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

The COVID-19 Fetish Community

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The White House press corps is a microcosm of the national media. It is overwhelmingly liberal, stuffed with Biden voters. So it was downright weird when former press secretary Jen Psaki told the Los Angeles Times she sometimes thought “I am an orderly in an insane asylum.”

The briefing room is usually a tank of hungry sharks for a Republican press secretary, and a classroom full of teacher’s pets for a Democrat press secretary. The news cycle has to be pretty negative for reporters to sound hostile to Biden’s press aides.

On March 20, black reporter Simon Ateba from an obscure website called “Today News Africa” began screaming at the very top of the briefing that current press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was not calling on him so he could ask his questions. Other reporters joined the fight, insisting Ateba press his complaints off camera.

Ateba has obviously internalized the obvious fact that black people are entitled to act in ways that would get non-black people sat on.

3 years into the pandemic, should you still worry about COVID? (TODAY)

Three years after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, how cautious are the experts? (Boston Globe)

Dr. Allison Arwady on 3-Year Anniversary of COVID Closures, Dangers of Lead Paint (WTTW)

Texas Bill Limiting Power to Impose Mask, Vaccine Mandates Moves Forward (NBC)

Fauci ‘Stooges’ Now Claim Raccoon Dogs Caused COVID. Virologists Say They’re Wrong.

California Hospital Refuses Transplant Surgery For Unvaccinated Woman With End-Stage Kidney Disease

“I Couldn’t Remain Silent”: Physician Assistant Fired For Reporting COVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Events To VAERS

Vaccine Roulette

Moderna Expected to Price COVID Vaccine at $130  Think of it as a tax on stupid people–and their insurance companies.

The Biden Administration’s Strange, Secret Effort to Bail Out Moderna

From red bastion to blue bulwark: What political shift in Colorado and West means for U.S. (L.A. Times)

Three Years To Slow The Spread: COVID Hysteria & The Creation Of A Never-Ending Crisis

Polio cases in Africa linked to new oral vaccine

Covid has not affected people’s happiness around world, study reveals (The Guardian)

Vaccine makers prep bird flu shot for humans ‘just in case’; rich nations lock in supplies (Reuters)

WHO Advisers Urge China to Share All COVID Data  Good luck with that.

‘Ukraine is a false justification’: America’s destructive new rush for natural gas (The Guardian)

Rancher rips Utah teacher’s climate assignment encouraging kids to eat bugs over beef: ‘Junk science’ (N.Y. Post)

The hottest climate job you’ve never heard of (Fast Company) Doing well by doing good.

Why Wind and Solar Will Never Work

A New Board Game to Induce Climate Guilt in School Children

Islamo-Leftism: German Greens Hail First Arabic Street Sign

Earth to Hit Critical Warming Threshold by Early 2030s, Climate Panel Says (N.Y. Times)

Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late (The Guardian) If action is not taken and it’s actually Too Late, will they finally shut up about it? You know they won’t.

NY Climate Act Cap and Invest Plan Going Off the Rails

World is on brink of climate calamity, definitive U.N. climate report warns (Washington Post) Yeah, yeah, yeah….

Turning 1.3 billion tons of Food Waste into Carbon Credits

Aviation chiefs rejected measures to curb climate impact of jet vapours (The Guardian)

Air Pollution: A Global Health Threat

Latest Twitter Files tackle ‘Great Covid-19 Lie Machine’ flagging true content as ‘disinformation’ (Fox)

Private-federal censorship machine targeted TRUE ‘misinformation’ (N.Y. Post)

Latest ‘Twitter Files’ allege censorship of proven facts (News Nation)

Long-covid symptoms are less common now than earlier in the pandemic (Washington Post)

‘Conspiracy At Its Height’: Fauci Responds To Message Saying He ‘Prompted’ Anti-Lab Leak Paper

The Vax Damage Lottery

The Willow Project and the Race to Pump the “Last Barrel” of Oil (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

A Controversial Technology Is Creating an Unprecedented Rift Among Climate Scientists (TIME)

The real (and sometimes controversial) science behind Apple’s Extrapolations (The Verge)

Apple’s ‘Extrapolations’ shows how hard it is to make climate must-watch TV (Washington Post) Of course, to the Woke, anything having to do with ‘climate change’ is ‘must-watch TV’.

‘Extrapolations’ star-studded cast and creator talk urgency of climate change: ‘This is the biggest existential story of our time’ (AOL)

‘Climate Alarmism’ Is New Form of ‘Colonialism’ That Infringes on Sovereignty, Researcher Says   Let’s have the Wokerati fight each other.

Please Stop With The Raccoon Dogs

The Checkup With Dr. Wen: Three questions that remain after three years of covid (Washington Post)

Looking back at three years of COVID-19 (KGW News)

3 years after COVID arrived in Virginia, case numbers continue to fall (Virginian-Pilot)

Public health opinions in Alberta entrenched during COVID-19 pandemic, study says (Global News)

Statement on the update of WHO’s working definitions and tracking system for SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and variants of interest (WHO)

Twitter Files: Feds, Stanford Censored Vaccine Claims

New York Times.

David Brooks does his bit as the Other Left Coast’s pet ‘conservative’ in pushing the Narrative.

dCrushing rocks could capture CO2 equivalent to the size of Germany (Interesteing Engineering) If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

New process gives CO2 conversion more “bang for buck” (University of Sydney)

Scientists aim to take carbon from lab to shop shelves (The Standard)

How to meet the climate crisis? Redefine ‘abundance.’ (Washington Post)

Greta Thunberg reportedly deletes 2018 tweet claiming ‘climate change will wipe out all of humanity’ by 2023 (N.Y. Post)

Brazilian researchers find ‘terrifying’ plastic rocks on remote island (Reuters)

People and the planet are facing unprecedented challenges. Nature is the solution (EuroNews)

Newsom gives up call for lawmakers to cap oil industry profits (L.A. Times)

California regulators could decide oil profits penalty (Associated Press)

Cradle-to-grave emissions from food loss and waste represent half of total greenhouse gas emissions from food systems (Nature)

Russell Brand is the latest to platform climate conservative Bjørn Lomborg’s ‘reckless’ net-zero cost claims (The Guardian)

License to Disrupt: Australia Goes Soft on Climate Protestors

Washington Post: We Must Change the Meaning of Wealth to Appreciate Climate Action

San Francisco Bay Area to phase out natural gas heating appliances

Sen. Cruz Pressures Group for Role in Gas Stove Effort

SARS-CoV-2 omicron XBB.1.5 variant is highly transmissible (MedicalXPress)

Washington school board member who defied mask mandates faces recall: ‘Vindictive move by progressives’ (Fox)

Nearly Half Of Americans Do Not Expect A Return to Pre-Pandemic Normalcy

COVID Forever: Fauci Says Americans Should Get Booster ‘At Least Once a Year’

‘Weather whiplash’: Flooding and droughts to happen more often and last longer as climate warms (EuroNews)

Confirmed: Global floods, droughts worsening with warming (KSL Utah)

Satellites link rain, drought intensity to global warming (Channel News Asia)

Water disasters on both ends of the spectrum – dry and wet – are getting more intense as planet warms, study finds (CNN)

Deforestation Inc. reporters checked global promises to end forest loss. This is what they found (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists)

Forest, timber certification important for economic develpment, ecological integrity, says Fadillah (New Straits Times)

In Florida, an invasive snail is helping save an endangered bird (NPR)

DOE Invests $47 Million to Reduce Methane Emissions From Oil and Gas Sector (Dept. of Energy)

Can the New High Seas Treaty Help Limit Global Warming? (Inside Narrative Climate News)

The looming threat of deep-sea mining (BBC)

More Aussie Climate Change Heresy?

Climate Crisis? What Climate Crisis? Part One: The Evidence

Claim: A Majority of Voters believe Climate Change is a False Religion

Biggest Victim of SVB Collapse? The Climate, Of Course

The Guardian.

No rich person ever said that, Arwa Mahdawi.

Giant seaweed blob twice the width of the US takes aim at Florida (The Hill)

Huge seaweed bloom that can be seen from space threatens Florida beaches (N.Y. Post)

Climate is changing too quickly for the Sierra Nevada’s ‘zombie forests’ (NPR)

Japan Is Right, John Kerry Is Wrong: The U.S. Must Go All In On Financing Natural Gas (Forbes)

Erosion rulings send clear message: Landowners must come to terms with rising seas (Hawaii News Now)

Iraqi prime minister promises action to tackle climate change, transition to renewables (PBS)

Aussie Sea Level Rise Building Permit Chaos

Greta Thunberg Deletes Tweet Claiming “Climate Change Will Wipe Humanity” By 2023

10,000 Dutch Farmers Protest Govt’s Crippling Nitrogen Emissions Target In The Hague

At CERAWeek, Big Oil Executives Call for ‘Energy Security’ and Longevity for Fossil Fuels (Inside Narrative Climate News)

Oil industry struts Texas stage with its old swagger at energy jamboree (Financial Times) The Financial Times is Britain’s equivalent of the Wall Street Journal–if the Wall Street Journal were run by the staff of Mother Jones.

Greenwashing crackdown in Europe leaves investors in the dark (Reuters)

Scientists warn of ‘phosphogeddon’ as critical fertiliser shortages loom (The Guardian)

Environmentalists Are China’s Useful Idiots

NYT’s Dubious Trend Story: Climate-Change Is Making Duluth Fashionable

Modern Diplomacy: We Should Focus on Climate Action Rather than Interplanetary Colonialism

Biden Gives Go-Ahead To Giant Alaska Oil Project, ‘Green’s Furious  Welcome to our world.

Why Saving the Whales Means Saving Ourselves (Inside Climate News) Obvious bullshit.

The ironic side effects of the rapid global energy transition (Reuters)

The role of renewable energy and battery technology in the push toward a greener economy (Washington Post)

Why renewable energy must be responsible energy (Eco-Business)

Windfall Tax Leads To Job Losses At UK’s Largest Oil & Gas Producer

Hear Dr. Fauci’s response to Covid lab leak theory (CNN)

Don’t Believe Anybody Who Says They Know How COVID-19 Started. Here’s Why (Newsweek)

Fauci says Redfield’s testimony of COVID call was ‘unequivocally incorrect’ (The Hill)

New WHO Amendments Creating A Global Regime In The Name Of Health

When Censorship Fails: Two Thirds Of US Adults Think COVID Likely Started In A Lab

One State Generates Much, Much More Renewable Energy Than Any Other—and It’s Not California (Inside Climate News)

Texas leads in harvesting wind for power (Bloomberg)

Guess which state is a national leader in green energy (HotAir)

Climate change: New idea for sucking up CO2 from air shows promise (BBC)

How to Make Carbon Capture Way More Efficient (Gizmodo)

New material captures CO2 from air and stores in ocean as baking soda (Interesting Engineering)

The CDP Awards: rewarding cities and businesses taking on the environment and biodiversity challenge (EuroNews)

Do back-to-back disasters show first climate tipping point is upon us? (New Scientist)

Bill Gates: Shunning Luxury Won’t Fix Climate

Doug Casey On The Rise Of “Climate Brats” And Other Useful Idiots

UK Scientists Propose Rationing To Combat Climate Change

GOP’s Graham Plans Carbon-Import Fee as Idea Gains With Party  RINO alert!

Megyn Kelly blasts Fauci: ‘He didn’t give a s–t where COVID originated, because China!’ (N.Y. Post)

Fauci says Redfield’s testimony of COVID call was ‘unequivocally incorrect’ (The Hill)

People Are Far Less Likely to Get Long COVID After Omicron, Study Finds (TIME)

The Tale of Anthony Fauci

COVID Conspiracy Theories Become Conspiracy Facts

Watch: Fauci Defends Gain-of-Function, Mocks Lab Leak Censorship

Fauci Previews His Defense

FLASHBACK: Remember When COVID Made in a Lab Was a ‘Conspiracy Theory?’

The creeping threat of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt (The Guardian)

Methane from one of Earth’s largest wetland complexes is set to soar (Nature) Think ‘wetlands’ are a Good Thing? Well, think again….

A clean sweep: China’s renewable energy capacity outshines coal power for first time (The Economic Times)

China’s energy transition sees ‘staggering’ progress on renewables — and a coal power boom (CNBC)

How light pollution disrupts plants’ senses (BBC)

Claim: Climate Change will Cost Germany $960 Billion by 2050

Met Office Peddle Extreme Rainfall Lies

Pollution cleanup method destroys toxic “forever chemicals”

Climate change: New idea for sucking up CO2 from air shows promise (BBC)

Global warming is changing Canada’s boreal forest and tundra (The Conversation) The Conversation ought to tell the truth and call themselves The Narrative.

Washington Post.

The Post, of course, thinks this is a Bad Thing. Freedom-loving Americans, however, think it a Good Thing.

UK Daily Mail.

And here I suppose you might have bought the Narrative Media spin that they were just harmless tourists, huh….

Newsom calls for federal probe into soaring natural gas prices

Japan Plans to Dump Fukushima Wastewater Into a Pacific With a Toxic Nuclear History (TIME)

Six foods that climate change is going to ruin (Salon)

Fake environmental reviews are killing good housing projects. Here’s what California can do about it (S.F. Chronicle)

For One Small Town, “Forever Chemicals” Are a Nightmare That Won’t End (Mother Jones)

Exclusive: Huge chunk of plants, animals in U.S. at risk of extinction (Reuters) ‘Exclusive’? In what sense? Climate alarmists have been ringing this gong for the past 50 years.

India Predicts 500% Increase In Domestic Natural Gas Demand

Brain Freeze? American Ski Team Focused On Climate Change

BP Pivots On Climate Promises

Eric Adams lifts COVID vax mandate for NYC workers — but what of the 1,780 fired? (N.Y. Post)

COVID in California: Mask mandate returns to 4 Marin County elementary schools (S.F. Chronicle)

Experts Want Labels For Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines Updated To Acknowledge Limitations

California Quietly Ditches COVID-19 Mandate For School Children

The Disaster of Covid Shutdowns

Environmental protests have a long history in the U.S. Police had never killed an activist — until now. (NBC) Maybe that’s the key, then.

Billionaire-Backed Green Group Working To Ban Gas Stoves Counts Chinese Official as Top Adviser

Study: 40 Percent of Animals in US Face Extinction  And yet they never go extinct. Funny how that works.

Monday Mirthiness – Diesel Powered Wind Turbines? Yes, Really.

Wind-Power Makers Suffer Huge Losses, Want To Abandon Major Project

U.S. plans to stop buying Covid shots for the public this fall. Here’s what that means for you (CNBC)

CDC tracking new, potentially dangerous COVID variant (NBC)

How is the World Health Organization funded, and why does it rely so much on Bill Gates? (EuroNews)

It’s Official: Ugly People More Likely To Wear Masks – University Study  And who could blame them?

Everything You Need To Know About The Lab Leak (But Were Not Allowed To Ask)

What is the best alternative to a wood-burning stove? (The Guadian)

Wood-burning stoves attract thousands of neighbour complaints – but just two fines in six years (The Telegraph)

Climate disasters hit poor people hardest. There’s an obvious solution to that. (Vox)

Will the world run out of critical minerals? (Washington P0st)

Climate change and a population boom could dry up the Great Salt Lake in 5 years (NPR)

Carbon capture project is ‘Band-Aid’ to greenwash $10bn LNG plant, locals say (The Guardian)

Upsurge in Rocket Launches Threatening the Earth’s Ozone Layer, Warn Scientists (The Weather Channel)

A rapidly growing rocket industry could undo decades of work to save the ozone layer – unless we act now (The Conversation) The Conversation ought to change it name to The Lecture.

Virtual simulation shows impact of sea level rise, Category 5 hurricane on West Palm Beach

Should We Start Preparing for the Evacuation of Miami? (The Nation) Couldn’t hurt.

HomeFeatureBritish Houses Worth 584 Million Pounds To Fall Into The Sea Due To Coastal Erosion: Report (NDTV)

DeSantis Moves To Eliminate Taxes On Gas Stoves As DoE Makes Major Push To Regulate

The Ministry of Climate Truth

The Climate Crisis Is Threatening Spain’s Saffron Crop  (Wired ‘Science’)

LA Times Claim that the World Can “quickly phase out all fossil fuels” is Completely Incompetent

California won’t require COVID vaccine to attend schools (Associated Press)

The public health emergency is ending. Covid isn’t. (Politico)

How quickly does COVID immunity fade? What scientists know (Nature)

Immune Response to COVID-19 Strengthens Over Time – Important Implications for Vaccine Boosters (SciTech Daily)

It turns out that masks are mostly a symbolic talisman

Colbert Preaches to His Masked-Up Parishioners

Will there by an H5N1 pandemic for humans?

Exxon reports record profits, doubles down on fossil fuels (Salon)

Palm oil is actually not that bad (anymore) (Vox)

Carbon capture is here—it just isn’t evenly distributed (Ars Technica)

Aim for the Stomach (Mother Jones)

Energy experts share how the U.S. can reach Biden’s renewable energy goals (NPR)

‘Hypocritical’: environmental groups blocking union efforts, US workers say (The Guardian)

Americans’ Climate Migration Has Begun (The American Prospect)

Large glacier near Seattle has ‘completely disappeared,’ says researcher who has tracked it for years (CNN)

Fuel dealers, customers balk at clean heat proposal (WCAX)

The ocean twilight zone could store vast amounts of carbon captured from the atmosphere – but first we need an internet of deep ocean sensors to track the effects (The Conversation) With a plentiful contingent of highly-paid government bureaucrats to man the whole system.

U.S. Permian Basin oil production — and profits — have surged (Axios)

Environmental advocates push feds to investigate Texas’ enforcement of water quality (Texas Tribune)

Seawater split to produce green hydrogen with nearly 100% efficiency

Seawater electrolysis by adjusting the local reaction environment of a catalyst

The New Pause lengthens again: 101 months and counting …

Climate Envoy John Kerry Faces Congressional Investigation Over ‘Secret’ Dealings With China

Lying and Denying: Left Is Still Out to Take Away Your Gas Stove

BYU profs create new nuclear reactor to produce nuclear energy more safely

Biden’s Ending of the Covid Emergency Is a Public Health Disaster (The Nation)

Breakthrough Omicron BA.1/BA.2 infections in the triple-vaccinated linked to broad-based immunity (News-Medical)

Severe SARS-Cov2 pneumonia in vaccinated patients: a multicenter cohort study (Nature)

Researchers looking for long COVID symptoms find only 7

Growing Number Of Doctors Say They Won’t Get COVID-19 Booster Shots  The witch-hunt is losing its effectiveness.

‘The Scandal Would Be Enormous’: Pfizer Director Worried About Vax-Induced Menstrual Irregularities

Inside The Secret Government Meeting On COVID-19 Natural Immunity

Merck’s COVID Pill Linked to New Virus Mutations  Thanks a bunch.

George Santos falsely listed ‘dumbfounded’ relative as campaign donor: report (N.Y. Post)

Calls for federal monitor to oversee Santos’ campaign funds (CBS)

Leaked Audio And Staff Dispute Show Chaos Inside George Santos’ Office (Talking Points Memo)

Tucker Carlson Ignores Virtually Every George Santos Lie to Say the Media Covers Him for Lying About Playing Volleyball (MEDIAite) Smearing two Republicans with one headline! Win-win!

George Santos Produced Broadway’s Ill-Fated Spider-Man Musical. At Least, He Claims He Did (Bloomberg)

‘Greenwashing’ is a good thing, according to one renewable energy tycoon (CNBC)

What is greenhushing? How to spot the sophisticated greenwashing tactics being used in 2023 (EuroNews)

Jordan Peterson’s ‘zombie’ climate contrarianism follows a well-worn path (The Guardian) As does The Guardian’s pushing the Narrative.

Cow Burps Have a Big Climate Impact. Solving That is Harder than You’d Think (TIME)

House Republicans blast environmental rules in first Energy meeting (The Hill)

US Emissions of the World’s Most Potent Greenhouse Gas Are 56 Percent Higher Than EPA Estimates, a New Study Shows (Inside Climate News)

Oil giant Shell accused of ‘greenwashing’ and misleading investors (Washington Post)

Artificial light harms our bodies and souls. It doesn’t have to be this way. (Washington Post) Yeah,  we can freeze in the dark.

Light Pollution Is Dimming Our View of the Sky, and It’s Getting Worse (‘Scientific’ American)

Is this the beginning of the end for Big Oil’s windfall? (CNN)

Pete Buttigieg: EV incentives needed or ‘warming happens just a little quicker and a few more people die’ (Fox)

Atlanta shooting part of alarming US crackdown on environmental defenders (The Guardian)

Drive to protect world’s wetlands gains momentum (UNEP) Nothing says diversity like a swamp.

The healing of the ozone layer gives hope, but addressing climate change will be harder (L.A. Times)

India Set To Crank Up Coal Power To Meet Soaring Demand

The gas industry is under fire. It’s hiring Democratic politicians to help. (Washington Post) And they don’t come cheap.

Gas Stoves Are Back Under Scrutiny With New US Limits Proposed (Bloomberg)

Those Attacks on Gas Stoves Aren’t Really about Health

Heartland Institute Ships ‘Climate at a Glance’ Book to Thousands of Teachers Across America

Micro molten salt reactor can fit on a truck, power 1k homes. When it’s built.

FDA axes requirement for positive Covid test before Paxlovid use

WHO tries to broker new pandemic deal, calls COVID response ‘catastrophic failure’ (Fox)

5 COVID mistakes Biden’s new chief of staff must admit (Fox)

Consider COVID vaccines and myocarditis

Ending COVID-19 Emergency Raises Questions About Biden Power Grabs

CDC Aware Of Reports Of ‘Debilitating Illnesses’ After COVID-19 Vaccination: Official

Pfizer CEO Made ‘Misleading’ Statements On Vaccinating Children Against COVID-19: UK Watchdog

Massive Peer-Reviewed Mask Study Shows ‘Little To No Difference’ In Preventing COVID, Flu Infection

UN Initiative Targets And Doxxes Doctors And Nurses Who Don’t Follow COVID-19 Narrative

Anthony Fauci Symbolizes ‘Weaponization of Loneliness,’ Former CIA Analyst Says

Why Is There A COVID Vaccine Mandate For Students?

MSNBC Anchor Hospitalized With Severe Myocarditis, Pericarditis

Fauci Chose Dogma over Science

Without Evusheld, Immunocompromised People Are on Their Own Against COVID-19 (TIME)

Alberta shelves preventative COVID-19 therapy, Evusheld, as resistant variants take hold (CBC)

How the pandemic changed the rules of personal finance (NPR)

Valley fever could be spreading across the U.S. Here are the symptoms and what you need to know (Fortune)

Stock Up on Free At-Home COVID-19 Tests While You Can (TIME)

House ignores White House objections, votes to end COVID health emergency (Fox)

Pfizer and Moderna Quadrupling Price of COVID Vaccine Raises Concerns (Newsweek)

House Votes to End Covid Precautions as G.O.P. Uses Pandemic in Political Attacks (N.Y. Times)

Ivermectin: Could Population-Wide Distribution Have Prevented China’s Recent Mass COVID Outbreak?

What Happens When the COVID-19 Emergency Ends  The recriminations begin.

Investor group bans carbon removal from CO2 reduction plans (Reuters)

Scientists Discover a New Cause of Melting Antarctic Ice Shelves (SciTech Daily)

Climate protesters who squashed cake into King Charles waxwork told to pay damages (The Guardian)

This Experiment Could Help Restore Eroding Coastlines (Mother Jones)

“The Deluge” is a climate nightmare — and it’s based on reality (Salon)

With carbon capture on an industrial scale, Norway plans for a greener future (Microsoft)

Norway Is Planning to Profit From Climate Change (Foreign Policy)

CNN climate correspondent touts study predicting global ‘doom’ and ‘death sentence’ for island nations (Fox)

Net-zero aviation needs up to $1 trillion in carbon offsets by 2050 (New Scientist)

We can’t afford to offset our aviation emissions (The Verge)

Nuclear Fusion Isn’t the Silver Bullet We Want It to Be

A dire forecast: Scientists used AI to find planet could cross critical warming threshold sooner than expected (CNN)

The Inconvenient Truth About Solyndra

If wishes were horses, we’d all get ponies for Christmas: Geothermal Edition

Biden Admin Greenlights Alaska Oil Drilling Project

Read it.

Former president Donald Trump and the Republican Party are driven by “the exact same things that drove the [Ku Klux] Klan movement of the 1920s,” according to Wesley Lowery, the former Washington Post reporter best known for winning the Pulitzer Prize after being arrested at a McDonald’s restaurant during a riot in Ferguson, Mo., and spending several minutes in jail.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Minneapolis’s Star Tribune illustrates how the major daily newspaper of a metropolitan area can contribute to its decline. The owner of the newspaper has a high tolerance for mediocrity and the local news reads like public relations for Minnesota’s DFL. Today’s case in point is Briana Bierschbach’s page-one story on the new abortion law Democrats rammed through the legislature in record time: “Gov. Tim Walz signs law strengthening abortion rights in Minnesota.” Subhead: “It’s the first in a series of bills that Democrats say will help guarantee access to the procedure for decades to come.” This is today’s page one above the fold, just beneath the Star Tribune logo.

The text of Bierschbach’s story reminds me of Kool and the Gang’s “Celebration.” Here is how the song goes: “This is your celebration / Celebrate good times, come on / Let’s celebrate /Celebrate good times, come on / Let’s celebrate / There’s a party going on right here / A celebration to last throughout the years.” It’s the unmistakable subtext of Bierschbach’s story.

One problem with the story is its failure to explain what the bill actually accomplishes. Even readers who are inclined to agree, as most undoubtedly do, won’t get it.

Long Covid has an ‘underappreciated’ role in labor shortage, study finds (CNBC)

1M+ People Called in Sick Every Month Since COVID’s Beginning: CDC (Daily Beast)

COVID still an emergency but nearing key immunity level, WHO says (The Hill)

Study suggests robust lung mucosal immunity against SARS-CoV-2 can be better achieved through hybrid immunity, as opposed to peripheral vaccination alone (News-Medical)

Evolutionary history of SARS-CoV-2 leads to a universal vaccine already being tested in animal models (Medical Express)

Long-COVID brain changes causing rise in mental health issues (ABC)

West Point continues to impose COVID-19 vaccine mandate, despite rule’s lift by Pentagon: report

Unvaccinated Kidney And Heart Patients Denied Transplants Get Day In Court With Michigan Hospital

“It’s Time For The Scientific Community To Admit We Were Wrong About COVID & It Cost Lives”

Politico.

Our intrepid reporter camped outside the office of Congress’ most scandal-plagued freshman, so you don’t have to.

They’re actually paying people to do this.

It’s 11:05 a.m. on a Tuesday, and none of the 20 or so reporters huddling outside George Santos’ congressional office wants to grab the last of twelve donuts he brought to the Longworth House building. The gaggle has been here for hours, camped out next to a cardboard carafe of coffee rapidly growing stale. Around 8 a.m., Santos had waltzed in, ceremoniously plopping a Dunkin’ Donuts bag on a side table placed outside L-1117, a confectionery bounty. He didn’t need to be here so early (his first vote is at 6:30 p.m.), but he had teased a “surprise” the day before on Twitter, “for the ‘journalists’ assigned to stake out side [sic] of my office,” the quotation marks smacking of cheerful condescension. “I brought you guys some donuts!” he exclaims. “Donuts and coffee, for all the hard work you guys do.”

“Thank you. Seriously,” he says, by now half-inside his office, just before the door swings shut against the videographers and photographers and reporters, all of whom crave answers more than pastries.

And George Santos is in his Congressional office laughing like a loon….

Read it.

On paper, Dr. Julie Goodman is exactly the kind of seasoned scientific expert the New York Times would typically venerate.

She received her Ph.D. in toxicology from Johns Hopkins University. She taught at Harvard’s School of Public Health. She served as a cancer prevention fellow at the National Cancer Institute. And she’s now affiliated with both the American College of Epidemiology and the Academy of Toxicological Sciences. She believes in “the science.”

There’s just one problem. Goodman doesn’t think the federal government should come into your home and rip out your gas stove. In her (expert) opinion, studies linking the suddenly controversial appliance to childhood asthma are flawed. They don’t justify dramatic action.

Absence from work at record high as Americans feel strain from Covid (The Guardian)  COVID? Really?

Moderna is planning to dramatically raise the price of its COVID vaccine. Biden shouldn’t let it. (Boston Globe)

Three years after COVID-19 started, scientists have learned valuable lessons (NPR)

How Two Conflicting COVID Stories Shattered Society

WHO Declares COVID Still a Public Health Emergency, in Transition  Please! Give us back our power!

Report: Baltimore Schools Used Youth Program to Push COVID Vaccine

California’s climate is the first to suffer in Newsom’s proposed budget cuts (Sacramento Bee)

The hidden environmental costs of transitioning to electric vehicles (NPR)

Geothermal energy could be off-ramp for Texas oil (The Hill) Texas doesn’t need an ‘off-ramp’, thank you very much.

Can board games teach us about the climate crisis? Game creators say yes (The Guardian) Yet another Narrative propaganda tool.

World’s first semi-submersible floating wind farm achieves 78GWh power (Interesting Engineering)

We are ‘greening’ ourselves to extinction (Al Jezeera)

Travel companies are ‘greenwashing’ — here are 3 ways to find ones that aren’t (CNBC)

When Will We Hit Peak Fossil Fuels? Maybe We Already Have (Inside Climate News)

The Climate Alarmist’s Greatest Fear

Windfall Taxes Sweep Through The Global Energy Sector

Electrify America “fries” EVs at charging stations

Ski resorts can now make fake snow in 80 degrees. Here’s why that’s a problem. (Washington Post)

Electric vehicles more expensive to fuel than gas-powered cars at end of 2022: consulting firm (Fox)

Fuel Costs of Electric Vehicles Overtake Gas-Powered Cars: Study (Epoch Times)

Norway’s last Arctic miners struggle with coal mine’s end (Associated Press)

The Guardian view on carbon offsetting: a model with dangerous flaws (The Guardian)

As carbon offsets, tree planting can be shady (The Hill)

‘Vegan,’ ‘sustainable’: How to spot misleading fashion claims (Washington Post)

Researchers Successfully Turn Abandoned Oil Well Into Giant Geothermal Battery (Futurism)

Environmental advocates express frustration over Biden regulation delays (The Hill)

Food, feed and fuel: global seaweed industry could reduce land needed for farming by 110m hectares, study finds (The Guardian)

Harvesting Ocean’s Bounty: Farming More Seaweed Could Help Fight Food Crisis, Deforestation and Climate Change (The Weather Channel)

Should COVID vaccines be given yearly? Proposal divides US scientists (Nature)

Annual? Bivalent? For all? Future of COVID shots murky after FDA deliberations (Ars Technica)

FDA Quietly Changes End Date for Study of Heart Inflammation After Pfizer COVID Vaccination (Epoch Times)

Guardian: Can video games change people’s minds about the climate crisis?

Kids Fight Off COVID More Easily, But Their Immunity Wanes Faster

NIH Failed To Monitor EcoHealth Alliance: Federal Watchdog

sThunberg, UN urge quick action on climate migration (The Hill)

We need native seeds in order to respond to climate change, but there aren’t enough (NPR)

Why desalination won’t save states dependent on Colorado River water (CNBC)

Study: Enough rare earth minerals to fuel green energy shift (Associated Press)

Norway’s fossil fuel bonanza stokes impassioned debate about how best to spend its ‘war profits’ (CNBC)

It’s possible to reach net-zero carbon emissions. Here’s how (Science News)

How California’s ambitious new climate plan could help speed energy transformation around the world (The Conversation)

JFK Airport is getting 13,000 solar panels, but they won’t power the community due to local law (Gothamist)

Norway just greenlit this vertical-axis floating wind turbine (Electrek)

Google let Daily Wire advertise on ‘climate change is a hoax’ searches (The Guardian)

India’s Low Coal Stocks Threaten Electricity Supply

Sunshine Might Be Free But Solar Power Is Not Cheap

Intersectional Climate Scientist Goes on Rant Against ‘White Men’

Maher Skewers Private Jet-Flying Environmentalists, ‘It’s Like Heroin’

Guardian: Google Are Not Trying Hard Enough to Demonetise Climate Deniers

Why EVs Aren’t a Climate Change Panacea

sdCDC urges people with weak immune systems to take extra precautions after Covid subvariants knock out Evusheld (CNBC)

FDA revokes authorization for key anti-COVID drug, a blow for vulnerable Americans (L.A. Times)

UK not banning COVID-19 vaccines for people under 50 (Associated Press)

Federal judge blocks California COVID-19 misinformation law (KCRA)

What’s CH.1.1? Meet ‘Orthrus,’ a new wildcard Omicron strain with a concerning Delta mutation (Fortune)

Omicron sub-variant XBB.1.5 accounts for 61.3% of U.S. COVID cases – CDC (Reuters)

Pfizer Responds After Director Says Company Is Developing Ways To Mutate COVID-19

How a Drug Company Made $114 Billion by Gaming the U.S. Patent System

Read it.

Searching for sympathetic coverage from the New York Times? Here’s a hack: Earn an advanced degree, then commit a violent crime in the service of your radical politics.

We have closely followed the cases of Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis, the New York City attorneys who tossed a Molotov cocktail into a police cruiser in May of 2020. Or, as the New York Times put it, their legal careers were sidetracked when “a Molotov cocktail ignited the center console of an empty police car during a Black Lives Matter protest.” Rotten luck!

Rahman went to Fordham. Mattis went to Princeton and NYU. They are precisely the sort of well-resourced and well-connected people that the New York Times is always telling us the criminal justice system favors—unjustifiably.