Food Security in a Post-Covid World

US-EU trade talks are already stalled over agriculture issues. And yet the European Union’s new “Farm to Fork” strategy doesn’t just double down on the EU’s contentious agricultural regulations. It…

Guardian: Funding Artists Could Save Us from Covid-19

According to The Guardian, the lack of support for the creative community is harming the development of our most effective weapon against unexpected situations like Covid-19 – the arts.

BBC Climate Documentary: “How they Made Us Doubt Everything”

I’ve just listened to the entire BBC radio series “How They Made Us Doubt Everything”. This is not the BBC I grew up listening to and watching.

Dr Stella Immanuel V Dr. Fauci-TKO. HCQ Championed.

America’s Frontline Doctors traveled to Washington and gave a press conference.

Court Decision: Interim Social Cost of Greenhouse Gas Metric

Recently a federal district judge found that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM, sorry it was their acronym first) arbitrarily relied on an aggressively scaled-back social cost of greenhouse gases…

New evidence that an extraterrestrial collision 12,800 years ago triggered an abrupt climate change for Earth

What kicked off the Earth’s rapid cooling 12,800 years ago?

Why herd immunity to COVID-19 is reached much earlier than thought – update

I showed in my May 10th article Why herd immunity to COVID-19 is reached much earlier than thought that inhomogeneity within a population in the susceptibility and in the social-connectivity…

Admission: Climate Litigation is Tool to Make Industry Bend a Knee

acknowledgement by a Boulder City official, from early on in this second wave of “climate nuisance” litigation, about the objective. Here again we see its practitioners conceding that “nuisance” litigation…

If Facebook is any indicator, @RealDonaldTrump will win #2020Election by a blowout

People send me stuff. I got Facebook messages this past weekend inviting me to “like” both Donald Trump’s and Joe Biden’s pages. What I found most interesting was the HUGE…

One Fish, Two Fish, Sturddlefish

What is a struddlefish when it wakes up in the morning?  A creature created by a mistake in a Hungarian fish breeding lab.

Mediterranean Sea was 2 degrees hotter during Roman Empire

The greatest time of the Roman Empire coincided with the warmest period of the last 2,000 years in the Mediterranean, according to a study published in the journal Scientific Reports.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #418

“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.” —Thomas Paine (1776)

Alaska is getting wetter. That’s bad news for permafrost and the climate

Alaska is getting wetter. A new study spells out what that means for the permafrost that underlies about 85% of the state, and the consequences for Earth’s global climate.

FT: Big Fund Managers are Demanding Climate Action. But the USA is Leading a Pushback

Big fund managers like Blackrock and BNP Paribas are supporting shareholder climate resolutions, demanding big companies demonstrate their commitment to Paris Climate Agreement goals. But President Trump is supporting a…

Is the demise of polar bears being exaggerated to keep extinction panic alive?

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could debate climate change for five minutes without hearing about polar bears or being subjected to footage of them perched precariously on a melting…

UK Journo Embarrasses Green Transport Minister

The future of Heathrow expansion is uncertain after leading judges ruled that the Government must reconsider its support for a third runway because of the environmental impact.

Mystery Mislabeled Seed Packets from China Being Received in Utah and Virginia

A very odd story, people in Utah and Virginia have reported receiving packets of seeds from China, mislabelled as Jewellery. Utah and Virginia Agriculture departments are investigating.

Greta Takes a Side

In the brewing Green Civil War, Ms. Thunberg has decided to jump in and fight. Here is Greta’s Facebook post Background from RealClear Energy Like many contemporary social movements—#metoo, Black…

Slate: The First Undeniable Climate Change Deaths

Guest essay by Eric Worrall When record breaking cold occurs it is just weather, but according to Slate, climate attribution, the science of retrofitting explanations to unusual weather events after…

Does Universal Mask Wearing Decrease or Increase the Spread of COVID-19?

A survey of peer-reviewed studies shows that universal mask wearing (as opposed to wearing masks in specific settings) does not decrease the transmission of respiratory viruses from people wearing masks…