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February 17, 2026 10:06 am
Not a premium subscriber so can’t comment on that. But meanwhile, one climate activist has changed her mind.
Confessions of a Former Climate Activist
Before I met Lucy at The Free Press offices, she was fighting to ban plastic straws and posing with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Greta Thunberg. In today’s Confession, Lucy tells us about her time in the climate movement, when she became a prominent voice on social media. She protested the Dakota Access Pipeline and pushed for the Green New Deal to be passed. Now, Lucy describes herself as a climate realist. She doesn’t think the world is going to implode because the Earth is heating up, and she definitely doesn’t think paper straws are going to save us. In our conversation, we talk about the moment she started to question the climate movement, what it took to walk away from the cause she defined herself by, and what the science tells us now about climate change.
Myself, I’m waiting for Guam to capsize. In the meantime, Bill Maher shows his ignorance.
February 17, 2026 11:30 am
STORY TIPHeavy snow postpones Winter Olympics snowboard, ski competitions
Snowfall triggered a postponement of activities Tuesday at the 2026 Winter Olympics, including snowboarding and skiing events in Livigno, Italy.
Another generation of Italian Children know what snow is.
The Global Tipping Points Report 2025, Part 1: Catastrophe, Certainty, and the Architecture of Urgency
Charles Rotter This begins a multipart, systematic refutation of the University of Exeter’s Global Tipping Points Report 2025. The report spans 379 pages, involves 160 researchers across 87 institutions, and explicitly targets policymakers, financial institutions, corporations, and civil society actors. It presents itself as a synthesis of climate science. In substance, it functions as a governance manifesto. It advocates financial reallocation, industrial restructuring, narrative management, le...