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Alongside the confirmation of these new weather records in May, the Met Office has released new weather event verification reports for every record, which does help to give more transparency to their verification process. They all have calibration checks and site pictures.
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This attack tonight on the Monastery by the Russians in Kyiv makes no sense. It has a parallel with the bombing of Londonâs St. Paulâs in 1940 by the Germans. It wonât work. Someone tell me the military necessity of the Russian attack. There is none.
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Pete Hegesth, "Obama begged Iran for a deal, we bombed Iran"
"Document says Iran won't have a nuclear weapon, won't seek one, won't buy one"
Journalist, "The JCPOA (Iran deal) did that too"
Hegseth, "We devastated their military"
Imagine celebrating achieving the thing a previous president achieved without killing the 3,000 Iranians dead since the US/Israel attacks
Then imagine gloating about a blockade in response to the closing of the strait of Hormuz which has caused global economic turmoil as if that is something to celebrate
It's like a scene from Idiocracy
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A plumber knows more about plumbing than you.
A pilot knows more about flying than you.
A scientist usually knows more about science than you.
That doesnât make them automatically right.
But it does mean the burden of proof is on the person claiming thousands of experts got it wrong.
Science isnât a democracy.
Itâs not decided by likes, vibes, or confidence.
Itâs decided by evidence.
And evidence doesnât care who wins the argument.
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While Andrew Tate & Candice Owenâs visit Moscow and lie about how itâs the bastion of peace, missiles are raining down on civilian homes here in Kyiv. Russia is a terrorist state and it should never be normalised.
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Jun 14
I truly pity the brown people in public life who say stuff like this that they of course - and their families! - know is obviously untrue and ridiculous, but they say it anyways because they feel they have to in order to get ahead in racist rightwing spaces as a brown person.
'We live in a country that if you are non-white, you are treated less harshly by the justice system'
Former Conservative home secretary and now Reform MP, Suella Braverman, explains why her party wants to get rid of the Equality Act.
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I just watched priests trying to save crucifixes from a burning monastery.
This is what russia is destroying.
The Kyiv Lavra is one of the holiest Orthodox sites on earth. A UNESCO World Heritage site.
Moscow calls itself âChristian civilisation.â
Itâs literally barbarism.
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I'm old enough to remember when Nigel Farage would hold a press conference at the drop of a hat.
So why is he now launching his divisive policies in a blog post from the safety of his keyboard?
I can think of 5 million reasons whyâŠ
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There's absolutely no evidence to support this claim.
In reality, you are statistically disadvantaged when it comes to the justice system if you are non-white.
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Former Conservative now Reform UK's Suella Braverman on Sky News,
"The institutions, laws, and policies, treat white people less fairly than non-white people"
"We've got to get rid of the Equality Act"
"Unfortunately we currently live in a country if you are non-white you are treated less harshly by the justice system than if you are white"
Across the 11 years Suella Braverman was an MP, her roles included Home Secretary, and Attorney General of England and Wales
Yet throughout that time she never thought to address her current boss, Nigel Farage's claim, that the country is anti white people
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Jun 14
New study adds evidence that the "Cold Blob" in the North Atlantic is proof of AMOC slow-down. And it can only be explained by changes in ocean heat transport (impacted by us). Continued slowdown, even shut-down cannot be excluded. An unacceptable risk. cnn.com/2026/06/12/climate/câŠ
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Massive Russian attack on Kyiv: as of now, Russia has attacked a UNESCO heritate church, residential buildings and civilian infrastructure.
Russian cruise missiles are headed toward Kyiv, drones, ballistic missiles, Tsirkon missiles can follow at any moment.
Civilians suffer again in Kyiv:
âȘïžA large fire in Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.
âȘïžIn one district, five strikes hit civilian infrastructure objects within less than 30 minutes. A residential building, market and grocery store damaged.
âȘïžA residential building damaged in another Kyiv district.
âȘïž6 people injured by the attack.
âȘïžAbout 140,000 people without electricity.
Massive Russian attack on Kyiv continues.
Very, very loud explosions in the city.
Three people injured already. Several residential buildings burning.
A church on fire.
Russia is a terrorist state.
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Should we expect any posts from you, @RealCandaceO , condemning the Kremlinâs attack on Christianity â or do you only talk about God when youâre paid to?
The Lavra has been attacked twice â and both times by Russians.
The previous time it was damaged was during World War II, on November 3, 1941. The cathedral was mined and blown up by retreating Soviet NKVD saboteurs after German forces occupied the city.
And today â on Sunday (the Lordâs Day), June 14, 2026 â it was struck again by direct Russian missile attacks.
The Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) is 975 years old. It is one of the oldest and most sacred monastic complexes in Eastern Europe, with its history officially dating back to 1051 AD during the era of Kyivan Rusâ.
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Russia is like cancer.
Look at what those filthy terrorists have done.
Russians are far worse than any barbarian hordes in history. They just damaged one of the holiest shrines of Ukrainian Orthodoxy, the Dormition Cathedral (Uspensky Sobor), built in 1078, Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. We will never forgive RussiađĄNeverđ€Ź
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The bells of the Lavra rang out across Kyiv after Russiaâs massive attack on the capital.
A sound of faith, resilience, and survival above a city that endured another night of terror.
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Listen to this absolutely haunting sound.
Putinâs attack on the Lavra must be condemned by leaders around the world. Itâs also a wake-up call, Ukraine *is* the Lavra, itâs survived but only by facing off the utter barbarity of Putinâs regime
The bells of the Lavra rang out across Kyiv after Russiaâs massive attack on the capital.
A sound of faith, resilience, and survival above a city that endured another night of terror.
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Kyiv right now đ
Russia is a fucking cancer.
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Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and its benefits.
The only explanation I can think of: they donât want the people to know what their fossil fuel emissions are doing to our oceans.
easternherald.com/2026/06/13âŠ
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Solche Posts sollen einfach nur ahnungslose Menschen TĂ€uschen.
Donât get fooled.
Warum wir wirklich die Ursache der ErderwĂ€rmung kennen habe ich hier erklĂ€rt: spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensâŠ
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Solche Posts sollen einfach nur ahnungslose Menschen TĂ€uschen.
Donât get fooled.
Warum wir wirklich die Ursache der ErderwĂ€rmung kennen habe ich hier erklĂ€rt: spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensâŠ
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Der HockeyschlĂ€ger ist die einzige wirklich schlagende âEvidenzâ fĂŒr die Behauptung, die heutige ErwĂ€rmung sei aufgrund menschlichen Einflusses beispiellos. FĂ€llt seine Methodik in sich zusammen, fĂ€llt das entscheidende Argument der Klimahysterie. Dann wĂ€ren wir wieder in den 1990er Jahren, dem Höhepunkt der westlichen Zivilisation, bevor sie Kurs auf das âNarrenschiff Utopiaâ nahm.
Schauen wir uns dieses Diagramm deshalb genauer an. Ăber den Temperaturdaten, die der Klimamodellierer in die Vergangenheit zurĂŒckprojiziert, liegt ein statistischer Unsicherheitskorridor, hier der graue Bereich. Er besagt: Mit einer Wahrscheinlichkeit von 95 Prozent liegt die tatsĂ€chliche damalige Temperatur innerhalb dieses Bereichs.
Diese Wahrscheinlichkeit wird nur deshalb angegeben, weil die vergangenen Temperaturen nicht direkt gemessen, sondern nur indirekt rekonstruiert werden können. Die Unsicherheit, die entsteht, wenn ein Baumring oder andere Proxydaten auf eine eigentlich nur mit Thermometern messbare Temperatur zurĂŒckgefĂŒhrt werden, wird â um irgendwie âseriösâ zu bleiben â stochastisch abgebildet. Dieser Unsicherheitsbereich wird durch das sogenannte Konfidenzintervall angegeben, das bei 95 Prozent liegt.
Nun wĂŒrde niemand in ein Flugzeug steigen, das nur zu 95 Prozent sicher landet und bei jedem zwanzigsten Flug abzustĂŒrzen droht. Die HockeyschlĂ€ger-Modellierer rĂ€umen eine solche Unsicherheit fĂŒr die Belastbarkeit ihrer Ergebnisse jedoch ganz offen ein. Seit spĂ€testens 2001 basiert die herrschende Klimageschichte auf dieser Unsicherheit. Kein Mensch der Welt wĂŒrde mit ihr Weltmeere in der Luft ĂŒberwinden. Ganze Volkswirtschaften stĂŒtzen jedoch ihre Politik auf sie. PalĂ€oklimatologie ist Statistik, keine Naturwissenschaft.
Das ist âdie Wissenschaftâ, auf deren Grundlage man uns in die Klimaknechtschaft gefĂŒhrt hat.
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