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You have to give Roxanna Asgarian credit for laying all her cards on the table. The author of We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America tells readers at the outset that “as a journalist, I was most interested in looking at who has power and who does not.” In some ways, this places Asgarian in a long tradition of muckraking reporters looking out for the little guy. But then she adds that “journalists are often taught … to get out of the way of the story. This ethic has its merits, but it has costs as well.” Asgarian has weighed the options and decided that she is not a “passive observer of injustice.”

Newsbsusters.

Tax day is Tuesday this year, so millions of Americans will spend this weekend poring over their records, filling out their returns and writing checks payable to the U.S. Treasury. Last year, the federal government took in a record $4.9 trillion in revenue, more than triple the $1.58 trillion the government collected just 25 years earlier (1997).

That’s an average increase of more than eight percent a year, far more than the rate of inflation (which has averaged 2.4% annually over the past 25 years) plus the increase in the U.S. population (roughly 0.7% annually). The total of all economic activity in the United States per year (GDP) is currently $26.1 trillion, which means the federal government now claims nearly one-fifth (19.6%) of all dollars for itself, a much higher rate than the long-term average of 16.5 percent.

Yet, it’s still not enough money to fulfill all the promises dreamed up by politicians looking for votes. The federal budget hasn’t been balanced since 2001; decades of deficit spending has led to a cumulative national debt of more than $31 trillion.

Yet instead of holding politicians accountable for their impossible promises and reckless stewardship of the nation’s finances, the media lobby for more punishing taxes to be imposed on the public. This has been true during both Democratic and Republican administrations, wartime and peacetime, and in boom times and busts.

The media don’t have the power to raise taxes, but they do have the ability to steer the national conversation toward the solutions they prefer. And instead of making over-spending an issue, the news media have relentlessly pushed for even more of the nation’s wealth to be handed over to the federal government to spend….

Sunshine vs. the grid: Why the Czech Republic had to shutdown their solar plants over Easter (EuroNews)

US emissions up 6 percent in 2021 amid pandemic recovery: EPA (The Hill)

Two investor advisers recommend BP shareholders oppose activist climate resolution (Reuters)

Peak EV: Electric Vehicles Will Fade As Their True Costs Become Clear

California’s Last Nuclear Power Plant Diablo Faces Closure Against Lawsuit

Fewer Coal Power Plants Close In 2022 Than In Recent Years

Vaccine mandate lawsuit against Hawaiian Air still moving forward (KHON)

Mayo Clinic expert talks about the new COVID omicron variant (The Seattle Times)

What to know about Arcturus, a new coronavirus subvariant the WHO is tracking (Washington P0st)

New (Itchy) COVID Symptom Reported as ‘Arcturus’ Fuels NY Area Spread (NBC New York)

This One Symptom Is Emerging With the New Highly Transmissible ‘Arcturus’ COVID-19 Variant (NBC Chicago)

Florida Scientists and Journalists Cling to a Favorite Covid Fallacy

Why Did Overdoses Soar the Month After Covid Stimulus Checks?

COVID-19: Highly-Infectious ‘Arcturus’ Variant First Detected In NY Now Identified In 27 States (White Plains Daily Voice)

Covid variant ‘Arcturus’ comes with new symptom: Report (Deccan Herald)

Covid variant Arcturus: All you need to know (Mint)

Judge Slaps California Church With $1M Fine for Holding Services During COVID

UK Study Finds “No Evidence” Face Masks Protect Vulnerable Against COVID

The Reopening That Wasn’t: As Government Employees Work From Home, People Find Services Curtailed (ProPublica) Government employees are in the business of getting a paycheck, not providing services.

El Niño is forecast to return in 2023. Here’s what it means for extreme weather and global warming (EuroNews)

Long-Lived Iceberg Sails Away (NASA)

The climate apocalypse is also a religious crisis (Vox)

The EPA says Americans could save $1 trillion on gas under its auto emissions plan (NPR) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

FEMA sued over efforts to rebuild Puerto Rico’s power grid (The Hill)

FEMA is sued over rebuilding Puerto Rico’s power grid without focusing on renewables (NBC News)

FEMA sued over using disaster funds to rebuild Puerto Rico’s power grid (Washington P0st)

Lawsuit accuses FEMA of improperly failing to consider renewables in rebuilding Puerto Rico’s grid (The Hill)

A tax break on clean energy projects is coming to coal and oil towns (Salon)

A grand experiment is underway to direct clean energy companies to coal country (Cardinal News)

Roker Strikes Out By Blaming Climate Change For More Home Runs

Rural healthcare access at risk as public health efforts become politicized (PBS)

In Hindsight, Exposing Corruption and Collusion of COVID-19 Response

DISCUSS: Arcturus – The latest “Covid variant”

How climate change is threatening a remote town nestled in the Arctic Circle (PBS)

‘Entering the clean power era’: Wind and solar generated a record amount of global power in 2022 (CNBC)

Climate change: Fossil fuel emissions from electricity set to fall – report (BBC)

Wind and solar achieve a record high of 12% of global electricity in 2022 (electrek)

‘End of the fossil age’: Wind and solar broke energy records last year, report reveals (EuroNews)

A Leak at the Bottom of the Sea May Be a Harbinger of Doom (Daily Beast)

Forget greenwashing, it’s all about green-botching now (Financial Times)

Climate Crisis: What Is Greenwashing and Why Is It Concerning? (Knowledge at Wharton)

Greenwashing: The food labels to be wary of (ETBrandEquity)

There could be millions of abandoned wells in the U.S. Plugging them is a monumental task. (Washington Post)

Baking Soda Saves the World: New Additive in Concrete Mix Could Slash Carbon Emissions (SciTechDaily)

EPA faces questions over plastic-based fuel with huge cancer risk (The Guardian)

Environmental groups sue EPA over water pollution standards (Texas Tribune)

The EPA Faces Questions About Its Approval of a Plastic-Based Fuel With an Astronomical Cancer Risk (Pro Publica)

Finally, Europeans May Be Rejecting The EV Kool-Aid

Climate Crisis? What Climate Crisis? Part Two: Where We are in the UK Today

All German Nuclear Reactors To Cease Production

Health misinformation is lowering U.S. life expectancy, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf says (CNBC)

FDA chief blames America’s abysmal life expectancy on ‘misinformation’ online — not fentanyl or gun crime (UK Daily Mail)

Misinformation contributing to lower life expectancy in US, FDA chief says (The Hill)

FDA commissioner claims misinformation is contributing to lower US life expectancy (Washington Examiner)

What do COVID-19 and the bank crisis have in common? (The Hill) Government employees screwing the American people?

22-Year-Old National Guard Soldier Suffers Two Heart Attacks, Neurological Issues After Moderna Vax

‘Arcturus,’ a highly transmissible COVID variant eyed by the WHO, appears to have a new symptom. Here’s what you need to know (Fortune)

Climate emergency is the biggest health crisis of our time – bigger than Covid (The Guardian)

Biden Quietly Signs Bill Ending National COVID Emergency

Los Angeles Replaces One State Of Emergency With Another

Study: Greenhouse gas ‘tipping points’ preceded major earlier warming events (The Hill)

The Ice in East Antarctica Has Melted Before (Maritime-Executive)

Extreme greens show Hochul who really sets NY’s climate agenda (N.Y. Post)

Cost of climate policies heat up beyond New York budget talks (Spectrum News)

Lawmakers question ‘rushed’ US-Japan EV minerals deal (Roll Call)

The Rising Chorus of Renewable Energy Skeptics (Relilience)

Climate emergency is the biggest health crisis of our time – bigger than Covid (The Guardian)

Ithaca’s Crazy Plan to Be Our First All-Electric City (Rolling Stone)

In Ohio, Regulators Are Letting The Polluter Guide A Toxic Cleanup (Huffington Post)

Climate deniers ejected from teachers conference for deceptive comic book (Washington P0st)

110,000 Deaths A Year in South Asia Due to Rising Temperatures, Claims WHO  Claims!

‘Climate Emergency’ is Fabricated Alarmism Holding Poor Back | Conversation with Judith Curry PhD

Media FAILS: Ignores Real-World Data When It Comes to Tornadoes and Climate Change

Heavy EVs Could Collapse Old Parking Garages: Report

Why Is Sea Level Rise Worse In Some Places?

David Harsanyi.

Lock Donald Trump up, or don’t lock him up, but don’t tell me that “no one is above the law.” It’s one of the most ludicrous fantasies peddled by the Left.

Plenty of people are “above the law.” James Clapper, who lied under oath to Congress about spying on the American people, is above the law. John Brennan, who lied about a domestic spying operation on Senate staffers, is above the law. Unlike Trump adviser Peter Navarro, Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder was never going to be handcuffed and thrown in prison for ignoring a congressional subpoena. He is above the law.

Trump’s 2016 opponent, Hillary Clinton, is also above the law. The then-secretary of state set up a private server in her home to circumvent transparency surrounding her slush fund foundation. She sent 110 emails containing marked classified information, and 36 of those emails contained secret information. Eight of the email chains contained “top secret” information. Every one of those instances was a potential felony punishable with up to 10 years in prison.

We learned all of this from James Comey, then FBI director, who noted that Clinton had been “extremely careless” in conducting her business. Comey didn’t recommend charges because, he claimed, the state couldn’t prove Clinton’s intent—even though “gross negligence,” not intent, was the only standard he needed. Gross negligence and extreme carelessness are synonyms. Comey concocted a new standard to protect Clinton because she is above the law.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signs bill banning employers from requiring coronavirus vaccines (East Idaho News)

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #547

Five Times Faster by Simon Sharpe review – a radical but realistic path to net zero emissions (The Guardian)

Seas have drastically risen along southern U.S. coast in past decade (Washington Post) Call me when real estate prices drop in Malibu and Martha’s Vineyard.

Greenhouse gas emissions rose at ‘alarming’ rate last year, US data shows (The Guardian)

Utah is abandoning coal power because it doesn’t pencil, Editorial Board writes (Salt Lake Tribune) No, I don’t know what that means, either.

Underwater pendulums could calm waves and reduce coastal erosion (New Scientist)

Snow, floods and wildlife in peril: grueling winter leaves Yosemite scarred (The Guardian)

California will slash incentives for new rooftop solar arrays next week. Here’s what it means for the Bay Area (S.F. Chronicle)

Are Europe’s green summer forests a thing of the past? Hot, dry weather is turning trees brown (euronews.green)

The urgent global water crisis (GZERO)

Climate maniacs missing the forest for the trees (N.Y. Post)

In big climate move, EPA set to unveil tough limits on auto emissions

The Renewable Intermittency Challenge

‘Complete Transformation’: New Biden Rule Would Force Automakers to Ditch Gas, Sell Electric Vehicles

UCLA’s Daniel Swain and NPR’s David Romero Collude to Flood Our minds with a River of Climate Fear Mongering!

The American Mind.

The battle for school choice in Texas has entered a pivotal stage. Last week, Senate Bill 8, which establishes education savings accounts, cleared the Committee on Education and awaits a floor vote. Teachers’ unions and education bureaucrats wailed predictably, terrified that empowered parents will upturn the government-school monopoly.

The case for school choice is strong. Milton Friedman, Nobel laureate and perhaps the most influential economist of the 20th century, first made it in the fifties. It took a while for the momentum to build, but eventually pilot programs became the source of important data about how school choice works. The results are in, and they show unambiguously that school choice helps students, taxpayers, and even existing government schools.

Opponents of school choice repeat a handful of superficially appealing but flawed arguments.

Gates of Vienna.

For many years it’s been obvious that the populace is being professionally scared. By that I mean that the government, major corporations, and the media deliberately contrive to frighten the general public. Agents of the state act in collusion with private interests to gin up fear among the citizenry in order to serve their own purposes. It’s a well-established principle of authoritarian and totalitarian governance that frightened citizens are easier to control and manipulate.

In recent years we’ve been subjected to a barrage of fear porn on various topics, beginning with the “pandemic” in early 2020. The scary stuff is delivered serially, with each new frightening topic emerging in the media just as the previous panic begins to wane. First COVID, then when that started to fade, monkeypox. Then came the danger of nuclear war. And through it all was woven the perennial favorite, “climate change”, the fear of which is supposed to make us give up the internal combustion engine, live in “smart cities”, and eat the bugs.

Carbon dioxide removal is not a current climate solution — we need to change the narrative (Nature)

The tricky plan to pull CO2 out of the air (Vox)

Why California’s floods may be ‘only a taste’ of what’s to come in a warmer world (NPR)

Lose the permafrost, lose the planet: A very chilling Doomsday scenario (WRAL)

Largest grid operator in West plans to give up coal for wind and solar in Wyoming (Buckrail)

Long-Term Outlook For Wyoming’s Largest Utility Creates Concern Over Grid Reliability, Electricity Rates (Cowboy State Daily)

PacifiCorp plans to accelerate shift from coal to renewable energy (Oil City News)

March was the second warmest on record, researchers say (The Hill)

Earth has second-warmest March even before arrival of planet-heating El Niño (Washington P0st)

March 2023 Was World’s Second Hottest on Record, Antarctica Sea Ice Reached Second-Lowest Extent: Report (The Weather Channel)

Global temperature in March 2023 was second highest for the month (Mint)

Germans Have Given Up On “Green” Energy

Abate CO2 emissions to cut global warming? Good luck with that!

History and Human Biology Argue for Warmth, Not Cold

Polish MP Proposes “Anti-Bug Law” To Require Labels On Insect-Containing Foods

The World Bank Is Getting a New Chief. Will He Pivot Toward Climate Action? (N.Y. Times) I think it’s a safe bet to say that he’ll certain talk a lot about it.

China health officials lash out at WHO, defend virus search (Associated Press)

China called out by World Health Organization over COVID origin data (Fox)

China lashes out at WHO over accusations it withheld COVID-19 information (EuroNews)

Covid may have originated from humans, Chinese scientist claims (CNN)

Did Switzerland Just Stop All COVID-19 Vaccinations?! (Techarp)

Switzerland Stops Recommending COVID-19 Vaccination (NTD)

Swiss government withdraws all recommendations for COVID vaccines (American Thinker)

Nasal COVID-19 vaccine outperforms mRNA shots in new study

CDC Partners With ‘Social And Behavior Change’ Initiative To Silence Vaccine Hesitancy  ‘Shut up!’ they explained.

New Research Uncovers Potential Explanation for COVID Vaccine Blood Clot Connection (SciTechDaily)

Can Air Pollution Weaken the Effect of Your COVID-19 Vaccine? New Research Suggests So! (The Weather Channel)

Air pollution associated with lower Covid-19 vaccine responses (earth.com)

Can air pollution lower antibody responses to Covid vaccine? See study here (Mint)

New Medical Codes For COVID-19 Vaccination Status Used To Track People, CDC Confirms

Cop28 president: world needs business mindset to tackle climate crisis (The Guardian)

‘Headed off the charts’: world’s ocean surface temperature hits record high (The Guardian)

I’m no genius with genuses, but your garden is killing the Earth (Washington Post) Dana Milbank is indeed no genius.

Logging Plan on Yellowstone’s Border Shows Limits of Biden Greenhouse Gas Policy (Inside Narrative Climate News)

Climate change adding 50 homers a year in MLB, study says (Associated Press)

A Parasite Is Killing Sea Otters. Is Cat Poop to Blame? (Wired ‘Science’)

Roger Simon.

In the immediate aftermath of the murders the police informed us the obviously emotionally disturbed shooter was transgendered, something that was ratified by the video of the killings at the Christian school showing the female-by-birth Audrey Hale dressed entirely like a macho terrorist.

Further, they told us she had left behind documents and a manifesto, explaining her actions.
Then, as if by magic, we heard no more of the word transgendered in any of its forms, from the media or anywhere, nor, almost simultaneously, anything of the manifesto, except that it had been handed to the FBI for review.

…

As for the FBI, no word so far on when they will release the manifesto, in original or redacted form.

Sound familiar?

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Mehdi Hassan hosts a weekly show on MSNBC. I hadn’t heard of him or it until Matt Taibbi previewed his appearance on the show in the entertaining post “Eat me, MSNBC,” originally titled “MSNBC sucks.” Hassan invited Taibbi to appear on the show and, in the event, subject himself to attacks that I found to be astounding in their substantive irrelevance, triviality, and error.

In his preview Taibbi explained: “I accepted the invitation because it would have been wrong to refuse, on the off chance he was planning a good-faith discussion [of Taibbi’s work on the Files]. If you’re reading this, things have gone another way.” Taibbi has posted a follow-up here. Even I could infer that Taibbi found Hassan to be conducting himself in bad faith. Video of the 30-minute interview is posted immediately below in its entirety.

Long-term protection and high efficacy of bivalent BA.1 booster confirmed in older adults (News-Medical)

FDA to allow second updated COVID-19 booster (Eyewitness News WTVO WQRF)

The CDC keeps pushing COVID boosters on kids despite real health risks (N.Y. Post)

Report: Spring COVID booster to be authorized for high-risk people in US (Ars Technica)

First FDA-Approved RSV Vaccines Expected Later This Year: The Top Vaccines And Their Effectiveness (Forbes)

House Seeks Testimony From Teachers Union Chief  Weingarten on School Closures During COVID-19

Doctors Appeal Ruling In Favor Of FDA Over Ivermectin Posts, Urge Court To Intervene

How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Church Attendance Habits

Fauci Inks Deal With New Italian ‘Anti-Pandemic’ Bio Lab

Washington Post.

Narrative Media experts, of course. Bringing a bullhorn to the floor of the state house and joining the disruptions by left-wing protesters isn’t dissent, it’s insurrection.

Anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. files to run for president as Democrat (The Hill)

Why I don’t believe there ever was a Covid virus

Ice sheets can collapse at 600 metres a day, far faster than feared, study finds (The Guardian)

‘Scary’ new data on the last ice age raises concerns about future sea levels (Washington Post)

Climate change: Norwegian seafloor holds clue to Antarctic melting (BBC)

Projected Collapse of Crucial Antarctic Current Met With Media Silence (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting)

Coal capacity climbs worldwide despite promises to slash it (Associated Press)

How to bypass nearly every restriction of the EV tax credit by leasing (electrek)

IRS Issues Arcane Rules for EV Tax Credits (AutoWeek) My, what a surprise.

Many Ultium-Based GM EVs Will Benefit From Full EV Tax Credit (GM Authority)

Can you afford an EV? Good luck, with so few models eligible for new tax credit (L.A. Times)

Clarified: What is greenwashing? (KCCI Des Moines)

Oil drilling in Gulf safer, but concerns linger, report says (Associated Press)

Tom Steyer to begin net-zero apartment upgrades nationwide (The Hill)

Bay Area billionaire Tom Steyer plans net zero apartment upgrades across US (San Jose Mercury News)

Billionaire Tom Steyer Plans Net Zero Apartment Upgrades Across U.S. (Wealth Management)

Exxon climate boss sees a multi-trillion-dollar market (Axios) For virtue-signaling.

Is Environmental Radicalism Inevitable? (The New Republic)

Pandas and eagles are wildlife rock stars. What about saving less lovable animals? (Washington P0st)

Wildlife crossings: US rolls out $350 million in funding to prevent collisions and improve habitats (EuroNews)

US rolls out funding to build wildlife crossings in response to high wildlife-vehicle collisions rate (Fox)

Buttigieg walks wildlife corridors, dangerous roads in Albuquerque visit (Albuquerque Journal)

Beware Catastrophizing Climate Models And Activists

The Economist: “Hug Pylons, Not Trees” to Prevent Climate Catastrophe

The Arctic’s Permafrost-Obsessed Methane Detectives

Book Review: The Arctic Hysterias

Climate Activists Are Coming for Muslim Zakat Donations

Texas Senate passes bill banning COVID-19 vaccine, mask mandates (KVUE)

A Cry For Help From a French Doctor

Non-Vaccinated Doctors To Be Reintegrated in French Hospitals

CDC Research Team Members Fell Ill Studying Toxic Ohio Derailment, Agency Confirms

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #546

The Guardian view on carbon offsetting: an overhaul is overdue (The Guardian)

Why deforestation means less rain in tropical forests (NPR)

Green transition won’t be perfect and we’ll need natural gas, World Energy Council CEO says (CNBC)

Saudis, other oil giants announce surprise production cuts (Associated Press)

Energy Expert Stresses Need for More Pipelines After Train Derailment

U.S. Company Signs Deals In Europe For Small Nuclear Reactors

Not So Easy To Kill: Flashback to the 2009 ClimateGate Exposure

Claim: Companies are Cashing in on Climate Anxiety with False Marketing  In proglodyte cant: ‘greenwashing’.

Global warming is killing Indians and Pakistanis

The thread that ties the recent chemical spills together (Vox) The author’s premise is that as long as we have an oil & gas industry, chemical spills will happen. The implication is that we must therefore eliminate the oil & gas industry in order to prevent chemical spills. This is like saying that road accidents will happen as long as we have an auto industry, and therefore we must abolish the auto industry in order to prevent road accidents. The flaws in this reasoning are left as an exercise for the reader.

Harvard professor’s fossil fuel links under scrutiny over climate grant (The Guardian)

‘War of the states’: EV, chip makers lavished with subsidies (Associated Press)

Antarctic ice melt poses grave risk to ocean circulation, new study finds (CNN)

Sustainable mining reform must be everything, everywhere, all at once (The Hill)

France drops pink atomic bomb on EU green energy talks (Politico)

EU agrees to double renewables by 2030 and UK unveils its long-awaited climate plan (CNN)

EU agrees compromise on nuclear energy amid French pressure (Financial Times)

A green state tosses a lifeline to a major coal plant (E & E News)

New oilfield in the North Sea would blow the UK’s carbon budget (The Guardian)

Lithium is becoming more crucial in a warming world, but Maine’s huge deposits may never be mined because of environmental concerns (Boston Globe)

More Climate Fiction From the BBC

EPA brief filed in Young v. EPA

UK Government To Punish Households Using Gas

DANIEL MCCARTHY: Climate Science Makes A Bad Religion

Automakers are resigned. Manchin is furious. Europe has to wait. (Politico)

Biden admin moves to limit EV tax credit eligibility in potential blow to climate agenda (Fox)

The $7,500 tax credit to buy an electric car is about to change yet again (NPR)

Biden administration tightens EV tax credit rules (Accounting Today)

Why Kentucky Is Dead Last for Wind and Solar Production (Inside Climate News)

Corporate Interests ‘Watered Down’ the Latest IPCC Climate Report, Investigations Find (Inside Climate News)

How to Harness Mega Seaweed Blobs For a More Sustainable Future (TIME)

Northwest Florida officials brace for impact of sargassum seaweed along beaches (ABC News)

Scientists consider sinking massive seaweed blob headed for Florida (NBC News)

This Ocean Monster Offers a Potential Climate Solution (Washington Post)

Planes, Shipping Lanes, and Automobiles: Surprising Ways Climate Change Can Affect Transportation (NASA)

Carbon capture will probably make electricity more expensive (The Verge)

“Wind Power Fails On Every Count”: Oxford Scientist Explains The Math

European Parliament Moves Towards Criminalisation of ‘Ecocide’

Washington, DC’s Cherry Blooms Draw Crowds—and Climate Questions (Wired ‘Science’)

COVID vaccine fatigue: Study explores why many are refusing booster shots

Do two or more mRNA vaccine doses provide additional protection in patients with prior COVID-19 infection? (News-Medical)

Serious Harms of the Covid-19 Vaccine: A Systematic Review (Brownstone Institute)

The effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in Latin America, 2021: a multicenter regional case–control study (The Lancet)

WHO Now Says COVID Vaccines Not Recommended For Healthy Kids & Teens

How could the UK’s net zero plan involve new oil and gas? It’s mind-bogglingly stupid (The Guardian)

The strangeness of the right’s war on “green day” (The New Statesman)

This once-thriving lake has all but dried up. It’s a story repeated across Europe as the drought deepens (CNN)

Looking at Boston’s future as sea levels continue to rise (CBS News)

Climate crisis forces Barbados into fight for survival (CNN) Send us money!

More States Want Students to Learn About Climate Science. Ohio Disagrees (TIME)

Brazilian meat firm’s A- sustainability rating has campaigners up in arms (The Guardian)

Lauren Boebert Jokes About Climate Deniers During Colorado Drought Hearing (Newsweek)

Net zero strategy shows UK will miss 2030 emissions cuts target (The Guardian)

UK admits revised net zero strategy will fail to hit emission targets (Financial Times)

What does the UK net zero plan mean for me? (The Times)

Democrats Said No One Is Coming To Take Your Gas Appliances – They Lied

California to Require Half of All Heavy Trucks Sold by 2035 to Be Electric

More Nonsense About Greenland

‘Big Climate’ Nut Presses Mets To Dump Citibank Stadium Name

The long shadow of Covid-19 myths (BBC)

UMMS and others start lifting requirement that masks be worn in public spaces, but they’re still needed around patients (Baltimore Sun)

Congressional Probe Confirms Scientific Assessments of Damage of COVID-19 School Closures

The Nation.

The magazine that Molly Ivins edited and that remains the voice of speak-truth-to-power Texas liberalism is threatened with closing. We can’t let that happen.

Who is this ‘we’?

UK ‘strikingly unprepared’ for impacts of climate crisis (The Guardian)

England not ready for the impact of climate change (BBC)

UK ‘strikingly’ unprepared against intensifying impacts of climate change: Report (Anadolu Agency)

UK government ‘strikingly unprepared’ for global warming (Financial Times)

Sea levels are rising — and it’s going to get worse. Here’s how some communities are adapting (CBS) Call me when property values in Malibu and Martha’s Vineyard start dropping.

For the First Time, More U.S. Electricity Came From Renewables Than Coal in 2022 (TIME)

Renewably Generated Electricity Surpasses Coal for the First Time in the U.S. (Gizmodo)

US electricity from renewables surpasses coal for first time (The Hill)

Renewable Energy Jumps Past Coal for First Time: Report (Daily Beast)

Climate Hysteria And Woke Gobbledegook Are Becoming Inseparable  But you knew that.

EU War on Agriculture Pushback Protests Spread

The Chemical Menace Inside Glaciers and Icebergs

EU Ban on Combustion Engine Receives “Final Green Light”

The Week in Energy: California Follies, Chapter 12,186

Climate Insanity: Swiss Government Sued for Not Preventing a Heatwave

One COVID-19 bivalent booster is enough for now, CDC finally decides (S.F.Chronicle)

When Can You Get Another Bivalent COVID Booster Shot? (AARP)

Covid update: Officials consider additional Covid-19 boosters for at-risk adults (Charleston City Paper)

How many COVID-19 vaccine doses should you have by now? (CTV News)

Game-Changer Nasal Spray: A Universal Shield Against All COVID-19 Variants (SciTech Daily)

CDC Found COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signals Months Earlier Than Previously Known, Files Show

5 Takeaways From House Hearing on COVID-19 School Lockdowns

‘Being truthful is essential’: scientist who stumbled upon Wuhan Covid data speaks out (The Guardian) Don’t hold your breath.

Bryan Health, other health systems to drop masking requirements (KOLN)

Several North Carolina healthcare systems to end face mask requirement for patients, visitors (WGHP)

Major triad hospitals lift universal masking requirements (WXII)

Mask requirements going away at Lincoln hospitals, others in Nebraska (Lincoln Journal-Star)

Do You Need Another COVID Booster? Here’s What Experts Say. (Huffington Post) And don’t forget to PANIC!

Curcumin reduces inflammatory responses in post-COVID vaccinated adults (News-Medical)

Getting COVID-19 Could Weaken Your Immune System (TIME) Ya think?

Contract Confirms US Government Received $400 Million From Major COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturer

The Fauci follies

WHO Revises COVID-19 Vaccine Recommendations

Bombshell Vax Analysis Finds $147 Billion In Economic Damage, Tens Of Millions Injured Or Disabled

‘Rewilding’ Parts of the Planet Could Have Big Climate Benefits (Inside Climate News)

In Braddock, Imagining Environmental Justice for a ‘Sacrifice Zone’ (Inside Climate News) ‘Environmental justice’?

Exxon in the classroom: how big oil money influences US universities (The Guardian)

Can California put an end to corporate greenwashing? (L.A. Times)

Climate change: trees grow for extra month as planet warms – study (BBC)

New Study: We Need To Learn To Live With Less Steel (SciTech Daily)

Eugene’s natural gas ban promotes responsible climate action (Oregon Live)

Climate change is the legacy of people over the age of 60. That’s why we must protest (The Guardian)

California Legislature Greenlights Plan to Cap Oil Refinery Profits

Climate Referendum Falls Short in Berlin

Wash, blow dry & talk to me about global warming please: Hairdressers trained to talk about ‘climate action’ to customers

Climate science as religion

The new incentive for Americans to get heat pumps as a key climate solution (NPR)

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #545

Big Oil is selling off its polluting assets — with unintended consequences (Washington Post)

World ‘population bomb’ may never go off as feared, finds study (The Guardian)

America’s Forests Are ‘Present and Vanishing at the Same Time’ (Inside Climate News)

Satellite images show breadth of massive seaweed belt stretching across the Atlantic Ocean (Fox)

Satellite images show 5,000-mile seaweed belt creeping closer to US (The Hill)

A massive swath of brown algae angles toward Southwest Florida beaches, but need we worry? (WUSF Public Media)

Could the giant seaweed blob threaten Connecticut beaches? (WTNH)

First global water conference in 50 years yields hundreds of pledges, zero checks (The Guardian)

Was the UN Water Conference able to meet the ‘Great expectations?’ (Times of India)

Amid conflicts and climate change, U.N. puts focus on ‘deep trouble’ in water worldwide (L.A. Times)

UN head says survival depends on how people manage water (WTHR)

As Antarctica’s penguins struggle with record low sea ice, one species is adapting – and it offers lessons to us all (CNN)

Monarch butterflies lose sanctuary in Mexico as climate changes (Washington Post)

Roads, other infrastructure infringe on many biodiversity hot spots (Washington Post)

Six months in, the Inflation Reduction Act is already unleashing clean energy’s potential (The Hill) But it hasn’t reduced inflation at all.

Deep-sea mining for rare metals will destroy ecosystems, say scientists (The Guardian)

Airplane Turbulence Is on the Rise: Here’s Why (Newsweek)

Gone with the wind

Pursuit of the Green Dream Will Make Inequality a LOT Worse

Cargo ships powered by wind could help tackle climate crisis (The Guardian)

Kerry: U.S. must work with China and Russia on fighting climate change  Good luck with that.

Adieu to the Internal Combustion Engine: Brussels and Berlin Reach Agreement 

Arctic Sea’s Low Levels of Ice to Impact Climate

Arctic Sea Ice Likely Irrevocably Lost Norwegian Scientists Conclude (High North News)

Arctic sea ice will soon vanish during the summer (Earth.com)

The meat industry blocked the IPCC’s attempt to recommend a plant-based diet (Quartz)

What would the Earth look like if all the ice melted? The answer is terrifying. (Upworthy)

As flooding increases, these cities are designed to work with – not against – the water. Here’s how they’re doing it (CNN)

From Gas Wells to Rubber Ducks to Incineration, the Plastics Lifecycle Causes ‘Horrific Harm’ to the Planet and People, Report Shows (Inside Narrative Climate News)

Eminent Oxford Scientist Says Wind Power “Fails On Every Count”

“Woke Army” Exposes Red-Green Alliance’s Pernicious Goal to Silence Radical Islam Critics

Germany Rebels Against EU Ban on Petrol Cars

15 years after ESA listing as ‘threatened’ due to sea ice loss polar bears are abundant & thriving

Scientists Shifting Global Warming Goalposts to 1.8-1.9C?

Who Noticed Earth Hour This Year?

Berliners Reject Referendum on Climate Goals

EU was set to ban internal combustion engine cars, then Germany changed its mind

City Council members demand CUNY lift COVID vaccine mandate (N.Y. Post)

Fauci on film is still flinging fear-mongering flim-flam (N.Y. Post)

Functional Neurological Disorder Emerges After COVID Infection, Vaccines (MedPage Today)

‘American Masters’? PBS Makes Hero Film for Dr. Fauci as He Trashes Republicans, Protesters

Indictment or no, Trump’s strategy is the same: Attack and threaten (Washington Post) How does that differ from any Democrat?

Vaccine Roulette, Part 3

Fauci on film

Twitter Files: The COVID-19 Misinformation Gulag

Should You Take an Antiviral to Prevent Long COVID? (TIME)

Could drugs to prevent Long COVID finally be within reach? (Gavi)

Are Supplements the Key To Easing Long COVID-19 Symptoms? (HealthNews)

How Individuals Are Self-Treating Long COVID (Drug Topics)

Puget Sound-area health care facilities will continue requiring masks (Seattle Times)

How They Convinced Trump To Lock Down

Many CDC Blunders Exaggerated Severity Of COVID-19: Study

Flashback: Year of Media Spin Gave Us Budget-Busting ObamaCare

Why Optimism Can’t Fix Our Climate Politics (The New Republic)

Climate ‘doomism’ and why it hurts the climate (Tampa Bay Times)

Rising seas will cut off many properties before they’re flooded (Ars Technica)

Defence against the rising seas (Nature)

Risk of isolation increases the expected burden from sea-level rise (Nature)

Many Antarctic glaciers are never snow-free. See how remarkably different this year is. (Washington Post)

Top lawyers defy bar to declare they will not prosecute peaceful climate protesters (The Guardian)

Carbon markets need to get their groove back (Politico)

First-of-its-Kind Study Casts More Shade on Forest Carbon Offsets (EcoWatch)

Will buying carbon offsets really help to make your flight greener? (Channel News Asia)

Why Greens Don’t Worry About Their Own Pollution

Professor Peter Ridd – The World’s Coral Reefs are not Declining

“Last Chance Travel” (climate alarmism in a suitcase)

Federal appeals court blocks Biden’s vaccine mandate for US government workers (N.Y. Post)

Raccoon Dog: More Than Just Latest Deflection From COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory?

How COVID Lockdowns Primed The Current Financial Crisis

These eight charts show why climate change matters right now (CNBC)

New IPCC Report Says 3.5°C Warming Imminent; Immediate Govt Intervention Crucial to Prevent Climate Disaster (The Weather Channel)

Climate change making Earth ‘uninhabitable’ Guterres warns (UN News)

GREG GUTFELD: So-called experts ‘keep moving the goalposts’ on climate change ‘catastrophe’ (Fox)

Scientists uncover startling concentrations of pure DDT along seafloor off L.A. coast (L.A. Times)

UN conference hears litany of water disasters linked to climate crisis (The Guardian)

New climate paper calls for charging big US oil firms with homicide (The Guardian) The silly is strong in this one.

A ‘greenwashing’ crackdown in Europe hasn’t gone down well. Here’s what you need to know (CNBC)

Companies making false ‘green’ claims in Europe face punishment under proposed new rule (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists)

EU says ‘not banning carbon offsets’ in greenwashing crackdown (Euractive)

Untangling the global water crisis (GZer0)

What’s to fear about warming oceans? Flesh-eating bacteria (NBC)

Rising temperatures in Florida contribute to spread of invasive mosquito species (NBC)

Challenging the NSTA’s Position Statement on Climate Change

In Montana, It’s Youth vs. the State in a Landmark Climate Case (N.Y. Times) I can’t see this going anywhere; the obvious problem is one of standing.

Harvard Law Accepts a Paper Advocating Homicide Charges for Big Oil Execs

Greta Thunberg:  Doctor of Theology

Why climate ‘doomers’ are replacing climate ‘deniers’ (Washington Post)

Rand Paul slams Moderna CEO on failing to concede to studies on rare heart inflammation due to vaccine (Fox) People forget that Rand Paul is an actual doctor who, unlike Anthony Fauci, actually treats patients.

Moderna CEO brazenly defends 400% COVID shot price hike, downplays NIH’s role (Ars Technica)

Fauci filmed laughing off lab-leak theory and wishing he’d made US wear masks sooner (N.Y. Post)

China’s only now revealed crucial COVID-19 origins data. Earlier disclosure may have saved us 3 years of political argy-bargy (The Conversation)

Where Are We in Hunting for the Covid Coronavirus’s Origin? (Washington Post)

“Concerning”: Myocarditis Diagnoses Spiked In Military in 2021, New Data Show

How Fauci’s Wife Used NIH Position To Backstop Her Husband’s Pandemic Health Directives

EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Rand Paul, Rep. Chip Roy To Introduce Legislation To Eliminate Fauci’s NIAID (Daily Caller)

Is a Covid Personality Disorder Caused by Viral Damage to the Prefrontal Cortex?  What is ‘Covid personality disorder’? Attacking other people for not wearing masks?

The Making of Star-Studded Climate Drama ‘Extrapolations’: “I Hope People Are Moved, Entertained and Perhaps a Little Bit Scared” (Hollywood Reporter) A must-miss.

Meet the ‘methane man’ with a mission: Using microbes to eat up the greenhouse gas (CNBC)

Climate Freeloaders Are Destroying the Planet (Wired)

‘A living pantry’: how an urban food forest in Arizona became a model for climate action (The Guardian)

Earth’s oceans are showing early and surprising record warming (Washington Post)

Weather tracker: sea surface temperatures hit record high (The Guardian)

The melting Arctic gets a U.S. ambassador and an influx of military cash (NPR) Another cushy well-paid government job for a Biden donor.

Cooking Oil Shortage Looms As Biofuel Demand Surges Due To ‘Climate Solution’  Let ’em eat bugs.

CBC: “Misinformation Can Have a Very Strong Impact” on Support for Cutting Emissions

Help Save the Planet:  Eat Lentils

Gas Station Bans Next on Climate Agenda: Colorado city BANS new gas stations due to ‘obligation’ to tackle ‘climate change’ – Follows California cities

Warmer Climate Spreading Flesh-Eating Bacteria

Deforesting To Save The Planet? Europe’s Forests Shrinking as Wood Used For “Green” Energy

California bill would require high schools to hand out free condoms

Number of city dwellers lacking safe water to double by 2050 (The Guardian)

UN warns against ‘vampiric’ global water use (BBC)

1 in 4 people in the world do not have access to clean drinking water, the U.N. says (NPR)

Funding the World’s Water Funding Crisis: How Donors are Missing the Mark (ReliefWeb)

We need the right kind of climate optimism (Vox)

‘A wake-up call’: total weight of wild mammals less than 10% of humanity’s (The Guardian) You can’t make this stuff up.

Climate change: Can we really take CO2 back out the air? (BBC)

Sticker shock awaits New Yorkers’ utility bills to fund renewables (Politico)

Row erupts over deep-sea mining as world races to finalise vital regulations (The Guardian)

EU Already Caving On Their 2035 Combustion Engine Ban, Considering Allowing E-Fuel Vehicles

Don’t Worry, It Will Only Cost $131 Trillion To Address Climate Change

Claim: Climate Skeptics Have Long Intimidated Scientists from Full Disclosure

Dutch Government Reconsiders Green Agenda Following Farmer Victory

UN Accelerating Carbon ‘Net Zero’ Targets

World Energy Data Confirms Fossil Fuels Will Dominate Future Global Energy Use

Daily Show Laments Its Jokes Won’t End Fossil Fuels Usage

Too Hot to Handle: CNN Correspondent Bill Weir Claims ‘Time Bomb is Ticking’ on Global Warming’

The Disappearing Doomsday

New SARS-CoV-2 target could boost immunity against all coronaviruses (MedicalXPress)

COVID-Causing SARS-CoV-2 Virus Is ‘Warming Up’ to Produce Newer Recombinant Strains, Suggests IISc Researcher (The Weather Channel)

Next-gen Mpro inhibitor: Promising new drug candidate against Omicron and other SARS-CoV-2 variants (News-Medical) I’ll bet you thought we were done with COVID? No, no, no, not as long as Funding is to be had.

Searching for SARS-CoV-2 origins: confidence versus evidence (The Lancet)

If you had Covid before you were vaccinated, you might have less immunity than you think, study says (CNBC) Then I guess it’s time to PANIC!

Vaccine Roulette, Part 2

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