We need a definitive exit from our Covid-19 pandemic. Here’s the roadmap (The Guardian)

Dr. Peter Hotez warns of nation’s hidden COVID wave that’s ‘almost like omicron’ (Houston Chronicle)

With old-school technology, can Novavax win over COVID vaccine skeptics? (L.A. Times)

Why Dr. Angela Dunn says finally catching COVID-19 was ‘no big deal’ (Deseret News)

FDA expected to okay Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine booster for kids 5 to 11 (Washington Post)

The New Rift Between WHO And China  Oh, no! Not a Rift!

New York City Raises Covid Alert Level To “High”, Advises Face Masks  Moral: Avoid New York.

Apple Delays Plans for Return to Office Three Days a Week, Masks Required in Common Areas Amid Rising COVID Cases

Pfizer Jab In Young People Only 20% Effective After 60 Days, 0% After 5 Months

Apple Reinstating Employee Mask Mandate at Approximately 100 U.S. Retail Stores

Orange County fire magnifies a stunning truth about climate change (CNN)

Cutting air pollution from fossil fuels would save 50,000 lives a year, study says (Washington Post)

Curbing energy-related air pollutants could save 50,000 US lives, $600B each year: study (The Hill)

Bipartisan group pushes Senate to confirm environmental prosecutor to key EPA post (NPR)

Where homes will face the most wildfire risk in next 30 years (Axios)

Is your house at risk of a wildfire? This online tool could tell you (NPR)

China and Russia Rejoice at America’s Quest to Go Green

US fracking boom could tip world to edge of climate disaster (The Guardian)

Supply chain issues are getting worse — and climate change is a main culprit (Salon)

Greening Conundrum: You’re planting trees to fight climate change but are you doing it the right way? (Economic Times)

Plastic Recycling “Does Not Work, It Never Will Work,” Says Report

Climate Change May Be Giving the World’s Oceans Amnesia (Gizmodo)

Guardian: Climate Change Killed off Ancient Rome’s Herbal Viagra

La Nina is Not Going Away. What Does This Mean for This Summer’s Weather?

The U.S. is in a fifth COVID wave, and for many, immunity is waning. Why aren’t second booster vaccines available to all Americans? (Fortune)

Booster shot slowdown leaves older Americans at risk (The Hill)

Doctors say COVID re-infections stem from waning immunity (KOMO News)

‘Failure of an American ideology’: why Covid has an outsized impact on the US (The Guardian)

China’s economic data disappoint in April as Covid controls weigh (CNBC)

3 ways to get COVID pills, if you’ve just tested positive (NPR)

Is Paxlovid, the COVID pill, reaching those who most need it? The government won’t say (Salon)

COVID-19 is surging again — with some new behaviors (NPR)

Booster Shots, Indoor Masking Encouraged Amid Rising COVID Risk Levels, Health Officials Say (NBC)

China Economy Crashes Worse Than Expected Amid Covid Lockdowns

NY Times Australia Reporter Damien Cave Defends Authoritarian COVID Response

Nike, Brooklyn Nets Sour On Unvaccinated Irving’s Long-term Future

1 Million Dead Americans

Can We Get Criticisms of Chloroquine for Covid that Don’t Commit Fallacies?

Oil Prices Surge Past $113 As Shanghai Signals End Of Lockdown

Did Fauci Just Convince Swing-Voters To Pull For Trump?

NOAA Study Finds Cleaner Air Leads To More Atlantic Hurricanes

Wrong, CNN, AP, NYT, etc., Climate Change Did Not Cause South Africa’s Tragic Floods

‘Fun in the sun’ photos are a dangerous distraction from the reality of climate breakdown (The Guardian)

The dangerous business of dismantling America’s aging nuclear plants (Washington Post) Danger! Danger, Will Robinson!

Recycling Pledges From Coca-Cola and Nestlé Are a Joke (Gizmodo)

What’s behind the surprising growth of one Antarctic ice sheet?

Climate crisis: what lessons can we learn from the last great cooling-off period? (The Guardian) I think we can safely say that The Guardian won’t learn anything.

Global Warming Was Going to Destroy Skiing, Then the Snow Fell

6 Years Late And 250% Over Budget: Georgia’s Newest Nuclear Plant  Your tax dollars at work.

LinkedIn’s Climate “Script”

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was a Great Pacific Garbage Patch, did you? Obviously you haven’t been keeping up with the Narrative.

16 Michigan counties now at high level of COVID-19 transmission. CDC says wear a mask. (Detroit Free Press)

Fact check: White House tweet falsely claims ‘there was no vaccine available’ when Biden took office (CNN)

Covid cases are surging again. Why hospitalizations might not. (NBC News)

A new Omicron variant, BA.2.12.1, has taken over in Massachusetts. Here’s what you need to know. (Boston Globe)

New Subvariant of Omicron Continues Spread in U.S., Midwest: CDC Estimates (NBC)

CDC Lists 6 CT Counties in High COVID-19 Level Category (NBC)

Experts perplexed over number of people getting long COVID (The Hill)

Growing Number Of COVID-19 Deaths Among Vaccinated People: Federal Data

Days After Federal Mask Mandate Lifted, In-Air Unruly Passenger Incidents Plunge

School Shutdowns Were a Catastrophe

CDC Admits It Can’t Back Claim That Vaccines Don’t Cause Variants

We need optimism – but Disneyfied climate predictions are just dangerous (The Guardian)

8 sustainable living tips to reduce your impact, according to a climate activist (CNN)

The Modern World Can’t Exist Without These Four Ingredients. They All Require Fossil Fuels (Time)

Exxon doubles down on ‘advanced recycling’ claims that yield few results (The Guardian)

Recycling plastic is a total bust, industry critics say (CBS)

States are leveraging nuclear energy for bipartisan climate progress (The Hill)

Report: ‘Carbon Bombs’ Are Poised to Screw Us Over Big Time (Gizmodo)

Growing evidence links air pollution exposure and covid-19 risks (Washington Post)

Six Years Late And 250% Over Budget: Georgia’s Newest Nuclear Plant Your tax dollars at work.

Analysis: Big Oil gets investor reprieve as energy worries trump climate concerns (Reuters)

‘The most dumb thing’: Elon Musk dismisses hydrogen as tool for energy storage (CNBC)

IT’S CLIMATE CATASTROPHE DU JOUR SEASON, AGAIN!

Wandering Polar Bears Are The New Starving Bears Falsely Blamed On Climate Change: Déjà Vu

What Paris Agreement? Worker Shortage Impeding Global Coal Production Surge

Is It Safe to Ship Thousands of Electric Cars on Big Ships?

US oil refineries spewing cancer-causing benzene into communities, report finds (The Guardian)

CLAIM: ‘Covid & Climate Change Push Many Older Women into Prostitution’

Coronavirus ‘ghosts’ found lingering in the gut (Nature)

Deaths from COVID begin to rise again (Axios)

This is how many lives could have been saved with COVID vaccinations in each state (NPR) The ‘vaccines’ that don’t prevent you from getting the disease and don’t prevent you from spreading the disease? Those ‘vaccines’?

Lockdown Advocate Admits Negative Impacts Were Never Considered

New York City Parents Rise Up Against Toddler Mask Mandate

Biden White House Tells Blatant Lie About Vaccines

Doctors say these pandemic side effects are serious problems—and unlikely ‘to go away anytime soon’ (CNBC)

The Corona Deception

Acting NIH Director Admits Appearance Of Conflict Of Interest In Secret Royalty Payments To Fauci, Scientists

Scandals In the NIH

China Paying a Price for Xi’s Zero-COVID-19 Policy

Dems Speak Out on Roe! Release the Covid Variants!

Democrats Silent As Republicans Rip Into Secret Royalty Checks To Fauci, Hundreds Of NIH Scientists

Advocates push for ‘environmental justice’ demanding protection for the city’s tree canopy (ABC)

Revealed: the ‘carbon bombs’ set to trigger catastrophic climate breakdown (The Guardian)

Record number of polluters set CO2 emissions targets (BBC)

Nature loss: Watchdog highlights ‘precarious state’ of environment (BBC)

Environment tipping points fast approaching in UK, says watchdog (The Guardian)

First Full-Scale Prototype Of “World’s Most Environmentally Friendly Rocket” Unveiled

State unveils new climate change blueprint packed with strategies tackling fossil fuels (CalMatters)

We’re Gonna Get You to Eat the Bugs, Peasant, One Way or Another

Another Day–Another Warming Scare!

Claim: Climate Change Increases Risks of Tree Death

Lowly mushrooms may be key to ecosystem survival in a warming world (Science.org)

If You Care About Humanity, Chill Out on the Steaks (Mother Jones)

Mycoprotein produced in cell culture has environmental benefits over beef (Nature)

Big Oil braces for shareholder revolt over climate plans in proxy voting season

BBC Climate Editor Made False Claims on Global Warming

Americans Still Rank ‘Climate Change’ Dead Last Among Environmental Concerns, Reports Gallup

Global Warming Leads to More Carbon Sinks  Natural systems are amazingly robust. N eco-Nazi believes this.

New versions of Omicron are masters of immune evasion (Science.org)

Covid variants will not get less virulent with time: Experts on how Omicron BA2.12.1, differs from BA.4, BA.5 (Mint)

DIA: Intel suggests COVID virus was lab-engineered

Democrat Whose Offices Are Still Closed Due to COVID-19 Hosts Maskless Fundraising Soirée

FDA Chief Claims “Misinformation” Is Leading Cause Of Death In The US

COVID Cases Explode After White House Media Dinner Becomes Superspreader Event

Nonprofit Watchdog Uncovers $350 Million In Secret Payments To Fauci, Collins, Others At NIH

Golden State’s Kerr Was Vaccinated & Boostered, Now Sidelined By COVID  Really fine ‘vaccine’ ya got there, bubba.

Climate change: ‘Fifty-fifty chance’ of breaching 1.5C warming limit (BBC)

“Climate models have not ‘exaggerated’ global warming” except when they do…

With World Gripped By Fertilizer Crisis, Biden Admin Clings To “Climate-Inspired Utopian Food-Production Fantasies”

25% Of San Francisco’s EV Charging Stations Don’t Work 

Prince William Praises TV Writers For Inserting Climate-Change “Programming” Into Shows

The INTENDED Consequences of Climate Policy: ‘Electricity Shortage Warnings Grow Across U.S.’

Gavin Newsom Is Blaming Climate Change For The Blackouts He Is Creating

The lucky few to never get coronavirus could teach us more about it (Washington Post)

The CDC is investigating a Covid-19 outbreak on board a Carnival cruise ship (CNN)

Moderna expects to have Omicron booster ready by Fall 2022  Be still my heart.

Sweden Pandemic Deaths Among Lowest In Europe — All While Avoiding Strict Lockdowns

Utah Was Warned Racial Rationing of COVID Drugs Was Illegal. It Did It Anyway.

China’s Bizarre Authoritarian-Libertarian COVID Strategy

The three reasons MacBook Pro workers broke out of plant and fought with guards

White House Asks For Another $20 Billion In COVID Money To Stop Winter Wave

FDA: Americans Should Treat COVID-19 Like The Flu

COVID-19 School Closures Were Absolute Disaster for Poor and Minority Students, Study Shows

Shanghai Tightens COVID Lockdown Despite Decline In Cases

Bittersweet Victory for Doctor After Practice Unlawfully Suspended for Refusing Vaccine

Mine e-waste, not the Earth, say scientists (BBC)

The Coldest April in the Satellite Record over the Pacific Northwest

The Desert’s Fragile Skin Can’t Take Much More Heat (Wired ‘Science’)

The secret world beneath our feet is mind-blowing – and the key to our planet’s future (The Guardian)

Utilities push back against growth of rooftop solar panels (NBC News)

The good times are rolling for Big Oil. 3 things to know about their surging profits (NPR) Another thumb-sucker from NPR.

Deadly ‘wet-bulb temperatures’ are being stoked by climate change and heat waves (NBC News) Deadly dim-bulb reporters are being stoked by the Narrative.

Antarctica’s majestic underwater world is trying to adapt to a warmer planet (CNN)

To fight climate change, California approves seaweed that cuts methane emissions in cow burps (S.F. Chronicle)

International Socialists Accuse Greta Thunberg of Supporting the Establishment

Claim: World’s Ocean Is Losing Its Memory Under Global Warming  I’ll bet you didn’t know that the ocean had a memory.

The Newest Climate Criminals: Oncologists?

SARS-CoV-2 variants are not evolving to escape from T cell-mediated immunity (NewsMedical.net)

Researchers Track COVID-19 Infection Dynamics in the Saliva and Nasal Cavities (SciTechDaily) Up your nose with a rubber hose.

Seven Massachusetts counties ranked with high COVID-19 levels, says CDC; masks recommended (BostonGlobe)

16 Virginia localities rank as medium, updated CDC COVID Community Levels map shows (CBS News)

My Body, My Choice: Did the Media Support for COVID Mandates Hurt Support for Roe v. Wade?

FDA Investigating Reports Of COVID Relapses Following Use Of Pfizer’s Pill  Fine ‘vaccine’ ya got there, bubba.

The Vax in Germany: 40 Times Deadlier Than Previously Known

Bipartisan climate talks pick up steam (The Hill)s

European Leaders Gathering in Esbjerg to Speed Up Offshore Wind Buildout (Offshore WIND)

World Food Prize goes to former farmer who answers climate change question: ‘So what?’ (NPR)

Brazil sets another Amazon deforestation record, prompting alarm (Al Jezeera)

Fossil-Fuel Industry Workers Say Green Economy Could Leave Them in Dust (The City)

Making New Climate Data from Old Timber (The New Yorker)

How much does eating meat affect nations’ greenhouse gas emissions? (Science News)

John Kerry vs. Natural Gas

Claim: Cancer Surgery Causes Climate Change

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The New York Post debuts an excerpt of John Paul Mac Isaac’s memoir American Injustice: My Battle to Expose the Truth. The Post has published the excerpt under the headline “The night I met Hunter Biden: Mac Shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac recounts fateful encounter in exclusive excerpt.” It is the story the Post reported before the 2020 presidential election, but it is the story that could not be told. It has to be suppressed. Isaac had to be defamed. The story had to be trashed. President Biden himself reiterated the blatant propaganda of retired intelligence officials asserting that it was Russian misinformation.

Among the laptops turned over to him by Hunter Biden, Isaac found the revelations with which we have become familiar, no thanks to the Democrats’ media adjunct. It is an incredible story. Isaac himself was a walk-on whose role was to serve as roadkill.

How companies blame you for climate change (BBC)

Vermont’s proposed environmental justice bill clears the House

This floating neighborhood will protect residents from sea level rise (The Optimist Daily)

The real climate impact of flying could be much worse than we thought (Euronews)

Polluters are using forests as ‘carbon offsets.’ Climate change has other plans. (National Geographic)

How Oslo Learned to Fight Climate Change (The New Yorker)

April sets record for highest CO2 levels in human history (Axios)

EU Civil Service Pushing Meditation, “Inner Green New Deal”, to Defeat Climate Anxiety

If you’ve had omicron before, are you safe from infection by the new variants? (NPR)

What the latest omicron subvariants mean for reinfection risk (NBC News)

Yes, a lot of White House correspondents’ guests are testing positive (Washington Post)

Here’s how many San Francisco police officers have been fired for refusing to get COVID vaccines (S.F. Chronicle)

FDA: “No evidence” second Pfizer COVID pill stops repeat symptoms, contradicting CEO (Axios)

MacBook Pro plant workers riot over China COVID lockdown

FDA Limits J&J’s COVID-19 Vaccine Over Blood Clot Risk

Hundreds of MacBook Pro workers break through COVID barriers, battle guards

Wicked Unfair: Parents Bristle at Boston Schools’ Mask Rules  Time to leave.

The Salton Sea could produce the world’s greenest lithium, if new extraction technologies work

EU officials being trained to meditate to help fight climate crisis (The Guardian)

The Quest to Save an Antarctic Kingdom Before It Falls Into Ruin (CNET)

Projected environmental benefits of replacing beef with microbial protein (Nature)

Swapping 20% of beef for microbial protein ‘could halve deforestation’ (The Guardian)

You Don’t Have to Quit Meat to Save the Planet—Just Eat Less

Climate sceptic thinktank received funding from fossil fuel interests (The Guardian) Does that surprise you?

Green or Greenwashing: Who Gets to Decide? (The Business of Fashion)

How the California forest that starred as Endor in ‘Star Wars’ was obliterated (S.F. Gate)

Planting trees rather than bioenergy crops sucks more CO2 from the air (New Scientist)

Climate simulations: recognize the ‘hot model’ problem (Nature)

Use of ‘too hot’ climate models exaggerates impacts of global warming (Science)

Brazil president lashes out at Leonardo DiCaprio after actor tweets about Amazon rainforest protection (CNN)

Indian Court Rules That Nature Has Legal Status on Par With Humans—and That Humans Are Required to Protect It  (Inside Climate News)

Colonial Jamestown, assailed by climate change, is facing disaster (Washington Post)

“Elephant in the room”: Clean energy’s need for unsustainable minerals (Ars Technica)

Pinker vs. the AAAS on the politicization of climate change

Stanford Gets $1.1B for New Climate School from John Doerr

The New Pause Grows by Another Month to 7 Years 7 Months

Rural America vs. Big Wind (Fulton Township, MI Says NO)

Journalists from multiple news outlets test positive after White House Correspondents Dinner weekend (CNN) Fine ‘vaccines’ ya got there, bubba.

Omicron as severe as previous COVID variants, large study finds (Reuters)

iPhone City goes into immediate lockdown after COVID-19 outbreak; recruitment suspended

Smug Holt Lectures: America’s ‘Free Will’ to Blame for COVID Deaths

Remote Learning Was Even More Harmful Than Previously Thought, Research Shows

China’s Politburo Doubles Down On Support For COVID Lockdowns

Newer, fitter descendants of Omicron variant begin to drive their own coronavirus waves (CNN)

BA.2.12.1 poised to become dominant in US, raising concern for future vaccines (Ars Technica)

CDC Reissues Mask Recommendation On Planes And Public Transportation Across America As Much Of The Northeast Moves Into “High Transmission” Category (Deadline)

Most Americans have now had Covid-19 — but experts are predicting the next surge (CNN)

Christiane Northrup, once a New Age health guru, now spreads covid disinformation (Washington Post) In the Narrative Media, ‘disinformation’ is anything that doesn’t follow the Narrative.

Time for a fourth Covid vaccine dose? Here’s why medical professionals are skeptical (CNBC)

‘What is going on in Shanghai’: Horror as elderly man taken to morgue in body bag — while still alive (CNN) “Bring out your dead!”

Pandemic Tracking and the Future of Data

Nets Ignore Report CDC Tracked ‘Millions’ of Phones to Ensure COVID-19 Lockdown Order Compliance

Climate scientists say South Asia’s heat wave (120F!) is a sign of what’s to come (NPR)

India’s Heatwaves Are Testing the Limits of Human Survival (Washington Post)

Losing a Long-Watched Glacier (NASA)

NASA Simulation Suggests Some Volcanoes Might Warm Climate, Destroy Ozone Layer (NASA) Now, if they can only pin that on Trump….

A big step forward for the National Environmental Policy Act (The Hill)

Hawaii Homeowners Must Tell Prospective Buyers If Sea Level Rise Threatens Their Property

‘Cognitive Dissonance’: New Mexico Wildfire Prompts Calls for Urgent Climate Action (Inside Climate News)

UN Report Says Humanity Has Altered 70 Percent of the Earth’s Land, Putting the Planet on a ‘Crisis Footing’ (Inside Climate News)

One Island Nation’s Controversial Plan To Take Climate Justice Into Its Own Hands (Time magazine) ‘Climate justice’ means ‘Give us your money!’

Here we go again: California coronavirus cases rising. Is a new wave coming soon? (L.A. Times)

Methane emissions from cows spotted from space for the first time (New Scientist) I am not making this up.

“Climate Aware” Therapists are Teaching “Internal Activism”  Just what we need….

Samantha Power and the Green New Famine

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Amid news reports about the leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion that would end abortion on demand, critics wailed in the media, in speeches, and on Twitter about the proposed ruling.

The high court confirmed the authenticity of the draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that was leaked to Politico, but asserted that it is not the final version.

If the Alito draft from February stands and enough justices sign on, it would overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that made abortion legal across the nation.

If the Supreme Court overturns Roe, it would not ban abortion but rather allow state legislatures to determine to what extent abortion is allowed in their states.

A major threat to the next pandemic: Vaccine hesitancy (NBC News) And whose fault is that?

The next COVID surge may hit San Francisco’s wealthy neighborhoods the hardest. Here’s why (S.F. Chronicle)

Don’t panic about unvaccinated kids

A chronic case of mask fever

CDC tracked millions of phones to see if Americans followed lockdown orders

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In a stunning breach of Supreme Court confidentiality and secrecy, Politico has obtained what it calls a draft of a majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito that would strike down Roe v. Wade.

The draft was circulated in early February, according to Politico. The final opinion has not been released and votes and language can change before opinions are formally released. The opinion in this case is not expected to be published until late June.

CNN has not independently confirmed the document’s authenticity. Politico says it has authenticated the draft. A Supreme Court spokesperson declined to comment to CNN.

Until now, Supreme Court confidentiality could absolutely be relied upon. If this is legitimate, it marks another step down in the ongoing degeneration of our culture.

The reason Politico published it, of course, is an attempt to bring political pressure to bear on the Justices in hopes of altering the decision and maybe boost Democrat chances in the midterm elections.

UPDATE: Read Justice Alito’s initial draft abortion opinion which would overturn Roe v. Wade

The US should prepare for a predictable Southern summer surge of Covid-19, Birx says (CNN)

Birx says US must prepare for summer COVID surge as immunity wanes (The Hill)

New South African Covid Variants, Omicron BA.4 And BA.5, Found In U.S. For First Time; May Be More Transmissible Than BA.2 (Deadline)

‘I personally think it’s too soon to be removing masks from planes’: Oprah Winfrey slams federal court for lifting mask mandate on aircraft as she reveals she was so fearful of COVID she didn’t leave her mansion for a YEAR (Daily Mail) Masks are the MAGA hat of the Left.

These longstanding Bay Area restaurants just closed permanently (S.F. Gate)

Biden Gives Up on Mandatory Vaccines for Migrants

Fauci Ditches White House Event Over COVID Risk… Then Gets Cozy With Maskless Don Lemon

NYC Raises COVID Alert Level From “Low” To “Medium”, South Africa Faces Another Outbreak

The Ecological Destruction from the Border Wall, in “American Scar” (The New Yorker)

Politicians are basking in the ‘thrill’ of fossil fuels, but this election is Australia’s last chance to reset our climate attitude (The Guardian)

Big Oil Wants A Piece Of The Electric Vehicle Pie (OilPrice.com)

Real Threats to Biodiversity and Humanity

Sorry, U.S. News & World Report, Plant Growth Is Good, Not a Climate Harm

Half Of France’s Nuclear Reactors Are Shutdown Amid Energy Crisis

Explaining Abundant Polar Bear Sightings on The East Coast as An Upshot of Sea Ice Loss Is Absurd

Electric Bus Catches Fire After Battery Explosion

A review of the pandemic suggests Americans have lost interest in public health (NPR) No, they’ve lost faith in government and the Narrative Media.

The pandemic is becoming less central to daily life for many, but impacts linger for N.H. travelers (New Hampshire Public Radio)

Michigan Investigated Hundreds Of Doctors, Nurses Over COVID-Related Complaints

Shanghai Ship-Jam Spells Supply Chain Trouble

CDC Reports First Human Case Of Avian Influenza  Time to start a new PANIC!

Dr. Birx is Back With the Worst Timed Memoir in History

New COVID Bill Fines Parents For Unvaxxed Kids And Doubles Income Taxes 

Daily longitudinal sampling of SARS-CoV-2 infection reveals substantial heterogeneity in infectiousness (Nature)

U.S. likely to find out about next COVID booster by summer -Fauci (Reuters)

CDC: Deaths among vaccinated, but not boosted, people rises  Fine ‘vaccines’ ya got there, bubba.

Hundreds Of CDC Employees Still Haven’t Received COVID-19 Vaccine

Why Is CDC Trying To Put A Mask On Your Face Again?

Magical thinking on fossil fuels endangers safety (Financial Times)

Is sucking carbon from the air the key to stop climate change? Some scientists say so (NPR)

A robot lives in this Antarctic penguin colony. It’s trying to save them (CNN)

“We Created the Pandemicene”: Ed Yong on How the Climate Crisis Could Spark the Next Pandemic (Democracy Now)

Climate change may increase risk of new infectious diseases (Modern Healthcare)

‘Deep-sea gold rush’ for rare metals could cause irreversible harm (The Guardian)

How Far Are We From Phasing Out Coal?

Queen Rania calls for optimism on climate crisis

Claim: Global warming accelerates the water cycle, with relevant climatic consequences

NEW STUDY: “Part Of North Atlantic Is Cooling”…”Natural Fluctuations Have Been Primary Reason”

Tracking COVID-19: Hospitalizations in North Texas have remained under 2% since March

COVID cases rise across bulk of the U.S. (Axios)

4-time vaccinated Fauci mocked for pulling out of White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Servers at correspondents’ dinner not approached about testing, vaccination requirements, union says (The Hill) After all, who cares about Dirt People?

The masks, the CDC and the judge — a battle brewing since 1944 (NPR)

BART reinstates mask mandate on trains and platforms. Here’s for how long (S.F. Chronicle)

Another rare virus puzzle: They got sick, got treated, got covid again (Washington Post) That’s not rare at all.

Denmark becomes the first country to halt its Covid vaccination program (CNBC)

Whistleblowers: CDC, FDA “Altered” Covid Guidance And Suppressed Findings Amid Political Pressure  My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Shanghai Residents “Caged In” With Green Fencing To Prevent Them From Leaving Their Homes

China Reports 1st Ever Human Case Of H3N8 Bird Flu

Lockdowns Drove 60,000 Children In UK To Clinical Depression; Study Finds

22 Countries Drop Mask Mandates As Experts Debate Consequences

Big Myths Employers Are Using to Force “Return to Office”

Hospitals Ignoring Price Transparency Rule Rack Up Billion-Dollar Profit

Ocean animals face a mass extinction from climate change, study finds (Washington Post)

Global warming risks most cataclysmic extinction of marine life in 250m years (The Guardian)

Claim: Unchecked Global Emissions on Track to Initiate Mass Extinction of Marine Life

Report: Houston is one of the fastest sinking cities on Earth, could ‘disappear’ (MySanAntonio.com) And, really, who would miss it?

Red states ask Supreme Court to block Biden rule on societal cost of greenhouse gases (NBC News)

GOP-led states ask Supreme Court to block key Biden climate accounting measure (The Hill)

Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk (Nature)

‘Potentially devastating’: Climate crisis may fuel future pandemics (The Guardian)

Claim: New Study Finds Climate Change Could Spark the Next Pandemic

Energy & Environment — 16 states sue Postal Service over truck order (The Hill)

16 states, D.C., climate activists sue USPS to block truck purchase (Washington Post)

Who owns the Arctic and should they drill for oil and gas? (BBC)

Some experts fear these forests could shift from absorbing carbon dioxide to emitting it (CNN)

North American boreal forest fires could emit huge amounts of greenhouse gases, study finds (The Hill)

Russia’s war on Ukraine shows the urgent need to move away from fossil fuels as fast as possible (CNBC)

Claim: Model Pinpoints Glaciers at Risk of Collapse Due to Climate Change

It Took Me 6 Months, but I Finally Understand Methane Lifetimes

CNBC: “…the 2030s will bring “extreme [climate] events unprecedented in the observational record.”   And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Utilities Want to Convert Coal Plants to Nuclear; Skeptics Abound

Earth Day Activists Ignore Big Wind’s ‘Carnage’ for Eagles

Climate Colonialists Disrupt African Pipeline, Perpetuate Poverty

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On MSNBC’s The ReidOut, Joy Reid and fellow host, Lawrence O’Donnell quickly sought to prove to each other and everyone watching that neither of them have any clue about how our nation’s government works. Separation of powers and division of powers are foreign concepts to both of them.

Proof of this came early in the show when Reid kvetched how many of President Joe Biden’s left-wing programs have been held up in the U.S. Senate. “None of those things are law and none are likely to become law despite Democrats narrowly controlling both branches of the federal legislature and the White House,” Reid wailed. “Because one or two Senators can literally shut down every one of those things over the will of hundreds of representatives in the house which has passed most of the things.”

The unhinged host then whined that “without 60 Senators’ approval, 327 million Americans cannot have nice things.”

What she doesn’t understand, or simply refuses to understand is Biden’s agenda isn’t being held up by “one or two Senators” the legislation is being blocked by fifty Republican Senators and two Democrat Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) & Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ).

DeSantis Vetoes Controversial Rooftop Solar Bill

A top energy regulator is in turmoil over climate rules (Washington Post)

La Niña could enter rare third straight year. Here’s what that means. (Washington Post) It certainly means more whining from the global warming crowd.

In Petaluma neighborhoods, the ‘extravagant life’ is over as climate activism grows (S.F. Chronicle) Examples of why normal people are leaving California.

Climate change putting 4% of global GDP at risk, new study estimates (Reuters)

Plastic Grocery Bag Bans Actually Boost Sale Of Small Plastic Garbage Bags: Study

Wait, Environmentalists Are Anti-Technology?

Climatistas’ Bank Heist Defeated

A Mostly Wind- & Solar-Powered US Economy Is A Dangerous Fantasy

Arctic Sea Ice Stabilizes, No Trend Reduction In More Than 10 Years As Solar Cycle Starts Off Weakly

Watch: Morano on TV explains how climate agenda is pushing ‘the end of private car ownership’ & end of meat-eating

It’s Not Too Late to Stop Mass Extinction in the Ocean  (Wired ‘Science’)

Asset Managers Are Ignoring Climate “Science” and Continuing to Fund Fossil Fuels!  The swine!

Nearly 60% of Americans now have antibodies from Covid-19 infection, CDC study finds (CNN) But we still need to PANIC!

This is the scariest thing in the new Mark Meadows texts (CNN) Chris Cillizza likes to share with us how scared he is.

More Evidence That Masks Don’t Work

Sicilian Court Rules the Mandatory Vax Unconstitutional

When the Next Covid Wave Breaks, the US Won’t Be Able to Spot It (Wired ‘Science’) So we need to keep up the PANIC!

Things The CDC Does Not Know

Fauci Admits “Pandemic Phase” Of COVID Is Over  Very white of him.

Rising temperatures could torch crop production, Louisiana’s agriculture commissioner says (The Advocate) Could, but won’t.

Green jet fuel is here — so why are airlines not using it? (CNN)

Zero, then negative: Why getting to net-zero isn’t enough (The Hill)

Ice Lost, Island Found? (NASA)

Brilliant Planet plans cheap, gigaton-scale carbon capture using algae (New Atlas)

New Zealand unveils plan to tackle climate crisis by adapting cities to survive rising seas (The Guardian)

John Kerry Old School Playground Bully on Climate

The Annual Disaster Fake News Story

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Back in the old days, newspapers assigned reporters to beats like Congress, the Supreme Court, the Pentagon, and Health and Human Services. Now it seems like the new beats are about covering threats, foreign and domestic – ideological threats. So The New York Times has a “climate” department. Michael Bender was recently hired to report on “Trumpism,” and the Times is seeking a political reporter on “Right Wing Media.”

In their job notice on LinkedIn, the Times warned about “the right-wing media ecosystem that now serves many conservative Americans who no longer rely on the mainstream media to inform themselves.”

The newspaper that endorsed Elizabeth Warren for president defines itself as the “mainstream media.”

Through Flyover Country With Mask and Camera.

How high-profile scientists felt tricked by group denying climate change (BBC)

This Might Be the Start of a Hydrogen Fuel Revolution (Daily Beast) Or maybe not.

Elon Musk Proves Yet Again That He’s Just Not Very Bright (Gizmodo)

How the U.S. climate has warmed since the first Earth Day (Axios)

With coal surge, China puts energy security and growth before climate (Washington Post)

Korea offers six reactors to Poland

Incorporation of novel foods in European diets can reduce global warming potential, water use and land use by over 80% (Nature) Time to eat bugs.

Gov. Evers launches Office of Environmental Justice on Earth Day Blue-state pander-bear.

The key to winning the climate debate isn’t economics: it’s health (The Guardian) Exploiting children in service to the Narrative.

The Paris Agreement is failing; we need a new approach (The Hill)

Louisiana’s coastal communities could see $5.5B in damages in worst-case climate change scenario (Nola.com) Could, but won’t, if history is any guide.

The Big 5 Natural Causes of Global Warming- Part 1: Varying Atlantic Water Transport

Earth Day Protest a Bust

Comedy Gold: How To Cope With Your “Climate Anxiety”

New Study: Total Number of Attributable Deaths Due to Cold In Pune, India, Nearly 7 Times Higher Than Heat Deaths

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Restricting speech on Facebook has long been a political concern of the bright and beautiful. Twitter, though? That’s more personal. Back in its earlier days it was a bit of a hugbox — filled with Dr Who references, puns and Stephen Fry. Free speech was defended hotly, such as when a British user was prosecuted for joking that he would blow up Robin Hood Airport if it didn’t stop cancelling flights.

Yet as Twitter expanded — and especially as Brexit and Trump inched closer — darker, ruder and more dissident voices started to proliferate. The media, political and academic classes had never been faced with such hostility, or seen average schmucks exceed their status. When columnists log onto Twitter to find a bunch of random people calling them stupid, or see the opinions of a random person with a preposterous pseudonym have far more reach than theirs, it pains them less because of its real-world effects than because it wounds their egos.

Rising sea levels, climate change putting beloved New England lighthouses at risk (WCVB Boston)

7 Bonkers Corporate Earth Day Campaigns (Gizmodo)

EXPLAINER: Can climate change be solved by pricing carbon? (Associated Press)

Pennsylvania taking biggest climate step yet (ABC27)

This Earth Day, one book presents global warming and climate justice as inseparable (NPR)

The best stories our climate journalists covered this past year (Washington Post)

Climate Misanthropes Say Fighting Climate Change is More important than Food, Reliable Energy, and Peace

Washington DC Climate Protest Horror: Activist Burns Himself to Death  I would encourage other ‘climate activists’ to do the same.

At World Bank Climate Talk, Speaker Floats Idea To End Conventional Vehicle Sales  Compulsorily, of course.

American “Climate Refugees”?  “I was promised money. Can I have some of yours?”

White House official: US must respond to rising COVID-19 cases ‘with care and caution, but not overreacting’ (The Hill)

Small Towns Drew Most New Pandemic Residents

Shanghai Reports Record COVID Deaths As Lockdown Drags On  What goes around comes around.

The Times Takes a Baby Step Toward Covid Sanity

The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: “Vaccination”

Chinese Stocks, Yuan, Commodities Crash As Covid Plunges Country Into “Darkest Moment In Decades”

This woman had COVID for 505 days straight (Deseret News) Apparently she neglected to PANIC!

Florida adds 20,860 COVID cases in past week as infections climb (Tampa Bay Times)

LA company to pay $22.5m after allegedly faking hundreds of Covid test results  There’s gold in them thar PANICs.

Google marks Earth Day with doodle showing stark impacts of the climate crisis (CNN) Well, now that we have a Google Doodle, the planet is saved. Great work, guys, couldn’t have done it without you.

Businesspeople Must Reconnect With Nature to Save the Planet (MIT)

A startup plans to fight climate change with genetically engineered super-trees And how do the Eco-Nazis respond to that? This ought to prove amusing.

Greenwashing 101: How to decipher corporate claims about climate (Washington Post) Unfortunately, there is no way to ‘decipher’ Narrative Media claims about climate.

Olympic Peninsula glaciers expected to disappear in 50 years  (KOMO News) Funny how none of these glaciers actually disappear as predicted.

Wood pellet industry may be falsely marketing itself as a green renewable energy source, critics say  (CBS News)

New Study: Wind, Solar Energy Now Killing 48% Of Priority Bird Species With ‘Population-Level Effects’

Why Gavin Newsom Is Creating A Water & Energy Disaster

Idaho National Labs to build Pentagon’s mobile ‘nuclear microreactor’

What my great-great-grandfather, Theodore Roosevelt, got wrong about climate justice (CNN) Well, he never used the proglodyte term ‘climate justice’.

Dear Mr. President: C’mon, man, make climate a populist cause (Seattle Times)

Rising sea levels, erosion — already impacting Maryland — expected to worsen in next 2 decades (WBAL)

Five charts that show why our food is not ready for the climate crisis (The Guardian) Well, you can’t really argue with a chart, can you?

A kitchen-table solution to climate change (The Hill)

Sea level rise is a threat to all Californians, whether they live near the coast or not (KCRA Sacrament0)

Twitter Bans Paid Climate Skeptic Advertisements

Dispelling The Doomsday Propaganda In DisneyNature’s New Polar Bear ‘Documentary’

Increased Plant Productivity: The First Key Benefit of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment