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Using fossil fuels doesn't take a safe climate and make it dangerous, it takes a dangerous climate and makes it safe. If we want to protect the underdeveloped world from climate danger, let them use energy—don't march for policies that would bring them an early death.
Fact 4: Air pollution keeps decreasing.
Air quality has steadily improved in the countries that use the most fossil fuels.
Take the United States. Since 1970, our fossil fuel use has increased 25% and yet according to President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency, here is what has happened to 6 top air pollutants.
The main cause here is anti-pollution technology that can generate energy from coal, oil, and natural gas ever-more cleanly. As this technology is used more and more in China and India, their pollution problems will decrease, not increase.
And billions around the world can use fossil fuels to replace the scourge of indoor air pollution from wood and dung—power sources they will continue to rely upon if the UN moves forward with its anti-fossil-fuel agenda.
Fact 5: The supply of clean water keeps increasing.
Water quality has improved around the world. One of the most important environmental indicators is “Access to improved water sources,” which measures access to clean water. Although we're taught to think of fossil fuel use as fouling up our water, access to clean drinking water has gone up dramatically in the last 25 y...
Nature doesn't give us the ample clean water we need. We need a lot of cheap, reliable energy to power powering machines that clean up nature’s health hazards, such as water purification plants. Using fossil fuels supplied it.
If you want to see the clean water numbers plunge back down, then march on Sunday for less energy.
Fact 6: Proposed bans on fossil fuel use would make billions live shorter, less prosperously, and with worse environments.
Except in special circumstances, all construction of power generating facilities should cease immediately, and power companies should be forbidden to encourage people to use more power. Power is much too cheap. It should certainly be made more expensive and perhaps rationed, in order to reduce its frivolous use.
each human being would get to produce 1.69 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually—which would allow you to drive an average American car nine miles a day. By the time the population increased to 8.5 billion, in about 2025, you'd be down to six miles a day. If you carpooled, you'd have about three pounds of CO2 left in ...
All of these thinkers still advocate similar policies today—in fact, in his 2010 book People's Climate March leader Bill McKibben endorses a 95 percent ban on fossil fuel use, eight times as severe as the scenario described above!
This is the leader of the People's Climate March. Is this something you want to be a part of?
I believe that human happiness and human life should be of primary importance. If you do, too, then please share these facts with anyone who is truly interested in doing the right thing about our energy and environmental future.
If you're in New York—I will be—I hope you join me in sharing some of these facts with the people of this city. New York's unmatched combination of productivity, opportunity, and recreation can only exist with a continuous flow of cheap, plentiful, reliable energy. You can find these facts here or a shorter summary her...
It's snowing, you say? Curl up, start a fire, hope the paper gets delivered (oh, wait), drink hot soup, Stay warm?
Pacific Northwest Sportsmen's Show - the west's biggest outdoor camp?
"No outdoorsman worth his salt is going to say, 'Ehhh, I'm not going to make it,' " said show manager Bill O'Loughlin. "If you hunt, you fish, if you spend any time outdoors you're going to come."
If those words sound familiar, it's because O'Loughlin said them on Feb. 7, 2014, the last time a snow event hit town at the same time as the Sportsmen's Show.
And he was right...they came in droves, punched their way through snow and ice and still filled the Expo Center parking lot...cars and pickups filled with young and old who piled out in their parkas and passed the turnstiles into outdoor Neverneverland.
Same is going to happen Saturday and Sunday, the show's last days.
The O'Loughlins built it; you will come.
Kale Williams of The Oregonian/OregonLive posted a valuable guide for driving, including tips and a link to a handy map of roadways plowed or treated for ice.
Give yourself extra time - not everyone is as smart and snow-savvy as you are.
And keep that fuel tank filled...No telling when "that other driver" is going to tie things up for quite awhile.
O'Loughlin suggested (also in 2014, but always sage advice) public transportation. The Max Yellow Line goes straight to the show.
Trey Carskadon, show public relations and social media manager, said the after-4 p.m., half-price discount is working even better than expected, so if you wait until Saturday afternoon - the snow is expected to let up by then - it's no problem.
Make it Saturday, however, since the after-4 program isn't in place for Sunday.
closes today (Friday) and tomorrow at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 6 p.m.
One last word about Sunday (and weather forecasts look good all day, with snow returning Sunday evening after the show closes): Yes, many retailers won't want to take all their merchandise home with them and may offer last-minute show specials.
However, with the show closing at 6, some exhibitors break the last-minute rule and begin dismantling their booths a bit early.
A Canadian man accused of being an al-Qaeda sleeper agent has vowed to challenge a court ruling that could see him deported to his native Algeria.
Mohamed Harkat told reporters he would be in danger there because Canada had dubbed him a terrorist.
His remarks came a day after a federal court found the former pizza delivery man a national security threat.
Mr Harkat's movement has been limited under strict bail conditions, under a rarely used national security law.
Lawyers for Mr Harkat told Canadian media he was devastated by the latest ruling and planned to appeal.
On Thursday, federal court Judge Simon Noel rejected Mr Harkat's bid to have the "national security certificate" quashed and his bail conditions lifted.
Relying on closed court proceedings, Judge Noel found that Mr Harkat had links to terrorist groups in Chechnya, Egypt and Pakistan.
Mr Harkat, 42, "maintained contacts and assisted Islamist extremists, and used some methodologies typical of a 'sleeper agent'," Judge Noel wrote.
"There are reasonable grounds to believe Mohamed Harkat has engaged in terrorism, is a danger to the security of Canada and is a member of the Bin Laden Network."
Judge Noel wrote that Mr Harkat's defence had been inconsistent and "simply incoherent, implausible if not contradictory", and concluded that he posed a threat to Canada.
Canadian intelligence officials say Mr Harkat had ties to an Islamist terror group, operating a guesthouse in Pakistan for them before coming to Canada in 1995 on a forged Saudi passport.
In 2002, Canadian justice and immigration officials declared Mr Harkat inadmissible to Canada and said he was a security threat.
He was arrested and jailed for nearly four years, and since 2006 has been under virtual house arrest in the Ottawa area.
Canadian law permits the authorities to issue a national security certificate allowing the government to detain and deport non-citizens on security grounds without revealing all the evidence, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
The tower glowed orange and the Longhorn Band, Student Government representatives, the Innervisions Gospel Choir and other student groups welcome the class of 2015 to campus on Tuesday night.
The storming of Bab al-Aziziya, long the nexus of Gadhafi’s power, marked the effective collapse of his 42-year-old regime.
The most powerful earthquake to strike the East Coast in 67 years shook buildings and rattled nerves from Georgia to Maine on Tuesday.
It took an undercover operation, but Greek police have blown a hole in a ring of alleged crooks who had cornered the doughnut market in a beach resort.
Alan Friedman: The Faculty Council will focus on protecting the financial rights and earned benefits of faculty members from budget cuts and attacks on higher education during the upcoming year.
75 percent of incoming freshmen at U.S. colleges and universities will need to take remedial classes because of inadequate preparation by their high schools.
Each award presented by the UT System Board of Regents is between $15,000 and $30,000 and is based on a three-year evaluation.
Four fired Houston police officers are being charged in the alleged beating of a teenage burglary suspect that was caught on videotape.
Hall’s appeal would more likely be hurt than supported by allegations of false lab results, since original results came back clear of Hall’s DNA.
About 10,000 marijuana plants being carefully tended at a national forest in Texas have been destroyed.
An employee works at the Compassionate Care Foundation medical cannabis dispensary in Egg Harbor last year.
After months of delay, New Jersey’s medical marijuana program is now just a few hurdles away from a sweeping overhaul that would make it much easier for patients in the state to qualify for and obtain cannabis.
Two state legislative committees approved an amended version of the bill at the end of a marathon Monday at the Statehouse in Trenton.
The move came on the same day the panels advanced a new measure that would legalize recreational marijuana for adults 21 and older in the Garden State.
The full state Senate and Assembly — each of which are controlled by Democrats — must now pass the medical pot bill before Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy can decide whether to sign it into law or veto it.
New Jersey legalized medical marijuana in 2010. And last March, Murphy expanded the list of qualifying medical conditions and reduced the cost of patient registration.
But this bill (A10) would further expand a program that critics have said is too restrictive, with few dispensaries and an inadequate supply of cannabis.
“This bill would make several revisions to the current law so patients who can benefit from medical marijuana can get it more efficiently and without having to jump through multiple hoops,” Danielsen said.
The measure would allow patients enrolled in the program to buy 2.5 ounces a month, up from the current 2 ounces. After July, that would rise to a maximum of 3 ounces a month. Those who are in hospice care or diagnosed with a terminally disease would have no purchasing limits.
The bill would permit patients to certify they qualify for the program once a year, instead of every 90 days. Patients asked for this change because they had trouble affording the frequent doctor’s visits, which are not covered by insurance.
It also would allow physician assistants, or other health professionals permitted to prescribe medicine, to recommend patients for the program.
And it would authorize the Cannabis Regulatory Commission — the body that would regulate marijuana in New Jersey — to solicit applicants for six new grow and retail operations within 90 days.
Legislative committees approved an earlier version of the bill in November. But the measure was amended last week to include several key changes, including requiring dispensaries to submit an online price list that can’t be changed changed more than once a month.
New Jersey has the most expensive medical cannabis in the country — as much as $500 an ounce with sales tax. The price list amendment is an attempt to bring some relief.
Medical cannabis is not covered by health insurance in the state. If the state does legalize recreational marijuana — which lawmakers hope to vote on March 25 — it could lessen the demand for medical marijuana in New Jersey. But an expanded medical marijuana program would likely provide a better product to those who ar...
The bill is named “Jake’s Law” after Jake Honig of Howell, a 7-year-old boy who died from brain cancer in January. Jake was helped by cannabis oil, but his parents were forced to use it sparingly because of the state’s strict limits on how much could be bought. Those limits would be loosened in this legislation.
The measure has wide support in the Democratic-controlled state Legislature and likely would have passed when it was introduced last year. But leaders tied it to the more controversial legal pot bill to garner more support for that legislation.
The medical pat bill cleared state Senate Judiciary Committee, 6-2, with two abstentions, and the Assembly Appropriations Committee, 8-1, on Monday.
2009 Flu Pandemic Was 10 Times More Deadly Than Previously Thought : Shots - Health News A fresh analysis finds that the death toll from the H1N1 swine flu in 2009-10 was severely underestimated. The Americas were hit much harder than Europe or Australia. And the deaths occurred in a much younger population than normal...
By the World Health Organization's official tally, the flu pandemic of 2009-10 killed 18,449 people around the world. Those are deaths of people who had laboratory-confirmed cases of the so-called swine flu.
But a fresh analysis says the real toll was 10 times higher — up to 203,000 deaths. And maybe it was twice that, if you count people who died of things like heart attacks precipitated by the flu.
Let's take the conservative figure of 203,000. That's about the same as a normal flu season. So the figure confirms the popular impression that the H1N1 flu pandemic of 2009 was a paper tiger, as these things go. Or as one NPR listener suggested back in early 2010, the headline might be: "Despite Puffed-Up Fears, Swine...
That's an odd complaint, of course — as though it would have been better if the 2009 pandemic had been more like the pandemic of 1918-19, which killed an estimated 50 million people around the world.
But the current study, commissioned by the WHO, helps explain why the agency struggled so much to calibrate its response to that pandemic and find the right tone for its public messaging. WHO leaders were first criticized for taking too long to declare a pandemic when spread of the disease clearly met its definition. T...
The low number of laboratory-confirmed deaths — just 18,449 — added to the confusion, a team of global health researchers write Tuesday in the journal PLOS Medicine: "This modest number has caused many to wonder what all the excitement was about, and some to question whether the pandemic response was excessive."
"There were all kinds of conspiracy theories in Europe," says the study's lead author Lone Simonsen of George Washington University. "But I can't see how they could have responded in any other way."
The most important insight from the analysis, Simonsen says, is that the H1N1 swine flu was hugely variable in how it affected different parts of the world. "The take-home message is that you can have such heterogeneity in a pandemic," she tells Shots. "It was really, truly twentyfold worse in some countries than in ot...
In particular, the Americas were much harder hit than Europe or Australia and New Zealand. That posed a political dilemma for theWHO– a creature of its 194 member nations – as it tried to organize a coherent global response.
But even in the same region, there were inexplicable variations in severity. "In Argentina it was very severe, and right next door Chile was affected far less," says Simonsen.
Why did the flu have such differential impact? "That's the million-dollar question," she says.
Her favorite hypothesis is one that seems surprising in light of traditional thinking about how people's immune systems react to the virus. The usual notion is that people who have previously been infected with flu viruses are at least partially protected when a new, but similar, strain comes along. It's almost as thou...
That's almost certainly true, and probably explains why people over age 50 were strikingly underrepresented among the deaths from the 2009 H1N1 strain. Older people were exposed to the descendants of the fearsome 1918 virus, which were closely related.
But scientists are beginning to think that something like the opposite can also occur. That is, when a population has been exposed to an H1N1 seasonal strain that's distantly related to a new, pandemic virus, their previous exposure can set the stage for a more severe reaction.
Recent animal experiments support this idea. In fact the H1N1 strain circulating in the season before the recent pandemic was such a distant cousin.
Under this hypothesis, younger people — who didn't have the benefit of residual protection from the more closely related 1918 virus circulating in the early decades of the last century — may have been primed for a more severe response to the pandemic H1N1 strain by their exposure to the more distantly related seasonal ...
But Europeans were also exposed to the distantly related H1N1, and they didn't suffer as many flu deaths in 2009. So that's not an entirely satisfactory explanation.
"We still don't understand these global variations – why Americans were hit harder than Europeans," says Dr. Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Minnesota. "It couldn't be that one region had better care."
Misunderstandings about regional differences in flu severity help explain why many people underestimated the recent pandemic's real impact, Osterholm says. "I think some people rushed to judgment in 2009," he tells Shots. "They looked at countries with less impact and said, 'Aha, this is what's happening.' "
Another message that comes through clearly in the current study is the unusual burden that fell on previously healthy children, teenagers and young adults, especially pregnant women.
"The thing that sets this pandemic apart is not the absolute number of deaths, but the fact that those deaths occurred in a much younger group of people than one normally sees during a typical flu season," Dr. Anthony Mounts of the WHO's Global Influenza Program writes in an email to Shots. "Therefore, if one thinks in...
BEIJING/OTTAWA: China warned Canada on Saturday that there would be severe consequences if it did not immediately release Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's chief financial officer, calling the case "extremely nasty".
Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's global chief financial officer, was arrested in Canada on Dec. 1 and faces extradition to the United States, which alleges that she covered up her company's links to a firm that tried to sell equipment to Iran despite sanctions.
In a short statement, China's Foreign Ministry said that Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng had issued the warning to release Meng to Canada's ambassador in Beijing, summoning him to lodge a "strong protest".

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