Unilever Welcomes Regulators’ Ongoing Greenwashing Crackdown (AdWeek)

Why Companies React to ‘Greenwashing’ With ‘Greenhushing’ (Sourcing Journal)

The coming crackdown on corporate greenwashing (EcoBusiness)

The FCC Is Supposed to Protect the Environment. It Doesn’t. (ProPublica) No, it isn’t. It regulates communications. The environment is none of its concern.

Scientists Say Meat Is Crucial To The Human Diet – Warn Against Vegan ‘Zealotry’

The New Pause Lengthens by Two Months To 8 Years 11 Months

The Practical Impossibility of Large-Scale Carbon Capture and Storage

Nature-based solutions are cleaning up cities

Congress Needs to End This Massive Government Slush Fund

Biden will end Covid vaccine mandates for federal workers and international travelers on May 11  What took them so long?

DHS to lift Covid vaccine requirement for non-US travelers (CNN) What took them so long?

Texas AG to Probe Big Pharma on COVID-19 Vaccines

Fauci, Weingarten Denials ‘Slap in the Face’ to Parents

Environmentalists Want the FTC Green Guides to Slam the Door on the ‘Chemical’ Recycling of Plastic Waste (Inside Climate Narrative News)

Oliver Stone’s new movie makes the case nuclear power is the obvious solution to climate change (CNBC)

Joe Biden Is Losing Young Climate Voters

Green Energy Industry Admits It Needs Cheap Chinese Goods To Survive

Bureau Can’t Dodge Differences in Temperature Data

Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine

Austrian Authorities Side With Climate Protesters Over Disrupted Citizens

Environmentalists sue FAA over Starship fallout, claiming regulator is lost in space

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Apparently, every day is a battle for LGBTQ+ lawmakers. According to an Associated Press report, they “find themselves fighting just ‘to exist.’”

Literally! LITERALLY!

Read on and you’ll find these bills include Florida’s March 2022 Parental Rights in Education law which banned discussion on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade classrooms. And, of course, they identify the legislation as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

The lawmakers – and the AP – are especially incensed over bills that “would classify providing gender-affirming care to minors as a form of child abuse.” Isn’t it?

NewsBusters.

Bob Hoge with our friends at RedState had a hilarious piece Tuesday pulling together the latest saga and kid-in-a-grocery-store meltdown MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan pitched last week after he was roundly condemned and fact-checked for one insane claim after another about crime and, of course, racism.

At the heart of it, Hoge noted that Hasan has objected Twitter’s Community Notes feature, which allows users to fact-check false claims, seeing more play under Elon Musk’s ownership and he was “getting awfully sick of” it. This was particularly ironic since he recently released a book entitled Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking.

Texas AG Ken Paxton’s COVID-19 vaccine investigation could stick it to Big Pharma execs (N.Y. Post)

How Surging Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Introduced Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan to the Anti-Vaxx Movement

Why Are So Many COVID Authoritarians Suddenly Shifting Their Narratives?

Lightfoot Slams Weingarten’s Union for Not Reopening Schools Now that she’s lost the election, she doesn’t have any reason to suck up to the union.

Carbon capture technology “can never be an excuse” for business as usual, advocates say (CBS News)

NYC co-op owners, covering over 800K apartments, rebel against massive climate law costing millions (N.Y. Post)

The Conversation: “Can we justify … botanic gardens in an age of climate change … ?”

Lithium-ion batteries a growing fire hazard in NYC garbage trucks

EV’s Have 12.5 Percent Less Range Than EPA Estimates

Steve Sailer.

From the New York Times news section, a classic NYT upside-down article with the big news buried until most subscribers have stopped reading….

Deadly Heat Threatens the Well-Being of 1 Billion People in India (Wired)

An Ominous Heating Event Is Unfolding in the Oceans (Wired)

Barren lands show impact of Spain’s record-breaking heat (CNN)

Ohio lawmaker on the fight to put abortion rights on the ballot (MSNBC)

Eco-Terrorist ‘Pipeline’ Bombs at Box Office

“No Bricks, No Glass, No Cement” – What Net Zero 2050 Demands According to Government-Funded Report

Irony: German Bundestag Admits Conversion To Heat Pump Systems For Its Own Buildings Not Possible!

XR Founder Moans About His Carrots

Masks Had No Effect On COVID Cases Among Children: Study

“Something Clearly Went Wrong” – Fauci & Friends Desperately Try To ‘Close The Book’ On COVID

Pfizer Donated Thousands to Groups Who Lobbied for Vax Mandates

California Doctor Faces $290 Million In COVID-19-Related Fraud Charges  Free government money! Let’s go!

What an ominous surge in ocean temperatures means for the planet (Washington Post)

Portland breaks daily temperature record and the day isn’t over yet (The Oregonian)

April heat wave a reminder that AC is becoming necessary in the Pacific Northwest (Fox 12 Oregon)

New York Governor Announces Progress in Push To Ban Natural Gas in New Buildings Time to leave.

New York on Verge of Being First State to Ban Natural Gas  Time to leave.

George Monbiot on Eco-terrorism: “I back saboteurs … but I won’t blow up a pipeline”  Well, that’s something, I guess….

Ocean Warming Study So Distressing, Some Scientists Didn’t Want to Talk About It

Chinese Import Fraud Could Shatter Europe’s Biodiesel Dreams

New York Post blasts Randi Weingarten, Anthony Fauci for dodging ‘responsibility’ on school closures

Randi Weingarten ruined kids’ lives — but she refuses to apologize for not following the science (N.Y. Post)

Randi Weingarten’s unchecked CDC access harmed our kids’ education. America needs accountability (Fox) Sorry–they’re too busy going after Clarence Thomas.

CDC Officials Make False Statements About Possible COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects

Does the “Arcturus” COVID variant cause pink eye? What to know about the new strain (CBS News)

Jennings LAYS Into Weingarten on CNN for Pandemic School Closings  The mask slips.

Nine COVID Vaccinations Per Citizen? Time for Contract Revisions

WATCH: No, Randi Weingarten Wasn’t Fighting To Open Schools

US Officials Reject Compensation For People Diagnosed With COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries

The Fauci zigzag

WATCH: Covid “vaccines” and all-cause mortality

‘Endless record heat’ in Asia as highest April temperatures recorded (The Guardian)

Glass or plastic: which is better for the environment? (BBC)

New Covid-19 booster recommendations roll out in Vermont (VTDigger)

CDC eases COVID vaccination rule on international travelers as expiration looms (CBS News)

German Climate Idiots Use New Type Of Glue Requiring Jackhammer To Break Free

Tom Patterson: Climate Change Alarmism Not Supported by the Facts

DOE vs. Gas Cooking: A Review of Critical Comments

PNG Officials Charged with Skimming $2 million of Climate Aid Money

An Ominous Heating Event Is Unfolding in the Oceans (WIRED ‘Science’)

FACT CHECK: Climate Activists Who Smeared Paint on Priceless Sculpture Insist ‘We Are Adults’  But apparently acting like adults is beyond them.

Randi Weingarten, teacher’s union helped coordinate CDC’s 2021 school reopening guidance, records reveal (N.Y. Post)

Trudeau Slammed After Claiming He Never ‘Forced’ Anyone To Take COVID-19 Vaccine

Mother Of 7 Denied Kidney Transplant For Refusing COVID Shot In Georgia

Explosive New Study Finds Face Masks May Increase Stillbirths, Testicular Dysfunction, Cognitive Decline — In Kids

RFK Jr. Says Middle Class Was ‘Systematically’ Wiped Out By COVID-19 Lockdowns  A bit of an exaggeration, perhaps, but directionally correct.

Fauci Says He Never Locked Anything Down And Has Never Heard Of COVID (Babylon Bee)

Fauci Tries To Rewrite History in New York Times Interview

These are the places most at risk from record-breaking heat waves as the planet warms (CNN)

Here’s where extreme heat could be devastating in coming years (NBC News)

Here are the places most at risk from record-shattering heat (Seattle Times)

These Countries Are Most Vulnerable to Dangerous Heat Waves This Century (Daily Beast) A Narrative weather report.

FTC takes a microscope to sustainability claims (Politico)

Attorney General Bonta Co-Leads Multistate Coalition Urging the FTC to Strengthen Environmental Marketing Standards (California Attorney General)

Fashion greenwashing glossary part two: what do ‘biodegradable’, ‘closed loop’ and ‘degrowth’ really mean? (The Guardian) Virtue-signaling in a Narrative way.

Celebrating Conscious Indian Labels Steering Clear From The Greenwashing Mandate (Elle India) Elle India? What’s next, Vogue India?

Retiring coal-fired power plants need a replacement. These Western states may have the answer (Deseret News) Go nuclear!

Manchin: I’ll Vote to Repeal Inflation Reduction Act to Stop Radical Climate Agenda

GM Kills Chevy Bolt, Paving Path for Electric Pickups

As Sea Levels Rise, the East Coast Is Also Sinking

Environmentalists Want to Make Their Religion Official

European Green Activists Winning on the Streets and in the Courts

Pfizer Quietly Financed Groups Lobbying For COVID Vaccine Mandates: Fang

A closer look at the U.S. pandemic response reached an unsettling conclusion (Washington Post)

“Arcturus Variant”: Russia revives Covid scam, right on cue

FDA: Vaccines Don’t Have To Prevent Infection Or Transmission  Did you think so? Foolish you!

Recent, rapid ocean warming ahead of El Niño alarms scientists (BBC)

Fashion greenwashing glossary part two: what do ‘biodegradable’, ‘closed loop’ and ‘degrowth’ really mean? (The Guardian)

Greenwashing in the Crosshairs: Regulators Around the Globe Take Aim (AdWeek)

How to Spot Greenwashing: When Companies Aren’t as Green as They Claim (Gold Coast Week)

China gears up for peak emissions season with record coal imports: Maguire (Reuters)

China approves coal power surge, risking “climate disasters,” Greenpeace says (CBS News)

Poland’s grid operator disconnects wind, solar facilities after oversupply of renewable energy (Fox)

Senators Question Feasibility Of EPA’s New Vehicle Emissions Standards

Massive iceberg discharges during the last ice age had no impact on nearby Greenland, raising new questions about climate dynamics

Possible links between Covid shots and tinnitus emerge (NBC News)

COVID vaccines could have links with causing tinnitus as new theories emerge (Sky News)

New theories of possible link between Covid vaccines and tinnitus are emerging (AOL)

CDC says tinnitus not linked to Covid vaccines (NBC News)

Study: Masks May Raise Stillbirths, Testicular Toxicity, Cognitive Decline  Beyond inconvenient.

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As a contributing columnist for the Post, former CIA deputy director Michael Morell published numerous articles before the election attacking former president Donald Trump and pushing various claims about Russian disinformation. Morell called on Trump’s intelligence chief, John Ratcliffe, to resign in his final Post column on Oct. 12, 2020, a week before he concocted the Hunter letter. In an Oct. 11 piece, Morell said Trump’s financial debt raises national security concerns. In August 2020, Morell made the disputed claim that “the Russians infiltrated Trump’s 2016 campaign.”

Morell was carrying water for the Biden campaign behind the scenes, too. The former intel official admitted in a recent congressional interview that he was behind an Oct. 19, 2020, letter that cast the release of Hunter Biden’s laptop days earlier as a probable Russian disinformation campaign. Morell said he organized the letter, which was signed by 50 other former intelligence officials, after a conversation with Biden adviser Tony Blinken, now the secretary of state. Morell told lawmakers he undertook the initiative to help Biden “win the election.”

The Post has penalized columnists for campaign connections more tenuous than Morell’s. In 2011, conservative columnist George Will came under scrutiny after his wife began advising Rick Perry’s presidential campaign. The Post’s ombudsman found that Will did not use his column to improperly boost his wife’s client, but said the columnist should have disclosed his wife’s work. The ombudsman wrote that “readers need to be able to judge for themselves if any conflict of interest could bias a journalist, even an opinion columnist.”

“A cynic would say none of this is surprising,” Tim Graham, the Media Research Center’s director of media analysis, said of Morell and the Post. He noted that the Post describes Morell’s CIA service in the George W. Bush administration to make Morell look bipartisan. “It’s that ‘career official’ spin that helps them present people like Morell as less partisan.”

Matt Taibbi.

An all-time media blackout is in effect. We’re experiencing real-time Sovietization.

It transpires that the infamous incident before the 2020 election in which 50 former intelligence officials signed an open letter declared a New York Post expose about Hunter Biden’s laptop to have the “classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” was instigated at the behest of the Joe Biden campaign. This at least is the allegation in a letter to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken released by Jim Jordan, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, and Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government.

Chinese Censorship Is Quietly Rewriting the Covid-19 Story (N.Y. Times)

Chicago Employees Fired For Not Getting COVID-19 Vaccine Must Be Reinstated: Judge

sThai authorities issue extreme heat warnings as temperatures top 100 (NBC News)

Majority of adults have been personally affected by extreme weather, climate change: poll (The Hill)

Extreme weather is nearly universal experience, poll indicates (Politico)

Extreme weather is nearly universal experience: AP-NORC poll (Associated Press)

Nearly half of people who’ve dealt with extreme weather express concern about having to move: CBS News poll (CBS News)

How the Clean Air Act lets closed coal plants keep polluting for years (Reuters)

Feds Have No Data On How Regulations Reduce Emissions: Audit Finds  I doubt that they even care.

50 years after the oil embargo crisis of 1973, no American policy for energy independence

Big Banks, Corporations Getting 90 Percent Of Biden’s Green Energy Credits: Congressional Study  My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Extinction Rebellion Founder Outed As Diesel-Using, Packaged-Fruit-Buying Hypocrite

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Most rich people who take part in politics are on the Left, which is a major reason why the Democratic Party and its candidates consistently have so much more money than the Republican Party and its candidates.

I have long been bemused by rich liberals like Warren Buffett, who tell us their tax rates are too low. Really? Guess what: the IRS will cash your check! If you seriously think you aren’t paying enough taxes, or you actually believe the government spends money more wisely and effectively than you do, there is an easy solution. Write the IRS a check, I guarantee they will cash it.

Yet, strangely, I have never heard of a rich liberal doing this, even though most of these people are second or third generation beneficiaries who cannot comprehend how hard their ancestors worked to accumulate the wealth that they enjoy.

On Wednesday, a group of rich people held a press conference in Washington, urging Congress to pass a 90% tax rate on the wealthy. Stephen Moore crashed their party. It turns out that these rich liberals don’t actually want to turn their own money over to the government. The woman who pipes up at the end is, I understand, a Disney.

The point is that these mooks don’t want taxes raised on them; they want them raised on other people, people who don’t make as much money as they do and therefore would be put at a comparative disadvantage financially by higher tax rates. The ‘write a check’ response is all it takes to strip the word-salad disguise off of this attempted robbery.

Six ways to lower your carbon emissions quickly (BBC)

‘Appalling’ Earth Day greenwashing must not detract from message, says protest founder (The Guardian)

Earth Day is Killing Us

What to Know About XBB.1.16, the New COVID-19 Strain Called ‘Arcturus’ (U.S. News and World Report)

New COVID mutation ‘arcturus’ spreads, causing different symptoms in children (ABC Tampa)

Mayo Clinic expert talks about new omicron variant (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Latest COVID booster guidance as new Arcturus subvariant spreads (CBS News)

CDC Director Admits Vaccines Do Not Prevent COVID Transmission, Blames “Evolution Of Science”

Meta: Keep Removing COVID Misinformation

‘Freedom Over Fauci-ism’: DeSantis Explains Florida’s Prosperity With Subtle Dig at Trump

How melting Arctic ice could be fueling extreme wildfires in the Western U.S. (NPR)

‘Frightening’: record-busting heat and drought hit Europe in 2022 (The Guardian)

Climate change is causing more ‘heat stress’ in Europe (NBC News)

‘Frightening’: Scientists confirm 2022 was Europe’s second warmest year and hottest summer ever (EuroNews) God is obviously preparing it for all of those Middle Eastern & African immigrants.

Nuclear Troubles Send French Winter Power Prices Soaring

Poland Secures $4 Billion Loan for Up to 20 New Nuclear Power Plants  They can build 20 nuclear power plants for $4 billion? Tell us how!

America’s $800B climate splurge is feeding a new lobbying ecosystem

Climate Group Deflates Tires on 43 Boston SUVs

Washington Free Beacon.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley called out Newsweek after the outlet reached out for comment about the color of a dress she wore to her daughter’s wedding.

“This is why people don’t trust the media. Liberal ‘journalists’ spend their time harassing conservatives about outfit choices,” Haley tweeted Friday. “Grow up, Newsweek.”

She is reported to have worn a white dress to her daughter’s wedding. This is apparently a Rube Faux Pas among the Crust.

Why Asia’s early heat wave is so alarming (Vox)

Asia heatwave pushing temperatures to record levels (Al Jezeera)

Large swathes of Asia are sweltering through record breaking temperatures (CNN)

EPA is out of control. Here’s our plan to stop its illegal actions (Fox)

Sullivan pledges resolutions to cancel EPA’s proposed vehicle emissions rules (Washington Examiner)

Beyond the poles: How melting ice affects everyone (NPR) Neither National nor Public! Just ask them!

A quarter of Americans live with polluted air, with people of color and those in Western states disproportionately affected, report says (CNN) “Women and minorities hardest hit.”

Electrify Everything (Mother Jones)

India’s heat is underestimated, harming progress, study says (Associated Press)

India’s heat putting economy, development goals at risk: Study (Al Jezeera)

Climate change is fueling deadly heat waves in India. It’s putting the country’s development at risk, study says (CNN) A study! That proves it!

India’s heatwaves putting economy, development goals at risk – study (Reuters)

Citing Neo-Nazi Plots Against The Grid, States Pass Laws Meant To Thwart Climate Protests (Huffington Post)

EU Readies Levies On High-Carbon Imports… To Pressure Rest Of World On Climate Change

‘Less ice means more conflicts with polar bears’ narrative not supported by scientific evidence

“Why Does Brussels Hate Us?” Livid EU Farmers Hit Back At Green Agenda

Blame rice for global warming!? ‘Rice is to blame for around 10% of global emissions of methane’ – ‘Rice cannot be ignored’

Democrats reintroduce Green New Deal with new goals (Washington Examiner)

Scientific American: Social Bullying is the Best Motivator for Green Behaviour

New AI-Generated T-Cell Vaccine Showcases Long-Lasting Immunity Against COVID-19 (SciTech Daily)

COVID vaccination found to have lower risk of autoantibodies than natural immunity (MedicalXNews)

Next-generation vaccine strategies to combat current and emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants (News-Medical.net)

Therapeutic strategies for COVID-19: progress and lessons learned (Nature)

Chinese Lab Developed COVID-19 Virus, Senate Report Claims

US Compensates People Injured By COVID-19 Vaccines For First Time

Twitter Files: Dr. Anthony Fauci “Lied Under Oath”

The NIH poured $1B into long Covid research, with little to show for it

The Educational Ship Comes to a Shuddering Halt

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Changes to Simplify Use of Bivalent mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines (FDA)

FDA authorizes 2nd dose of updated Covid booster for older adults (NBC News)

The Great COVID-19 Vaccine Bribe

Masking Uncertainty in Public Health

Watch: Former Director Of National Intelligence Admits That Fauci Lied About Gain Of Function Research  But you knew that.

Rand Paul Rips DHS Over Big Tech Collusion to Muzzle Speech on COVID-19

Manchin knocks ‘dangerous’ EPA vehicle emissions standards (The Hill)

Manchin backs overturning Biden auto emissions proposal: ‘Lying to Americans’ (Washington Examiner)

Here’s what to know before going electric with your car (WLNS Lansing)

Fox networks fearmonger over the Biden administration’s new vehicle tailpipe emissions proposal (Media Matters for America)

Why Are We So Afraid of Nuclear Power? (Mother Jones) Don’t ask us–it’s you people who are afraid of it.

‘Don’t fool yourself’: billions more needed to protect tropical forests, warns new report (The Guardian)

Rising sea levels may have forced the Vikings out of a successful settlement (CNN)  Climate change! Is there anything it can’t do?

To Ditch Fossil Fuels, We’ll Need to Raise an Army of Electricians (Mother Jones) And you aren’t going to find them reading Mother Jones.

Energy Abundance Is Liberating Humanity From Grueling Labor (Reason)

Why “Net Zero” Is Not A Rational U.S. Energy Policy

Germany Closes Its Last Nuclear Power Plants – Electricity Bills To Spike Up To 45%

Latest Stunt of the Krazy Klimate Klowns

‘Without the ice cap, we cannot live’: the Andes community devastated by climate crisis (The Guardian)

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so huge and permanent that a coastal ecosystem is thriving on it, scientists say (CNN)

Great Pacific Garbage Patch in middle of the ocean now home to coastal species (CBS News)

This floating ocean garbage is home to a surprising amount of life from the coasts (NPR)

Why coastal species have been found thousands of miles out to sea (The Telegraph)

Fashion greenwashing glossary: what do ‘circular’, ‘sustainable’ and ‘zero waste’ really mean? (The Guardian)

How disappearing ice in Antarctica threatens the U.S. (NPR)

From GE to Siemens, the wind energy industry hopes billions in losses are about to end (CNBC)

Historic Asia heat breaks hundreds of records, with extremes in Thailand and China (Washington Post)

Another View: EPA wants to speed up EV switch, as it should (L.A. Times)

The EPA goes after tailpipe emissions, Elon gets an ultimatum and Careem lands $400M for its super app (Tech Crunch)

Rice Is Now Killing The Planet, Apparently  I’ve had my suspicions.

WHAT? State-Affiliated BBC Champions Climate Change ‘Ninja Trollhunters’

Tesla, GM, Ford Among The Only 10 Vehicles That Will Qualify For The New $7,500 EV Tax Credit

New York Mayor Goes To War Against Meat And Dairy As Climate Agenda Escalates  The key aspect of progressive totalitarianism is that it leaves no aspect of your life unstained.

Rare COVID symptom reported as latest omicron subvariant hits the U.S. (S.F. Chronicle)

What to Know About Highly Transmissible ‘Arcturus’ COVID Variant as New Symptom Emerges (NBC Chicago)

What to know about the XBB. 1.16 “Arcturus” COVID subvariant (Axios)

Arcturus Or The XBB.1.16 Variant: Is The New Covid-19 Variant More Dangerous? (NDTV)

Senate Report Concludes COVID Likely Caused by Lab Leak

Second Bivalent Booster Approved for Older Adults 

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Changes to Simplify Use of Bivalent mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines (FDA)

Climate envoy Kerry: No rolling back clean energy transition (Politico) I’m sure he wishes that were true. But it’s not.

Awash in Toxic Wastewater From Fracking for Natural Gas, Pennsylvania Faces a Disposal Reckoning (Inside Climate News)

California Going Full Commie: ‘Designing Electricity Rates for An Equitable Energy Transition’ (California Globe)

Environmental knowledge is inversely associated with climate change anxiety

Berkeley Ban on Natural Gas Hookups Tossed by Ninth Circuit (Bloomberg)

Russian walrus and polar bears continue to thrive US researchers tell the Washington Post

Covid is still a leading cause of death as the virus recedes (Washington Post) I don’t believe that.

Senate GOP Report on COVID Origin Backs Lab Leak Theory

Steve Sailer.

From the New York Times news section, an in-depth analysis of how conservatives hold the whip hand in modern American culture and thus started the divisive debate over the time-honored American custom of poisoning, sterilizing, and mutilating moody children due to the transgender mania….

Long COVID-19 is Sticking Around. What’s Causing it? (U.S. News & World Report)

As some move on from the pandemic, people with long COVID feel frustrated and alone (NPR)

You’re less likely to get long COVID after a second infection than a first (NPR)

California church must pay $1.2M for breaking COVID rules (Associated Press) Unbelievable.

The E. Coli Super-Pathogens You Should Know About

Contentious COVID-19 Drugs Are All Anti-Malarial: May Not Be A Coincidence

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

Everyone Wants to Play God: Extrapolations and a Climate-Bleak Future (Reformed Journal)

Scientists find ‘harbinger of doom’ lurking off Oregon’s coast. So, of course, late night TV’s got jokes (Oregon Live)

Clean Energy Is Thriving in Texas. So Why Are State Republicans Trying to Stifle It? (Inside Climate News)

Seas are rising faster, so Florida must act faster, too (Tampa Bay Times) Call me when real-estate prices in Malibu and Martha’s Vineyard–and Palm Beach–start dropping.

The Biden Administration Is Once Again Tightening Rules On Vehicles Emissions

Visualizing Air Pollution Levels Around The World In 2022  Guess who pollutes the most? Hint: It ain’t us, although progs would like you to believe that it is.

Data-Centers & Small Nuclear Reactors – A Match Made In Heaven?

Europe’s Most Powerful Nuclear Reactor Launches in Finland

Winter sea ice habitat for polar bears still abundant enough to sustain a thriving species

Tropical Paradise Islands Are Not Sinking and Shrinking…Most Are in Fact Growing!

Luxury Beliefs And Energy Policy: The Fatal Conceit

Wahington Free Beacon

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.