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Fuerzas de Pakistán matan a 15 insurgentes en redadas en refugios en el noroeste
Associated Press
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Las fuerzas de seguridad de Pakistán, actuando con información de inteligencia, mataron a 15 insurgentes en el allanamiento de dos escondites en el noroeste, cerca de la frontera con Afganistán, dijo el ejército el martes.
Las tropas realizaron primero una operación en Dera Ismail Khan, un distrito de la provincia de Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, en la que abatieron a 10 miembros del Talibán paquistaní, según un comunicado militar. Una segunda redada, en el distrito de Waziristán del Norte de la región, se cobró la vida de cinco militantes más, agregó.
El ejército identificó a los fallecidos como “khawarij”, un término que las autoridades utilizan para referirse a los insurgentes que, según sostienen, reciben el respaldo de Afganistán e India, incluidos los vinculados al ilegalizado Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistán, una acusación que Kabul y Nueva Delhi niegan.
El Talibán paquistaní es un grupo independiente pero aliado del afgano, que se ha envalentonado desde que tomaron el poder en Kabul en 2021.
Se cree que muchos líderes y combatientes del TTP operan desde santuarios al otro lado de la frontera afgana, lo que tensa las relaciones entre Islamabad y Kabul.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Climate Scientists Claim That Global Warming Is Going To Cause A New Ice Age?
Climate Scientists Claim That Global Warming Is Going To Cause A New Ice Age?
In the past, climate change has been consistently ranked as a “top concern” for people all over the world. However, that priority has shifted in recent years according to a revealing study published in October by global research firm Ipsos.
The change has been dramatic. In 2025, public concern over climate change has fallen sharply behind concerns of war and economic instability, with geopolitical turmoil and the cost of living crisis. Ipsos’ 2025 Global Consumer Awareness Survey, which was published in collaboration with the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), covers 50 countries and surveyed more than 40,000 respondents. It found that war and the economy now dominate public worries at 52%, while climate change trails at just 31%.
Climate scientists say this drop in public concern over global warming is disturbing. They claim 2024 was the “hottest year on record” (which is a lie), and that the populace should be more worried, not less.
The public is, of course, more concerned about the immediate dangers to their standard of living and such threats have easily supplanted climate change: A threat which we have been browbeaten with over the course of decades even though it never seems to materialize.
However, education on the facts surrounding climate change has also given the public perspective and people are beginning to realize that climate science might just be one of the biggest scams of the 21st Century. In other words, the indoctrination is failing and less and less people are buying into the hysteria.
Climate science is an industry that us built like a labyrinthine bureaucracy. Various governments worldwide spend around $10 billion annually on direct funding for climate research. The scam is lucrative, and so the scam must continue. But what happens when climate predictions turn out consistently false and the public gets wise?
Time to switch gears and fabricate new fears…
Popular Mechanics is on the case (yet again), promoting a new climate science theory that global warming is going to get so bad it will trigger a new ice age. Yes, it’s the complete opposite of what global warming theorists have been positing for years, but let’s ignore that fact for a moment.
A new study suggests that biological and oceanic process—supercharged by anthropogenic climate change—could eventually lead the Earth to overcorrect and send the planet into a deep freeze.
Popular Mechanic’s claims:
“Today, the Earth is experiencing a warming period unlike any other. The Jurassic, which was warm due to high levels of atmospheric carbon, reached its sweltering temperatures gradually, whereas anthropogenic climate change has caused much more rapid shifts – so rapid, in fact, that certain climactic changes have been discernible even within the average human lifespan…”
None of this is true. They continue:
“Typically, one way the Earth regulates its temperature is through the slow weathering of silicate rocks—a process sometimes referred to as Earth’s “natural thermostat.” But a new study, led by scientists at the University of Bremen in German and the University of California (UC) Riverside, shows that a combination of biological and oceanic feedback loops (particularly those involving algae, phosphorus, and oxygen) could outpace this long-standing moderation strategy. This would paradoxically lead Earth to a premature deep freeze hundreds of thousands of years in the future…”
So, even if this theory was accurate, we’ve got plenty of time to figure it out. If you are familiar with the history of climate change propaganda dating back to the 1970’s, then this idea might sound very familiar to you. Some of the first claims of impending climate doom were not about global warming, they were about global cooling. This was back when the narrative was not solidified and consensus had not yet been paid for.
In reality, today’s “warming period” is actually one of the coldest periods in the history of the Earth. When climate scientists say that a particular year was the “hottest on record”, what they omit is the length of the record they are referring to. Climate scientists base all of their claims of global warming on a 140 year record going back to the 1880s. This is a tiny sliver of time in the Earth’s overall climate history. If you look at a record going back millions of years, you will find that our planet has had warming cycles far hotter than today.
Not only do they consistently lie about comparative temperatures and the climate record, they also lie about carbon emissions being the cause of warming trends. A graph of atmospheric carbon content over the same time frame shows no correlation or causation between carbon and warming.
One thing that is true is that global cooling would be more dangerous to the Earth than global warming. The most recent Ice Age was a devastating event that is projected to have killed up to 150,000 non-microbe species. On a grand scale of Earth-time, we have barely exited that disaster which ended 11,000 years ago.
In all likelihood the climate change industry is rushing to find a new narrative as the populace drifts away from global warming fear. Carbon taxation, population control, centralized government dominance of energy and industry all rely on people blindly accepting man-made climate change as real. Global cooling might make a comeback as the premier bogeyman of the future if global warming doesn’t stick.
Tyler Durden
Tue, 11/18/2025 – 02:45
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/climate-sceintists-claim-global-warming-going-cause-new-ice-age
Un reo presenta una demanda por el derecho a comer Vegemite en prisión
Por ROD McGUIRK
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Un recluso desafía la prohibición de un estado australiano al consumo de Vegemite en las cárceles alegando en una demanda judicial que privarlo de la controvertida pasta a base de levadura, que la mayor parte de Australia venera como un ícono culinario injustamente difamado, viola su derecho fundamental a “disfrutar de su cultura como australiano”.
Andre McKechnie, de 54 años y que cumple una condena de cadena perpetua por asesinato, llevó su batalla por este salado, pegajoso y marrón derivado de la elaboración de cerveza a la Corte Suprema de Victoria, de acuerdo con los documentos que el registro judicial facilitó el martes a The Associated Press.
Aunque se estima que más del 80% de los hogares australianos tienen un frasco de Vegemite en sus despensas, los internos en las 12 prisiones de Victoria no pueden consumirlo ya que el producto, muy popular en el país para untarlo en las tostadas del desayuno, se considera contrabando.
McKechnie demandó al Departamento de Justicia y Seguridad Comunitaria de Victoria y a la agencia que gestiona las prisiones, Corrections Victoria. El juicio está previsto para el próximo año.
Veto a Vegemite viola Carta de DDHH y Responsabilidades, según recluso
McKechnie reclama una declaración judicial de que los demandados le negaron su derecho, contemplado en la Carta de Derechos Humanos y Responsabilidades, a “disfrutar de su cultura como australiano”.
La ley garantiza a “todas las personas con un trasfondo cultural, religioso, racial o lingüístico concreto” el derecho a “disfrutar de su cultura, declarar y practicar su religión y usar su idioma”.
Además, busca que se declare que los demandados infringieron la Ley de Instituciones Penitenciarias al “no proporcionar alimentos adecuados para mantener” su “bienestar”.
McKechnie quiere que el tribunal ordene que la decisión de prohibir Vegemite sea “reformule de acuerdo con la ley”.
Vegemite está prohibido en las prisiones de Victoria desde 2006 y, según Corrections Victoria, “interfiere con los perros detectores de narcóticos”.
Los reclusos solían untar paquetes de drogas ilícitas con Vegemite con la esperanza de que el olor distrajera a los perros del contrabando.
Vegemite también contiene levadura, que está vetada en los penales de la región por su “potencial para ser utilizada en la producción de alcohol”, de acuerdo con el listado.
El favorito de los australianos desde 1923, un gusto adquirido
Fabricado en Australia desde 1923 como alternativa al Marmite británico, Vegemite se comercializó durante mucho tiempo como una fuente de vitamina B para los niños en crecimiento.
La mayoría de los australianos adoran esta pasta para untar, pero quienes no han crecido con ella suelen considerarla, en el mejor de los casos, un gusto adquirido.
El último presidente de Estados Unidos que visitó Australia, Barack Obama, dijo una vez: “Es horrible”.
La banda australiana Men at Work despertó la curiosidad internacional por el producto al mencionar un “sándwich de Vegemite” en su éxito de la década de los 80 “Down Under”.
Suele consumirse en tostadas para desayunar y en sándwiches de queso, y la mayoría de sus fans coinciden en que es mejor aplicarlo con moderación. Quienes viajan fuera del país lamentan la escasez de Vegemite en el extranjero.
El gobierno australiano intervino en abril cuando funcionarios canadienses impidieron temporalmente que un café de Toronto vendiera Vegemite en frascos y en tostadas en una disputa que la prensa bautizó como “Vegemite-gate”. Los canadienses cedieron y permitieron su venta a pesar de que incumplía la normativa local sobre envasado de alimentos y enriquecimiento con vitaminas.
El Departamento de Justicia y Seguridad Comunitaria y Corrections Victoria rechazaron hacer comentarios el martes. Las agencias gubernamentales suelen argumentar que no es apropiado comentar asuntos que están en los tribunales.
Las prisiones de Queensland también prohíben el Vegemite, pero en el estado más poblado del país, Nueva Gales del Sur, se permite. Otras jurisdicciones australianas no informaron a AP el martes sobre su posición.
Víctimas de delitos califican la demanda de frívola y ofensiva
El abogado y activista John Herron calificó la denuncia de frívola y ofensiva para las familias de las víctimas.
“Como víctimas, no tenemos ningún derecho. Tenemos un apoyo limitado, si es que lo tenemos. Siempre se trata del autor del delito, y esto no hace más que reforzar esa idea”, dijo Herron, cuya hija, Courtney Herron, fue golpeada hasta la muerte en un parque de Melbourne en 2019. Su agresor fue declarado inocente de asesinato por una discapacidad mental.
“No se trata de Vegemite o Nutella o lo que sea. Es un beneficio adicional que nos restriega en la cara la tragedia que hemos sufrido”, agregó.
McKechnie está en la prisión de máxima seguridad de Port Phillip. Tenía 23 años cuando mató a puñaladas al adinerado constructor inmobiliario de Gold Coast, Otto Kuhne, en el estado de Queensland, en 1994.
Fue sentenciado a cadena perpetua por asesinato y, una década después, fue transferido del sistema penitenciario de Queensland al de Victoria.
El año pasado escribió que pasó ocho años en libertad condicional en Victoria antes de decidir que el sistema “había hecho más daño que bien” y optar por regresar a prisión.
Los abogados de McKechnie no respondieron a una solicitud de comentarios el martes.
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Highlights From Lavrov’s Interview That A Leading Italian Newspaper Refused To Publish
Highlights From Lavrov’s Interview That A Leading Italian Newspaper Refused To Publish
Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,
Leading Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera scandalously refused to publish in full the exclusive written interview with Sergey Lavrov that the Russian Foreign Ministry offered them in order to clarify Russia’s positions and with which they were eager to cooperate until they received the answers from him.
The Russian Foreign Ministry then condemned their decision as “a blatant case of censorship.”
What follows are highlights from his interview so that readers can make up their own minds about it.
Lavrov began by relating how Trump agreed with Putin in Anchorage that Ukraine should be kept out of NATO and that the new ground reality should be recognized
Ukraine, the EU, and the UK immediately tried to manipulate him right after during their White House meeting. The Financial Times then played a complementary role after the next Trump-Putin call in October by speculating that Lavrov’s follow-up call with Rubio ruined their Budapest Summit plans. Putin is still ready to meet with Trump there though.
The next point that Lavrov made was that the special operation isn’t about territory but saving the Russian minority’s lives and ensuring his country’s security.
The restraint that Russia has exercised thus far is to spare civilian and military lives. He also reaffirmed Russia’s goals in the special operation and defended wearing a sweatshirt with USSR written on the front during the Anchorage Summit, which he said doesn’t imply a desire to recreate the Soviet Union and was just a display of patriotism.
Moving along, Lavrov said that the Europeans want to indefinitely perpetuate the Ukrainian Conflict because “they have no other way of distracting their voters from sharply deteriorating domestic socioeconomic problems…they are openly preparing Europe for a new big war against Russia and are trying to talk Washington into rejecting an honest and fair settlement.”
He then referenced Russia’s pre-2022 proposal for reforming the European security architecture, which NATO and the EU rejected.
When asked about Russia’s “isolation”, he listed Russia’s wide array of partners across the Global South and some of the high-level events in which his fellow diplomats participated, while dismissing the interviewer’s suggestion that Russia is in an alliance with China and dependent on it. He clarified that they coordinate their positions on key issues and regard one another as equals. Lavrov then ended by saying that a Russian-Italian rapprochement is only possible if Rome abandons its hostile policies.
Lavrov did indeed inject some predictable polemics into his answers, which is his style as anyone who follows him knows, but those aren’t legitimate grounds not to publish his interview. Corriere della Sera has the right to withhold publication of whatever it wants or only release an edited version, but their decision not to publish this interview in full reeks of censorship carried out on the pretext of their editorial standards. They probably didn’t want folks to read his polemics against Ukraine and the West.
In any case, all that they did was inadvertently draw more attention to the same polemics that they presumably wanted to censor after the Russian Foreign Ministry shined a spotlight on this scandal. Corriere della Sera is considered one of Europe’s newspapers of record so this reflects very poorly on them and the continent’s journalism industry as a whole. That’s not surprising for astute observers, but it might make an impression among casual ones who naively assumed that censorship doesn’t exist there.
Tyler Durden
Tue, 11/18/2025 – 02:00
Policía de Los Ángeles investiga nueva acusación de agresión sexual contra Sean “Diddy” Combs
Associated Press
LOS ÁNGELES (AP) — El departamento de policía del condado de Los Ángeles dijo el lunes que investiga una nueva acusación de agresión sexual contra el magnate del hip-hop Sean “Diddy” Combs, que cumple una pena de cuatro años de prisión por condenas relacionadas con la prostitución.
Un productor musical y publicista afirmó que en 2020 fue invitado a una sesión de fotos en un almacén de Los Ángeles, donde Combs se habría exhibido mientras se masturbaba y pedido al denunciante que lo ayudara, reportó la televisora NBC News citando un informe policial. Después, Combs arrojó una camisa sucia al hombre, según el productor.
El denunciante, cuyo nombre estaba oculto en el reporte policial, señaló que durante años no le contó a nadie el incidente porque se sentía avergonzado. Se presentó ante la policía en Largo, Florida, en septiembre, poco después de que Combs fuera condenado por otros cargos.
El abogado de Combs no respondió a un correo electrónico de The Associated Press solicitando comentarios sobre las últimas acusaciones.
El departamento de policía del condado de Los Ángeles señaló que recibió una copia oficial del informe del departamento de Florida el viernes y que investigará las acusaciones.
El reporte detalla también un incidente ocurrido en marzo de 2021 en el que, según el denunciante, dos hombres le cubrieron la cabeza antes de que Combs entrara en la habitación y le llamara soplón, de acuerdo con NBC.
Combs fue condenado en julio por llevar a sus parejas y a trabajadores sexuales masculinos por todo el país para participar en encuentros sexuales en los que había drogas en múltiples lugares durante muchos años. Pero fue absuelto de los cargos de tráfico sexual y crimen organizado que podrían haberle supuesto una condena de cadena perpetua.
Está previsto que quede libre en mayo de 2028, aunque podría obtener reducciones de pena si participa en tratamientos por abuso de sustancias y otros programas penitenciarios.
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Exsecretario del Tesoro Larry Summers renuncia a sus cargos públicos tras correos de Epstein
Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — Larry Summers, expresidente de la Universidad de Harvard que en su día fungió como secretario del Tesoro de Estados Unidos, anunció en un comunicado que renuncia a sus compromisos públicos tras la divulgación de correos electrónicos que mostraban que mantuvo una relación amistosa con Jeffrey Epstein mucho después de que el financiero se declarara culpable de solicitar servicios sexuales a una menor en 2008.
El comunicado, enviado a The Harvard Crimson y otros medios el lunes, indicó que Summers se retira para “recuperar la confianza y reparar la relación con las personas más cercanas a mí”.
“Estoy profundamente avergonzado de mis acciones y reconozco el dolor que han causado. Asumo plena responsabilidad por mi decisión equivocada de continuar comunicándome con el señor Epstein”, señaló la nota.
Summers afirmó que continuará con la docencia. De acuerdo con su web, imparte varios cursos de economía en Harvard.
Epstein se suicidó en una cárcel de Manhattan en 2019 mientras esperaba un juicio por cargos de abuso sexual y tráfico de menores.
Los correos electrónicos publicados la semana pasada mostraron que muchos en la vasta red de amigos ricos e influyentes del financiero mantuvieron el contacto con él mucho después de su declaración de culpabilidad en 2008.
En un email enviado a Epstein en 2019, Summers comentó las interacciones que había tenido con una mujer, escribiendo que “le dije qué estás haciendo. Ella dijo ‘Estoy ocupada’. Le dije que eres muy reservada”.
Epstein, quien a menudo escribía con errores ortográficos y gramaticales, le respondió: “reaccionaste bien… la molestia muestra interés. , no quejarse demostró fortaleza”.
Cuando se le preguntó por esos mensajes la semana pasada, Summers emitió un comunicado en el que señaló que tenía “grandes remordimientos en mi vida” y que su relación con Epstein fue un “gran error de juicio”.
Summers sirvió como secretario del Tesoro de 1999 a 2001, durante la presidencia de Bill Clinton. Fue presidente de Harvard durante cinco años, de 2001 a 2006, y actualmente es profesor y director del Centro Mossavar-Rahmani de Negocios y Gobierno de la institución.
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3 takeaways as the Chicago Bulls snap a 5-game losing streak with improbable win over the Denver Nuggets
DENVER — The Chicago Bulls were exhausted.
They couldn’t hide it. Less than 21 hours had passed since the final buzzer sounded on a demoralizing double-overtime loss to the Utah Jazz. The starters were gassed. Their legs were gone before they started. The team landed in Denver already prepared to hand the bulk of the game over to their bench unit.
But the Bulls also needed a win. Badly. Five losses in a row had piled up into a heap of frustration, the kind that seeped deep into the locker room. Losing is tiring in its own way. It weighs on a team, growing exponentially heavier.
In an improbable 130-127 win over the Denver Nuggets, one form of exhaustion won out over the other.
“We needed to get back in the win column,” guard Jevon Carter said after the win. “Super bad.”
The formula for success was as simple — and grueling — as it has been all season. The Bulls crashed the boards and forced second chances and pounded the ball into the paint. Jalen Smith scraped and clawed at Nikola Jokić, earning boos and jeers from the Denver crowd as he frustrated the former MVP. Dalen Terry and Julian Phillips stood tall when the Nuggets launched a 3-on-1 advantage in transition, leaping and swatting at shots until they finally batted the ball back into Bulls’ hands.
The Nuggets threw plenty of finishers in the final quarter. That’s a given with players like Jokić and Jamal Murray, who racked up a combined 70 points. But unlike in past losses to behemoth stars, the Bulls had counters of their own Monday night — clutch 3-pointers from Nikola Vučević and Kevin Huerter, a brutal dunk in transition from Ayo Dosunmu.
Chicago Bulls guard Ayo Dosunmu dunks as Denver Nuggets guards Peyton Watson and Jamal Murray look on with Bulls guard Kevin Huerter in the second half on Monday, Nov. 17, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
The Bulls don’t always make sense. They drop losses to bottom-ranked teams. They let opponents blow by them off the dribble and rip off double-digit runs with abandon.
But the thing about this version of the Bulls is that they don’t fade away in games. They’re in more games than they’re not. They’ve finished nine games this season in the clutch — within five points at five minutes remaining — and won five of them. With a losing skid snapped, the Bulls are back above .500. For now, that speaks loudly enough.
The Bulls don’t need to make sense. They just need to keep winning.
Here are three takeaways from the win.
1. Backed by the bench.
Chicago Bulls center Jalen Smith is ushered to the bench after his shoulder was injured while guarding Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokić in the second half on Monday, Nov. 17, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
The Bulls outlasted the Nuggets by leaning heavily on their bench, which entered the game with a higher charge after barely factoring in overtime minutes on Sunday. The Bulls bench outscored the Nuggets secondary rotation 66-9 as all five starting players registered a negative plus-minus score despite finishing with a win.
This makes sense, of course, when an opposing team’s starting unit includes Jokić, Murray and Aaron Gordon. The Nuggets were less deep than normal due to the injury absence of Christian Braun, which placed a heavier strain specifically on their backcourt backup.
The Bulls bench unit built the lead up to 18 points in the second quarter. It took the Nuggets starting unit just under five minutes to completely wipe that advantage away, carrying a one-point advantage into the second half after closing the second quarter on a 24-8 run. But the bench unit continuously stood up against combinations of Nuggets stars, giving the Bulls starters just enough break to close the game out in the clutch.
Jalen Smith led the initial effort off the bench, tallying 16 points and eight rebounds while shouldering hefty minutes against Jokić. Smith found success early with his 3-point shot, but his ability to match up with Jokić changed the course of the game as coach Billy Donovan gave the bench longer rotations against the Denver starters.
The Bulls suffered a blow in the third quarter when Smith injured his shoulder attempting to reach in against Jokić, who responded by hooking the center’s arm and tossing him to the ground to draw a foul. Smith exited and then returned to play for fewer than three minutes for the rest of the game.
Ayo Dosunmu led bench scoring with 21 points in an efficient night of shooting, going 7-for-8 from the floor and 4-for-5 from the free-throw line. Donovan has opted to bring Dosunmu off the bench despite extensive injuries to the guard unit throughout the season, preferring to use the guard as a catalyst for the secondary unit.
2. Hot and cold behind the arc.
For the first half of the game, it seemed the Bulls could beat the Nuggets on shooting alone.
The Bulls went 7-for-14 from behind the arc in the first half alone, including a pair apiece from Matas Buzelis and Jevon Carter. The Bulls were especially prolific from above the break, hitting five of their 3-pointers in the first quarter from well above the free throw line.
That shooting crashed back down to earth in the second half, where the Bulls shot only 7-for-27 from deep. Kevin Huerter and Carter were the only Bulls players immune to this second-half cool-off, combining for five of the team’s seven 3-pointers in the half.
3. Coby White sits out.
The Bulls welcomed the return of Coby White in Sunday’s loss to the Utah Jazz after he missed the first 11 games of the season with a calf strain. The guard blew past his 24-minute playing time restriction in his season debut and was summarily sidelined for Monday’s game in the second half of a back-to-back.
Guard Tre Jones also missed Monday’s game with a left ankle injury. Although the Bulls did not shoot around Monday morning, Jones went through a workout on his own in an attempt to be cleared for the game. The Bulls remain hopeful that he could be made available for the final game of the road trip in Portland.
Center Zach Collins is beginning to ramp up after undergoing surgery for a fracture in his left wrist. Collins will need to rebuild significant mobility and strength in his wrist before he is cleared to play. Donovan said he believes Collins could begin practicing next week after the Bulls complete a home back-to-back against the Miami Heat and Washington Wizards, although he admitted that is an optimistic timeline for the center’s recovery.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/18/chicago-bulls-denver-nuggets-snap-streak/
Brasil, anfitrión de la COP30, pide negociar y hallar soluciones al calentamiento global
Por MELINA WALLING, SETH BORENSTEIN y ANTON L. DELGADO
Con una carta directa enviada a las naciones participantes, Brasil, el anfitrión de la COP30, está acelerando la conferencia climática de Naciones Unidas.
La misiva, enviada el lunes por la noche, llega durante la última semana de lo que se ha calificado como una cumbre climática histórica, la primera que se celebra en la selva amazónica, un regulador clave del clima ya que sus árboles absorben dióxido de carbono, un gas de efecto invernadero que calienta el planeta.
El documento antecede a los discursos de alto perfil de ministros previsto para el martes. Entre los principales ponentes hay representantes de influyentes países europeos como Ed Miliband, secretario de Rnergía de Reino Unido; y la viceprimera ministra de Holanda, Sophie Hermans. También intervendrán más líderes de pequeños estados insulares y naciones en desarrollo como Barbados y Bangladesh, ambos afectados por la pérdida de territorio debido al aumento del nivel del mar consecuencia del cambio climático.
La carta pide a los líderes que resuelvan muchos aspectos de un posible acuerdo antes del martes por la noche, de modo que gran parte del trabajo esté hecho antes de las decisiones finales el viernes, cuando está previsto que termine la conferencia. Las cumbres climáticas suelen extenderse más allá de la fecha de finalización prevista, ya que todas las naciones llegan a la mesa de negociación tratando de equilibrar sus preocupaciones propias con los grandes cambios necesarios a nivel global para proteger el medio ambiente y reducir las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero.
Las directrices de Brasil para la cumbre, llamada COP30, eleva la esperanza de alcanzar medidas significativas para combatir el calentamiento global, que podrían ir desde una hoja de ruta para abandonar combustibles fósiles como el petróleo y el carbón, hasta destinar más fondos para ayudar a las naciones a desarrollar energías limpias como la eólica y la solar.
Para los negociadores, la carta de Brasil supondrá jornadas más largas de trabajo en las que intentarán alcanzar acuerdos políticos en una serie de temas polémicos.
“Esperamos concesiones importantes de todas las partes”, afirmó André Corrêa do Lago, presidente de la COP30. “Se dice que hay que dar para recibir”.
Ese plazo del miércoles es “bastante ambicioso” y hay mucho en juego, apuntó Alden Meyer, miembro del centro de estudios climático E3G.
“Ya sea lidiar con los efectos del cambio climático, con el aumento de la factura energética y la inseguridad energética, mejorar la salud o crear empleos. Esas son las cosas que le importan a la gente. No les importa ningún subpárrafo en una decisión legal adoptada aquí en Belém”, dijo Meyer. “Brasil, la presidencia, ha dejado muy claro desde el principio que esa será la prueba de fuego”.
El espíritu optimista del anfitrión “está comenzando a ser un poco contagioso”, agregó señalando que eso forma parte de la creación de confianza y buena voluntad entre las naciones.
“Aquí noto ambición. Noto determinación”, dijo la exenviada climática alemana Jennifer Morgan el lunes por la mañana.
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Offseason work fuels South Elgin’s Izzy Fernandez. And Jacobs finds out in season opener. ‘Earned the respect.’
Heading into her sophomore season, South Elgin point guard Izzy Fernandez was prepared for an expanded role. She was that good last winter for the Storm on the varsity as a freshman.
Coach Emily Driessen has put a lot on Fernandez’s plate in terms of leadership and ball-handling.
“She worked really hard in the offseason knowing that she was going to be more watched this season as a sophomore based on her freshman season,” Driessen said of Fernandez. “We’re really trying to push her to be more of a leader this year in the sense of ball-handling.
“She brings so much basketball knowledge and she works so hard at it. She wants that responsibility and has earned the respect of her teammates.”
That respect will rise. Fernandez led all scorers Monday night with 19 points as South Elgin earned a 59-43 nonconference win over host Jacobs in both teams’ season opener.
Fernandez added seven rebounds and three steals for South Elgin (1-0). Molly Stahl scored 16 points and Taleah Banner had 12. Mallory Fessler and Olivia Schuster tallied nine points apiece for Jacobs (0-1).
South Elgin’s Rhiana Reynon tries to make a pass while being defended by Jacobs’ Zara Lewis (10) during a nonconference game in Algonquin on Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. (Ryan Rayburn / The Beacon-News)
Having a season of varsity experience offers even more optimism for Fernandez.
“I think it really just helped me see how it is as a freshman,” Fernandez said. “The pace, how everything works. Now being in my second year, I’m in a different role where I have to be the leader and point guard and be vocal.
“I have to get my teammates involved and get my shots in, too. I have trust in my teammates.”
Jacobs forced an 11-11 tie in the first but the Storm finished the quarter on a 16-1 run to take control of the game. South Elgin led by 12 at halftime and by as many as 28 in the fourth.
Jacobs’ Mallory Fessler, right, wrestles for control of the ball on the floor with South Elgin’s Janessa Pace during a nonconference game in Algonquin on Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. (Ryan Rayburn / The Beacon-News)
“I was very pleased,” Driessen said. “They’ve been practicing really hard. They’re good teammates right now. They came out and executed, sometimes even to my surprise.
“They were just really in sync with each other.”
After decent start to the game, the Golden Eagles were stymied by South Elgin’s pressure.
“It’s kind of the same thing we struggle with early on every year,” Jacobs coach Jonny Reibel said. “Once the defense starts to pressure, we get behind and we get pushed out of our game and our focus, start to get a little rattled. We don’t allow ourselves to settle in.”
South Elgin’s Taleah Banner (3) drives past Jacobs’ Brie VerBurg (5) during a nonconference game in Algonquin on Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. (Ryan Rayburn / The Beacon-News)
Fernandez’s multidimensional scoring ability was difficult for the Golden Eagles to defend.
She has the ability to hit 3-pointers — making a pair Monday — get to the basket, pressure on defense and find open teammates. That can be a difficult combination to stop.
“Anyone that has three-level scoring ability, how do you defend that?” Reibel said. “It takes a team, not just an individual. It’s being in the right spots, communication and getting around screens.
“It’s forcing her to find ways she’s uncomfortable.”
Fernandez understands that the focus of most defenses will be on her this winter, so she worked to refine her game during the offseason.
South Elgin’s Izzy Fernandez (2) drives into Jacobs’ Maggie Body (3) during a nonconference game in Algonquin on Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. (Ryan Rayburn / The Beacon-News)
“I mainly focused on speed and conditioning,” Fernandez said. “I was running a mile two or three times a week and lifting a little bit because it is a physical game and you don’t want to get hurt.
“I’m always trying to get better at something no matter what and stay consistent.”
Fernandez confirmed that her team’s goal is to get back to winning regional titles. Monday’s opener was a positive step in that direction.
“I think it was a little surprising because a lot of us had some nerves and we have some new people too,” Fernandez said. “I think we handled it well.”
Paul Johnson is a freelance reporter for The Beacon-News.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/18/izzy-fernandez-south-elgin-jacobs-ihsa-girls-basketball/
Asking Eric: I don’t enjoy emojis
Dear Eric: The home next door is vacant. I think it is a rental property. There is a huge tree in the front yard that is coming over my property. A tree from this property fell on my house a few years ago. This caused my homeowner’s insurance to be canceled because it was considered to be an act of nature.
I need to see if this can be avoided because the tree is old and the dead branches are falling on my car. Do you have any idea what can be done?
– Neighbor Dilemma
Dear Neighbor: Start by collecting information. Your local tax assessor’s office will have a record of who owns the property and what their address is, if the house is not their primary residence. Be sure that if you search online, you’re on the state or local government’s site. There are many data-harvesting sites that will try to charge you for this free information. Don’t click on the first link you find in a search; scroll until you find a city, county or state site.
With this information, you can reach out to the owner directly, or you can reach out to the housing authority. Many housing authorities have task forces specifically charged with monitoring code violations. Even if yours doesn’t, a phone call to the housing authority will alert you to other options that might be available to you.
Dear Eric: I just can’t come to grips with the new style phone etiquette where you send a direct question or comment to someone (texts mainly, or emails, messenger, etc.) and it seems now optional to answer or respond, or at best get a “liked…” or a smiley face wearing sunglasses in reply.
My communications are important, take thoughtful effort to compose and like in the old days, you’re supposed to call the person back. I’m not talking about silly status posts on Instagram; this is two-way conversation and so many people interpret a texting response as optional!
Is it just me or is this an epidemic that is killing courtesy and good manners in modern society? What should I do, fire my friends and family? It’s tempting.
– Text Back
Dear Text Back: Well, I wouldn’t go so far as to label it an epidemic. But it’s true that texting etiquette – and texting practices in general – can lead to miscommunication and frustration. Because it’s relatively new, at least in comparison to the telephone or, say, writing letters, we’re still iterating on it as a culture.
All that to say, don’t fire your friends and family. If you want a text back about sometime specific, include that request in the text. Or consider having a broader conversation with friends and family about how you’d like to communicate. It’s good to ask for what we want. They may not always be willing or able to comply, but they won’t know this is something you’d like unless you tell them.
And, when all else fails, just don’t text. If you have something to say, you can initiate the phone call, thereby sidestepping any emojis.
Dear Eric: I read with interest the letter from the woman who had rooms in her house painted in colors other than what she’d specified (“Painted Over”). She wondered where the fault lied.
How about this: I placed a cookie order with a new local bakery. My husband picked up the order. Well, the order was botched – not even close to the cookie flavor I’d ordered. When I notified the baker, he apologized, saying that my email address was similar to that of someone else who had also placed an order. He offered to do the correct order for me for a “discounted” price. Huh?
Why should I be made to pay again for an error that was not my fault? Needless to say, I have not done business with this bakery since.
What are your thoughts on this? I did not agree to this resolution. Instead of paying again, I just kept and used the incorrect order, despite my disappointment. Some customer service!
– One Smart Cookie
Dear Cookie: I agree with you. This is not great customer service. Moreover, while the baker may have to eat the cost of the botched order, if you’ll excuse the wordplay, it’s the right thing to do. No reason for you to (chocolate) chip in. (OK, wordplay over.)
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The baker acknowledged that the error was all his. That’s fine; we’re all human and these things happen. The next sentence should be, “we’ll make this right as soon as possible.” Businesses often operate on small margins, so errors like this can impact the bottom line. But fixing a mistake without fuss is a small price to pay in comparison to losing a customer.
(Send questions to R. Eric Thomas at eric@askingeric.com or P.O. Box 22474, Philadelphia, PA 19110. Follow him on Instagram and sign up for his weekly newsletter at rericthomas.com.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/18/asking-eric-i-dont-enjoy-emojis/
