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Michael Mann on COVID: ‘I see a perfect storm of climate opportunity’ – Also exposed ‘deadliness of anti-science’ views

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/27/climatologist-michael-e-mann-doomism-climate-crisis-interview By Jonathan Watts The book provides a long list of other reasons to be hopeful – rapid take-up of renewable energy, technology advances, financial sector action and more. Even so, the US, like other countries, is still far short of the second world war-level of mobilisation that you and others say is necessary to keep […]

BMJ (British Medical Journal) COVID editorial seeks ‘social murder’ charges against anti-lockdown politicians who ‘wilfully neglect scientific advice…and modeling’

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n314 BMJ 2021; 372 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n314 (Published 04 February 2021) Cite this as: BMJ 2021;372:n314 Covid-19: Social murder, they wrote—elected, unaccountable, and unrepentant Kamran Abbasi, executive editor Murder is an emotive word. In law, it requires premeditation. Death must be deemed to be unlawful. How could “murder” apply to failures of a pandemic response? Perhaps […]

BMJ (British Medical Journal) advocates international action against anti-lockdown nations: ‘Microorganisms, climate change…pay no heed to 17th century notions of state sovereignty… case for greatly strengthened supranational system of accountability is clear’

https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/02/12/martin-mckee-how-can-we-hold-political-leaders-accountable-for-failures-in-pandemics/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork Martin McKee: How can we hold political leaders accountable for failures in pandemics? It is a well-worn cliché that viruses do not respect borders. Yet, as SARS-CoV-2 has swept across the globe, its impact, in both health and economic terms, has been felt much more severely in some countries than others. There are many […]

‘Zero Covid is a totalitarian aim, best delivered by a totalitarian state’ – Will lead to untold endless suffering & tyranny

  https://twitter.com/SKMorefield/status/1358039863082254336 https://unherd.com/2021/02/inside-the-zero-covid-campaign/ Inside the Zero Covid campaign The urge to eliminate the virus is understandable — but at what cost? BY FREDDIE SAYERS Excerpt: As I discovered last week, the first rule of ZeroCovid Club is: do not talk about ZeroCovid Club. “ZeroCovid” is, after all, a term that elicits confusion and, sometimes, outright hostility. […]

The expected merging of COVID & Climate: Study: Climate change ‘may have played a key role’ in coronavirus pandemic – Claims it may make ‘future pandemics more likely’

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-coronavirus-bats-study/ BY JEFF BERARDELLI FEBRUARY 5, 2021 / 4:04 PM / CBS NEWS Human-caused climate change “may have played a key role” in the coronavirus pandemic. That’s the conclusion of a new study which examined how changes in climate have transformed the forests of Southeast Asia, resulting in an explosion of bat species in the region. The researchers found that, […]

‘Authoritarian impulses’: Enviros now want harder, longer lockdowns to tackle climate change – ‘A climate lockdown would be forever’

https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/05/why-greens-love-lockdown/#.YB1J-cL5pmk.twitter By BEN PILE Over the past year, the response to the Covid-19 pandemic has caused untold damage to people’s lives. Discussing whether draconian policies are effective, or whether there may be other ways of managing the crisis, has been muted by angry ripostes – you will be branded a ‘denier’ or a ‘granny-killer’. To disagree […]

Biden Administration Considering Allocating COVID-19 Funds To Climate Programs

https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/25/fema-climate-change-covid-19-funding/ The Biden administration is considering authorizing the Federal Emergency Management Agency to allocate COVID-19 funding for climate change projects, The New York Times reported Monday. The plan would reallocate part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) overall disaster budget to projects designed to preemptively address damage from climate disasters, The Times reported. The agency […]

Claim: ‘COVID-19 has shown what happens when we destroy nature’ – ‘Transformative change is urgently needed’ to avoid new pandemics

https://news.trust.org/item/20210119081114-l50qc For years, we have ignored the silent crisis of biodiversity loss, but we cannot risk another damaging decade for nature By Marco Lambertini | WWF International COVID-19 is an unprecedented global health crisis. But it has also been a wake-up call to the risks posed by our destructive relationship with the natural world. The 2021 […]

Morano: COVID-19 Lockdowns Set Precedent for Climate Lockdowns – The left’s ‘ticket to a Soviet-style regulatory state’

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/20/marc-morano-covid-19-lockdowns-set-precedent-for-climate-change-lockdown/ Screenshot By ROBERT KRAYCHIK 20 Jan 20214 Marc Morano, founder of Climate Depot and author of the forthcoming Green Fraud: Why the Green New Deal Is Even Worse than You Think, warned “climate change” would be used as a pretext for lockdowns as is being done with coronavirus. “They want to use the COVID lockdown as the […]