Heatwaves at both of Earth’s poles alarm climate scientists (The Guardian)

Both of the planet’s poles experience extreme heat, and Antarctica breaks records (NPR)

The U.S. may force companies to disclose climate risks, marking a historic change (NPR) Needless to say, climate change is no business of the SEC.

Big-box stores could help slash emissions and save millions by putting solar panels on roofs. Why aren’t more of them doing it? (CNN) Because ‘save millions’ is a lie.

A global warming event of the ancient world previews our future

Prolonging the Climate Crisis

Underwater Permafrost Is a Big, Gassy Wild Card for the Climate (Wired ‘Science’)

Guardian: Nine Cattle Killed in One Strike Proves Climate Change

Hydropower eyes bigger energy role, less environmental harm (Associated Press)

This Ancient Fertilizer Is a Skeleton Key for Saving Earth (Daily Beast)

These cattle ranchers are raising better beef, spending less — and reducing carbon emissions (CNBC)

A growing battle over carbon capture and climate change riles Iowa (NBC)

Meet the sailing robots trying to solve climate change (The Hill)

Both of the planet’s poles experience extreme heat, and Antarctica breaks records (NPR)

Intl Energy Agency report urges ENERGY LOCKDOWNS: ‘Banning use of private cars on Sundays…Reducing highway speed limits…more working from home…cutting business air travel’ & SUV ‘tax’

NYC allows citizens to report idling vehicles in exchange for a cut of the fines

SUV Tire Deflating Eco-Terrorists Claim Public Support

Big-box Stores could slash Emissions, save Millions – Put solar-panels on Roofs

What Our Betters Have In Mind For Us In The Era Of Fossil Fuel Suppression

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Some observers consider the New York Times’ belated admission that Hunter Biden’s laptop was genuine to be a big deal. I don’t. For one thing, the Times hasn’t acknowledged, and won’t report on, the specific information on the laptop that told the story of Joe Biden’s corruption.

Moreover, there was never any doubt about the genuineness of the laptop and the data it contained. The owner of the repair shop had a receipt with Hunter Biden’s signature on it, the laptop contained a large number of self-validating videos and photos of Hunter in various compromising situations, and the authenticity of emails on the laptop was confirmed by the presence of the same emails in other accounts. The idea that the laptop was “Russian disinformation” was a desperate and absurd invention intended to fool those who paid no attention, and those who wanted to be fooled.

NewYork Post.

They are the supposed nonpartisan group of top spies looking out for the best interest of the nation.

But the 51 former “intelligence” officials who cast doubt on The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop stories in a public letter really were just desperate to get Joe Biden elected president. And more than a year later, even after their Deep State sabotage has been shown again and again to be a lie, they refuse to own up to how they undermined an election.

The officials, including CNN pundit and professional fabricator James Clapper — a man who was nearly charged for perjury for lying to Congress — signed a letter saying that the laptop “has the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”

What proof did they have? By their own admission, none. “We do not know if the emails .?.?. are genuine or not,” the letter said. They’re just “suspicious.” Why? Because they hurt Biden’s campaign, that’s evidence enough.

In a World on Fire, Stop Burning Things (The New Yorker)

Climate change: Wildfire smoke linked to Arctic melting (BBC)

Mac Studio is far better for the climate than the iMac Pro—even with the display (Ars Technica) As an Apple shareholder, I urge you to buy one of each. Heck, buy two – they’re small.

Miami, a fave among spring breakers, is feeling effects of rising seas (N.Y. Post)

It’s 70 degrees warmer than normal in eastern Antarctica. Scientists are flabbergasted. (Washington Post) And that’s not a good look for them.

Money might save your property, but who wants to live in a country where the poor drown and the rich are saved?  (The Guardian) Well, me, if I’m one of the ‘rich’.

Biden admin canceling Keystone ‘not going to solve global warming’: Steel pipe and tube manufacturer It will, of course, destroy the livelihoods of those depending on that work to live, but nobody cares about the rubes in Flyover Country.

Mark Ruffalo, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Stiller and more stars sign letter protesting Canada Gas Pipeline

Where Rising Seas Threaten Drinking Water, Scientists Look for Affordable Solutions (Scientific American)

Four climate investors explain the new boom — where the money’s going and risks ahead  (CNBC)

Utah Lake Restoration Project must complete Environmental Impact Statement

Lawmakers pursue $15 billion plan for climate justice in New York (Gothamist) ‘Climate justice’?

Sea ice over Antarctica just shrank to its smallest on record (Washington Post)

Climate Change Weekly #429: Climate Change Poses No Existential Threat. Nada. Not Any.

The Climate Change Spiral is Back

Climate Change Is Disrupting the Global Supply Chain Too  (Wired ‘Science’)

Elites Suggest Price Controls, Dystopian Travel Restrictions To ‘Manage’ Soaring Energy Costs

GREEN THINKING:  Geopolitical considerations

Large net gain of usable global land due to climate change

The man who could help big oil derail America’s climate fight (The Guardian)

Swiss Re cuts fossil fuel cover for oil, gas to protect climate (Reuters)

Oregon and the West may be stuck in perpetual drought, study says (Oregon Public Broadcasting)

Target looks to massive solar panels in a California parking lot as a green model to power its stores Signal that virtue! Signal that virtue!

Clean energy superstar or smokescreen for fossil fuel use? Here’s what you need to know about hydrogen. (Washington Post) At least, according to the Narrative.

Kansas impasse shows green energy opposition has lost steam (Associated Press)

Democrats Don’t Want You To Know How Much Fossil Fuel It Takes To Power Electric Cars

Bloomberg Green: We All Need E-Bikes Because Climate Change

Aussie SMH Gives Up on the Snowy River Green Energy Pumped Hydro Scheme

A ‘Plan B’ for Addressing Climate Change and the Energy transition

Proxy Rates of Sea Level Rise

Climate-driven water woes spark Colorado rush to conserve ‘liquid gold’ (CNBC)

Methane emissions cuts as an Arctic ice shield (Axios)

Satellites show Arctic sea ice is melting even faster than scientists realized (Space.com)

California’s rooftop solar decision remains on hold (San Diego Union-Tribune)

Proposed air pollution limit in England is twice as high as WHO recommends (The Guardian)

Sea-level rise creating ‘ghost forests’ in North Carolina (CBS)

Climatologists warn Granite State about future climate trends in 2022 climate assessment

Critics respond to EPA’s plan to rein in trucking pollution (Salon)

Natural gas is expensive, dirty and financing war. Here are 5 ways to use less of it to heat your home (CNN)

Record ‘bomb cyclone’ bringing exceptional warmth to North Pole (Washington Post)

With composting, Californians can take climate change into their own hands (L.A. Times)

Ancient Ice Reveals Scores of Gigantic Volcanic Eruptions

Climate Alarmists Bidding to Claim the Coming Food Price Crisis

The BBC’s Fake News About Fracking

Allergy season will start much earlier than normal and be far more intense because of climate crisis, study suggests (CNN)

Air pollution linked to higher risk of autoimmune diseases (The Guardian)

Energy conference leader pans Kerry’s 2050 climate goals: ‘Going to still be an energy mix’

Why Raskin’s climate change views sank her Fed nomination (Axios)

A pro-fossil fuel Disney ride voiced by Ellen DeGeneres and Bill Nye? Yes, it existed (The Guardian)

Florida’s anti-solar bill helps Vladimir Putin. DeSantis should veto it (Miami Herald)

Legal eagles: how climate litigation is shaping ambitious cases for nature (The Guardian)

House Democrats to Biden: Use climate action to restart negotiations on a spending bill (CNN)

Regulators Just Halted Assembly of the World’s Largest Tokamak Reactor (Popular Mechanics) This is why we can’t have good things.

Bees, trees and seas crises stem from unsustainable food production (The Hill)

Sea Ice Story Breaking Up?

Demand for ornamental plants is ravaging South Africa’s rare desert flora  (National Geographic)

Satellite and Surface Temperatures

Climate Change ‘Science’ = Propaganda

Study: Climate Change Boosted Plant Growth is Bad

Tyre Extinguishers

Has Russia Been Financing Western Environmentalism?

Green Fuel Folly: Forest Thinning (For Wood Pellet Production) Has A Profound Surface Warming Impact

Climate Models Don’t

The Atlantic Cries Nuclear War Is a ‘Climate Problem’

Australia climate change: Court overturns teenagers’ case against minister (BBC)

The Oil Crisis Is Making Fossil Fuel Executives Cocky and Vengeful (New Republic) As opposed to before, when it was Woke activists who were cocky and vengeful.

Microsoft and Jeff Bezos are backing this start-up that aims to retrofit millions of old buildings with ‘green’ energy

Climate change: Food systems are key to our collective survival (The Hill)

Climate Change Doesn’t Have to Spell Doom for Farms and Food (Washington Post}

At global energy conference, leaders acknowledge fossil fuels not going away soon

DC is asleep at the wheel when it comes to climate (The Hill)

Coral resiliency offers encouraging signs despite warming oceans (NBC)

Separating Science From Pseudoscience For Floods And Extreme Precipitation

Scottish Government Ignores Frantic Food Crisis Warnings, Embraces Green Piety

Crown Prince Frederik visits climate-friendly factories  Members of European royal families are reliable weathervanes indicating Establishment viewpoints.

Is super-polluting Pentagon’s climate plan just ‘military-grade greenwash’? (The Guardian)

‘Defining moment’: how can the US end its dependency on fossil fuels? (The Guardian)

Sun sets on Mexico’s paradise beaches as climate crisis hits home (The Guardian)

Iran to install 550k rooftop solar units until 2025

Potholes, road salt and climate change: Warmer Maine winters raise new concerns (Press Herald)

Ethanol’s clean air benefits clouded by greenhouse gas emissions (Star-Tribune)

Global Warming, Quantified

Warming Could Lead To Fewer Tornadoes… Trend Has Been Downward 70 Years, Less Damage

The Atlantic: Even a Minor Nuclear War would be a Climate Problem  Among other things.

Congress earmarks cash for fusion energy development

Environmentalists Give in to Anti-Semitic Pressure Campaign, Cancel Israel Trip

Claim: Permafrost peatlands approaching tipping point

Tens of thousands take part in climate protests across France (The Guardian)

The geopolitics of fossil fuels and renewables reshape the world (Nature)

The switch to secure, green energy must bring voters in from the cold (Financial Times)

Initiatives at the top of America’s climate and energy agenda (The Hill) Well, the government’s, anyway.

Tories plan big expansion of wind farms ‘to protect national security’ (The Guardian)

Hupa Woman Becomes First Native American Member of State Environmental Justice Committee

Climate tipping might not always be disastrous

Yale 360: Climate Change is Disrupting Global Supply Chains

Tokamak Energy achieves temperature threshold for commercial fusion

House Democrats Cancel Looming Embarrassment With Oil Executives

Manchin to chief energy regulator holding up natural gas projects: ‘Do your damn job’

Early site work to begin for Canadian SMR (World Nuclear News)

Greenwashing UK fashion firms to be named and shamed by watchdog (The Guardian)

Heat pumps can counter Putin and the climate crisis, advocates say (Washington Post)

‘Defining moment’: how can the US end its dependency on fossil fuels? (The Guardian)

Kerry: Wealthy nations to live up to $100B climate change pledge next year (The Hill) Sure, I believe that.

Make no mistake, the fossil fuel industry is for profit, not the people (The Hill)

Climate Model Democracy

BBC Climate Advice: Misery for Ordinary Britons, to Avoid the Need to Frack

Santa Barbara County denies proposal to restart offshore oil production

How oil companies rebranded deceptive climate ads as ‘free speech’ (The Guardian)

Mass. top court skeptical of Exxon defense in climate change suit (Reuters)

Even many decades later, redlined areas see higher levels of air pollution (NPR) Tragic Dirt!

Environmental Groups Are United In California Rooftop Solar Fight, with One Notable Exception (Inside Climate News)

Utility profits unspoken part of rooftop solar fight (The Coast News)

How did we get here? The roots and impacts of the climate crisis (Science News)

Democrats want the oil industry to drill more. What does that mean for climate campaigners? (Washington Post)

Extinction Rebellion Promises to Disrupt UK Refineries

A Cautionary Tale:  Good Idea, Disastrous Results

Climate change won’t wait for future innovation – we need action now (Nature)

Climate Change Weekly #428: Democrats Can’t Solve Energy-Related Problems Because They Don’t Understand They Are Causing Them

Environmentalists vs. Science

Climatistas Officially Declare Themselves Brain Dead

Amazon rainforest reaching tipping point, researchers say (BBC)

Satellite images show the Amazon rainforest is hurtling toward a ‘tipping point’ (Washington Post)

Humanity Just Produced The Biggest Increase in Global CO2 Emissions Ever Recorded (ScienceAlert)

ABC’s Stephanpoulos spars with Chris Christie over energy independence: Climate change is ‘existential crisis’

UN: Africa, already suffering from warming, will see worse (Associated Press)

Japan Sees NO WINTER WARMING In Decades…Tokyo Winters Haven’t Warmed Since 1984!

New Poll Shows 70% of Americans Favor Increased Oil, Gas Production

Environmentalist NIMBYism Means Foreign Policy Disaster

New York Democrats Caught Comparing Climate Change to 9/11

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Project Veritas has captured New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg delivering news that has somehow been deemed unfit to print in the paper (video below). PV’s post on the video comes under the heading “Pulitzer Prize Winning New York Times Reporter: January 6 Media Coverage ‘Overreaction,’ FBI Involved, Event Was Not Organized Despite Ongoing Narrative.”. PV’s post leads with a set of bullet points highlighting quotable quotes.

PV invites readers to contrast Rosenberg’s comments in the video with his own Times story (with Jim Rutenberg and Michael Grynbaum) “The Next Big Lies: Jan. 6 Was No Big Deal, or a Left-Wing Plot.” Subhead: “How revisionist histories of Jan. 6 picked up where the “stop the steal” campaign left off, warping beliefs about what transpired at the Capitol.” The contrast strikes me as newsworthy.

The ironic effort to wave away climate change in favor of ‘clean air’ (Washington Post)

There’s new momentum in Congress for a climate bill, but a lot of questions on what it could include (CNN)

Climate activists deflate SUV tyres in wealthy London neighbourhoods

OECD Climate Plan: Freeze in the Dark until the Green Revolution

Climate Change Is Taking a Big Bite out of Our Food Supply  (Wired ‘Science’)

Climate change must be adapted to as well as opposed (The Economist)

All Floridians will find their lives changed by rising and warming seas (Gainesville Sun)

Rising seas: Florida farmers, vulnerable to salt, should seek sustainable methods (Palm Beach Post)

UN report paints dire picture of the Gulf of Mexico’s future (Associated Press) When did a U.N. report ever NOT paint a dire picture?

Environmental groups sue TotalEnergies over climate marketing claims (Reuters) Good times to be a lawyer.

TotalEnergies target of lawsuit to test ‘greenwashing’ in advertising (Financial Times)

The Climatistas Are Lying Again

NY Times Front Page Fear-Mongers a ‘Harrowing Future’ Without Climate Action

BARF: Jamie Lee Curtis Writes Climate Change Comic Book About ‘Mother Nature’ Seeking Revenge Against Humanity

Misinformation about Sea Level Rise

The Pause Lengthens Again: No Global Warming for 7 Years 5 Months

The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter

Bald Eagle ‘Takings’: Biden’s Interior Department Protects Big Wind

Read it.

I wonder if that would work for the United States.

Florida is already seeing climate change. New global report says it could worsen (Miami Herald)

Climate change is already displacing people in Oregon. A UN report warns of more to come (Oregon Public Broadcasting)

End drilling in California waters to protect the coast and climate (L.A. Times)

UN: Droughts, less water in Europe as warming wrecks crops (Associated Press)

UN: Climate change to uproot millions, especially in Asia (Associated Press)

Why are Republicans fighting to pollute the air we breathe? (The Hill) Well, as it happens, they’re not.

What the UN climate report predicts for NYC (Gothamist)

‘Rising Risk’ special reexamines alarming NYC flood predictions, climate change (WABC-TV)

The Great Climate Change Debate – Karoly vs Happer

Shellenberger: The West’s Green Delusions Empowered Putin

Climate Prediction: Australia will become Drier but with More Rain

Wouldn’t Nuclear Winter Stymie Global Warming?

Ukraine Is in an Environmental Crisis Too  (Wired ‘Science’)

‘Delay means death’: We’re running out of ways to adapt to the climate crisis, new report shows. Here are the key takeaways (CNN)

Investigate Russia’s covert funding of US anti-fossil fuel groups (The Hill)

US supreme court signals it may restrict EPA’s ability to fight climate crisis (The Guardian)

Deforestation emissions far higher than previously thought, study finds (The Guardian)

New IPCC report: we are not prepared for what is coming (Greenpeace)

How one of Florida’s most beloved animals may be close to climate extinction (The Guardian)

Germany Weighs Extending Nuclear Plants Lifespans In Major Russia-Inspired Reversal

Offshore Wind Turbines Could Mess With Ships’ Radar Signals

The New Climate Strike – What a Good Idea

Thinktank linked to tech giant Canon under pressure to remove ‘dangerous’ climate articles (The Guardian) Dangerous! They don’t support the Narrative!

Psaki pushes renewable energy to stop dependence on foreign oil instead of increasing US production

Psaki says calls to enhance US oil production are a ‘misdiagnosis’ (The Hill)

Revealed: leading climate research publisher helps fuel oil and gas drilling (The Guardian)

What is the IPCC climate change report – and what will it say? (The Guardian) It will say it’s time to PANIC!

Climate change: UN report to show true scale of impacts (BBC) According to the Narrative, that is.

Biofuels may not be as green as we’ve been told  It was all a scam from the start.

York County town with most rapid sea level rise in Maine prepares for future flooding (WMTW Portland)

Earth Matters: New nuclear reactors on U.S. agenda; Facebook still lets climate denial slide (Daily Kos)

At Statehouse rally, protesters call for legislation to combat climate change (VTDigger)

Britain’s Steel Industry Hammered by Climate Change Taxes

How Biden’s Fed Nominee Could Transform Central Banking To Fit the Left’s Climate Agenda

As War Rages in Ukraine, UN Warns of Climate Change’s Impact on Mental Health  Yes, if you believe the ‘climate change’ hysteria, your mental health is in question.

UN Climate Report: Send Money, “Delay Means Death”  Astonishing how many U.N. reports boil down to ‘send money’.

Brookline wants a fossil fuel-free future. With latest ruling, the AG says: Not yet (again). (Boston Globe)

Healey rejects Brookline’s limits on gas hookups in new buildings (Boston Business Journal)

One way to combat Russia? Move faster on clean energy (L.A. Times)

Fossil fuel companies are trying to exploit this war for their gain. We can’t let them (The Guardian)

‘No Single Greater Action We Can Take Than Removing These Dams’: FERC Releases Environmental Document for Review (Lost Coast Outpost)

Biden should put climate change front and center in State of the Union (The Hill) Forget the war! Forget inflation!

Antarctic sea ice falls to lowest level since measurements began in 1979 (The Guardian)

Climate change pushed out of spotlight amid conflict, economic trouble (Axios) Except in the Narrative Media, of course.

The big idea: how can we adapt to life with rising seas? (The Guardian)

It might feel cold today, but the trend for winter in the West is warmer (Deseret News)

Putin’s Best Friend in the West: Environmentalists

White House Publishes a Reading on Countering Climate Denialism

Germany mulls extending nuclear plants’ life-span  I should think so.

Fossil Fuels Get $6 Trillion in Subsidies Annually (The Nation) Really? Really?

Experts – once again — tell Senate panel that California’s key climate change strategy is flawed (CalMatters)

Code red on sea level rise (NJ.com)

U.S. environmental enforcement activity has dropped, study shows (Reuters)

Washington’s benchmark glacier is shrinking (KING5.com)

Alaska worries for its salmon run as climate change warms Arctic waters

African countries spending billions to cope with climate crisis (The Guardian)

New Video Game Imagines San Francisco In 3022, After 200 Feet of Sea Level Rise (SFist)

This is what S.F.’s climate apocalypse could look like, according to hit video game ‘Horizon Forbidden West’ (S.F. Chronicle)

These African heritage sites are under threat from rising seas, but there’s still time to save them (CNN) Using YOUR money, of course.

One New Coral Reef Study Wipes Out Four Climate Alarm Narratives In One Fell Swoop

The True Cost Of The Green Energy Boom Is Now Being Realized

Americans want to fight climate change with nature (The Hill)

Feds rescind license extension for Florida nuclear plant (Asscoiated Press)

Fossil Fuel Industry Emitting 70% More Methane Than Official Numbers Show (Gizmodo)

Why Methane Is a Large and Underestimated Threat to Climate Goals (Yale Environment 360)

Black carbon pollution from tourism and research increasing Antarctic snowmelt, study says (The Guardian)

Soot is accelerating snow melt in popular parts of Antarctica, a study finds (NPR)

Wild animals seen at Beijing 2022 show success of environmental protection efforts (Global Times)

A New Study Has Found The Year When Sea Level Rise Truly Began Accelerating (Science Alert)

Sea levels have been rising since the American Civil War. The reason? Coal (Salon)

Will California go big on climate action? Here’s what lawmakers want (L.A. Times)

Santa Barbara’s Monique Limón and Steve Bennett Co-Author Bill for Climate Change Accountability (Santa Barbara Independent)

Greenland Melting From the Bottom Up (Weather.com)

First on CNN: Climate groups launch pressure campaign aimed at Biden ahead of State of the Union (CNN)

UC Berkeley students are now considered pollution under California environmental law (S.F. Chronicle)

White House science office to hold first event on countering climate change denial and delay (Washington Post)

John Kerry fears Russia-Ukraine war will distract from climate change

Mid-winter polar bear sea ice habitat is abundant & within range of long-term average

Special Report: Digital Brownshirts Attacking Free Speech on Climate Change Boosted by Liberal Media

John Kerry Orders Emergency Airdrop Of Solar Panels To Ukraine To Offset Carbon Emissions  Babylon Bee.

Climate change is intensifying Earth’s water cycle at twice the predicted rate, research shows (The Guardian)

Earth’s Water Cycle Is Changing Dramatically, And Much Faster Than We Predicted (ScienceAlert)

Virtual reality increasingly used to convey climate urgency (KOAT Albuquerque) I.e. Narrative propaganda.

Government climate advisers say cut fossil fuels to lower energy bills (BBC) Because ‘renewables’ are so cheap and cost-effective.

How a little-discussed revision of climate science could help avert doom (Washington Post)

Engineered microbes put waste to good use — and help the climate (Nature)

Claim: 10% Chance YOU Suffered a Climate Catastrophe Last Year

Sea Level Rise Will Be Catastrophic—and Unequal  (Wired ‘Science’)

10 steps you can take to lower your carbon footprint (Washington Post)

What is black carbon? The latest way humans are causing changes in Antarctica (CNN)

Soot is accelerating snow melt in popular parts of Antarctica, a study finds (NPR)

Survey: Most concerned about future extreme weather, only half taking steps (KOAT Albuquerque)

Innocent drinks ads banned over environmental claim (BBC)

Tension and trade-offs between protecting biodiversity and avoiding climate change (The Hill)

Climate activists spend millions for friendly Associated Press ‘news’

Most schemes to capture and reuse carbon actually increase emissions (New Scientist)

Rising sea levels pose perilous threat to California coast as study raises new alarms (L.A. Times) Call me when the real estate prices in Malibu start dropping.

IPCC: Climate change report to sound warning on impacts (BBC)

Environmental rules deal new blow to US natural gas pipelines (Financial Times)

The hidden melting of the most important ice on Earth, explained (Vox) Because you’re TOO STUPID to figure it out for yourself.

The home of Britain’s nuclear weapons is at risk — and climate change is to blame (CNBC)

Spain’s Solar Energy Crisis: 62,000 People Bankrupt After Investing in Solar Panels

Half-Truths About Retreating Glaciers

How We Have Mischaracterized Climate Risk

How global warming can be good for us  Matt Ridley.

Freeberg nails it.

I have seen lots of lists of “logical fallacies,” both formal and informal. But I have not seen an entry for what I would call, for lack of a better name, a fallacy of “the alternative is too frightening to contemplate.” There should be one. Someone should write one if no one has written one already.

The China Bioweapon must not be a bioweapon…must not have been a lab leak…must have escaped from a “wet market” or a Canadian postage stamp. Lots of people think that even though there’s no hard evidence to substantiate it. Because the alternative is too frightening to contemplate.

All these people bossing us around telling us to wear masks and take vaccines and stay home etc….they must have our best interests and our collective health at heart. They must. Not because we have reason to think they do, but because the alternative is too frightening to contemplate.

Millions of Americans will be forced into an involuntary polar plunge this week (CNN)

Climate scientist tells Joe Rogan he refuses to debate dissenters on climate change  They might win – can’t have that.

Megadrought likely to continue in Western Colorado and across the West for years, scientists say (Denver Post)

How Climate Change Is Destroying Arctic Coasts – Future Land Loss Calculated for the First Time (SciTechDaily)

Marshall Islands Growing, Not Shrinking. World Bank’s Embarrassing Error In Alarmist 2021 Report

NOAA and NASA’s Recent Sea Level Rise Claims Are All Wet – The Data Doesn’t Support It

Green Civil War: Renewable Energy vs Wilderness Preservation

Read it.

Two anti-capitalist diatribes in the guise of news articles made the same edition of the New York Times.

Steve Lohr, who covers business and economics, praised a new left-wing consortium of foundations and academics out to replace the free-market system that has brought so much prosperity to so many in America: “Wary of Economic Neoliberalism, Groups Fund Research on Alternatives.” The online headline of Thursday’s story was spicier: “What Can Replace Free Markets? Groups Pledge $41 Million to Find Out.”

China rushes to boost intensive care beds, doctors and stocks of medicine as Covid surges (The Guardian)

Chicago denies permit for scrapyard at heart of ‘environmental injustice’ battle (NBC)

Warming Trends: The Cacophony of the Deep Blue Sea, Microbes in the Atmosphere and a Podcast about ‘Just How High the Stakes Are’ (Inside Climate News)

Most Published Studies Exaggerated the Effects of Ocean Acidification – and Covid, Etc.

Latest From the Dreamworld of Green Energy

Climate Action? Politically Vulnerable Democrats Demand Lower Gasoline Taxes  The Climate Crisis is real and urgent, but getting re-elected is more important.

Climate change: Covid shutdown linked to record rainfall in China (BBC) Linked!

Law firms under pressure to stop representing fossil fuel interests (Boston Globe)  Pressure!

White House unveils tool to determine eligibility for environmental justice aid  (The Hill) There’s that new ‘environmental justice’ meme.

Antarctica will likely set an alarming new record this year, new data shows (CNN)

“Blue Blob” Near Iceland Could Slow Glacial Melting Until 2050 (SciTechDaily)

Unusually cold ‘Blue Blob’ is slowing the rapid melting of Iceland’s glaciers, but not for long (LiveScience)

Texas led the country in new renewable energy projects last year (CNBC)

Report says new nuclear reactor is risky; utilities disagree (Seattle Times)

New state senate bill would force CalPERS, CalSTRS to divest from major fossil fuel holdings (PressDemocrat)

Museums are in a race to save America’s treasures from climate change (NBC)

Idaho officials call on Washington governor to stop tax on fuel shipped to Idaho, other western states (KTVB)

More Shipping News – Was the Felicity Ace Fire caused by Electric Vehicle Batteries?

Sans Proof, Hysterical Politico Warns of Major Sea Level Rise by 2050

2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report (NOAA)

Oil firms’ climate claims are greenwashing, study concludes (The Guardian)

Accusations of ‘greenwashing’ by big oil companies are well-founded, a new study finds (NPR)

World spends $1.8tn a year on subsidies that harm environment, study finds (The Guardian) ‘Subsidies experts’? (Totally unbiased, I assure you.)

What Yosemite will look like in 2100 if we do nothing about climate change (S.F.Gate)

Yale, Stanford and MIT’s fossil fuel investments are illegal, students say (The Guardian) And, of course, ‘students’ are the experts.

Student climate activists from Yale, Stanford, Princeton, MIT and Vanderbilt file legal complaints to compel divestment (Washington Post) Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.

Ocean Cleanup Accused of Staging Removal After Plastic Looked Too Clean (Newsweek)

The Arctic could see ice-free summers by 2035, reshaping global shipping routes (CNBC)

Exclusive: Experts say the term ‘drought’ may be insufficient to capture what is happening in the West (CNN) Experts!

As climate change worsens, Republicans insist we must do nothing (Washington Post) Republicans@ Nothing!

‘Mind boggling’: CNN meteorologist shows how rising sea levels will affect the coasts (CNN) That is, if it actually happens.

Illinois to shut all fossil fuel plants by 2045 and invest $580M a year in renewables

Republicans champion Alaska drilling project that poses major climate test for Biden (Washington Post)

Paid press releases now officially the news: AP announces ‘largest single expansion’ of climate reporting ‘paid for through philanthropic grants’ of $8 million

Tur, Mann Imply GOP Is To Blame For Flooding, Sea Level Raise

U.S. Corn-Based Ethanol Worse For The Climate Than Gasoline, Study Finds  And still mandated by law.

AP Climate Army? Four Leftist Big Money Orgs Fund AP Eco-Journalists

Doomsday Climate Studies Turn Out To Be Overblown Nonsense

Sea level to rise one foot along U.S. coastlines by 2050, government report finds (Washington Post) And they’ve always been right before….

US sea levels will rise rapidly in the next 30 years, new report shows (CNN) Call me when property prices in Malibu and Martha’s Vineyard start decreasing.

Major banks pledging net zero are pouring money into the dirtiest fossil fuel (CNN) Gasp!

Earth is heating up too quickly for these tiny organisms to adapt (CNN)

This fuel plant will use agricultural waste to combat climate change (MIT Technology Review)

Climate change will harm Maine’s coastal infrastructure without revamp, EPA chief says (Bangor Daily News)

Sea Level Alarm.

Fact Checkers Defend Activist Scientists Because They Agree with Them Not Because They Are Right

Serious, Salty Trouble Is Brewing Under Antarctic Glaciers  (Wired ‘Science’)

Ireland, Sweden Show No January Warming Since 1988. Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Now More Than 40 Years Stable!

Slimy, Yet Satisfying? NYT Opinion Celebrates ‘Joy’ of Eating Bugs to Fight Climate Change  You first.

Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021 (Nature)

West megadrought worsens to driest in at least 1,200 years (Associated Press)

Flourishing plants show warming Antarctica undergoing ‘major change’ (The Guardian)

Flower growth in Antarctica is accelerating due to warming climate (New Scientist)

25-Year-Old New Hampshire Event Ended; Climate Change Blamed (The Weather Channel)

Michigan’s poor and minority communities most impacted by environmental racism (WWMT) Ah, now we’ve moved from ‘environmental justice’ to ‘environmental racism’.

U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline, study finds (Reuters) I guess that’s why it’s mandated by law.

Living in a woman’s body: like Earth, we are changing quickly through the violence of climate collapse (The Guardian)

Everyone Should Pay a “Solar Tax” (Energy Institute)

Gigantic Expanse of Sea Ice Breaks Free From Antarctica and Disintegrates (Discover Magazine)

As Ordinary People Struggle, Net Zero Policies are Killing Britain’s Gas Industry

Megadrought Alarm

Why No Environmental Impact Reports on Immigration?

What are the costs of the megadrought in the Southwest?

EPA promotes U.S. heatwave increase since 1960s while downplaying HUGE DECREASE in U.S. heatwaves since 1930s

Federal District Court Enjoins Use of the “Social Cost of Carbon”

Green steel without green hydrogen – can it work?

Citizen sleuths exposed pollution from a century-old Michigan factory  And don’t they look smug about it.

UK School Bans Meat Products Because Climate Change

U.S. joins France in push for global treaty to cut ocean plastic pollution (CBS)

Effects of climate change taking root in the wine industry (CBS)

Bering Sea ice is the farthest south it’s been in nearly a decade

Drastic cooldown in store for California, West Coast

We Desperately Need to Modernize Climate Change Emissions Tracking (‘Scientific’ American)

The Hill goes Full Climate Hysteria

Green hypocrisy hurts the poorest

Leading Climate Skeptic Dr. Steve Koonin on The Joe Rogan Experience

Western megadrought is worst in 1,200 years, intensified by climate change

Here’s how to demolish the most common excuses for climate crisis apathy (The Guardian)

Climate change is no longer a probability — it’s time to face reality (The Hill)

‘A slap in the face’: pipeline violates civil rights, say New Yorkers (The Guardian)

Simulation shows flooding of $1.4 billion Poseidon desalination plant in Huntington Beach (OC Register)

Maryland lawmakers are once again hoping to pass wide-ranging environmental legislation. Here’s what’s proposed. (Baltimore Sun)

A climate duty of care? (The Guardian)

Soak up the February sun? Not without climate change guilt in California (Politico)

Global sea level rise: All roads lead to one conclusion (EarthSky)

Sustainable aviation fuel costs more but consumers will be willing to pay, IATA chief says (CNBC) Not that IATA is going to ask them.

Queen Rania calls on global community to unite for climate change

Gas Stove Alarmism Fails

New Study: ‘On the Basis of Observational Data, the Climate Crisis…is Not Evident Yet’

Trump-appointed judge bars Biden administration from using key climate metric (CNN) Trump-appointed!

How two strong-willed Cambridge moms are working to wean Mass. utilities off fossil fuels (Boston Globe) The Karen is strong in these two.

Your Gas Stove is Bad for You (And Terrible for the Environment) (Popular Mechanics)

Unsafe In Your Own Home? Gas Stoves Harmful To Health And Environment, Studies Find (CBX) Sounds like a Narrative.

Forest Service oil transport plan would defy Biden climate promise (The Hill)

Poland’s plans to double down on gas-fired power plants put net zero target out of reach (Euronews)

Exploring Antarctica’s hidden under-ice rivers and their role in future sea-level rise (The Conversation AU)

Italy makes constitution greener, environmentalists call for action (Reuters)

First-in-the-nation project will cover canals with solar panel canopies (The Hill)

How birds are adapting to climate crisis (CNN) They don’t read CNN, for one thing.

Climate Change Weekly #425: Climate Model Problems Persist, Changes Reduce Accuracy Further

An Ocean of Ignorance Guides Western Energy Policy

Carbon Pricing Is Now Forcing UK Electricity Prices Higher

Two House Democrats question PR-award firms on work with fossil fuel companies (The Hill)

Oil companies’ climate pledges amount to ‘delay tactics,’ scientist testifies (Houston Chronicle)

The U.S. Army has released its first-ever climate strategy. Here’s what that means. (Washington Post) We have to tell you what it means because otherwise you’re too stupid to figure it out.

US Army releases first climate strategy with goal to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 (CNN)

We’re saved! U.S. Army sets 2050 net-zero emissions goal 

Florida Inches Closer to Kneecapping Rooftop Solar (Gizmodo)

TVA Unveils Major New Nuclear Program, First SMR at Clinch River Site

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announces tens of millions in funding for climate tech (The Verge)

Equilibrium/Sustainability — The warming Arctic is freezing Chinese crops

Climate Hype Leads to Climate Anxiety and Undermines Constructive Efforts

Turbine “torture” for Greek islanders as wind farms proliferate

Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy (BBC)

An unexpected item is blocking cities’ climate change prep: obsolete rainfall records (NPR)

Is the California Coalition Fighting Subsidies For Rooftop Solar a Fake Grassroots Group? (InsideClimate News)

Italy makes constitution greener, environmentalists call for action (Reuters)

Methane Spikes !

Green energy cannot save us

Are Climate Skeptics the Next to be Declared Terrorists?

New Army climate strategy aims for microgrids and tactical electric vehicles  I am not making this up.

The Misrepresentation Of The Scientific Consensus On Climate Change

$280 Billion NY State Pension Fund Dumps 21 Shale Companies Because They Haven’t Committed To Low Emissions

Pennsylvania Power Plant Closures Would Cause Real Harm for Illusory Environmental Gains

France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors  Suck on it, Germany.

Identify A-ha moments to trigger fast climate action, say UK scientists (The Guardian)

Scientists raise alarm over ‘dangerously fast’ growth in atmospheric methane (Nature)

Lawsuit Alleges Illegal Tactics in House Democrats’ Climate Probe of Oil Companies

Wash Post: ‘Climate change is altering the smell of snow’: ‘Its scent is getting stronger’ as temps increase

Nancy Pelosi Spent $500K On Private Jets While Preaching About Climate Change

Sad, @wapo Does Anything for a Headline – ‘Climate change is altering the smell of snow’

Just What Is CH For?

World’s glaciers contain less ice than thought – report (Reuters)

World’s biggest companies accused of exaggerating their climate actions (CNBC) Gee, I wonder why?

War-torn Sierra Leone rebuilds, sacrificing its only protection against sea level rise (L.A. Times)

Date set for first youth-led climate trial in U.S. history A find example of Spanking Deficit Disorder.

February 5, 2022: A Day Without Global Warming

Scientists raise alarm over ‘dangerously fast’ growth in atmospheric methane

BBC: Top Liberal Companies Exaggerating Climate Action

What’s the hottest the Earth’s ever been?

NYTimes Indulges Lefty ‘Climate Anxiety’: ‘Disposable Diapers Made Her Anxious’  Only indolence stops her from using cloth diapers – and having to was them – as my mother did.

National Audubon Society Sues Bay Area Wind Turbines

Climate change: Top companies exaggerating their progress – study

Trump failed fossil fuel-reliant communities — Build Back Better invests in them (The Hill)

How a fight over transgender rights derailed environmentalists in Nevada (Politico)

U.S. flooding losses will spike 26 percent by 2050 due to climate change, researchers say (Washington Post)

A decision made behind closed doors may set clean energy back by two years (Boston Globe)

The IPCC CO2 Climate Narrative: A “Behemoth On Clay Feet” …Ready To Collapse

Crisis for the Climate Models?

Technocrats Demand Meat Tax To Fight Climate Change

Facebook’s “Climate science center” Hypes “97% Experts Agree” Climate Alarmist Propaganda

Larsen B Embayment Breaks Up (NASA)

A New Database Reveals How Much Humans Are Messing With Evolution (WIRED)

A solution for rooftop solar needs to reflect California values (CalMatters)

Marin Voice: Mixing profit motive with critical service is wrong for solar energy (Marin Independent Journal)

Climate change is altering the smell of snow (Washington Post)

Visualized: a third of Americans already face above-average warming (The Guardian)

How “Climate Actions” Actually Kill People, Not Save Them

15 EU states subsidise fossil-fuels more than renewables

New German leader proposes a ‘climate club’ of leading economies that would punish free riders like Australia

Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis of climate-change variables

Union Pacific to Buy 20 Battery-Electric Locomotives

SMH: Young People want Climate Action More than Money

California regulators put controversial solar energy plan on hold as changes loom (Sacramento Bee)

Thousands of Planes Are Flying Empty and No One Can Stop Them (WIRED)

Borenstein: Environmental justice takes a hit in Oakland’s port plan (Mercury News) There’s ‘environmental justice’ again.

Big Oil board members decline to testify in U.S. House climate panel (Reuters)

Keep Diablo Canyon open, 79 scientists, academics and entrepreneurs tell Newsom

Gas prices jump in Keystone Pipeline cancellation fallout

More Focus On The Impossible Costs Of A Fully Wind/Solar/Battery Energy System

Green Wrecking Ball: Germany Clearing “Undisturbed” 1000-Year Old Forest, Make Way For Massive Wind Park

Claim: Global Warming will Turn Alaska into a Garden State

How journalists can get climate change right (L.A. Times)

High-stakes cost-sharing battle ignites solar power industry, rooftop solar adopters (Santa Rosa Press-Democrat)

Ice that took roughly 2,000 years to form on Mt. Everest has melted in around 25 (CNN)  OH NOES!

Has California’s landmark law cleaned communities’ dirty air? (CalMatters) Environmental justice!

Climate change beats Big Oil and Biden in court (The Hill)

Will New California Rules Destroy Rooftop Solar?

Climate Obsessed Canadian Regulator Crackdown on Oil Sands Financing

Climate Fish Scare Turns Out To Be Just a Fish Story

New research: natural gas appliances emit much more methane than realized  OH NOES!

Scientists propose mechanical trees to soak up CO2?

Coming soon: Climate lockdowns? (The Hill)

Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ keeps scientists at bay with iceberg and sea ice (The Guardian)

Climate change: EU moves to label nuclear and gas as sustainable despite internal row (BBC)

Cutting animal agriculture buys time to get off fossil fuels: study (The Hill)

Environmentalists bristle at early Youngkin moves (L. A. Times) Oh, man, you don’t want those environmentalists to bristle….

Ice shelf dangers on the shoreline of Lake Michigan

Rihanna Drops $15 Million on Climate Justice (Gizmodo) Oh, now it’s CLIMATE justice.  (Can Traffic Justice be far behind?)

The Pause Lengthens: No Global Warming For 7 Years 3 Months

Geology Insider Explains Why The Global Energy Crisis Is Going To Get Much, Much Worse

No, January 2022 Was Not A “Record Breaker”

Eco Baloney: Bloomberg Opinion Editor Suggests Blotting ‘Out the Sun’ to Fight Warming

Indiana bill targets banks that divest from fossil fuels, says they can’t do business here (Indianapolis Star)

Climate change may be supercharging Northeast snowstorms (Axios)

Ethical carbon offsetting has a role to play in tackling the climate crisis (The Guardian) You certainly wouldn’t want UNethical carbon offsetting….

The US government should end its war on natural gas (The Hill)

Mayor Adams Announces Appointments of Climate Leadership Team No leadership team is complete without a morbidly obese black woman.

105 More Non-Global Warming/Non-Hockey Stick Temperature Records Added To The Database In 2021

WUWT New York State Net Zero Plan Summary

Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy

UK Gas Production Could Plunge 75% By 2030 With No New Investment

New Mexico Climate Activists Fighting to Kill Hydrogen Economy Bill

Extreme Heat in the Oceans Is Out of Control  (Wired ‘Science’)

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Taylor Lorenz is leaving the New York Times. The adult reporter best known for attending an internet celeb’s 16th birthday party for “work” announced Tuesday she was joining the Washington Post as a columnist covering “technology, online life, influencers, memes, business, culture, & more!”

Lorenz, who is probably 37 years old (her true age remains a source of controversy), rose to prominence in 2018 by posting about the $22 avocado toast she ordered online. Since then, she has been the subject of more media profiles than any journalist in American history. Her latest career announcement, for example, was accompanied by an interview with Vanity Fair in which Lorenz threw shade at the Times for not taking her work “seriously” and struggling to “deal with talent” such as herself.

“I think that people do not understand my beat. They don’t take it seriously,” Lorenz told the magazine. “I think the Times is an incredible institution but mainstream media organizations have kind of struggled to figure out how they deal with talent.” The celebrity journalist went on to suggest the Times was not comfortable with the way she uses “the internet as a modern internet person.” (Whatever that means.)