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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

28th July 2023

On the Coast of Greenland, Early Arctic Spring Has Been Replaced by Seasonal Extremes, New Research Shows (Inside Climate Narrative News)

Climate ‘Lockdown’ Idea About Control, Not Lowering Emissions

‘Era of global boiling has arrived,’ says UN chief as July set to be hottest month on record (The Guardian)

Biden Admin Report Accidentally Reveals Climate Change Has Little Impact On Economy

Why it’s so important to figure out when a vital Atlantic current might collapse

Wrong, USA Today, Ocean Currents Aren’t Near Collapse

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

27th July 2023

EV Suspected In Fire Of Massive Cargo Ship Carrying 3,000 Cars

NASA’s Solid-State Battery Breakthrough Could Transform Air Travel

Greta Thunberg Now Has a Criminal Record

This Looks Like Earth’s Hottest Month, and Maybe Its Coolest Year for a While (N.Y. Times) WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!

Heat Waves Aren’t Just Getting Hotter—They’re Sticker Too (Wired ‘Science’) WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!

Supreme Court clears path for Mountain Valley Pipeline construction to resume (Politico)

This month is the planet’s hottest on record by far – and hottest in around 120,000 years, scientists say (CNN) Scientists say! That proves it!

Scientists Are Worried About Antarctica’s Unprecedented Lack of Sea Ice Growth

 

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What Comes After “Crisis”?

27th July 2023

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

They story arc of the climatistas goes as follows: It started out as “global warming” in the 1980s. But that term was abandoned in favor of “climate change,” since it enabled the climate campaign to account for inconvenient things like cold weather. (Aside: initially not everyone was on board with “climate change.” I distinctly recall Robert F. Kennedy Jr. calling “climate change” “the deceptive language of anti-environmentalism” about 20 years ago. But he quickly fell in line, no doubt after getting The Memo from Climate Central.)

But “climate change” didn’t do the trick either, so now it’s being called the “climate crisis.” Ooooh, crisis! It doesn’t get any worse than crisis does it? Got do to something radical now now now.

With surveys showing declining public support for the climate crusade despite all the hot and bothered headlines about heat waves, what comes after “climate crisis”? Where is there to go after “crisis”? How do the climatistas turn the panic up to 11?

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

26th July 2023

A crucial system of ocean currents is heading for a collapse that ‘would affect every person on the planet’ (CNN)

Scientists detect sign that a crucial ocean current is near collapse (Washington Post)

A vital system of ocean currents could collapse much sooner than expected, scientists warn (CNBC)

Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests (The Guardian)

Can slag heaps help combat the climate crisis? (The Guardian)

Hot Weather Does Not Mean Climate Change (The Foundry)

Dancing COVID Nurses That Supported Draconian Mandates Switch To Climate Change

Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests (The Guardian)

Endurance Of Electric Vehicles Falters In Extreme Heat

Solar Panels Are Three Times More Carbon-Intensive Than IPCC Claims

‘When will politicians listen?’: Another green energy project ‘bites the dust’

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

25th July 2023

Study: Republican deaths in Florida, Ohio linked to COVID vaccine politics (Axios)

Vaccine politics may be to blame for GOP excess deaths, study finds (Washington Post)

Democrats Learned From Their Covid Mistakes. Republicans Didn’t. (New York magazine)

COVID-19 vaccine politics could be linked to excess GOP deaths in Ohio, Florida: study (The Hill)

The burden of Long Covid “so large as to be unfathomable”

Vaccine rejection may be linked to excess deaths among Florida, Ohio Republicans (Washington Post)

Pentagon Watchdog Finds Numerous Errors in COVID Case Registry (NewsMax)

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

24th July 2023

CDC Changed Definition Of Breakthrough COVID-19 After Emails About ‘Vaccine Failure’

‘Serious Doubt’ About COVID-19 Vaccine Safety After Forced Release Of 15,000 Pages Of Clinical Trial Data

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

24th July 2023

Climate anxiety spiking during the heatwave? Stay hopeful by taking these small steps (EuroNews)

The Largest And Most Powerful Wind Turbine Ever Built Is Now Operational (ScienceAlert)

A paleoclimate scientist explains why he cringes at the 100,000-year heat—and how far back in prehistory it was really this hot (FORTUNE)

Hottest Stretch of Summer Next Week (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)

News Wrap: Earth sees hottest July ever recorded in human history (PBS)

And Now, The Climate Gang Is Coming For Our Thermostats

New York Times Front Page Finds ‘A Mission From God’ It Can Get Behind: Suing ‘Big Oil’

Cancellations Start For John Clauser After Nobel Physics Laureate Speaks Out About “Corruption” Of Climate Science

Electric Formula 1 car catches fire while charging at race track

Alarmist Media Push “Opinion Survey” as Basis for CA Climate Policy vs Using Energy & Science Data

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

23rd July 2023

The Steep Cost of Ron DeSantis’s Vaccine Turnabout

COVID lab leak coverups, then and now

US Military Confirms Myocarditis Spike After COVID Vaccine Introduction

Every Mask is a Nail in the Coffin of Humanity

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

23rd July 2023

Why aren’t we more scared of the climate crisis? It’s complicated (The Guardian) It’s not complicated at all. People no longer automatically believe the Narrative media.

How to Choose Carbon Credits That Actually Cut Emissions (Entrepreneur)

EVs For All? If The Dream Was Met, Would It Help The Environment?

Biden Administration Rule Would Ban Nearly All Portable Gas-Powered Generators

China Rebuffs John Kerry–Xi Tells Him, It’s Business as Usual for China

Scientists: ‘More Ocean Life Making Seas Look Greener’, Media: ‘Climate Crisis!’

IT’S JULY! ABC’s Raddatz Howls Over Climate Change, Blames Human Activity

Report: Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr. John Clauser — who recently declared climate science a ‘pseudoscience’ — has his IMF talk abruptly canceled

Time is running out on the Climate Clock

Most People Aren’t Panicking because We’re in a Climate Change War Zone

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

22nd July 2023

‘We can’t escape’: climate crisis is driving up cost of living in the US west (The Guardian)

Plagued By Drought, China Turns To Coal To Keep The Lights On

Italy Ruffled by German Health Minister’s Wild Claim: “Climate Change Destroying Southern Europe”

Climate records tumble, leaving Earth in uncharted territory – scientists (BBC)

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

21st July 2023

Our leaders failed us on the climate emergency (The Guardisn)

When It Comes to Climate Change, There’s No Such Thing as a New Normal (TIME)

Solar panels on water canals seem like a no-brainer. So why aren’t they widespread? (Associated Press)

New catalyst could dramatically cut methane pollution from millions of engines (Stanford University)

From Kawasaki to Phoenix: tracking a day of extreme heat around the world (The Guardian)

Lab-Grown Artificial ‘Meat’ May Actually Be Worse For The Environment

Experts Warn Renewable Energy Creates ‘New Opportunities’ For Chinese Grid Attacks

80 Million Americans To Face 105 Degree Heat This Weekend: National Weather Service

EVs Aren’t the Solution to Anything

Is Global Warming Causing Massive Heatwaves?

Greta Thunberg Downgraded: Winchester Statue to be Moved to Somewhere “Less Visited”

SEA TRANSPORTATION: Nuclear Powered Cargo Ships Fade Away

German Climate Extremists Escape Criminal Organisation Classification

The Hill Should Check Their Data, Weather is Not Getting Worse

The Politics Of The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: A Comprehensive Review

Wind And Solar Are Not Cheaper Than Coal And Oil

Death Valley Just Had the Hottest Midnight on Record  So what?

There’s a heatwave in the sea and scientists are worried

Record-Breaking Heat Baking Southern US to Expand

“Just Stop Pissing Everyone Off”: Citizen Heroes Confront Environmentalists’ Traffic-Blocking Bull$hit

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

21st July 2023

For the few local businesses that still require masks, a series of uphill battles (Boston Globe)

The new CDC director has a plan to fix the agency’s trust problem (NBC News)

After Long Silence On ‘Long Vax’, Science Magazine Links Autoimmune Disorders To COVID Shots

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

20th July 2023

Why do some never get COVID symptoms? This genetic mutation could be the answer (S.F. Chronicle)

Massachusetts Parents at Risk of Losing Religious Exemption on Vaccinations of Their Kids

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

20th July 2023

Modern ‘Sixth Mass Extinction’ Event Will Be Worse Than First Predicted (Forbes)

Collecting energy from raindrops using solar panel technology (EurekaAlert!)

Fake Twitter profiles, Wikipedia editing and PR battles: Inside the push to greenwash the COP28 climate summit (CNN)

How Germany’s Green Energy Transition Led to Dependence on Imported, Fossil Fuel-Based Energy

UK Looks To Boost Energy Security With Small Modular Nuclear Reactors

EU Ditches Idea To Cap Power Firms’ Revenues

Europe’s “48°C Horror That Never Was”…ESA, Media Sharply Criticized For Manipulative Reporting

Don’t Be Fooled! Here’s How NOAA Perpetuates A Climate Crisis Rainfall Myth

Thousands of Irish Farmers Protest Nitrogen Cuts

Europe Demonstrates False Underlying Assumption of Mainstream Environmental Policy

Lawmaker Questions Top Official Over Proposed Gas Stove Ban

Biggest Beneficiaries of Biden’s Climate Cash Are Foreign Companies

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

19th July 2023

Myocarditis and COVID Vaccination: Yale Researchers Reveal New Insights (SciTechDaily)

Wuhan Lab Leak “So Friggin’ Likely” – New Slack Messages Reveal Massive Media Deception By Fauci & ‘Scientists’

Watch: Rand Paul Is Engaged In An All-Out-War Against Fauci

US Suspends Wuhan Institute Funds Over Covid Stonewalling (Bloomberg)

US Finally Cancels Funding To Wuhan Lab

“We Have Been Lied To”

Breitbart Notes New York Times Admits Wildly Exaggerated COVID Deaths

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

19th July 2023

‘We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come (The Guardian)

False ‘greenwash’ solutions won’t help — we need to eliminate our use of plastics (The Hill)

Some EVs Are “Dirtier” Than Conventional Vehicles; New Study Finds

Will Wind Turbines Be Generating More Waste Than Electricity?

Are Green Investments so Lame they need Special “Green Banks” to Succeed?

Former Enron Adviser Paul Krugman Claims We ‘Absolutely Should Politicize the Weather’ As indeed ‘we’ are.

John Kerry Leaves China Empty-Handed After Days of Climate Discussions  By private jet, of course.

‘California of the East Coast’: New Jersey Moves to Ban New Gas-Powered Cars By 2035

States Reconsider: The Folly of Fear-Driven Climate Policies

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

18th July 2023

Rand Paul lambasts Fauci for getting ‘treated like a president’ with taxpayer-funded security (Fox)

Ex-CDC director says unredacted Fauci gain-of-function email reveals ‘aggressive attempt’ to change narrative (Fox)

Life is about to get much more expensive for millions of families (Axios)

Affordable Diabetes Drug Reduces Long-COVID Risk By 41 Percent: Study

In the Asian Flu of 1957-58, they rejected lockdowns

 

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Thermageddon Week

18th July 2023

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

Every summer we are now treated to “Shark Week” on one of the cable channels, just in time for our beach vacations. And we’re also now treated to “Thermageddon Week” by the climatistas.

Every summer it seems someone discovers that it gets hot. “How hot is it?” (as the crowd would ask Johnny Carson). Always the same answer: Record heat! Climate change. Thermageddon is upon us!

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

17th July 2023

Here’s What Our Climate Overlords Fail To Understand About Fossil Fuels

Russian scientists warn of powerful solar flare activity on Monday (Reuters)

Ford Slashes F-150 Lightning Truck Prices By Up To $10,000 As EV War Heats Up

Politico: Chinese Emissions are Cancelling Biden’s Efforts to Save Us from Climate Change

China Set To Benefit As Global South Lobbies Against EU Carbon Tariffs

12 Ocean Disaster Podcasts That Will Ruin Your Beach Vacation

US Must End Its ‘Crackdown’ on China or Lose Climate Cooperation, CCP Warns Amid Kerry Trip

Experts Advise Responding To Heat Wave By Staying Indoors And Paying More Taxes To The Government (Babylon Bee)

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

17th July 2023

Florida County GOP Calls mRNA COVID Shots “Bioweapons”

FDA Approves First Drug to Protect Babies From RSV  Except we have no evidence that babies are susceptible to RSV, any more than young children.

 

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Whale Tale

17th July 2023

Gates of Vienna.

An expatriate German blogger is being hunted by the Woke Stasi for daring to describe the creature of size who co-leads the Green Party as “fat”.

I feel compelled to note that the German word for “fat” is “dick”. It always makes me think of the (now archaic) Australian colloquialism “to crack a fat”. I wonder if the deep structure of our respective languages somehow understands this congruence of meaning.

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

16th July 2023

Ex-State Dept COVID investigator calls newly-unredacted Fauci communications ‘an extensive cover-up’ (N.Y. Post)

CDC Used Journal To Promote Masks Despite ‘Unreliable’ And ‘Unsupported Data’: New Analysis

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

16th July 2023

We must stop climate solutions killing biodiversity (Financial Times)

Paying the price: Let market forces end the fossil fuel era (The Hill)

Yes, No, Maybe – but Its Going to be Something! Settled Climate Science in 2023

The Grip of Culture: The Social Psychology of Climate Catastrophism

More Disclosure About “Climate Risk Disclosure”

‘Hottest Days’ Manipulation?

Net Zero: An Outcome Without a Process

Nuclear Fission Fuel Is Inexhaustible

What the media won’t tell you about US heat waves

Big oil quietly walks back on climate pledges as global heat records tumble (The Guardian)

US weather: flash floods in the northeast, heatwave intensifies (Reuters)

A Climate Hawk’s Issues With Electric Vehicles (N.Y. Times) A hybrid is an electric car that carries its own charging station with it.

Dishonest Climate Fear-mongering headline of the week goes to USA TODAY

 

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15th July 2023

US heatwave: A third of Americans under extreme heat advisories (BBC)

‘Giant Methane Factories’: Hydropower Has Long Been Touted as Clean Energy. But Is It? (Inside Climate Narrative News)

Nuclear Power’s Next Big Event

Biden Admin Targets Air Conditioning Refrigerants Over Climate Concerns

Guardian: Climate Activists can Overcome Greed by Shouting Louder

Electric Car Sales Stall 

Why Global Warming Lawsuits Deserve to Fail

Power Line U ‘The Plague of Models,’ Webinar 2

Hudson Bay sea ice loss has not accelerated since 2014: in fact, summer ice cover has improved

 

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14th July 2023

The Southwest’s enduring heat wave is expected to intensify over the weekend (NPR)

Coast-to-coast heat dome sends temperatures soaring, threatens all-time records (Washington Post)

Santa Clarita expected to be ‘easily’ over 100 degrees this weekend (Santa Clarita Valley Signal)

‘Dangerous heat’ forecast to bring temperatures up to 110 to the SF Bay Area (S.F. Gate)

Why is Atlantic City’s sea level rising much faster than the rest of the world? (CBS News) Is it? Is it really?

‘Climate Czar’ John Kerry can’t answer a question about his own staff — let alone his private jet (N.Y. Post)

Kerry erupts after his private jet use is mocked in House hearing, denies ever owning one (Fox)

US refuses climate reparations for developing nations (BBC)

John Kerry Private Plane Questions (C-Span)

4 Takeaways From Climate Czar John Kerry’s House Hearing (The Foundry)

Hummer EV Hype Fades In One Chart

Watch: Climate Czar John Kerry Exposed As Bald Faced Liar Over Use Of Private Jet

EPA unveils $20 billion to finance the fight against climate change (Washington Post) Ka-ching!

Electric Cars Might Not Even Lower Carbon Emissions, Report Finds

Pedal Politics: Bicycle Stunt Draws International Criticism

German Climate Extremists Set SUVs on Fire 

World’s oldest trees reveal the largest solar storm in history

The Heat Wave Scorching the US Is a Self-Perpetuating Monster (Wired ‘Science’)

Why Is Europe’s Latest Heat Wave Called Cerberus? It’s Complicated (Wired ‘Science’)

EPA’s New Vehicle Emissions Rule Would Drive Cars and Trucks Off the Road. It’s Also Illegal.

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

13th July 2023

House Republicans Accidentally Released a Trove of Damning Covid Documents (The Intercept)

COVID scientists accused of lab leak ‘cover up’ feared ‘s— show’ after blaming China for spread (Fox)

Rapid Covid tests miss 90% of asymptomatic cases

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

13th July 2023

Expanding heat wave leaves more than 112 million under alerts (Axios)

Florida’s Environmental Failures Are a Warning for the Rest of the U.S. (TIME)

Waiting For ‘Buyers To Come’: Unsold Electric Vehicles Piling Up In Car Dealerships, Says Report

Floods, fires and deadly heat are the alarm bells of a planet on the brink (Washington Post)

Airline Blaming Delays on Climate Change Is ‘Absurd’ Excuse (NewsMax)

NPR Talk Show Boosts Author Who Wants to ‘Eliminate’ Dissent on Fossil Fuels

The complacence of environmentalist urbanism

The Last Gasp of the Anthropocene?

The Arctic Is a Freezer That’s Losing Power (Wired ‘Science’)

Last week was the hottest ever recorded — here’s why we keep smashing records (Science News)

Kerry ADMITS to MSNBC Environmentalist Agenda Too ‘Tricky’ for Investment

Climate Czar John Kerry Takes Xi Jinping at His Word. That’s the Problem.

Kerry: US ‘Under No Circumstances’ Will Pay Climate Reparations

30% Of Americans Believe Breaking The Law Over ‘Climate Crisis’ Is Justified

Top Automakers Blast ‘Unrealistic’ Biden Plan To Force EV Transition

2022 Nobel Prize Winner: “Climate Science has Metastasised into … Pseudoscience”

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

12th July 2023

Scientists downplayed COVID lab leak theory for fear of ‘s–tshow’ if China was deemed responsible for releasing virus: panel (N.Y. Post) So ‘scientists’ let their political agenda affect what they told everybody. (Bias? What bias?) Guess they’re totally trustworthy.

Scientists at House hearing refute claims they were bribed and influenced to deny Covid-19 ‘lab leak’ theory (CNN) They did it for free.

GOP probes covid origin paper as authors protest ‘absurd’ allegations (Washington Post)

The EU finds fault in its Covid response (Politico)

Santa Clara University Students Must Take COVID Vaccines Or Withdraw

Lancet Paper On Post-Vax Autopsies Nuked After Attracting ‘Special Attention’: Dr. Peter McCullough

It Was Politics, All the Way Down

Uncovering COVID-19’s Origins: How Team Biden Is Stonewalling (The Foundry)

Germany Scraps 80 Million COVID Vaccines for Low Demand

Japanese Take Classes To Relearn How To Smile After Years of Masking

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

12th July 2023

A ‘perfect storm’ is unfolding this summer and it’s ‘supercharging’ the weather, scientist says (CNN) A scientist! That proves it!

Climate change linked to increase in extreme weather events in US: “Likely to get worse” (Global News)

The “new abnormal”: The rise of extreme flooding, briefly explained (Vox) According to the Narrative.

Heavy rain to become more frequent with climate change, experts say: ‘We’re heading into a new normal’ (Boston Globe)

United CEO: Most carbon offset programs are ‘fraud’ (Politico)

Antarctic sea ice has been at record low levels for months — here’s what that means (CNBC) Because you’re to stupid to figure it out by yourself.

WMO: Antarctic ice levels reach record low (Reuters)

NOAA: Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches an Early Winter Record Low in June 2023 (Sierra Sun Times)

Antarctic ice levels see ‘massive decrease,’ global climate researcher says (CBC)

Extreme Heat Is Pushing The U.S. Toward A Grim New Fossil Fuel Milestone (Huffington Post)

US power use to slide in 2023 on slower economic growth (Reuters)

Environmentalists worry about buoys being installed in middle of Rio Grande (Border Report)

Boiling the Ocean (The Atlantic)

Hundreds Of Human Rights Violations Found In “Green” Mineral Supply Chains

Vermont Floods Show Limits of America’s Efforts to Adapt to Climate Change (N.Y. Times)

Watch: Virtue-Signalling Spanish Environmental Minister Bikes To Climate Conference With Escort Of Gas Cars

UAW to Biden: Where are those Good Paying Green Jobs?

Luxury Carbon Taxes: Dressing Up Wealth Redistribution in Green?

The Whale Killing Study the Feds are Afraid to Do

Geopolitics in a hotter world

In Phoenix, Heat Becomes a Brutal Test of Endurance (N.Y. Times) I guess we’ve moved from vanilla ‘climate change’ back to ‘global warming’.

WATCH: John Kerry Worries Bombing in Ukraine Will Release Greenhouse Gases You’ve got to admire his focus.

Climate Change Is Literally Changing the Ocean’s Color (Daily Beast) Good. The old one was boring.

Reality Check: No, we didn’t just have “the hottest week in 100,000 years”

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

11th July 2023

Unprecedented ocean temperatures “much higher than anything the models predicted,” climate experts warn (CBS News) I guess their ‘models’ aren’t worth shit, then.

As Texas Cranks Up the AC, Congested Transmission Lines Cause Renewable Power to Go to Waste (Inside Climate Narrative News)

Preliminary data shows hottest week on record. Unprecedented sea surface temperatures and Antarctic sea ice loss (World Meteorological Organization)

Florida ocean temperatures at ‘downright shocking’ levels (Washington Post)

Climate Disasters Daily? Welcome to the ‘New Normal.’ (N.Y. Times)

White House to invest $5M to manage extreme heat across US (The Hill) And that totally ought to fix it, right?

More Nauseating Climate Grief from the Guardian

PBS Hosts Apocalyptic Climate Author: Extreme Heat May Cause Another Pandemic!

Extreme Weather Attribution or Just Sharpshooting in Texas?

Unsold electric cars are piling up on dealer lots (Axios) All our cars must be electric! (You first.)

 

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10th July 2023

Insight: World’s war on greenhouse gas emissions has a military blind spot (Reuters) When people are shooting at you, you don’t pay a lot of attention to recycling.

Methane From Coal Mining is Plaguing West Virginia Families (Mother Jones)

NBC meteorologist cites controversial UN study claiming extreme heat will make US south unlivable for humans (N.Y. Post)

The Gulf Goes Green (Foreign Affairs)

House Republicans target the Pentagon’s use of electric vehicles

A Critical Look at Climate Change “Communication”: Deconstructing Artful Propaganda

Milloy in the WSJ, Beware the Heat Hype: The Misleading Madness of ‘Mean Global Temperatures’

Turn the Fearmongering Up to Eleven. It’s Working.

Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach Accused of Making Up “Tens of Thousands of Heat Deaths”

UK Government Report: The Automobile Industry Does Not Know How to Repair EV Batteries

The Green Deal In The EU Goes Unfunded, Expect A Total Collapse

Musings on Forest Fires, Fuel Load, Dr. Ehrlich and the CO2Fertilization Effect Upon U. S. Forests

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

10th July 2023

The Trillion-Dollar Grift: Inside the Greatest Scam of All Time Rolling Stone wakes up.

‘Alarming’ Sevenfold Increase In Stevens-Johnson Syndrome Linked To COVID-19 And Vaccine

The Post-COVID Job Market Narrative Of 2021 Was… Completely Wrong

You Might Want to Get a Flu Shot Early If You’re Pregnant, CDC Says Anything the CDC recommends, I plan to do the opposite.

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

9th July 2023

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

9th July 2023

We’re experiencing Earth’s hottest weather in 120,000 years, and it’s just getting started (The Hill) I wonder how they know what the temperature was 120,000 years ago….

The huge blob of seaweed headed for Florida has shrunk by 75% (CNN) So I guess all the PANIC! was misplaced.

Just Stop Oil Donor Received £110 Million in Green Subsidies from Taxpayer

DOOMSDAY CULT: NBC Cites Absurd UN Report That Southern US Will Be Unlivable

 

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Poor Logic

9th July 2023

Washington Free Beacon.

Matthew Desmond, a Princeton sociologist who has won a MacArthur “genius” grant as well as a Pulitzer for his previous book, Evicted, devotes his latest work to expounding a “theory” that will explain “why there is so much poverty in this land of abundance,” the United States. According to Desmond, the American people as a whole are its cause.

Without offering a precise definition or measure of poverty, Desmond laments that America, the world’s richest country, has “more poverty than any other advanced democracy.” (That the United States is also by far the most populous advanced democracy might itself help to explain this alleged fact.) Relying chiefly on a report he had published in 2015, along with statistics issued by the Census Bureau and the OECD, Desmond asserts that “almost one in nine Americans” live in poverty, with over 38 million unable to “afford basic necessities” and another 108 million “getting by on $55,000 a year or less,” “stuck in that space between poverty and security.”

Of course a large majority of the world’s population—including India, Pakistan, Indonesia, China, most of Africa, and much of Latin America—would envy an individual or even a family with an income half that large.

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

8th July 2023

‘We are in uncharted territory’: World records hottest day ever for the third time in just four days (CNBC)

The biggest gold rush in history is about to start in the deep sea – leaving devastation in its wake (The Guardian)

Strengthen America’s Energy Security: Unlock Appalachia’s Natural Gas

Forecasting Models Show Third Round Of Canadian Wildfire Smoke Headed To US

Hottest Days Ever? Don’t Believe It (Wall Street Journal)

Psychology Today: Climate Activism will Set you Free from Anxiety

Hottest Day Ever?

Earth is at its hottest in thousands of years. Here’s how we know. (Washington Post) Getcher Narrative, right here!

MSNBC Demands You Vote for Their Candidates to Prevent Record Temperatures

Even NOAA “Runs Away” From ‘Hottest Day Ever’ Claim After Media Hysteria

No, CNN, Climate Isn’t the Cause of Excess Deaths in Europe

Nuclear Phaseout, Green Energy Transition Causing German Industry and Power Production to Leave

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

8th July 2023

For vaccine opponents, Covid may have been just the start (MSNBC)

 

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7th July 2023

UN says climate change ‘out of control’ after likely hottest week on record (The Guardian)

Carbon Capture Faces a Major Test in North Dakota (Inside Climate News)

Report: Above-Average Storm Activity Predicted This Year

Greta Thunberg Charged By Swedish Prosecutors Over Climate Protest

Bremen ‘Fridays For Future’ Disbands After Racism Claims

Climate denialism has burnt to a crisp (Washington Post) Philip Bump takes a break from bashing Trump to do his duty pushing the Narrative.

Insane California green energy rules could wreck trucking industry (Fox)

Climate Change Now Causes… Wait for it… Blindness!

 

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6th July 2023

Country’s Largest Grid Operator Must Process and Connect Backlogged Clean Energy Projects, a New Report Says (Inside Climate News)

83,000 Hawaii homes dispose of sewage in cesspools. Rising sea levels will make them more of a mess (Associated Press)

El Niño plus climate change means record-breaking heat (NPR)

Wind Industry Blackmails UK Demanding Huge Ramp-Up Of Subsidies

New Month, Another Movement: Corporate Media Refocuses Energy On Climate Doom

Why a sudden surge of broken heat records is scaring scientists (Washington Post) Which ‘scientists’?

The Folly of Wind

The Arctic Is Farting ‘Ancient’ Methane and It’s Scary as Hell (Rolling Stone) Eco-Nazis have this obsession with farts….

The world needs hundreds of thousands more offshore wind turbines – where will they all go?

Heat Records Fall Around the Globe as Earth Warms, Fast (N.Y. Times) Still waiting for ‘rising sea levels’ to flood the New York subways. That would be entertaining.

Bloomberg Columnist Hypes $200 Trillion Climate Change Scam as ‘Bargain’

SMH: “[AU] $300 trillion is needed to stop global warming, and that’s a bargain”

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

6th July 2023

CDC gives guidance for trans people ‘chestfeeding’ kids, accused of failing to consider possible health risks (Fox)

Bill Ackman explains why he embraced RFK Jr.’s skepticism on Covid vaccines (CNBC)

Wall Street Investor Bill Ackman Says RFK Jr. Is Asking “Important Questions” About COVID Vaccines

EU Signs Contract for Pandemic Vaccine Production 

 

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6th July 2023

Earth’s average temperature matches record high set a day earlier (Associated Press)

 

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5th July 2023

Biden’s hydrogen bombshell leaves Europe in the dust (Politico)

Monday was hottest day for global average temperature on record, as climate crisis bites (The Economist)

Monday Hottest Day in Recorded History, for Now  According to the Narrative.

Revealed: UK plans to drop flagship £11.6bn climate pledge (The Guardian)

Climate change: World’s hottest day since records began (BBC)

Earth Keeps Breaking Temperature Records Due to Global Warming (Bloomberg)

This July 4 was hot. Earth’s hottest day on record, in fact. (Washington Post) I don’t believe that.

University of Warwick Pushes Climate Coercion to Kill Gas Heaters

Tuesday set an unofficial record for the hottest day on Earth. Wednesday may break it. (Associated Press)

The planet saw its hottest day ever this week. The record will be broken again and again (CNN) The Narrative is strong in this one.

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

5th July 2023

Anthony Fauci on Larry Kramer and Loving Difficult People (N.Y. Times) And the lies just keep on comin’.

Moderna to Ask for Approval of Adult RSV Vaccine

 

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In Case You Doubt the Lincoln Project Are Actually Democrats

5th July 2023

Read it.

Here’s a Lincoln Project tweet that states some true facts. The same facts stated by MSNBC. These true facts, taken in isolation, are on the order of crying, “my mother died after five minutes alone with that man!” when the man was a priest giving Last Rites to the afflicted mother.

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

4th July 2023

UK COVID Inquiry Reveals Just How Vast International Communist Conspiracy May Be

 

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4th July 2023

Will El Niño on top of global heating create the perfect climate storm? (The Guardian)

Your next BBQ could feature an electric grill (Canary Media) No, it couldn’t. Trust me on that.

ESG Investing Isn’t Doing Much For The Environment; Yale Study Confirms

Only 5% of national TV news segments on the record-shattering heat wave that scorched Texas mentioned climate change (Media Matters for America) Well, first of all, it’s not ‘record-shattering’. I’ve lived in Texas for forty years, and it’s no hotter this year than any other year.

The Myth Of Replacing Fossil Fuels

Claim: Australia is Opposing an International Shipping Carbon Tax Proposal

‘Could we do with less ice?’: Scientific American touts climate-inspired ICE CUBE restrictions! Mag pushes end to ‘unsustainable’ ice cube practices & urges ‘Climate-friendly Cocktails’

Will “Climate Denial” Become an International War Crime?

June Extremes Suggest Parts of the Climate System Are Reaching Tipping Points (Inside Climate Narrative News)

Every month seems to be the hottest, the driest, the wettest, or whichever record-breaking event it is.

Correct, CBS News Texas, Wind Energy Struggles in Heat (And Other Conditions)

 

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Deconstructing Marianna In Conspiracyland: – Part 2

4th July 2023

Off-Guardian.

In Part 1 we explored the reasons why the basis for the BBC’s “Marianna in Conspiracyland” podcast series is fundamentally flawed. Spring claims that her intention is to investigate “the people at the core of the conspiracy theory movement.”

Not only is there no such thing a “conspiracy theory movement” nor is their any plausible definition of a “conspiracy theorist.”

“Conspiracy theorist” is just a state propagandist’s label for someone who holds an anti-Establishment opinion that questions power and is sceptical of authority. You can read more about the history of how that “label” came into being here.

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

3rd July 2023

How ‘climate lockdowns’ became the new battleground for conspiracy-driven protest movement (NBC News)

Ocasio-Cortez calls Thomas comments on Jackson in affirmative action opinion ‘profoundly disrespectful’ (The Hill) I haven’t seen anything about Justice Jackson that would inspire respect–quite the contrary.

Departing CDC Director Rochelle Walensky Warns of Politicized Science (Wall Street Journal) There’s irony for you.

What’s causing the extremely warm temperatures in the North Atlantic?

 

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3rd July 2023

States to sue EPA over ‘damaging’ environmental impact of residential wood-burning stoves (Fox) All Blue states, of course.

Deep-sea mining may soon ease the world’s battery-metal shortage (The Economist) If the Eco-fascists let them.

Batteries and Renewables Are Saving Texas During the Heat Wave (Forbes) 1. There is no “heat wave”, other then the normal hot weather that hits Texas every summer; 2. Batteries and renewables aren’t “saving” anything or anybody–in fact, relying on “renewables” are making the electrical grid more fragile than ever, as we discovered in Frigid February two years ago. (Which prompted my wife and I to install a gas-powered emergency generator.)

 

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Falling Into Addiction

3rd July 2023

The Critic.

ike a cup of coffee, the Guardian newspaper acts on me in the morning like a tonic, increasing my alertness after sleep. For example, I read the following this morning, shortly after I regained consciousness:

Matt Rowland Hill, 38, is the author of Original Sins, about growing up as the son of a baptist minister before falling into a decade-long addiction to heroin while studying at Oxford.

I have not read Mr Rowland Hill’s book, which I am perfectly prepared to believe is a very good one. But he did not fall into a decade-long addiction; he knowingly chose to become and remain addicted, for whatever reason he might have had. He jumped into it.

The author is not stupid or an ignoramus. It is impossible that he did not know that heroin was addictive before he first took it. One does not become addicted to it on a first dose: most heroin addicts, in fact, take it on and off for some time before they are physically addicted.

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