Environment

The US Army Corps of Engineer has granted the final easement necessary to finish construction on the controversial Dakota Access pipeline, dealing a major blow to the Standing Rock Sioux  tribe. President Donald Trump had issued an executive order to review the project quickly. In a court filing  the Army Corps said it would allow the final 1.5 miles of the more than 1,700-mile pipeline to tunnel under the Missouri River north of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.

The mayor of Ankara warned on Tuesday that hostile outside forces were planning to orchestrate a manmade earthquake in Turkey, capable of wreaking huge damage across the country.  Melih Gokcek, who has been mayor since 1994, made the claims via Twitter on Tuesday, hinting that sophisticated weather warfare technology would be used to trigger a manmade earthquake which would damage Turkey’s economy.

Submitted by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog,

Dr John Bates' disclosures about the manipulation of data behind the so-called 'Pausebuster' paper is the biggest scientific scandal since 'Climategate' in 2009 when, as Britain's Daily Mail reported, thousands of leaked emails revealed scientists were trying to block access to data, and using a 'trick' to conceal embarrassing flaws in their claims about global warming.

A high-level whistleblower from the world’s leading source of climate data has revealed that the NOAA deliberately published fraudulent data on global warming.  America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) deliberately sexed up a report that exaggerated the effect of man-made global warming in order to influence the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.