The US market share of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in the second quarter of 2025 was only 7 percent of car sales, down from over 8 percent during last November, December, and January.
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July 26, 2025 at 05:07AM
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From the July 25, 2025 edition of The Bottom Line.
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July 26, 2025 at 05:00AM
By Paul Homewood
The latest fraud from Reuters:
They claim that:
“Wildfires have burnt 227,000 hectares of land since the beginning of the year – more than double the average for this time of year over the past two decades.
While far above average, it’s not the highest in EFFIS’ records, which go back to 2002. Europe had particularly bad fire seasons in 2003 and 2017, when blazes burnt more than 1,100,000 hectares in each year – an area equivalent to the island of Jamaica.
It’s not yet clear if 2025 will be a record year, as that will depend on how the fire season evolves in the coming months.
The number of fires in Europe has also surged this year so far, with 1,118 blazes detected as of July 8, versus 716 in the same period last year, EFFIS said.”
They naturally blame it all on climate change:
“Scientists say the Mediterranean region’s hotter, drier summers put it at high risk of wildfires. Once fires start, plentiful dry vegetation and strong winds in the region can cause them to spread rapidly and burn out of control.”
The actual data shows they are lying through their back teeth.
https://forest-fire.emergency.copernicus.eu/apps/effis.statistics/seasonaltrend
Throughout the summer so far, wildfires have been bumbling along at a low level. However, cumulative fire area in Europe is well above average because of a spike in fire activity in February and March, which occurred in Romania, not around the Med.
84000 hectares burnt in three major fire outbreaks there at the time.
https://forest-fire.emergency.copernicus.eu/apps/effis.statistics/seasonaltrend
Romania of course does not have a Mediterranean climate, it has a temperate continental one, meaning it is not prone to wildfires. The fires in March had nothing to do with climate change, but were deliberately set for land clearing, as Romania-Insider reported at the time:
The authorities have linked the fires to intentional actions by residents attempting to clear land, a practice that has led to blazes spreading across vast areas, often in difficult-to-reach locations.
DSU head Raed Arafat emphasized that the wildfires were not caused by weather phenomena such as lightning but were intentionally set. “At this moment, we cannot attribute these forest fires to high temperatures or lightning. They are solely the result of deliberate actions by individuals – either those who have been doing this for a long time or those who intentionally set fires to clear fields or burn dry vegetation,” he stated, as quoted by Digi24.
https://www.romania-insider.com/wildfires-romania-victims-march-2025
So much for “Information you can trust”!
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July 26, 2025 at 04:46AM
By P Gosselin
By Frank Bosse, Klimanachrichten
We remember: by mid-2023, the data on global temperatures had shown a very marked increase. It had gotten warmer globally quite quickly, by an incredible 0.5°C compared to 2022. This led to a new record for the year being announced in 2024. The German public television Tagesschau (and many other media) did so in great detail.
The whole (climate) world asked about the cause. The Tagesschau correctly concluded that the (rather mediocre) El Nino could only make a very small contribution in the second half of 2023. Looking at the temporal change, the rise in global temperatures occurred simultaneously with the El Nino rise in ocean temperatures in the tropical East Pacific (an area called “Nino 3.4”) and that was already an indication that this could not be where the problem is: The lag is usually 3 months for global temperatures to follow Nino 3,4. Causality would have been violated.
It was already apparent in January 2022 that something was up. A volcano called Honga-Tunga-Honga erupted. It is an underwater volcano and large masses of water were hurled into the stratosphere. Here is a satellite image of it.
It has long been known that stratospheric water vapor causes temperatures on the ground to rise globally. But a volcano like this is a natural event, the warming effect is then added “on top” of the greenhouse gas effect. However, the “bump” itself was not man-made. Unfortunately, the news report did not mention this at all.
Every “impulse” that affects global temperatures (including land volcanoes such as the eruption of Pinatubo in 1991, which had a cooling effect due to many aerosols in the stratosphere) does so with some delay. The climate effect builds up slowly in the atmosphere and the thermal inertia of the Earth system as a whole does the rest.
Consequently, studies such as this one appeared at the beginning of 2023, which predicted a temporary warming of more than the “famous” 1.5°K deviation from pre-industrial values.
According to the Tagesschau, this is exactly what happened: “2024 was also the first calendar year to be 1.6 degrees warmer globally than pre-industrial levels from 1850 to 1900.”
However, the report itself attributes this to progressive man-made warming. At the time, this also partly reflected the state of knowledge that some literature on the subject sought to convey. This study from July 2024, which even determined an overall cooling effect of the volcanic eruption due to the aerosols that also occurred, should be mentioned here as a representative example.
Here’s the most complete possible development of global temperatures according to GISS:
The values are extrapolated to the end of July 2025, this month is estimated using a model, 7 days before its end.
The volcano in question occurred at the end of January 2022. Not much happened until around May 2023. Then, however, the “impulse response” of the climate system probably took place: in September 2023, an additional warming of 0.58 °C was detected compared to the average for 2022. The entire year 2024 saw an increased level of 0.39°C compared to 2022. This can NOT be explained by the gradual increase in forcing by greenhouse gases etc.!
Between 1980 and 2020 there was a warming of 0.018 °C/year, now it should suddenly be a factor of 10 in the years 2022-2024? That was always completely unlikely!
Likewise the downturn in 2025 of over 0.4°C globally, within just 6 months.
So the (climate) world continues to puzzle. Here too, no definitive cause can be given for the roller coaster ride of global temperatures. However, the probability speaks for a course that was determined to a large extent by the underwater volcanic eruption with a lot of water vapor input into the stratosphere (unprecedented quantities, according to this study).
However, this is not suitable for warning of a man-made “climate catastrophe” by exceeding the (purely politically determined) 1.5°C mark, even with the wisdom of “accelerating warming”. The whole 2023/24 thing was very likely a natural event. The 3/10°C missing from the 1.5°C warming compared to pre-industrial times in 2022 could also be missing again in 2026, the gap will probably be a little smaller.
“Volcano is over”, hopefully also the propaganda and scaremongering!
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