A California city’s water supply is expected to run out in two months (Washington Post)

“Greenwashing, pure and simple” – fury as Shell UK sponsors British Cycling (Road.cc)

‘Absurd’: British Cycling faces backlash after announcing partnership with Shell (The Guardian)

4 science fiction and fantasy books mine a real issue: climate change (Washington Post)

How fossil fuel firms use Black leaders to ‘deceive’ their communities (The Guardian)

Fact Check: Would Nuclear War ‘Solve’ Climate Change? (Newsweek)

Blowhole wave energy could soon be world’s cheapest clean power (New Atlas)

The future of dishwashing could be hot, steamy and sustainable (Popular ‘Science’)

How climate change is driving monkeys and lemurs from trees to the ground (Washington Post)

Barges grounded in Mississippi River as water levels approach record lows (Fox)

Frequent fliers are a problem for the planet. Should they pay more? (Washington Post)

New Zealand farmers may pay for greenhouse gas emissions under world-first plans (The Guardian)

Albanese government’s climate plans face hurdle as experts criticise carbon market reforms (The Guardian)

Pitted against profits, Spain’s biodiversity haven collapses (Al Jezeera)

Chicken in British supermarkets ‘linked to deforested Amazon’ (The Guardian)

Why Anthony Fauci is the greatest public servant I have known (Washington Post) Michael Gerson pushes the Narrative.

3 Myths Debunked: Animal Agriculture’s Real Impact on the Environment

Against Climatism

Big Brother Says No to Gas Furnaces

A doctor’s humbling journey treating long Covid: ‘The second we think we know what we are doing, we fall flat on our face’ (STAT)

New COVID-19 variant causing concern as cases continue to spread (Western Massachusetts News)

Fauci: This is no time to let our guard down (The Hill)

Pfizer exec denies CEO negotiated EU COVID vaccine contract via text message (Reuters)

Biden administration scrambling to get more people boosted before winter (Politico)

Monmouth Poll: Half Say Pandemic Will Never End  Not if the Deep State has anything to say about it.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #523

Work therapy: can a climate campaigner help a coworking space go green? (The Guardian)

‘Steam loops’ under many cities could be a climate change solution (NPR) Uh-huh. The two I know about run on burning coal.

A small Fairbanks company wants to build Alaska’s biggest wind farms (Anchorage Daily News) Using the same technology as what crapped out during the February Freeze in Texas? What a brilliant idea!

“Jaw-Dropping” New Clues to Future Ice Sheet Change From Ancient Ice Age Valleys (SciTechDaily)

Fed Up British Drivers Unglue Climate Protestors the Hard Way

New Push to De-Platform Climate Dissent Fueled by JunkScience Tweets

Cities Need More Native Bees—Lots and Lots of Them (Wired ‘Science’) Apparently urban bees are needed for urban gardens, and urban gardens are needed so that we ALL DON’T DIE from global warming.

Hurricane Hype, Lies, Censorship – and Reality

Here’s What to Do If You Test Positive for COVID This Fall or Winter (NBC)

Doctor Shares Guidance To Prepare For Severe 2022 Flu Season (Today)

How limitless green energy would change the world (BBC) So would antigravity.

Pregnancy complications spiked during the pandemic. No one knows exactly why. (Washington Post)

Marvel Shills For Pfizer With COVID Vaccine Avengers PSA Comic Book

Steve Sailer points and laughs.

Ever since the first half of 2020, when pandemic fears and the racial reckoning led to the releasing of prisoners and the decline of policing, dangerous lunatics have been running amok. This has led to calls to finally rebuild the asylum system that long ago removed vicious crazy men from the streets.

One of the many reformers to come out of Massachusetts in the 1840s was Dorothea Dix. She made her cause better treatment of lunatics, whose triumph led to the construction of publicly-funded insane asylums, typically in restful surroundings.

For example, Los Angeles’s mentally ill were served by the Camarillo State Mental Hospital in a serene location in a superb climate a few miles from the Pacific. After his 1946 drug freakout led to him spending six months at Camarillo, Charlie Parker did not at all appreciate his record company naming his comeback track “Relaxin’ at Camarillo.” But still …

Greta Thunberg on the climate delusion: ‘We’ve been greenwashed out of our senses. It’s time to stand our ground’ (The Guardian)

The experiment that may have saved a Washington town from falling into the ocean (The Guardian)

Video games harm the environment. A climate researcher wants to fix that. (Washington P0st)

Media lying about climate and hurricanes

Why ‘Carbon Emissions’ Are Now ‘Climate Pollution’ (Wired ‘Science’)

Tokyo Mean September Temperatures Have Seen No Warming In 34 Years, JMA Data Show

“Move Before I Pull My Gun Out”: Irate DC Commuter Gets a Pass from Climate Protestors

Oops: Renewable Energy Costs Shut Down Solar Cell Manufacturing in Europe

‘Climate Change’ Is a Dangerous Cult

Covid In Los Angeles: Concern Over Early Warning Signs & New Variants Going Into Winter (Deadline)

Early signs a new U.S. COVID surge could be on its way (NPR)

Pandemic struggles still afflict Social Security, a last lifeline for many (Washington Post)

Long COVID is still disabling millions of Americans (Axios)

Emails Show Biden Admin ‘Leveraging’ HS Sports To Bully Kids Into Getting Vaxxed

Stronger, more frequent El Niños could radically change West Coast habitats (PNAS)

Energy crisis? It isn’t that we have too little oil and gas. It’s that we have too much (The Guardian)

A dark tale of money corrupting politics — and destroying the climate (Washington Post)

Princeton Activists Just Won a Historic Victory for Climate Research (The Nation)

EPA will center climate change response in Texas on sea level rise, floods, drought and severe storms (Texas Tribune)

The world’s largest offshore wind farm is going to get even larger (Electrek)

Climate change: the fairest way to tax carbon is to make air travel more expensive (The Conversation) Or maybe ban it entirely, except for Woke celebrities.

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A specter haunts the Western world today and it is not that of fascism, semi- or otherwise, as President Biden among others demagogically claims. Fascism is a circumscribed historical phenomenon, most distinctive to Italy in the period 1922 to 1945. It combined authoritarianism marked by the cult of the Duce or leader, radical nationalism and neo-pagan idolatry, militarism, and economic corporatism. In blustery speeches in the late 1920s, Benito Mussolini proclaimed the necessity of a “totalitarian” party-state, although in practice he was forced to tolerate both the existence of the Italian monarchy and a Catholic Church under Pope Pius XI (the Roman pontiff from 1922 until 1939) that vigorously challenged the totalitarian pretensions of the fascist state.

Renewables Are Meeting Demand—but Climate Disasters Are Pushing Back the Tipping Point (Gizmodo)

US wind, solar tripled over the past decade: analysis (The Hill)

How glaciers melted 20,000 years ago may offer clues about climate change’s effects (NPR)

GE is laying off 20% of its U.S. workforce devoted to onshore wind power, costing hundreds of jobs (CNBC)

Solar and wind farms can hurt the environment. A new study offers solutions (L.A. Times)

Here’s a plan for green King Charles: sell the family silver and use the cash to save the planet (The Guardian)

World Bank ‘has given nearly $15bn to fossil fuel projects since Paris deal’ (The Guardian)

The truth about getting to net zero, according to the numbers (The Guardian)

Cop27 climate summit’s sponsorship by Coca-Cola condemned as ‘greenwash’ (The Guardian) There’s no pleasing some people.

COP27: Activists ‘baffled’ that Coca-Cola will be sponsor (BBC) Activists are often baffled when reality intrudes on their fantasy.

Myths About Hurricanes — Lessons From Hurricane Ian & Florida

The Coming Green Electricity Nightmare

The Dispatch: “A Conservative Approach to Climate Change”

Flooded Electric Vehicles Spontaneously Catch On Fire In Florida After Hurricane

A Comprehensive Roundup of Official Energy Madness

COVID rebound after Pfizer treatment likely due to robust immune response, study finds (Reuters)

Biden’s Operation Warp Speed revival stumbles out of the gate (Politico)

Mouthwashes inhibit the infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 variants (News-Medical.net)

Hundreds Of Thousands Of Americans Sought Medical Care After COVID-19 Vaccination: CDC Data

Axios.

Writers for a D.C.-based media operation run by prominent Democratic operatives are behind a sprawling network of ostensible local media outlets churning out Democrat-aligned news content in midterm battleground states, Axios has learned.

How The U.S. Went From Overfishing To Underfishing (CNBC)

The Guardian view on Cop27: climate justice must take centre stage (The Guardian)

Plastic pollution may have met its match: The saliva of wax worms (NBC)

Nearly half of the coal industry is still on an expansion course in ‘reckless’ mining rush (CNBC)

Salt Lake City joins communities in 3 states to fund new carbon dioxide removal projects (KSL)

The Air Force has released its first plan to reduce its carbon footprint and adapt to climate change (NBC)

Climate crisis made summer drought 20 times more likely, scientists find (The Guardian)

Wind and solar are booming, but emissions aren’t falling (Climate Wire)

Peak Oil Fraud

The Atlantic: The Inflation Reduction Act has Unleashed “Uncapped” Spending on Climate Change

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In earlier times, a journalist’s biography might have read, “After a stint in the Army, he began his career by covering local events for a small-town newspaper. Later, he made a name for himself covering the civil rights movement before being hired as a national correspondent.” Nowadays, the bio for most journalists is, “Formerly worked in the communications office of (Democratic Politician) or (Left-Wing Activist Group).”

Journalists are increasingly drawn from the ranks of the wealthiest and most privileged. Seriously, there’s no way someone in the middle or working class could work an unpaid media internship in DC or New York while they wait for the break they won’t get because their family has no powerful connections. Twitter ne’er-do-well “Fear the Floof” dug into the backgrounds of some of these Trustafarian media operatives, and got his account suspended for his troubles.

The Nord Stream pipelines have stopped leaking. But the methane emitted broke records (NPR) What ‘records’? Is somebody having a competition in re gas leaks?

Utility climate pledges amount to ‘greenwashing,’ report says (Washington Post) A report! That proves it!

China’s climate push could spawn new global players, even if Beijing falls short on its pledge (CNBC)

Environment sector has failed to become more inclusive, study suggests (The Guardian) Perhaps because the only people who give a shit about ‘climate change’ are rich white liberals.

Napa Valley’s vineyards are in “climate crisis,” winemaker says (Marketplace) Oh, and send us money.

Energy giants return to fossil fuels like coal as Europe braces for winter (CNBC)

Oil and gas methane emissions could be solved this decade, experts say (Reuters)

Meet the California farmers awash in Colorado River water, even in a drought (NPR)

World Bank criticised over climate crisis spending (The Guardian)

The Pacific Is Destined to Vanish as Earth’s Continents Meld Into a New Supercontinent (ScienceAlert)

Hope amid climate chaos: ‘We are in a race between Armageddon and awesome’ (The Guardian)

California’s three-year drought continues with no relief in sight (The Guardian)

‘This is part of our world now’: can TV shows adequately reflect the climate crisis? (The Guardian)

Saving the Environment from Environmentalists

Florida Leaders Rejected Major Climate Laws. Now They’re Seeking Storm Aid. (N.Y. Times) There is, of course, no incongruity here, but the Times wants you to think that there is. That’s what Narrative is all about. (Ghoulish NYT Suggests Florida Deserves Hurricanes for Not Supporting Climate Agenda)

Exploding Electric Bicycles

Shellenberger: Media Is Lying About Climate & Hurricanes

The market for property insurance vs. climate change

Sweden Braces For A Winter Of Power Shortages

The Last 12,000 Years Show a More Complex Climate History Than Previously Thought

Waxworm’s spit shows promise in puncturing plastic pollution

More Bad News For Europe: Forecasters Predict Colder Winter, Less Renewable Power

A Few Graphs Say It All for Weather-Dependent “Renewables”

Trump asks Supreme Court to weigh in on Mar-a-Lago classified docs probe (Axios)

Trump asks SCOTUS to intervene over seized records (Reuters)

Trump goes to Supreme Court over Mar-a-Lago search and seizure of documents (CNN)

Trump asks Supreme Court to halt classified records review (CBS)

Trump elevates Mar-a-Lago raid legal battle to Supreme Court (Fox)

Donald Trump’s secret strategy is that there is no secret strategy (CNN)  Chris Cillizza joins the witch-hunt.

Trump rallies drift to fringe ahead of potential 2024 bid (Washington Post)

QAnon anthem played at Trump rallies removed from YouTube and Spotify after the composer made copyright claims (NBC) ‘QAnon anthem’?

Trump used a slur for people with intellectual disabilities to describe his one-time Attorney Jeff Sessions, book says (Business Insider) Maggie Haberman’s fairy tales keep dribbling out of the underwear at the Narrative Media.

JUST IN: Trump’s Own Lawyers Mocked His Lack of Wealth In Emails Revealed By January 6 Committee (MEDIAite)

Trump sued CNN for defamation. Here’s where his case falls apart. (Washington Post) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Is carbon-neutral beef possible or a pipe dream? Soil may offer clues. (Washington Post)

Belgium Aims to Build World’s First Artificial Energy Island

Ugandan activist visits Florence, praises church for climate justice efforts (ABC)

Defending Earth’s terrestrial microbiome (Nature)

North Carolina governor says state has ‘front-row seat’ to climate change (The Hill) Democrat, of course.

Governor: North Carolina has “front-row seat” to impact of climate change (Axios)

The American EV boom is about to begin. Does the US have the power to charge it? (The Guardian) Well, no.

What to know about electric cars in Washington state (Seattle Times)

California’s ‘Most Sustainable’ Dairy is Doing What’s Best for Business (Inside Climate News)

California drought pits farmers vs. cities. But neither is the biggest water victim (L.A. Times)

‘Dark Data’ Is Leaving a Huge Carbon Footprint, And We Have to Do Something About It (ScienceAlert) In the Narrative Media, ‘dark data’ is information that doesn’t back the Narrative.

Industry is now looking to US on green issues — everyone else must catch up (Financial Times)

Tracking Australia’s progress on the climate crisis and the consequences of global heating (The Guardian)

Sea Level: The Geological “Control Knob” for Atmospheric CO2?

Why It Matters That Climatologists Forgot the Sun Was Shining

Cars Still More Energy Efficient Than Transit

The Mediterranean Sea Is So Hot, It’s Forming Carbonate Crystals  (Wired ‘Science’)

ROUNDUP: 4 Lefty Outlets Politicize Hurricane Ian Tragedy to Push Climate Change

Berlin Antifa Group “Goes on Hunt” For High Energy Users… Heated Pools “Immediately Collectivized”

Biden’s Green Energy Program Divides Voters Along Party Lines: Survey  That’s because it’s Woke bullshit; Democrats naturally love Woke bullshit, and Republicans recognize it as Woke bullshit.

‘Queer Disabled Femme Writer’ Predicts Climate Change Will Disable Us All

Perfectly time your new omicron-specific Covid booster (CNBC)

Omicron booster rates have “major gaps” (Axios)

New infectious threats are coming. The U.S. probably won’t contain them. (Japan Times)

Japan ends distribution of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, discards 13M doses

The world’s largest carbon removal project will break ground in Wyoming (The Hill)

Cop15 is an opportunity to save nature. We can’t afford another decade of failure (The Guardian)

Land grab or environmental justice? New Mexico moves forward with 30X30 conservation plan

US leaders can help win the EV battery race (The Hill)

New Method Converts Greenhouse Gas Into Fuel (SciTech Daily)

To understand the scale of the climate emergency, look at hurricanes (The Guardian)

‘Business was a way for me to cope with climate anxiety’: how opening a zero-waste store helped a college student (The Guardian)

Here’s where sea levels are rising fastest in California. Homes, a nuclear facility and part of Highway 101 are all at risk (S.F. Chronicle) Call me when real estate prices in Malibu start dropping.

‘Dark data’ is killing the planet – we need digital decarbonisation (The Hindu)

What is ‘dark data’? How digital information is quietly sapping energy (Interesting Engineering)

US proposal would permit eagle deaths as renewable energy programs expand

Wealthiest 10% Responsible for Nearly 50% of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Study Finds (EcoWatch) Class warfare to save the planet!

Zeldin calls out helicopter riding Hochul’s ‘hypocrisy’ over NY’s electric vehicle mandate (N.Y. Post)

Day One CPAC Australia: Climate Skepticism, Freedom and Protestors

UN official at WEF: ‘We own the science & we think that the world should know it’ so ‘we partnered with Google’ to ensure only UN climate results appear

‘Range Anxiety’ – How Far Can An EV Go On One Charge? That’s only a concern because once an EV runs out of juice IT’S A TOTAL PAIN IN THE ASS TO RENEW IT. If one were able to recharge a EV as quickly and as easily as a fossil fuel vehicle, range wouldn’t matter. If you could be a sure of being able to find a recharging point as you are of being able to find a gas station, range wouldn’t matter.

Moderna refused China request to reveal vaccine technology (Financial Times)

First on CNN: US government to provide $266 million to build community, public health work force (CNN)

U.S. government awards $266 million to build public health workforce (Axios)

Top Chicago Doctor Breaks Down Common Side Effects for New Bivalent COVID Boosters (NBC)

New York’s private schools are gaming vaccine exemptions in ‘obvious’ fraud (Politico)

New coronavirus subvariant BA.2.75.2 tops concerns as officials gear up for potential winter wave (L.A. Times)

Omicron subvariants getting better at evading antibodies (Jerusalem Post)

FDA Withholding Autopsy Results On People Who Died After Getting COVID-19 Vaccines

Navy Attempting To Remove Sailor Who Refused Vaccine Under ‘Pretext’ Of Attempted Desertion: Attorney

The $250,000,000 Scandal That’s Wrecking Minnesota Democrats  Given the chance, Democrats steal. After all, they invented the city political machine.

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Timed to extract maximum donations from liberal Jews around the High Holy Days, PBS is airing “The U.S. and the Holocaust” not to set the record straight, but to cover it up yet again by whitewashing the FDR administration and exploiting the Holocaust to call for open borders.

It’s all about the Benjamins.

Bill Gates says telling people to stop eating meat and buying big houses will never solve climate change (Fortune)

Environmental destruction is part of Liz Truss’s plan (The Guardian) George Monbiot goes on the witch-hunt.

‘Brexit freedoms bill’ could abolish all pesticide protections, campaigners say (The Guardian)

Climate change confusion: Extreme heat waves aren’t taking place more frequently than expected

These ‘nuclear bros’ say they know how to solve climate change (Washington Post) You can tell by the derogatory headline that the witch-hunt is on.

“Ticking carbon bomb:” Legacy carmakers massively understate carbon emissions (The Driven)

The Sustainable Future of Food Must Bring Everyone to the Table (Wired)

First carbon negative car stopped by UC Merced (Fox)

New Zealand PM UN Address Calls for Global Censorship of Climate Skeptics

Never Let a Devastating Natural Disaster Go to Waste 

Warnock Fundraises With Steyer After Voting for Legislation That Poured Billions Into Green Energy

Climate Change Weekly #448: Proposed Virginia Wind Facility Threatens Endangered Whales

PBS Predicts More ‘Climate Disasters’ If GOP Doesn’t Fall In Line

The Future of Climate Activism Is Intergenerational—and on TikTok (Wired)

Al Gore & John Kerry Aim To Hijack The World Bank For Climate Agenda

Discovery of ‘fingerprint’ confirms alarming predictions of Greenland ice sheet melt (NBC)

A glaring error in methane flaring (Ars Technica)

Urban greening can reduce impact of global heating in cities, finds study (The Guardian)

Arctic Ocean acidifying up to four times as fast as other oceans, study finds (The Guardian)

Vestas launches ‘world’s tallest onshore tower for wind turbines’ (CNBC) How many birds will that kill?

Companies using carbon credits to ‘cover their tracks’, says iron ore billionaire (The Guardian)

The aspiring ‘coral factory’ restoring reefs wrecked by climate change (Washington Post)

Climate Activists Attacking Fertiliser Use, Mass Produced Food

NYTimes Hurricane Analysis is Purposefully Misleading

Media Shriek Climate Change Causing Hurricane Ian’s ‘Rapid Intensification’

“Historic Levels Of Fraud”: US Watchdog Estimates $45.6 Billion Bilked From Pandemic Unemployment Program

The guy who designs our annual flu shots is getting his in October, and suggests you do too (Insider)

Why Flu Shots Are Especially Important This Year (TODAY)

A Chinese mRNA COVID vaccine is approved for the first time – in Indonesia (Reuters)

How to repair trust in health care (Politico) For a start, don’t push a PANIC!

Preparing for the BF-7 COVID-19 variant and flu season (CBS)

Zoonotic diseases like COVID-19 and monkeypox will become more common, experts say (NPR)

BREAKING: Fauci’s Net Worth Soared To $12.6+ Million During Pandemic – Up $5 Million

Fauci Net Worth Soared 66% During Pandemic

I’ve had COVID and am constantly getting colds. Did COVID harm my immune system?

Dr. Fauci and wife’s wealth ‘skyrocketed’ by $5 million during pandemic: analysis (N.Y. Post)

Pandemic Paid Off: Dr. Fauci’s Net Worth Doubled During COVID

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Stop hating your readers.

One of the silliest ideas to infect mainstream journalism in recent years is the notion that when journalists produce work about a bad person, they must signpost that work, seemingly every moment, with explicit indicators that that person is bad. You need to hold readers’ hands tightly, because they are moral idiots, and the moment your grip slips, they’ll race off and return in a Klansman’s hood or something.

This is now a thoroughly mainstream view in journalism, and it is applied to coverage not just to actual fascists, but to an ever-growing variety of right-wing (or otherwise disfavored) figures.

Species ‘Extinct’ for Nearly 100 Years Bought Back to Life in Colorado (Newsweek)

The CIA Just Invested in Woolly Mammoth Resurrection Technology (The Intercept)

Why tackling climate change means a stronger economy — according to Janet Yellen (NPR)

Should you take a green cruise? (Washington Post)

Europeans increasingly burning trees for energy after green policies, Russian war, leave countries hobbled (Fox)

Swiss glaciers see worst melt on record in back-to-back heat waves (CNN)

Swiss glaciers disappearing at record speed (BBC)

Terrawatch: why is sea level rising faster along China’s coast? (The Guardian)

Tiny Oregon town hosts 1st wind-solar-battery ‘hybrid’ plant (KATU)

Google is getting new sustainability features, including a fuel cost calculator (TechCrunch)

Americans Are Being Turned Into Human Compost to Save the Planet (Newsweek)

Industrial Farming Causes Climate Change. The ‘Slow Food’ Movement Wants to Stop It (TIME)

America’s hardest-hit communities need Biden to declare a climate emergency (The Guardian)

In a first, U.S. appoints a diplomat for plants and animals (Washington Post) You can’t make this shit up….

Climate Scientists Want to Ban Dissenting Views

The Conversation: How to Convince Economists to Back Climate Action

Hurricane Ian’s climate warning (Axios)

New York State to Adopt California 2035 EV Rules

Converting coal power plants to nuclear gains steam

Climate Change Is Burying Archaeological Sites Under Tons of Sand  (Wired ‘Science’)

Japan taps industry to build safer, more secure nuclear energy future

Pfizer or Moderna: Which new omicron-specific Covid booster should you get? (CNBC) Neither.

Here’s Who Really Needs the New Covid Booster (Washington Post) Those who are ready to PANIC!

CDC Warns About Enterovirus D68, the Virus Linked to Paralysis in Kids (Prevention Magazine) Trying out candidates for the next PANIC!

Circulation of Virus Tied to Paralysis in Kids Is Rising, CDC Says (MedPage Today)

Broadly neutralizing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 and other human coronaviruses (Nature)

People experienced some key personality changes during the pandemic, study finds (CNN) Yes, many turned into total fascists.

Indonesia approves first home-grown COVID vaccine for emergency use – media (Reuters)

Should I still be worried about monkeypox? (Washington Post)

States spend federal COVID aid on roads, buildings, seawalls (Associated Press) Free money! Let’s go shopping!

Carbon bombs and Gulf Stream collapse: the most urgent climate stories of our time (The Guardian)

Amid an energy crisis, Germany turns to the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel (NPR)

Amphibious houses and floating cities could protect coastal communities from sea-level rise (CNBC)

Climate complacency has left firefighters ill-prepared, says union chief (The Guardian)

Manchin’s energy permitting proposal stripped from funding bill after GOP, progressive opposition (Fox)

North Yorkshire puts seaweed at the heart of its carbon-negative ambitions (The Guardian)

Fossil fuel recruiters banned from UK university careers service (The Guardian)

A running shoe made from carbon emissions now exists – and it looks good too (TechRadar)

Sidewalk and trees falling into ocean at popular Maui beach, prompting growing calls for action (Hawaii News Now)

Tiny Oregon town hosts 1st wind-solar-battery ‘hybrid’ plant (Associated Press)

A Corporate Greenwashing Bonanza Just Descended on New York City (TIME)

Pollution from Florida mining a concern with Hurricane Ian (Associated Press)

“The Train Crash Scenario”: California EV Mandates Will Further Stress An Already Exhausted Electric Grid

NOAA Hurricane Director Twice Shuts Down Lemon For Blaming Climate Change

Reality Bites Wind

Blockade Australia Charges Dismissed Because of Climate Insanity

Hurricane expert brushes off Don Lemon climate change question: ‘I want to talk about the here and now’ (The Hill)

At RE:WIRED Green, We’re Innovating to Fight the Climate Crisis  Virtue signaling for fun and profit.

Climate Activist’s Rank Hypocrisy Exposed In Hilarious Radio Interview

WATCH: As Hurricane Ian Reaches Florida, Media Fixate on Climate Change

Women said covid shots affect periods. A new study shows they’re right. (Washington Post)

Amid conspiracy and conflict, WHO’s Tedros plans for the next pandemic (Washington Post) Without which he has neither power nor status.

CDC no longer recommends universal masking in health facilities (The Hill)

Five things about covid we still don’t understand at our peril (Washington Post)

Japan’s COVID herd immunity near 90% after Omicron wave, study says (Reuters)

Gov. JB Pritzker announces significant payment toward Unemployment Insurance Loan (ABC)

General: Unvaccinated National Guardsmen Activated For Hurricane Ian

When Will the Pandemic Truly Be ‘Over’? (Wired ‘Science’) When the Ruling Class have squeezed it for all the power it will yield.

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America’s corporate press is out of control. It claims to be an institution essential to successful self-government—and it would in fact be so, if it did its job responsibly. But all too often the American press seeks not to facilitate democratic deliberation by informing the voters but instead to shape political outcomes by dealing in hysteria and misinformation. More specifically, the corporate media routinely seeks to pull the nation’s politics leftward by using defamation to render prominent figures on the right odious to the public.

The case of Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz is only the most recent example. For much of the last two years, Gaetz has been the target of “news” stories, based on anonymous sources, that he was under investigation by the Department of Justice for sex trafficking. Now, we are told, career prosecutors are recommending against charges because of concerns about the credibility of the witnesses. This is another version of the same treatment given to Donald Trump before and during his presidency. For years Trump was subjected to innumerable breathless stories that he had “colluded” with Russia to steal the presidency. But when the investigation was over it turned out that Trump was guilty of no such thing.

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The partisans running the House January 6 Committee would like you to believe there’s a controversy over an ex-Republican coming out with his own “unauthorized” January 6 book the day before their last scheduled committee hearing. Would your average cynical reporter buy this “going rogue” story line? Or does it look conveniently designed to put the Pelosi-picked panel back in the headlines?

Liberal media outlets lose all the cynicism when the Democrats are in power. CBS’s 60 Minutes pushed out one of those “bombshell” interviews with Denver Riggleman, the former GOP congressman from Virginia who worked on the committee at Liz Cheney’s urging. CNN and MSNBC were pushing this story in heavy rotation. Their appetite for the January 6 narrative is ravenous.

The 60 Minutes tick-tock was predictably partisan on September 25. A week after Scott Pelley’s soft-soap interview with President Biden, Pelley conducted another soft-soap interview with Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Even there, January 6 came up, as Pelley asked Blinken “Given January 6th, given the fabricated controversy over the election results, do you find that countries around the world are worried about the stability of the United States?”

There’s always demand for a Trump smoking gun. So there’s always supply. (Washington Post)

Riggleman: After I criticized Trump, my mom texted me, ‘I’m sorry you were ever elected’ (The Hill) So are we all.

Christo-Fascist Salutes Displayed During Recent Mastriano And Trump Rallies (Bucks County Beac0n) ‘Christo-Fascist’?

Ex-Staffer Says DeSantis TORCHES Trump in Private: ‘Moron Who Has No Business Running For President’ (The MEDIAite) The Narrative Media making stuff up in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

What We Know So Far About BA.2.75.2, the ‘Most Resistant’ Variant to Date (TIME)

Study of 9 million Swedes shows rapidly declining effectiveness of COVID vaccines against Omicron (News-Medical)

CDC tracking 3 new COVID-19 variants as some experts warn cases could increase (CBS)

Viruses May Be “Watching” You – Lying in Wait Before Multiplying and Killing (SciTech Daily) So you’d better PANIC!

Just 1.5% Of Eligible People Have Gotten Updated COVID Booster

Medical Journal: 17M Excess Deaths Due to COVID-19

The Dystopian Vision Of The Health-Information Police

Israeli Investigators Find COVID-19 Vaccines Cause Side Effects: Leaked Video  No! Really?

The Global Water Crisis Could Crush The Energy Industry

IEA Head Warns “Wild West” Energy Scenario Could Unravel Europe

The Atlantic: “What is the Real Goal here – Stopping Climate Change or Abolishing Capitalism?”

Gas From Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Leaks Into Baltic Sea

COVID is in a lull, again. Experts say it’s still a time of ‘trade-offs’ (S.F. Chronicle)

Biden sent the wrong message on COVID. He can still fix it (L.A. Times)

COVID-19 Linked With Substantial Increase in Type 1 Diabetes in Children – As Much as 72% (SciTechDaily)

COVID-19 Associated With Increase in New Diagnoses of Type 1 Diabetes in Youth, by as Much as 72% (Neuroscience News)

New Discovery Can Kill COVID With ‘Hugs’—but There’s a Catch (Daily Beast)

Pfizer Seeks FDA Approval for Updated COVID Boosters for Children

Boston’s sea-level rise will require a ‘Big Dig level’ solution, city leaders say (Boston Globe) And Big Dig levels of corruption, presumably.

After destruction, Florida Air Force base rebuilds to face effects of climate change (NBC)

Vanuatu makes bold call for global treaty to phase out fossil fuels (The Guardian) And don’t forget to send money.

Head of World Bank under pressure after White House condemns his ‘climate denial’ comments (The Guardian)

Is fracking coming to a town near you? Here’s how you can fight them – and win (The Guardian)

Many of the most nutritious foods are also the most sustainable (Ars Technica) As they have been for the last 10,000 years.

Some cities are passing bans on natural gas appliances to help curb emissions, climate change (TrubLIVE) Time to leave.

Electric cars being charged at night making America’s power grids unstable, study warns  The solution, of course, is to use a hybrid and generate your own power. But, equally of course, that isn’t good enough for the Eco-Nazis.

Western governments should blame themselves for the energy crisis

In the End, Climate Change Is the Only Story That Matters (Esquire) I’ll bet you’re wondering how this came to be published in a magazine theoretically devoted to fashion and luxe living. (Wecome to the progessive totalitarianism. Be careful not to step in the virtue-signalling.)

Pelosi Booed at Climate-Change Music Fest in NYC’s Central Park  You can’t fool all of the people all of the time.

Green California Governor on Skyrocketing Prices: “We’re Just Getting Started”

Aussie Climate Minister Celebrates the Signing a Letter of Intent

Pfizer CEO tests positive for COVID for a second time (Reuters) It’s only fair.

Less than 2% of eligible people have gotten updated Covid booster shots, 3 weeks into the rollout (NBC) Maybe they’re tired of the PANIC.

Experts weigh in on whether the Covid pandemic is over (CNN)

Biden’s claim that Covid pandemic is over sparks debate among experts (The Guardian)

Moderna vs Pfizer: Is it OK to mix and match the updated COVID-19 booster shots? (L.A. Times)

Coast Guard discharging unvaxxed members, allegedly denying promotions despite religious exemption requests

There’s Trouble Bubbling Up in Newly Formed Alaskan Lakes, And Scientists Are Worried (ScienceAlert)

Shell, BP, Exxon: Seized emails reveal ‘deceptive’ climate tactics and greenwashing (Euronews)

US lawmakers investigate ‘deceptive’ PR tactics on behalf of oil and gas (Financial Times) The Financial Times is Britain’s equivalent of the Wall Street Journal … if the Wall Street Journal were run by the staff of Mother Jones.

California’s latest power grid problems are just the beginning (Politico)

California Turned to Natural Gas as September Heat Wave Strained Grid (Natural Gas Intelligence)

The world’s largest carbon removal project yet is headed for Wyoming (The Verge)

Climate activists protesting Manchin’s permitting bill arrested in D.C. (Washington Post) Catch-and-release is alive and well in D.C.

California first state to ban natural gas heaters and furnaces (The Hill) Time to leave.

California plans to phase out new gas heaters by 2030 (NPR)

Norway threatens to shut down wind farm after wind destroys turbines

Are heat pumps the key to accelerating the energy transition? (The Hill)

Why some places haven’t given up their mask mandates (Portland Press Herald)

Climate change is turning lakes a different color (The Hill)

“Relatively low cost” plan would cool the Earth’s poles by 2 °C (New Atlas)

Biden administration may try to oust World Bank head (Axios) Trump cooties!

World Bank President Apologizes, Won’t Resign Over Climate Change Comments

Illinois Dem. Congressman and Climate Hawk Sean Casten Flew 6,000 Miles, Stayed in Luxury European Hotel to Fight Global Warming

Jayaraj: India, China Emissions Make Mockery of Western Policies

UN: Climate Inaction Violates Human Rights

The Homemade Heat Pump Manifesto You can build a mainframe from the things you find at home.

If we may: A proposed script for Hannity to correct Trump’s falsehoods (Washington Post) I’d be more interested in a proposed script for the Washington Post to correct Biden’s falsehoods.

NY probe found potential crimes. Why isn’t Trump in cuffs? (Associated Press) A better question is, why isn’t Hunter Biden in cuffs?

Trump’s Tall Tales Have Finally Caught Up With Him (Politico) Walls are closing in etc. etc.

Blame the ‘Team Normal’ GOP for Trump’s Political Survival (Daily Beast)

Trump Continues to Escalate His Dangerous Incitement (Mother Jones) Duhn duhn DUHHHHN!

WashPost SPEWS Soros-Tied Twitter ‘Whistleblower’ Anti-Trump Hysteria  As they do.

Trump opens rally with crude insults about ‘raging maniac’ New York attorney general after she sues him (Independent)

Hillary Clinton Compares Trump To Hitler In Disturbing Interview (Huffington Post)

Trump’s attempts to delay Mar-a-Lago inquiry largely fail as legal woes mount (The Guardian) Walls are closing in etc. etc.

‘I’m not sure he’s going to escape jail’: could Trump’s legal woes prevent a 2024 run? (The Guardian) Walls are closing in etc. etc.

Trump keeps digging deeper. And the media keeps feigning shock. (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Two numbers that should worry Republicans about Trump 2024 (CNN)

Nobody Cares: Trump Approval Rating Remains Stable Despite Multiple Investigations

Trump faces growing legal peril as he seeks to raise profile ahead of 2024 (Washington Post) Well ,that’s what the witch-hunt is all about.

Geoffrey Berman reveals how Donald Trump abused his firing power (MSNBC)

Don Cheadle Jokes that Trump Has ‘Dumbmentia’  Trump ought to use his pocket change to have this guy whacked.

What Comes Next in Letitia James’ Case Against Trump (Slate)

Ugly new details about Ron DeSantis’s stunt point to a deeper scam (Washington Post) Greg Sargent is still bucking for Jennifer Rubins job as Chief Trump-Basher at the Post.

Limited climate change mitigation potential through forestation of the vast dryland regions (Science)

2022 Arctic Summer Sea Ice Tied for 10th-Lowest on Record (NASA)

Tonga volcano blast was unusual, could even warm the Earth (Associated Press)

Hunga Tonga eruption put over 50B kilograms of water into the stratosphere (Ars Technica)

The Pathway to 90% Clean Electricity Is Mostly Clear. The Last 10%, Not So Much (Inside Climate News)

Sea level rise threatens New Bedford’s fishing port and could put South Coast towns under water, new report finds (Boston Globe)

UK environment laws under threat in ‘deregulatory free-for-all’ (The Guardian)

Shellenberger: Battery Deaths Put Nuclear Safety In Context “Lithium batteries kill many more people than nuclear plants. Why, then, aren’t we scared of them?”

An Oil Company Shows Wall Street How To Do ESG

America Is Successfully Pursuing ESG = Extreme Shortages Guaranteed

The Heat Is On: Bjorn Lomborg on the Summer’s Record Heat

WaPo Urges Colleges To Provide Counseling Over ‘Climate Anxiety’  Poor iddle snowflakes….

Michael Bloomberg to Spend $85 Million Fighting Petrochemical Plants

California is awash in renewable energy — except when it’s most needed (Washington Post) Amazing how that works….

Climate Protester Sets Himself On Fire Before Roger Federer’s Last Match

Simple mix of soap and solvent could help destroy ‘forever chemicals’ (Science) “A common ingredient in soap, mixed with water and an organic solvent, readily degrades per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), commonly known as “forever chemicals” because they can stick around in the environment for decades, a new study shows.”

WHO warns ability to identify new Covid variants is diminishing as testing declines (CNBC)

COVID in California: BART to end mask mandate on Oct. 1 (S.F. Chronicle)

Federal judge strikes down Biden administration’s Head Start vaccine, mask mandate (The Hill)

U.S. watchdog estimates $45.6 billion in pandemic unemployment fraud (Washington Post)

Scientists were worried about a particular COVID variant this fall. They didn’t expect its offspring (Fortune)

WHO: ‘Blood on Your Hands’ If World Steps Back on Tackling COVID

California seeks to ban sales of diesel commercial trucks effort to fight pollution, climate change  Another step on the road to Turd World status.

Senate approves climate treaty limiting potent greenhouse gases (The Hill)

Republicans join Democrats to ratify UN climate treaty that could boost consumer prices

Duke Energy is one of the top leakers of a gas that is 25,000 times more polluting than carbon dioxide, EPA records show (NBC)

Duke Energy Is Leaking a Potent Climate-Warming Gas at More Than Five Times the Rate of Other Utilities (Inside Climate News)

Why Latino people are on the front lines of climate change (NPR) Because Narrative.

U.S. EPA to consider tougher emissions rules for heavy trucks (Reuters)

I Told You So: Aramco CEO Slams Unrealistic Energy Policies

Jim Beam Is Making Renewable Gas From Bourbon

Denmark First to Pay into the UN Climate Change Loss and Damage Fund

Permitting Reform Is A Decoy For Ramping Up Gas (The American Prospect)

Updated Climate Models Clouded by Scientific Biases, Researchers Find

Polar Bear No Closer to Extinction Than It Was 18 Years Ago as Arctic Sea Ice Resists ‘Tipping Point’

France Prepares To Nationalize Its Struggling Nuclear Industry

50 Reasons to Re-Think Climate Policy

In Denmark, Omicron reinfections reveal ineffective post-COVID-19 immunity (News-Medical.net)

Illinois Coronavirus Updates: State of Pandemic, New COVID Variants, Booster Timing (NBC)

Rep. Tenney Calls On Biden Not to Renew COVID Emergency in October

Watch: Rand Paul Promises To “Find The Paper Trail” For Lab Leak COVID Origin

Large Study Finds COVID Raises Risk for Long-Term Brain Injury

Authorizing the Killing Fields

Canada to Drop Vaccine Mandate at Border Sept. 30

PayPal shuts account of parents’ group that campaigned to keep schools open during pandemic (Telegraph)

Al Gore sees the world at ‘tipping point’ for climate action (Reuters) As he has done regularly for the last thirty years.

How an effort to reduce fossil fuel use led to another environmental problem: light pollution (L.A. Times)

Big business likes to trumpet ESG credentials. But a ‘greenwashing’ reckoning could be on the horizon (CNBC)

Most big coastal cities have areas sinking faster than sea level rise (New Scientist) But they’ll blame ‘sea level rise’ anyway because Narrative.

‘Polluters must pay’: UN chief calls for windfall tax on fossil fuel companies (The Guardian) Fine, let’s start with China … oh, wait….

Droughts, heat and fire: the future of wine in the climate crisis (The Guardian)

Biodiversity quickly rises up the ESG investing agenda (Financial Times) The Financial Times is Britain’s Wall Street Journal … if the Wall Street Journal were run by the staff of Mother Jones.

Fidelity International launches Sustainable Biodiversity fund (Investment Week) There’s gold in them thar fools!

Climate change could wipe $108 billion from U.S. property market, study finds (NBC)

UN Secretary General: Climate Catastrophe, War, Poverty, Pandemic, Give Money

Up Next: Green Starvation

Now’s your chance, AI, to do good. Protect endangered eagles from wind turbines

Natural Oceanic Cycles Behind Heavy East Australia Rains, New Study Finds

A Natural Gas Shortage Is Looming For The US

It’s Time for Cities to Ditch Delivery Trucks—for Cargo Bikes (Wired ‘Science’)

Climate change misinformation leads Facebook to experiment with informed democracy

Emissions-slashing hybrid trains to hit tracks in Europe

“Big Oil vs The World”: BBC Exposé Fails

If It’s Over, Why The Continued Emergency?

Trump to Face Sexual Battery Suit Under New ‘Survivors’ Law (Daily Beast) Which will go nowhere, as all of these witch-hunts do.

E. Jean Carroll says she will sue Trump under NY law for sexual assault and wants his deposition (CNN) What she wants is his bank account, but she’ll start with his deposition.

80s hits and nuclear secrets: security concerns plague Trump’s Mar-a-Lago (The Guardian) All Trump! All the time!

Mar-a-Lago: the lax security of Trump’s alternative ‘White House’ – visualized (The Guardian) All Trump! All the time!

Trump’s in a ‘Perfect Storm’ of Criminal Investigations: Former Prosecutor (Newsweek)

Aftermath of 2020 election left Fox News between Trump and the truth (Washington Post)

‘Unchecked’ book excerpt: Inside McConnell’s decision not to convict Trump (Washington Post)

Dozens of Trump’s phony electors, many under investigation, still hold powerful GOP jobs in key states (NBC)

GOP attorneys general back Trump in court fight over Mar-a-Lago documents (Washington Post)

How Fla Gov. DeSantis decision to send migrants to blue states could help a 2024 showdown with Trump (USA Today) Pushing the Narrative in the run-up to the mid-term elections.

Amy Schumer’s Unfunny Show Making a Comeback, Comedienne Predicts ‘Trump’s Probably Going to be Back’

Trump Endorsed QAnon Because He’s Stuck (The Atlantic)

New York attorney general files civil fraud lawsuit against Trump, some of his children and his business (CNN)

Trump and His Spurious Business Face a Reckoning (Bloomberg) The witch-hunt continues.

Dershowitz on Letitia James and her Ahab-like pursuit of Trump

New Alzheimer’s diagnoses more common among seniors who have had Covid-19, study finds (CNN)

CDC moves 3 tropical island getaways to ‘moderate’ risk category for Covid-19 (CNN)

A newborn’s mysterious rash stumped ER doctors for days. It turned out to be monkeypox. (Insider)

Area health expert sounds off on potential end of COVID-19 pandemic (KSTP Minneapolis)

1 in 3 workers fear they’ll catch Covid by returning to the office—here’s how to keep yourself healthy (CNBC)

Biden Declares Pandemic ‘Over.’ So What About His COVID-19 Policies?

‘Out of control’ STD situation prompts call for changes (Associated Press)

Fauci: US Not Where It Needs to Be in COVID-19 Fight

DOJ Charges 47 With Stealing $250 Million From COVID Child Food Program  Whenever a government handout exists, people will rise up to steal it.

Rockefeller Foundation Bankrolls NPR ‘Climate Hysteria’ Agenda of ‘Total Control’

The country that is showing the world how to save water (CNN)

These tech companies are accelerating permanent carbon removal to save the planet (Fortune) Save the planet!

Why Electric Vehicles Won’t Break the Grid (‘Scientific’ American)

Minneapolis Is Latest U.S. City to Demand Emissions-Free Shipping (Gizmodo)

Phoenix Won’t Limit Water Use Because California Would Take Saved Gallons (Newsweek)

Movement to defund fossil fuels is coming for the private equity industry (CBS)

The Netherlands Sets 70 GW Offshore Wind Target for 2050, Plans Large-Scale Green Hydrogen Production and Energy Hubs (OffShoreWind.biz)

These climate actions make the biggest difference, book says (Washington Post) Book says! That proves it!

Loop Energy says its new hydrogen fuel cell is more efficient than diesel  You first.

Environmentalism is a Fundamentalist Religion  Joel Kotkin.

EU Votes to Keep Burning Forests Because of Climate Change

Virginia Child Climate Lawsuit Bites the Dust

The US Is Measuring Extreme Heat Wrong

Compost Burial Will Be New Option in California

Trump may wish he hadn’t pushed to block online content moderation (Washington Post)

Trump’s unhinged rage in Ohio shows the danger of a GOP Congress (Washington Post) Greg Sargent aspires to take Jennifer Rubin’s job.

Nazi analogies are dangerous. But they are increasingly relevant today. (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin needs to keep ahead of Greg Sargent in the Trump-bashing biz.

Trump discovers he’s not in Cannon-land anymore (Politico)

Trump Is Making Love to QAnon and We Should All Be Terrified  (Daily Beast)

Donald Trump Is More Deranged Than Ever (New Republic)

‘The Divider’ probes Trump’s White House years for lessons about our political future (NPR)

Trump has more legal problems of his own making (Washington Post) If Jennifer Rubin didn’t have Trump to bash, she would have nothing to write about.

DeSantis’s Migrant Move Marks ‘New Low in Politics,’ Says Communist Nation Engaged in Genocide Against Muslims  (Babylon Bee)

New Trump tome ‘The Divider’ offers most comprehensive chronicle of his term to date (NPR) It contains every lie and smear concocted by the Narrative media in one place for handy reference.