Since the 1980s, the Sahara has shrunk by roughly 8%. Satellite data show widespread greening, a pattern that is playing out across the planet. Around 50% of Earth's vegetated land has become significantly greener, an area roughly three times the size of the United States. The dominant driver is not rainfall or land use change, it is rising atmospheric CO2. Higher CO2 lets plants photosynthesize more efficiently, they lose less water, they tolerate heat and dryness better. The effect is strongest along desert margins - across the Sahel, the Middle East, Australia's interior and the southern edge of the Sahara. Rising CO2 is making the deserts, and the planet as a whole, greener.

Wildfires west of Bordeaux have burned roughly 42,000 hectares--or 104,000 acres. Climate alarmists immediately blamed an "unprecedented drying climate," but the local records disagree. At Bordeaux-Merignac, the rainfall record has been relatively flat since 1920. Mont-de-Marsan and Pau-Uzein show the same fluctuations, but no long-term drying trend. In fact, the past decade was wetter than average across much of Europe, including France. This winter just gone was also wet, and so produced abundant vegetation. Summer heat then dried that growth into fuel. Ignition is another key factor. By late July, at least 560 people had been arrested over suspected wildfire starts in France, Greece, and Portugal alone. Meanwhile, Europe's burned area is tracking at its lowest level in the GWIS record. The global total is also at the bottom of the range. Bordeaux proves that severe fires still happen. It does not prove the planet is entering an "unprecedented climate-driven drought." The wider trend remains clear: the world is burning less.

Wind power is sold as technological progress, but German professor Ludecke disagrees and has called it a return to the Medieval Ages. His calculation puts Germany's onshore wind output at an annual average of just 3.6 watts per square meter, whereas a coal plant comes in at 7,000 watts. That gap cannot be fixed with a taller tower or a larger blade. Wind is weak, scattered and weather dependent. And the output collapses quickly: half the wind speed and the available power falls to one-eighth. To harvest wind, turbines must be spread across vast areas, connected by new transmission lines and backed by reliable power plants for when the wind drops. Civilization advanced by replacing diffuse, unreliable energy with concentrated controllable power. Net Zero reverses that progress.

The Guardian says a study shows Greenland is losing 30 million tons of ice per hour. Sounds terrifying until you add scale. If, for argument's sake, we accept the questionable headline rate, that works out to roughly 263 gigatons lost per year. But Greenland holds 2.8 million gigatons, meaning total loss would take over 10,000 years. And the study itself adds important context. Much of its newly counted loss comes from glacier retreat in fjords where ice was already below the sea, so it does not raise sea levels in the way the headline implies. This is how climate fear works: Huge number. No denominator. No time scale. Just blind panic.