Hospitals in the US are the fullest they’ve been throughout the pandemic – but it’s not just Covid (CNN)

The Ongoing COVID Deceptions: How Ruling Elites Lied About Masks And Mask Mandates

Federal Pandemic Program Forgave $809 Million In PPP Loans To White-Shoe Law Firms: Watchdog

Chinese Health Official Admits 80-90% Of Population May End Up With COVID

Poll: Less Than Half of US Adults Have Gotten Flu Shot  Maybe they’re not into ‘vaccines’ any more. I wonder how that could happen.

Climate-Change Lockdowns? Yup, They Are Actually Going There…

As China moves away from zero-Covid, health experts warn of dark days ahead (CNN)

New York experiences worst influenza season since 2009 swine flu pandemic (WSYR)

How To Stay Safe During The Holidays Amid Severe Flu Season (TODAY)

Rollback of covid vaccine mandate met with furor at Pentagon (Washington Post) The vaccine mandate is how they’re getting rid of the non-Woke.

Discriminatory attitudes against the unvaccinated during a global pandemic

‘Fate of the living world’ will be decided at Cop15, say scientists (The Guardian) How can proglodytes make it through the day in the face of this constant drumbeat of doom & gloom?

COP15 UN biodiversity summit opens in Canada (BBC)

U.S. floats new steel, aluminum tariffs based on carbon emissions (Reuters)

Violet Coco is in prison meanwhile the fossil fuel people are really getting value for money (The Guardian)

EU announces price hikes for airline permits in bid to combat climate change

EU agrees law to make airlines pay more to pollute (Reuters)

The Guardian view on biodiversity collapse: the crisis humanity can no longer ignore (The Guardian)

The Other Half of the Ecological Crisis We Are Ignoring (Carnegie Endowment)

Aluminum plants in the U.S. are releasing tons of a highly potent greenhouse gas, unlike their counterparts abroad (NBC)

Want to Help Reduce PFC Emissions? Recycle Those Cans (Inside Climate News)

Cumbria coalmine approval shows Sunak does not care if he is seen as green (The Guardian) And being ‘seen as green’ is all that’s important.

The EPA Is Hunting Performance Shops and Diesel Tuners Are to Blame (Road & Track) No,  it’s the EPA that’s to blame.

Venice may get a temporary respite from rising seas by 2035 (New Scientist)

Big Oil Is Once Again Throwing Money at Sucking Carbon From the Sky (Gizmodo)

World Economic Forum: Hydrogen Boron Nuclear Fusion Anticipated by 2030

Americans Are Moving Into Danger Zones (Wired ‘Science’) Guess they ain’t buying your ‘climate change’ con.

How Protests and Crackdowns Can Exacerbate Climate Change

A possible watershed moment for valuing nature (The Hill)

The biodiversity crisis in numbers – a visual guide (The Guardan)

From flickering fireflies to lowly dung beetles, insects are vanishing (Reuters)

IOC delays decision on 2030 Winter Games host, citing climate concerns (Washington Post)

Scientists thought carbon emissions had peaked. They’ve never been higher. (Washington Post)

You’re not going to stop shopping for new clothes. Here’s what to do instead. (Washington Post)

13 pro-fossil fuel states seek to block Vanguard utility buys, cite ties to green ‘activism’ (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Climate protesters told to pay National Gallery £1,000 for damaging painting (The Guardian)

Green Energy Construction Company Collapse Triggers Aussie Government Crisis Talks

Saving the World With Electric Vehicles

Biden’s Climate Change War Picks Up Steam In More Ways Than One

The Mirror Makes Ludicrous Claim That Large Parts of England Will Be Under Water By 2100

Claim: Indoor Farms can Solve Climate Crisis Weather Disruption

Climate Analysis: There’s No Denying the Next Greta Thunberg Is a Total Babe

The US has never recorded this many positive flu tests in one week (Vox)

Worst Flu Outbreak In A Decade Overwhelms Hospitals (TODAY)

Immunity’s down. Infection rates are up. And what happened to everyone’s masks? (L.A. Times)

Fauci doesn’t remember that study he based hydroxychloroquine COVID treatment claims on was retracted

Top Marine Corps General Admits COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Has Led To Decline In Military Recruitment

Fauci Says He Dismissed Lab Leak Theory to Placate China

The Vax and Heart Health

Confession and Apology First, Then Amnesty

COVID-19 Boosters Provided Little Added Protection For People With Natural Immunity: Study

Fauci criticizes ‘extreme’ ideological divide that has led to disproportionate Covid deaths (NBC) How about the extreme persistent lying he’s subjected us to over the last two years?

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I have always thought that Good King Wenceslas was about a benevolent old gent trying to spread a little happiness. Wrong. According to the Guardian ‘it glorifies a patriarchal definition of charitable giving that belittles the value of a properly funded welfare state’.

Well, we can’t have that.

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Well, no, of course they don’t. The idea that liberal news outlets might contribute to our national defense, rather than undermining it, is laughable. And yet, here they are: the defense authorization bill is being held hostage to the Democrats’ insistence that the “Journalism Competition and Preservation Act” be included in it.

Whatever the merits of the JCPA, it has absolutely nothing to do with national defense, and should be stripped out of the defense appropriations bill and considered independently on its own merits. Obviously, the Democrats wouldn’t have tried to slip it through in this manner if they thought it could withstand scrutiny.

COP15: Why does the UN biodiversity conference matter? (Al Jezeera)

U.N. summit aims for global pact to protect nature (Reuters)

December serving up baked Alaska and warming most of Arctic (Associated Press)

SFO and Bay Area airports face even bigger risks from sea level rise than we knew (S.F. Chronicle)

The U.S. wants to slash carbon emissions from power plants. Natural gas is in the way (NPR)

Want to save the planet? Focus on wild cats. (Washington Post)

Sale jumpstarts floating, offshore wind power in US waters (Associated Press)

‘We need to be braver’: young naturalists on the world beyond Cop15 (The Guardian) Translation: ‘We need to be more obnoxious’.

Climate misinformation explodes on Twitter (The Verge) Translation: Disagrees with the Narrative.

Czechia Admits EU’s EV Charger Network Plan Will Probably Fail

Tenn. Could Triple EV Fee to Pay for Infrastructure  Electric vehicles are fine – for rich people.

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A few days ago, the New York Times had an opinion piece by Huw Green, a clinical psychologist, which said “A clear causal link between psychiatric illness and gun violence has not been established…” I followed the link, which was an interview with Ragy Girgis, a professsor of psychiatry at Columbia University. That story had a caption saying “Findings from the Columbia database help dispel the myth that having a severe psychiatric illness is predictive of who will perpetrate mass murder.” It also contained a link to an article by Dr Girgis and others using the database (an attempt to compile a comprehensive list of mass murders since 1900), which said “the prevalence of psychotic symptoms among mass murderers is much higher than that in the general population (11% v. approximately 0.3-1%).” That is, people with psychotic symptoms were between 10 and 30 times more likely to commit mass murder than people without psychotic symptoms.

How did we go from 10 to 30 times more likely to “dispel the myth”? The interviewer asked “Are people with mental health disorders more likely to commit mass shootings or mass murder?” The answer started “The public tends to link serious mental illnesses, like schizophrenia or psychotic disorders, with violence and mass shootings. But serious mental illness—specifically psychosis—is not a key factor in most mass shootings or other types of mass murder..” That is, it didn’t answer the question that had been asked, but a different question: whether most mass murders are committed by people with severe mental health disorders. The answer to this second question is no, according to the information in the database. But the answer to the question that the interviewer had asked was yes (at least for one kind of mental disorder, psychosis). Apparently the interviewer didn’t notice the difference, and followed up by asking “why does the public erroneously link mental illness with mass shootings and with violence in general?”

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Broke-ness follows wokeness because it’s invariably the incompetent, lazy, corrupt and otherwise failed institutions that radicalize to avoid doing their jobs. From the federal government to corporate monopolies to financial gimmicks like FTX to the media to massive charities, institutional wokeness is a red flag that an organization is incompetent or a scam.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #531

Carbon Removal Is Coming to Fossil Fuel Country. Can It Bring Jobs and Climate Action? (Inside Climate News)

European Union Chief Ursula Von Der Leyen Urges Members To Act Against Climate Change (CNN)

World leaders have 2 weeks to agree on a plan to save nature (Vox)

Canada and China prepare to open Cop15 biodiversity summit despite rifts (The Guardian)

North Dakota’s gas flaring rate 7 times higher than next-highest state, study finds (Inforum)

What can cities do to survive extreme heat?

Claim: Clouds Less Climate-Sensitive than Assumed

MIT Climate Scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen Rejects ‘Climate Change’ As ‘A Quasi-Religious Movement Predicated on An Absurd ‘Scientific’ Narrative’

Elephants born without tusks in ‘evolutionary response’ to poachers

Jabal: the new wheat scientists say can withstand extreme heat and drought (The Guardian) Cue eco-Nazis losing their shit.

Claim: We Must Allow More Inflation to Address Climate Change

No, America Does Not Owe the World Climate ‘Reparations’

South Australia Pushes for Zero Carbon Civilian Nuclear Power

Addressing Climate Change Will Not “Save the Planet” (The Intercept) More Narrative: Humans suck!

Why wind energy isn’t living up to its pollution-preventing potential (The Verge)

Wind Power Is Bringing Americans Real Health Benefits (U.S. News & World Report)

Arizona thinks ocean desalination will bring it the water it needs. It won’t (AZCentral)

Parking lots are becoming as important as cars in climate change efforts (CNBC)

Fact checking Maine’s first in the nation fossil fuel divestment law

A Murder in the Amazon Reveals What the Fight Over the Rainforest Is All About (TIME)

Study: Corn cob cheap, effective way to clean water

Fonda retakes the Hill: ‘Cancer is scary, but the climate crisis is scarier’ (Wasington Post) Hanoi Jane is at it again.

King Coal: Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Wrong, The Conversation, Evidence Shows People Are NOT Under Greater Threat from Hurricanes

France bans short haul domestic flights in favour of train travel

The Texas Group Waging a National Crusade Against Climate Action (N.Y. Times) Dunh duhn DUNHHHHH.

Oxfordshire Council to Trial a Climate Lockdown Starting 2024

NY Times Spent Two Years Boasting How China Beat Covid by Squashing Freedom

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Teenage brains aged faster during the pandemic from stress, anxiety: study (Fox)

Ending China’s zero-covid policy could unleash chaos (The Economist)

AFA mask meeting update

Education Department Says Virginia School District’s COVID Closures Hurt Disabled Students  And everybody else.

Why have there been low COVID death rates in Africa?

Los Angeles Poised To Reinstate Indoor Mask Mandate

Vaccinated People Make Up Majority Of COVID-19 Deaths: CDC Data

Apple Accelerating Supply Chain Retreat From China After iPhone Factory Chaos  Xi is going to regret rattling the sabers.

Should you not have kids because of climate change? It’s complicated. (Washington Post) No, it’s not–people who buy into the ‘climate change’ hype ought to be encouraged not to reproduce.

#ClimateScam: denialism claims flooding Twitter have scientists worried (The Guardian)

Climate-sceptic tweets surge after Musk’s Twitter takeover (The Times)

Canada accused of putting its timber trade ahead of global environment (The Guardian)

Vermont’s dairy farms recede, giving way to shrimp, saffron and new ideas (Washington Post)

A new kind of climate refugee is emerging (NPR)

First Tesla Semis delivered with new tech and some mystery

Oil giant TotalEnergies to cut North Sea investment over windfall tax (BBC) My, what a surprise.

Earthshot fund gives £1m to UK scientists fighting climate crisis (The Guardian) KA-CHING!

Tesla Semi’s Enormous Battery Might Weigh 11,000 Pounds on Its Own  Imagine if it were to spontaneously catch on fire, as Tesla batteries sometimes do.

Colorado Pitcher An Ultra Fanatic About Preserving The Planet

Switzerland Considers Electric Vehicle Ban To Avoid Blackouts

Aussie Road Block Climate Protestor Sentenced to Actual Jail Time  Astonishing.

How the Dutch used technology and vertical farming to became a major food exporter  If ‘vertical farming’ is going to have a future, this is the sort of comprehensive endeavor that will be needed, not just ‘racks and racks of kale’.

Carl Bernstein, known to all as the “Worse Than Watergate” guy, seems to be conspicuous by his absence (and his silence) with respect to the Hunter laptop situation.

I hope he’s alright.

FDA pulls Covid antibody treatment because it’s not effective against dominant omicron variants (CNBC)

FDA pauses US authorization for Eli Lilly’s COVID treatment drug (Fox)

Why China’s ‘zero COVID’ policy is finally faltering (NPR)

Monkeypox Vaccine Modeling Study Results Provide Road Map for Vaccination (Pharmacy Times)

The Lying Liars of Pfizer

Rand Paul: Fauci Caused 7 Million People To Die; “We’ve Caught Him Red-Handed, He Won’t Get Away”

We looked at 1,200 possibilities for the planet’s future. These are our best hope. (Washington Post)

Endless debates about soup and paintings serve those who’d prefer we ignore the climate crisis (The Guardian) And endless stunts involving soup and paintings serve those who believe they have a right to disrupt the lives of people who aren’t paying enough attention to them.

How capitalism crushed the environment, according to historian Douglas Brinkley (Boston Globe) How even historians misuse terms like ‘capitalism’ when they’re actually talking about industrialism.

Netherlands reportedly set to forcibly close 3,000 farms to comply with EU mandate

The green tech tussle where America has cash and Europe has rules (Financial Times)

Our US$10 trillion global energy bill dwarfs what’s needed to limit global heating (The Conversation) Shiver in the dark! It’s a moral imperative!

Want to solve climate change? Open more land to solar, industry leader says (L.A. Times) I’m sure he does.

The hidden ocean pollution killing marine mammals (BBC)

Five key ways winter has changed in Washington (Washington Post)

Officials fear ‘complete doomsday scenario’ for drought-stricken Colorado River (Washington Post)

EU strikes deal to make ships pay for their carbon emissions (Reuterss) Pay whom? Why, the bureaucracy, of course! How will that help ‘climate change’? It won’t! But we’ll get money!

This California city asked where its recycling went. The answer wasn’t pretty. (NBC)

Rising Cost Of European Energy Makes EV Battery Plants “Unfeasible”, VW Exec Says

Giving up on 1.5C climate target would be gift to carbon boosters, says IEA head (The Guardian)

Spending cuts threaten global net zero push, economists warn (Australian Financial Review)

From the Amazon to Australia, why is your money funding Earth’s destruction? (The Guardian)

Biden administration paying $75 million to move three tribes affected by climate change

But for the Blizzards, a Climate Utopia? (The American Prospect)

U.S. EPA to propose boost in biofuel blending volumes, EV program -sources (Reuters) Let’s do more of what doesn’t work.

US to raise biofuel mandates for oil refiners (Gulf News)

Forecasting Our Future: Climate change impacting North Carolina’s coast (WXII)

Fossil fuel recruiters banned from three more UK universities (The Guardian)

COP27 Greenwishing: Progressive Discontent

Switzerland Contemplates a Partial Ban on the Use of Electric Vehicles

China signals slight Covid policy easing — but don’t expect sweeping changes yet (CNBC)

China signals ease in Covid policy after mass protests (BBC)

China set to loosen COVID curbs after week of historic protests (Reuters)

What’s happening in China after zero-Covid protests? Here’s what you need to know (CNN) “Here’s what you need to know” is a classic CNN formula, as if you’re too stupid to understand the news.

China eases some virus controls, searches pedestrians (Washington Post)

Long Covid may be ‘the next public health disaster’ — with a $3.7 trillion economic impact rivaling the Great Recession (CNBC) I guess it’s time to PANIC!

‘I never really got better’ — long Covid patients share their struggle with ongoing symptoms and the health-care system  (CNBC) Oops, we’d better PANIC!

The impact of Pfizer?BioNTech’s BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine booster on the maximum oxygen uptake capacity among recreational endurance athletes (News-Medical)

Biden administration prepares to end monkeypox emergency declaration (Politico)

New Zealand government tries to seize guardianship of baby after parents demand unvaccinated blood for surgery (Fox)

China’s ‘Zero-COVID’ Repression Is What Happens When You Give All Power to the Scientific-Technocratic Elite

How to fight Covid with light

Executives at ‘fintechs’ made hundreds of millions handing out PPP Covid cash, report says

GOP Senators Say They Will Block Military Funding Unless Vaccine Mandate Scrapped

Salon Admits Pandemic Profoundly Impacted Children – With Caveats, Of Course

California’s carbon-offset forests aren’t trapping much carbon. Here’s how to do better (L. A. Times)

Indonesia puts 100-island archipelago up for auction, sparking environmental concerns (The Guardian)

The 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave was a climate change warning (Axios)

Biden Interior rule would limit methane leaks, gas flaring from public lands drilling (CNBC)

US bat species devastated by fungus now listed as endangered (Associated Press)

EPA decision could spell doom for Ohio’s biggest coal plant

Environmental groups issue joint appeal for EU to remove carbon removal methods from climate plans (Fox) Rules are for thee but not for me.

Many forests will become highly flammable for at least 30 extra days per year unless we cut emissions, research finds

Abigail Disney: 125 billionaires control our climate future (CNN) People like Abigail Disney. Of course, if her name weren’t ‘Disney’ nobody would care what she thinks.

U.S. threatens legal steps over Mexico’s planned GMO corn ban (Reuters)

Volkswagen Says EV Battery Plants “Practically Unviable” In EU Due To Soaring Energy Costs

Baby Names to Change because of …. Climate Change

Nuclear power doesn’t count as green in the EU

Biden Administration Paying Climate-Affected Tribes $25 Million to Relocate

NASA scraps budget-busting GeoCarb greenhouse gas observatory project

How an early oil industry study became key in climate lawsuits

The return of the horse?

Amazon Deforestation in Brazil Remains Near 15-Year High

Academics Slam Claims Biotech Could Solve the Climate Crisis

Farm seizures planned in the Netherlands

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Pushes Amped Up Censorship on CBS Mornings

China Covid: Chinese protesters say police seeking them out (BBC) Hello! Communist dictatorship!

Flu continues to spread across the U.S., infecting millions, CDC reports (NBC)

Flu season continues to intensify in the US, and holiday gatherings could make it worse (CNN)

White House health officials: up-to-date vaccines key to move on from Covid (The Guardian)

Pfizer CEO Blasted By UK Pharma Watchdog For “Disgracefully Misleading” Statements On COVID Vaccine

Twitter Flooded With ‘Porn’ Bots to Block China Protest Footage

New COVID Variant XBB Emerges in the US  So it’s back on board the PANIC!

Poll: Plurality Believe COVID-19 Pandemic Will ‘Never End’  Not while there are apparatchiks hungry for power.

Study: Next Major COVID Variant Could Be More Dangerous  So you need to continue the PANIC!

Only 28% Of Americans Are Worried About COVID Anymore; New Poll Finds

Authoritarianism Without Authority

Are Masks Useful After All? Not Likely.

Twitter Stops Enforcing COVID-19 Misinformation Policy

Harvard mandates the bivalent Omicron-specific Covid-19 booster

PBS Welcomes CCP Hack to Praise Zero-COVID Policy, Trash Anti-Xi Protestors  Statists of a feather flock together.

China doubles down on harsh COVID controls and tries to end protests  Hello, Communist dictatorship! Which one of you is Dr Fauci?

COVID was such a golden opportunity for the authoritarian left

Docs on NBCNews.com: Permanent Mask Mandates Good for Mental, Physical Health

Puerto Rican towns sue Big Oil under RICO alleging collusion on climate denial (Reuters) Except that ‘climate denial’ isn’t a crime. (Yet, anyway.)

Anti-deforestation push putting other ecosystems at risk: study (The Hill)

Sustainable palm oil puts grasslands at risk (Nature)

Rising sea levels could swamp the US coastline by 2050, NASA predicts (Live Science) Call me when property prices in Malibu and Martha’s Vineyard start going down rather than up.

Rowan Williams urges wealthy to stump up cash for climate fund (The Guardian)

Work of pioneering Arctic explorer from Minnesota gains new relevance in tracking effects of climate change (Minnesota Public Radio)

EU climate plan sacrifices carbon storage and biodiversity for bioenergy (Nature)

COP27 climate summit missed chance for ambition on fossil fuels, critics say (Reuters)

The myth of plastic recycling

Goldman Prime Finds Hedge Funds Massively Piling Into Energy Stock Shorts

Canadian Banks Slammed For Continued Fossil Fuel Investments

UK Power Prices Skyrocket As Wind Generation Collapses

London Mayor Unveils “Crippling” Vehicle Emission Charge For All Of London, Despite 80% Opposition

The Creeping Radicalization of ‘Climate Activism’

Claim: Green Terrorists are Planning Major Attacks

The EV Transition Explained: Can the Grid Cope?  Hint: Nope.

‘Extinction is on the table’: Jaron Lanier warns of tech’s existential threat to humanity (The Guadian) I have no idea who Jaron Lanier is, although from his picture I suppose he identifies as black.

Melting point: could ‘cloud brightening’ slow the thawing of the Arctic? (The Guardian)

Fauci pushes back on Pence remarks: ‘I don’t align myself with anybody’ (The Hill)

‘Gold Hydrogen’ Is an Untapped Resource in Depleted Oil Wells (Wired)

‘We need a breakthrough deal on biodiversity’: can Montreal summit deliver for nature? (The Guardian)

A treaty to end the age of plastic (Al Jezeera)

Criticism mounts of ‘climate killer’ modern art museum in Berlin (The Guardian)

London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone to cover entire city

Climate change: Could centuries-old wheat help feed the planet? (BBC) I didn’t know the planet was hungry.

The world can’t recycle its way out of the plastics crisis (Boston Globe)

Are real or artificial Christmas trees better for the environment? (Washington Post) I’m glad they have nothing more important to worry about.

Food waste is contributing to climate change. What’s being done about it? (PBS)

The market can deliver the green transition — just not fast enough (Financial Times)

Bison proliferate as Native American tribes reclaim stewardship (The Guardian) The same Native American tribes that used to drive buffalo herds over cliffs?

“There’s No Emergency” – Dissident Climatologist Dr Judith Curry on Climate Change

US Nuclear Reactors Among The Oldest In The World

Germany Tees Up Windfall Tax On Solar And Wind  Oil companies: Welcome to the ducking stool!

Claim: California’s Carbon Mitigation Efforts May be Thwarted by Climate Change Itself

An Inconvenient Tree: Is Climate Change Driving Worse Floods?

Climate Hoax Exposed — Again

Protests in Shanghai and Beijing as anger over China’s COVID curbs mounts (Reuters)

Protests erupt across China in unprecedented challenge to Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid policy (CNN)

Growing Protests In China Over Zero-Covid Restrictions (NBC)

Protests spread in China as anger mounts over ‘zero-COVID’ (Al Jezeera)

MIT Finds Indoor Humidity “Sweet Spot” To Reduce Spread of COVID-19 (SciTechDaily) Well, if you’re under water, it’s hard to spread COVID, that’s true.

Fauci emailed friend saying masks were ‘ineffective,’ pushed for mandates anyway, Missouri AG says (Fox)

Journalists reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic relied on research that had yet to be peer reviewed (CNN) Not that it would have mattered.

China Reports 3rd Consecutive Daily Record for New COVID Cases

Omicron BQ Variants, Dangerous to Immunocompromised, Dominant in US  Gee, if only we had a vaccine….

‘Forgetful’ Fauci Could Not Recall Key Details Of COVID Crisis Response During Deposition: Louisiana AG  Well, you know, the guy IS getting old….

Protests in Shanghai and Beijing as Anger Over China’s COVID Curbs Mounts

Another Study Finds Heart Inflammation Higher After Moderna Vaccination Versus Pfizer

‘People Aren’t Listening’ ABC Frets Americans Refusing COVID Boosters   Well, that’s what happens when people HAVE BEEN LIED TO REPEATEDLY FOR TWO FARGIN YEARS.

Is the “Pandemic” Over? Maybe, Maybe Not

How Effective Is the New Covid Vaccine?

An engineering marvel just saved Venice from a flood. What about when seas rise? (Washington Post)

The environmental impact of Black Friday (DW)

Shipping Emissions Are Black Friday’s Dirty Secret (Gizmodo)

Who Were the Worst Climate Polluters in the US in 2021? (Inside Climate News)  Let not a year go by without a witch-hunt!

Coal bounces back (Politico)

Earth Might Be Experiencing 7th Mass Extinction, Not 6th – “A True Decrease in the Abundance of Organisms” (SciTechDaily) “Ya can’t tell your extinction without a scorecard!”

Dream homes and disasters: Is the government ready to confront climate risk? (Politico)

These Are the Most Sustainable Cities in the World The ones you want to avoid.

Humans v nature: our long and destructive journey to the age of extinction (The Guardian)

NY Times Profiles ‘Compassionate,’ ‘Uplifting’ Activist Who Wants Humanity to Die Off

COP-27: A Window into How the UN Keeps the Poor Poor

Barbados Proposes Rich Countries Provide $1Trillion to Fund Climate Action  GIVE US MONEY! Meanwhile, we’ll be busy running the secretive banking and money-laundering operations for which we are famous.

China’s Urumqi to ease Covid lockdown amid public anger over deadly fire (CNN)

COVID protests erupt after deadly Chinese fire (Reuters)

Deadly Xinjiang fire stokes discontent over China’s covid restrictions (Washington Post)

Now-censored videos appear to show China’s zero-Covid measures delaying response to deadly fire (CNN)

Protests erupt in Xinjiang and Beijing after deadly fire (Reuters)

White House battles pandemic fatigue in vaccine push (The Hill)

Hotels Seek Millions from San Francisco Over COVID Homeless Program

The Journalist-Run, Intelligence-Linked Operation That Warped British Pandemic Policy

Climate advocates see a path forward in the farm bill: Lining farmers’ pockets (Politico)

How to be a sustainable parent (BBC) Make your children out of recycled plastic.

For Many, the Global Warming Confab That Rose in the Egyptian Desert Was a Mirage (Inside Climate News)

After decades as a nuclear powerhouse, France makes its play in offshore wind (CNBC)

Embrace what may be the most important green technology ever. It could save us all (The Guardian) George Monbiot wrings his hands and gives us clickbait.

One crop uses more than half of Utah’s water. Here’s why. (Salt Lake Tribune_

Could hemp be a key tool in fight against climate change? (The Guardian) Especially for aging hippies.

US Naval Academy breaks ground on seawall project to protect campus from rising sea levels (WTOP)

Rolls-Royce calls for formal funding talks over small nuclear plants (Financial Times)  Because nothing happens without the government paying for it.

EPA floats sharply increased social cost of carbon (Energy Wire)

Sustainability Democrats propose narrow permitting reform effort on electric grid, community involvement (The Hill)

How One Woman Pulled Anchor and Set Sail in a Solar-Powered Tiny Home

Biden Allocates $1.1 Billion To Keep California’s Nuclear Power Plant Operating

Climate Change Activists Paralyze Berlin Airport

Berlin Airport Closed By Climate Activists Glued To Runway

Why we should resist academic calls for climate reparations

A wave-powered prototype device is aiming to produce drinking water from the ocean

The “Biohome3D” House Is 3D-Printed, Fully Recyclable and Made of Natural Materials

Whales dying from consuming plastics  Think of it as evolution in action.

Ghana plans to buy oil with gold instead of dollars  Sometimes the old ways are best.

Eastern Canadian Arctic Has Much More Sea Ice Than Usual While Svalbard Polar Bears Deal with Less

Fauci says he never imagined Covid would kill a million Americans (CNBC)

WHO to rename ‘Monkeypox’ to ‘MPOX’ at Biden admin’s request (Fox)

Measles now an imminent global threat due to pandemic, say WHO and CDC (Reuters) Then I guess it’s time to PANIC!

Understanding and neutralising covid-19 misinformation and disinformation (BMJ)

Covid is no longer mainly a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Here’s why. (Washington Post)

Fighting COVID Tyranny in Canada

Fauci: I’m a Bureaucrat, Not a Scientist  “I am the bureau!”

The challenge of tracking methane emissions and why they are higher than publicly reported (PBS)

How tide has turned on UK tidal stream energy as costs ebb and reliability flows (The Guardian)

Etihad’s ‘Greenliner’ shows a glimpse of a more sustainable future for aviation (CNN)

Manchin’s permitting deal is a major setback for environmental justice (The Hill) Ah,  yes, the famous proglodyte ‘X justice’ buzzphrase.

Climate change is making the weather more severe. Why don’t most forecasts mention it? (NPR) Maybe they don’t buy the Narrative.

America’s Billion-Dollar Tree Problem Is Spreading (Wired ‘Science’)

Biden administration approves $550M for community-based clean energy (The Hill) SPEND! SPEND! SPEND!

U.S. Renewable Energy Will Surge Past Coal and Nuclear by Year’s End (‘Scientific’ American)

Whole Foods temporarily drops gourmet grocery item, cites environmental concerns (The Hill) No lobster for you.

Climate activists are on the right side of history (The Guardian)

Young people just got a louder voice on climate change — and could soon be shaping policy (CNBC) Yech, all we need are more Greta Thunbergs.

New Visa Card Features Personal Carbon Emissions Tracker

How China, the world’s top polluter, avoids paying for climate damage (Washington Post)

You’ll Hear Ever More About How Billions Will Need to Move North Due to Climate Change

Wealthy Californians “Just Stop Oil” campaign – popular in Europe; has anyone asked, say, Bangladesh?

Westinghouse sees a tech disrupter in its eVinci microreactor  I want a nuclear-powered car.

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The recent mass shooting in Colorado Springs is the 601st mass shooting in 2022. There have been four mass shootings since then, but you likely haven’t about them. You probably didn’t hear about most of the previous 600 shootings, either. Why is that? Because the left is keeping secrets. Let’s talk about what they don’t want you to know about mass shootings and why, so you can dominate your commie relatives at the Thanksgiving dinner table.

Fauci pleads with Americans to get COVID shot in final White House briefing (Reuters) One last lie … before you go….

Fauci urges Americans to get Covid shot, as study finds new booster is best yet (The Guardian) It still doesn’t prevent you from getting the disease nor from passing on the disease, so ‘best yet’ is a relative term….

Omicron variant BQ.1.1 found to be resistant to all monoclonal antibody treatments (MedicalXPress)

New List of the Most Dangerous Pathogens Will Include ‘Disease X,’ the Likely Next Pandemic (Gizmodo) Get in on the ground floor of the new PANIC!

California Workers Win $125,000 After Vaccine Discrimination Lawsuit

WHO Plans to Rename Monkeypox ‘MPOX’: Politico

UV Devices Could Keep Indoor Air Free of Viruses

Video Report: HHS Again Pushing Mask Mandates

A 48,500-year-old virus has been revived from Siberian permafrost (New Scientist)

Watch: Dr. Scott Atlas Sums Up Fauci’s Legacy Of “Massive Harm”

Vaccinated people now make up a majority of covid deaths (Washington Post) Really fine ‘vaccine’ ya got there, bubba.

Ice Cube Confirms He Lost $9M Film Role for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine

Pfizer CEO claims 400% price hike on COVID vaccines will be “free” (Ars Technica)

What to know about the spread of COVID-19 BQ variants, flu in U.S. (CBS)

5 big reasons why kids are getting sick and flooding ERs — and ‘immunity debt’ isn’t one of them (Insider)

“Grade-A Gaslighting”: FDA Says Anti-Ivermectin Campaign Was ‘Just A Recommendation’

‘Keep Your Mask On’: Whoopi Claims ‘Nobody Got Sick’ While Wearing Masks  I would certainly encourage her to wear a mask.

Authorities Looking Into Oregon Report That Falsely Claims Sky-High Child COVID-19 Hospitalization Rates

What Reopening? China’s Covid Restrictions Are Actually Tightening

The Truth About Ivermectin

One in Four Workers Still Fear Catching COVID-19 at Work  Giess we’re still on for the PANIC!

First on CNN: White House kicking off six-week Covid-19 booster push  Trying to stick it to everybody.

HHS Report Recommends Return of Mask Mandates to Fight ‘Long COVID’

New York Times Triples Down on Pandemic Fear-Mongering

Eco regulations force massive coal plant to shut down, sparking community uproar (Fox)

The big takeaway from Cop27? These climate conferences just aren’t working (The Guardian) THEY’E NOT GIVING US MONEY!

EPA quietly pushes expensive carbon tax (F0x)

A costly new climate rule is coming for federal contractors (Federal News Network)

Larry Kudlow: Biden’s climate reparations scam is a terrible idea (Fox)

India’s Jindal wins bid to build Botswana’s 300 MW coal power plant (Reuters) The Turd World doesn’t seem too impressed by the ‘climate crisis’.

Environmentalists push Hochul to help ‘canners’ with 5-cent increase in bottle deposits (N.Y. Post)

Why advocates want to expand New York’s bottle deposit law (Spectrum News)

Start-up aims to make zero-emission hydrogen a commercial reality (Financial Times)

Oslo, Norway’s unique approach to curbing carbon emissions

Colombia signals rethink on pledge to curb oil and gas exploration (Financial Times)

Is Earth a self-regulating organism? New study suggests our planet has a built-in climate control (Salon)

COP27 Is a Down Payment on Disaster

Here’s how deep geothermal drilling might be clean energy’s future

The Washington Post Props up Fake Meat Company That ‘Vows’ to ‘Help Save the Planet’

Farcical COP27 Debacle Ends In “Tears And Frustration” As Furious Eco-Delegates Realize Who’s In Charge

World Cup Stadiums and the “Green” Movement Supports Exploitation of Cheap, Disposable Workforces.

The EV Boondoggle

Costs of Wind and Solar Energy Are Skyrocketing

ZMan passes the popcorn.

Way back in the early days of the internet, those already on-line could not help but notice that the media was hilariously ignorant, but supremely confident, of this revolutionary new thing called the internet. On television, the people who claimed it was their job to keep the rest of us informed clearly knew nothing about this new “internet thing” or the people signing up for accounts. The print side of the media barely knew the internet existed and had no interest in it at all.

In those early days it was a glimpse into the weird combination of ignorance, insulation and confidence that defined the mass media. Television and radio are pure carnival acts, selecting for people who fit a role. The print side, the people engaged in “serious journalism”, are stenographers and cheerleaders, hoping to one day be noticed by the carnival operators so they can get on television. The whole thing is part of a large scale agitation campaign on behalf of the ruling class.

This is what makes the collapse of Twitter so amusing. The agitation machine that is the modern mass media was invited onto Twitter in the early days as a way to promote the product over the alternatives. Twitter was custom built for the slow-witted, but supremely confident people who make up mass media. All they needed to do is download an app, open it up and begin typing. Limiting it to short messages reduced the odds of them exposing their stupidity.

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If you’ve been to a mainstream bookstore or library in the past few months, you’ve probably encountered a “Banned Books” display. These high-visibility collections serve as totems of progressives’ defiance in their latest imagined controversy: the belief that conservatives are banning books related to LGBT issues from public school libraries. “Banned Books” displays usually feature some traditional texts that may have been pulled from schools at some point in their publication history (e.g. To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye, Huckleberry Finn, etc.). But the recent wave of sexually-explicit LGBT titles are always positioned so prominently that a person can only assume that the displays are in reaction to right-wing prudes trying to force their retrograde views on an increasingly progressive populace.

But are LGBT books being “banned”? Not really. Every library curates its collection, making careful choices about their holdings in the limited space they have. While it’s true that many schools decided to pull titles like Gender Queer, This Book is Gay, Flamer, Let’s Talk About It, and All Boys Aren’t Blue from the shelves, this is not a “ban.” These books remain widely available in bookstores and public libraries that are unaffiliated with schools.

So why are leftists pretending otherwise? The claims of “bans” allow LGBT activists to frame routine decisions about which books are appropriate for a school library as evidence of “hate,” discrimination, and “exclusion.” Certainly, some books are being excluded—but this doesn’t mean that LGBT students are. The trendiness of LGBT identity among impressionable young adolescents suggests that there are social rewards from belonging to this category. In fact, schools take pains to include those students, a reality underscored by the open promotion and celebration of LGBT groups in classrooms.

How monoclonal antibodies lost the fight with new COVID variants (NPR)

Cold and flu season impacts small businesses (KATU)

As measles outbreak sickens more than a dozen children in Ohio, local health officials seek help from CDC (CNN)

Stanford professor who challenged lockdowns and ‘scientific clerisy’ declares academic freedom ‘dead’ (Fox)

Vaccine Breakthrough Could Finally Bring COVID to Its Knees (Daily Beast)

Are urgent care centers hurting America’s family medicine practices?

They Will Lock You Down Again

China’s Guangzhou Locks Down Millions in ‘Zero-COVID’ Fight  No matter how bad it was here, it’s ten times worse in a Communist dictatorship.

Sam Bankman-Fried & The Pandemic Industrial Complex

Canadian Bank Donates $500,000 For Transgender Surgeries On Kids

COP27 summit agrees on landmark climate ‘loss and damage’ fund, but does little to encourage rapid cuts to fossil fuel use (CNN) GIVE US MONEY!

The road to low-carbon concrete (Ars Technica)

Environmental groups oppose pipeline expansion in Pacific NW (Seattle Times)

Triggered by Musk, CBS News announces it’s suspending all Twitter activity out of ‘abundance of caution’ (Fox)

Did climate change really kill billions of snow crabs in Alaska? Here’s what experts say (Tacoma News-Tribune)

Analysis: India power binges on coal, outpaces Asia (Reuters)

Five crucial issues in fight to save planet – and what Cop27 did about them (The Guardian) Not a f—g thing.

US shamed as the ‘colossal fossil’ of Cop27 climate summit by campaigners (The Guardian) GIVE US MONEY!

Beware the false hope of recycling (Nature)

‘Shameful’ UN silencing Indigenous voices, say banned Cop27 activists (The Guardian)

Indigenous activists “seen, not heard” at COP27 (Axios)

Hoover Dam Brings Electricity to 1.3 Million—It’s At Risk of Shutting Down (Newsweek)

How to build a net-zero chalet (Financial Times) And of course we can all afford a ‘net zero chalet’.

Energy requirements and carbon emissions for a low-carbon energy transition (Nature)

‘No safe place’: Kiribati seeks donors to raise islands from encroaching seas (The Guardian) GIVE US MONEY!

AP COP 27 Article Grossly Misrepresents Global Energy and Emissions Reality

Methane: Much Ado About Nothing

As Green Policies Cause Energy Prices To Explode, Deforestation In Europe Accelerates

Pfizer/BioNTech’s updated COVID shot shows strong response against BQ.1.1 (Reuters)

Pfizer says omicron booster is better against new subvariants like BQ.1.1 than old shots (CNBC)

Flu variant that hits kids and seniors harder than other strains is dominant in U.S. right now (CNBC)

Never Forget! Here’s Some Of The Dumbest COVID Restrictions

Group Calls On Authorities To Investigate CDC Over Misinformation About Child COVID Deaths

Lawsuit Claims Massachusetts Installed COVID-19 ‘Spyware’ On 1 Million Devices

The Maskparade Charade

As bivalent booster uptake crawls, Pfizer and BioNTech start early-stage pan-variant trial (Endpoints Newz)

Why Did Flu Season Start So Early This Year? (‘Scientific’ American) What started early was the PANIC!

Big Pharma may have to reveal government deals in WHO’s draft pandemic rules (Reuters)

G20 Pushes Vaccine Passports For All Future International Travel

Association between Vitamin D supplementation and Covid infection and mortality “Among VA patients, vitamin D₃ and vitamin D₂ supplementation reduced the associated risk of COVID-19 infection by 20% and 28%, and COVID-19 infection ending in death within 30-days by 33% and 25%.”

Covid-19 rebound may be more common in people who take Paxlovid, early study suggests (CNN)

Support for Paxlovid Treatment in Older Patients; the Silver Lining to Amoxicillin Shortage; and an App Eases Cancer Fear (Medscape)

Tyson Foods ends COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all employees (Fox)

Fauci’s Pandemic Leadership Needs To Be Investigated: Dr. Scott Atlas

Before FTX collapse, founder poured millions into pandemic prevention (Washington Post) Nothing is easier than spending other people’s money.

The Road To Totalitarianism (Revisited)

Fired For Declining Vaccination, Ex-Washington State Coach Files Suit

NYC Halts Monkeypox Vaccine Van Program

U.N. publishes draft COP27 climate deal (Reuters)

Fight over aid for climate losses divides UN talks (Associated Press) GIVE US MONEY!

Can the world feed 8bn people sustainably? (The Guardian)

The world’s population has reached 8bn. Don’t panic (The Economist) Don’t take off your shoes!

Overhyping hydrogen as a fuel risks endangering net-zero goals (Nature)

What happened at Cop27 on day nine? (The Guardian) GIVE US MONEY!

Earth can regulate its own temperature over millennia, new study finds

Pols who push electric cars ignore basic math and physics (N.Y. Post)

Climate Change Conference Walks Back 1.5-Degree Limit Goal

COP27 — Colombia Claims an Absurd $800 Billion a Year “Loss and Damage”  GIVE US MONEY!

“Green” Energy Circles the Drain

Extinction Rebellion Activists Have Worn Out Their Welcome And The Public Is Angry

Bureaucracy Is Blocking the Green Energy Revolution  (Wired ‘Science’) All in on ‘climate change’.

COP27 Climate Virtue-Signaling Boondoggle Ends In Failure, Leaves Out Fossil Fuel Pledge

UN Climate Summit Wants Climate Green Indoctrination in Schools

FLASHBACK: Founder of Climate Group Vandalizing Famous Paintings Said Holocaust was ‘Normal Event’

Impose climate tax on fossil fuel giants, media groups urge (The Guardian)

Rich countries are trying to hit pause on climate summit’s key issue (CNN) GIVE US MONEY!

Cop27: Paris agreement architects demand deal for nature – live (The Guiardian) Climate panic theater.

NASA Study: Rising Sea Level Could Exceed Estimates for U.S. Coasts (NASA) Call me when real estate prices in Malibu and Martha’s Vinyard start going down.

Rich nations stick to coal phase-out as China builds new plants (Reuters)

COP27: Talks on carbon market rules off to slow start (Reuters)

Decarbonization of US aviation sector ‘within reach’: study (The Hill) Just stop flying Easy peasy.

COP27: Oil pollution in Egypt threatens one of world’s few thriving coral reefs (BBC)

Biggest rainforest nations form triple alliance to save jungle (CNN)

Africa: The Place where Claims Renewables are Cheaper Go to Die

Welcome to COP27. Thank You for Not Protesting  (Wired ‘Science’) A reminder that protesters would get nowhere without the complicity of ‘authorities’.

Overhyping hydrogen as a fuel

Wrong Again: Al Gore Nobel Lecture Edition

CNN Hypes Dopey Global Warming ‘Name Change’ of ‘The Office’ Actor

Electric Cars: Inconvenient Facts, Part 2

COVID in California: Newer variants cause more symptoms, study says (S.F. Chronicle)

BA.5 May Not Be the Dominant Variant Much Longer. Here’s Why and What That Means (NBC)

New round of free COVID tests available ahead of the holidays (CBS) Free to the user, that is, not free to the taxpayer.

U.S. FDA authorizes Roche’s monkeypox test (Reuters)

Australia recommends against fifth vaccine dose as fresh COVID wave builds (Reuters)

Europe faces ‘cancer epidemic’ after estimated 1m cases missed during Covid (The Guardian)

Sick with a new Omicron variant? Be prepared for this symptom, new study says (Fortune)

Moderna’s Spikevax carries higher risk of myocarditis than Pfizer’s Comirnaty, study says

NBC Pushes ‘Tripledemic’ Fear Mongering – Claims Children At Risk During The Holidays

Watch: NBC News Advises Parents To Keep Kids Away From “Unvaccinated Individuals” Apparently being unvaccinated is a communicable disease.

Moderna says new Covid booster better against omicron BA.5, triggers immune response against BQ.1.1 (CNBC)

CDC map puts 7 states in worst category for flu activity (The Hill)

As flu hospitalizations surge in the U.S., the Southeast is the hardest hit (CNBC)

CDC now tracking BN.1, the latest new COVID variant on the rise (CBC) Time to PANIC!

Team Biden’s extending the COVID emergency again — to expand the welfare state (N.Y. Post)

NBC Suggests Parents Stay Away From ‘Unvaccinated Individuals’ To Protect Children From Illness That Doesn’t Have Vaccine  I guess being unvaccinated counts as a disease in itself.

Pfizer And Moderna To Investigate Their Own Vaccines For Myocarditis Risks

‘It’s Coming Back!’ The View Panics Over COVID, Whoopi Got It AGAIN

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A writer for the proglodyte Brit tech site The Register actually drinks the Kool-Aid while we watch.

Climate change goals? Tick. Upping wages and improving working conditions for warehouse staff? Come on Jeff, charity begins at home.

Except that you don’t get to sit at the Cool Kids table by treating your employees well, but by pledging allegiance to the Narrative. You don’t actually have to do anything, just say you will.

I’ll believe it when I see him pass out the checks. And I want to see how much the hottie for whom he dumped his (lovely and talented) wife will wind up with.

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The Wuhan Coronavirus is the most dangerous and deadly disease in history — until it isn’t. When it becomes politically expedient for COVID-19 to disappear, then suddenly it is no longer mentioned.

A potent, broadly protective vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (Nature)

COVID-19 Mortality In England “Extremely Rare” Among Under-20s: Official Study

White House to seek more covid funding in lame-duck session (Washington Post)

Myocarditis after Covid vaccination: Research on possible long-term risks begins

Germany warns its delegation of Egyptian spies at COP27 (Reuters)

COP27: Fears of compromise on key 1.5C global temperature issue (BBC)

Degrowth: A dangerous idea or the answer to the world’s biggest crisis? (CNN) The world’s biggest crisis is socialism. ‘Degrowth’ won’t do anything to solve that.

Why Big Tech Is Throwing $1 Billion at Sucking CO2 From the Air (CNET)

The great climate migration has started. Are Bay State communities ready? (Boston Globe)

Mexico’s Pemex to work with EPA to bring down methane emissions (Reuters)

Germany to pull out of fossil fuel treaty (DW)

GMO skeptics still distrust big agriculture’s climate pitch (FRANCE 24)

Al Gore helped launch a global emissions tracker that keeps big polluters honest (NPR)

Australia risks being a ‘state sponsoring greenwashing’ if it relies on carbon offsets, expert warns (The Guardian)

How to slash carbon emissions while growing the economy, in one chart (Vox)

The British right’s hostility to climate action is deeply entrenched – and extremely dangerous (The Guardian)

‘Vaccination-style’ intervention needed to solve energy crisis, UK energy boss says (CNBC) More totalitarianism!

How human composting could reduce death’s carbon footprint (CNN) And, more importantly, erase the memory of those who have gone before.

Carbon offsets are making a comeback at COP27 (Quartz)

Climate Religion: Egypt’s Mount Sinai to receive ‘Climate Justice Ten Commandments’ during UN summit – Interfaith ‘Climate Repentance Ceremonies’

Why Climate Models Don’t Work

The BBC Defends Special People Flying Private Jets to COP27

Bezos Will Reportedly Spend Bulk of $124 Billion Net Worth Fighting ‘Climate Change’  Good luck with that.