Day: April 29, 2020💾

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The Meltdown of the Careerist Greens – CounterPunch.org

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The Meltdown of the Careerist Greens – CounterPunch.org

The wildly, uniquely popular, documentary “Planet of the Humans” has been viewed over 2 million times in less that four days – likely 100s of thousands more by the time you read this.

Highly-compensated, thoroughly-compromised Climate warriors (and “renewable” energy entrepreneurs) who have nothing but pie-in-the-sky “renewable” energy myths to show for 13 years and hundreds of millions of dollars spent, respond to the documentary – certainly not to the damning facts presented by someone finally pointing out their ineptness and ties to bad actors and weak Democrats – but with Trumpian level denials and personal attacks. No wonder Fossil Fuel use is at all-time highs and rising and we are at 420 parts per million (ppm) Carbon in the atmosphere which is also rising and has never dropped* after all their useless efforts.”

This sounds like a very interesting film even if it is a tough critique of environmental movement. I'll have to see if I can download it the next time I I'm at the library. 
Map: Lester Flow

Goats and Soda : NPR

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U.S. Government Pulls Funding For Research Project On Bats And Coronaviruses : Goats and Soda : NPR

The U.S. government has abruptly terminated funding for a years-long research project in China that many experts say is vital to preventing the next major coronavirus outbreak.

The project was run by a U.S. nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance. For more than a decade the group has been sending teams to China to trap bats, collect samples of their blood, saliva and feces, then check those samples for new coronaviruses that could spark the next global pandemic. The idea is to identify locations that need to be monitored, come up with strategies to prevent spillover of the virus into human populations and get a jump on creating vaccines and treatments. Already the project has identified hundreds of coronaviruses – including one very similar to the virus behind the current outbreak.

Economy Shrank At 4.8% Pace In 1st Quarter. But Worst Is Yet To Come : Coronavirus Live Updates : NPR

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GDP: Economy Shrank At 4.8% Pace In 1st Quarter. But Worst Is Yet To Come : Coronavirus Live Updates : NPR

The coronavirus pandemic is likely to trigger the sharpest recession in the United States since the Great Depression. An early signal of that came Wednesday, when the Commerce Department said the economy shrank at a 4.8% annual rate in the first three months of the year — the first quarterly contraction since 2014 and the largest since the Great Recession.

For the first 2 1/2 of those months, the economy was chugging along at a steady, if not spectacular pace. But the plug was suddenly pulled in mid-March — when bars, restaurants and retail shops were abruptly closed and tens of millions of Americans were ordered to stay home in an effort to slow the spread of the deadly disease. Deluge Continues: 26 Million Jobs Lost In Just 5 Weeks Coronavirus Live Updates Deluge Continues: 26 Million Jobs Lost In Just 5 Weeks

The first-quarter drop was the biggest since an 8.4% dive in the fourth quarter of 2008. It marked a reversal from the 2.1% growth rate at the end of 2019.

Tomorrow is going to be really wet

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Tomorrow is going to be really wet. Unfortunately I have a meeting I have to drive to tomorrow, but the windshield wipers work well on Big Red. We need the rain too — it’s been fairly dry lately and this will help us overcome the rain deficit.