Alaska’s Arctic Waterways Are Turning a Foreboding Orange (Wired)

5 doable resolutions for US climate policy in 2023 (Vox)

US response to the climate emergency: key moments of 2022 (The Guardian)

California offshore wind promises a new gold rush while slashing emissions (NPR)

That whooshing sound is windmills shredding tax dollars (Hot Air)

‘Instead of living in fear of climate catastrophe, I’ll do something about it’: the thing I’ll do differently in 2023 (The Guadian) Virtue-signal like a … well, you know.

These robots crawl all over wind turbines so humans don’t have to (Elektrek)

Brace yourself for mountains of pain and misery under Gov. Hochul’s zero-emissions fantasy plan (N.Y. Post)

Adjusting the intensity of farming can help address climate change (Salon)

Environmentalists Are Killing People  And they’re good with that.

Supply Chain Issues, Rising Costs Threaten Wind Power Buildup

Swiss National Referendum Will Limit Population To 10 Million Through Strict Immigration Control, To Save Environment

The Net Zero Road to Nowhere

MSNBC Lets Environmental Alarmist Michael Mann Tie Blizzard to Global Warming  As he does.

Home Insulation Makes Little Difference To Energy Consumption–New Study  Depends on how much you have.

New COVID variant XBB.1.5 rapidly spreading in US, CDC data shows (N.Y. Post) Guess we’d better PANIC!

CDC reports a new strain of omicron taking over in the U.S. (NBC)

Exclusive: Drugmakers to raise prices on at least 350 drugs in U.S. in January (Reuters) Thank you, Joe Biden.

COVID-19 Vaccines and Fever: Scientists Have Discovered a New Potential Link (SciTech Daily)

Autopsies Show COVID-19 Virus in Brain and Elsewhere in Body (Neuroscience News)

Maryland biotech advances COVID-influenza combo vaccine (WTOP)

Under Covid Siege, Chinese State Media Seek to Reassure Public

15 Million Americans Set To Lose Medical Coverage As Public Health Emergency Ends

The U.S. passed a historic climate deal this year — here’s a recap of what’s in the bill (CNBC)

Here’s what Anthony Fauci’s wife actually does at NIH (Fox)

EPA issues new rule to strengthen water protections in the U.S (NBC)

EPA issues clean water rule that repeals Trump administration changes (CNBC)

2022: A year of environmental milestones (U.N.) I think they mean ‘millstones’.

A Pivotal Year for the Health of the Planet and its People (U.S. Dept. of State)

Think those bags are recyclable? California says think again (L.A. Times)

‘I am an optimistic person’: the scientist who studies climate catastrophes (The Guardian) So long as I keep predicting catastrophe, I’ll be well paid.

Human hair recycled in Belgium to protect the environment (Reuters)

How ocean wind power could help the US fossil fuel industry (The Guardian) I don’t think they mean using wind power to pump oil.

How Did EVs Handle America’s Arctic Blast?  Poorly.

Global Holiday Chaos: Long Queues as Tesla Drivers Overwhelm Charge Points

2022 Same Shit, Different Year: 55 Years Of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions

COVID variant XBB.1.5 now accounts for 40 percent of cases in the US: CDC (The Hill)

Travel nurses took high-paying jobs during Covid. But then their pay was slashed, sometimes in half. (NBC) What, no ‘windfall profits tax’ on nurses, like on oil companies?

China steps up Covid variant monitoring as countries impose entry curbs (Financial Times)

Covid: England to require negative test for arrivals from China (BBC)

CDC warns of future surge in diabetes among young Americans (The Hill) So I guess it’s time to PANIC!

Congressional report: U.S. FDA broke own protocols in approving Biogen Alzheimer’s drug (Reuters)

FDA criticized for working too closely with biotech company to approve Alzheimer’s drug (PBS)

8 infectious diseases that made a comeback in 2022 unexpectedly — and illnesses that could surge in 2023 (Insider) Which means you’d better PANIC!

Vaccine-Evasive Omicron Subvariant on the Rise  Just to be safe, we’d better PANIC!

Newsbusters.

Well, isn’t this rich. Republican Congressman-elect George Santos has been caught flatfooted, lying about all manner of things — his education, job history, religion, his mother’s death and more.

The lib media has, but of course, gone crazy with this. Doubtless, beyond the lying itself, this focus on Santos is partially driven by the battle to elect the next GOP Speaker of the House. Embattled GOP House Leader Kevin McCarthy needs every vote he can get – and that would include a Santos vote, presuming Santos does not resign before the election on January 3rd. Something that as this is written appears unlikely.

But there’s more here than meets the eye.

Over there at The American Spectator, columnist (and colleague) Scott McKay has noted – correctly in my view – something very curious. How was Santos able to tell these lies and get away with it in his election? Says Scott: “He realized that Stupid Woke America values ‘diversity’ over competence or merit, and so he fed Stupid Woke America what it wanted.”

If I were Congressman Santos, the first assignment I would give to my staff would be to list all of the various ‘lies’ the Narrative Media accuse me of telling, then dig into the records of every Democrat member of Congress and post a list of those who did the exact same thing without any complaint from the Usual Suspects. (One might start with Alcee Hastings, who was impeached and removed as a Federal judge for bribery and then went on to a ‘distinguished’ career as a corrupt black Congressman, re-elected again and again by the stupid black people of his district.)

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It was a challenging task but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L.Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2022 and on December 15 announced The Brian Stelter Memorial Award for Quote of the Year.

Of course, every year there is way too much bias for just one category. So Baker led a panel of NewsBusters editors to break down the Worst of 2022 into eight additional categories (The GOP Will End Democracy Award; The Damn Those Conservatives Award; The Praising and Protecting Old Joe Award;The Media Heroes Award; The Cursing the Conservative Court Award; The Joy of Hate Award for Joy Reid Rants; The Craziest Analysis Award and the Celebrity Freak-Outs Award).

How can coral reefs deal with climate change? Get better roommates (NPR)

‘Climate change before our eyes’: Sounding the alarm as Mt. Rainier glaciers quickly fade (KIRO)

Here’s why the U.S. electric grid isn’t running on 100% renewable energy yet (CNBC)

We must change how we think to solve the plastic waste crisis (The Hill)

Higher king tides expected as sea levels are predicted to keep rising (KING5)

Green hydrogen: Fuel of the future has ‘big potential’ but a worrying blind spot, scientists warn (Euronews)

CNN Ignores Deadly Blizzard in ‘Top 10 Climate Stories of 2022’

BlackRock, State Street Admit Signing Net-Zero Pledges They Don’t Act On

W. Hudson Bay polar bear population decline stories are unethical and ignore critical caveats

Harvesting human pee and DIY fertiliser: top conservation issues in 2023 (The Guardian)

Terrawatch: the rise and bigger rise of Mediterranean sea levels (The Guardian)

Big coal miners’ profits triple as demand surges (Financial Times)

Too pricey for naughty children’s stockings: Cost of coal soars in 2022 (Colorado Springs Gazette)

My burning shame: I fitted my house with three wood-burning stoves (The Guardian) George Monbiot transgresses.

Do wood burners cause pollution and is it worth buying one? (Eastern Daily Press)

The mission to return jaguars to the US: ‘We aren’t right without them’ (The Guardian)

10 signs we got closer to climate disaster in 2022 (LiveScience)

Exxon sues over EU fossil fuel ‘windfall tax’ (Politico) Let’s go plundering/The better way to tax!

NYC Electric Garbage Truck Plans Hit Wall After Trucks “Conked Out” Plowing Snow After Just Four Hours

Geoengineering Startup Begins Releasing Sulfur Particles Into Atmosphere In Attempt To ‘Stop Climate Change’

How The New Cold War Solved Global-Warming

“How Dare You?”: Greta Thunberg Loses Her Cool at Ex-Kickboxer’s Automobile Collection  Apparently Greta is an expert in penis size. Who knew?

Rogue geoengineering startup attempts to affect atmosphere despite warnings

The Climate Struggle Literally Hit Home in 2022 (Wired ‘Science’) For sufficiently Woke definitions of ‘home’.

US will require COVID-19 testing for travelers from China (Associated Press)

U.S. records 100 million Covid cases, but more than 200 million Americans have probably had it (CNBC)

White House sees light at the end of the monkeypox tunnel (Politico)

As Covid-19 Continues to Spread, So Does Misinformation About It (N.Y. Times) In the Narrative Media, ‘misinformation’ is anything thta doesn’t agree with the Narrative.

‘Life Turns Lonelier’ — New York Times Sends Page-One Sympathy Card to Mask ‘Holdouts’

Hydroxychloroquine lowers Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias risk

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Dr. Rachel Levine, a man who identifies as a woman, urged doctors at state medical boards to pressure Big Tech to stifle “medical misinformation” right after he declared that there is no “scientific or medical dispute” about the benefits of using experimental drugs and surgeries to force male bodies to resemble female bodies or vice versa.

Levine, the assistant secretary of health at the federal Department of Health and Human Services, presented an extremely dubious worldview as the established position of science, and acted as though no rational person would dare dissent.

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“Politics and the English Language” addressed the jargon, double-talk, and what we would now call “spin” that had already distorted the discourse of the mid-20th century. “In our time,” Orwell argued, “political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. … Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. … Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” Those are the sentences most cited whenever a modern leader or talking head hides behind terms like “restructuring” (for layoffs), “visiting a site” (for bombing), or “alternative facts” (for falsehoods). In his essay, Orwell also cut through the careless, mechanical prose of academics and journalists who fall back on clichés—“all prefabricated phrases, needless repetitions, and humbug and vagueness generally.”

These objections still hold up almost 80 years later, but historic changes in taste and technology mean that they apply to a new set of unexamined truisms and slogans regularly invoked less in oratory or print than through televised soundbites, online memes, and social media: the errors of reason and rhetoric identified in “Politics and the English Language” can be seen in familiar examples of empty platitudes, stretched metaphors, and meaningless cant which few who post, share, like, and retweet have seriously parsed. Consider how the following lexicon from 2023 is distinguished by the same question-begging, humbug, and sheer cloudy vagueness exposed by George Orwell in 1946.

With forests in peril, she’s on a mission to save ‘mother trees’ (Washington Post)

California has to become carbon-neutral by 2045. What does that mean for natural gas? (Sacrament0 Bee)

Liberal media made slew of dubious claims about climate change, year-end report finds (Fox)

Controversial activist Steven Donziger is a folk hero to the left, a fraud to Big Oil (The Hill)

When the State Cut Their Water, These California Users Created a Collaborative Solution (Inside Climate News)

Brutal Christmas storm: Is it climate change — or just weather? (The Hill)

Fact check: What’s the link between global heating and extreme weather? (ABS-CBN News)

Carbon credit groups seek to expand investor appeal (Financial Times) You can’t run a grift without marks.

South African Energy Contractors Accused of Stealing Coal and Shipping it to Europe

The Faux Urgency of The Climate Crisis Is Giving Us No Time or Space To Build A Secure Energy Future

Local health departments working to restore trust as they fight vaccine misinformation (NBC) In the Narrative Media, ‘misinformation’ is anything contradicts the Narrative.

Thousands of workers were fired over vaccine mandates. For some, the fight goes on (NPR)

US To Require Negative COVID Tests After “Extremely Irresponsible” China Reopens Borders

Watchdogs Need More Money to Find Stolen COVID Aid: Report  You’ve heard that it takes money to make money? Apparently it also takes money to find money.

Ex-Twitter Employees Ran ‘Fauci Fan Club’ Slack Channel

The Case for Wearing Masks Forever (New Yorker) How will you signal your virtue without wearing a mask?

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For decades, progressives have focussed their attention on the restriction of free speech. This is crucial when you favour emotion over facts, because it helps to deny the others access to, well, facts. Since the 1990s, political correctness has shrunk the ever-narrowing boundaries of ‘acceptable speech,’ under the guise of not causing offense, naturally. Fast-forward 30 years, and such compassion has morphed into ‘hate speech’ and ‘hate crime’ laws, for anyone brave enough to test such matters out in court. For those who doubt the seriousness of the matter, Europe is currently awash with such sham trials—the latest being the investigation and possible 3-year imprisonment of filmmaker Tonje Gjevjon, for the crime of saying that “Men cannot be lesbians.”

More recently, the Left have shifted tactics, infiltrating the lexicon with political alternatives to existing words which require no updating. Consider the rivers of ‘neopronouns’ (e.g. ‘ze’ and ‘zir’), which lend ill-warranted authority to the notion that biological sex is not binary; aided and abetted by the fact that one in five of us already know someone who uses these newly invented pronouns seriously. Or how about the umbrella term ‘people of colour,’ which purports to be an inoffensive term for non-whites, but is in fact heavily-loaded to secure priority status without having to earn it. This is perhaps best exemplified by the outraged objections of ‘racism’ to legitimate criticism of Meghan Markle (a woman you’d be hard-pushed to pick out of a Downton Abbey line-up), while identical criticism of Prince Harry goes unchallenged.

Biden admin pushed to bar Twitter users for COVID ‘disinformation,’ files show (N.Y. Post)

Twitter Files expose government influence on suppressing COVID messages that contradicted WH (Fox)

Why our worst fears about Covid in 2022 weren’t realized (NBC) Because people learned to stop buying Crustian bullshit.

Medical Staff on Frontline of China’s COVID Fight Say Hospitals Are ‘Overwhelmed’

Long COVID Continues to Baffle Scientists  Follow the science! — around in circles….

‘Twitter Files’ Release: How Platform Rigged COVID Debate

China ‘Interested in Offensive Bioweapons’ Since 2005, Rep. Says

The Daily Chart: Masks Forever?

Oil Jumps After China Scraps Inbound Quarantine, Will Reopen Borders Effectively Ending Zero-Covid Regime

Merck’s COVID-19 Antiviral Drug Doesn’t Reduce Hospitalization Or Death In High-Risk Vaccinated People: Study

Experts Warn of Likely Spike in Respiratory Viruses After Holidays  Get ready for another PANIC!

Growing vaccine hesitancy fuels measles, chickenpox resurgence in U.S. (Washington Post) Perhaps if people hadn’t be lied to so much they wouldn’t have ‘vaccine hesitancy’.

Climate activists are fuming as Germany turns to coal to replace Russian gas (NPR)

No more Band-Aids: How to make the Colorado River sustainable for the long term (Arizona Republic)

Desert suburbia is growing. But the Colorado River, and Arizona’s groundwater, cannot keep up. (L.A. Times)

Popular Gasoline Reduction Strategies Aren’t Getting a Chance To Work (SciTech Daily)

Direct air capture funding has raised environmental justice concerns — but there’s more to the story (The Hill) Environmental justice!

California to cover canals with solar panels to combat drought, climate change (S.F. Chronicle)

California to flip from warm and dry to rainy and snowy (Associated Press)

Claim: More than half of Antarctica’s plants, animals could disappear due to climate change

These Major Breakthroughs of 2022 Will Affect Health for Years to Come (Prevention Magazine)

Most Americans don’t have peak protection against COVID (Axios) What ‘vaccine protection against COVID’? The ‘vaccines’ don’t ‘protect against COVID’.

Covid vaccinations: See the latest trend and count (NBC)

Crematory Overrun In Beijing’s Southeastern District, Burning 150 Bodies Daily: Reports

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Of course, every year there is way too much bias for just one category. So Baker led a panel of NewsBusters editors to break down the Worst of 2022 into eight additional categories (The GOP Will End Democracy Award; The Damn Those Conservatives Award; The Praising and Protecting Old Joe Award;The Media Heroes Award; The Cursing the Conservative Court Award; The Joy of Hate Award for Joy Reid Rants; The Craziest Analysis Award and the Celebrity Freak-Outs Award).

Orange County moves to ‘high’ level of COVID-19 transmission (ABC)

China’s Zhejiang Has 1 Million Daily COVID Cases, Expected to Double

Why Some People Have Never Gotten COVID-19

Watch Out! The Media’s ‘Mask Up!’ Marauders Are Riding Again

Omicron subvariant XBB jumps to 18% of U.S. COVID cases, CDC says (Reuters)

The Checkup With Dr. Wen: We must prepare for the fallout from China’s covid U-turn (Washington Post)

COVID in California: Bay Area counties enter CDC’s ‘high’ community virus tier (S.F. Chronicle)

Florida Supreme Court rules Gov. Ron DeSantis can impanel grand jury to investigate COVID-19 vaccine makers (N.Y. Post)

Report: Nearly 37M Infected With COVID-19 in China in Single Day

How Many Republicans Died Because the GOP Turned Against Vaccines? (The Atlantic) None, because the GOP didn’t ‘turn against vaccines’, they turned against lockdowns, not the same thing. This sort of political gaslighting is all the rage on the Left.

Leaked Notes From Chinese Health Workers: 250M Covid-19 Infections in Past 20 Days

Can capitalism and nature coexist? (Vox)

Analysis: U.N. nature deal can help wildlife as long as countries deliver (Reuters)

Why Chinese Aluminum Producers Emit So Much of Some of the World’s Most Damaging Greenhouse Gases (InsideClimate News)

Research suggests polar cold snaps are prodded by Arctic warming (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)

Is climate change triggering extreme cold? The debate is super hot. (Washington Post)

US military ‘downplayed’ the number of soldiers exposed to ‘forever chemicals’ (The Guardian)

If You’re Anxious About Climate Change, This Is What Experts Say You Can Do To Cope (BuzzFeed)

6 ways you’re recycling wrong, according to Bay Area trash experts (S.F. Chronicle)

Is ‘Chemical Recycling’ a Solution to the Global Scourge of Plastic Waste or an Environmentally Dirty Ruse to Keep Production High? (Inside Climate News)

The Great Carbon Con Is Coming to an End (Wired)

Climate change will become a CEO dealbreaker (Reuters)

The world is using more coal than ever (Quartz)

Exxon’s bad reputation got in the way of its industry-wide carbon capture proposal (Ars Technica)

Target date for cleaning up waterways in England is moved back by 36 years (The Guardian)

Canada’s Hudson Bay polar bear population plummets as climate change warms Arctic (Reuters)

Ocean geoengineering scheme aces its first field test

Global Energy Crisis Forces Japan To U-Turn On Its Nuclear Policy

WEF: Playing Fortnite While Streaming Climate Messages Boosts Interest

This Christmas, It’s ‘Firmageddon’ as Climate Change Hits Oregon

The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter  They suck.

CDC issues warning about rise of invasive strep A infections in children (The Hill) One more thing to cause PANIC!

Nobel-nominated vaccine expert warns of Covid complacency: ‘We’re still losing too many lives’ (The Guardian) Hey, when your ‘vaccine’ doesn’t work, what do you expect?

FDA approves new monoclonal antibody for hospitalized COVID-19 patients (The Hill)

Canadian Government Tells Kids They’ll Be On Santa’s ‘Naughty List’ Without COVID Vaccine, Masks

Study: Merck’s COVID Pill Does Not Cut Hospitalization, Death Rates in Many Vaccinated Adults

The Bittersweet Defeat of Monkeypox  Apparently the stupid homosexuals have been weeded out by AIDS and COVID.

Pro-oil petition drive in California under question (Associated Press)

Biodiversity group says omnibus puts right whale ‘on an irreversible extinction trajectory’ (The Hill)

In a Famed Game Park Near the Foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, the Animals Are Giving Up (Inside Climate News)

Your eco-friendly choices may feel good, but they also play a role in political polarization (The Hill)

The $52 billion plan to save New York’s low-lying areas from sea level rise and storm surges (CNBC)

Climate Crisis Is Destroying Oregon’s Conifer Forests (Mother Jones)

A record high number of dead trees are found as Oregon copes with an extreme drought (NPR)

65% of Antarctica’s plants and animals could disappear, scientists say. Its iconic penguins are most at risk (CNN)

Emperor penguin at risk of extinction, along with two-thirds of native Antarctic species, research shows (The Guardian)

The tricky business of putting a dollar value on a human life (Vox)

Seven reasons to be cheerful about the Amazon in 2023 – and three to be terrified (The Guardian)

7-foot tides expected to bring flooding to San Francisco Bay Area (S.F. Gate)

Guardian: Climate Change Is What Led to the Murder Surge During the Black Lives Matter Era

Understanding ESG Objectives And Goals In The Era Of Greenwashing

The EU Plans To Impose Direct Carbon Taxes On Individuals

Why electric vehicles need EV-specific tires

Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift

US fails to give money promised for developing countries to ease climate impacts (The Guardian)

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The media no longer pretends to be impartial. Neither does the FBI. Neither does the tech oligarchy. Neither does the educational establishment. Neither does the unelected bureaucracy. And yet, we’re still expected to pretend to believe all this stuff. Despite evidence like that listed in Alex’s Tweet, we’re still expected to believe that Republicans are greedy and selfish, while Democrats are nice. You believe that, right?

New Research Reveals What Happens to Immune Cells After Vaccination (SciTechDaily)

Pandemic Grifters Are Here to Stay (Daily Beast) Although not in the sense meant by the science-deniers at the Daily Beast.

Facing Demographic Doom, China’s Army Of Retirees Returns To Work In Post “Zero-Covid” Economic Wasteland

Childhood immunizations drop in Florida, where public health is mocked (Orlando Sentinel) Say rather that the lies spread by public health authorities are mocked.

CDC Funding Decisions Based Largely On Politics, Not Science

It Was Always About Control

US Releases Medicine From National Stockpile as Flu Continues to Surge  I’ll bet you didn’t know we even had a ‘national stockpile’.

Florida High Court OKs Grand Jury Probe of COVID-19 Vaccines

Biodiversity treaty: UN deal fails to address the root causes of nature’s destruction (The Conversation)

Analysis-U.N. Nature Deal Can Help Wildlife as Long as Countries Deliver (U.S. News & World Report)

Researchers ‘shocked’ by college biology textbooks’ handling of climate change (The Hill)

US college biology textbooks failing to address climate crisis, study says (The Guardian) Failing to parrot the Narrative, they mean.

Five ways you can help stop biodiversity loss in your area – and around the world (The Conversation)

To attain global climate and biodiversity goals, we must reclaim nature in our cities (The Conversation)

Pace of new climate, sustainable business rules will not let up (Reuters)

Biden admin is funding foreign reporters to write climate stories, emails show (Fox)

Climate activists decapitate prominent Berlin Christmas tree (Associated Press)

The Global Economy Is Finally Realizing That Fossil Fuels Are Finite

Puerto Rico Greens Launch a RICO Lawsuit Against Big Oil

Cop15 in Montreal: did the summit deliver for the natural world? (The Guardian)

As climate clock ticks, aviator races to photograph glaciers (Associated Press)

Global temperatures in 2023 set to be among hottest on record (The Guardian)

Met Office forecasts 2023 will be hotter than 2022 (BBC) And they’ve always been right before!

Plastic bag ban leaves some shoppers overwhelmed with reusable bags (CBC)

One Farmer Set Off a Solar Energy Boom in Rural Minnesota; 10 Years Later, Here’s How It Worked Out (Inside Climate News)

Climate activists push electrification and degrowth (City Journal)

3M will stop making hazardous ‘forever chemicals’ starting in 2025 (CNN)

The big idea: Why we need to make the world a darker place (The Guardian)

The Quest to Defuse Guyana’s Carbon Bomb (Wired)

This little-known bottleneck is blocking clean energy for millions (Washington Post)

The Hope Of Fusion vs The Pomp Of Politicians And Climate Activists

Polar Bears of SE Greenland Get Shorefast Ice Necessary to Hunt Seals: Not So Unique After All

Liberals Who Ditched Tesla And Bought Chevrolet Bolt Now Hit With Recall Over Fire Risk

NH joins 24 other states arguing COVID-10 is no longer emergency

White House’s Covid coordinator urges people to get vaccinated ahead of holidays (CNBC)

Hot-air hand dryers might actually spread germs, not remove them. Here’s how to wash and dry your hands safely (CNBC) You stupid ignorant rube, you.

Actor Tim Robbins Expresses Regret For His Support Of Covid Authoritarianism

The Birx Plan for Early Vaccination of the Nursing Homes

How Lockdowns Made Us Sicker

Fifth Circuit rejects Biden admin’s “nearly unlimited authority” claims, blocks vaccine mandate (Hot Air)

Watchdogs Seek Halt of Taxpayer Funding for Wuhan Institute

Lockdown Fever: CBS/NBC Lament China Lifting Oppressive ‘Zero-COVID Policy’

UK’s old trees critical to climate change fight (BBC)

Objection by DRC sours ‘paradigm-changing’ Cop15 biodiversity deal (The Guardian)

Some NGOs warn COP15 biodiversity agreement will ‘devastate indigenous lives’ (France 24)

The domino effect of President Biden’s war on oil and gas (The Hill)

Chevron CEO denies Biden oil lease claim, details practical energy policy (Fox)

‘Face it head on’: Connecticut makes climate change studies compulsory (The Guardian) You will be assimilated!

Climate goal of 1.5C is ‘gasping for breath’, says UN head (The Guardian)

UN chief promises ‘no-nonsense’ climate summit in 2023 (Al Jezeera)

Greenland’s glaciers are melting 100 times faster than estimated (LiveScience)

Activist group launches new climate campaign against Big Oil (Financial Times) Jeez, another one?

As a Result of an Impressive Cold Blob Anomaly in the North Atlantic, Glaciers in Parts of Greenland, Iceland, and Norway are now Slowing Down From Melting (Severe Weather Europe) Impressive! Anomaly!

Winter & Cold Weather EV Range Loss in 7,000 Cars Enviro-wackos never tell you that electric vehicles get shitty range and mileage in cold weather.

Can America’s low-cost mobile homes withstand the climate crisis? (The Guardian) Since most ‘mobile homes’ have piss-poor insulation, global warming would actually be an advantage.

EU Imposes The World’s Largest Carbon Tax Scheme, Inflationary Madness Sets In

American EVs reduced gasoline consumption by just 0.54% in 2021

Forget Oil. Now They Are Coming For The Cows

WashPost Hates Humanity: Climate Reporter Demeans Kids as a ‘High-Cost Luxury’  We encourage environmental wackos not to reproduce.

Steve Sailer is guilty of Noticing.

One of the funnier patterns that you can’t unsee is how the New York Times works hard to make many of its article more boring than they have to be to avoid upsetting the delicate amour propre of subscribers.

Historic biodiversity agreement reached at U.N. conference (Associated Press)

COP15: Nations reach ‘historic’ deal to protect nature (BBC)

Europe risks falling behind US over green investment, says business leader (Financial Times)

Think climate change is scary? Try talking to your kids about it (L.A. Times)

The water south of Greenland has been cooling, so what causes that? (RealClimate)

Return of the rhino: can we bring the northern white back from extinction? (The Guardian)

The Amazon reef that may be threatened by oil drilling (BBC)

6 reasons why our planet might not be doomed after all (Vox)

Climate extremists think your kids are a ‘high-cost luxury’ and bad for Mother Earth

China unveils compromise proposal in COP15 biodiversity talks (Politico)

As the Climate Changes, Climate Fiction Is Changing With It (Inside Climate News)

Biggest US shale operator says more drilling would harm industry (Financial Times)

Bio-Based Plastics Aim to Capture Carbon. But at What Cost? (Wired)

US Opens Probe of Cruise Robotaxi Braking, Clogging Traffic

A compromise on the military covid vaccine mandate (Washington Post)

Mayor Adams warns NYC can’t hand influx of migrants if Title 42 ends (ABC)

Updated COVID booster shots reduce the risk of hospitalization, CDC reports (NPR) Of course it does.

Twitter Censorship Contributed To Destructive Pandemic Policies And Is Criminal, Says Former White House COVID Adviser

Boston Parents Demand Mask Mandates Return

Just How Bad Is the ‘Tripledemic’? (New York Times) Time to PANIC!

Setting The Record Straight On Ivermectin

More Than 80 Cities, Counties Using Federal Pandemic Aid To Fund Guaranteed Income Pilot Programs

The Great Barrington Plan: Would Focused Protection Have Worked?

New Study Finds Global Discrimination Against the Unvaccinated  My, what a surprise.

The US touts support for biodiversity – but at Cop15, it remains on the sidelines (The Guardian)

Oil industry faces end of the road in California regardless of Newsom penalty on profits (Politico)

Ozone hole closes later than usual for 3rd year in a row, scientists say (N.Y. Post)

Almost 8,000 US shootings attributed to unseasonable heat – study (The Guardian) When the temperature goes up, those guns just go off. Can’t explain it.

Explainer: What the world’s nature-rich nations want out of a global conservation deal (Reuters) Narrative! Get your Narrative here!

UN biodiversity conference: what does living in harmony with nature look like? (The Conversation) Starving and shivering in the dark.

Planned wind farm told it will need to shut down for five months a year to protect parrots (CNBC)

Wind turbines ‘incredibly destructive’ to bird life (Sky News Australia)

Global heating helps turns icy Sweden into unique wine-making territory (The Guardian)

EU strikes deal to boost carbon market, Europe’s biggest climate policy (Reuters) It’s hilarious watching people who hate markets and don’t understand how markets work trying to use markets to solve their self-created problems.

Here’s The Latest Sign Americans Are Going To Eat Bugs And Be Happy

‘Tripledemic’ can steal Christmas. Here’s how to stay safe against flu, COVID and RSV (Deseret News)

‘Tripledemic’ Threatens To Derail Holiday Season (NBC)

How this millennial CEO steered the world’s largest vaccine maker during the pandemic (CNBC)

Biden should veto NDAA as long as it includes vaccine termination (The Hill)

One of our best Covid-19 treatments doesn’t work anymore. What now? (Vox) Guess we’ll just have to PANIC!

If you get COVID, don’t wait to ask for antiviral drugs. Doctors say prescriptions take time (Sacramento Bee)

Survey finds growing opposition to school vaccine mandates for measles (The Hill) Once you’ve lied to people, they tend not to believe you.

CDC Director Claims Vaccine Misinformation Among Threats To Public Health (NBC) I’m sure she does.

Bay Area seeing ‘strongest increase’ of COVID cases in California (San Francisco Chronicle)

Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Linked to Blood Clotting: FDA (Epoch Times)

COVID-19 transmission in the Boise area is high. What we know, and what the CDC says (Idaho Statesman)

Autopsy-based histopathological characterization of myocarditis after anti-SARS-CoV-2-vaccination

New York and L.A. meet CDC criteria for masking in public. How much will masks help this winter? (NBC)

Masks May Be Necessary Again. Here’s Why. (BuzzFeed) Our rulers want us to PANIC!

Hochul & Adams’ ‘vision’ for post-COVID New York gets it almost entirely wrong (N.Y. Post)

Coronavirus FAQ: Is Paxlovid the best treatment? Is it underused in the U.S.? (NPR)

The Checkup With Dr. Wen: Should mask mandates return? (Washington Post)

The Age Of Amnesia

Lockdowns Forever: Philadelphia To Reimpose Mask Mandate in City’s Public Schools

Documents Uncover Secret Twitter Portal US Government Used To Censor COVID-19 Content

China Downgrades Omicron Risks To Seasonal Cold

Study Claims Unvaccinated People More Likely To Be Reckless, Cause Traffic Accidents

More than 1 in 10 species could be lost by end of century, study warns (The Guardian)

Children born today will see literally thousands of animals disappear in their lifetime, as global food webs collapse (The Conversation)

Cop15 half-time report: China prompts fears of new ‘Copenhagen moment’ (The Guardian)

COP15: investors turn up to UN nature summit for the first time (Financial Times)

Storytelling Will Save the Earth (Wired) Never mind facts, listen to the Narrative.

Energy crisis fuels coal comeback in Germany (Reuters)

‘Extinct’ Creatures Appear on Galapagos Island After 5,000 Years (Newsweek)

Texas Republicans Want Even More Fossil Fuels on the Grid (Gizmodo)

At COP15 summit, U.N. announces nature restoration priorities through 2030 (Reuters)

California commission cuts paybacks to rooftop solar customers (The Hill) Eventually you run out of other people’s money.

Guyana Is Becoming A Top-Tier Oil Producer

Silence on biodiversity is deadly (Financial Times)

The Push to Conserve 30 Percent of the Planet: What’s at Stake? (Council on Foreign Relations)

California approves roadmap for carbon neutrality by 2045 (Associated Press) I thought it was supposed to be 2030?

Microsoft names new Chief Sustainability Officer  Non-white female, of course.

Microsoft’s new chief sustainability officer will draw on skills from White House, VC and law background (Geekwire) No actual, you know, technical skills, of course. This is not a let’s-make-a-better-product position; this is a smile-for-the-cameras position.

Whales can have an important but overlooked role in tackling the climate crisis, researchers say (CNN)

Want to save the planet? Saving whales could help, scientists say. (Washington Post)

Watered down: why negotiators at Cop15 are barely mentioning the ocean (The Guardian)

Energy watchdog finds fossil fuel plant shutdowns creating long-term vulnerabilities to US electric grid

COVID spreading faster than ever in China. 800 million could be infected this winter (NPR)

Journalists’ COVID deaths reported amid fears of Lunar New Year virus spread (Reuters)

More than 9 in 10 kids have survived at least one bout with COVID, the CDC estimates (CBS)

More than 7 million incorrect diagnoses made in US emergency rooms every year, government report finds (CNN) But they were totally right about COVID!

Ruth Marcus doth protest too much.

I’m not worked up about Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh’s appearance at a conservative-studded holiday party.

I’m just going to write a hand-wringing column about it because … that’s what I do.

Biodiversity: Can we set aside a third of our planet for nature? (BBC)

Analysis: Protecting 30% of the planet to save nature is not as simple as it sounds (Reuters)

One of climate change’s great mysteries is finally being solved (Washington Post) Clouds!

Green tariffs: what are they and why do they matter? (The Guardian)

Warmer and stormier conditions are destabilizing the Arctic, report says (Washington Post)

The Arctic is getting warmer and stormier, and ship traffic is increasing as ice melts (CNBC)

The Dark Ages are back in Europe and the climate change lobby is loving the return to chaos and control (Fox)

Gove’s defence of UK coalmine dismissed as ‘greenwashing nonsense’ (The Guardian)

Online or in-store? A guide to climate-friendly clothes shopping. (Washington Post) Just paint yourself with woad. It’s organic and bio-degradable. Of course, it may get a little nippy, but hey, we’re Saving the Planet here….

Here’s how many times you need to reuse your reusable grocery bags (CNN)

Re: Fusion—I Told You So

Global Poll Finds 4 In 10 People Believe Climate Change Is Natural  Lot of gullible people in the world.

TUCKER CARLSON: These climate activists are fraudulent

A Gary, Indiana Plant Would Make Jet Fuel From Trash and Plastic. Residents Are Pushing Back (Inside Climate News)

Biodiversity: ‘A victim of global warming and one of the major tools to fight against it’ (France 24)

Plan to protect 30% of Earth divides and inspires at Cop15 (The Guardian)

Environmentalists want jaguars reintroduced to U.S. Southwest (L.A. Times)

UK ministers face legal challenge over North Sea oil and gas licences (The Guardian)

Have Embarrassing Failed Predictions Taught Climate Scientists to be Cautious?  Hint: No.

ABC: More Climate Alarmists Denying Themselves Children  And we encourage them to do so.

UK Grid Operator Asks Coal Plants To Be Available For Backup

UK’s Arctic Blast and Australia’s Cold Spring Contradict Climate Narrative

Electric Buses

Expected global suitability of coffee, cashew and avocado due to climate change

Republicans are doing their best to get our military sick (MSNBC)

Musk fires back after criticism of gender pronouns tweet about Fauci

Thought mRNA vaccines would end with the pandemic? Think again

State and local health leaders warn of facility overcrowding due to early flu season (CBS)

Judge rules public safety outweighs personal vaccination choice in medical settings (PBS)

Canadian Doctor Loses License For Not Wearing Mask While Euthanizing Patient (Babylon Bee)

California Dem Behind Radical Plan To Vaccinate Children Joins American Medical Association

Mitchell Lobs Softballs To Fauci While Denouncing His Critics  Isn’t she dead yet?

DeSantis Wants Grand Jury to Probe Vaccine ‘Wrongdoing’

Students Push Back as Colleges Mandate Updated COVID Shots  They’re no longer buying what the Narrative is selling.

DeSantis Asks for Florida Grand Jury to Investigate COVID-19 Vaccines

Read it.

Rather than modeling population-level effects, the team of researchers from the University of Maryland, York University, and the Yale School of Public Health used a computational model that allowed them to incorporate factors like waning immunity or different age groups’ eligibility for vaccines and boosters into their calculations.

So these conclusions aren’t based on actually evidence, but on a model–just like the ‘climate change’ models!–and we all know how accurate those are.

Fung noted that adding all of these parameters together creates more statistical uncertainty in the data, meaning that there’s a larger margin for error in the study’s final results.

No shit.

The authors acknowledge this uncertainty by providing “credible intervals” for their calculations — ranges that show, for example, that their estimates for the number of averted deaths would be between 3.1 million and 3.4 million.

Handwavium.

The people who claim that vaccines saved lives depend on massaging various statistics for their ‘proof’–and, as any Real Scientist will tell you, correlation does not imply causation.

The only way to know for sure that a vaccine improved the outcome from COVID is to be able to demonstrate the precise mechanism whereby somebody would have died without the vaccine, and that they are unable to do. Or you could clone a particular person, give one the vaccine, and then give them both COVID and see what happens–which, again, they are unable to do. Without that, there are so many individual variables that the results can be played like a guitar to get the result you are looking for. That’s why some people respond to medications differently than others, and no doctor can predict how any individual patient will respond to any particular treatment.

Lawmakers react to Musk’s call to prosecute Fauci (Axios)

Elon Musk tweets that his pronouns are ‘Prosecute/Fauci’

WA public health leaders again urge masking indoors amid ‘tripledemic’ (Seattle Times)

Authorities are urging indoor masking in major cities as the ‘tripledemic’ rages (NPR)

Ancient Pathogen Is ‘Imminent Threat’ in Every Part of The World, WHO Warns (ScienceAlert)

Measles: Why the World Health Organization has declared it an ‘imminent global threat’ (Indian Express)

Paxlovid Has Been Free So Far. Next Year, Sticker Shock Awaits. (Kaiser Health News)

Elon Musk invites blacklisted Stanford professor to Twitter headquarters

Is my RAT actually working? How to tell if your Covid test can detect Omicron (The Guardian)

China’s Top Medical Advisor Says Omicron No More Dangerous Than The Flu

CDC Urging Return to Masks Amid ‘Tripledemic’  Time again to PANIC!

Biodiversity: What is a mass extinction and are we causing one? (BBC)

House Oversight Committee accuses oil companies of ‘lying’ about climate actions (Politico)

What Big Oil Knew About Its Products’ Climate Risks—and When (Mother Jones)

Rising temperatures causing distress to foetuses, study reveals (The Guardian) Since when did The Guardian ever care about foetuses?

Water Mission to Gauge Alaskan Rivers on Front Lines of Climate Change (NASA)

Equilibrium/Sustainability — Major dams to fall in Pacific Northwest (The Hill)

‘Eco’ wood burners produce 450 times more pollution than gas heating – report (The Guardian)

Climate Change Weekly #455: COP 27 Will End Up as FLOP 27

DNA From 2 Million Years Ago Reveals Arctic Utopia That Was 50-65 Degrees Warmer

To End Climate Lunacy, Stop Treating Warming & C02 Hysterically

Animals Are Running Out of Places to Live (N.Y. Times) Except that they’re not. This is a pretty obvious lie.

It’s Time the Green Movement Stopped Demonizing Nuclear

Read it.

This year, Time’s “Person of the Year” was a no-brainer — Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose decision to stay and fight the Russian invasion of his country had a profound effect on events in Europe and the rest of the world.

But three years ago, the same magazine’s editors made the ridiculous choice of making the radical activist Greta Thunberg their “Person of the Year” for 2019, when she was just 16 years old. The idea seemed frivolous then and seems even more preposterous now, as Thunberg has become even more extreme in her views.

Read it.

Facebook is reversing the controversial policy put in place early this year, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, that allowed for users to solicit human traffickers to smuggle them across the border.

The social media giant, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, announced Thursday in a policy memo that, going forward, users are forbidden from posting any content that “offers to provide or facilitate human smuggling” or “asks for human smuggling services.” The platform previously held that these types of posts were needed to protect human rights.

Flu season off to an aggressive start as doctors implore people to get vaccinated (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Flu surged after Thanksgiving, as early season continues to worsen (CNN)

Fauci Blasts ‘Low-Life Trolls’ Who Harassed Family Imagine how they refer to him.

NYC Advises Residents to Mask Up Again as COVID, Flu Surge  Plus the masks make it easier to escape identification from the CCTV video in court.

Marijuana Industry’s Buzz Wears Off As Pandemic Party Over

John Kerry examining likely impact of new UK coalmine (The Guardian) Let me take a wild guess here: I suspect he’s against it.

We are tearing holes in the fabric of life on Earth (CNN)

Big Oil shouldn’t be able to fleece Californians while polluting the planet (L.A. Times)

Environmental groups troubled over Portland’s push to replace petroleum diesel with renewable fuels (Oregon Live)

Why is there another COP happening? (The Economist) The desired amount of money was not forthcoming.

The US is a rogue state leading the world towards ecological collapse (The Guardian) George Monbiot loses his shit.

Climate anxiety isn’t the enemy: Embracing it can speed change (The Hill) Note the assumption that change, any change, is a good thing.

Climate change has come to town (Seattle Times)

Is the Renewable Energy Industry Nothing More Than a Jobs Program?  Oh, it’s a lot more, but it’s at least that. I suggest ‘grift’ as the most accurate term.

Watch: Climate Hypocrite Kerry Says It Would Be “Great” If Americans Paid Carbon Reparations

‘Extractivism’ is destroying nature: to tackle it Cop15 must go beyond simple targets (The Guardian)

UN Environment Chief Warns of a Biodiversity Apocalypse (Mother Jones)

Why knowing your neighbors could save you in the next climate disaster (The Guardian)

Cumbria coal mine: empty promises of carbon capture tech have excused digging up more fossil fuel for decades (The Conversation)

‘Deeply damaging mistake’: UK’s decision to approve a new coal mine criticized as misguided (CNBC)

Surprising loss of sea ice after record-breaking Arctic storm is a mystery to scientists (LiveScience)

How Seychelles ocean plants could help tackle climate change (BBC)

Where can California squeeze in more solar panels and wind turbines? (L.A. Times)

House Democrat Claims Her Children Had ‘Nightmares’ About Climate Change  And whose fault is that?

Concrete Built The Modern World. Now It’s Destroying It.

Big Oil has engaged in a long-running climate disinformation campaign while raking in record profits, lawmakers find (CNN) What did they expect? They saw that it worked for lawmakers, so they figured they would get in the act.