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The crew of Artemis II landed safely back on Earth Friday evening after their mission to circle the moon.
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LONDON: The left-wing British Green Party has said it wants to separate the Church of England from the state if it wins the next general election, which must be held before August 2029.
The Church of England has been the "established" church since the 16th-century Reformation, with the British monarch serving as its supreme governor. For traditionalists, this link is not merely ceremonial but is the foundational bedrock of British identity.
The Greens have come under fire for seeking to remove centuries of British history and tradition by separating the church from British politics, with critics characterizing it as the latest move against Christianity in the U.K.
GB News reported last month that the Green Party policy document stated: "No person shall hold office in the state, or be excluded from any such office, by virtue of their or their spouse's membership or non-membership of any religion or denomination of religion."
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Michael McManus, the director of research at the Henry Jackson Society, a U.K. think tank, told Fox News Digital, "Britain is a tolerant society but with clear Christian origins and culture. Aiming to disestablish the Church of England could be seen as an attempt to reject that ethical foundation without being clear what would replace it instead."
High-profile figures have also weighed in on the debate, with actor and comedian John Cleese responding to a comment about the Greens' proposal by stating on X: "The UK has always been based at the deepest level on Christian values, regardless of dogma. Despite the many mistakes made by churches, for centuries British people have been influenced by Christ's teaching. If these values are replaced by Islamic ones, this will not be Britain anymore."
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The Greens are a growing political force, placing second behind Reform UK in a recent YouGov poll. Another YouGov poll linked the Greens' rise in popularity with younger voters in the country, finding a majority of those between 18 and 24 supported them, while also doing well with women and other groups.
A spokesperson for the Green Party told Fox News Digital, "We will be setting out our detailed plans for government at the time of the next General Election, just as we did at the last General Election. As always, our members will be shaping our priorities. These will again address the real and immediate needs of people and the planet, such as tackling the climate crisis, bringing down the cost of living and rebuilding our public services, including the NHS. Our focus is on the issues that impact ordinary people most."
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Green Party leader Zack Polanski has defended a secular state. He has also drawn criticism for his support of legalizing drugs such as heroin and cocaine, his climate policies and anti-Israel positioning.
The timing of the Green Party's push is particularly sensitive as it comes on the heels of the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026, which passed last month, removing the last hereditary aristocrats from Parliament. With the hereditary principle gone, the presence of the "Lords Spiritual" has become the next logical target for constitutional reformers. There are currently 26 seats reserved for Church of England archbishops and bishops in the House of Lords.
As the U.K. heads toward a local 2026 election cycle, the "Church and State" debate looks set to become a wedge issue. For the Greens, it represents their commitment to a "diverse and inclusive" Britain. For their detractors, it is a dangerous move that risks "de-Christianizing" the country at a moment of profound social uncertainty.
Whether the proposal will mobilize a new "religious vote" or simply fade behind the urgency of other issues remains to be seen. What is clear, commentators say, is that the image of the established Church is increasingly being viewed through the lens of a much sharper and more polarized political fight.
Iran is poised to strike critical desalination infrastructure across the Middle East within days, escalating tensions with the U.S. and Israel and triggering global economic fallout, a U.N. official warned Sunday.
Kaveh Madani, an Iranian scientist and U.N. official, said desalination plants across the region could be hit "within the next few days," raising the prospect of a broader regional water crisis and affecting global markets.
The strike threats made by the regime on Sunday came in response to President Donald Trump's warning that the U.S. would hit Iranian power infrastructure unless the Strait of Hormuz was opened within 48 hours.
A spokesperson for the Central Headquarters of Hazrat Khatam al-Anbiya (PBUH) said, "Following previous warnings, if Iran’s fuel and energy infrastructure is attacked by the enemy, all energy, information technology, and desalination infrastructure belonging to the US and the regime in the region will be targeted."
"The desalination plants might be targeted again within the next few days," Madani told Fox News Digital.
"The driest region of the world might see a real water war, but the knock-on effects on the world’s economy, including the U.S., will be both immediate and lasting," Madani said, pointing to what he described as a "new phase in the conflict" involving such critical civilian infrastructure.
"Now, add the possibility of damage to the already fragile water infrastructure, including treatment plants, pumping stations, and distribution networks," he said. "The consequences would be catastrophic and lasting."
Kaveh’s warning comes as the conflict — now in its fourth week — has expanded beyond military targets. Desalination facilities, including a plant on Iran’s Qeshm Island and another in Bahrain, have allegedly already been struck.
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Desalination, the process of creating drinkable water from seawater, is critical to supplying water across Israel and many of Iran’s Gulf neighbors, particularly in such arid regions where natural freshwater is scarce.
Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of the Iranian parliament, echoed the regime’s threats in a post on X on Sunday, warning that "critical infrastructure, energy, and oil across the region will be irreversibly destroyed, and oil prices will rise for a long time" if Iran’s power plants are struck.
"With a blackout, water treatment and distribution systems will also collapse in some parts of the country," Madani clarified.
"Iran will retaliate by attacking desalination, energy, and other energy-related infrastructure in all countries in the region that are parties to the war, including Israel," he added. "The price of oil and gas will increase further, and the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed, while a humanitarian disaster is created as millions of people lose access to water and electricity in the region."
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"The U.S. has allegedly already attacked a desalination plant in Qeshm Island, and the Iranians have allegedly responded by striking a plant in Bahrain," he said.
"Iran is the least reliant on desalination plants, so it is explicitly including them as legitimate targets for retaliation because this is the biggest vulnerability of the other parties to the war across the Middle East," he added.
Despite that relative advantage, Iran itself has faced years of severe drought, mismanagement of water resources, and declining groundwater levels, leaving parts of the country increasingly water-stressed.
"If Iranians run out of water and/or electricity, they won’t rise up," Holly Dagres, Libitzky Family Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said.
"The unfortunate truth is that the Islamic Republic would rather allow the country to burn than appear weak while it is facing an existential threat," she said.
Someone was playing possum — or stuffed animal.
Among plush kangaroos, dingoes and Tasmanian devils ready to be bought by parents of antsy children, a live brushtail possum waited in a gift shop at an Australian airport this week.
The wild animal was first noticed by a shopper in the store on Wednesday, retail manager Liam Bloomfield of Hobart Airport in the state of Tasmania said.
"A passenger reported it to …. one of the staff members on shift, who couldn’t quite believe what she was hearing," Bloomfield told The Associated Press. "She then called the (airport) management and said we’ve got a possum in the store."
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Staff at the airport were able to remove the animal without harming it.
"I’m imagining it saw some of the plush animals that were for sale on the shelf and it decided to make its home with those," Bloomfield joked of why the possum was hiding with the stuffed toys. "It wanted to blend in."
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"Can you spot the imposter?" the airport wrote in a Facebook post Thursday that showed the possum curled up in a cubby with its stuffed counterparts.
"This cheeky lost possum found a clever hiding place among the Aussie plushies in our retail store," the airport continued. "Luckily it was safely relocated out of the terminal area, and the space was cleaned."
Bloomfield said the possum found a way into not only the airport but also their hearts.
"We’ll have a little shrine to the possum," he revealed, according to The Independent. "There will be a nice little photo; once it gets a name, we will put a nice little post in front of the store to make sure it’s remembered."
Vijay Jayaraj
Die wiederholte Behauptung, die Klimawissenschaft sei „abgeschlossen“ [settled], übersieht unzählige Unsicherheiten, konkurrierende Prozesse und Computermodelle, die bei der Überprüfung anhand der Realität ihr Ziel verfehlen. Die Erklärung der Endgültigkeit in einem solchen Bereich reflektiert politische Zuversicht – sogar Arroganz – und nicht wissenschaftliche Reife.
Computermodelle – die auf falschen Prämissen basieren – sind die Bibel der modernen Klimabewegung. Und das, obwohl der Weltklimarat der Vereinten Nationen (IPCC) das Klima als „gekoppeltes, nichtlineares, chaotisches System” beschreibt, für das langfristige Vorhersagen praktisch unmöglich sind.
Politische Maßnahmen, die Billionen von Dollar kosten, stützen sich ausschließlich auf die Ergebnisse dieser digitalen Simulationen. Aber ein Modell ist nur so gut wie seine Annahmen. Wenn diese Annahmen nicht mit der physikalischen Welt übereinstimmen, verwirft ein ehrlicher Wissenschaftler das Modell. Das Klima-Establishment hingegen verwirft die Daten.
Der Bericht des US-Energieministeriums (DOE) vom Juli 2025 mit dem Titel „Critical Review of Impacts of GHG Emissions on the US Climate” (Kritische Überprüfung der Auswirkungen von Treibhausgasemissionen auf das Klima der USA) enthüllte eine harte Wahrheit: Erfundene Szenarien, die angeblich die zukünftige Erwärmung des Klimas darstellen, sind Übertreibungen, die wenig mit der beobachteten Realität zu tun haben.
Dr. Roy Spencers neueste Analyse vom Januar 2026 untersuchte die Temperaturtrends der letzten zehn Jahre aus 39 Klimamodellen im Vergleich zu Beobachtungen, gesammelt mit Wetterballonen, Satelliten und Analysen meteorologischer Daten. Er bestätigte, dass „alle 39 Klimamodelle größere Erwärmungstrends aufweisen“ als aus den „Beobachtungsdaten“ hervorgeht.
Darüber hinaus ignorieren Theorien zum Treibhauspotenzial (GWP) sogenannter Treibhausgase wie Kohlendioxid (CO₂) die Realität der atmosphärischen Sättigung, sagt Dr. William Happer. Bei der aktuellen Konzentration von CO₂ in der Atmosphäre gibt es nur noch eine begrenzte Menge an Infrarotstrahlung, die durch zusätzliche Mengen des Gases beeinflusst werden kann. Mit anderen Worten: Der Erwärmungseffekt von CO₂ ist begrenzt und nimmt mit zunehmender Menge immer weiter ab. Dennoch gehen die Modelle von einem höheren Erwärmungspotenzial aus, als es in der Natur zu beobachten ist.
Die Auswirkungen der Unterwassereruption des Hunga Tonga im Januar 2022 veranschaulichen die Komplexität des Klimasystems. Das Nettoergebnis des Vulkanausbruchs war nicht die typischerweise zu erwartende Abkühlung, sondern vielmehr ein komplexes Zusammenspiel konkurrierender Faktoren, die sich weitgehend gegenseitig aufhoben, so dass die Auswirkungen auf die Temperaturen nahezu null waren.
Dieses Ergebnis steht in starkem Kontrast zu historischen Vulkanausbrüchen. Der Ausbruch des Tambora im Jahr 1815 kühlte die Erde um fast 1 Grad Celsius ab und führte zu einem „Jahr ohne Sommer“. Ausbrüche in hohen Breitengraden in den 540er, 1450er und 1600er Jahren führten durch die Einbringung von Sulfaten in die Stratosphäre zu einer erheblichen globalen Abkühlung.
Das Klimasystem verfügt über Rückkopplungsschleifen und andere Wechselwirkungen, die so komplex sind, dass selbst ein einzelnes Vulkanereignis die Grenzen unserer Vorhersagefähigkeit aufzeigt. Dennoch werden Klimapolitik und sogenannte Lösungen mit einer Gewissheit vorangetrieben, die nur von den Unbesonnenen geteilt und von den Unehrlichen vorgetäuscht wird.
Der vielleicht am wenigsten ehrliche Aspekt des Klimakreuzzugs ist die Instrumentalisierung des Wetters. Naturkatastrophen werden dem Klimawandel angelastet und damit auch den Industrien, die das Kohlendioxid ausstoßen, das als der ultimative Buhmann gilt.
Der Bericht des DOE aus dem Jahr 2025 bestätigte jedoch andere Erkenntnisse, wonach die meisten extremen Wetterereignisse in den Vereinigten Staaten keinen langfristigen Trend aufweisen. Behauptungen, dass Hurrikane, Tornados und Überschwemmungen an Häufigkeit oder Intensität zunehmen, werden durch die Betrachtung historischer Daten widerlegt.
Auf das festland übergreifende Hurrikane zeigen keinen signifikanten Aufwärtstrend. Trotz Vorhersagen von Küstenüberschwemmungen ist der globale Meeresspiegel seit 1900 nur um etwa 20 cm gestiegen. Eine Beschleunigung des Anstiegs über den historischen Durchschnitt hinaus ist in den Messungen der US-Gezeitenpegel nicht erkennbar.
Noch aussagekräftiger ist die Messgröße, auf die es am meisten ankommt: das Überleben der Menschen. Daten zeigen, dass die Sterblichkeitsrate aufgrund von Naturkatastrophen im letzten Jahrhundert drastisch gesunken ist. Wir sind heute sicherer vor den Auswirkungen der Naturgewalten als jemals zuvor in der Geschichte der Menschheit.
Die Ironie dabei ist, dass die globale Begrünung der letzten vier Jahrzehnte – eine Ausdehnung der Vegetationsdecke um 11 Millionen Quadratmeilen – wesentlich durch den Anstieg des CO₂-Gehalts in der Atmosphäre vorangetrieben worden ist. Der Bösewicht in der Erzählung der Klimaalarmisten hat sich als mitverantwortlich für messbare Verbesserungen in den Ökosystemen erwiesen.
Es steht außer Frage, dass sich das Klima im Laufe der Zeit verändert und dass CO₂ die Temperaturen beeinflusst, wenn auch, wie bereits erwähnt, in abnehmendem Maße, je höher seine Konzentration in der Atmosphäre ist. Die überwältigenden Beweise zeigen jedoch, dass Kohlendioxid ein äußerst nützliches Molekül ist – und als Spurengas in der Atmosphäre, das Pflanzen und letztlich alles Leben versorgt gilt: je mehr, desto besser.
Es ist höchst fraglich, ob Computermodelle klimatische Komplexitäten – wie Rückkopplungsprozesse – so genau analysieren können, dass sie eine umfassende Umstrukturierung der globalen Energie-Infrastruktur rechtfertigen.
Die Klimafrage als ungeklärt zu betrachten, bedeutet nicht, die Wissenschaft zu leugnen, sondern sie zu respektieren. Empirische Forschung lebt von Skepsis, von der Bereitschaft, Annahmen zu hinterfragen, und von der Weigerung, Modellergebnisse als endgültig anzusehen. Diesen jahrhundertealten Prozess zu ignorieren bedeutet, den Lebensstil und das Leben von Milliarden Menschen zu gefährden.
This commentary first appeared at RealClear Markets on February 6 and has been republished here with permission.
Autor: Vijay Jayaraj is a Research Associate at the CO₂ Coalition, Arlington, VA and writes frequently for the Cornwall Alliance. He holds a master’s degree in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia, UK, and resides in India.
Link: https://cornwallalliance.org/why-climate-science-is-not-settled/
Übersetzt von Christian Freuer für das EIKE
Der Beitrag Warum die Klimawissenschaft nicht „<em>Settled</em>“ ist erschien zuerst auf EIKE - Europäisches Institut für Klima & Energie.
