Our planet kicked off another year with a warm start: January 2023 ranked as the seventh-warmest January in 174 years.

The average global land and ocean surface temperature was 1.57 degrees F (0.87 of a degree C) above average, ranking as the seventh-warmest January in NOAA's global climate record.

January 2023 marked the 47th-consecutive January and the 527th-consecutive month, with temperatures above the 20th-century average. 

Sea ice at both ends of the world also ran very low, according to NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).

Putin’s Desperate Hours Are going from bad to worse, and folks wish he will soon fall out of a Kremlin window in Moscow, Russia.

“The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a blatant violation of the United Nations Charter and international law. It has unleashed widespread death, destruction and displacement,” 

U.S. private equity funds boost Asian acquisitions outside China. Investment activity rises in Japan and India as investors hedge against risks.

Major U.S. private equity funds are diversifying their Asian acquisitions, increasing activity outside China as Beijing's pandemic countermeasures and worsening relations with the U.S. make investors wary about the country.

Flush with money; the funds could step up acquisitions of non-Chinese Asian companies this year and beyond.

The Sunshine State of Florida has become our American national bellwether, and certainly not in a perfect way, I should add.

Another shooting, this time a TV news crew has been shot while covering an earlier shooting. One journalist is dead. The other newsman is critical as of this posting. Fellow journalists rushed to help the crew that was shot. Then a mother and 9-year-old were shot. The 9-year-old didn't survive.

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The popular phrase California is the place you ought to be may no longer apply, as the entire state is soon expected to freeze up.

Nearly the entire population of the Golden State of California expected 'to see' snow with climate change on steroids.

https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/california-forecast-to-see-low-e…

Meanwhile, a Winter storm brings blizzards across the West, and Midwest while snow is forecast in New York, New England

Do you know the political history of the tweedle dee duo and their dumb and progressively getting dangerous Republican Party?

These losers who led a failed former GOP administration touted a great relationship with Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin and defended an assertion of trusting the foreign leader over the U.S. intelligence community.