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

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

New Monkeypox Study Holds Possible Clue To Fast Spread Of Virus

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

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

The Inconvenient Truth About COVID-19 Relief Scandals

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

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

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

How climate change is making fires worse (The Hill)

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

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

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

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

Inside California’s climate change paradox (CalMatters)

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

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

Is Lake Mead Shrinking Because of Climate?

Whatever happened to the bee apocalypse?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The LGBTQ+ monkeypox failure

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MIT Space Bubbles Would Fully Reverse Global Warming (NextBigFuture)

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

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

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

Epstein’s ‘Fossil Future’

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Forget About Testing the Vax — Just Trust the Science!

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

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

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

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

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

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How many of the Usual Suspects can we find?

Barbra ‘Streisand Effect’? Check.

George Takei? Check.

Ana Navarro-Cárdenas from The View? Check.

Ron ‘Hellboy’ Perlman? Check.

Kathy ‘D-List’ Griffin? Check.

Get out the popcorn….

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

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

Broadway mask mandate in NYC to end in July

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

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

The COVID Ratchet Shows Up

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Assessing The Environmental Impact of Nuclear Power Generation

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

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

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

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

Extinction Rebellion, handmaiden of technocracy

Claim: Quantum Computing Magic can Solve the Climate Crisis

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

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

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

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

CNN Analyst Suggests Inflation Is Needed To Achieve Green Agenda

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Latest Tragedy: Sudden Adult Death Syndrome

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

COVID Exposed The Medical-Pharmaceutical-Government Complex

Friendly fungi help forests fight climate change (BBC)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hurricane hell and climate punishment (The Hill)

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

Claim: Climate Change Causes Heart Failure

The Democrats’ Energy Disaster

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

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

The Other McCain is on the case.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Things NASA climate scientists say:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Contagious Vaccines: A Warning

More Bad News for the Mask Cult

The COVID Healer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why investors suddenly care about saving the environment (Vox)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Climate Propaganda Award Winners

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

WHO Will Rename Monkeypox To Combat Racism And Stigma

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

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

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

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

The Emergence of Neo-Fascism in Public Health

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

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

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

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

Progressive means never having to say you were wrong.

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A refreshing dip into the warm  bath of progressive unreality.

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

David Cole.

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

A transition from disease to identity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nevada lithium mine pits Biden green agenda against radical environmentalists

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aussie Farmers Demand Compensation for the new Green Electricity Grid

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Twitter Quietly Removes Warning Added to a CDC Study

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

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

Biden Admin Dropping COVID-Testing Requirements For International Travel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Plastic Eating Worms Show Promise for Plant-Scale Recycling

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

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

Climate Change Weekly #437: Persistent Lies about Green Power

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

Read it.

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.”

Read it.

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”