New Yorker reporter, Benjamin Wallace-Wells, has a “famous” brother, David/NY Mag:
12 Mar: NY Mag: Intelligencer: America Is Broken
By David Wallace-Wells
What we are seeing right now is the collapse of civic authority and public trust at what is only the beginning of a protracted crisis. In the face of an onrushing pandemic, the United States has exhibited a near-total evacuation of responsibility and political leadership — a sociopathic disinterest in performing the basic function of government, which is to protect its citizens...
Things will get worse from here. According to a survey of epidemiologists released yesterday, the coronavirus outbreak probably won’t peak before May. That doesn’t mean it will be over by May, of course, but that it will be getting worse and worse and worse over the next two months, and for much of that time, presumably, exponentially worse...
And for all of that time, the country’s response will be commanded and controlled by Donald Trump.
Trump is, of course, the last man in the world you would want in charge right now. In an extremely illuminating interview with Gabriel Debenedetti published this morning, Obama’s Ebola czar Ron Klain described his response to that threat, which he suggested was a relatively good model for how the U.S. might have responded to this one. That response began with 10,000 public-health workers sent to fight and investigate the disease. This administration has sent none, which means it has been, practically speaking, flying blind about the nature of the coronavirus and the challenges it represents to public-health systems. In fact, it’s worse than that; for all intents and purposes, the administration hasn’t been flying at all, spending the last three months sitting by entirely idle and indifferent, rather than scaling up testing regimes, issuing protocols, and preparing for a major surge of patients by developing contingency plans to expand hospital capacity around the country wherever it became needed. If reading about Ron Klain makes you wish he was still in charge, you are surely not alone...
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/coronavirus-shows-us-america-is-broken.html
David Wallace-Wells wrote a lengthy, ultra-alarmist gloBULL warming article for NY Mag, and a book of the same name - “The Uninhabitable Earth” - which was too extreme even for Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann:
12 Jul 2017: WaPo: Doomsday scenarios are as harmful as climate change denial
By Michael E. Mann, Susan Joy Hassol and Tom Toles
(Michael E. Mann is distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University and director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center. Susan Joy Hassol is the director of Climate Communication LLC. Tom Toles is the editorial cartoonist for The Post)
The New York magazine article (”The Uninhabitable Earth” by David Wallace-Wells) paints an overly bleak picture, arguing that climate change could render the Earth uninhabitable by the end of this century. Its opening story about the “flooding” of a seed vault in Norway leaves out that one of the vault’s creators told NPR “there was really no flood.” It exaggerates the near-term threat of climate “feedbacks” involving the release of frozen methane. It mischaracterizes one recent study as demonstrating that the globe is warming “more than twice as fast as scientists had thought,” when in fact the study in question simply showed that one dataset that had tended to show less warming than other datasets has now been brought in line with the others after some problems were corrected for. The warming of the globe is progressing as models predicted. And that is plenty bad enough...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/doomsday-scenarios-are-as-harmful-as-climate-change-denial/2017/07/12/880ed002-6714-11e7-a1d7-9a32c91c6f40_story.html
yet that didn’t stop Mann from going on Morning Joe with Wallace-Wells and happily going along with the alarmist flow:
begins with Lesley Stahl/60 Minutes interview with President Trump and continues with attacks on the President; parts of interview repeats after 4m44s:
VIDEO: 6m15s: 21 Feb 2019: MSNBC: Morning Joe: ‘We are entering into an unprecedented climate’
Authors David Wallace-Wells and Michael Mann join Morning Joe to discuss the realities of climate change.
https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/-we-are-entering-into-an-unprecedented-climate-1445411907673
16 Aug 2017: Washington Times: China’s $360 million gift to Harvard
by Bill Gertz
Anders Corr, a former government analyst who specializes in foreign influence operations, stated in a letter to Vice President Mike Pence that a Chinese military-linked company, JT Capital, gave $10 million to Harvard in 2014, the same year the family of Ronnie Chan, a Hong Kong real estate mogul with ties to China, announced it is giving $350 million to the university. Both donations were “relatively opaque” and raise questions about the purpose of the funds, he said.
Mr. Corr, who received an international relations doctorate from Harvard in 2008, said the Chinese donations appear to be an attempt to introduce biases among the university’s professors in a bid to influence U.S. policy or public opinion in China’s favor...
“Allowing such donations does not appear to be in U.S. national security interests, and it does not appear to be necessary for Harvard’s research and teaching (it already has an endowment of $36.7 billion),” he said. “Perhaps there should be legislation against Chinese-linked money in U.S. politics, including think tanks and universities.”
The U.S. government gave Harvard $600 million in 2016, and over the years has provided billions of dollars for research and education, he noted.
Mr. Corr then asked the vice president, who met recently with Harvard President Drew Faust, to look into whether the China-linked donations violate U.S. foreign agents’ registration laws, and whether Harvard may be providing valuable U.S. technology to China in exchange. The $350 million donation also should be examined by the Treasury Department-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, known as CFIUS...
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/16/inside-the-ring-chinas-360-million-gift-to-harvard/
25 Dec 2019: Euraia Review: China’s Incentive To Pollute: Global Warming Is Big Business – OpEd
by Ander Corr
China is the biggest current cause of global warming, and it will profit handsomely and perversely by global attempts to limit that warming through clean energy manufactures imported from China. China’s green energy industry is exporting tens of billions of dollars annually, and creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs to stabilize its autocratic regime...
For example, China manufactures approximately two-thirds of the solar cells installed globally. In 2019, China’s solar component exports are expected to reach $20 billion, 25 percent greater than in 2018. China’s solar export sales to Europe accounted for 34.9 percent of the country’s total solar exports in the first three quarters of 2019.
Global warming is clearly big business for China.
By encouraging new emissions-heavy industries like coal power plants at home, China simultaneously expands its domestic economy while forcing the world towards the need to buy clean energy solutions like solar panels, wind turbines, hydroelectric dams, and nuclear power plants, all of which China is ready to provide for a fee...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/25122019-chinas-incentive-to-pollute-global-warming-is-big-business-oped/