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Dr Jordan B Peterson and Dr. Richard Lindzen dive into the facts of climate change, the models used to predict it, the dismal state of academia, and the politicized world of “professional” science. Richard Lindzen is a dynamical meteorologist. He has contributed to the development of theories for the Hadley Circulation, hydrodynamic instability theory, internal gravity waves, atmospheric tides, and the quasi-biennial oscillation of the stratosphere. His current research is focused on climate sensitivity, the role of cirrus clouds in climate, and the determination of the tropics-to-pole temperature difference. He has attained multiple degrees from Harvard University, and won multiple...

The price of charging an electric car using a public rapid charger is now more expensive than filling up with diesel according to data gathered by Parkers. The soaring price of wholesale gas and electricity has forced up the cost of charging a typical electric car, with £10 of charge taking you less far than the same amount of diesel. This rise in EV charging begins to bite just as petrol and diesel prices are finally beginning to fall. Despite the spiralling costs of using public electric car chargers, the long-term consideration of an electric car is still very much...

An Electric Bus Caught Fire After Battery Explosion in Paris https://youtu.be/5r-yN8SugWM A video recording shows the start of the fire which completely consumed an electric RATP bus on Friday 29 April. The incident caused no injuries. The bus burst into flames within seconds. This is what can be seen on the video that captured the very beginning of the fire of an electric vehicle of the RATP in Paris , this Friday, April 29. In the images, we can see a small explosion occur on the roof of the bus, where the batteries are located, followed by huge flames that...

As Chief Justice of the Supreme Court presiding over the Senate impeachment of Andrew Johnson, Chase penned a letter to a friend on the night that Johnson was acquitted of "high crimes & misdemeanors." The author notes that Chase is upset that what should be a judicial process has become a character issue. Chase writes to his friend: What possible harm can come to the country from the continuance of Andrew Johnson nine months longer in the presidential chair, compared with that which must arise if impeachment becomes a mere mode of getting rid of an obnoxious president?

On Friday, a jury in Denver, Colorado gave their verdict awarding $14 million in damages to 12 plaintiffs who were injured by police after participating in violent race riots in the summer of 2020. As reported by the New York Post, the jury claimed that police in Denver used excessive force when they attempted to shut down the violence, and in doing so allegedly violated the rioters’ constitutional rights. The decision was celebrated by the far-left American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which declared through a spokesman that “the verdict is a message to the police department, to the highest echelons...

h/t gringojay – An ice storm and accident stranded drivers in freezing conditions on the Virginia I-95 overnight on Monday. My question – what would have happened if they were all driving electric vehicles? 27-hour commute: Virginia officials pelted with questions after hundreds of drivers were stuck on I-95 overnight Ryan W. MillerDoyle Rice USA TODAY The winter storm blanketed several states in the mid-Atlantic and South on Monday, closing schools and causing power outages. In Virginia, drivers were stranded in a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 95 near Fredericksburg overnight. Five deaths across three states were caused by the weather....

Does Justice Sonia Sotomayor even read the briefs in cases before the Supreme Court? I ask because the cases don't come any bigger than Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which addresses Mississippi's limit on abortion after 15 weeks. The Court is being asked to overturn the 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade and 1992 decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. I joined two other female physicians (a neonatologist and an obstetrician) in an amicus brief detailing advances in fetal science that have happened since 1973. During oral arguments, Justice Sotomayor displayed abysmal ignorance of the most basic scientific and...

At FaceBook, Dane Peter Bardland presents a chart and commentary on Germany’s upcoming rapid nuclear power phaseout. By the end of 2022, the government will have shut down another 6 plants with a total (baseload) capacity of 8.54 gigawatts! Yesterday we commented here that Germany will in fact be shutting down all the baseload power sources, which ironically kept the country from blacking out in 2021 because wind and solar power failed to deliver as expected. “Disaster playing out”…”pretty crazy” Bardland writes: In just over a month, Germany will close 3 of its newest and best nuclear power plants and...

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House Democrats’ sweeping $1.75 trillion social spending bill would remove the requirement that child tax credit claimants have a valid Social Security number — potentially opening the way for illegal immigrants and their children to receive billions in benefits. The provision on page 1,647 of the 2,135-page Build Back Better Act — which Democratic leaders are hoping to put to a House vote this week — would repeal 26 US Code § 24 paragraph 7, which details the Social Security number requirement to obtain child tax credits. “No credit shall be allowed under this section to a taxpayer with respect...

(...) ♦ SUMMARY: Mary McCord submitted the original false FISA application to the court using the demonstrably false Dossier. Mary McCord participated in the framing of Michael Flynn. Mary McCord worked with ICIG Michael Atkinson to create a fraudulent whistleblower complaint against President Trump; and Mary McCord used that manipulated complaint to assemble articles of impeachment on behalf of the joint House Intel and Judiciary Committee. Mary McCord then took up a defensive position inside the FISA court to protect the DOJ and FBI from sunlight upon all the aforementioned corrupt activity. You can clearly see how Mary McCord would...

Representative Mike Johnson (R-LA) questioned U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland about his clear conflict of interest today surrounding the Attorney General’s instructions for FBI agents to investigate parents who question school board curriculum. Merrick Garland’s daughter is married to the co-founder of the Critical Race Theory educational material being purchased by the school boards. The exact CRT material being directly challenged by the parents Garland has instructed the FBI to investigate. In a clear conflict of interest Merrick Garland is using his office to protect the income and investments of his son-in-law’s business. However, when questioned about this conflict today,...

SINGAPORE: China‘s refining giant Sinopec Corp said on Wednesday it has jointly certified the country’s first carbon-neutral crude oil cargo with shipping giant Cosco Shipping and China Eastern Airlines . The 30,000-tonne cargo was produced by Sinopec in Angola and shipped by Cosco Shipping to an east China-based Sinopec refinery for processing, Sinopec said. To offset the carbon dioxide produced during the process from crude production to shipping to consumption by vehicles and airplanes, the three state firms bought Chinese Certified Emissions Reductions credits. These credits that will go to investing in carbon-reducing projects such as tree planting, solar, wind...

In the wake of a series of severe EV battery fires, one of the largest vehicle manufacturers in the world, General Motors has just issued safety recommendations for Bolt EV’s: Not to park your Chevy Bolt within 50 feet of other vehicles in case it catches fire. Highly recommends that Bolt EV owners not to park within 50 feet of anything you care about. Recommends parking on the top floor or on an open-air deck and park 50 feet or more away from another vehicle. Requests Bolt EV owners to not leave their vehicle charging unattended, even if they are...

Looks like Rep. Roy is the only one who contacted HHS regarding they're "take-over" of Monoclonal antibody distribution. Wanted to contact to support him but am not in his state.

A male preacher carrying a “women belong in the kitchen” sign was punched in the face and knocked to the ground by a female Alabama college student. The student was captured on video striking the preacher on the University of Alabama at Birmingham campus on Tuesday. A witness who filmed the ordeal told AL.com that the preacher and other demonstrators had been waving around the “misogynistic” signs before the student approached. In addition to the kitchen sign, the witness said another placard read women “shouldn’t be in college.”

A group of highly trained US military veterans have been conducting secret rescue missions behind the Biden State Department’s back, rescuing hundreds of Afghan allies from Afghanistan with their heroic efforts. Furious over the terrible situation in they had already sacrificed so much to prevent when they served, the team of retired specialists, including Green Berets and Navy SEALS, risked their lives. They volunteered to travel to Kabul because they were afraid that Joe Biden was abandoning at-risk Afghan elite forces, leaving them to die at the hands of terrorists. They felt it was necessary for someone to step up...

There is much agitation in the climatosphere about the amount of “coking coal” used in making steel. A number of allegedly smart folks are working on ways to replace that coal with hydrogen to reduce the amount of eeevil CO2 produced in steelmaking. There’s a very recent post on the subject here on WUWT, describing a “green steel” method developed in Sweden. So I thought I’d take a look at the numbers for steel for the European Union. If you know me, you know I like to run the numbers myself. From “Hydrogen In Steel Production“, I find: The steel...

A toxic blaze at the site of Australia's largest Tesla battery project is set to burn throughout the night. A 13-tonne lithium battery was engulfed in flames, which then spread to an adjacent battery bank. More than 150 people from Fire Rescue Victoria and the Country Fire Authority responded to the blaze, which has been contained and will be closely monitored until it burns itself out. "If we try and cool them down it just prolongs the process," the CFA's Assistant Chief Fire Officer Ian Beswicke said. "But we could be here anywhere from 8 to 24 hours while we...

Proterra Bus Fire Prompts California Agency to Consider Shelving Electric Bus FleetElectric buses are melting in sun, too expensive to fix, transit official says An electric bus manufactured by Proterra caught fire while charging in a southern California city that is now considering taking the electric buses off the road, according to government records. The Foothill Transit agency, which serves the valleys surrounding Los Angeles, will decide on Friday whether costly Proterra buses purchased in the last decade are still operable. Problems cited by the agency include not only the bus that caught fire in what's described as a "thermal...