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Good thing we're not doing anything silly like heating the entire planet. That would be a very alarming finding if we were.

Or powering the current AI bubble with a buildout of climate-wrecking energy infrastructure.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/21/gas-power-plants-approved-...

On the upside, since Trump's tariffs are going to make importing tomatoes/etc from Mexico in winter unaffordable, maybe winter here will become warm enough that we can grow them here!

The Iowa corn crop may start failing, but we can start growing pineapples instead. Cows eat pineapples, right ?

About 45% of the US corn crop is turned in ethanol for transport which is even worse for the climate than the gasoline it replaces.

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-e...

Corn won’t fail, they’ll get 2 planting seasons like they do in Texas atm.

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