What doctors wish patients knew about the BA.2 Omicron subvariant (AMA) They wish they knew how to PANIC!

Covid Whiplash: Now-Dominant BA.2 Variant Being Quickly Overtaken Across The U.S. By Yet Another Faster-Growing Omicron Offshoot, Says CDC

LA County reinstates mask mandate aboard public transit, ride share and LAX despite federal rules

Mapping environmental injustice (B0st0n Globe)

CBS Skips Philly Ending Mask Mandate After Week of Spreading Fear Over Rising Cases

Shanghai Doubles Down On Quarantine Measures Despite Decline In Cases

“Pandemic Treaty” Will Hand WHO Keys To Global Government

King Felipe and Queen Letizia strike post pandemic first as they begin engagements without face masks

Facing Fauci’s fury

Showdown Looms Over Vacated Mask Mandate

A reporter from Vanity Fair does his obligatory ticket-punching anthropological trip outside of the Left Coast.

But the people these pieces describe, who made up most of the partygoers around me, were only the most buttoned-up seam of a much larger and stranger political ferment, burbling up mainly within America’s young and well-educated elite, part of an intra-media class info-war. The podcasters, bro-ish anonymous Twitter posters, online philosophers, artists, and amorphous scenesters in this world are variously known as “dissidents,” “neo-reactionaries,” “post-leftists,” or the “heterodox” fringe—though they’re all often grouped for convenience under the heading of America’s New Right. They have a wildly diverse set of political backgrounds, with influences ranging from 17th-century Jacobite royalists to Marxist cultural critics to so-called reactionary feminists to the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, whom they sometimes refer to with semi-ironic affection as Uncle Ted. Which is to say that this New Right is not a part of the conservative movement as most people in America would understand it. It’s better described as a tangled set of frameworks for critiquing the systems of power and propaganda that most people reading this probably think of as “the way the world is.” And one point shapes all of it: It is a project to overthrow the thrust of progress, at least such as liberals understand the word.

The only thing missing is the Marlin Perkins Mutual of Omaha commercial.

“The fundamental premise of liberalism,” Yarvin told me, “is that there is this inexorable march toward progress. I disagree with that premise.” He believes that this premise underpins a massive framework of power. “My job,” as he puts it, “is to wake people up from the Truman Show.”

Yarvin understands the essential nature of Progressivism (not liberalism, which is an older and more feeble impulse that latched onto Progressivism during the Roosevelt years). This is what makes Yarvin (‘Mencius Moldbug’) worth reading.

‘What we now know … they lied’: how big oil companies betrayed us all (The Guardian)

Americans are fleeing climate change — here’s where they can go (CNBC)

California’s radical plan to defend homes from sea level rise: move them (S.F. Chronicle)

‘Green industry wants to take our land’: the Arctic paradox (The Guardian)

In Bolivia, a battle over a receding glacier ‘doomed to disappear’ (Reuters)

Global warming is speeding up ocean currents. Here’s why (Science.org)

Once again, money and greed won the day over the environment in Tallahassee (Gainesville Sun) Translation: Somebody isn’t following the Narrative.

Hollywood barely talks about the climate crisis. This group wants to change that (CNN) Funny, I’d say that ‘Hollywood’ does nothing but.

Klaatu barada nikto! “Scientists” warn aliens about our climate “crisis”!

Washed Away – A Short Film About Sea Level Fall

Soylent Green’s Failed 1973 Vision of Present Day ‘Global Warming Dystopia’

Claim: ‘Climate change’ could ’cause languages to die’ – ‘May affect linguistic diversity’ – ‘A leading driver of language loss’

It’s Earth Day. Again. Contain Your Excitement

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The Russia collusion hoax was exposed long ago as a fraud, but these Rasmussen survey results suggest that it was one of the most effective fake news campaigns ever.

To fight climate change, and now Russia, too, Zurich turns off natural gas (NPR)

Once You Know review – must-watch essay on climate change that tells us it’s already here (The Guardian)

Climate Crisis? Fund Managers Are Sticking With Fossil Fuel

How climate change is reshaping the world (Washington Post) Mostly the world in Woke heads.

Should we feel joy or despair that we’re on track to keep global heating to 2C? (The Guardian) The Narrative says: Despair, definitely.

Ike Dike plans continue after climate change predicts rising sea levels in Gulf (KHOU)

Scientists say this new satellite is a game changer for tracking how our environment is changing (CNN)

The Conversation: Reduce Agricultural Chemicals to Save Insects from Climate Change

Complaint of Breach of Poynter Institute Principles on the Part of the Far-Left “Climate Feedback” Propaganda Website

Sinking Cities and Sea Level Rise  Still waiting for New York City to be under water. Still waiting for real estate prices in Malibu and Martha’s Vineyard to drop.

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When Spotify in 2019 signed a roughly $25 million deal with Barack and Michelle Obama to produce podcasts, the media hailed the move as a triumph in the audio streaming service’s quest to become “the world’s No. 1 audio platform.” Now, three years later, Spotify wants nothing to do with the former first couple.

As the Obamas’ contract with Spotify comes to an end and the couple solicits bids for a new deal, Spotify is not looking to renew the partnership, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. The company reportedly felt it got the raw end of the big money deal, as the Obamas were less than motivated to appear in person on the platform’s podcasts.

DOJ will appeal federal judge’s ruling dropping COVID masks for public transport if CDC deems it necessary

Covid mask mandate for travel has been lifted. Where do we go from here? (NBC News)

Masks work. The judge’s ruling does not change that. (Washington Post) If masks worked, those who wanted that protection could get it by wearing a mask and wouldn’t need everybody else to wear a mask. The simple fact is that masks don’t help all that much and the Narrative Media’s opinion does not change that.

A new version of omicron is gaining a foothold in the U.S., CDC finds (NBC News)  My, what a surprise.

CDC: New Omicron strain accounts for about 20% of new cases in U.S. (Axios)

Moderna says redesigned Covid vaccine produced stronger immunity against omicron than current shots  (CNBC) So you’ll need Yet Another Shot! KA-CHING!

Does it feel like everyone has COVID? Why some experts say S.F. may be in a surge now even though cases are low (S.F. Chronicle) Who you gonna believe, the Narrative or your lyin’ eyes?

New versions of Omicron variant make gains against BA.2 (CNN)

The Big Myth About Renewable Energy You Need To Stop Believing

NBC’s Holt Whines: A ‘Trump Judge’ Struck Down Mask Mandates!

Supercut: Media Devastated by Joyful Maskless Airline Passengers

CBS, NBC Peddle Fear Porn About Masks, Demand They Stay Indefinitely

House GOPers Call On Top Scientist To Clarify Comments About Lab Leak Theory

Clean energy is buried at the bottom of abandoned oil wells (Vox) Repurposing wells for geothermal seems good until you try to get the power from the wells to the users; unlike oil, you can’t just dump it into barrels or a tanker and ship it off.

Sea Level Rise Not the Only Coastal City Danger (The Weather Channel) Join the Woke chorus.

Losing some bald eagles may be among the trade-offs for clean energy (Washington Post) The first ever use of the term ‘trad-off’ in the Washington Post with respect to an environmental issue.

Using geoengineering to slow global heating risks malaria rise, say scientists (The Guardian) So all you have left is to PANIC!

National Grid unveils plan to run carbon-free gas through its pipes by 2050 (Boston Globe) There is, of course, no such thing as ‘carbon-free gas’; this is just a trial balloon to see how stupid Woke people really are.

How Biden’s ethanol order is sparking worries about pollution (The Hill) Narrative to the contrary notwithstanding, adding ethanol to gasoline doesn’t prevent pollution, or even help.

2021 State of The Climate Report: Empirical Observations Show No Sign of ‘Climate Crisis’ – ‘Snow Cover Stable, Sea Ice Levels Recovering, & No Change in Storm Activity’

Coca-Cola Hosts Earth Day Event With Democrat Who Says Jews Control Weather

A Puppet Slip of the Tongue. Did She Really Just Say That? Hump Day Hilarity

The hair shirt eco-elite don’t want pain-free fusion power  Matt Ridley.

The madness of our worship of wind

UK Energy Bosses Call for Government Assistance for Poor People

TIME Pushes Climate PANIC, Admits Green Transition’s Threat to Blue-Collar Workers

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The United States is awash in crises. The crime rate is surging; inflation continues to rise; COVID-19 is still not tamed; curricular reform is a contentious issue at all levels of education; global warming continues to be the source of much anxiety; the antitrust laws are under strong attack; social media continues to be a flashpoint. But for the readers of the New York Times Magazine, on April 10, 2022—devoted largely to The Money Issue—attacking the proliferation of new billionaires, who now total 735 (or is it 927?) has become the centerpiece of their campaign to reduce income and wealth inequality.

The alarm bells of this trend have been rung by Willy Staley, one of its staff writers, whose lead delivers this supposed knockout punch: “Their numbers are out of control—and the rest of us are subject to their whims.” This makes great copy, but horrific economics. Just why is the increased number of billionaires a bad thing? Theirs is not a coming crime wave in which each of us are put at risk for the loss of our lives or property by a new band of predators. Indeed, the exact opposite is true. Although none of the Times’s writers cares to mention the point, each of these billionaires (or their direct ancestors) created the wealth by selling goods and services to people, which at a minimum had a total value far greater to those people than the fraction of the gain that the billionaires were able to garner for themselves.

How worried are people about catching COVID-19? New Utah poll has answers (Deseret News)

Florida judge voids national mask mandate for public transportation (The Guardian) And the maskerati lose their shit.

Supreme Court won’t hear New York City teacher vaccine dispute (NBC)

Risk of breakthrough COVID-19 infections are tied to mental health problems, research shows  (Deseret News) Covidian cultists hardest hit.

Shanghai Finally Confirms First COVID Deaths Since Start Of Lockdown

Americans Should Put A Stop To The ‘Biomedical Security State’: Dr. Aaron Kheriaty

Why No One Wants to Talk About Sweden

Uber No Longer Requires Masks

7 Ways To Cope Now That You Can’t Force People Around You To Wear Masks  Babylon Bee.

Biden Admin Will Likely Fight To Keep Masks on Planes, Becerra Says

Ancient Protein Rubisco Could Be Used to Save Future Food Crops From Dying in Hot Climates (Daily Beast)

As the world experiences sea level rise, Iceland’s waters are falling — and flowing to the other side of the planet (CNN)

Jamie Raskin on the climate crisis: ‘We’ve got to save democracy in order to save our species’ (The Guardian)

The hydrogen energy dream (Vox)

Japan’s ‘hydrogen economy’ runs the risk of being powered by coal (Japan Times)

In a pandemic of medical misinformation, how do you deal with conspiracy believers? (The Guardian)

Changes In Vegetation Shaped Global Temperatures Over Last 10,000 Years

Apple to celebrate Earth Day with walks, podcasts, apps  I.e. all virtue signaling, nothing really effective.

MIT Climate Change Virtue List Topped by EU Nations

‘We’re trying to turn the magnet towards optimism’: Cate Blanchett on her new climate crisis podcast (The Guardian)

Suing over climate change: Taking fossil fuel companies to court (CBS)

Ozone May Be Weakening One of the Earth’s Most Important Cooling Mechanisms – Heating the Planet More Than We Realize (SciTech Daily) So we’d better PANIC just in case.

How to fight the affordable housing and climate crises at once (Vox) Live in a thatched hut somewhere that doesn’t have electricity.

How a Determined Congressional Aide Helped Break Open the Biggest Environmental Scandal in U.S. History (Politico) Funny how nobody’s ever heard of it.

A beginners’ guide to planting trees – and fighting the climate crisis (The Guardian)

Thawing Permafrost Is Roiling The Arctic Landscape (Honolulu Civil Beat)

“Diplomats for Climate Action” Demand Australia Kowtow to the EU

The Green Hydrogen Swindle

Fake News: Wind Tops Coal & Nuclear for First Time in US History

Charleston SC’s Junk Climate Change Lawsuit

‘Sense of urgency’ for HHS climate change office (Politico)

Former stripper running for Congress says ‘climate emergency’ partially prompted decision to get an abortion

Shrinking glaciers and melting ice: Mountain guides have a front-row seat to winter’s woes (Deseret News)

Climate change: ‘We’re making wine in Norway’ (BBC) And that’s a Bad Thing, right? Right?

State climate bill would let 10 communities ban natural gas hookups. Business groups say that’s a bad idea.  (Boston Globe)

To fight climate despair, this Christian ecologist says science isn’t enough (Washington Post) One also needs the new Religion of Climate Change.

Climate change spikes fire danger throughout New Mexico’s bosque

IPCC Scientists: Climate Change Doom is Doomier than People Realise

Climate Feedback Fact Checks CO2 Coalition

As Climate Fears Mount, Some Are Relocating Within the US  (Wired)

ABC Repeats Biden Admin Talking Points on Oil Drilling

“That’s Cooking Oil” – UK Extinction Rebellion Blockades the Wrong Truck

Fossil fuels v our future: young Montanans wage historic climate fight (The Guardian)

Polar regions normalise – for now – after record-breaking heat (Al Jezeera)

New Solar Shingles Get Rid of the Ugly, Complex Hassle That Can Be Part of Rooftop Solar (CNET)

Early warning system for Amazon forest losses seen in climate models (New Scientist)  Climate models! Is there anything they can’t do?

New York green lights massive renewable energy projects to cut fossil fuel reliance (The Hill) At taxpayer expense, of course.

EPA opens civil rights investigations over pollution in Cancer Alley (The Guardian) ‘Cancer Alley’ is one of those invented smears that the Narrative Media love so well.

Climate change: Key UN finding widely misinterpreted (BBC)

Study: Atmospheric rivers may cause next Antarctic ice shelf collapse (Axios)

‘Capitalism didn’t understand community’: Brian Eno steps up the climate crisis battle (The Guardian) Who?

National Geographic’s Misinformation about Forests and Climate Change

Powerful ‘rivers in the sky’ could cause Antarctic Peninsula’s biggest ice shelf to collapse (CNN)

Our food system isn’t ready for the climate crisis (The Guardian)

Democrats keep working against oil companies, ‘not with us’: Big Oil CEO  My, what a surprise.

As Australia’s climate changes, a tropical disease advances (Washington Post)

California proposes ban on sale of gas vehicles by 2035  And the exodus will become a flood.

Battle over carbon capture as tool to fight climate change (Associated Press)

Rightwing populist parties blight climate policy, study finds (The Guardian) Blight!

‘We’re all in trouble’ – Wind turbine makers selling at a loss

Sorry, Nature, Associated Press, etc., Climate Change Is Not Making Hurricanes ‘Wetter’

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What is this “democracy” that Max Boot seeks to protect? It seems undeniable that his understanding of “moderation” includes the elimination of “content” (even if completely accurate) that puts left of center political interests and candidates in a bad light. The thin pretense that Boot is deeply committed to the truth is part of the same vision animating Nancy Pelosi’s claim that legislation intended to make election cheating vastly easier is needed to “save” democracy.

The weird use of “democracy” here is more than a cynical attempt to gain an electoral edge for one side. There appears to be a coherent tacit redefinition of “democracy” at work.

68% of U.S. execs admit their companies are guilty of greenwashing (Fast Company) In their limited sample.

Global executives suspect their own companies of “greenwashing” (Axios) based on the same small sample.

XR scientists glue hands to business department in London climate protest (The Guardian)

The Wild, Uncertain Future of Carbon Dioxide Removal (Gizmodo)

Is civil disobedience OK if it’s the only way to prevent climate catastrophe? (The Guardian)

Why are climate and conservation scientists taking to the streets? (The Guardian)

The climate crisis is supercharging rainfall in hurricanes, scientists report (CNN)

First look: Climate, environment shape Gen Z life decisions (Axios)

Exit the Paris Climate Accord

Where have all the Clouds gone and why care?

??Oceans Aren’t Just Warming—Their Soundscapes Are Transforming (Wired ‘Science’)

Ann Coulter is fed up.

Weird that the media didn’t cite Ketanji Brown Jackson’s height and weight as her most important characteristics. When it came to THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN ON THE SUPREME COURT, it was all about her race. But after a guy shot up a New York City subway car this week, the last thing the media wanted to tell us was his race.

For more than three hours after the attack, we got urgent alerts: Suspect at large! Police request public’s help! Be on the alert for a male, about 5’8?, 160 lbs.”

In this particular case, the media’s rule of never telling us the suspect’s race (unless he’s white) was more deranged than usual. This wasn’t a carjacking. It wasn’t a shooting at a block party. It wasn’t an attack on an Asian or Jew. This crime had all the earmarks of a terror attack — smoke bombs, fireworks, a gas mask, and about a dozen people shot while trapped in a subway car.

The police desperately needed the public’s help, but most people were looking for a Middle Easterner.

Backed-up pipes, stinky yards: Climate change is wrecking septic tanks (Washington Post) Not that anybody at the Washington Post has ever had a septic tank.

Biden to announce authorization of E15 gasoline in an effort to increase US fuel supply, reduce gas prices  And, quite coincidentally, give a windfall to ethanol producers at the expense of drivers everywhere.

Why ‘eco-conscious’ fashion brands can continue to increase emissions (The Guardian)

Blistering June heat, unprecedented April snow: Climate change makes extreme weather more likely in Oregon (OregonLive)

New York shows the challenges of phasing out fossil fuels, even in blue states (Washington Post)

Our Climate Is Heating Up And We Know How To Stop It. But Will We? (NPR)

US indigenous communities to receive $46m to address global heating (The Guardian)

The race to roll out ‘super-sized’ wind turbines is on (CNBC) Wonder how many birds those will kill.

Climate change ravaged America’s oil capital. Can it lead on clean energy? (L.A. Times) Except that it didn’t.

Earth’s CO2 levels to hit alarming milestone (Axios)

‘I was enjoying a life that was ruining the world’: can therapy treat climate anxiety? (The Guardian)

Are cities ‘spongy’ enough to handle floods? New climate resilience report points to nature for solutions (CNN)

America’s Huge Natural Gas Reserves

Interpreting extreme climate impacts from large ensemble simulations—are they unseen or unrealistic?

NZ helped scrub ‘plant-based’ diets from IPCC climate report

Climate model code is so outdated, MIT starts from scratch

Hydrogen 11 times worse than CO2 for climate, says new report (New Atlas)

UK to finalise world’s first subsidy for clean hydrogen production by end of the year (Recharge)

Electrifying homes to slow climate change: 4 essential reads (The Conversation)

All the new oil and gas projects approved since IPCC report

New Research Shows Estimates of the Carbon Cycle – Vital to Predicting Climate Change – Are Incorrect (SciTechDaily)  My, what a surprise.

Why Global Temperature Doesn’t Matter for Global Crop Yield

NPR Wrongly Blames Climate Change for Suffering Caused by Civil War, Corruption, and Weather

The Elite Think Climate Action is More Important than Your Ability to Pay Your Bills

“Green” Dreams Kill People

Blood on the blades: are thousands of dead bald eagles too high a price to pay for “clean” energy

It’s Time for Transparency of The Embedded Costs of Going “Green”

It’s Time to Vax the Chix

After Europe’s latest Covid surge, will the US follow suit? (The Guardian)

The Dirty Little Secrets of Trump’s Pandemic Aid (Daily Beast)

‘Black carbon’ threat to Arctic as sea routes open up with global heating (The Guardian)

Environmental group calls for deflating tires of SUVs to combat climate change: target ‘wealthy areas’

‘Swallowing a toad’: Progressives warm to Manchin’s fossil fuel demands to clinch climate package (Politico)

It’s time to break ground on our net-zero future (The Hill)

With air quality worsening, Colorado’s top environmental officials seek millions more to fight pollution (Denver Post)

Advocate promotes fossil fuels for poor nations he once disparaged (Washington Post)

Africa looks to renewables to curb warming, boost economies (Associated Press)

U.S. nuclear electricity generation continues to decline as more reactors retire

New Study: Arctic Was Much Warmer 6000 Years Ago… 90% Of Glaciers, Ice Caps Smaller Than Present Or Absent!

Rio Tinto investors vote against financial statements in climate protest (The Guardian)

Broadcast meteorologists are taking up the task of communicating the effects of climate change as crisis accelerates (Boston.com)

Energy & Environment — Rich counties behind most ecological damage (The Hill)

The Rise — and Beauty — of the Native Plant (Washington Post)

NYS Senate passes $4.2B budget measure to fund environmental infrastructure

Washington State Enacts 2030 Target For Fossil Fuel Phaseout

NASA scientist arrested at climate change protest

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A couple recent episodes of the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Picard featured Starfleet crew members traveling back in time to present day to beat up U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, free a busload of illegal immigrants on their way to be deported, and lecture that racism just “took off a hood and put on a suit” in the early 21st Century.

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Liberals think conservatives are awful, but the truth is that conservatives don’t do enough awful things to keep liberals supplied. So liberals fill the gap by simply making up slanders against conservatives. (You could analogize this to the surfeit of hate crime hoaxes.)

Climate scientists are desperate: we’re crying, begging and getting arrested (The Guardian)

First on CNN: Americans are far more likely to say climate crisis is a threat after facing recent extreme weather (CNN) Which is why the constant drumbeat in the Narrative Media.

Antarctic sea ice reaches second lowest level in 44 YEARS as scientists warn melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could cause global sea levels to rise up to 10 feet  (Daily Mail)

Pinterest announces ban on all climate misinformation (The Guardian) In the Narrative Media, ‘misinformation’ means ‘disagrees with the Narrative’.

Pinterest bans misinformation about climate change (CNN)

European Environmentalists Have Made Energy Independence Impossible

3 Recent Examples of Government Environmental Extremism

Nuclear power helped prevent ~2M deaths in the last 50 years

Nuclear fusion hit a milestone thanks to better reactor walls

Woka-Cola and Bill Nye Teach World to Greenwash

Theion sulphur crystal batteries promise breakthrough in energy density

IPCC: We can tackle climate change if big oil gets out of the way (The Guardian)

UN: 18 Nations Have Gone Green on Climate, Raked in Green (U.S. News & World Report)

Stanford engineers invent a solar panel that generates electricity at night  Could be big.

Climate change to rule Rays out of St. Pete waterfront stadium? (Tampa Bay Times)

New York to ban natural gas in new buildings: report

The world is on fire. Why is Canada considering massive new oil drilling? (The Guardian)

This Is How the Global Energy Crisis Ends (Wired)

Wind energy needs dramatic increase to hit net-zero goals, new report says (CNBC)

A Game Changer in the Fight Against Climate Change (Newsweek)

The Case Against Closing Nuclear Power Plants (The Nation)

Claim: Global team of scientists determine ‘fingerprint’ for how much heat, drought is too much for forests

Why Renewables Can’t Solve Europe’s Energy Crisis

Reality Cannot Penetrate Into The Fantasy World Of Climate Campaigners

German parliament passes law to ramp up renewable energies, goal is 80% in 2035

Noam Chomsky: “We’re approaching the most dangerous point in human history”

How Climatologists Forgot the Sun Was Shining: Your Questions Answered

Fake Warming Along the Great Barrier Reef

It’s not too late to stave off the climate crisis, U.N. report finds. Here’s how (NPR)

‘It’s now or never’: World’s top climate scientists issue ultimatum on critical temperature limit (CNBC)

‘Superblooms of fungus’: Climate change is making valley fever worse (L.A. Times)

White House details ‘immense’ risks of climate change for federal budget (The Hill)

Nevada toad declared endangered at site of geothermal plant (Associated Press)

Saving America from Planet-Threatening Fossil Fuels?

We’re Not Even Close to EVs Being as Cheap as Gas Cars, Mercedes Says

It’s Now or Never for The Planet! ABC & NBC Panic Over Climate Change

Worried About Climate Change? Come Borrow Some Money!

Wrong, Denver Post, Fires and Floods Aren’t Increasing

‘It’s Now or Never’: CBS Hypes ‘Dire Climate Report,’ Demands End of Fossil Fuels

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The corporate media’s effort to suppress any news of the ongoing border disaster, which is expected to accelerate after the Biden Administration’s widely advertised repeal of Title 42, includes suppression of the recent overrun of the Mexican National Guard near the border with Guatemala.

The hope and climate catastrophe roadshow: ‘there’s just this thirst for optimistic story’ (The Guardian)

Soon-to-be released UN report to say removing carbon from atmosphere only way to save climate

Bolsa Chica wetlands face dire threat from sea-level rise (O.C. Register)

Slap yourself and pay attention: The Doomsday Glacier is a global risk (WRAL Tech Wire)

The signs grow more dramatic and harder to ignore | Eco News (Western Advocate)

These companies say their carbon pipelines would curb climate change. Farmers object (NPR)

Climate change is speeding up sound in the ocean. That’s bad for marine animals (Fast Company)

“Who’s Talking Climate Change Now?”: Arab States Respond to Global Demand for Energy Security

Limits to green energy are becoming much clearer

The new Pause lengthens: now 7 years 6 months

Deep secrets of climate change

Wind Turbines Out West Part II

White House forced to clean up new Biden gaffe on renewable energy

US fuel economy rules will soon require 49 mpg average (CNN)

Breakup at Land Glacier (NASA)

US taps $420M to boost water supplies hit by climate change (Associated Press)

With climate change accelerating and despair growing, how far are activists willing to take their protests? (Boston Globe)

Why is Biden boasting about drilling for oil? Our planet demands we stop now (The Guardian)

Floridians don’t seem to care that our environment is being fouled (Gainesville Sun)

Weird: NY Times Praises UN Climate Guru Gluing Herself to Oil Company HQ’s

Estimates of the carbon cycle – vital to predicting climate change – are incorrect, Virginia Tech researchers show

Fossil Fuels v Renewable Energy

Greta Thunberg to publish a ‘go-to source’ book on the climate crisis (The Guardian) Because high-school students are the first people we consult on complex scientific public policy issues.

Will skiing survive? Resorts struggle through a winter of climate and housing woes (NPR) And the Cloud People are just devastated.

Misinformation is derailing renewable energy projects across the United States (NPR) In the Narrative Media, ‘misinformation’ means ‘disagrees with the Narrative’.

The Impending Climate “Crisis” in the Gulf of Mexico and Other Biden Frack Ups

Inside Climate News Confuses Models with Reality

“[CO2] Emissions are at an All Time High”: UN Admits they are Losing

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Just when you thought the Hunter Biden scandals had died in darkness, The Washington Post published more than 6,300 words on March 30 admitting that a notable fraction of his laptop contents was authentic.

Why now? Why not last year? Why did liberal outlets act like everyone expressing concern about Biden was a Trump-adoring kook?

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This week the Washington Post published a story on the contents of Hunter Biden’s very real laptop. The FBI have misplaced the laptop, but the Post has possessed the contents since June 2021. Now at least part of the story can be told.

When the New York Post first broke the laptop story in October 2020, a few weeks before the presidential election, the Washington Post was not happy about it. As I noted in defamed and disparaged it. WaPo reporters, WaPo columnists, and an esteemed WaPo fact-checker blasted the other Post’s scoops reporting those contents. Now the WaPo defamers are all but slapping themselves on the back for picking up after the Post.

Having taken part in the Post’s 2020 coverage and followed up with a book on the laptop, Miranda Devine is not impressed. In her Post column yesterday Devine observes the “curious omissions” in the Washington Post story….

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An attempt by CNN to promote its new streaming service by selling NFTs of the opening moments of its programming has backfired, with a large majority of the product still available more than 24 hours after the initial broadcast.

How are we still subsidizing climate change? (The Hill)

Trends in Europe storm surge extremes match the rate of sea-level rise (Nature)

World delegates appear to kick deal to halt nature loss into long grass (Reuters)

Energy agency: ‘Radical action’ needed to hit climate goals (Associated Press)

Renewable energy agency head says only ‘radical action’ will accomplish transition (The Hill)

Extraordinary Antarctica heatwave, 70 degrees above normal, would likely set a world record (CNN)

Ellie Goulding trivializes Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at The Oscars as she draws attention to climate change (Daily Mail)

Canada lays out C$9.1 bln roadmap to meet 2030 climate targets

Waging War On Fossil Fuels Enflames Inflation

Part 5 of the series Australia’s Broken Temperature Record – All 224 Homogenised Temperature Series – Including the Bombing of Darwin

EXCLUSIVE: Climate Critics Rip Tom Friedman for Imbecilic Attack on U.S. ‘Oil Addiction’

How Freaked Out Should We Be About That Antarctica Ice-Shelf Collapse? (Daily Beast)

Climate change: Heatwave temperature threshold raised in England by Met Office (BBC)

Climate groups say a change in coding can reduce bitcoin energy consumption by 99% (The Guardian) I guess that’s important?

Bitcoin’s massive energy use faces $5M shame campaign from environmental groups (Ars Technica)

Climate change: Wind and solar reach milestone as demand surges (BBC)

Science Fiction Guide To Keeping Doomsday Glacier Hanging On May Be Within Our Technological Capabilities

Sorry, WaPo, There Is No Evidence Bleaching Threatens a Great Barrier Reef “Tipping Point”

Climate Past Far From Settled: 7 Major Temperature Reconstructions Find No Agreement

At UN Commission on Status of Women, Far Left Ties Gender Ideology, Abortion to Climate Change

Sorry, rooftop solar supporters, California incentives really do punish the poor (L.A. Times)

Environmental organizations unveil ‘Green New Deal pledge’ for 2022 candidates (The Hill) When you reflect on the fact that the original New Deal prolonged the Great Depression, it’s easy to see where they’re going with this.

Energy efficiency guru Amory Lovins: ‘It’s the largest, cheapest, safest, cleanest way to address the crisis’ (The Guardian)

Natural gas ‘large part’ of solution to climate goals, industry leader says

In Sri Lanka, Organic Farming Went Catastrophically Wrong

Madness of Our Worship of Wind: Matt Ridley

34 Years of Flawed, Failed & Grossly Misrepresented Global Sea Level Rise Speculation

Insurers could have been climate heroes. Instead, they have risked a crisis to dwarf 2008

A heat wave and snowfall: Why researchers are puzzled by Antarctica’s recent weather (BBC) When reality doesn’t follow the Narrative.

L.A.’s asphalt-covered schoolyards are an environmental injustice (L.A. Times) There’s that fashionable buzz-phrase ‘environmental justice’ again.

Reducing Our Reliance on Oil Will Increase Our Quality of Life (The New Republic)

Conserve oil — a little sacrifice won’t kill us (The Hill)

Complex Models Now Gauge the Impact of Climate Change on Global Food Production. The Results Are ‘Alarming’ (Inside Climate News) As they are carefully crafted to be.

Why geothermal energy is being viewed as a viable alternative to fossil fuels (PBS NewsHour)

Biden’s most effective climate warrior faces potential doom in the Senate (Politico)

Next arriving at Amtrak’s 30th Street Station: A PGW natural gas controversy

Tens of billions of dollars’ worth of property facing climate and erosion risk, analysis shows (ABC News)

Cities need to be redesigned for the climate crisis. Can they make us happy, too? (The Guardian)

How to save the Amazon? Brazil company says NFTs are the answer (CNN) I am not making this up.

Saving America from Planet-Threatening Fossil Fuels

Covid Pandemic and Climate Change Facts: Fact Checking the Fact Checkers

A Bold Idea to Stall the Climate Crisis—by Building Better Trees  (Wired ‘Science’)

Comprehensive European Study Finds Warmer Climate Periods Do Not Lead to More Conflict, War

Our soil is dying We and our governments need to act  Mostly our governments.

Newsom’s Energy Regulations Have Oil Tankers Emitting More Than Twice What All of California’s Vehicle Fleet Do

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Miranda Devine zooms in on the story of Devon Archer in the New York Post column “Biden’s silent as son’s former friend and business partner faces jail, financial ruin.” Devine updates us on the story: “Archer has less than five weeks left before he has to go to jail to serve a one-year, one-month sentence over a fraud he says he had no knowledge his then-partners were committing, and which cost him his life’s savings.”

Devine’s February 7 column anticipated Archer’s sentencing. Her previous column seems somewhat more cynical about Archer than her column today. In any event, her column today contrasts with it. In the February column Devine exhumes interesting material from Hunter’s laptop. Both columns are worth reading.

It has been left to the reporters and columnists of the New York Post to tell the Hunter Biden story. Archer is a chapter in the story. Archer and several of his business colleagues have been convicted of fraud in the case brought by Southern District of New York prosecutors.

Rescued Victorian Rainfall Data Smashes Former Records

“Its a Disaster”: Aussie Noise Nuisance Court Defeat Panicking Renewable Energy Investors

Senate unanimously supports Vermont’s 1st environmental justice policy There’s that ‘environmental justice’ slogan again.

There’s a 1 in 5 chance of a future dangerous COVID-19 variant, expert says (Deseret News)

New York Climate Act: Cost Estimate Sleight of Hand

Leading Environmental Group NABU Now Vigorously Opposes Wind Parks In German Forests

“Save The Children” Chooses Climate Virtue Signalling Over Feeding Hungry Kids

Ice shelf as big as New York City collapses in previously stable East Antarctica (Boston Globe)

Antarctic ice shelf nearly the size of Los Angeles collapsed as temperatures soared to 40 above normal (CNN)

Climate action has been ‘a calamity’, says Senate Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse (The Guardian)

Fridays for Future school climate strikes resume across the world (The Guardian)

Young Australians take climate protest to prime minister’s residence (Reuters)

Birds are laying eggs earlier, a new study shows. Scientists blame the climate crisis (CNN)

2021 emissions surge leaves less than 10 years to avoid 1.5 degree warming: study (The Hill)

Satellite data shows entire Conger ice shelf has collapsed in Antarctica (The Guardian)

Ice Shelf Twenty Times the Size of Manhattan Collapes in Antarctic Heat Wave (Daily Beast)

SEC proposes far-reaching climate disclosure rules for companies – here’s where the rules may be vulnerable to legal challenges

Big Three Evening Networks Ignore SEC’s Green Tyranny

Shifts in El Niño May Be Driving Climates Extremes in Both Hemispheres (Inside Climate News)

Arctic Sea Ice is More Modest than Maximal (NASA)

Climate Change Produces More Pollen – Driving Longer, More Intense Allergy Seasons  (SciTech Daily)

Extreme weather prompts UN early warnings push (Axios)

Climate change: Extreme weather warning systems for all ‘in five years’

Pressure grows for deal to save nature at crunch talks in Geneva (The Guardian)

‘We’re saving the last of the last’: what Florida’s endangered panthers need to survive (The Guardian)

The world’s forests do more than just store carbon, new research finds (The Guardian)

Australia’s carbon credit scheme ‘largely a sham’, says whistleblower who tried to rein it in (The Guardian)

Fuel price cuts in the UK will largely benefit the SUV-driving elite (The Guardian)

Climate change is causing Michigan dogsledders to shift gears from snow to dry land (Washington Post)

Greta Thunberg condemns ‘racist’ decision to let UK firm mine on Sami land (The Guardian)

President Trump Still Causing Heads to Explode on Climate Change

Can an Australian Billionaire Change the Face of Fossil Fuel Dependency? (Newsweek) Apparently not, since the company in question is resisting being bought.

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It is no accident that virtually every claim that is consistently labelled as disinformation is one that threatens the policy agenda of the Democratic party (or parts of their agenda that they are too embarrassed to state publicly). “Disinformation” is no longer a concept used to separate truth from falsehood. In the past few years, it has been rhetorically intensified to circumvent the question of truth entirely. It is a means to annex the public’s role in assessing the validity of reporting, placing this authority solely in the hands of “experts” who have the exclusive right to say what is “true.” Understanding the differences between “misinformation” and “disinformation” and observing the ways these concepts are arbitrarily applied is crucial to grasping how our media and other institutions undermine genuine public deliberation—a prerequisite for any functioning democracy.

Record-Smashing Heatwaves Are Hitting Antarctica And The Arctic at The Same Time (ScienceAlert)

Russia used ‘soft power’ to influence EU policies and anti-fossil fuel efforts (The Hill)

Arctic sea ice could hit maximum extent ‘much earlier’ than usual (The Guardian) Could!

What happened to the world’s ozone hole? (BBC)

Plant once considered extinct now flourishing in Ohio

Finding fossil fuel alternative to Russian oil and gas makes short-term sense (The Guardian)

Indiana one of most polluted states. New report says legislature gets a D+ on green bills. (Indianapolis Star)

South Korea sued to stop deep-sea gas pipeline (BBC)

Dutch bank ING ends financing for new oil and gas projects (Reuters)

“ESG” efforts to rid the world of fossil fuels will drive humanity back to medieval times

More Confirmation Of The Infeasibility Of A Fully Wind/Solar/Storage Electricity System

UN Secretary General Lashes Out at “Climate Holdout” Australia

The Renewable Energy Fail

Climate Change is About Control, Stupid – Not The Environment

Climate change: ‘Madness’ to turn to fossil fuels because of Ukraine war (BBC)

Rich countries must stop producing oil and gas by 2034, says study (The Guardian) Must!

This school wasn’t built for the new climate reality. Yours may not be either (NPR) New climate reality!

Latinos have an air pollution crisis — we demand cleaner cars (The Hill) One Woke columnist speaks for all Latinx!

The four horsemen of the apocalypse are destroying planet Earth (The Hill)

Kuwait, among world’s hottest places, lags on climate action (NBC)

Climate change: IPCC scientists to examine carbon removal in key report (BBC)

Extremes of 40C above normal: what’s causing ‘extraordinary’ heating in polar regions? (The Guardian)

WEF Issues Ominous Warning Over Coming Food Crisis, Recommends ‘More Sustainable Diets’  Eat bugs!

UN Warns Individualistic Conservatives Threaten the Planet

“This is madness”: UN Secretary General Whining About Abandoned Climate Goals

Environmentalists Rage at Efforts To Lower Gas Prices

Morano on SEC ‘climate risk’ disclosures: ‘It’s a way for climate activists to literally get their claws into every aspect of a business’ without a vote of Congress

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It goes without saying that leftists have perfected the art of situational ethics. The basic operating rule for the left is: “‘Democracy’ means getting what we want; if any institution doesn’t give us what we want, that institution must be destroyed,” though they will always call it “reform.”

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From “democracy in crisis” to rule by decree faster than Vin Diesel in Fast & Furious 10. (Shouldn’t Vin Diesel change his last name in this time of the climate crisis? Maybe some other time. . .)

We now see this in the case of the Supreme Court, which is infuriating liberals because it no longer serves as a policy-making body for the left to use as an end-run around the branches of government accountable to voters.

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There are now two main ways of reading the phenomenon of early modern witchcraft. One is the dogged academic research of scholars like Peter Maxwell-Stuart, Ronald Hutton and Keith Thomas. The other is an attempt to bend the reality of history to fit a modish exploration of feminine identity and the tyranny of the patriarchy down the ages. I Am Witch: Tales from the Roundhouse, recently staged in Lancaster, falls firmly into the second category.

The exhibition sets out its stall early on. It refers to “The Burning Times”, the title of a 1990 Canadian documentary which presented an unapologetically feminist reading of witchcraft in the early modern period and certainly one of the most laughably poor and ahistorical films of its generation. It goes on to state its purpose as explaining “how epigenetically inherited trauma from those times continues to affect us today, and how creativity, ceremony and sisterhood offer all of us a pathway to healing.”

Every ‘modern witch’ (and believer in astrology) I’ve ever met was a Democrat (or to the left thereof).

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he institutionalisation of gender-neutral language is designed to change how we think, feel and act.

The Ministry of Truth has a substation in every public school, every Woke newspaper, and every activist bullpen.