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

The Coldest April in the Satellite Record over the Pacific Northwest

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

International Socialists Accuse Greta Thunberg of Supporting the Establishment

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

The Newest Climate Criminals: Oncologists?

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Vax in Germany: 40 Times Deadlier Than Previously Known

Bipartisan climate talks pick up steam (The Hill)s

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

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

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

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

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

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

John Kerry vs. Natural Gas

Claim: Cancer Surgery Causes Climate Change

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

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

How companies blame you for climate change (BBC)

Vermont’s proposed environmental justice bill clears the House

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MacBook Pro plant workers riot over China COVID lockdown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pinker vs. the AAAS on the politicization of climate change

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

China’s Politburo Doubles Down On Support For COVID Lockdowns

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pandemic Tracking and the Future of Data

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

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

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

Losing a Long-Watched Glacier (NASA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Samantha Power and the Green New Famine

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don’t panic about unvaccinated kids

A chronic case of mask fever

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Biden Gives Up on Mandatory Vaccines for Migrants

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

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

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

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

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

Real Threats to Biodiversity and Humanity

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

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

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

Electric Bus Catches Fire After Battery Explosion

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

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

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

Shanghai Ship-Jam Spells Supply Chain Trouble

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Magical thinking on fossil fuels endangers safety (Financial Times)

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

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

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

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

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

How Far Are We From Phasing Out Coal?

Queen Rania calls for optimism on climate crisis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

China Reports 1st Ever Human Case Of H3N8 Bird Flu

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

22 Countries Drop Mask Mandates As Experts Debate Consequences

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

Hospitals Ignoring Price Transparency Rule Rack Up Billion-Dollar Profit

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Utilities Want to Convert Coal Plants to Nuclear; Skeptics Abound

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

Climate Colonialists Disrupt African Pipeline, Perpetuate Poverty

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

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

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

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

DeSantis Vetoes Controversial Rooftop Solar Bill

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

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

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

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

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

Wait, Environmentalists Are Anti-Technology?

Climatistas’ Bank Heist Defeated

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

More Evidence That Masks Don’t Work

Sicilian Court Rules the Mandatory Vax Unconstitutional

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

Things The CDC Does Not Know

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

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

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

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

Ice Lost, Island Found? (NASA)

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

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

John Kerry Old School Playground Bully on Climate

The Annual Disaster Fake News Story

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

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

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

Through Flyover Country With Mask and Camera.

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

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

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

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

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

Korea offers six reactors to Poland

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

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

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

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

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

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

Earth Day Protest a Bust

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

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

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

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

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

7 Bonkers Corporate Earth Day Campaigns (Gizmodo)

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

Pennsylvania taking biggest climate step yet (ABC27)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Small Towns Drew Most New Pandemic Residents

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

The Times Takes a Baby Step Toward Covid Sanity

The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: “Vaccination”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why Gavin Newsom Is Creating A Water & Energy Disaster

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Twitter Bans Paid Climate Skeptic Advertisements

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

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

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’)