Cycle 26 could therefore peak beneath Cycle 24. Full report in today's article: electroverse.substack.com/p/…

Researchers drilled bedrock cores near Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. Today, those sites sit under about 35 to 40 meters of ice. But during the earlier Holocene--the current warm period that began about 11,700 years ago-- the ice was only 2 to 7 meters thick. For thousands of years, it held at these low levels before thickening again. The paper calls this "reversible ice sheet thinning." The region thinned before, naturally, then recovered. The physical record is littered with examples of great thinning and thickening. This is not unprecedented. Nor is it irreversible.

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Arla will increase the value of its climate incentive points by a third from January 2027, offering dairy farmers higher payments for measures aimed at cutting emissions READ MORE: farminguk.com/news/arla-to-b…

This week a council approved a solar farm on two hundred and thirty-five acres of grazing, and the family who had run cattle on it for generations said it would probably finish them. The panels will be there for forty years. The cattle were there for four hundred. The land is not the developer's. It belongs to an estate or a pension fund, and the developer offers a rent per acre no cow has ever earned. The farmer gets a letter. The council, told to triple solar by a minister who has never kept a beast, finds that the loss of a herd is not a planning consideration. So the field goes under glass. In Britain a solar array produces for about one hour in nine. It makes most in June at noon, when the country needs it least, and nothing on a January evening, when it needs it most, so a gas station is kept idling behind every one. The panels are made in China from polysilicon out of a province the government will not name. They lose output every year they stand there, and at the end there is no plan and no bond for taking them away. A quarter of a million square metres of glass, aluminium and copper cable, in a field, with a thirty-year lease and a company that will not exist when it ends. Under the panels the grass dies for want of light, the soil compacts under the plant, and the hedges go because the fence has to be electric and the fence has to be straight. The sheep in the brochure are for the photograph. The cattle were a solar panel already. Grass takes the light, the cow converts it, and the output is beef, every day of the year, on no cable, no subsidy and no inverter, for as long as there is rain. They have replaced a power station that makes dinner with one that works on a sunny afternoon and sits dead the rest of the time, and the family who ran the first one are being evicted to make room for the second.