Not perfect?

So is the second, second follow up evaluation?

(28 Oct 25)

Larry Kudlow: No areas of the country were prepared for this | Fox Business Video FOX Business host Larry Kudlow gives his take on why Gen Z is voicing concerns over affordability as young men struggle to find jobs on ‘Kudlow.’

How many lazy 18-34 year olds do they have?

www.foxbusiness.com/video/638511...

The Corporate Canary in the Coal Mine: S&P Data Shows Business Bankruptcies Soaring to a 15-Year High S&P data confirms corporate bankruptcies hit 15-year peak. A bankruptcy law expert explains the effect of how tariff is affecting consumers.

More info: bankruptcy.blog/2025/11/corp...

Greatest

“Total bankruptcy filings reached 655 this year through October, compared with 687 for all of 2024. October alone accounted for 68 filings, following 76 in August — the highest monthly count since at least 2020”

Yeah

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The same for journalists. If a politician or business leader spits out 1.5C or net zero, ask them how fast emissions need to drop to reach net zero in 2050, and how fast they are dropping today. Point out the contradiction. Make them explain it.

““Churkin was great,” Epstein, the late convicted sex offender, wrote. “He understood trump after our conversations. it is not complex. he must be seen to get something its that simple.”

44.7C today at Vioolsdrif, South Africa
So far,highest temperature worldwide this
November 2025.

Watch next night for an extremely hot night with a minimum which might struggle to go below 30C (which has never happened in November in South Africa).

How will Australia react ?

“the corporate profitability that investors presently attribute to productivity and innovation is actually the accounting result of record government and household deficits…maintaining this level of profitability…actually relies on massive and sustained deficits in other sectors”

Yardeni: “We are tracking the meltup scenario by monitoring the ratio of the S&P 100 to the S&P 500. The rapid rise in this ratio over the past couple of years is reminiscent of what happened during the Tech Bubble of the late 1990s.” www.dailychartbook.com/p/796 via @dailychartbook.bsky.social

“The stakes are difficult to overstate. Data center building is the foundation of AI advancement, and spending on new centers now displaces consumer spending in terms of impact to U.S. GDP. That’s concerning since consumer spending is generally two-thirds of the pie”

Looking on with horror from Australia

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CAT Global Update 2025 🚨 Ten years after the #ParisAgreement we see little to no measurable progress in warming projections - for the fourth consecutive year.
The 2035 #NDCs have made no difference to our warming outlook.
🔗 bit.ly/CAT_Global_2...

World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating

World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds

- Fossil fuel emissions to hit a record high in 2025

- Analyses also show worrying weakening of the planet’s natural carbon sinks

#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story by Oliver Milman & me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Dr Monique Ryan says the Coalition has finally given Business the Certainty it needs by pulling out of Net Zero
Ryan “They’ll have the certainty that they won’t have to deal with the LNP in government any time soon as a result of this decision today.” 🤣👏 #Abc

Four polar stereographic maps showing Arctic near-surface air temperature anomalies for the month of November in 1985-1994, 1995-2004, 2005-2014, and 2015-2024. Most all areas are observing long-term warming, which is largest along the Eurasian coast.

Impossible to ignore what’s happening to #Arctic temperatures in the month of November...

Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.

Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...

One of many costs to US murder (sorry, no better word for it) in Caribbean:

"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."

“When climate disasters decimate the lives of millions, when we already have the solutions, this will never, ever be forgiven," says Simon Stiell.

🇨🇳 📰 NEW | Analysis: #China’s #CO2 #emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months

www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-have-now-been-flat-or-falling-for-18-months/

@laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social w/ @carbonbrief.org

So, there were some elections. How'd they go? I talk with Caroline Spears about the stunning results in key state and local races and the lessons for 2026.

Today on Volts: as you may have heard, there were some elections last week. How did they go for climate world? To find out, I did my annual check-in with @spears.bsky.social of @climatecabinet.org. I don't want to spoil anything, but folks ... they went well. Really well.

A chart with blue and green horizontal bars showing that majorities in nine-middle income countries are willing to make lifestyle changes to help reduce the effects of climate change

Most people across the nine middle-income countries we surveyed – a median of 80% – are willing to make at least some changes to how they live and work to help reduce the effects of climate change.

They are still not taking water seriously.

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We've seen a magnet shock in 2025. Is Australia part of the solution? Anyone who controls the supply of magnets controls the future, and China has been quietly working on this under America's nose for decades. Can Australia muscle in?

After the magnet shock of 2025, who gets to have the rare earths version of the North Sea (the oil shock of 1973 led to North Sea oil, enriching Norway). Will it be Australia this time?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Share a TV series from the 1960s you love. 📺

Skippy

"What's that Skippy? The kids are trapped down the old mine-shaft, again?"

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: “A few tech-oligarchs are clearly influencing electoral processes. We’ve seen it in the UK, Germany, France, Hungary…and I’m sure we will see it in Spain.” (El Pais)

In action

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Projected total water demand may exceed total (natural) water supply before the end of the century in the western United States of America, Mediterranean regions, northern Africa, southern Africa, India, northern China, and southern Australia (red on map).
Paper at: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For more info, this is the US’s SPRING project that hopes to help to deploy BWRX-300 SMRs across Europe: pl.usembassy.gov/united-state...

Ref: www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

Can US-Australia rare earth deal loosen China’s grip on critical minerals trade? New pact between Washington and Canberra intends to curb China’s dominance, boost local supply chains and secure the future of rare earths.

“Australia hosts 89 active rare earth exploration projects, outpacing Canada, Brazil and the US…also investing heavily in processing capacity, and last year it was the top destination for rare earth exploration, with about 45 per cent of global investment” amp.scmp.com/economy/glob...