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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

21st December 2021

Biden boosts fuel-economy standards to fight climate change (AP) And help destroy the economy! A twofer!

How will our warming climate stabilize? Scientists look to the distant past (Ars Technica)

Why Nuclear Power Is Bad for Your Wallet and the Climate (Bloomberg Law)

Himalayan glaciers are melting at an extraordinary rate, research finds (CNBC)

Ice in the Himalayas Melting Fasting Than Ever (Daily Beast)

Power When You Need It? Not With Wind

How Pressure Systems Control The Climate Part 1 – Decline In Extreme Weather

 

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20th December 2021

The ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is in danger of collapse—potentially ominous news for cities like New Orleans, New York, and Bangkok (Forbes)

Climate change is driving supply chain shortages — and your supermarkets are not prepared (Salon)

Nuclear energy scares people. The climate crisis is giving it another chance (CNN()

See Bill Nye’s warning about ‘doomsday’ glacier (CNN) You don’t have to be a scientist – just play one on TV.

Activists rally for a healthy environment amendment. Could it pass in Arizona?

2021: when the link between the climate and biodiversity crises became clear (The Guardian)

Snowfall EVERY DAY Atop Kilimanjaro – Where Is Al Gore?

TORNADO

Bugs are evolving to eat plastic

Salon: Climate Change and Capitalism Causing Supply Chain Disruptions

 

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19th December 2021

Arrest the Climate Blasphemers!

Warmer winters can wreak as much havoc as hotter summers, say scientists (The Guardian) Havoc!

2021 brought a wave of extreme weather disasters. Scientists say worse lies ahead. (Washington Post)

Which Christmas trees are better for the environment — live or artificial? (Washington Post)

The feds have collected more than $44 billion for a permanent nuclear waste dump — here’s why we still don’t have one (CNBC)

Yes, the federal government is setting an example on climate action (The Hill)

Climate change is destabilizing the ‘doomsday glacier’ (Popular ‘Science’)

What Is ‘Disaster Capitalism’? Giant Oil Company Cashes In on Climate Crisis (Newsweek)

Is nuclear energy green? France and Germany lead opposing camps. (Washington Post)

Study: The Urban Heat Island Penalty Grows, Especially at Night

Ghana, Turkey, Armenia Going Nuclear Because of Climate Change

 

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18th December 2021

The “Doomsday Glacier” may partially collapse. If it does, Earth’s sea level will rise by 2 feet (Salon) Looking forward to it.

Scientists warn Antarctic glacier could collapse, raise sea levels at least a foot (The Hill) Jeez, guys, make up your mind.

Deforestation making outdoor work unsafe for millions, says study (The Guardian)

Outdoor workers are losing hours due to overheating from deforestation (New Scientist)

Unprecedented die-offs, melting ice: Climate change is wreaking havoc in the Arctic and beyond (LA Times)

10 ways you can help fight the climate crisis (UNEP)

Google failing to enforce climate denial policy, study finds (The Hill)

Global Coal Power Demand On Track For Record As Green Energy Transition Crumbles

Melting glaciers may produce thousands of kilometers of new salmon habitat

From Tornadoes To Myocarditis, Here Are The 9 Worst Effects Of Climate Change  Babylon Bee.

Claim: Climate Anxiety is Destroying the Lives of Young People

The US Mountain West Could Soon Face Snowless Winters  (Wired ‘Science’)

FLASHBACK: At Christmastime, Al Roker Talked About ‘Sin’ of Not Fighting Climate Change

Study: 3% Contrarians Derailing the 97% Climate Consensus  We few, we happy few….

The East Slams the West’s Climate ‘Colonialism’

Highlights From The Comments On Kids And Climate Change  Scott Alexander.

 

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17th December 2021

Experts Refute Claims Linking Deadly Tornadoes To Climate Change

Were the Recent Tornadoes the Result of Global Warming?

The Phrase “No Evidence” Is a Red Flag for Bad Science Communication

France’s EDF Shutters Two Nuclear Power Plants After Cracks Found

The Great Danger of the Tiny Bark Beetle

‘The Tragi-comic Climate Doomsday Cult’ (Melanie Phillips on COP26)

 

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No More Stories

17th December 2021

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Journalists need to stop writing “stories” and start monitoring empirical consensus.

This is a bit of a rant, and it’s about a topic that I’m not an expert on, but I do feel strongly about. So, despite the forceful language, please read this knowing that there’s still a fair amount of epistemic humility behind what I’m saying and I’m definitely open to updating my opinion if an expert on journalism or public policy were to have some compelling reason for the Chestertonian fence of the structure of journalistic institutions. Comments sections are the devil’s playground so I don’t have one, but feel free to reach out and if we have a fruitful discussion I’m happy to publish it here.

One of the things that COVID has taught me is that the concept of a “story” in the news media is a relic that needs to be completely re-thought. It is not suited to the challenges of media communication today.

Any journalistic article that doesn’t start out with the facts but starts with an anecdote is not a report but a ‘story’. Feel free to ignore it.

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The O’Keefe Project: The Times Strikes Again

17th December 2021

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

We have followed the story of the FBI raid on James O’Keefe and associates of Project Veritas in a series of posts under the heading “The O’Keefe Project.” The most recent of these posts is dated November 24. The FBI conducted these raids in the style to which we became accustomed in the case of Roger Stone and appears to have followed them up with leaks to its friends at the New York Times.

The New York Times has now published its fifth story on the investigation of O’Keefe et al. in connection with their possession of the diary of Ashley Biden. The otherwise questionable authenticity of the diary can be inferred from the involvement of the FBI. It has somehow become a federal case in the Age of Biden.

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Smartphones Are a New Tax on the Poor

16th December 2021

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A professor who doesn’t understand what the term ‘tax’ means ought to be fired.

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ABC Rediscovers Afghanistan Crisis, Ignores Americans Still Trapped

16th December 2021

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On Tuesday, the State Department and the White House drew scrutiny after they disclosed that there were still Americans and legal residents trapped in Afghanistan over three months after President Biden abandoned them there. Yet on Wednesday, when ABC was the only network to cover the ongoing humanitarian crisis there, they failed to mention those Americans.

ABC originally ignored the Tuesday discloser. And as NewsBusters reported, World News Tonight, along with CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News, spent a combined four minutes and six seconds covering holiday shipping and carrier deadlines.

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15th December 2021

Climate change has destabilized the Earth’s poles, putting the rest of the planet in peril (Washington Post)

Nature Conservation Groups Demand More Renewable Energy Transmission Lines

Can sponge cities help us prepare for more floods?

Did Climate Change Make That Freak Weather Even Worse?  Wired ‘Science’ thinks so.

Columbia Climate School: “Every Year will Bring New Converts”  “The camps are full, Comrade!”

Defense bill bans funding for EcoHealth Alliance

Does the CCP Control Extinction Rebellion?

 

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Why Not A $118 Minimum Wage?

15th December 2021

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Here we go again. The latest scheduled round of minimum-wage increases, to $15 per hour ($14 for small companies), starts Jan. 1. It hasn’t even gone into effect, yet calls are going out for a $18 wage. Why not $28? Or $58? Or $118?

Joe Sanberg, identified by the Sacramento Bee as a “Los Angeles anti-poverty activist and entrepreneur,” is working to put on the November 2022 ballot an initiative that would boost the minimum wage to $18 by 2025. Actually, a real, “anti-poverty activist” is anyone who favors America’s free-market system that has produced all the wealth in this country, including that used to help the poor.

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14th December 2021

LA Times flamed for advocating closure of California nuclear power plant, citing climate change fight

A major Antarctic ice shelf could shatter within five years (CNBC)

Thwaites: Antarctic glacier heading for dramatic change (BBC)

Climate change likely played a role in this weekend’s deadly tornadoes. The question is how. (CNN)

FEMA administrator blames climate change for deadly tornado outbreak  Of course he does.

Environmental protests rock Serbia (Axios)

Russia vetoes UN resolution linking climate change, security (Associated Press)

US tornadoes: Is climate change to blame? (BBC)

A Politicized Tornado

California’s Wild Weather, Wet or Dry, is Nothing New

The Arctic Is Warming Four Times Faster Than the Rest of the World  I want to see the coasts under water.

Government To Replace Tornado Sirens With Climate Change Alarms  Babylon Bee.

Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ could meet its doom within 3 years

 

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Free Beacon Alum Triggers Fragile Libs Into Canceling Subscriptions to the Atlantic

14th December 2021

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Dozens of fragile libs have canceled their subscriptions to the Atlantic after the storied media outlet published a guest column by Washington Free Beacon alum Matthew Walther.

The libs were triggered by Walther’s suggestion that “outside the world inhabited by the professional and managerial classes in a handful of major metropolitan areas, many, if not most, Americans are leading their lives as if COVID is over.” As anticipated, the professional and managerial classes seethed with rage on Twitter, aghast at the Atlantic for daring to publish Walther’s “nihilistic, genocidal” opinion.

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13th December 2021

Environmental groups are pushing for more agriculture regulations. Farmers say they’re already strapped.

No, California shouldn’t extend the life of its last nuclear plant. There are better ways to fight climate change (LA Times)

Minnesota lake ice shrinking as climate change warms winters (WEAU)

Charleston church attempts to bring attention to sea level rise (Charleston Post Courier) Hip, and trendy!

How the holiday buying season adds fuel to a rapidly warming planet (The Conversation CA)

New Miss Universe Urges ‘Action’ on Climate Change: Choice to ‘Kill or Save Nature’  Perhaps they ought to change the name to Miss Woke Universe.

Study: Cleared Tropical Forest Regrowth Helps Slow Climate Change  Who knew?

Rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities

The Looking Glass World Of “Climate Injustice” — Part III

CPUC Guts Solar Power in name of “equity,” adds $8/kW monthly charge paid to PGE.

Media, Liberals Quick to Blame Deadly Tornadoes on Climate Change

Mitchell & Leftist Climate Crusader Exploit Deadly Tornado to Sell Biden Agenda

California Looks To Stab Rooftop Solar Customers In The Back With Massive Incentive Rollback, New Fees

 

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12th December 2021

Biden uses tornado tragedy to push climate agenda, suggests storms are ‘consequence of the warming’

What New York needs to look like as sea levels rise (Fast Company) And what color tie the Emperor needs to wear with his new clothes.

A white Christmas is less likely for many. The Grinch to blame is climate change (CNN)

Wetlands point to extinction problems beyond climate change (The Hill)

The Real Climate And Health Crisis

Climate Dreams and Energy Realities

Recent Tornadoes are Due to Unusually Cold Weather

 

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11th December 2021

Native Americans’ farming practices may help feed a warming world (Washington Post)

S.F.’s plans to protect the Embarcadero from earthquakes and sea level rise could transform the Ferry Building

Help us support those on the frontline of the climate emergency (The Guardian) ITS AN EMERGENCY! GIVE US MONEY!

Climate change: Four cheap ways to save energy at home (BBC)

Reinventing the Battery Can Save Us From Climate Disaster (Daily Beast)

The father of environmental justice, on whether we’re all doomed (Vox) Of course we are – haven’t you been listening?

Toxic legacy: The fight to end environmental racism in Canada (Al-Jezeera)

The Man Who Predicted Climate Change (The New Yorker)

Magical coral spawning event gives reefs renewed hope

Promoters of Polar Bear Catastrophe in Hudson Bay Gloss Over Recent Good Ice Conditions

Fleeing Global Warming? ‘Climate Havens’ Aren’t Ready Yet

Critics Savage Progressive Climate Change Satire ‘Don’t Look Up’

The debate about nuclear power and climate change

Geothermal Everywhere: A New Path For American Renewable Energy Leadership

 

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10th December 2021

A New Hydrogen Plane Can Fly Halfway Around the World Without Refueling

How will humanity endure the climate crisis? I asked an acclaimed sci-fi writer

Tropical forests can recover from deforestation remarkably fast and on their own, new study finds  The only surprise here is that this appeared in the Washington Post.

Frosts, heatwaves and wildfires: the climate crisis is hitting the wine industry hard (The Guardian) Except that the wildfires are caused by Stupid Government policies.

Darwin in a lab: Coral evolution tweaked for global warming (NPR)

Food waste becomes California’s newest climate change target Climate Change! Is there anything it can’t do?

Rain Caused Volcano to Erupt… Because Climate Change?

Underwater speakers draw fish to restore coral reefs  I am not making this up.

NY Times Claims Brazil Is Turning Into Desert, As Foliage Growth Surges

 

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Number of Journalists in Jail Reaches Global High

9th December 2021

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I have a little list – they never would be missed….

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8th December 2021

‘Don’t Look Up,’ a thinly veiled warning about climate change, premieres in New York City (Boston Globe)

Bezos Earth Fund Announces $443 Million in Grants to Advance Environmental Justice, Conserve and Restore Nature, and Improve Monitoring and Accountability Ah, yes, ‘environmental justice’…

.John Kerry is counting on the private sector to help solve climate change (Washington Post) Oh, I think not.

 

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7th December 2021

From pollutant to product: the companies making stuff from CO2 (The Guardian)

‘Your generation got us in this mess’: children of big oil employees discuss the climate crisis with their parents (The Guardian) Not a discussion but a lecture.

How do we fight climate change while global energy demand soars? (The Hill)

Burned-out Forests Are Not Re-Growing (Dissident Voice)

Climate Change Weekly #418

Climate Change? Energy Development First! (plea from Mozambique)

 

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6th December 2021

How a Native American tribe on Long Island is losing its land to rising seas (CNBC) Not to mention property developers.

Climate change: Is ‘blue hydrogen’ Japan’s answer to coal? (BBC)

‘Sharks are amassing’: Tracker shows great white sharks gathering on East Coast

He lost his best friend in a mudslide. Now he’s using coconuts to fight deforestation in West Africa. (Washington Post)

Understanding San Francisco’s unseasonably warm November, climate change (ABC)

Environmental activists challenge ‘unlawful’ UK fossil fuel plan in high court (The Guardian)

“Earth’s Black Box” to chronicle humanity’s descent into climate chaos (New Atlas)

Three Things Not Caused by Climate Change

Tasmania Building a “Black Box” Recorder for Climate Change

Found: Stupidest Climate Change Headline Ever

Why We Must “Quit Worrying About Uncertainty in Sea Level Projections”

 

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5th December 2021

Why climate-change gardening means breaking all the rules (The Guardian)

How an outdated environmental law is sabotaging California’s new housing rules (SFChronicle) Outdated! Sabotaging!

Chalk paint and police raids: why climate activists are under fire (The Guardian) Mostly because they’re assholes, I suspect.

Your burger is heating Earth (Axios) You swine!

Who funds Extinction Rebellion? American & UK millionaires – ‘Some of America’s most famous families, including the Kennedys & the Gettys’

 

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4th December 2021

Snow may vanish for years at a time in Mountain West with climate warming (Washington Post)

Fossil Fuel’s Downfall Could Be America’s Too (Foreign Policy)

Climate change comes to insurance (The Hill)

It’s December and it hasn’t snowed in Denver yet. That’s never been recorded

 

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3rd December 2021

Can the tourism industry survive the climate crisis? (The Guardian) What climate crisis?

These Portuguese kids are suing 33 European countries to force them to cut emissions (NPR)

Weatherwatch: why do some still think climate change isn’t real? (The Guardian)

Climate Scientist Warns That Countries Are Going to Start Geoengineering the Earth

Claim: Anti-Capitalist Religious Groups Can Help the Climate Struggle

Great Barrier Reef Warming, Coral Bleaching Driven By Cloud Radiative Forcing, Not Humans

Benny Peiser: “We are Entering a New Phase in the Climate Debate”

 

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2nd December 2021

Madagascar’s food crisis has been blamed on climate change. Scientists say that’s wrong (CNN)

Why California should reconsider shutting down its last nuclear plant, scientists say (CNBC)

California could save its last nuclear plant- US energy chief (Reuters)

Environmental group targets retailers’ ‘shady’ shipping routes

Venus could have been a paradise but turned into a hellscape. Earthlings, pay attention. (Vox)

Scientists discover link between climate change and biological evolution of phytoplankton

How to Not Melt Down Over Our Warming Planet (Wired ‘Science’)

Bjorn Lomborg – Climate Change: No Need to Panic

Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been a Climate Denier?

 

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1st December 2021

Quit Worrying About Uncertainty in Sea Level Projections (Eos) Just believe what you’re told.

Rain to replace snow in the Arctic as climate heats, study finds (The Guardian) More models for you to panic over.

Rain fell at Greenland’s summit this year for the first time. It’s going to happen more often, study says (CNN)

What’s the environmental impact each time we hit ‘buy now,’ and can we change course? (CNN)

These 11 countries could face extreme instability from climate change, says U.S. intelligence (CNBC)

Vox article mocked for calling term ‘invasive species’ problematic because it has ‘nativist bias’

CBC Understands the Difference Between Weather and Climate, Other Canadian News Outlets Don’t

Study: Climate Models can Predict Life in the Year 2500

How To Spot A Carbon-Free Con

 

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Fact-Blockers

30th November 2021

John Stossel.

I’ve reported how Facebook censors me.

Now I’ve learned that they also censor environmentalist Michael Shellenberger, statistician Bjorn Lomborg and former New York Times columnist John Tierney.

Facebook’s “fact-checkers” claim we spread “misinformation.”

In my new video, Tierney argues that the “people guilty of spreading misinformation are Facebook and its fact-checkers.”

He’s right.

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30th November 2021

Vox: It’s Time to Stop Demonizing “invasive” Species

Claim: More Work Required to Study “Settled” Climate Science

“Slow Disaster Playing Out” As Germany Moves To Shut Down 8.5 GW Of Baseload Nuclear Capacity

Sea Ice Cometh to Hudson Bay: Freeze-Up has Begun

Think Climate Change Is Messy? Wait Until Geoengineering

Arctic Ocean started getting warmer decades earlier than we thought

Business Insider: ‘Electric Vehicles Won’t Save Us — We Need to Get Rid of Cars Completely’

Asian climate variability and dynamics across early-to-middle pliocene warm period provide clues for future climate change

 

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29th November 2021

“Slow Disaster Playing Out” As Germany Moves To Shut Down 8.5 GW Of Baseload Nuclear Capacity

Maine Researchers Breeding a Global Warming Resistant Potato  Or at least that’s what they claim. KA-CHING! I suspect that it’s also Organic and Sustainable….

Claim: Climate Change is Making One of the World’s Strongest Currents Flow Faster

Green Technologies Have A Glaring Problem Of Scale  The problem being that they don’t.

 

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28th November 2021

Enthusiastic Idiocy vs. Infrastructure Optimization – Two Strategies for an Energy Transition

The Wire Criticises the “Deep Adaptation” Climate Doomsday Narrative

He spent almost 50 years alone at 10,000 feet. His hobby helped shape climate research in the Rockies. (Washington Post)

Australia’s spy agency predicted the climate crisis 40 years ago – and fretted about coal exports (The Guardian)

Fourth-generation dairy farmer warns economic woes, climate change regulations could end family farms

Weather Lulls: Germany Forced To Burn 20% More Coal, The Very Energy Source That’s To Be Phased Out  Reality is what sticks around even after you quit believing in it.

The Profound Junk Science of Climate

 

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27th November 2021

Climate Change Threatens Cranberries

New Study: Modelers Got Aerosols All Wrong…CO2 Climate Sensitivity Likely Another 0.4°C Overstated!

Some climate campaigners praise Biden for releasing emergency oil reserves (The Guardian) Nothing says ‘climate campaign’ like 50 million more barrels of oil to burn.

How ‘Climate Migrants’ Are Roiling American Politics (Politico) But mostly they want the Free Stuff.

Climate emergency accelerates F1’s efforts to clean up its image (The Guardian)

The Tragedy of the Climate Wars

Green Groups Thwarting Geothermal Solutions to Energy Problems  Of course they are. They don’t want a solution, they want their pet sustainable solution.

Aussie Bushfire Madness: Fuel Load Not an Issue, All Climate Change

 

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26th November 2021

We write about climate change. Here’s what gives us hope (L.A. Times)

What’s on the Thanksgiving table in a hotter, drier world? (Washington Post) Same things as always.

Claim: Climate Fanatic Teacher Refused Kids Aircon

Stop Telling Kids They’ll Die from Climate Change

Late Freeze-Up For W. Hudson Bay Polar Bears At Odds With Ice Conditions Elsewhere

 

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25th November 2021

The Arctic Ocean began warming decades earlier than previously thought, new research shows (CNN)

‘Either we kill it, or it will kill us’: The fight to dismantle a shadow court system threatening climate goals (CNBC)

Exxon lobbyist questions urgency of climate’s catastrophic risks (Washington Post) The swine!

Environmental activists face ‘fever pitch’ of repression from Australian governments, report says (The Guardian) Along with vaccine mandate protesters, but of course The Guardian doesn’t care about that.

 

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David Brooks Fisking Day Returns?

25th November 2021

The Other McCain faces a conundrum.

The basic problem with David Brooks is that he hasn’t been punched in the face as often as he deserves to be punched in the face.

Which is to say, repeatedly, on a daily basis.

On two occasions, I happened to be at conferences where David Brooks was a speaker, and in both instances, I walked out of the room, overcome by rage, struggling to resist an urge to rush the stage, grab hold of that swine and pummel him until the cops hauled me off to jail.

Don’t hold it in, Stacy, tell us how you really feel.

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24th November 2021

Aviation noise and emissions are environmental-justice issues (Seattle Times) Just in case you didn’t know that.

Citing climate risks, California is denying fracking permits in droves (S.F. Chronicle)

Alaska Suffering Through Some Intense Cold And There Is No Relief Coming Anytime Soon

Media Promotes Badly Flawed Science Spreading It Like Wildfire

April 1st: The Day of Extinction Rebellion’s Great Civil Disobedience Uprising

 

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23rd November 2021

Can CRISPR keep the beer flowing?

Where should I move to in order to best survive the climate crisis? (The Guardian)

Apple’s Lisa Jackson wants to protect ‘most vulnerable communities’ from climate change  This is, of course, TOTALLY the job of a computer company….

Will battery recycling be ready when all these new EV batteries die?

Solar Variations Controversy

 

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22nd November 2021

Climate denial is waning on the right. What’s replacing it might be just as scary (The Guardian)

7 ways college students can help save the environment — and not go broke (CNBC)

Were the Sumas Floods Caused by Global Warming? The Evidence Says No.

Ted Nordhouse: How green activists mislead and hold back progress

Watch: Pelosi Admits Massive Climate Change Spending Is “A Religious Thing”

 

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21st November 2021

Gizmodo: The Plague Is More Likely Now Thanks to Climate Change

Warming Events Could Destabilize The Antarctic Ice Sheet Soon. Very Soon (ScienceAlert)  As little as 10 year! And we really mean it this time!

Senior Pentagon official warns the US military is ‘not ready’ for climate change (CNN)

Boulder City solar farm fined nearly $220k for air quality violations

RPA Climategate Remix: CHERRY PICKING

Tracking Crucial Metrics of Earth’s Global Warming

 

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20th November 2021

Forecaster: Sarasota to see faster sea level rise, more very hot days in coming decades (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)

Video shows San Francisco’s Union Square Louis Vuitton store after it was ’emptied out’ by thieves

The Plague Is More Likely Now Thanks to Climate Change (Gizmodo) Climate Change! Is there nothing that it can’t do?

House bill makes child tax credit fully refundable, a boon for low earners (CNBC) All at the expense of taxpayers, but who cares about them? The Welfare That Dares Not Speak Its Name.

 

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Say Goodbye to Swing Districts. Lawmakers Are Drawing Easy Wins in Dozens of States.

20th November 2021

Politico is upset.

The only people who benefit from ‘swing districts’ are the Narrative Media, who need the political ‘horse race’ in other to garner the attention that is the cornerstone of their business model.

An elected representative doesn’t (popular mythology to the contrary notwithstanding) everybody in that district; he (or she) (or it) only ‘represents’ the people who voted for that representative. (Mouths make noises but we all know the truth.) So the more people vote for a winning candidate, the greater the portion of the electorate is actually ‘represented’ by that candidate.

It is therefore obvious that so-called ‘gerrymandering’ promotes effective democracy, rather than being the moral failing that the Chattering Class would have you believe. Ideally, districts ought to be arranged so that the winning candidate gets as close to 100% as possible. That’s actual democracy in action.

So the next time an outlet like Politico complains about ‘gerrymandering’, know that they are consulting their wallets rather than some abstract principle of good-government.

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Naomi Oreskes Slams Big Oil Climate Change Ads

20th November 2021

Read it.

Naomi Oreskes, who believes that Climate Change is a problem, has written a dramatic expose of old Big Oil ads which actually told the truth about global warming.

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

19th November 2021

On Belief in the Tooth Fairy: The Battle of Britain’s Climate 2021-2030

Rising Sea Levels Have Met Their Match With This $25 Million Miami Beach Spec House Never let a crisis go to waste….

Revealed: the places humanity must not destroy to avoid climate chaos (The Guardian) What’s humanity’s phone number? I’ll call them and let them know.

The Senate should eliminate these global warming super-culprits (Washington Post) Not just culprits, but super-culprits.

How nuclear power plants could help solve the climate crisis (CNET) Cue lawsuits by eco-Nazis.

Here’s what the world will look like 4°C warmer  The best thing in science fiction I’ve seen today.

Sea Level Alarmism Unravels As Earth’s Coastlines Are Observed Expanding Since 1984

 

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18th November 2021

Uninhabitable

The Facts: Reporters Exploit Normal Weather To Fan Climate Fear

Keeping carbon in check: Carbon farming to address a changing climate (Washington Post) ‘Carbon farming’? ‘Fine crop of carbon you got there, Zeke….’

EPA chief travels south Louisiana to learn more about pollution, environmental justice  Shouldn’t the ‘EPA chief’ know about pollution before traveling to Lousiana? (‘Environmental justice’?)

COP26: The truth behind the new climate change denial (BBC) As opposed to the Old Climate Change Denial, I suppose.

EU to Restrict Coffee Imports to Combat Climate Change  Sillier and sillier.

 

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MSNBC Banned From Rittenhouse Trial After Employee Follows Jury Bus; Boss Nukes Accounts

18th November 2021

Read it.

As day three of jury deliberations in the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial began, Judge Bruce Schroeder banned MSNBC from his courtroom for the duration of the trial, after an employee claiming to be a producer with the outlet reportedly followed the van taking jurors home on Wednesday evening and was pulled over after running a red light.

“No one from MSNBC news will be permitted in this building … this is an extremely serious matter and will be referred to the proper authorities,” said Schroeder.

Apparently ‘journalists’ think that the rules don’t apply to them.

Earlier this month, a self-described ‘honorary nephew of George Floyd’ identified as Cortez Rice posted a disturbing video threatening to doxx Rittenhouse jurors if they don’t return a guilty verdict.

Totally unrelated, I’m sure.

Mobs have gotten away with threats and coercion so regularly that they feel entitled.

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

17th November 2021

BBC Believes a Conspiracy Drives Climate Conspiracy Theories

October Cool-Down In Ireland, France…Analysts: “Already Straining Natural Gas Supplies” For Europe!

Sea Level Rise Misinformation: Fear Mongering By Cop26, DOD, NPR & Mainstream Media

 

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Why It Matters

17th November 2021

It doesn’t, really.

Remember that the next time you read a thumbsucker in the Narrative Media with a title like OMG SHIT HAPPENING AND WHY IT MATTERS.

It doesn’t, really.

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

16th November 2021

ise in sea level due to temperature change projected with interactive maps (CBS ‘News’) Your daily dose of science fiction.

After the failure of Cop26, there’s only one last hope for our survival (The Guardian) George Monbiot nas predicted disaster just around the corner so many times that he’s got to get it right some time.

Biden’s infrastructure bill includes $50 billion to fight climate change disasters (CNBC) I.e. funnel money to select ‘green’ energy grifters and activist groups.

How workers unknowingly fund the climate crisis with their pensions

Sinking Tuvalu laments watered down U.N. Glasgow climate pact (Reuters) WE WANT MONEY!

Covid denial to climate denial: How conspiracists are shifting focus (BBC)

Pentagon’s first climate challenge: How to follow the money

Early Arctic Freeze Threatens to Strand Ships

Polar Bear Habitat More Extensive in Most Areas of the Arctic Compared to Previous Years

 

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Left-Leaning Commission Calls on Biden Administration to Develop Strategy to Counter ‘Disinformation’

15th November 2021

Read it.

A commission made up of mostly left-leaning figures recommended Monday that the White House counter the spread of disinformation and “dangerous conspiracy theories online.”

The Aspen Institute Commission on Information Disorder released a number of recommendations Monday, which included calling upon the Biden administration to have an “apolitical team” develop a national strategy to tackle the issue.

I wonder if that would include all of the various hoaxes, ‘coup attempts’, and ‘dangers to democracy’ being fomented by the Narrative Media.

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

15th November 2021

China and India will have to ‘justify’ watered down coal pledge–Cop26 president  Don’t hold your breath.

False imagery and data hallmarks of COP26

COP26 Ends In Humiliating Failure

The Big Green Push To Get Rid Of Coal Had The Opposite Effect

PBS: Kids Are Justified in Feeling Panic Over Climate Change

Where should I move to in order to best survive the climate crisis? (The Guardian)

Greenland Sees Significant Snow, Ice Mass Loss Slowdown Over Past Decade, Danish Data Show

 

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14th November 2021

Should I have children? Weighing parenthood amid the climate crisis (The Guardian) If you have to ask whether you ought to have children, you ought not to have children.

50 years of predictions that the climate apocalypse is nigh

We’re going to need a bigger planet: the problem with fixing the climate with trees (The Guardian)

The Vilification Of Oil Producers Continues Apace At COP26

This Colorado ‘solar garden’ is literally a farm under solar panels

 

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