Daily News 10/16
Daily News 10/16
Daily News Archives Since June 2026
Alarming Acceleration The report’s authors warn that accelerating warming trends raise the risk of parts of Earth’s climate system breaching so-called tipping points, or marks at which the affected processes are so destabilized that they cannot return to pre-climate change conditions. The slowing of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), the runaway drying and deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, and the abruptly accelerated melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets are among the Earth system tipping points scientists have identified. Ripple wrote that the accelerating trends seen in the recent report were particularly concerning in light of the threat of approaching these tipping points. “Continued warming could trigger additional feedbacks and tipping points that would make climate change increasingly difficult to control.” — 2026 State of the Climate Report Shows a Planet Reaching Its Limits
Video: AMOC Collapse: A National Security Threat?
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Video: TRUMP COLLAPSES As Judge DOUBLES His Gag Order Fine!!
2026 State of the Climate Report Shows a Planet Reaching Its Limits
Of the 16 climate indicators analyzed, seven showed record extremes. The seventh edition of an annual report analyzing Earth’s “planetary vital signs” indicates that Earth systems are rapidly destabilizing, some at an accelerating rate. The report, published today in BioScience, analyzed 16 of these signs, including greenhouse gas emissions levels, ocean heat content and acidity, the mass of major ice sheets, the number of hot days, Earth’s surface temperature, and more. By tracking these vital signs each year, “we can see where things are getting worse and where progress is being made,” wrote report coauthor William Ripple in an email to Eos. Ripple is an ecologist at Oregon State University. This year, global sea level, global ocean heat content, worldwide glacier thickness, the mass of the Greenland ice sheet, and the atmospheric concentration of each of the three most common greenhouse gases are at record extremes. The report notes that in May of this year, levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide breached 428 parts per million, which is about 50% higher than pre-industrial levels of the gas.
From Facts They Don’t Teach You
Profits More Important Than Life: ‘From liabilities to goldmines’: refineries eye record profits from diesel shortage
The Brockovich Report: Data Centers Are On The Ballot This November
Opposition to AI data centers has moved from planning commission meetings to the ballot. Plus: An engineer proposing a different kind of data center (read to the end).Election Day is November 3, which is just three weeks away, and we’re looking at how data center pushback has become a major midterm talking point. Early voting has already begun in many states. Voters in seven states including Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Kansas, California, Nevada, and Florida will decide on 35 data center-related local ballot measures on Election Day.
Trump Admin Killed Insider Trading Referral Probing Iran War-Related Oil Sales The incident raises alarm over officials’ moves to insulate insiders from anti-corruption enforcement.
Will Donald Trump’s Iran War break America? Trump’s Presidency is a sign of the once greatest imperial power going down, down, down
THE U.S. MILITARY STRUGGLES TO PROTECT ITS BASES AMID FAILING IRAN WAR From Jordan to Kuwait to the United Kingdom, U.S. outposts are increasingly vulnerable to attack.
Trump’s Mass Deportation Push May Cut Retirees’ Social Security by $2k Annually The program’s insolvency date was already pushed up to 2032, partly as a result of mass deportations.
Trump’s Not So Hot Economy: China’s Growth Far Outpaces US
Donald Trump keeps telling us that in his make-believe world the United States has the world’s hottest economy. But that’s not what the data from the real world say. China’s economy was already one-third larger than the US economy when Trump took office. However, the gap has increased substantially over the last year and three quarters. China’s economy is growing at roughly a 4.5 percent annual rate, while the US economy has grown at roughly a 2.3 percent annual rate. (These data are taken from the I.M.F. World Economic Outlook Data Portal and include projections for the second half of 2026.)As a result, since Trump took office, China’s economy (including Hong Kong) has grown by more than $3.43 trillion, while the US economy has grown by $1.24 trillion.
The global economy is muddling through against the odds. But a storm is coming Finance ministers gathering for the IMF annual meeting know the need for multilateral cooperation to deal with many crises. There is little chance of that Not much has gone right for the global economy this year, and plenty has gone wrong. Two big regional wars are destabilising prices and supply chains everywhere. Businesses and consumers are feeling the effects of a serious energy shock. Rising inflation has made it a lot more expensive for governments to finance their debts. China and the US are at loggerheads over trade. … Yet the idea that a new era of partnership will flower when there is a new US president is for the birds. The problems of multilateralism run far deeper than that. The liberal world order that the IMF and World Bank have presided over since the end of the second world war was dysfunctional long before Trump arrived in office.