If you think we have it bad with the climate cult here in the United States, you should see the ridiculousness going on in Europe. This column has reported many times about the utter lunacy of European green energy policies that have crippled their societies. Relying on unreliable green energy has caused the continent to lose significant economic productivity, along with making it difficult to survive the harsh winters. If only places like the United Kingdom could tap into naturally occurring, reliable sources of “fossil fuels” to backstop their energy needs when the green sources like solar and wind don’t produce.
There’s an old saying in England, “carrying coals to Newcastle,” which refers to doing something unnecessary and pointless. It refers to the first coal exporting facility, the port of Newcastle Upon Tyne, that has stored and shipped coal since the Middle Ages. The idea of selling coal in Newcastle seemed so ridiculous, they coined a term for it that applies to any attempt to do something ridiculous.
Fast forward to 2025, and England now has to import coal from Japan. Really.
On top of that story, we have more UK hijinks as an EV battery plant explodes for a second time; a hilarious meme recirculating in which science proves every part of the world is warming faster than every other part of the world; more terrible geoengineering news that threatens life on this planet to save the climate; the climate cult coming for your dogs; and Katy Perry’s space flight destroying the climate faster than Taylor Swift’s airplane.
In our Good News segment, we have more Trump administration wrecking balls taking out more silly research projects.
Let’s get to it.
Carrying (Japanese) Coal to Newcastle
Ok, it’s not Newcastle—it’s actually worse. The UK canceled a new coal mine that would have supported the domestic steel industry and instead have decided to import it from nearby . . . *checks notes* . . . Japan. Surely that will reduce the carbon footprint, right?
This Week in (Repeatedly) Exploding EVs
A lithium-ion battery recycling plant in Scotland exploded in flames—for the second time in less than a year. According to The Daily Record, the facility had gone bankrupt after the first fire and owes its creditors a bunch of money:
A battery recycling firm which saw two major fires at its facility in Ayrshire – the most recent earlier this week – went into liquidation five months after the first blaze.
Fenix Battery Recycling Ltd. was almost £2 million in debt following the first fire at its facility in the West Byrehill Industrial Estate in Kilwinning in April 2024.
Five months later, in September 2024, the company appointed Revolution RTI as voluntary liquidator.
A second fire on Wednesday, April 9 ripped through what was left of the facility and sent debris flying into the surrounding areas.
The mushroom clouds are a clear sign things are going well in the growing EV battery industry.
Meme Repeatedly Mocks Settled Science
This meme has made the rounds before, and it made the rounds again this week. It shows the utter absurdity of scientific papers published in academic journals claiming various parts of the world have warmed faster than other parts.
An X account run by a woman living off-grid in Northern Canada regularly posts on the absurdity of climate doom predictions like these. Give @DawnTJ90 a follow if such things interest you. She provides a never-ending stream of the never-ending failed predictions.
EPA Chief Aims to Halt Geoengineering
Trump’s EPA Administrator, Lee Zeldin, has taken aim at geoengineering firms that want to use questionable methods to stop global warming, like injecting the atmosphere with particulate matter to block the sun. What could go wrong?
The Climate Cult Comes for Your Dogs
It’s bad enough that cows fart enough to destroy a million billion earths, according to the climate cultists. Now, they’ve noticed other animals.
Seriously, what is it with leftists and dogs? First, it was Dr. Anthony Fauci doing cruel experiments on beagle puppies; now, the climate cultists are blaming your pet dog for global warming. The old hippie magazine Mother Jones reminded the world that they still exist when they published this:
Bad News for Man’s Best Friend: Dogs Are Environmental Villains
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Dogs have “extensive and multifarious” environmental impacts, disturbing wildlife, polluting waterways, and contributing to carbon emissions, new research has found.
An Australian review of existing studies has argued that “the environmental impact of owned dogs is far greater, more insidious, and more concerning than is generally recognized”.
It remains unclear how “new research” can rely on a “review of existing studies,” but such is the state of climate cultist science these days.
Katy Perry vs. Taylor Swift for Global (Warming) Dominance
So, Katy Perry went to space this week, in case you successfully avoided the headlines. This provided further fuel for the simmering feud between her fans and those of Taylor Swift. Yes, apparently that’s a thing. Now, Swifties have claimed that Perry’s space flight did more to add to global warming than Swift’s famously jet-reliant Eras Tour:
It’s hard to quantify exactly what did ‘more’ harm here. Taylor Swift’s flights and road travel is measured in carbon emissions, because most earthly fuel sources produce carbon dioxide, which contributes to global warming. Blue Origin, however, uses water vapour. This means no carbon emissions, and bills itself as cleaner. However, there are fears that releasing so muuch [sic] water vapour in the air changes the chemistry of existing clouds, essentially making it a greenhouse gas.
World Inequality Lab has also pointed out that it takes 50 tonnes [sic] of carbon dioxide to prepare for each launch, meaning “it therefore takes a few minutes in space travel to emit at least as much carbon as an individual from the bottom billion will emit in her entire lifetime.”
The math probably doesn’t work out, but it provides endless amusement to watch these overpaid celebrities—and their fans—justify their massive carbon emissions while lecturing the world about global warming.
And now for this week’s Good News segment.
Trump Administration Slashes Climate Research
In its quest to slash bloat and waste from the federal bureaucracy, along with reigniting American energy dominance, the Trump administration has taken aim at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). According to Newsmax:
The Trump administration is planning to close the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s primary research office for alleged man-made climate change and to use the agency to boost U.S. fossil-fuel production.
The changes are being made in pursuit of a “leaner NOAA,” Politico reported Friday, citing a memo from the Office of Management and Budget.
NOAA’s fiscal 2026 budget would be about $4.5 billion, down from $6.1 billion in the current fiscal year. The memo calls for eliminating the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, which facilitates studies of the planet’s oceans, atmosphere, climate, weather patterns, and other systems.
The memo cites goals including “resetting the proper balance between Federal and State responsibilities” and eliminating wokeness from the federal government. Perhaps most importantly, it ends NOAA’s global warming education programs. It foretells further cuts in 2026, by as much as an additional 38 percent. Many current functions will be transferred to other agencies or privatized while maintaining funding for the National Weather Service.
A weather service that only predicts the weather? Sounds like the original intent of the agency.
This article originally appeared at Restoration News