What Is the Origin of COVID-19 Variants Like Omicron? (SciTechDaily)

Emerging COVID variants can now be identified within hours. Here’s how (Mint)

Is Omicron BA.5 ‘Worst Version’ Of Covid-19 Coronavirus Seen? (Forbes)

Advocates warn US at risk of losing control on monkeypox (The Hill)

‘My body, my choice’: How vaccine foes co-opted the abortion rallying cry (NPR) Didn’t take much.

Omicron’s newest variant might be a threat to your July 4 weekend—here’s how to stay safe (CNBC)

How a few unions are hijacking California environmental law (S.F. Chronicle)

The climate-change agenda can survive the Supreme Court’s EPA ruling (Washington Post)

Environment Agency chief hits out at greenwashing by businesses (The Guardian) A natural response to witch-hunting by government bureaucrats.  Better get used to it.

A Florida county is quarantining after discovery of invasive Giant African land snail (CNN)

Technofixes Are the Elite’s Attempt To Sidestep Blame for the Climate Crisis

US Immigration Crisis Due to Climate Change: DHS Secretary Mayorkas  Yeah, that’s the ticket.

More Geoengineering: Salting the Oceans to Defeat the Carbon Monster

Dutch Protesters Pour Manure On Government Offices Over Industry-Killing Regulations

“No More Excuses”: Aussie Academics Demand Global Paris Agreement Compliance

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Over the past couple of days, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin has been giving a preview of how journalists and other liberals are going to keep trying to blame gerrymandering for Republican power no matter what the facts are.

What a wanker.

As he fearmongered about the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court will rule that state legislatures can overrule the popular vote and the courts by choosing their electors for presidential elections, he incorrectly claimed that state legislatures in Arizona and Pennsylvania have been heavily gerrymandered, making the bodies very right wing.

As BA.4 and BA.5 COVID-19 Subvariants Spread, Will CDC Change Quarantine Guidance? (NBC)

Can You Get COVID Twice? New Omicron Subvariants May Lead to More Reinfections: Top Doc (NBC)

CDC recommends 6 Washington counties should wear masks again

Supreme Court lets vaccine mandate stand, tosses rulings on guns, abortion (Washington Post)

WHO: Monkeypox not a serious threat at the moment

An Actuarial Armageddon

The FDA is Increasing Skin Cancer

Can we beat climate change by geoengineering the oceans? (New Scientist)

Biden EPA proposes regulation that farmers warn will drive food prices higher

Equilibrium/Sustainability — Wildfires and mass extinction events (The Hill)

Wildfires may have sparked Earth’s largest mass extinction event, new research reveals (Daily Mail)

How the climate crisis is forever changing our national parks (CNN)

The U.S. is ditching coal. The Supreme Court ruling won’t change that. (Washington Post) So then why all the hubub?

Antarctic fish growing grotesque skin tumors thanks to climate change is resulting in a disease outbreak among the creatures, study shows (Daily Mail)

RI commits to 100% renewable energy by 2033

Fossil fuels are far better than blackouts (The Hill)

Lowy Institute: Climate Concern “Plateauing” in Australia

British Greens Pushing for a Home Wood Heater Ban

This super-tree could help feed the world and fight climate change Or maybe not.

New recycling method could eliminate the climate impact of plastic (The Hill)

New Plastic Alternative Degrades Into Sugar (EcoWatch)

Meat, monopolies, mega farms: how the US food system fuels climate crisis (The Guardian)

Biden caught between climate goals and high gas prices as administration releases new drilling plan (CNN)

The green revolution sweeping Sweden (Washington Post)

Never-before-seen microbes locked in glacier ice could spark a wave of new pandemics if released (LiveScience)

Tidal Basin Seawall To Get Upgrade To Withstand Sea Level Rise (The DCist)

Will California’s offshore wind farms damage underwater life? Here’s what scientists are finding (S.F. Chronicle)

Revolutionary new Swiss ‘water battery’ will be one of Europe’s main renewable sources of energy (EuroNews)

Climate change hopelessness is a real condition—these experts have advice on how to cope (CNBC)

British Eco-Terrorist Group Attacks SUVs in New York

Chasing Utopian Energy: How I Wasted 20 Years of My Life

Dutch farmers spray manure on town hall in protest of climate plans

There could be 1.2B climate refugees by 2050

CSIRO: Post Covid Lockdown Economic Rebound was a Missed Climate Opportunity

Climate Activists Glue Themselves to Historic Oil Paintings

Thermodynamics of the Climate System

The New Pause Lengthens to 7 Years 10 Months

WHO says monkeypox cases triple in Europe in two weeks, urgent action needed to contain spread

Republicans call on CDC to release 2021 child suicide data: problem ‘worsened’ by pandemic

COVID-19 variant boosters won’t need new clinical trials for clearance, FDA says (The Verge)

Still testing positive after day 10? How to decide when to end your COVID isolation (NPR)

Los Angeles Covid Warning: Brace For “Significant Transmission In The Upcoming Weeks,” According To Public Health Director (Deadline)

Why Pregnant People Should Get COVID-19 Vaccines As Soon As Possible (Time)

First American to go public with monkeypox calls out CDC “…been exposed via a friend in LA through skin-to-skin contact.”  I’ll just bet it was.

What to do if you have COVID symptoms, but your at-home test comes back negative (KXAN)

WHO monkeypox decision renews debate about global alarm system for outbreaks (Science.org)

You should wear a mask again in these California counties, CDC says

Pfizer and BioNTech Announce New Agreement with U.S. Government to Provide Additional Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine  KA-CHING!

US, Pfizer reach $3.2B COVID vaccine deal KA-CHING!

Omicron subvariants BA.4, BA.5 are spreading ‘like wildfire,’ becoming dominant strains in US (ABC)

Experts: New COVID-19 subvariant leading to more ‘breakthrough’ cases (Newsday)

Elmo, Now Vaccinated, Advertises COVID-19 Vaccine Shots For Children Under 5  Muppets – Serving the Narrative for Over Twenty Years.

The Secrets of Covid ‘Brain Fog’ Are Starting to Lift

Read it.

Toronto Police caused confusion on Twitter after posting about a missing ‘woman’ despite the accompanying picture showing a biological male with a goatee.

Oh, Canada….

Aussie Climate Minister Promises to Legislate Away that Evil CO2

California may rescue its last nuclear power plant — and give PG&E millions to do it (CalMatters)

One extreme climate event can worsen others, studies show (Axios)

Climate change driving multiple extreme weather events happening at once (The Hill)

Fossil fuel industry faces surge in climate lawsuits (The Guardian)

Extreme temperatures linked to nearly 1 million deaths

All Eyes on SCOTUS: Supreme Court to Issue Climate Endangerment Finding Ruling – To Decide if EPA, or Congress, has authority to regulate CO2

What happens if the Solar System’s largest comet collides with Earth?  Women and minorities hardest hit.

Ann Coulter provides some adult supervision.

I gather from the recent hysteria that the Supreme Court has just ordered all 72 million American women of childbearing age to get pregnant and carry the baby to term.

This is big news, if true. I’m not at all surprised that every female journalist, activist and politician is threatening to burn down the Supreme Court over its decision last Friday in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

On the other hand, even accepting the abortion cult’s belief that members of the weaker sex are incapable of either keeping their knees together or mastering birth control, I still only count about 100,000 women who won’t have easy access to abortions without Roe v. Wade.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Several decades ago I subscribed to Bon Appetit magazine. In those days, it was all about good food, consisting of articles about, and recipes from, excellent restaurants.

But, as in so many areas of contemporary life, those days are gone. Bon Appetit survives–barely, I think–but its primary mission these days seems to be wokeness. Check out the magazine’s InstaGram feed to see what I mean.

Top NY Doctor: New COVID Wave Is Starting, With the ‘Worst Version’ of Omicron (NBC)

How Long Should You Quarantine or Isolate for COVID? Here’s the Latest Guidance (NBC)

COVID in California: Over 10 million Californians infected since pandemic started (S.F. Chronicle)

Public health advice for gatherings during the current monkeypox outbreak (WHO)  First, avoid homosexual men.

Youngkin urges Defense secretary to ‘indefinitely postpone’ Army Guard vaccine mandate (The Hill)

DC and NYC quickly max out on monkeypox vaccines (The Hill) That’s what happens in a PANIC!

Fauci Suffers “Much Worse” COVID Symptoms After ‘Paxlovid Rebound’  I won’t say that I’ll laugh if he dies in great pain, but I will smile quietly to myself.

Experts predict an omicron wave this summer. Here are the symptoms to look out for (Deseret News)

CDC adds a Caribbean beach hot spot to its ‘high’ Covid-19 risk list (CNN)

Experts expect subvariants to cause ‘substantial’ summer cases of COVID-19 (Boston Globe)

WHO declines to label monkeypox a global emergency

Renewable energy vs. fossil fuels? It’s a false choice, says John Doerr (CNBC)

More global heat records are broken, from the Arctic to Japan (Axios)

Camouflaged figures lurking in the bush expose Australia’s angst over climate activists (CNN)

Sydney climate protests: Activists block streets and harbour tunnel (BBC)

World pledged to cut methane. Emissions rising instead, study finds. (Washington Post)

Hurricane numbers are decreasing in every ocean basin except for one, study finds (CNN)

Exxon CEO: Society to pay ‘high price’ for hasty transition to clean energy (KOMO News)

UN head declares ‘ocean emergency’ as global leaders gather in Lisbon (The Guardian)

Melting Tibetan Plateau Glaciers Could Release Newly Found Bacteria Species

Competing environmental claims throttle Minneapolis development (Star-Tribune)

Warmer winters could wipe out Antarctica’s only native insect (Science.org)

France Sees Nuclear Energy Output Plummet At The Worst Possible Moment

Media Claims CO2 “Traps Heat”! A Big Lie or A Big Stupid ???

Study: Global Warming is Causing a DECLINE in Tropical Cyclones

Climate protection: CO2 turned into methanol

Pfizer/BioNTech say Omicron-based COVID shots improve response vs that variant (Reuters)

Monkeypox outbreak in U.S. is bigger than the CDC reports. Testing is ‘abysmal’ (NPR) We need another PANIC!

CDC Eyes Monkeypox Vaccine for Kids as Outbreak Spreads (TIME)

Monkeypox outbreak in Los Angeles soars to 22 cases after Pride events as health officials warn disease is spreading among gay community (Daily Mail)

‘Every time it rains’: Floods from climate change plague a Camden neighborhood

The right way to fix the energy crisis (The Economist)

Electricity use would surge under California’s new climate plan (CalMatters)

The World Is Failing In Both Energy Affordability And Climate Goals

Claim: Climate Damage Caused by Growing Space Tourism Needs Urgent Mitigation

What Polar Bear Genomes May Reveal About Life in a Low-Ice Arctic

Former landfills are becoming “brightfields”

Relax, KOMO News, Tomatoes and Ketchup Supplies Are Secure Amid Climate Change

German Vice-Chancellor “Drastically Reduces” Time In Shower To Cope With Energy Crisis 

Germany Green Energy Crisis: Warning of “Lehman Like” Contagion

Pfizer says tweaked COVID-19 shots boost omicron protection (Associated Press)

WHO says monkeypox is not an international public health emergency, but it should continue to be monitored (CNN)

New Monkeypox Study Holds Possible Clue To Fast Spread Of Virus

CDC Investigating “Large, Ongoing” Outbreak Of Rare Disease In Florida

CDC Confirmed Post-Vaxx Death From Blood-Clotting Two Weeks Before Alerting Public: Emails

The Inconvenient Truth About COVID-19 Relief Scandals

Factual climate change reporting can influence Americans positively, but not for long (NPR) For sufficiently Woke values of ‘factual’.

Study finds climate change reporting can momentarily change minds (The Hill)

East Africa must reject its colonial model of conserving wildlife (The Guardian)

How climate change is making fires worse (The Hill)

The planet’s alarm clock is blaring but Pa. politicians hit the snooze button (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Trump’s EPA allowed Big Agriculture to poison Americans; a court just told them to stop (Salon)

The unique ways Filipinos are protecting their homes against floods (Washington Post)

Gov. Newsom’s plan to prevent power outages has a big downside: fossil fuels (L.A. Times)

Inside California’s climate change paradox (CalMatters)

Ocean viruses might help reduce climate change, study says (The Hill)

Claim: Australia’s Supercomputer Gadi will Solve the Climate Crisis

Is Lake Mead Shrinking Because of Climate?

Whatever happened to the bee apocalypse?

UK Covid cases surge following Queen’s Jubilee celebrations, new variants become dominant (CNBC)

1.7m people had Covid last week as levels continue to rise in UK (The Guardian)

World Health Network Declares Monkeypox Outbreak a Pandemic  So it’s officially time to PANIC!

Are COVID Symptoms Changing With New Variants? Chicago’s Top Doc Explains (NBC)

Is a faint line on a COVID-19 test actually positive? Yes, experts say (TODAY)

The Monkeypox Virus May Be Exhibiting ‘Accelerated Evolution’ (Daily Beast)

What Omicron’s BA.4 and BA.5 variants mean for the pandemic (Nature)

The LGBTQ+ monkeypox failure

Reactivation Of Chickenpox Virus Following COVID-19 Injections On The Rise

EU Renews Digital COVID Pass Despite 99% Negative Public Feedback  This is why we don’t want to ‘be more like Europe’.

The Ocean Is Climate Change’s First Victim and Last Resort (Time)

The last nuclear plant in California – and the unexpected quest to save it (The Guardian)

Fossil fuel divestment bill dies in California Legislature — and a Democrat killed it (S.F. Chronicle)

Mass biodiversity loss would slash global credit ratings, report warns (Reuters)

Forest Service didn’t consider climate change when it accidentally caused historic New Mexico fire (CNBC)

MIT Space Bubbles Would Fully Reverse Global Warming (NextBigFuture)

Abu Dhabi Fossil Dunes: A beautiful frozen landscape created by climate change (CNN) Climate change! Is there anything it can’t do?

A garage-sized reactor could provide limitless energy with magnet-free technology (Interesting Engineering)

There’s a simple way to unite everyone behind climate justice – and it’s within our power (The Guardian) George Monbiot is Britain’s Robert Reich.

Epstein’s ‘Fossil Future’

Sri Lanka Food Shortages Due to Fertilizer Ban, (Not Putin)

New coronavirus subvariants escape antibodies from vaccination and prior Omicron infection, studies suggest (CNN)

How COVID has deepened inequality — in six stark graphics (Nature)

Where’s the next generation of COVID-19 shots? (The Verge)

Florida meningococcal outbreak among gay and bisexual men is one of worst in US history: CDC

Mistake To Recommend COVID-19 Vaccines For All Children: Top Danish Health Official

Moderna says bivalent vaccine appears to work against omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 (NBC)

Women are more likely than men to develop long COVID, study finds (ABC7 Los Angeles)

Nearly 1 in 5 adults who had COVID have lingering symptoms – U.S. study (Reuters)

Forget About Testing the Vax — Just Trust the Science!

How Covid Tracking Apps Are Pivoting for Commercial Profit  The Panic will be monetized.

What if there was no global warming? (KPRC Houston)

Young people go to European court to stop treaty that aids fossil fuel investors (The Guardian)

NY Times Flatters Young, Disruptive Enviro-Nuts Getting in Face of World Leaders

Claim: Climate Friendly GM Rice can Trap More CO2  Cue ‘Frankenfood’ meltdown by Eco-Nazis.

Read it.

How many of the Usual Suspects can we find?

Barbra ‘Streisand Effect’? Check.

George Takei? Check.

Ana Navarro-Cárdenas from The View? Check.

Ron ‘Hellboy’ Perlman? Check.

Kathy ‘D-List’ Griffin? Check.

Get out the popcorn….

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Covid cases are rising again. In the UK, they have broken through the 200,000 infections-a-day threshold for the first time since April. In America, the sixth wave is well under way. In countries that kept the disease at bay for years, such as Taiwan and New Zealand, numbers are shooting up, driven by milder but highly infectious versions of the Omicron variant. The virus has not gone away, even if its death toll is much lower. But what has disappeared is any real or urgent interest from the media and the scientific establishment in finding out how it started.

CDC lowers the Covid-19 travel risk for 2 nations in Europe (CNN) Very white of them.

Broadway mask mandate in NYC to end in July

If you still have not had COVID after the latest surge, what are the odds you never will? (S.F. Chronicle)

Covid isn’t over. Let’s prepare now for a safer fall semester. (Daily Princetonian)

The COVID Ratchet Shows Up

Climate change could make Texas more like the Sonoran Desert (KOMONews)

Corn-Based Ethanol Is Actually Worse For The Environment Than Gasoline, Study Finds  Will anything change? No.

‘Warming stripes’ show how climate change is influencing temperatures around the world (KCRA Sacramento)

German minister rejects EU plan to ban new fossil-fuel cars from 2035

Montreal to host delayed Cop15 summit to halt ‘alarming’ global biodiversity loss (The Guardian)

Canada is banning single-use plastics, including grocery bags and straws (CNBC) Ah, back to the Good Old Days of paper bags and paper straws.

Aussie Climate & Energy Minister: Nuclear Advocates are “Dangerously Ignorant”

Assessing The Environmental Impact of Nuclear Power Generation

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On CNN’s Reliable Sources on June 19, host Brian Stelter touted the growing new trend in the “objective” media of creating a “democracy beat,” because Donald Trump and his devotees are a constant threat. Stelter compared it to a contractor fighting rot and mold in the house.

There’s something obvious and desirable about journalists focusing intently on elections and voter rights and election integrity battles. But there’s always this gelatinous layer of pomposity on top: that the media need to take sides and not allow “two sides” on democracy.

In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ typically means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

As water crisis worsens on Colorado River, an urgent call for states to ‘act’

Extinction Rebellion, handmaiden of technocracy

Claim: Quantum Computing Magic can Solve the Climate Crisis

Don’t endanger aquatic ecosystems in the name of solving climate change (Boston Globe)

Climate impact of food miles three times greater than previously believed, study finds (The Guardian)

High fossil fuel prices are good for the planet—here’s how to keep it that way (Ars Technica)

To stop climate change, regulate carbon as a toxic substance (Washington Post)

CNN Analyst Suggests Inflation Is Needed To Achieve Green Agenda

DISCLOSING THE REAL “CLIMATE RISK”: CASE STUDY: UK “ESG” Billionaire Behind U.S. Climate Regulatory, Litigation Campaigns

WHO’s Tedros Privately Admits Lab Leak ‘Most Likely Explanation’ For COVID-19

US opens COVID vaccine to little kids; shots begin this week (Associated Press)

It’s getting harder to gauge your Covid risk levels—tracking these 4 metrics can help (CNBC)

94 Percent of Medication Not Supported by High-Quality Evidence, Harms Underreported: Study

Fauci Refuses To ‘Stop Funding Chinese’ Research With US Tax Dollars

The Latest Tragedy: Sudden Adult Death Syndrome

Costs of COVID-19 Lockdowns in Australia Outweighed the Benefits Multiple Times: Expert

COVID Exposed The Medical-Pharmaceutical-Government Complex

Friendly fungi help forests fight climate change (BBC)

California Considers ‘Carbon Farming’ As a Potential Climate Solution. Ardent Proponents, and Skeptics, Abound (Inside Climate News)

The farmers restoring Hawaii’s ancient food forests that once fed an island (The Guardian)

The climate crisis is hitting the planet’s working classes the hardest and they know it (The Guardian) And just in case they missed it the proglodyte voices at The Guardian will tell them all about it.

‘Historic’ weather: why a cocktail of natural disasters is battering the US (The Guardian)

Did climate change kill 2,000 Kansas cows? Farmers can’t afford to ignore science

Did climate change kill 2,000 Kansas cows? Farmers can’t afford to ignore science (Kansas City Star)

Why large numbers of reptile species face extinction and what that means for our ecosystem (PBS)

Hurricane hell and climate punishment (The Hill)

Wind power is (finally) having a moment (Salon)

Claim: Climate Change Causes Heart Failure

The Democrats’ Energy Disaster

Energy Transition Goals At Risk As EU May Label Lithium As Toxic

Germany to Increase Burning of Coal Amid Cut in Gas Supplies From Russia

The Other McCain is on the case.

Ah, high school graduation — a time to celebrate with random gunfire! While I have not fully investigated each of these shootings, and police have not yet made arrests in some of them, I will wager that none of the gunmen who opened fire at these graduation parties was a Trump voter.

New Fossil Fuel Fan: Obama Orders 2,500-Gallon Propane Storage For Vacation Home

For hydrogen power to be a climate solution, leaks must be curbed (The Guardian)

Perspective: Republicans are taking action on climate change. Why are Democrats ignoring them? (Deseret News)

How putting floating solar panels over reservoirs could help us fight climate change

There’s a nationwide Sriracha shortage, and climate change may be to blame (NPR) The horror!

Fossil fuel firms ‘have humanity by the throat’, says UN head in blistering attack (The Guardian)

Climate change: Green energy ‘stagnates’ as fossil fuels dominate (BBC)

The UK Is Prioritizing Energy Security Over Climate Pledges  Not being total morons.

168 Cases of Monkeypox Confirmed in Canada, Including 141 in Quebec  “…all infections have been in men aged 20 to 69…”

Fauci Refuses to ‘Stop Funding Chinese’ Research With US Tax Dollars.

BA.2.12.1, BA.4 and BA.5 escape antibodies elicited by Omicron infection (Nature)

LA County Moves Closer To Mask Mandate As Hospitalizations Increase (L.A. Times)

Bernie Sanders bristles when FDA commissioner says he was not aware of Moderna CEO ‘golden parachute’  Bristles!

Prior infection plus 3 vaccine doses proves best vs Omicron; neurological COVID symptoms can last months (Reuters)

‘I Was About to Black Out’: Aussie Woman Loses Job for Refusing 2nd Jab After COVID Shot’s ‘Stroke-Like’ Symptoms

Federal Aviation Administration Touts New ‘Fuel Efficiency’ Rule, Contradicts Own Documents

These polar bears have found a way to survive without sea ice (Washington Post0 As they do.

Explainer: Can climate change and biodiversity loss be tackled together? (Carbon Brief)

We will soon find out if FERC is serious about climate and environmental justice (The Hill)

Greenhouse gases must be legally phased out, US scientists argue (The Guardian) Well, some of them.

In An Unusual Step, a Top Medical Journal Weighs in on Climate Change (Inside Climate News) ‘Unusual’? Compared to what?

The West just experienced an aspect of the climate crisis that scientists have warned of for years  (CNN)

Things NASA climate scientists say:

MSNBC Warns ‘Less Than a Decade’ To Save the Planet  Didn’t AlGore say that back in the 90s?

Florida Only State Not to Preorder COVID-19 Vaccines for Toddlers, Babies: White House  The pharma companies need to get their vaccines officially recommended for children so that they can qualify for immunity from prosecution and liability for side effects.

Pfizer says its COVID pill doesn’t work for healthier patients (L.A. Times)

Study Reveals How COVID-19 Changed Australia’s Seasonal Virus Genetic Landscape

Judge Overturns Disciplinary Action Against Student Who Questioned Vaccines, Public Health Orders

Pfizer Stops Enrollment In COVID-Pill Trial After Latest Lousy Results

‘Heartbreaking Stories’: Expert Panel to Hold Hearing of Canadians Adversely Impacted by COVID-19 Policies

Watchdog President Uncovers $350 Million in Secret Payments to Fauci, Collins, Others at NIH

Contagious Vaccines: A Warning

More Bad News for the Mask Cult

The COVID Healer

How months-long COVID infections could seed dangerous new variants (Nature)

What to do if you keep testing positive for Covid—even after your symptoms are gone (CNBC) Feel free to disbelieve the Narrative?

‘Natural Immunity Wins Again’: Study Demonstrates Infection-Derived Immunity Likely Superior to COVID Vaccines

D.C. Politicians On Edge As CDC Announces Arrival Of Lizardpox  (Babylon Bee)Rare Brain Disease Developed After COVID Vaccination Has a Surprisingly High Mortality Rate

Vaccine Response to COVID-19 Was Pre-Planned: Authors of New Book, ‘The Courage to Face COVID-19’

Biden Administration Plans to Extend COVID-19 Emergency, Official Suggests

Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is hemorrhaging ice faster than in the past 5,500 years (Live Science)

Climate change: Rich nations accused of ‘betrayal’ at Bonn talks (BBC)

Why investors suddenly care about saving the environment (Vox)

Climate change: Rising sea levels threaten 200,000 England properties (BBC)

EPA warns toxic ‘forever chemicals’ more dangerous than once thought (Washington Post)

EPA warns that even tiny amounts of chemicals found in drinking water pose risks (NPR)

Africa being ‘punished’ by fossil fuel investment ban – Niger (Al Jezeera)

Emissions From New U.S. Natural Gas Projects Will Equal 18 Million Cars (Gizmodo)

Bank group accused of exploiting loopholes and ‘greenwashing’ in climate pledge (The Guardian)

Climate Propaganda Award Winners

Not Enough Renewables: Minister Blames Australian Electricity Shortage on Lack of Green Energy

Munich Professor: Role of Methane from Cows on Climate Exaggerated by A Factor Of 3 To 4!

New Data Absolutely Destroys Media Claims of ‘Climate Change is Causing More Wildfire’

Climate change: New fossil fuel funding is ‘delusional’ says UN chief (BBC)

Feeding Cows Seaweed Reduces Their Methane Emissions, but California Farms Are a Long Way From Scaling Up the Practice (Inside Climate News) C’mon, guys, let’s get with the program.

Ben & Jerry’s Is Putting Their Cows on a Low Methane Emissions Diet (EcoWatch) Just in the nick of time, too.

Sea level rise in England ‘will put 200,000 homes at risk by 2050’ (The Guardian) And when that prediction proves wrong, as all such predictions have, they’ll tell you another one.

The 1977 White House climate memo that should have changed the world (The Guardian)

Call for urgent action as Australia faces biodiversity crisis (Al Jezeera)

‘We beg God for water’: Chilean lake turns to desert, sounding climate change alarm (Reuters)

It’s Hard to Do Climate Research When Your Field Site Is Melting

‘Impossible to Continue Operating’: Australia’s National Energy Market Suspended

Germany’s Fridays for Future Spokesperson: “We’re Planning How To “Blow Up” African Oil Pipeline!

Satellite Detects Largest Release of Methane in the World (New York Times)

WashPost Whines U.S. Energy Crisis NOT ‘Spurring a Green Revolution’

WHO Will Rename Monkeypox To Combat Racism And Stigma

People who caught Covid in first wave get ‘no immune boost’ from Omicron (The Guardian)

Is monkeypox a world health emergency? The WHO will decide next week. (Politico) Well, it is for homosexual males. The Pox That Dare Not Speak Its Name?

Exclusion of Unvaccinated BC Health Staff Hurting Patient Care, Says Surgeon Who Filed Legal Petition

Two NY Federal Judges Consecutively Step Down From Vaccine Mandate Lawsuits Over Ownership of Pfizer Stock  It didn’t take a genius to figure out that pharma stocks were in for a big payday when the pandemic panic hit. I’m just surprised that they weren’t able to hide their conflicts of interest better than that.

The Emergence of Neo-Fascism in Public Health

FDA Set to Decide on Pfizer’s COVID Shots for Kids Under 5 Based on ‘Unethical’ Trial Data  Unless the vaccine-makers can get it officially recommended for kids, they won’t qualify for immunity from prosecution and suits for vaccine side effects.

FDA Advisory Panel Recommends Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccines for Babies, Toddlers Unless the vaccine-makers can get it officially recommended for kids, they won’t qualify for immunity from prosecution and suits for vaccine side effects.

Anthony Fauci Tests Positive for COVID-19  I’m a nice guy, so I’m not gonna say it.

Read it.

On Monday’s The Lead, host Jake Tapper was the first on CNN to admit that former Florida Health Department website operator Rebekah Jones was found to have fabricated her claims that state officials with ties to Republican Governor Ron DeSantis pressured her to manipulate COVID data, according to an investigation by the Health Department’s inspector general. But even with this revelation, Tapper failed to apologize for how he and the “facts first” network helped to elevate the lies and disinformation. “In our health lead now, ‘insufficient evidence,’ that’s what a new inspector general report says it found in response to Rebekah Jones’ accusations she was asked to falsify COVID data on Florida’s dashboard,” Tapper announced before handing the actual reporting to national correspondent Kristen Holmes; instead of going off on one of his infamous, self-righteous diatribes.

Progressive means never having to say you were wrong.

Read it.

A refreshing dip into the warm  bath of progressive unreality.

This is the world that proglodytes inhabit every waking moment. Sucks to be them.

David Cole.

You didn’t think you could just walk away from Covid hysteria, did you? You didn’t think it would just end, right? In fact, “Phase II” is about to begin. And I’m not talking about more masks ’n’ jabs. I’m talking about a new iteration, a mutation. Not a viral one, but a metamorphosis in terms of what Covid represents to the left.

A transition from disease to identity.

The End Of Clouds? How Climate Change Could Alter The Sky (SyFy)

Antarctica And Greenland’s Ice Sheet Melting On Track With “Worst-Case Scenario” Forecasts (IFL Science) It’s all about the clicks.

The Collapse of an Atlantic Ocean Current Would Ripple Across The World, Says Study (Science Alert) As if.

How a conservation non-profit made climate change worse by not cutting down trees (Boing Boing) There’s no pleasing some people.

Study: In most cases entities behind Renewable Energy Certificates are not doing much for the climate (Tech Xplore)

New Yorkers might be able to compost their dead loved ones soon (The Hill) I can hardly wait.

This iconic California tree could go extinct. But some officials are wary of naming it ‘threatened’ (S.F. Chronicle)

Oregon utility powers up nation’s first large-scale wind, solar and battery facility

New York has a chance to generate all its electricity from clean energy by 2030 (The Guardian)

‘Silent Spring’ at 60  Count up the millions who have died of malaria because her book triggered a ban on DDT.

Climate change a bigger threat than war, Fiji tells security summit (BBC)

EU vote to ban all sales of combustion engine vehicles by 2035

Google and Facebook blocking wind farm because it will raise their electric bill

Nevada lithium mine pits Biden green agenda against radical environmentalists

Vox: Stop telling kids that climate change will destroy their world

Why bankers close their ears to the ‘climate nut jobs’ talking about the end of the world (The Guardian)

Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ glacier is shedding ice faster than it has in 5,500 years (Interesting Engineering)

Antarctica is currently melting at an ‘unprecedented rate’ when compared to the last 5,500 years: study (AlterNet)

Thirty years of climate summits: where have they got us? (The Guardian) That pesky Reality keeps getting in the way.

Fifty Years After the UN’s Stockholm Environment Conference, Leaders Struggle to Realize its Vision of ‘a Healthy Planet’ (Inside Climate News) The enduring picture of environmentalism: Activists making noise at a demonstration that will have no effect on the real world whatsoever.

Diversity and ecological footprint of Global Ocean RNA viruses (Science)

Environmental group opposes natural gas plant in Marshall [MI] that could power 1 million homes

Carbon Dioxide Levels Now Higher Than Ever in Human History (Smithsonian)

Aussie Farmers Demand Compensation for the new Green Electricity Grid

Will monkeypox spread as fast as COVID? (The Hill) Just in case, we’d better PANIC!

COVID Symptoms Timeline: Signs to Expect With the Virus and When (NBC)

NYC Now at 10 Monkeypox Cases, City Warns of ‘Greater Risk’ for One Group (NBC)

Fauci Suggests He’ll Retire Once This Key Requirement Is Met: ‘Better Control’ of COVID

Some English Hospitals Telling Patients to Keep Wearing Face Masks Despite Restrictions Being Dropped  These people are just ugly, that’s all there is to it.

Gigi Foster: Did Our Pandemic Policies Kill More People Than They Saved?

Biden Administration Makes Available 10 Million Doses of COVID Vaccine for Kids Under 5 — Before FDA Authorizes Shot

Connecticut Families Challenge ‘Arbitrary’ Religious Exemption Ban for School Vaccines

Twitter Quietly Removes Warning Added to a CDC Study

World Health Organization Finally Admits COVID Lab-Leak Theory Is A Possibility

EXCLUSIVE: Military Official Predicted mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Might Be Paused Over Heart Inflammation

Biden Admin Dropping COVID-Testing Requirements For International Travel

NYT Essay Praised Sky-High Inflation Because It’ll Make Our Diets Climate-Conscious And only the Dirt People will suffer.

The world’s first CO2 battery for long-duration energy storage is ready for global launch

‘The inevitable’: People living on the coast could be forced to move due to climate change, UK warns (CNBC) Call me when real estate prices in Malibu start dropping.

Aerosols from burning fossil fuels are masking global warming, UW researchers find (Seattle Times)

Climate policy dragged into culture wars as a ‘delay’ tactic, finds study (The Guardian)

Group aiming to defund disinformation tries to drain Fox News of online advertising (NPR)

Arctic sea ice extent continues the slow melting season in May tracking above levels not seen since 2013 while the meteorological summer just started (Severe Weather Europe)

New Zealand Introduces a Climate Change Meat Tax  I guess there’s something in the water; they’ve all gone crazy down there.

CNN Hypes False Dengue Fever Claims, Putting Climate Fears Ahead of Facts, Again

Plastic Eating Worms Show Promise for Plant-Scale Recycling

Lake Michigan Water Levels Have Dropped To Near Normal, So Yet Another Climate Explanation Emerges

EU lawmakers vote to ban sales of combustion engine cars from 2035

Climate Change Weekly #437: Persistent Lies about Green Power