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As frequent viewers of Tucker Carlson Tonight on the Fox News Channel are aware, Carlson has a recurring segment where he exposes how insane NPR has gotten over the years. No longer are they simply a monotone liberal public radio station, but now simply a woke leftist outlet that sits around and rails against the United States and its founding while finding things to be offended over.

The latest installment of Carlson’s “what happened to NPR” segment came Friday night when Carlson aired soundbites of a June NPR segment claiming dinosaur emojis belong to the transgender community and if you use them that makes you transphobic.

The return of Covid fearmongering

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A Woke ‘journalist’ takes a victory lap.

Why the Omicron offshoot BA.5 is a big deal (CNN)

CBS, ABC, CNN sound the alarm on coronavirus BA.5, call for masking: ‘The worst variant is here’

Covid-19 public health emergency extended in the US (CNN)

Monkeypox cases are increasing and the U.S. doesn’t have enough vaccines to meet demand (Politico)

Court Blocks Biden Admin From Punishing Unvaccinated Air Force Members

‘Blood Washing’ Is the Latest Dubious—and Pricey—Long-Covid Trend

New COVID-19 Variant “Sensationalized” By Fauci, White House: Sen. Paul

‘King tides’ this week may foreshadow norms of the future as sea level rises (WRAL)

King tides expected to cause flooding in the Bay Area through Thursday. Here’s when and where (S.F. Chronicle)

Four companies are top sources of US greenhouse gas, methane emissions: report (The Hill) Looking for heretics and sinners.

Hilcorp Energy, Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips release the most greenhouse gasses among U.S. oil and gas companies (CNBC)

The world’s longest-lived trees couldn’t survive climate change (Washington Post)

The world’s longest-lived trees couldn’t survive climate change (Anchorage Daily News) There’s an echo in here.

California went big on rooftop solar. It created an environmental danger in the process (L.A. Times)

‘People are waking up’: fight widens to stop new North Sea fossil fuel drilling (The Guardian)

Dems sound the climate change alarm before midterms: ‘America is the biggest threat to America,’ Gutfeld says

Metropolis meltdown: the urgent steps we need to take to cool our sweltering cities (The Guardian)

Glaciers are melting faster and humans are at fault, UT scientists finally prove (KXAN)

Lake Superior average surface temperatures coldest in 25 years (WLUC)

Can a floating ‘tutu’ protect Boston’s shoreline from rising seas? (Boston Globe)

Angered by climate denial, a Times photographer embarked on a watershed journey (L.A. Times)

Children Die When ‘Eco-Lies’ Disrupt the War Against Mosquitoes

House Passes Crew Mandate Called ‘Gut Punch’ to Offshore Wind

Mother Nature Dissents  (The Atlantic) I bet you didn’t know that Gaia pushes the Narrative.

How Heat Waves Are Messing Up Your Sleep  (Wired ‘Science’)

Why the Omicron offshoot BA.5 is a big deal (CNN)

Heavily-Mutated Omicron BA.2.75 From India Found In Los Angeles County For First Time (Deadline)

Philly has started placing unvaccinated city workers on leave. Here’s how the numbers break down. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

CDC recommends masks in Clark County due to ‘high’ levels of COVID-19 (KGW)

‘Highly-transmissible’ COVID-19 variant causing reinfections across Washington (KING5)

BA.5 makes up growing portion of COVID cases in WA, state data says (Seattle Times)

Dr. Fauci explains why new BA.5 subvariant is concerning (CNN) All Fauci, all the time!

Officials urge Americans over 50 to get Covid-19 booster right away, but younger adults have to wait (CNN)

Monkeypox: Mass vaccination coming this weekend, as NYC councilmembers seek emergency session (Gothamist)

CDC raises Dallas County’s COVID-19 risk level to red (Dallas Morning News)

U.S. Public Health Agencies Aren’t ‘Following the Science,’ Officials Say

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A pro-abortion activist group is urging protesters to quit making references to The Handmaid’s Tale, arguing allusions to the book are insensitive to the oppression of minorities.

“You can’t wear people’s real oppression as a costume. Throw the red cloaks away,” REPRO Rising Virginia said Thursday. “Handmaid’s Tale references turn a blind eye to the centuries of oppression people of color, specifically Black, brown, and indigenous women, have faced regarding their reproductive rights.”

So their opposition isn’t because such cosplay is stupid–which it is–but because it’s insufficiently Woke.  So there you have it. It’s a moral imperative for ‘black, brown, and indigenous women’ to be able to kill their babies because that’s their ‘reproductive rights’. (I suppose black drive-by shootings of other black people are a matter of self-defense.)

Margaret Sanger is laughing uncontrollably (wherever she is).

Boston Globe.

In the Narrative Media, what they believe is obviously ‘public opinion’, any evidence to the contrary notwithstanding.

Is my airline or hotel greenwashing? Here’s how to tell. (Washington Post) You, too, can be a Karen.

What’s the best way to incentivize supplier sustainability? (Greenbiz)

Energy Crises In Germany and Texas Are Exposing The Folly of Renewable Energy (Newsweek)

Two glacier-collapse avalanches in a week highlight dangers of a warming climate (Anchorage Daily News)

Rising sea levels pose an existential threat to Galveston. Here’s how islanders are grappling with it. (Houston Chronicle)

The End of the Gas Range and Fireplace? Local Governments Ban Natural Gas (Daily Signal)

Claim: Republicans Need to See Evidence of Climate Change Harms

Saskatchewan, Ontario to roll out mini-nuclear reactors

Germany’s Energy Catastrophe

“Breaking Boundaries”David Attenborough Distorts the Science and Shills for “The Globalist Agenda”

Climate Mandates Imposed On Dutch Farmers Will Ruin Their Livelihoods: War Correspondent

Energy Crisis Could Force The UK To Keep Using Coal

The ‘worst variant’ is here (CNN)

Explainer: What is the COVID BA.5 variant and why is it reinfecting so many people? (Reuters)

San Francisco is ‘veering towards a public health mess’ on monkeypox, lawmaker says (S.F. Gate)

Pritzker Eliminates COVID Vaccine Requirements at Colleges, Eases Testing Rules at Hospitals (NBC Chicago)

Have new COVID variants changed what we know about surface transmission? (S.F. Chronicle)

Draft bill would ban CDC, NIH from funding lab research in China (Science)

Austin Public Health confirms local transmission of monkeypox (CBS Austin)

The Pandemic Fueled a Superbug Surge. Can Medicine Recover?

US regulators clear way for more monkeypox vaccine shipments (Associated Press) You can’t have a PANIC without enough vaccine!

New York COVID-19 Quarantine Rules Unconstitutional And Illegal: Judge

Nearly $2tn of damage inflicted on other countries by US emissions (The Guardian)

Can we fix our ocean noise problem?

Energy & Environment — Are the feds closing the door on climate action?  (The Hill)

Humans need to value nature as well as profits to survive, UN report finds (The Guardian)

More than 200 congressional staffers urge Pelosi and Schumer to act on climate or risk dooming younger generations (CNN)

Wind, Solar And Pipelines All Fail Germany

Tapping into the million-year energy source below our feet

Smart thermostat swarms are straining the US grid

Climate Change Idiots Halt Tour de France, Claim Earth Will Be Exterminated

‘Centaurus’: virologists express concern at new Covid subvariant (The Guardian)

Doctor Urges Public to Wear Face Masks as BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron Subvariants Spread (NBC Chicago)

The first case of monkeypox virus has reached Delaware. Here’s what you need to know (Delaware Online)

The BA.5 variant doesn’t care about your big back-to-office plan (S.F. Chronicle)

14 monkeypox cases reported in Dallas County, including local transmission (WFAA)

How Are COVID Symptoms Shifting With New Variants? Here’s What Chicago’s Top Doc Says (NBC Chicago)

As Sixth Covid Wave Hits, Many New Yorkers Shrug It Off (N.Y. Times)

Beijing Scraps China’s First COVID Vaccine Mandate In Just 48 Hours After Furious Social Response

We’re “Losing The Fight Against Monkeypox” …Apparently

Emails Confirm Why CDC Changed Definitions Of Vaccine, Vaccinated

Fauci Admits Vaccines Don’t Protect “Overly Well” Against COVID Infection

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We at the Washington Free Beacon love the fact-checkers. When they’re “fact-checking” us, we know we must be doing something right.

The righteousness of our reporting has pushed this genre of faux journalism to its very limits: rules bent, reasoning contorted, and the endless invention of new ways to accuse us of hurting Democrats purveying misinformation.

The latest from the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler is a master class in the left’s crusade to conflate objective truth with Democratic spin. The ostensible target of his fisking: a tweet from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) based, as he notes, on a Free Beacon report about the Biden administration’s sale of a million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China.

Yes, the Biden administration did this, Kessler concedes. Them’s the facts. But three Pinocchios for Grassley and for us, he says, for turning “simple facts” into “something nefarious.” You know, like the fact that China was also supposed to be releasing oil from its reserves in order to ease global fuel prices, according to the White House, but is instead boosting its own reserves by hoarding barrels from our stockpile.

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Who could possibly be fooled into thinking that David French is in any way, shape, or form ‘conservative’?

4 places moved to the CDC’s ‘high’ risk category for travel (CNN)

They were on a luxury cruise, then the coughing began – the ship that became a global Covid pariah (The Guardian)

What is the effectiveness of the fourth dose mRNA vaccination against the Omicron variant?  Depends on who’s talking.

COVID-19: Blood cancer patients gain antibodies from vaccine booster – study (Jerusalem Post)

New coronavirus mutant raises concerns in India and beyond (Associated Press)

A Pox on the FDA

Are Dems Buying Votes By Extending Pandemic Emergency?  Mmmmmmmmm … Could be….

Confidence In US Media, Government, & Justice-System Collapsing

75% Of “Poorly Targeted” $800 Billion PPP Money Sent To Unintended Recipients: Study

‘More immune-evading’ BA.5 variant now nearly two-thirds of COVID-19 cases

US officials working on a plan to allow second Covid-19 boosters for all adults (CNN) At YOUR expense, of course. (Don’t forget to vote Democrat!)

Parroting Chinese Propaganda? Soros Crony Claims COVID-19 Originated from US Lab

Proven Effective Herbal Treatments for COVID Are Buried by Big Pharma

School Closures Crushed Our Children

Crazy! Tennis Great Can’t Play In U.S.; Rider With COVID Wins Tour de France Stage

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We live in a very bipolar society and one of the most obvious examples of this is the tenacity of masking. The unfortunate truth is that an aerosolized virus particle is so small that the only sure way to prevent an encounter with it is with your own self-contained breathing apparatus. How many scuba suits are you seeing on the streets of New York? Can a surgical mask stop a particle or two? Well, it is certainly possible in the same way that fishnet stockings may prevent some sunburn but not what anyone would call overall effective. Early on there were multiple articles exaggerating the necessity of public masking, none of them particularly convincing or well done but they danced around the truth and pushed their preconceived notions in the name of public health.

The wearing of masks has absolutely nothing to do with COVID – it’s a flag that progressives use to assert their political loyalty to the Narrative. That’s all it is.

Big fish sightings are spiking. Climate change may be the cause. (Washington Post) Climate change! Is there anything it can’t do?

Donald Trump Mocked Over Palin Alliance by Ex-GOP Strategist: ‘Tedious’ (Newsweek)

Amazon deforestation hits new record in Brazil (Washington Post)

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon hits record for first half of 2022 (Reuters)

Art, science and a reef made of sugar: an exploration of climate change (The Guardian)

Report Of Massive New Ozone Hole Threatening Billions Contains ‘Serious Errors’ (Forbes)

Climate activists worried after Biden releases review of Alaska oil project (Washington Post)

A Disturbing Shift Has Affected Earth’s Delicate Energy Balance, Scientists Report (Science Alert) Disturbing!

Left’s Climate Projections Yield Worst Case Consequences for Needed Energy (NewsMax)

New Study Proves Not All EVs Are Kind To The Environment (CarBuzz)

Largest Presbyterian church body divesting from fossil fuel companies, citing climate concerns (CBS)

Want to Fight Climate Change? Work Less and Sleep More. (Daily Beast) Starve to death and rid Gaia of your burdensome self.

We’ve overexploited the planet, now we need to change if we’re to survive (The Guardian) Same Narrative, just different words.

We Need to Stop Pretending we can Limit Global Warming to 1.5°C (Byline Times)

NPR Spreads Misinformation About Climate Change and Models (Again!)

The China syndrome, pandemic edition

MIT scientists think they’ve discovered how to fully reverse climate change  Sure. We all live in caves, eat bugs, and burn wood to stay warm. And you can forget that Tesla.

This little robot is cleaning up beaches, one cigarette butt at a time  Until it gets stolen.

E-Vehicles Are Like Covid Vaccines: Sold to Public Based on Wildly Unrealistic Exaggerations

“Your Gas Guzzler Kills” – Radical Climate Group Deflates Bay Area SUV Tires

NYC Pushes Indoor Mask Advisory for All as ‘Worst’ Omicron Strain Fuels 6th Wave (NBC New York)

Move over, measles: Dominant Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 could be the most infectious viruses known to man (Fortune)

Fulton Co. Board of Health hosts Monkeypox vaccine drive (CBS)

Summer COVID guide: As BA.4 and BA.5 variants spread, CT’s top experts discuss outdoor activities, masking and more (CT Insider)

Novavax, Moderna, BioNTech Surge To 3-Month High As Omicron Boosters Loom

All Macau Casinos Will Shut Down Monday As COVID Outbreak Worsens

New Survey Reveals Significant Doubts About Masks And Vaccines

As the BA.5 variant spreads, the risk of coronavirus reinfection grows (Washington Post) Fine ‘vaccine’ ya got there, bubba.

Tyranny On Autopilot: LA County Set To Resume Mask Mandate

Army cuts pay, benefits from more than 60,000 unvaccinated National Guard, Reserves

BA.4 and BA.5 COVID Symptoms: What to Watch For as Infections Climb (NBC Chicago)

Pride Goeth Before a Fall (Full of Monkeypox)

“The People Who Died Were Vaccinated, at-Risk People”

Covid learning loss has been a global disaster (The Economist)

Northeastern researchers have a plan to protect Boston from rising sea levels: floating vegetation mats they call the ‘Emerald Tutu’ (Boston Globe)

Wild species relied on by billions at risk, report warns (Associated Press)

Wild species support half of world’s population, report finds (The Guardian)

Claim: An Eco-Terrorist Wing Would Help Peaceful Climate Activists Win  If by ‘win’ you mean ‘be thoroughly suppressed’.

Justin Trudeau Offers Canadians Incentives To Distract Them From Inflation Caused By Carbon Taxes

On to Rome!

America’s Top Anti-War Think Tank Is Fracturing Over Ukraine (Mother Jones)

Since 2000 The Arctic’s Hudson Bay Has Cooled -0.35°C With 10 Of 15 Sites Gaining Sea Ice

Weedkiller ingredient tied to cancer found in 80% of US urine samples  I’m curious how The Guardian got access to all of the U.S. urine samples.

Human Activity is Pushing Vital Species Towards Extinction, U.N. Warns in Call for Sustainability (TIME)

Wastewater sequencing reveals early cryptic SARS-CoV-2 variant transmission (Nature)

First COVID Symptoms: How to Recognize the Onset of the Virus (NBC Chicago)

New Covid subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 are the most contagious yet – and driving Australia’s third Omicron wave (The Guardian)

We’re heading for a messy, and expensive, breakup with natural gas (Engadget)

Dunces to the core, the teachers union wants to do more COVID harm to kids

What’s the risk of getting COVID outside? Here’s why new variants may have changed the answer (San Francisco Chronicle)

COVID in California: New variants more resistant to three-shot vaccine dose (S.F. Chronicle)

Vax Skeptics in Uruguay

CBS Declares ‘At Least Another Year or Two’ of COVID Hysteria

CBS Smears Abe as ‘Polarizing, ‘Right-Wing Nationalist’ With ‘Controversial’ Views

Researchers can now explain how climate change is affecting your weather (NPR)

Most Americans have concerns about being displaced by extreme weather, poll says (The Hill)

EV incentives focused on urban centres leave rural Australians stranded with fossil fuels (The Guardian)

The flooding in Yellowstone reveals forecast flaws as climate warms (NPR)

Plant-based meat by far the best climate investment, report finds (The Guardian) ‘Plant based meat’ is not meat. It Just Isn’t.

Sri Lanka Begging Russia and India for Fuel: A Nation Wrecked by Green Agricultural Policies

Greta Fumes As EU Declares Nuclear & NatGas ‘Green’

Green Communism: “… eradicate the energy privilege of rich countries”

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A New York Times editorial board member does not seem to think the company’s policy against participating in protests applies to her.

In her July 2 column, Mara Gay wrote that she wants to see all the men she has had sexual relationships with who have since moved on to join her at the next pro-abortion protests. “They’re good men, and I’m happy for them,” Gay writes. “I’d also like to ask: Will I see you at the next protest? Join us.”

Taking Gay at her word means she just admitted to violating New York Times corporate policy, which forbids staff from attending any “march or rally in support of public causes or movements.” Neither the New York Times nor Gay responded to a request for comment.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Over the last week, we have been barraged with stories about a 10-year-old rape victim in Ohio who was unable to obtain an abortion in that state and had to cross the line into Indiana to terminate her pregnancy. If you Google “10 year old abortion Ohio,” you get 33,100,000 results. The story is everywhere, internationally.

But did it happen? It turns out that the story originated with an abortionist who is also a media figure, seemingly working full-time to promote abortion. And if a 9 or 10 year old was raped, it was a heinous crime. Where is the criminal prosecution of the rapist? There doesn’t seem to be any record of one, and in fact, no Ohio newspaper has endorsed the story.

Climate change could shorten bear hibernation periods, lead to more human interactions (KCRA Sacramento)

What could delaying the shutdown of California’s last nuclear power plant mean for energy bills? (Santa Rosa Press Democrat)

The Southwest is bone dry. Now, a key water source is at risk. (Politico)

Climate change: Extreme weather events slam globe from Italy to Australia (Axios)

7 recommendations for reducing the environmental impact of your diet (Axios)

Environmentalists sue Dutch airline KLM for ‘greenwashing’ (BBC)

Australia flood, boosted by climate change, making history in Sydney (Washington Post)

Republican-led states are winning in economic recovery from COVID: report

Italy has declared a state of emergency because of drought: ‘There is no doubt that climate change is having an effect,’ the prime minister said (CNBC)

Heat domes spike in Europe as climate change helps shift weather patterns (Axios)

Aussie PM: NSW Climate Change Floods are the Rest of the World’s Fault

Dutch Police Shoot Live Ammo At Anti-Climate Rule Protestors

Climate Claim: Somali Pirates and Warlords Need More Access to Financial Services

Will you catch Monkeypox?

Omicron BA.5: One Variant To Rule Them All…For Now (Deadline)

BA.5, now dominant U.S. variant, may pose the biggest threat to immune protection yet (NBC)

WHO to consider again whether monkeypox outbreak is public health emergency of international concern (CNN) C’mon, guys, we need another PANIC!

Judge strikes down paused LAUSD student vaccine mandate (L.A. Times)

Antibody evasion by SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants BA.2.12.1, BA.4, & BA.5 (Nature)

Covid-19 reinfections may increase the likelihood of new health problems (CNN)

When will COVID-19 become endemic? Possibly in about two years, Yale researchers say (Connecticut Public)

FDA allows pharmacists to prescribe Paxlovid COVID treatment (Axios)

King County identifies local monkeypox transmission (KOMO News)

Xi’an shuts back down as China finds first cases of new Omicron subvariant (CNN)

WHO: More than 6,000 Monkeypox Cases Reported, Another Emergency Meeting Set

Nanoparticle Vaccine Protects Against C19-Causing Variants and Related Viruses

MSNBC Slimes Fox’s Coverage of Shootings, Ignores Red Flag Law Failures

SK hynix pitches tents at Chinese factory to house workers in case of lockdowns

Covid-19 Vaccine Doses, Once in High Demand, Now Thrown Away

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In the fall of 2019, Facebook announced that it would be writing selected media outlets some very big checks. The launch of Facebook News was billed as a way to give consumers more access to information, but it was actually an attempt at appeasing big media companies.

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While Hillary wanted someone to blame for her failures, the media wanted leverage over the company that controlled its fate. The invention of a “fake news” or “misinformation” crisis, the term that the media pivoted to once President Trump made “fake news” his own, was used to persuade Big Tech companies to censor conservatives and promote media content.

 

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The Washington Post ran a front-page story on Thursday that lamented “There are no crowdsourced charity drives raising millions for victims’ families in Chicago, where the holiday weekend death toll reached at least 10 with 62 injured — numbers that exceed the toll in Monday’s mass shooting at a July 4th parade in nearby Highland Park, Ill. In that affluent lakeside suburb, the violence was an anomaly. Here, it is a grimly regular occurrence.”

But on her MSNBC show on Tuesday, Nicolle Wallace focused exclusively on the seven Highland Park shooting deaths. Not a word about the 10 shooting deaths in Chicago. Note that in 2021, there were  3,561 shooting incidents in Chicago, and 797 homicides.

Outdoor Tennis Could Be Sports’ First Big Climate Change Casualty (FiveThirtyEight.com)

Fires, heat and earthquakes: Alaska currently the epicenter of extreme weather

Scientists Find Ozone Hole in Tropics Much Bigger Than in Antarctica (Newsweek)

Explained: How engineered crops can fight climate change (World Economic Forum)

Democrats have a month to revive the climate deal our planet needs (The Guardian)

Climate protesters arrested after shutting down DC-area highway (The Hill) Don’t call it an insurrection!

Blanket bans on fossil fuels hurt women and lower-income countries (Nature)

See a Map of Bay Area Hazardous Sites at Risk From Rising Seas (KQED)

The Supreme Court versus the climate (The Hill)

Coal Emerges Victorious As Sanctions And Green Policies Backfire Spectacularly

Claim: “I led the US lawsuit against big tobacco … Big oil is next”

The Dutch Farmers’ Protest & The War On Food

Dumb As It Gets: Germany Heads into Winter Refusing to Let Badly Needed Power Plants Operate

Norway Heatwaves Are Perfectly Normal, Despite What Paul Krugman Says

Climate Change Protestors Lay Down On Formula 1 Racetrack

European Union Classifies Gas and Nuclear as ‘Green’ Amid Energy Price Surge

How Climate Propaganda Works

Experts: Keep a sharp eye out for COVID-19 symptoms now that Fourth gatherings have passed (Boston Globe)

San Diego Loses 22% Of Its Police Force Due To Vax Mandates

What Scientists Just Discovered About Monkeypox Virus on Surfaces (SciTechDaily)

Ultra-contagious BA.4, BA.5 subvariants fuel coronavirus spread across much of California (L.A. Times)

Canada’s Health Minister: “You Will Never Be Fully-Vaxxed”

Midsummer Mask Madness

Shameless: Aussie Climate Council Now Claims Floods Caused by CO2

Climate Activist Hypocrisy Example Eleventy Gazillion

Spain and Portugal suffering driest climate for 1,200 years, research shows (The Guardian)

Parts of The World Now Have Drought Patterns That Haven’t Been Seen in 1,200 Years

Methane much more sensitive to global heating than previously thought – study (The Guardian)

Sydney is flooded, again, as climate crisis becomes new normal for Australia’s most populous state (CNN)

Bill Nye says the main thing you can do about climate change isn’t recycling—it’s voting (CNBC)

Don’t let SCOTUS undo decades of progress on climate change (The Hill)

War in Ukraine is driving demand for Africa’s natural gas. That’s controversial (NPR)

158 Tesla Mega-Batteries Will Boost Hawaii Green Energy By 10%, And Shut Down Coal-Fired Power Plant

UK Fuel Price Protests Cripple Motorways With “Go-Slow” Convoys

Claim:  Hidden in Caves: Mineral Overgrowths Reveal Unprecedented Modern Sea-Level Rise

Climate Change Breaks Plant Immune Systems. Can They Be Rebooted?

Megafires: Fixing 100 years of mistakes in 10 years

Another Energy Imbalance Paper.

Dutch farmers organise mass protests in face of farm closures

Dutch Farmers Block Food Distribution Centers; Undercover Cops Chased Away From Protest

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