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Net Zero, Climate Action, Build Back Better, and the Great Reset are some of the names for policies aimed at expediting the transition of the global energy sector from fossil fuel to renewable technology. The goal? Saving the planet from climate apocalypse. But there is a huge hurdle to make this transition a reality. Most of the world’s primary energy comes from coal, oil, and gas. Fossil fuels dominate the global energy sector, and there is a reason for that: they are reliable, abundant, and affordable. Further, with constant innovations, the amounts of pollutants emitted from burning them have been...

Key PointsFlu activity is unusually low at this time but may increase in the coming months.An annual flu vaccine is the best way to protect against flu and its potentially serious complications.If you haven’t gotten your flu vaccine yet, get vaccinated now.There are also flu antiviral drugs that can be used to treat flu illness.U.S. Virologic Surveillance:Clinical LaboratoriesThe results of tests performed by clinical laboratories nationwide are summarized below. Data from clinical laboratories (the percentage of specimens tested that are positive for influenza) are used to monitor whether influenza activity is increasing or decreasing. results of tests from Clinical Laboratories...

At a glance: Gov. Tom Wolf’s budget proposal once again includes a municipal fee that’s expected to raise $168 million for the Pennsylvania State Police. Unlike in previous years, when the proposal failed to pass the Legislature, this fee would be charged to all municipalities based partially on services rather than focusing on a specific group of communities. Across all funds, including a significant one-time infusion of COVID-19 aid via the federal government, the agency’s budget remains relatively flat at $1.38 billion. Over at the Department of Criminal Justice (corrections, probation and parole to us laypeople), total funding decreases slightly...

Earth spiked a bit of a fever in 2020, partly because of cleaner air from the pandemic lockdown, a new study found. For a short time, temperatures in some places in the eastern United States, Russia and China were as much as half to two-thirds of a degree (.3 to .37 degrees Celsius) warmer. That’s due to less soot and sulfate particles from car exhaust and burning coal, which normally cool the atmosphere temporarily by reflecting the sun’s heat, Tuesday’s study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters reported. Overall, the planet was about .05 degrees (.03 degrees Celsius) warmer for...

Germany’s Justice Ministry said Wednesday it has put forward a proposal to replace the term “race” in the country’s constitution after a row broke out over its links with Nazi ideology. “The Justice Ministry sent a draft proposal … to affected associations on Tuesday with the opportunity to comment,” a spokesman told AFP. Paragraph three in Germany’s Basic Law states that “no person shall be favored or disfavored because of sex, parentage, race, language, homeland and origin, faith or religious or political opinions”. But critics have taken aim at the word “race”, pushing for a change to the constitution in...

It’s ironic when the liberal media uses the left’s own faulty climate change metrics to complain about liberal cities' carbon emissions. Reuters whined in a new report that “U.S. cities are underestimating their carbon dioxide emissions by an average of 18%, according to a study released on Tuesday, potentially hindering their efforts to craft effective policies to combat climate change.” But the kicker is that the big outliers Reuters claimed were underestimating their emissions were all Democrat-run cities: “Big outliers included Los Angeles, whose self-reported emissions were roughly 50% below the Vulcan readings, along with Chicago and New York, both...

President Biden's recently appointed climate czar, John Kerry, took a private jet to Iceland in 2019 to receive the Arctic Circle award for climate leadership, Fox News has learned. Kerry defended his high-pollution ride at the time, calling it "the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle" in an interview obtained by Fox News. The incident had not been previously reported in the American press. -snip- Icelandic reporter Jóhann Bjarni Kolbeinsson confronted Kerry at the event over his choice of transportation, asking: "I understand that you came here with a private jet....

On September 9, 2001 terrorists flew planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, brought both towers to the ground, killed 2,977 people, and caused over 25,000 injuries, with $10 billion in infrastructure damage. 343 firefighters were killed, and 72 police officers. In the midst of all that desperation and despair the workers found a Cross amidst the wreckage. I believe the Cross was put there by the Sovereign God as a symbol demonstrating that Hope shines in the midst of great sorrow. See pic here: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTOW1izJP_ThN_R4EMrtRj1G3xcCj6C9izb5g&usqp=CAU We have all seen pictures of the Cross draped with Jesus'...

Fraunhofer researchers have presented a magnesium-based "Powerpaste" that stores hydrogen energy at 10 times the density of a lithium battery, offering hydrogen fuel cell vehicles the ability to travel further than gasoline-powered ones, and refuel in minutes.

Rennie Davis, who lived out one of the more quixotic journeys of the 1960s generation when he went from leading opponent of the Vietnam War, as a convicted member of the Chicago Seven, to spokesman for a teenage Indian guru, died on Tuesday at his home in Longmont, Colo. He was 79. His wife, Kirsten Liegmann, who announced the death on his Facebook page, said the cause was lymphoma, adding that a large tumor had been discovered only two weeks ago. Smart, charismatic and a blur of energy and engagement, Mr. Davis was a leading figure of the antiwar movement....

President Donald Trump pointed a “loaded cannon” at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, and is “singularly responsible” for the riot that day. Or so claim House Impeachment Managers in a legal brief filed Tuesday.Before we go even a step further: These are the same impeachment-crazed House Democrats who last year impeached Donald Trump for a phone call. A phone call where he casually asked Ukraine’s president about the illicit Biden family activities there … activities that we now know the FBI was already investigating.These are the same House Democrats who spent three years insisting Trump was a Russian asset...

The CDC website tells Americans to avoid shouting or cheering during this year’s Super Bowl to help avoid the spread of COVID-19. The Super Bowl final will take place on Sunday between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the Raymond James Stadium. Despite the fact that the stadium seats 65,890, only 25,000 are being allowed in, leaving the rest forced to watch at home or in bars. With that in mind, the CDC has added a new section to its website called ‘Safer Ways to Enjoy the Super Bowl’. ====================================================== “Gathering virtually or with the people...

ContentsIntroductionMay a state or local government agency or business require customers to wear a face mask? Is there a reason a person might not be able to wear a face mask? Examples of a person with a disability who might not be able to wear a face mask If a person with a disability is unable to wear a face mask, do I still have to allow them in my business or government agency? Examples of reasonable modifications to a face mask policyAre there any situations when an agency or business does not have to provide a reasonable modification to...

A plan in China to get boys to do more sports as a way of making them more manly has reopened a debate between those who urge more diversity and those backing a more masculine society. The education ministry has said it aims to increase the number of physical education teachers and revamp gym classes to boost the “masculinity” of students. The plan was in response to a proposal last May by a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, an advisory body to the government, calling for help for boys who have become too delicate, timid and effeminate...

The nightmare scenario of an America sent back centuries in time before electricity, refrigeration, and smart phones has grown unnervingly closer with the presence of two North Korean satellites with orbits over a blissfully unaware American populace and an Obama administration indifferent to the apocalyptic threat of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack.

When cruise lines begin sailing in and around the United States again, passengers will be required to wear a mask for much of their time on board to help battle COVID-19. The new mandatory mask mandate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) applies to all forms of public transportation, including “aircraft, train, road vehicle, vessel or other means of transport.” The order went into effect on February 1, but there are exceptions for children under two years old and passengers with a disability that inhibits wearing a mask, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Passengers...

Hi all- I had a completly obsolete Email for this place so I finally just started a new name- I used to be flower girl I am a long time lurker like since the late to mid 90's ladt time I remember posting was with Hurricane Katrina! any idea if there is a way to see my old comments? new name is wildflower girl

Download PDF flyer From Tampa Bay, Florida, to Portland, Oregon, from Los Angeles to Boston, people took to the streets Jan.30-Feb 1. They organized car caravans, speakouts and dropped banners demanding that the government immediately cancel the rents and mortgages, house the homeless and stop evictions.Actions took place in 30 cities as national and local eviction moratoriums have only paused millions of evictions, and a third of the population can’t pay their bills and are unable to catch up with the rent. An eviction crisis looms that will hit oppressed communities, already especially affected by the pandemic, the hardest. Meanwhile,...

Democrats are finally taking full control of the Senate after a power-sharing agreement has been reached between Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. 'I am happy to report this morning that the leadership of both parties have finalized the organizing resolution for the Senate,' Schumer said on the Senate floor Wednesday morning. 'We will pass the resolution through the Senate today, which means the committees can promptly set up and get to work with Democrats holding the gavels.' The announcement comes after two weeks of deadlock between the leaders.

Fittingly for someone who spent more than three decades as a member of the U.S. Senate, President Joe Biden holds the so-called world's greatest deliberative body in high regard. Biden calls the Senate his "second home" in his 2007 memoir and, as that metaphor suggests, it is often obvious that the relationship is about more than just a physical place. Biden sees the Senate—with its arcane rules and combative but dignified atmosphere—as the embodiment of what government should aspire to be. When Biden stresses that Americans must learn to disagree without disrespecting one another, as he did in his inaugural...