A COVID lockdown side effect: Used masks polluting California coastal waters
https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/A-pandemic-side-effect-Used-masks-polluting-15794117.php Scott Wilson, The Washington Post Dec. 11, 2020Updated: Dec. 11, 2020 9:02 a.m. TIBURON, Calif. – The pale blue is easy to spot among the dry-brown reeds. People walk here along the northern coast of the San Francisco Bay, crowding a path that bends to the contour of the shore. At the small pebble beach near […]
Climate activist Eric Holthaus: COVID lockdowns are ‘teaching us we can do much more than we thought’ on climate – If ‘Covid recovery prioritizes climate policies, global emissions will have permanently peaked in 2019’
This week marks five years since the Paris climate accord was agreed upon, the world’s first global mandate to tackle climate change. Since then, emissions have dropped globally, but it will take a climate-focused Covid recovery to keep it that way.https://t.co/aVCfmrJjCL — Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) December 11, 2020 https://thephoenix.substack.com/p/five-years-after-paris Emissions are down in 2020, big […]
Lockdowns Should Make Climate Activists Happy: Global carbon dioxide emissions decline 7% in 2020 – ‘The biggest drop ever’ – USA CO2 drops 12%, Europe drops 11% & China only drops 1.7%
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2020/12/11/lockdowns-one-effect-make-climate-hawks-happy/ By JAZZ SHAW Who says there’s no good news coming out of the pandemic? Climate alarmists should at least be of good cheer heading into the Christmas season because there’s been a predictable side effect from the world being largely stuck in lockdown mode. Global carbon emissions have plunged considerably in 2020, though I […]
Associated Press: Five years on, signs that Paris climate accord is working: CO2 emissions ‘barely rose globally from 2018 to 2019, then dropped 7% this year because of the pandemic, although it’ll likely rise again’
https://apnews.com/article/paris-europe-climate-climate-change-e005822b0c98b188736f623a1fcd4256 By SETH BORENSTEIN and FRANK JORDANS Excerpt: The forecast for global warming is looking a little less bleak in the long term, but not so rosy in the short term. With numerous countries pledging to clean up their act and projected temperature rises now smaller than they once were, scientists and diplomats say the outlook […]
Anti-lockdown, anti-mask protests labeled as ‘pro-coronavirus protests’ by New York Daily News
Anti-mask protesters in Idaho overwhelm cops, force cancellation of public health meeting https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-covid-idaho-public-health-meeting-canceled-anti-mask-protests-20201209-lh4c2opzznc6zbeoxesmzig34q-story.html By JOSEPH WILKINSON NEW YORK DAILY NEWS | DEC 09, 2020 AT 8:30 AM Excerpt: “Idaho public health commissioners had to shut down their meeting and scramble home because of coordinated pro-coronavirus protests across the Boise area.” Idaho public health commissioners had to shut down their […]
Bastardi: Fauci’s climate pandemic comments more predictable than weather
https://www.cfact.org/2020/12/09/faucis-climate-pandemic-comments-more-predictable-than-weather/ Fauci’s climate pandemic comments more predictable than weather By Joe Bastardi There are 2 chapters in my book (shameless plug) The Weaponization of Weather in the Phony Climate War, Chapter 10: COVID-19/Climate-Change Alliance Weaponization Chapter 11: The False Equivalency Between Climate Change & COVID-19 that foresaw the linkage that was easy to see coming, between […]
UN warns: The world’s rich need to cut their carbon footprint by a factor of 30 to slow ‘climate change’
The world’s rich need to cut their carbon footprint by a factor of 30 to slow climate change, U.N. warns https://t.co/tbC8hu6rLW w/ @brady_dennis @sarahkaplan48 — Chris Mooney (@chriscmooney) December 9, 2020 If you kill yourself, you'll be really green!https://t.co/6fCRFerT3v — Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) December 9, 2020 "If the 7% drop in emissions caused by […]
Analysis: ‘Everyone is already wearing a mask. They just don’t work. Americans have exceeded universal masking benchmarks, but it has not slowed or stopped the spread of COVID-19’
Fact check: True. The data is stunning: 97% mask compliance in San Francisco, NY, DC, 96% in Miami and Philly, 95% in Chicago. CLOTH AND SURGICAL MASKS DO NOT WORK. PERIOD.https://t.co/Upc55h9T91 — Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) December 7, 2020 https://jordanschachtel.substack.com/p/everyone-is-already-wearing-a-mask By Jordan Schachtel One of the most common pro-mask arguments I’ve heard over the course of […]
Despite Lockdowns, L.A. Has Worst Year For Smog In Decades
https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/4rUNGyamP_d7Ij3tnPB3oDhoNKjqd35hllfRPYejqGQa531hkeL-Y75Cv2Kokyw2JEFvo1kDE3sLqXldQKe2m4QiQyW0dm8IEtuMTTHFqBhj4gNwdz9sxvGHSArT1h0rQ5GjaKfMjdCkyXndeCGRsA Los Angeles has suffered its worst year in decades for smog and air quality, despite coronavirus lockdowns and stay-at-home orders that kept many residents off the roads. Heatwaves and wildfires, combined with other natural factors, turned the air a yellow hue that hearkened back to the bad old days of the 1990s when the […]
COVID, global warming: Look out when the power-mad left takes a temperature
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/covid_global_warming_look_out_when_the_powermad_left_takes_a_temperature.html COVID, global warming: Look out when the power-mad left takes a temperature By Jack Hellner Americans have many choices in electric powered vehicles these days, yet, even with subsidies, only around 2% of Americans choose to buy one. Joe Biden, Gavin Newsom, Barack Obama, General Motors, and others, corporate and human, do not believe Americans should have […]