office has begun sending rejection letters to scholars based primarily on their research topics. Areas of study reportedly targeted include climate change, migration, gender studies, race and ethnicity, and various scientific disciplines.
This would only be true if an opposing side did not have the problem. But reduced availability of soldiers is now a problem everywhere. It’s not like Ukraine and the West have tons of young men willing to go die to beat Russia.
Only the poor third world now has lots of disposable young men, but they lack military capacity.
OCEAN ACIDIFICATION MAY HAVE CROSSED ‘PLANETARY BOUNDARY’ FIVE YEARS AGO
“A team of planetary scientists, ecologists, and marine biologists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and one in the U.K., has found evidence suggesting that parts of the world’s oceans have already passed what has come to be known as a planetary boundary. By using a wide variety of resources and findings from prior studies, the researchers discovered that the planetary boundary for ocean acidification has been crossed by approximately 40% of the world’s ocean surface water, and 60% of subsurface water. Such crossings, they also found, began at least five years ago. The researchers also note that a planetary boundary does not represent a tipping point—it is still possible, they claim, to reverse what has been done by ceasing the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.”
The easiest way to get to a lower population-
““Financial constraints big driver of global ‘fertility crisis,’ UN finds…
““I want children, but it’s becoming more difficult as time passes by,” a 29-year-old woman from Mexico said in the survey. “It is impossible to buy or have affordable rent in my city. I also would not like to give birth to a child in war times and worsened planetary conditions if that means the baby would suffer because of it.””
Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/climate-website-shut-down-noaa
Trump’s EPA announces major rollbacks to power plant pollution limits
• More than 200 health experts say regulatory proposals will lead to biggest increase in pollution in decades
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/trump-administration-epa-pollution
Sorry, I just noticed you posted the same thing as I did below. Thanks
The Trump admin essentially fired all the scientists working the Climate.gov blog and web site. So likely no more monthly blogging about ENSO predictions and polar vortex.
story here:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/climate-website-shut-down-noaa
Not that they can do any kind of prediction of when the next El Nino or La Nina will occur. This is the randomness they get.
Fullbright Scholarship Board resigns. Maybe they could expand to MMA and golfing scholarships.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/fulbright-board-quits-trump
Members of the prestigious Fulbright program’s board have reportedly resigned in protest of what they describe as unprecedented political interference by the Trump administration, which has blocked scholarships for nearly 200 American academics.
The board, according to a memo obtained by the New York Times, accused the state department of acting illegally by cancelling awards already approved for professors and researchers due to travel overseas this summer, following a year-long selection process that concluded over the winter.
.
.
According to sources who spoke anonymously to the New York Times, the department’s public diplomacy office has begun sending rejection letters to scholars based primarily on their research topics. Areas of study reportedly targeted include climate change, migration, gender studies, race and ethnicity, and various scientific disciplines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6mXqOk63Ss
5 minutes
The problems in Russia are demographic, which is to say inevitable.
They don’t have enough 20-30 year old men in the pipleline to defend their borders. Ukraine is making it worse.
Short of starting a nuclear war, which is suicide for the oligarchs….Russia is in trouble.
Zeihan is the only guy I have come across getting this correct.
I have to disagree.
This would only be true if an opposing side did not have the problem. But reduced availability of soldiers is now a problem everywhere. It’s not like Ukraine and the West have tons of young men willing to go die to beat Russia.
Only the poor third world now has lots of disposable young men, but they lack military capacity.
Price of oil is about to go way up. Bank on it!!
A Pig from Florida–
https://www.alternet.org/wayne-ivey-protests-trump/
Expected
Bad news lads.
OCEAN ACIDIFICATION MAY HAVE CROSSED ‘PLANETARY BOUNDARY’ FIVE YEARS AGO
“A team of planetary scientists, ecologists, and marine biologists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and one in the U.K., has found evidence suggesting that parts of the world’s oceans have already passed what has come to be known as a planetary boundary. By using a wide variety of resources and findings from prior studies, the researchers discovered that the planetary boundary for ocean acidification has been crossed by approximately 40% of the world’s ocean surface water, and 60% of subsurface water. Such crossings, they also found, began at least five years ago. The researchers also note that a planetary boundary does not represent a tipping point—it is still possible, they claim, to reverse what has been done by ceasing the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.”
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-ocean-acidification-planetary-boundary-years.html