You’ve Almost Certainly Never Heard of the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Biggest Methane Polluter (Gizmodo) Gizmodo is allegedly a tech blog, but it spends as much time looking for Heretics and Sinners as any of the rest of the Narrative Media.

Where Has All the Global Warming Gone?

Saudi And Russian Oil Producers Benefit From “Climate Activism” Lobbed At Western Producers  My, what a surprise.

Wyoming powers ahead with Bill Gates-backed sodium-cooled nuclear generation plant

The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to poor modeling

Oreskes and the climate gang penned a smear in Scientific American @sciam refuses to print response by Koonin

Bill Gates And Warren Buffett Team Up To Build Advanced Nuclear Plant In Wyoming 

Environmental Extremists Don’t Believe Their Own Predictions

Study Claims Climate Change Causes 35% Of Heat-Related Deaths In The US

Global Warming Caused 37% of Heat-Related Deaths Since 1991… Yawn

Aussie Regulator Warns Companies to Disclose Climate Risks

When the Climate Police come to take your oil fired boiler.

G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than green energy (The Guardian)

Germany’s May Among Coldest In 140 Years

The New Pause lengthens by another 2 months to 6 years 2 months

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For one thing, they keep recycling photos of the same ‘killed’ child.

You’d think that Israel started it by randomly firing rockets at Gaza, rather than Hamas randomly firing rockets at Israel.

Climate ECS Closure

Solar farms: A toxic blot on the landscape

A fiery past sheds new light on the future of global climate change

Activist heads explode as USFWS says oil activities pose minimal risk to polar bears in AK

The Guardian.

More Woke contempt for everybody else.

The reason cat videos out-earn ‘real artists’ is because more people are willing to pay for cat videos, which have demonstrable entertainment value, than ‘real artists’, most of whom don’t. All ‘Big Tech’ has done is made this truth painfully apparent to those who believe that their artistic taste is superior to everybody else’s.

(Ask Taylor Swift or Garth Brooks — or Beyoncé or CardiB – when was the last time they ‘begged for tips’?)

Social Cost (Benefit) of Carbon Dioxide from FUND with Corrected Temperatures, Energy and CO2 Fertilization

Simplified climate modelling. Part 1: The role of CO2 in paleoclimate

L A Times Publishes Beijing-Funded Propaganda, Conceals China’s Massive Coal Use & Emissions

Surprising sea ice thickness across the Arctic is good news for polar bears

Ocean Temperature Limit – Corrections and Part 4

A New Kind of Denialism

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It was ten years ago this May that Weinergate grew into a scandal that destroyed the career of New York Democrat Anthony Weiner. On May 27, 2011, the then-Congressman sent a sexually explicit picture of himself to a woman following him on Twitter. After the picture of his erect penis became public, Weiner spent days saying it wasn’t him and suggesting he’d been hacked. Bizarrely, liberal journalists attempted to defend him, offering all sorts of ridiculous explanations.

Concocting the Narrative is SO tiring. “But Oceania has ALWAYS been at war with EastAsia!”

Why a ‘crushing’ day for Big Oil represents a watershed moment in the climate battle (CNBC)

Both Sides Declare Victory in Aussie Children’s Climate Litigation Coal Case

Greatest Single Day Gains In Greeenland Ice Happening Now.

The temperature–CO2 climate connection: an epistemological reappraisal of ice-core messages

Australia: Court rules climate change “duty of care” to future generations exists  I used to like Australians. Now … not so much.

The Pandemic Didn’t Slow Climate Change. It’s Actually Speeding Up, Experts Warn (NPR)

Satellites may have been underestimating the planet’s warming for decades

Shell Gets Wrecked In Landmark Climate Ruling, May Set Precedent For Oil Industry

How Many People Die When Polluters Exceed Their Limits?  (Wired ‘Science’)

One-third of Americans unwilling to spend $1 to fight climate change

It’s Time for Climate Realism When It Comes to China

The Supposedly Eco-Friendly Biden Admin Backs Trump’s Alaska Oil Drilling Project  Money talks.

World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Years  (UN News) Or maybe not.

‘An Inconvenient Truth’: Climate Depot Founder RIPS Media Still Pushing Gore’s Climate Alarmism

Paul Mirengoff at Power Line.

Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post’s fact checker, has an written an article called “Timeline: How the Wuhan lab-leak theory suddenly became credible.” The title itself needs to be fact checked against the content of Kessler’s piece. Kessler’s timeline shows that the leak theory was always credible. What’s changed is that the theory now can be deemed very likely true.

See Freeberg’s treatment of the term ‘fact checker’ below.

Freeberg nails it.

And so I am to believe that these professionals and volunteers apply their talents and resources to something already known to be true, and check it for something. Like for example, whether the people for whom they work, have an interest in the rest of us knowing that fact, or whether they have an interest in that fact being suppressed. That’s what a tin-eared technically-precise reading of that term would mean. Reminds me of one of David Burge’s most famous tweets, about covering the stories. With a pillow until they stop moving.

Humanity Survived Previous Warming Cycles

Renewable Energy Is Suddenly Startlingly Cheap  Massive taxpayer subsidies will do that.

Greenland’s Melting Glaciers Are Polluting Coasts With Shocking Amounts of Mercury

Turkey struck by ‘sea snot’ because of global heating (The Guardian)

Why Would Naomi Oreskes Be On Retainer With Any Law Firm?

Visualizing The Copper Intensity Of Renewable Energy

New NASA Earth System Observatory to Help Address, Mitigate Climate Change

Small California farming town becomes the fasting sinking area in United States

Shell ordered to cut CO2 emissions by 45% in landmark climate case  The handwavium is strong in this one.

Guardian: We Must Abandon “Speciesism”, Putting Humans First, to Stop Climate Change  The Guardian is run by insane people.

Saint Greta Speaks  And apparently has a potty mouth.

Babylon Bee.

World-renowned fact-checking website Snopes has unveiled a brand new fact check rating called “False For Now.” This will allow them to provide a rating for claims that are just conspiracy theories uttered by deranged far-right people until they later turn out to be true.

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Dershowitz alleged CNN provided an edited version of his remarks and a misleading narrative about his views that damaged his reputation as a scholar. He’s seeking $300 million in damages, the Hollywood Reporter said Tuesday.

CNN had argued it was protected by the fair report privilege, which shields the media from reporting about government proceedings.

The Union of Concerned Scientists tries to “cancel” Steve Koonin

CNBC: “War-Level Footing” Needed to Solve Climate Change

Nature Can Save Humanity From Climate Doom—but Not On Its Own (Wired ‘Science’) Five billion years is not enough to put Nature beyond the need for Enviro-Nazi assistance.

The De-Population Bomb

Biodiversity decline will require millions of years to recover  For sufficiently Politically Correct values of ‘recover’.

Claim: The Climate Crisis is Not About Overpopulation, the Problem is Affluence

Matt Taibbi.

The news business just can’t stop clowning itself. The latest indignity is an international fact-checking debacle originating, of all places, at a “festival of fact-checking.”

The Poynter Institute is perhaps the most respected think tank in our business, an organization seeking to “fortify journalism’s role in a free society,” among other things through its sponsorship of the fact-checking outlet PolitiFact. A few weeks back, it held a virtual convention called the “United Facts of America: A Festival of Fact-Checking.”

The three-day event featured special guests Christiane Amanpour, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Brian Stelter, and Senator Mark Warner — a lineup of fact “stars” whose ironic energy recalled the USO’s telethon-execution of Terrance and Phillip before the invasion of Canada in South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut. Tickets were $50, but if you wanted a “private virtual happy hour” with Stelter, you needed to pay $100 for the “VIP Experience.”

During the confab, PolitiFact’s Katie Sanders asked Fauci, “Are you still confident that [Covid-19] developed naturally?” To which the convivial doctor answered, “No, I’m not convinced of that,” going on to say “we” should continue to investigate all hypotheses about how the pandemic began.

Climate Change Alarmism as a Class War

‘War’ footing needed to correct economists’ miscalculations on climate change, says professor

Fact Checking the Wildfire-Climate Link

Ocean Surface Temperature Limit-Part 2

Lithium, Cobalt, & Rare Earths: The Post-Petroleum Resource Race

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In a now-deleted tweet, California Assemblyman David Chiu dramatically posted: “Finding the discarded packaging of a semi-automatic on a leisurely weekend walk was disturbing, particularly during this month’s surge of gun violence in San Francisco.”

Except… if David had maybe looked at the packaging, he would have noticed it’s for a .177 caliber C02 powered BB gun.

I remember the Eddie Murphy movie THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN that tried to take a shot at ‘gun nuts’ by having Congressmen being hosted by corporate lobbyists on a duck hunt — using AR-15s. I suppose they were trying to point out that semi-auto rifles were not genuine hunting weapons and therefore weren’t legitimate for civilian ownership, but they just pointed out how clueless they were about hunting and gun use in general.

Personally, if I knew of anybody who could down duck on the wing with an AR-15, I’d treat him with the greatest of respect.

Convicted Climate Criminals Saddened They Are Not Above the Law

Climate Change Is Erasing Humanity’s Oldest Art  (Wired ‘Science’)

CO2 Cyclone Doomsday Flat Out Refuted: 170 Years “Absolutely No Trend” In Hurricane Intensity/Frequency

Ocean Surface Temperature Limit-Part 1

Greta Thunberg Fires Back At China For Fat-Shaming Her

Thousands of Future Burger Flippers Stage a Climate Strike

Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, And Why It Matters

Following the Money: Covering Climate Now

Is This Concrete’s Breakthrough Moment? (New York Magazine) If concrete didn’t come with ‘steep cost to the environment’, of course, nobody at New York Magazine would give a shit about it.

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The author seems to think that ‘higher arrest rates and stffer punishments’ indicate racism rather than the possibility that black people commit more and more serious crimes.

Axios seems to have become a reliably proglodyte rag. I think I shall cease reading it.

Aussie Banks Grilled on “Climate Virtue Signalling”

Greta Crestfallen After ‘World’s Largest Iceberg’ Turns Out To Be Part Of Normal Cycle

Millions of electric cars are coming. What happens to all the dead batteries?

US Judge Orders That Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Can Remain Open

Glenn Greenwald.

My responses to The Washington Post’s article and Daily Beast’s questions about accusations from The Intercept that I have “endangered” their writers.

World’s largest iceberg breaks off from Antarctica  (CNN) Wonder what happened to the last ‘world’s biggest iceberg’.

World’s first, satellite-based monitoring system goes global to help save coral reefs I’m sure that will fix EVERYTHING.

Largest Iceberg Spotted in Antarctica   Latest in a series.

Claim: Most People Think Climate Change is Serious, but Other Problems are More Important

The 1.5°C Hysteria

Irreproducible science and US government regulation

Biden issues executive order that requires new steps on climate-related financial risk

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There are times when the term ‘clueless’ seems totally inadequate.

The Antiplanner explains it all.

Everybody knows that the purpose of living in cities is to keep public transit systems operating. Thus, says Bloomberg News, people who work at home are “threatening” transit for everyone else (meaning all of the 1 percenters who ride transit).

Not to worry. Someone named Kristin Schwab, over at Marketplace, has a plan to “lure riders back” to transit. (Is that like luring little kids with candy?) Transit is safe from COVID, she claims, but to overcome public perceptions that it is not, transit agencies should still require people to wear masks and regularly clean transit vehicles. Okay, that’s not so much a plan as it is wishful thinking.

Back at Bloomberg, San Francisco writers Tiffany Chu and Daniel Ramot say that we should fix transit by (1) giving it dedicated funding, meaning funding that transit agencies are sure to get no matter how poorly they perform; and (2) tie funding to outcomes, meaning transit agencies only get money if they produce results. These contradictory suggestions are made worse by the “outcomes” Chu and Ramot suggest, including “expanding access to jobs, improving cost efficiency, driving equity and reducing carbon emissions.

Note that actually attracting transit riders isn’t considered an important outcome.

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We need to stop letting people ‘tell their stories’. Why should random people get half an hour to tell what Oprah would call ‘their truth’? There are so many podcasts out there that simply broadcast people’s rambling anecdotage about the worst thing that ever happened to them — going for that salacious, daytime-TV vibe, but with the authority of journalism, which means narrating traumatic and often outlandish stories while the hosts offer weighty reflections like ‘huh’ and ‘crazy’.

‘There’s no higher ground for us’: Maldives’ environment minister says country risks disappearing  (CNBC) And yet it never actually does.

Energy Companies Must Immediately Halt All New Projects For World To Meet Paris Accord Target, IEA Report

Biden Administration Has Allowed 61,000 Illegal Immigrants Into US

Projecting manmade climate change: scenarios to 2050

Global Warming Explains Everything

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As the latest flare-up between the Israelis and Palestinians dragged on, CBS Evening News seemingly wouldn’t be happy until the Jewish State of Israel was pushed into the sea. Tuesday’s edition of their Hamas-friendly coverage featured foreign correspondent Holly Williams scoffing at how two Israeli soldiers were shot by terrorists as Palestinians took part in their “day of rage” in the West Bank. And, of course, she spewed the Hamas propaganda that was fed to her.

Clear Signs That Part of the Greenland Ice Sheet Is Close to a Tipping Point And yet it never seems to tip….

Greenland ice sheet on brink of major tipping point, says study (The Guardian) Obviously they got the talking points memo.

Storm ‘Price Tags’ Could Reveal the Cost of Global Warming  Wired ‘Science’.

New Scientist: Bleaching Protects Coral – But Only Up to 2C of Global Warming

CLIMATE LITIGATION BOMBSHELL: New Paper Exposes AG “Climate” Suit as Illicit Product of Private Lobbying, Misrepresentation, Paid ‘Cutouts’

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In certain ways, it must be fun to be a left-winger. Pushing for any policy that seems socially just without the constraint of how it actually works out for people (i.e., ignoring the horrors left behind in socialism’s wake throughout history) makes things a whole lot easier. Sounds fun, too.

Just going with your heart and hoping for the best must be liberating. But the most fun leftists have must be when they sit around to talk about some of the dumb ways conservatives talk.

Language is, of course, crucial in a political debate. The left understands this better than the right. The left is also aided by the media, which will always use the left’s preferred phrasing.

To use one prominent example, if the left likes to use the word “pro-choice” and the right prefers “pro-abortion,” the press will go with “pro-choice.” On the other side of the debate, if those on the right prefer to be called “pro-life” but the left defines them as “anti-abortion,” the press will again defer to left-wing terminology and refer to those on the pro-life side as “anti-abortion,” even though that’s not the term they use to describe themselves.

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Once, long ago, in a land far away, the best journalists tried to stand aloof from the stories they reported. The idea was simple and powerful. If journalists tried to be neutral and kept their reporting separate from their opinions, analysis, and speculation, the public would believe them.

Those days are long gone, along with the media’s credibility gone. Journalists and media organizations are now smack in the middle of many stories they cover, in part because they want to be. They want to spin them, to set the narrative.

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I guess we’ll be told we’re unseemly if we giggle at the cancellation of useless stooge Don Lemon’s low-rated airport lounge video muzak, or at how the Israelis leveled the Gaza high-rise housing the AP and Al-Jazeera. Well, color us unseemly, because when the media suffers, we celebrate.

And we’re not going to apologize for it. Half of America, at least, now cares about the media precisely as much as the media cares about us – that is, not at all. In fact, we actively wish it ill. We cheer when some trash website or paper folds. The frequent layoff announcements make us giddy. Sad journalists whining about how people on Twitter dare criticize them cause us to howl in delight.

Our contempt for them is a result of their contempt for us. And as individuals and collectively, we should do whatever we lawfully can to hasten the collapse of the mainstream media as an institution.

Harsh? Nah.

The case against climate change

The Greenhouse Effect In A Water World

Washington State Tells Businesses to Eliminate Emissions by 2050 Time to leave.

BBC Climate Check–April 2021

Greenland becoming darker, warmer as its snow ages and changes shape

Latest Science Now Says We All Must Wear Masks To Prevent Global Warming  Babylon Bee.

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Until I wrote the adjacent post this morning I had forgotten the article I wrote for the February 4, 2008 issue of the Weekly Standard. In the article I took a look at widely circulated AP and Reuters photographs of Yasser Arafat allegedly donating blood to the United States in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. I titled the article “He didn’t give at the office.”

What 2050 could look like if we don’t do anything about climate change: Hot, a constant cough, regular mask-wearing (CNBC)

MIT unveils a new action plan to tackle the climate crisis

Ditching meat isn’t the answer for climate change. Better farming is

EPA Updates Its “Climate Change Indicators”

Wandering polar bears are the new starving polar bears, falsely blamed on climate change

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A couple days ago, the Israeli military destroyed a building that they said was used by Hamas. The Israelis gave their customary warning to everyone in the area to get out, and it appears that no one was hurt. I don’t recall Hamas giving a similar warning to the residents of the Israeli civilian centers it destroyed with rocket attacks last week. Anyway. As it turns out, the Hamas building was also used by the Associated Press. AP claims that they had been in that building for years, and had no idea that Hamas was using the same office space. AP is shocked – shocked! – at Israeli allegations that the building housed hostile forces.

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Next, what are the odds that AP really didn’t know that Hamas was in that building?  In fact, what are the odds that the reason the AP used offices there was to have close access to those they were working with to develop the stories they sought to produce about Israeli brutality and so on?  One would presume that AP chose those offices for a reason.  Perhaps not.  But what a remarkable coincidence – out of all the offices they could have used in that region, they chose those in the very same office building as Hamas.  Who knew?

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After its customary warning to protect civilian life, the IDF took out the 12-story Jala Tower housing Hamas military intelligence offices as well as offices for Al Jazeera and the Associated Press. As far as I can tell from reports such as this photo-filled story in the Daily Mail, no lives were lost in the bombing.

The Biden administration nevertheless found the occasion fit to lecture Israel yesterday “that ensuring the safety and security of journalists and independent media is a paramount responsibility.” According to the Jerusalem Post, Israeli authorities have showed Biden administration officials the “smoking gun” proving that Hamas worked out of the building. I demand proof that intelligent life exists within the Biden administration.

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The news tells us less about Israel than about the people writing the news, a former AP reporter says.

Biden’s Green “No” Deal Exposes Virtue-Signaling Americans’ NIMBY Views On Wind Power

New NASA Data Sheds (Sun) Light on Climate Models

How are polar bears doing 15 years after the IUCN declared them ‘vulnerable’ to extinction?

North Atlantic Nonsense

Cambridge Scientists Say Humans Need To Eat More Maggots, Fungi To ‘Future-Proof’ Our Food Supply

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Jordan Peterson, a popular Canadian psychologist and author, dared his government to “just try and regulate [his] YouTube channel and see what happens.”

Peterson clashed with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Twitter because of Trudeau’s support for legislation termed the “censorship bill” by The Post Millennial. If passed, the law could potentially regulate user-generated social media content and subject some users to broadcasting regulations if they have a substantial audience.

I don’t think that this is a pissing contest that Peterson can win — not against the Deep State.

But I admire him for trying.

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After years of debasing himself in front of a camera, Jim Acosta finally got his very own show on CNN. Because his talent for making a scene far exceeds his talent for reporting the news, CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta is more of an extended sit-down comedy routine than an actual news program.

Over the past several weeks, Acosta has been using his platform on CNN to unleash a barrage of painfully crafted knee-slappers, most of them aimed at former president Donald Trump and Fox News host Tucker Carlson. His ratings might be in the gutter, but Acosta’s tortured comedy routine is presumably a smash hit with his target audience of #Resistance wine moms.

Woke Med Drama ‘New Amsterdam’ Warns: ‘Global Warming Is a Healthcare Emergency’

Landmark study casts doubt on controversial theory linking melting Arctic to severe winter weather

U.S. has entered unprecedented climate territory (Washington Post)

CAUGHT: ‘Inconvenient’ U.S. Wildfire Data Has Been ‘Disappeared’ by National Interagency Fire Center @NIFC_Fire

Study claims: Climate Change Increasing the Risk of Space Junk Collisions

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Like being called ugly by a frog.

Degrowth: Universities Push Permanent Poverty as the Solution to Climate Change

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If there’s a phrase about journalism that should bowl people over with laughter in 2021, it’s the phrase “industry-wide standards of impartiality.” But there was Washington Post media reporter Jeremy Barr sounding like Rip Van Winkle in a gushy article on Wednesday about the “new CNN,” suddenly liberated from its stodgy objectivity. The headline was “The new CNN is more opinionated and emotional. Can it still be ‘the most trusted name in news’?”

Answer: No.

Brewery creates nasty ‘Torched Earth Ale’ to show how climate change will affect beer taste

Being Woke Stinks: NYT Says Americans Should Take Fewer Showers for Environment

China Suggests Greta Thunberg is an Ignorant Political Puppet

Miniature root vegetables and dandelion leaves ‘to replace potatoes and lettuce because of climate change’

Bad Weather Forecasts Are a Climate Crisis Disaster  (Wired ‘Science’)

Climate change may have pushed ancient humans into extinction  That would explain a  lot.

Something Smells Fishy: Allegations of Fraud in Ocean Acidification Research

$1000 / ton Carbon Tax? Climate Scientist Demands the Alleged Damage of Fossil Fuel be Fully Priced