COVID Vaccines Linked to New Type of Incurable, Fatal Degenerative Brain Disorder

Here’s What to Do if You Test Positive for COVID, According to CDC Guidelines (NBC) First, you need to PANIC!

CDC’s travel advisory on monkeypox: ‘Practice enhanced precautions’ (CNN) In other words, PANIC!

Omicron sub-variants BA.4 and BA.5 account for up to 13% of COVID variants in U.S. – CDC (Reuters)

Zero Covid has radicalised Shanghai

FDA Advisory Panel Recommends Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine for Emergency Use

IRS Warns American Taxpayers to Remain Vigilant to Ongoing COVID-19 Fraud

More States Report Monkeypox Cases as CDC Raises Alert

CDC Changes Monkeypox Mask Recommendation Amid Criticism

Probe Reveals Top People With the NIH Getting Big Bucks From Secret Royalty Checks

Mask Rules Relaxed in England’s Health Care Settings

Masking Will No Longer Be Mandatory on Public Transit in Quebec Starting June 18

‘Mountain’ of Long-Lasting Harm From COVID Policies vs. ‘Mole Heap’ of Benefit: Economics Professor

The Other McCain is on the case.

Look, we don’t expect expert marksmanship from gang-bangers gunning it out on the streets of Philly, but oh, what any opportunity they missed!

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During Tuesday evening’s CNN Tonight, facts inadvertently slipped through during a panel discussion on Hollywood actor Matthew McConaughey’s pleas for gun control at the White House earlier in the day, when liberal panelists and The Dispatch editor-in-chief Jonah Goldberg correctly noted children statistically have a much higher chance of dying in a car accident on the way to school than at school.

“If we’re going to start telling people that they should be scared about what is going to happen to them, we should at least put this in perspective. There are about 54 million kids in American schools who go to K through 12 in America. In the last 29 years, 170 kids have been killed in school shootings,” Goldberg accurately noted before getting shouted down by his fellow panelists.

Well, no homeschooled kid has ever been the victim of a mass shooting. Just sayin’.

13 California counties enter CDC’s ‘high’ transmission COVID category Be sure to PANIC!

14,000 new COVID cases push LA County over 3 million infections during pandemic (L.A. Daily News)

New COVID-19 omicron variants show up in Travis County as cases rise (Austin American Statesman) Looks like the proglodytes in the People’s Republic of Austin haven’t been wearing their Magic Masks.

Idaho COVID-19 update: Omicron BA.2 spreading in community (Idaho News)

Monkeypox FAQ: Where Did It Come From? How Is It Transmitted? What Are the Symptoms? (SciTechDaily) Is it time to PANIC?

California Man to Plead Guilty for Stealing Over $5 Million in COVID Loans

Shanghai Hospitals Became Death Clinics for Critical Patients During Extreme Lockdowns: Victim’s Husband

CDC Raises Monkeypox Alert, Recommends Masks During Travel, Then Removes Advice

Pfizer, Moderna, J&J Vaccines Should Be ‘Immediately Pulled Off the Market’—Dr. Peter McCullough and John Leake

Monkeypox Mania

Deadly Prion Brain Diseases & COVID Vaccines: Study Finds Plausible Link

Newly Released Emails Reveal Crucial Details of Fauci’s Efforts to Cover Up the Origins of the Pandemic

The Corruption of the World Health Organization

Biggest Long COVID Study Finds Vaccination Only Decreases Risk by 15 Percent

As White House Continues To Push Jabs For Kids, FL Surgeon General Questions Safety

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Nina Burleigh of Business Insider who is best known to the world for having “Offered Oral Sex to Bill Clinton to Keep Abortion Legal” found a new mission in life. This time it was focused away from presidential candle sticks to presidential stickers. Specifically, the highly popular “I Did That!” Joe Biden stickers that have appeared pointing at rising prices of gasoline on station pumps during the past year.

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Her meme hunt for the heinous creator was inspired by Burleigh’s extreme rage at many for blaming poor Joe Biden for the rise in gasoline prices in particular and for inflation in general.

Perhaps she will have a stroke and die. That would be … appropriate.

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The front page of Monday’s New York Times acknowledged the obvious: The crime issue is hurting Democrats badly on the ground: “Debate on Crime Splits San Francisco Democrats.” The report from Tim Arango and Thomas Fuller spotlighted San Francisco’s controversial District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who may prove too far left for…San Francisco?

Boudin’s has impeccable leftist family ties. His parents, Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, were Weather Underground members, convicted of murder for driving the getaway car in the Brink’s armed car robbery in 1981 in which two police officers and a security guard were killed. He was then raised by Weather Underground member and future Obama comrade Bill Ayers.

Bill Gates responds to Musk, claiming he does much more to fight climate change

Bonn climate conference: Ukraine war no excuse for prolonging coal, Kerry warns (BBC)

Blockchain company buys $1M in carbon credits generated by Issaquah forest, the biggest such deal in U.S. history (Seattle Times)

How America’s Recycling Program Failed—and Scarred the Environment (Foundation for Economic Education)

Pakistan’s tourism industry rocked by climate change (Al-Jezeera)

Axios Climate Truths: Climate hits home

New York Times Op-Ed Applauds Inflation As Means To Enforce Green Diet

I Rented an Electric Car for 4 Days and Spent More Time Charging Than Sleeping

Bill Gates to Elon Musk: My Climate Virtue is Bigger than Your Climate Virtue?

Brevard County now a community of high COVID transmission; cases and hospitalizations are up (Florida Today)

CDC director spoke with several union leaders before tightening masking guidance, internal calendar reveals

DC Health confirms the District’s first Orthopox case; CDC tests to see if it’s monkeypox (ABC)

A more traditional coronavirus shot is on the way. Some people can’t wait. (Washington Post) Yeah, maybe this one will actually work.

Very critical: WHO lists 5 preventive measures to stop human-to-human monkeypox transmission

Regime Threatens Death Penalty for COVID-19 Infected Who Cross Into China

The War Against the Unvaxxed Will Not Be Forgotten

Doctors Suing Food and Drug Administration Over Ivermectin

How to force Big Oil to pay for carbon cleanup (S.F. Chronicle)

Kirk’s Insights on Climate Risk (EconLog)

San Francisco’s “managed retreat” from rising sea levels (Axios) Let me know when real estate prices in Malibu start dropping.

Endangered Anegada rock iguanas are being eaten like popcorn by cats (Washington Post)

COP26: Are nations on track to meet their climate goals? (BBC)

Climate is a local issue now (Axi0s)

California court rules a bumblebee is a fish under environmental law

Can floating cities help coastal communities threatened by rising sea levels? (EuroNews)

Hydrogen cars are not more eco-friendly than gas-powered cars. Here’s what to know (Interesting Engineering)

Eli Roth, Fran Drescher and More Urge Hollywood to Prioritize Environmental Issues at Hollywood Reporter/EMA Sustainability Event

Drought-stricken US warned of looming ‘dead pool’ (BBC)

Sorry, natural gas pipelines aren’t temporary: We must pivot decisively now to save the planet (N.Y. Daily News)

The net-zero Dark Ages: Democrats’ war on the poor (The Hill)

Claim: Climate Change is Making US Classrooms Too Hot

Climate change is harder on less educated people (The Economist)

Climate Nuttiness: IPCC Scientist Peter Kalmus Unglued (‘Scientist Rebellion’ a dud)

Anti-Green Blowback: ESG Funds Suffer Biggest Monthly Outflows On Record

CDC Confirms Case Of Monkeypox In Philadelphia, First In Pennsylvania (CBS)

COVID-19 was deadly to working-class Americans in 2020, researcher says (Seattle Times)

The CDC is sending monkeypox vaccines to people at high risk in a race to prevent the spread (CNBC)

There May Be 2 Distinct Strains Of Monkeypox Circulating In The U.S. (CNBC)

Special Olympics reverses vaccine requirement after Florida threatens $27.5M fine (Politico)

California County Reinstates Indoor COVID-19 Mask Mandate  Scott Adams bitched mightily about his county being the only one in the country to reinstate a mask mandate.

Dutch Airline Pilots Association blocks mandated vaccinations for new pilots

CDC Sending Vaccines to People Suspected of Monkeypox Exposure

Despite Setback, UN Push for More Power Marches On

The Guardian.

Let’s see:

• Reference to Ukraine? Check.
• Reference to ‘climate crisis’? Check.
• Buzz-phrase ‘wakeup call’? Check.
• Suggestion that one instance means a trend? Check.
• Start with a cozy story rather than getting to the point? Check.
• Buzz-phrase ‘sustainable’? Check.
• Creating a new hip-and-trendy term (‘regenerative’) for farming techniques that are centuries old? Check.
• Assumption that farming needs a government ‘scheme’? Check.
• Spouse has a professional outside job that no doubt brings in serious money? Check.
• Fruits and veg good, meat bad? Check.
• Buzz-phrase ‘climate-friendly’? Check.
• Buzz-phrase ‘carbon negative’? Check.

This is one criticism of regenerative farming, which O’Connell concedes: on farms where fields are left empty for perhaps one year in three, the yield is lower than those farmed in more industrial ways with crops fed by synthetic fertilisers. If all food was produced in this way, critics say, people could go hungry.

No shit, Sherlock. One-field-in-three-fallow is how they did it during the Middle Ages. Nothing new about it. The reason people adopted ‘more industrial ways’ was to grow more food and feed more people.

Veterans Affairs Denies Life-Saving Lung Transplant to Unvaccinated Veteran

Scott Alexander’s correction on ivermectin and its meaning for the rationalists

Peer-Reviewed Studies Confirm Vaccine/Mask Mandates Did Not Stop COVID Spread In Schools & Universities

Probable case of monkeypox found in San Francisco resident (S.F. Chronicle)

Welcome to the Great Reinfection (Wired)

COVID in California: Highly contagious omicron subvariants spreading fast in this Northern California county (S.F. Chronicle)

Here’s what each Bay Area county said about the possible return of mask mandates (S.F. Chronicle)

Over 550 Monkeypox Cases Reported as Virus Spreads Undetected (NewsMax)

Number of Mass. counties with high COVID levels has dropped to 5, per CDC (Boston Globe)

Pfizer’s Paxlovid reduces COVID risk in seniors regardless of vaccine status -study (Reuters)

More cases of monkeypox expected as CDC warns of community spread (Politico)

Tory MP Who Won’t Disclose Vaccine Status Asked to Leave House of Commons Precinct

Will FDA Allow Pfizer, Moderna to Skip Clinical Trials for Future COVID Vaccines?

Retired Lawyer Claims Rolled out COVID Jabs Differ From Those Trialed Before Authorization

Within 24 Hours of Reopening, Some Shanghai Neighborhoods Shut Down Due to New COVID Cases

Global heating is turning white Alps green, study finds (The Guardian)

Los Angeles’ climate future hangs in the balance as city votes for new mayor (The Guardian)

‘This is our heritage’: Woman saves graves from rising sea levels (CNN)

Record Methane Spike Boosts Heat Trapped by Greenhouse Gases (‘Scientific’ American)

Greenhouse Gases Are Now Trapping Nearly 50% More Heat Than 30 Years Ago (The Weather Network)

Equilibrium/Sustainability — Climate change’s next victim: Pizza sauce (The Hill)

The energy in nuclear waste could power the U.S. for 100 years, but the technology was never commercialized (CNBC)

Toyota’s prototype ‘cartridge’ is a way to make hydrogen portable (Engadget)

The last hunt? Future in peril for ‘the unicorn of the sea’ (The Guardian)

As natural gas expands in Gulf, residents fear rising damage

Melting Glacier Exposes Ichthyosaur Fossils (NASA)

Climate change is harder on less educated people (The Economist)

White House prepares policy to fight Bitcoin mining environmental impact (Finbold) Statists have to have a policy for everything.

Outbreaks of diseases such as monkeypox becoming more frequent, warns WHO (Reuters) SO GIVE US MORE MONEY AND POWER.

Silent spread of monkeypox may be a wakeup call for the world (CNN) Silent?

Companies pull out of drilling leases at Arctic Wildlife Refuge (The Hill)

Once eager to drill, oil companies exit leases in Arctic refuge (Washington Post)

California Gears Up for a New Composting Law to Cut Methane Emissions and Enrich Soil (Inside Climate News)

Claim: Climate Change Driving Snow Cover Loss and Increased “Greening” in the European Alps

New Hampshire Residents File Suit Against Wind Farm Regulatory Agency

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She must be in a different room than everybody else. (I can believe it.)

Someone needs tell TBS’s Samantha Bee that simply making sexual references is not funny or edgy, because that is what the Full Frontal host did on Thursday as part of a bitter rant where she told believers in gun rights to “read the room, freaks” after the mass shooting in Uvalde.

Bee seemed confused by the fact that the NRA does not blame itself or inanimate objects for the shooting, “If you thought the unspeakable horror of last week might have convinced the NRA to cancel its annual circle jerk of a gun convention in [beep] Texas no less, you’d be wrong.”

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Corona is so 2021. Monkeypox is where it’s at!

‘Groundbreaking’: Feds tap Rachel Levine for new environmental justice office (KOMO News)

New report finds S.F.’s biggest development project ignores huge climate change risk: rising contamination (S.F. Chronicle)

Extinction obituary: how the Bramble Cay melomys became the first mammal lost to the climate crisis (The Guardian)

For 50 years, governments have failed to act on climate change. No more excuses (The Guardian)

Greenhouse gas removal ‘not a silver bullet to achieve net zero’ (The Guardian)

Biden’s Navy Secretary: The Existential Threat Is Climate Change

Claim: Skyrocketing Gasoline Price Inflation is Michael Mann’s Fault

Hard to Have Rational Debate Around Feasibility of Climate Change Action: Dutton

3 New Studies Show Atlantic Tipping Point Unrealistic…”Muted Response”…”Changes To Be Viewed With Caution”

New variants are poised to keep Covid-19 circulating at high levels throughout the summer (CNN)

Mayor Adams’ administration sets strict return-to-office policy for NYC workers: ‘Hybrid schedules of any kind are not permitted’ (N.Y. Daily News)

Monkeypox continues to puzzle scientists as it spreads to more countries

Monkeypox is not Covid. Here’s why (CNN)

Omicron is outrunning the vaccines designed to fight it (Axios)

ERs reach record capacity as hospitals are inundated with patients (Boston Globe)

WHO describes what we know about Monkeypox virus transmission (CNN)

WHO says COVID in N.Korea likely ‘getting worse, not better’ (Reuters)

AstraZeneca + Pfizer Vaccines = Better Omicron Immunity (Washington Post)

How Long Do COVID Symptoms Last? Here’s What We Know So Far (NBC Chicago)

The Dying of the Young

Where Has Monkeypox Spread To?

Lawsuit Seeks Damages Over 100,000 COVID-19 Tests Imported From China

Pfizer Asks FDA to Authorize 3 COVID-19 Vaccine Doses for Children Under 5

Shanghai’s Local Authorities Hesitate to Lift Lockdowns as Ordered, Concerned Over Blame for Inevitable Next Outbreak

WHO Says Monkeypox May Have Been Spreading Undetected

Pfizer COVID-19 Pill Does Not Provide Significant Benefit in Patients Under 65: Study

New Institutes of Health Study Suggests ‘Long Covid’ May Not Exist

The Truth About Vaccine-induced Myocarditis: Part 2

Watch: Fauci Admits Biden Mask Mandate Is About Preserving “Authority”

Energy experts sound alarm about US electric grid: ‘Not designed to withstand the impacts of climate change’ (CNN)

Spiking temperatures could cause more blackouts this summer. They won’t be the last. (Politico)

US summer fuel shortages could be worse than 1970s oil crisis: IEA chief

Historic site in Virginia threatened by rising sea levels (CBS)

Climate activists frustrated as another deadline passes without spending deal (The Hill)

Five things to watch for in next year’s ‘climate’ Farm Bill (The Hill)

Can Africa grow without fossil fuels? (Financial Times) Nobody in the Davos crowd cares.

The Changing Seas of the Florida Keys (NASA) NASA pushes the Narrative.

Japan’s giant deep ocean turbine trial offers hope of endless green power (Business Standard)

Tobacco industry causing huge environmental damage, WHO warns (Al Jezeera)

We cannot adapt our way out of climate crisis, warns leading scientist (The Guardian) Leading where?

How extreme weather could cause the US power grid to buckle (CNN)

Weaning Ourselves off Fossil Fuels Is Going to Hurt (Mother Jones)

Thousands of oil and gas assets are at risk of becoming stranded—and you might own them (Fast Company)

Did Joe Manchin block climate action to benefit his financial interests? (The Guardian) No, but they want to suggest that he did without actually saying anything that will get them sued.

Linking nitrous oxide to climate risk is yet another example of the disdain shown to women’s pain (The Guardian) Whose turn is it to be the victim?

Surprise: Queensland’s Green Left Government is On Track to MISS Their Climate Targets

Fusion won’t avert need for climate change ‘sacrifice’, says nuclear energy expert

New Study: The 2016-2020 Antarctic Sea Ice Decline May Be Traced To Natural Processes

Lasers could cut lifespan of nuclear waste from “a million years to 30 minutes,” says Nobel laureate

Gee Whiz! Residents Do Not Like Wind Turbines

Another Nuclear Plant Closes: Get Ready For Electricity Shortages

WHO can’t rule out monkeypox pandemic risk, says there’s a window of opportunity to stop outbreak (CNBC) Just as long as we PANIC!

Monkeypox: CDC upgrades travel alert due to spike in global cases

CDC Raises Travel Alert for Monkeypox

Biden Admin Worked ‘Under the Radar’ to Give WHO More Power: Liberty Counsel’s Senior Attorney

Bill Gates Predicts ‘Next Pandemic’ Will Be Caused by Climate Change, Proposes WHO Expansion

Nigeria CDC Has Confirmed 21 Monkeypox Cases This Year

71 More Monkeypox Cases Detected in England, Bringing UK Total to 179

May the Force Be With Them: Scientists Fight Back

I spent over 2 years writing about COVID — and avoiding it. Here’s how omicron finally got me (S.F. Chronicle)

COVID in California: Real-world Paxlovid study finds strong protection against death (S.F. Chronicle)

Monkeypox presents moderate risk to public health, WHO says (Reuters) Ramping up for the next PANIC!

Monkeypox outbreak reaches 257 confirmed cases worldwide, WHO says (CNN)

CDC: Boulder and Jackson counties showing high rates of COVID transmission

CDC releases vaccine recommendations as monkeypox spreads (Denver 7) Time to ramp up the PANIC!

Covid was vanishing last Memorial Day. Cases are five times higher now. (Washington Post)

If You Think It’s Allergies, It’s Probably COVID, Top Doc Says (NBC Chicago)

Chinese Media and Influencers Blame US for Spread of Monkeypox

Shanghai lockdowns to end, perhaps easing tech supply chain woes

We’re Still Waiting for a Great Post-COVID Pandemic Novel  Well, some of us are.

We Got Covid Shots in One Year. Why Did a Malaria Vaccine Take 35?

A mechanism by which facemasks contribute to the Covid-19 case fatality rate

Watch: Climate Activist Smashes Cake Into Mona Lisa At Louvre

Tianjin University Students Rally to Protest Covid Lockdown, Chanting ‘Down With Bureaucracy’

The Monkey Business Behind Monkeypox Propaganda

WHO Says Monkeypox Epidemic ‘Evolving Rapidly’ as More Cases Reported

Extreme Pandemic Measures Prompt More Chinese to Quit the Communist Party

Dr. Perro to Fellow Pediatricians: ‘Rise Up, Take a Stance’ Against COVID Vaccines for Kids

Another monster hurricane season looms as we dawdle on climate change (The Guardian)

The hamburger is an American staple: Climate change threatens it in profound and subtle ways (The Hill)

Another nuclear plant closes: Get ready for electricity shortages (The Hill)

Fossil Fuels Are a Threat to National Security (The Nation)

Inside a Dem Senator’s Plan to Install His Son in Congress

Big money, nuclear subsidies, and systemic corruption

This Startup Wants You to Eat Ground-Up Chicken Bones

New Findings Show Gulf Stream “Has Strengthened” Over Past Century…”Heat Transport Has Increased 30%”!

Bugs are evolving to eat plastic, study finds

Claim: Sheep Produce Better Fleece When Grazed Under Solar Panels

Fjords Emit as much Methane as All the Deep Oceans Globally  All that pining….

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Anonymous activists seem to be surfacing in news reports with ever-greater frequencies. Activists are involved in a wide array of issues, but having just written about the widespread adoption of ESG scores, I am struck by the repeated references to activists who are promoting ESG.

For example, The Wall Street Journal recently reported, “BlackRock’s offices around the world have been frequented by activists who blast the firm for being slow to act on green issues.”

BlackRock—the world’s largest asset manager overseeing some $7 trillion—is one of numerous large companies to have openly adopted the ESG paradigm after being pressured by activists. Who are these activists? How do they manage to be so persuasive? What makes them voices to be heeded?

Should I Be Worried About Monkeypox?

The Monkeypox Frontlash: “As Monkeypox Cases Grow, So Do Fears of a Return of Gay Blame and Stigma”

California Poised To Adopt ‘Medical Misinformation Bill’ Targeting Alternative COVID-19 Protocols

Localities in the Roanoke Valley considered high COVID-19 transmission areas by CDC (WSLS)

Monkeypox Cases Spread “Tip Of The Iceberg,” Says WHO: 10 Points (NDTV) Get ready for the next PANIC!

Nearly 200 Cases Of Monkeypox Have Been Found In More Than 20 Countries (Huffington Post)

Pfizer and Moderna rapidly falling out of favor as Americans’ favorite brands: report Gee, I wonder why.

Monkeypox outbreak could be just ‘the peak of the iceberg’, WHO warns (The Guardian) Get ready for the next PANIC!

Ireland Confirms 1st Monkeypox Case

CDC Raises Travel Alert for Monkeypox  Ramping up to the new PANIC!

WHO Pandemic Treaty Will Effectively Take Away Countries’ Sovereignty: Former WHO Official  Davos gonna getcha!

Study Finds COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Had Damaging Political, Legal, Socioeconomic Effects  Do tell.

After Summer, Europe to Target the Unvaccinated

WHO Politics Are Putting the World at Risk: Urgent Reform Is Needed  Don’t hold your breath.

Covid and Punishment

GOP Must Hold ‘Radical’ Health Officials Like Fauci ‘Accountable’: Republican Study Committee

What Weapons Are Banned Or Restricted In War?  And what are the chances that an autocratic state like Russia or China (much less Islamic jihadists) will pay any attention?

Rethinking air conditioning amid climate change (Ars Technica)

Young L.A. Latina wins prestigious environmental prize (NBC) For which her ethnicity is apparently her chief qualification.

Study warns nearly half of fossil fuel sites need to be shut down to avoid climate disaster (Interesting Engineering)

Carbon-Removal Tech Grabs Elon Musk’s Check (IEEE Spectrum)

Scientists Say Tundra Could Be Lost in 30 Years as Trees Take Over (Newsweek) They say that like it was a bad thing.

Can cross-breeding protect endangered species from the climate emergency? (The Guardian)

They once worked for big oil’s enablers. Now they refuse to be complicit (The Guardian)

Climate pressure from employees, shareholders rattles Big Oil (Washington Pots) Not to mention the government, academia, and the Narrative Media.

G7 countries say strict environmental rules needed for deep-sea mining (Reuters)

Swiss Daily: Wind Park Destruction Of 1000-Year Old Untouched German Forest Exposes “Absurdity of Green Energies”

New York Times Upset as GOP ‘Punishes’ Woke Corporations, Financiers for ‘Climate Action’

Davos Reveals Building-Blocks For “Green” Social-Credit System

We finally know why sunscreen kills coral reefs

Alberta Court’s Overturning of Liberals’ Environmental Impact Law Marks ‘Principled Approach’ to Federalism: Law Prof

Polar Bear Habitat in Canada Over the Last Decade: Spring Sea Ice Not in a Death Spiral

Hydrogen may be a climate solution. There’s debate over how clean it will truly be (NPR)

Amazon Shareholders Reject Environmental Resolutions on Plastic Packaging, Climate Crisis (EcoWatch) Looking for gullible? Look elsewhere.

Key nations agree to halt funding for new fossil fuel projects (Washington Post)

G7 commits to decarbonizing electricity by 2035 but leaves wiggle room for fossil fuels (CNN)

Scientists Took Hummingbirds Up a Mountain to See What Climate Change Would Do to Them (ScienceAlert)

Scientists Moved Hummingbirds to High Elevations to See How Climate Change Might Affect Them (Smithsonian Magazine)

UK tax plan incentivizes oil, gas producers to pump more fossil fuels (Reuters)

California’s plan to avoid blackouts relies on fossil fuels as last resort

One of UK’s rarest corals set to expand its range as climate change warms seas (The Guardian)

‘Flash Droughts’ Are the Midwest’s Next Big Climate Threat (Wired ‘Science’)

Eco-Anxiety and Medically Assisted Suicide: Man Seeks Death Due to Anxiety Over Climate Change  I’m willing to accept his absence from the gene pool.

A massive kite is now generating carbon-free electricity

We almost built 8 gigawatt-class floating nuclear power plants

California and New Zealand Pledge to Fight Climate Change Together

Why haven’t plastic-eating bacteria fixed the plastic problem yet?

The Economic Cost of Eliminating Fossil Fuels

“The Takeout”: For the first time during the pandemic, I tested positive for COVID-19. So, Dr. Fauci and I had a chat (CBS) The Emperor’s New Vaccine.

Scientists Research People Who Have Never Been Infected By COVID-19 (NBC)

WHO: Nearly 200 cases of monkeypox in more than 20 countries (Associated Press) Then I guess it’s time for another PANIC!

How to protect yourself against monkeypox and what to do if you catch it (CNBC) The first thing you need to do is PANIC!

India wants to be the ‘pharmacy of the world.’ But first, it must wean itself from China (CNBC)

This photo of a professor wearing a mask went viral. So did his response to critics (NPR)

Dominant coronavirus mutant contains ghost of pandemic past (Associated Press)

Menstrual Irregularities, Uterus Shedding Cases Spike After COVID Vaccine Rollout: Peer-Reviewed Study

WHO Asks Countries to Increase Surveillance for Monkeypox  We need to prep the new PANIC!

Over 10,000 COVID-19 Claims Removed From VAERS, 500 Death Reports Deleted, Claims Data Analyst  But we still need to PANIC!

British 26 Year-Old Died From COVID Jab Complications Following Out-of-Date Advice

Monkeypox outbreaks: 4 key questions researchers have

No Relationship Between School Masking and COVID-19 Cases: Study  Masks are virtue-sigaling, pure and simple.

WHO Using Monkeypox to Justify ‘Human Rights Violations’ With Experimental Vaccines: World Council for Health

Latest US Data Shows Vaccine Injuries Skyrocketed; How Will We Recover?

CDC identifies 9 monkeypox cases in 7 states (CNN) Time to PANIC!

Nine monkeypox cases identified in U.S.: What we know about each of them (NBC)

Understanding Long COVID: Study Finds Biological Difference In People With Prolonged Infection

A WHO pandemic pact would leave the world at China’s mercy  Matt Ridley.

FDA Approves First COVID Treatment for Young Children Despite Alarming Risks

Obamacare ‘Double Whammy’ to Hit Right Before Midterms

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A Los Angeles Times columnist expected the Texas elementary school shooter to be a “white supremacist” and was disappointed to learn he was a Latino.

“When I heard that a gunman had killed multiple schoolchildren in a predominantly Latino town in Texas, I immediately thought: white supremacist,” Gustavo Arellano wrote in a Wednesday column. “How could I not?”

Arellano said his “stomach dropped” when he learned the mass shooting was in fact carried out by an 18-year-old Latino named Salvador Rolando Ramos. In an attempt to explain why a “Latino-on-Latino mass school shooting” would take place, Arellano blamed the tragedy on Ramos’s assimilation into American culture.

Pfizer warns of ‘constant waves’ of Covid as complacency grows (Financial Times)

‘Everybody and their grandmother has COVID’ in the SF Bay Area (S.F. Gate)

With California hit by new coronavirus wave, time to start wearing masks? Limit gatherings? (L.A. Times)

The NHS Just Edited Their Monkeypox Page… To Make It Scarier

Sweden Recommends 5th Dose of COVID-19 Vaccine to Pregnant Women and Over-65s

Monkyepox-Mania

Is This the Worst Excuse for Vaccine Failure Yet?

California Poised to Adopt ‘Medical Misinformation Bill’ Targeting Alternative COVID-19 Protocols

Quebec to Start Monkeypox Vaccination of Contacts as Officials Confirm 25 Cases

Climate Change Reveals Unique Artefacts in Melting Ice Patches

Seven White House climate staffers to watch (Washington Post)

‘Go after the money’: Goldman environmental prize winner honoured for urging banks to divest from coal (The Guardian) Parrot the Narrative! Win valuable prizes!

Here’s where Big Oil stands on climate plans – and it’s not good (Electrek)

Big Oil, flush with cash, is failing on climate pledges (CNN)

Consumers Face Summer Of Hell As Power Bill Costs Set To Jump 

The Green Agenda’s Role in Global Inflation

Eat the Bugs Peasant

UK Imposes Windfall Tax on Energy Firms to Fund £15 Billion Relief Package for Households

Aviation giant KLM to face legal action in first major challenge to airline industry ‘greenwashing’ (CNBC)

Climate worries galvanize a new pro-nuclear movement in the U.S. (Washington Post)

Climate worries galvanize a new pro-nuclear movement in the U.S. (Anchorage Daily News)

Do not work for ‘climate wreckers’, UN head tells graduates (The Guardian)

Tracking the Demise of a Giant Antarctic Iceberg (NASA)

Greenhouse gas pollution trapping almost 50 percent more heat than 30 years ago

Exxon must go to trial over alleged climate crimes, court rules (The Guardian)

The world, with or without us: Increasing gas and oil production is a disastrously bad idea (Salon)

Tree planting ‘must triple to hit environment aims’ (BBC)

Let’s Sue Big Polluters Under Oklahoma’s Wacko Abortion Law (Daily Beast)

The US has spent more than $2B on a plan to save salmon. The fish are vanishing anyway. (Oregon Public Broadcasting)

The Big 5 Natural Causes of Climate Change: part 4 Landscape Changes

One Billion People At Risk Of Power Blackouts As Global Grids Stretched 

Scientists Develop Method for Seasonal Prediction of Wildfires in the US West

CDC adds five new destinations to ‘high’ risk category for travel, including the Bahamas (CNN)

Meet the new subvariants, your summer bummers (Vox)

CDC: New Omicron Subvariant Takes Over as Dominant Coronavirus Strain

Everything CDC wants you to know about monkeypox and the current risk level (Ars Technica) God forbid you should wander outside of the official Narrative.

As reports of ‘Paxlovid rebound’ increase, Covid researchers scramble for answers

People who rebound with COVID-19 after Paxlovid may be highly contagious, new studies suggest

Moderna testing potential monkeypox vaccines

As monkeypox panic spreads, doctors in Africa see a double standard (Washington Post)

What COVID Hath Wrought

G.K. Chesterton and the pandemic

Moderna CEO Laments ‘Throwing 30 Million Doses In The Garbage Because Nobody Wants Them’ “The issue in many countries is that people don’t want vaccines.”  Nobody wants to spend money on something that demonstrably doesn’t work.

A New WHO COVID Report Once Again Proves Sweden Right

Why is climate ‘doomism’ going viral – and who’s fighting it? (BBC) Every ‘ism’ has somebody fighting it, apparently.

An oil industry consultant explains why she’s had enough (Vox)

Shell consultant quits, says company causes ‘extreme harm’ to planet (Politico)

Five Major Challenges Facing The Energy Industry

Claim: “Climate Doomism” Sweeping the Climate Activist Community

Navy brass put forward climate plan, citing threats to Parris Island, San Diego bases

Davos Oligarch Pitches “Individual Carbon Footprint” Tracker

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

In 1930 William Empson elaborated Seven Types of Ambiguity for the literary crowd. The Biden administration is adapting the concept to give us Seven Types of Confusion. We can itemize the confusion that derives from gratuitous fabrication. We also have the confusion related to the persistent assertion of the thing which is not so, as Swift puts it in Book IV of Gulliver’s Travels. We continue with the confusion that descends with advanced age.

President Biden has rendered the official American policy of strategic ambiguity regarding Taiwan into another type of confusion. Following up on the confusion we documented in “Walk right back” yesterday morning, Biden reiterated our continuing commitment to the official policy even though he himself had contradicted it in his Tokyo press conference. The White House has posted the transcript here. Unlike Professor Empson, he could not explain — deepening the confusion.

HSBC suspends banker over climate change comments (Financial Times)

Billie Eilish, Shawn Mendes, Coldplay & More Sign Global Citizen Letter Urging Action Against Poverty & Climate Change (Billboard) Signal that virtue! Signal that virtue!

Claim: How a Cognitive Bias is Blocking the Rise of Electric Cars

Climate Risk and Wall Street Meet Cancel Culture

HSBC Suspends Head Of Responsible Investing Over ‘Nut Job’ Climate-Alarmist Comments 

Finland’s Green Party endorses nuclear power

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During the 2016 Democratic primary Hillary Clinton began to enthusiastically deploy identitarian arguments against Bernie Sanders. Her media surrogates derided his supporters as straight white “brocialists”. Bernie Bros were guilty of “mansplaining” anti-capitalism to the nation’s minorities and aspiring young girlbosses. “If we broke up the big banks tomorrow, would that end racism?”, Clinton asked on the stump.

In turn, Bernie supporters came to regard identity politics as a tool wielded by Democratic elites to deflect from their critiques of American capitalism and empire. One often heard variations of the joke that what the DNC really wanted was Cruise missiles painted with rainbow flags. Years later, that joke was made grimly literal in the viral “woke CIA” ad, in which an agency analyst announced “I am a woman of colour, I am a mom, I am a cisgender millennial who has been diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder”. By that point, the only people around to laugh at it were conservatives and various marginal Twitter anons.

What We Learned From Hating the Unvaccinated

Do not assume you will contract COVID-19, says Ben Weston as Milwaukee County moves to the ‘high’ transmission category

Independent group of scientists recommend Pfizer booster for children 5-11

CDC: 18 Wisconsin counties have high COVID-19 levels

WHO calls emergency meeting as monkeypox cases top 100 in Europe (Reuters) Another panic coming our way?

Two weeks, one map, two COVID landscapes: Where Pa. and N.J. stand (Philadelphia Inquirer)

COVID transmission risk rises to ‘high’ in Peoria and Tazewell counties, according to CDC (Peoria Journal Star)

Eight Illinois counties hit high risk level for COVID-19 — and Cook County’s not far behind (Chicago Sun Times) Funny how it’s only Blue states having Covid problems.

The FDA’s War on Children

Belgium Begins Monkeypox Quarantines, Biden Warns “Everybody Should Be Concerned”

Will new vaccines be better at fighting coronavirus variants?

Extreme weather plagues U.S., from Colorado snowstorm to East Coast heat (Axios)

6 books about the climate crisis that offer hope (The Conversation)

The quiet of a country walk is nature’s silent scream (The Hill)

World’s First Ocean-Assisted Carbon Removal Plant Launched in Hawaii

UN chief says Ukraine a ‘wake-up call’ to ditch fossil fuels as WMO releases damning climate report (CNN)

Environmental groups look to halt Tesla’s battery plant permits at Gigafactory Texas

FERC to monitor gas, power markets for manipulation as forward summer electricity prices jump up to 233%

Decarbonizing diesel trucks may be next step in clean energy goals

More than $1bn of Coalition’s climate funding could go to fossil fuel projects, analysis finds  (The Guardian)

Study Identifies Outdoor Air Pollution as the ‘Largest Existential Threat to Human and Planetary Health’ (Inside Climate News)

Low-cost, battery-like device absorbs CO2 emissions while it charges

Amazon’s Mega-Yacht Owner Funds $10 Billion “Great Reset” to Save Planet

Climate Change at Bottom Of List Of Worries For German Households, Comprehensive 8-Year Survey Shows

Weather-Dependent Power Generation

Millions of electric cars are coming. What happens to all the dead batteries?

Australia Has Finally Caught the ‘Net Zero’ Bus

“Who Cares If Miami Is Underwater In 100 Years” – HSBC Global AM Head Slams “Nut Job” Climate-Alarmists

Bill Gates explains what you can do now to fight climate change (CNBC)

Climate change is leading to loss of sleep worldwide: study (The Hill)

Climate Change Is Turning Us Into Sleep-Deprived Zombies (Daily Beast) Only the prog worry-warts, and that’s not a bad thing.

Electricity operators must wake up to climate change — or brace for summer outages (The Hill)

In the Philippines, a Landmark Finding Moves Fossil Fuel Companies’ Climate Liability into the Realm of Human Rights (Inside Climate News)

H&M-backed project pilots CO2-capturing aprons at Stockholm restaurant (Reuters) Perhaps I ought to have a section entitled Today In Virtue-Signaling Gimmickry.

Why tech giants’ cash is a hidden source of greenhouse gas emissions (The Verge)

Claim: Climate Change Likely to Reduce the Amount of Sleep That People Get Per Year  Indeed, it’s hard to sleep with all that whining.

Go Organic, And Starve!

Let Them Eat Bugs… How Out-Of-Touch Elites Reveal Their Contempt, & What Comes Next

HSBC Senior Banker Spanked After Dissing the Climate Crisis

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The Times is just once instance of the vicious cycle in news media. Radical technological changes have disrupted traditional funding models, making traditional types of reporting too unprofitable to sustain. Newsroom staffing has been slashed by one-quarter since 2008, with those left standing horrified they’ll be next.

This creates newsrooms full of anxiety, with many reporters trying to leverage sensationalism on social media. While reporters 20 years ago might have tried to bury – or at least hide – the biases that informed their reporting, now they brag about those biases on Twitter in the purity-spiral battle to prove who’s the wokest.

Blackouts… Because Climate Change! Blame Natural Gas!

Blackouts possible this summer due to heat and extreme weather, officials warn (CNN)

Environmental toxins are worsening obesity pandemic, say scientists (The Guardian) Plus, you know, people keep eating too much.

First on CNN: DOE announces multibillion-dollar project to kickstart a carbon dioxide removal industry in US (CNN)

Earth’s oceans have reached the hottest and most acidic levels on record, UN says (CNBC)

Australia’s tropical rainforests have been dying faster for decades in ‘clear and stark climate warning’ (The Guardian)

Climate change is harming a vital tool to combat it (Axios)

Climate crisis makes extreme Indian heatwaves 100 times more likely – study (The Guardian)

COVID cases rise in almost every state (Axios) Almost every Blue state, that is.

Gas industry and Coalition reach for a get-out-of-catastrophe-free card in climate crisis Monopoly (The Guardian)

Claim: Learning Your Climate Criminal Family Tree Helps with Motivation

Green War! Mike Bloomberg Announces $242 Million Bid to Shut Down Coal

Australia election: How climate is making Australia more unliveable (BBC)

Which Woke Mediocrity will Replace the Outgoing UN Climate Chief?

The Climate Death Cult

Vaccination Blues

New COVID-19 variants of concern found in Minnesota (Star Tribune)

What to do if you test positive for Covid-19 now (CNN) Be sure to PANICV!

“They Shut Us Down”: Michigan Businesses Sue Whitmer For Losses Due To COVID Lockdowns

Missouri Bill Prevents Doctors Being Disciplined If They Prescribe Ivermectin Or Hydroxychloroquine

US Confirms Monkeypox Virus In Massachusetts After UK, Spain, Portugal Cases In Men

Let’s eliminate the Covid test entry requirement for the U.S.

Déjà Vu All Over Again: CDC Wants More Masking

Public Schools Force Unvaccinated Students To Stay Home—Even If They Test Negative  Don’t send  your kid to a government school.

Massive Pandemic Unemployment Insurance Fraud Still Being Stonewalled By State Of Illinois

More Money, More Problems: Schools Struggle To Spend COVID Relief Funds

Biden administration makes 8 more free Covid tests available to US households as it calls on Congress to pass additional funding (CNN)

Free COVID at-home tests are available. Here’s how to get them (Deseret News) They are not, of course, free – they’re paid for by taxpayers (like YOU).

How big is the latest U.S. coronavirus wave? No one really knows. (Washington Post)

The new, highly transmissible Omicron variant, BA.2.12.1, is dominating in Massachusetts. Now what? (Boston Globe) Obvious: PANIC!

8 Things New COVID-19 Corporate Bailout Bill Gets Wrong

Apple Machine Learning Director Who Left Over Office Return Policy Joins Google

China’s Protracted Lockdowns Cause Critical Shortages In West

China’s COVID lockdowns bite e-commerce players

The new Covid equilibrium

Key NIH Research Executive Received 70 Secret Royalty Payments; Colleague Got 7

Shut down fossil fuel production sites early to avoid climate chaos, says study (The Guardian)

Push for environmental justice in underserved communities gains traction in Arizona  Nobody knows what ‘environmental justice’ means, but it sure sounds progressive.

The Colorado River faces a climate change-driven crisis (Washington Post)

The Multistate Battle over the Colorado River

Claim: Bringing Order to The Chaos of Sea Level Projections

Crisis-Hit Sri Lanka Defaults On Debt As It Runs Out Of Fuel

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

We have reached a grim milestone in grim milestones. A Google search on the term “grim milestone” now returns more than 6,000,000 results. It is a “grim milestone” in the unstoppable progress of a brain-killing media cliché.

The “grim milestones” retailed by the media always seem to have a political twist and the political twist always seems to be detrimental to Republicans. If it can’t be given a detrimental twist detrimental to Republicans, the “grim milestone” is likely to go unrecognized if possible.

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Yet if the past two years have taught us anything, it’s that monocausal explanations are almost always misguided and, as a consequence, almost always ending up harming the vulnerable. As the Black Lives Matter movement mobilised following the murder of George Floyd, America descended into anarchy, fuelled by riots and slogans about systemic racism. When activists demanded that police departments be defunded, local stations were not exactly closed down, but they were intimidated to the point that many stopped serving in black neighbourhoods. The consequences of this swiftly became evident: in the same year that BLM fever seized the country, at least 8,600 black lives were lost to homicide, an increase of more than 1,000 on the year before. Thrown into a frenzy by their overzealous conviction that white racism is the root cause of all evil, BLM turned a blind eye to the large number of black Americans who were being killed, or who found themselves forced to live in neighbourhoods terrorised by gangs.