From fuel emissions standards to gas-powered vehicle bans to far-reaching climate disclosure rules, states like California are constantly testing how far state laws can go in shaping national climate policy.

Joe Biden Proved he is Not Ronald Reagan at Pointe du Hoc

The list of everyday necessities the climate fanatics at The Washington Post choose to complain about as enemies of Gaia continues to grow at an exponential rate. The Post threw a fit over the upcoming Olympic Games “taking a farcical turn” against Paris organizers’ supposed commitment to maintaining the “greenest Olympics” ever. The Athletes Village was supposed to not have air conditioning (AC) in the rooms because other eco-friendly cooling measures will be used, whined the leftist rag. However, The Post cried, “portable air-conditioning units will be everywhere. Wheeled in. Shipped in. Ordered by visiting countries that want their athletes to sleep well and perform at the highest level — even if it means a larger carbon footprint.” How dare athletes seek to maximize comfort between rounds of the brutal physical exertion that defined the Olympic Games since time immemorial, right Washington Post?  The newspaper went on a rant against the climate offending countries who had the gall to take care of their athletes: Worried about what potentially could be the world’s hottest year on record, wealthier nations have effectively undercut Paris’s marquee sustainability measure, signaling that, yes, they care about environmental aims — but not if it risks the comfort of their athletes. Some of those athletes are accustomed to temperatures cooler than what the dorms might have provided and raised concerns to their national Olympic committees. The newspaper cited pro-AC Australian Olympic committee Chief of Public Affairs Strath Gordon, who noted that the Games was “‘a high-performance environment.’” But that wasn’t enough of a “DUH” moment for The Post, which accused visiting countries of undermining a “highly symbolic” Mother Earth effort on behalf of Paris: The bid to forgo air-conditioning was just a tiny part of the overall Paris plan to reduce the footprint of a massive event. But it is highly symbolic, as it has forced participating countries to consider whether they want to participate in a sustainability experiment — abandoning conventional, energy-intensive privileges in the name of green goals. Talk about blowing a bunch of hot air. It's a wonder if The Post has air conditioning in its luxurious K Street headquarters in Washington, D.C. Conservatives are under attack. Contact The Washington Post at 202-334-6000 and demand it stop being a ridiculous Olympic Games climate buzzkill.  

For Saturday’s Good Morning America, ABC White House correspondent Mary Bruce went into full hype mode as she tried to tie President Joe Biden’s Pointe du Hoc speech with Ronald Reagan’s 40 years prior. She also gleefully noted “the contrasts” between Biden and Donald Trump while playing up the former apologizing for the GOP in France during his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Speaking over side-by-side images of Biden and Reagan, Bruce hyped “Biden speaking at the same site where 40 years ago President Reagan delivered one of his most iconic speeches.”     After a clip of Reagan, Bruce added, “While Biden didn't mention Donald Trump by name, the contrasts were clear. The president pitting his view of America's role as a global leader against Trump's isolationist America First stance.” Bruce then played a clip of Biden’s speech where he asked, “Does anyone doubt that they would want America to stand up against Putin's aggression here in Europe today?” Moving onto Biden’s meeting with Zelensky, Bruce recalled, “Earlier Biden meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky apologizing for the delay in approving new military aid and blaming Republicans.” That was followed by another clip of Biden telling Zelensky that “Some of our very conservative members who were holding it up, but we got it done.” For the media, the war in Ukraine is simple: Democrats: good, Republicans: bad. For the Ukrainians themselves, it is more nuanced. Ukraine recently watched Russia build up its forces a mere kilometer or two across the border for a Kharkiv offensive, but couldn’t do anything about it until Russian forces actually crossed the border due to Team Biden’s insane rules of engagement policy. They begged Biden to change his policy, which he didn’t do until it was too late, and even still, the rules against hitting targets deep in Russia remain. Meanwhile, Republican leadership favors lifting such restrictions. Not only did Biden put Zelensky in the awkward position of having to be on camera while his biggest aid provider delivered a partisan speech, ABC couldn’t be bothered to point out that Biden has some apologizing of his own to do. Maybe Biden isn’t Reagan-esque after all. Here is a transcript for the June 8 show: ABC Good Morning America 6/8/2024 7:06 AM ET MARY BRUCE: Biden speaking at the same site where 40 years ago President Reagan delivered one of his most iconic speeches. RONALD REAGAN: These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the heroes who helped end a war. BRUCE: And while Biden didn't mention Donald Trump by name, the contrasts were clear. The president pitting his view of America's role as a global leader against Trump's isolationist America First stance. JOE BIDEN: Does anyone doubt that they would want America to stand up against Putin's aggression here in Europe today? BRUCE: Earlier Biden meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky apologizing for the delay in approving new military aid and blaming Republicans. BIDEN: Some of our very conservative members who were holding it up, but we got it done.

Three Jewish students have filed civil rights lawsuits against the University of California Board of Regents and officials at the university, according to Fox News Digital. The students claim that they were prevented from walking to class by "antisemitic activists."The two law students and one undergraduate student allege that the university allowed a group of students and unaffiliated demonstrators to set up an encampment on the campus. Consequently, Jewish students were barred from accessing the heart of the university property, per the report.'If masked agitators had excluded any other marginalized group at UCLA, Governor Newsom rightly would have sent in the National Guard immediately.'Anti-Israel activists demonstrated throughout May and April in protest of Israel's response to Hamas' attacks against the Jewish state on October 7. On that day, Hamas terrorists slaughtered 1,200 Israelis and abducted hundreds more.The Los Angeles Times reported that lawyers for the Jewish students said pro-Palestinian activists implemented checkpoints at their encampment on Royce Quad. They allege that those in charge of the encampment only allowed anti-Israel demonstrators to enter. “With the knowledge and acquiescence of UCLA officials, the activists enforced what was effectively a ‘Jew Exclusion Zone,’ segregating Jewish students and preventing them from accessing the heart of campus, including classroom buildings and the main undergraduate library,” the lawsuit said. “In many cases, the activists set up barriers and locked arms together, preventing those who refused to disavow Israel from passing through.”UCLA is not the only university in the country facing lawsuits. Others include Rutgers University and Columbia University, per reports. Columbia recently settled a lawsuit with a Jewish student who claimed the university fostered an "unsafe educational environment."The complaint also noted that UCLA knew about the encampment for a week without taking action. It went on to say that the university urged security staff to discourage non-students from entering the encampment instead of dismantling the encampment entirely."If masked agitators had excluded any other marginalized group at UCLA, Governor Newsom rightly would have sent in the National Guard immediately," Mark Rienzi, president and CEO of Becket, said. "But UCLA instead caved to the antisemitic activists and allowed its Jewish students to be segregated from the heart of their own campus. That is a profound and illegal failure of leadership.""This is America in 2024—not Germany in 1939. It is disgusting that an elite American university would let itself devolve into a hotbed of antisemitism," Rienzi added. "UCLA's administration should have to answer for allowing the Jew Exclusion Zone and promise that Jews will never again be segregated on campus."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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Together, the collective age of the bride and groom was nearly 200. But World War II veteran Harold Terens and his sweetheart Jeanne Swerlin proved that love is eternal as they tied the knot Saturday inland of the D-Day beaches in Normandy, France.

Caitlin Clark apparently will need to wait until Los Angeles and 2028 to represent the United States in the Summer Olympics.

There are likely millions of “rogue” or free-floating planets (FFPs) spread through the galaxy. These planets, which aren’t big enough to become stars but also aren’t beholden to a star’s gravity, are some of the hardest objects for astronomers to spot, as they don’t give off their own light, and can only be seen when they cross in front of something that does give off its own light. Enter Euclid, a space telescope that launched last year. Its primary mission is to observe the universe’s history, but a new paper describes an exciting side project – finding FFPs in Orion. In particular, it is finding FFPs around a system known as Sigma Orionis. Famously located on the eastern side of Orion’s Belt, this “star” is a system of at least five different stars, all gravitationally bound in one way or another, forming what is known as a “cluster.” It’s also surrounded by a “dust wave” of particles pointing at the nearby Horsehead Nebula, all of which lends itself to being a place where it would be easy to find FFPs.  Free-floating planets of this type can also be considered “failed stars” as they did not have enough mass to start the fusion process that comes with star formation. This isn’t the first time they’ve been found in star-forming regions. Other FFPs have been found in NGC 1333, Collider 69, and even the Orion Nebula. This isn’t even the first time they’ve been found in Sigma Orionis – but it is the first time they’ve been detected with the accuracy Euclid allows. As the paper’s authors put it, they “appear to be ubiquitous and numerous.” Fraser interviews Dr. Maggie Lieu about Euclid and its capabilities So, what’s unique about what Euclid did? Admittedly, the paper was a sort of test run for the telescope. The observations were taken back in October, only a few months after it launched in the middle of 2023. Those observations also focused on regions well known to contain tons of FFPs already. So what did it find? They found a bunch of much smaller FFPs than had previously been found. Astronomers use an algorithm called the Initial Mass Function (IMF) to describe the number of stars of specific sizes that would be formed. FFPs define the lower limit of that IMF – i.e., if an object isn’t big enough to become a star, it becomes an FFP. Sufficiently smaller FFPs help astronomers define the limits of the IMF in certain regions, but so far, they have escaped the notice of less sensitive detectors. That’s where Euclid comes in. The authors point out how the lower end of the IMF is not well defined and describe how the data collected by Euclid could be used to flesh out models at the lower end of the spectrum. However, they also point out that this is still very early in Euclid’s data collection cycle, and plenty more systems could prove exciting hunting grounds for smaller FFPs than have ever been seen before. Fraser discusses rogue planets in the Orion Nebula For now, though, this is an excellent first test case of Euclid’s capabilities. Given the sheer number of objects that could be floating out there in the void, it will have plenty of other opportunities to find more, and it has already started looking in several other well-known places, according to the paper. It’s got more than five years left on its planned mission duration, so there will undoubtedly be more papers describing many more FFPs in the future. Learn More:Martín et al – Euclid: Early Release Observations – A glance at free-floating new-born planets in the ? Orionis clusterUT – Enjoy Five New Images from the Euclid MissionUT – Euclid Begins its 6-Year Survey of the Dark UniverseUT – Phew, De-Icing Euclid’s Instruments Worked. It’s Seeing Better Now Lead Image:Multi-color mosaic of the Euclid pointing studied in this work. The area covered is 0.58 square degreesCredit – Martín et al The post Euclid is Finding Free Floating Planets in Orion Too appeared first on Universe Today.