WHO: Nebraska Cornhuskers (12-2, 2-1 Big Ten)
WHEN: 7:00 PM CT (Tuesday, January 7, 2025)
WHERE: Carver-Hawkeye Arena (Iowa City, IA)
TV: Peacock (Paul Burmeister and Robbie Hummel)
RADIO: Hawkeye Radio Network (Gary Dolphin, Bobby Hansen)
MOBILE: peacocktv.com
ONLINE: peacocktv.com
FOLLOW: @HawkeyeBeacon | @IowaHoops | @NBCSports | @IowaonBTN
LINE: Iowa -4.5 (total of 160.5)
KENPOM: Iowa -1 (Iowa 52% chance of winning)

Iowa and Nebraska enter Tuesday night's game on very different paths. The Hawkeyes were obliterated 116-85 at Wisconsin last Friday night, while the Cornhuskers picked up their best win of the season by dropping then-#15 UCLA 66-58 on Saturday. That win moved the Huskers to 12-2 overall and 2-1 in the Big Ten.

Nebraska's only defeats this season have been at Michigan State and to a solid Saint Mary's team on a neutral site early in the year. The Huskers' non-conference strength of schedule wasn't great -- 236th nationally -- though it was certainly tougher overall than Iowa's non-con slate (353rd nationally).

For Iowa, if a game in early January can be said to be a must-win game, this might qualify. The Hawkeyes fell to 10-4 overall and 1-2 in the Big Ten after the loss to the Badgers and a tricky-looking road trip to USC and UCLA looms next week (after a home game against Indiana on Saturday). The Hawkeyes can ill afford several early losses or going deeply underwater in the Big Ten standings now if they want to have a shot at playing meaningful basketball in March.

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Humanity is doomed, and well deservedly so:

Planet-warming pollution in Earth’s atmosphere last year hit the highest levels in human history, scientists announced Monday — a worrying indicator of the world’s failure to curb climate change as global temperatures are on track to hit yet another record high.

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Concentrations of carbon dioxide — the most important driver of global warming — are now growing faster than at any time since our species evolved, according to the World Meteorological Organization’s annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. The increase can be traced back to stubbornly high rates of fossil fuel consumption, the report said, as well as ecosystems that are becoming more likely to produce emissions and potentially less capable of absorbing excess carbon.

Levels of the potent greenhouse gases methane and nitrous oxide also hit all-time highs in 2023, the WMO said. The total heat-trapping potential of the atmosphere is now 51.5 percent higher than in 1990, when United Nations scientists first warned the world was on track for catastrophic climate change.



“This should set alarm bells ringing among decision makers,” WMO Secretary General Celeste Saulo said in a statement. “Every part per million and every fraction of a degree temperature increase has a real impact on our lives and our planet.”
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For the past 14 months, global temperatures have been at least 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than preindustrial levels, according to Europe’s top climate agency. In a report last week, U.N. researchers said nations must cut greenhouse house emissions to 42 percent below 2019 levels to avoid permanently exceeding that threshold and triggering the most dangerous consequences of global warming.
But Monday’s Greenhouse Gas Bulletin shows the world is nowhere near achieving that target.

Drawing on data from hundreds of measurement stations spread across more than 80 countries and all the world’s ocean basins, the report found that atmospheric levels of heat-trapping gases have grown at an accelerating rate in the past decade.


The concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere last year exceeded 420 parts per million — a level not seen since the Pliocene Epoch more than 3 million years ago. At that time, global temperatures were 2 to 3 degrees Celsius (3.6 to 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer, sea levels were 30 to 60 feet higher, and Homo sapiens did not yet exist.
Most of the recent growth comes from people burning coal, oil and gas, the report said. But the WMO researchers also found worrying evidence that human-driven warming has caused natural systems to release more greenhouse gases and may be hurting the Earth’s ability to absorb what people emit.

The hike in carbon dioxide concentrations last year coincided with the largest-observed spike in carbon monoxide — a related gas that is produced when trees burn, the scientists said. Global carbon emissions from forest fires were 16 percent above average during the 2023-2024 fire season, as Australia endured a historic drought and Canada saw a record 37 million acres of forest go up in flames.


Surging levels of methane may also be traced to degraded ecosystems, data suggests. Chemical analysis of the gas, which traps 28 times more heat than carbon dioxide over a 100-year time frame, suggests that it is increasingly coming from microbial activity, rather than fossil fuel burning. Though some of that increase can be attributed to bacteria living in landfills and the guts of cows, researchers worry it is also being produced by warming tropical wetlands and thawing Arctic permafrost.
Meanwhile, the net amount of carbon taken up by ecosystems last year was about 28 percent lower than in 2021 and 2022, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Global Monitoring Laboratory. This decline may be in part because of 2023’s record-high temperatures, which are known to stress plants and cut into ecosystems’ ability to serve as a carbon sink.
The more the world continues to warm, the researchers said, the more natural carbon sinks will weaken, and the harder it will be to achieve the world’s climate goals.
“We face a potential vicious cycle,” WMO Deputy Secretary General Ko Barrett said in a statement. “These climate feedbacks are critical concerns to human society.”

I haven't seen him in awhile. Did I miss something?

....can I gouge these Cyclone fans with Final 4 and NC tix? I want them to keep winning

In case you all need a kick in the nuts to remind you how stupidly dominant PSU is, they brought 5 back-ups (mostly freshmen) to the admittedly watered down Scuffle tournament and are currently sitting in 3rd place just before the finals begins. They have four in the finals and 1 wrestling for 3rd. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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sick fuchs if you wanna chop your wang off and you're an adult fine... leave the PRESCHOOL KIDS ALONE.

On X per this morning

****ing insanity >

Hammer meet nailhead... And, sorry if this is a Pepsi... I did search

The Georgia Republican wrote in an op-ed that he’ll vote for President Biden — “a decent person I disagree with” — over Trump, “a criminal defendant without a moral compass.”

But the GOP will never rebuild until we move on from the Trump era, leaving conservative (but not angry) Republicans like me no choice but to pull the lever for Biden. At the same time, we should work to elect GOP congressional majorities to block his second-term legislative agenda and provide a check and balance.

The alternative is another term of Trump, a man who has disqualified himself through his conduct and his character. The headlines are ablaze with his hush-money trial over allegations of improper record-keeping for payments to conceal an affair with an adult-film star.

Most important, Trump fanned the flames of unfounded conspiracy theories that led to the horrific events of Jan. 6, 2021. He refuses to admit he lost the last election and has hinted he might do so again after the next one.

God it’s fun watching a coach that believes in his offense and is willing to press a bit. Ferentz would have punted right there for sure. Difference between winners and losers.

Side question - what record would a coach like Dan Campbell have had at Iowa (with the Defenses we typically have) compared to Ferentz? I take the over..

If you picked Peter from Peter, Paul, and Mary.....you got points

Now the head coach for the Bison, Polasek is a national champion. Continues the dynasty in Fargo.

And of course, Cam Miller as their QB — Solon, IA native.
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Very, very cool.

What if Iowa landed Mark Gronowski?

Culture fit, evaluating what he's done on the field thus far, how adding the two-time national champion and 2023 FCS National Player of the Year would change things in the #Hawkeyes QB room, + more.

Story:

At what point is Fran going to actually manage a team and turn Payton into a teammate vs a black hole chucker?

Trump is jealous, his big Bro Vlad has his invasion and war. Dumpster wants one of those. Oh these very small men.

Does this team take it personally and find a way to put this last game behind them… Students are still on break I believe small crowd… This game could define the season one way or another. Fred has his team playing great D and they have 3 guys 6-10 and taller.

Ohio St is playing great right now...without a starter. Iowa has played them the best so far this tournament. Deep breathes people. Everything's going to be ok.

Iowa offers FCS Freshmen All-American DB, Sascha Garcia out of the transfer portal. Three years of eligibility remaining.

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I've made New Year's resolutions a few times in the past and I've kept maybe half of them. It helps to write them down and read them each week.

In 2022, my resolution was to stop arguing with people and I've improved by maybe 80%. In an extremely divided society, arguing seems to be a problem and it's getting worse.

In 2025, my resolution is to try to detach from worldly matters like politics to focus on other issues like life after death, which I believe are more important. The great quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson applies: "Mind the eternities, not the times."

CSB.

How about you?