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

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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

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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.

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’.