Stanford Medicine leaders sign Biden administration pledge to address climate change – Stanford Medical Center Report

A roundtable at the White House on reducing the health care industry’s climate-warming emissions includes leaders from Stanford Medicine. June 30, 2022 Leaders at Stanford Medicine have pledged to reduce climate-warming emissions by 50% by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions by…

Climate Wokester BlackRock Selling Out Americans To China

Ironically, one of the wokest American corporations is also selling out Americans to none other than the Chinese Communist Party. BlackRock and its CEO Larry Fink have been using the massive amount of investment funds at their disposal to praise…

Opinion | What’s Worse: Climate Denial or Climate Hypocrisy? – The New York Times

Those straining to make the math work on the back end, by invoking large-scale carbon removal later this century, are generating novel dissonance, too. We see headlines about Stripe and its tech allies making a $925 million commitment to removal…

Climate Change, Fossil-Fuel Pollution, and Children’s Health | NEJM – nejm.org

1. Tollefson J. Scientists raise alarm over “dangerously fast” growth in atmospheric methane. Nature 2022 February 08 (Epub ahead of print). 2. Global Carbon Project. Global carbon budget. 2022 (https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/carbonbudget/index.htm). Google Scholar 3. Climate Action Tracker. Temperatures: addressing global warming….

AMA: Climate change is a public health crisis – Contemporary Pediatrics

The American Medical Association has declared climate change a public health crisis that threatens the health and well-being of all people. The new policy mobilizes the AMA to advocate for policies that limit global warming to no more than 1.5…

Bonn climate conference: Glasgow ‘colonial’ pact shifts burden of climate change to developing countries, say parties

Inadequate climate finance among the biggest challenges for developing countries bloc

Self-driving taxis take to the streets of San Francisco

Phoenix, Arizona, already has self-driving taxis, and now San Francisco, California, becomes the 2nd major U.S. city to have them.

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Overhyped Green-Tech Companies Have Burst The Green Bubble

The bio-waste has hit the wind turbine. That’s clean energy talk for the you-know-what hitting the fan. It’s always a messy business when people lose money in the stock market. Broad equity markets have been sullied of late, but it’s…

Blue Origin’s NS-21 mission rescheduled for June 4

Blue Origin’s next crewed mission, NS-21, is scheduled to launch on June 4, 2022. Read about the mission and how to watch it here.

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Stockholm syndrome: What should ‘+50’ be about

The 50th anniversary celebration of the Stockholm conference should be about our common future, not the divisions of the past