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Pandemic now blamed for global warming

How pandemic lockdowns cleaned the air but resulted in a warmer planet

Earth spiked a bit of a fever in 2020, partly because of cleaner air from pandemic lockdowns, a new study has found.

For a short time, temperatures in some places in the eastern United States, Russia and China were as much as 0.3 to 0.37 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.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2021February 3, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease", WTF?

Trudeau Liberals shame Canada making it the only G7 country to take vaccines from fund for developing countries

Canada the only G7 country to take vaccines from fund for developing countries

Canada is the only G7 country to draw on a supply of COVID-19 vaccines meant primarily for developing countries, according to new data released Wednesday.

The COVAX program, co-ordinated by the World Health Organization and Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, pools funds from wealthier countries to buy vaccines for themselves and for 92 low- and middle-income nations that can’t afford to buy on their own.

Information released Wednesday by Gavi shows Canada is among just a few rich countries exercising their options to buy vaccines from the international group. The vast majority of countries receiving the first vaccine shipments from COVAX are low- and middle-income countries.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2021February 3, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Pakistan court sends man acquitted of Daniel Pearl murder to ‘safe house’

Pakistan’s supreme court has ordered that the Pakistani-British man acquitted of the 2002 beheading of the American journalist Daniel Pearl be moved off death row and to a government “safe house”.

Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who has been on death row for 18 years, will be under guard and not allowed to leave the safe house, but his wife and children will be able to visit him.

Sheikh’s father, Ahmad Saeed Sheikh, who attended the hearing on Tuesday, said: “It is not complete freedom. It is a step toward freedom.”

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2021February 3, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Pakistan, Pakistan - Islamic Failed State

Canada’s vaccine-procurement efforts have been shrouded in unjustified secrecy

Despite the enthusiasm Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tried to bring to his announcement Tuesday, when he said that Canada had struck a deal to manufacture millions of COVID-19 vaccines at home, the agreement won’t do much to get us out of the acute phase of this pandemic.

That’s because the deal with Novavax to churn out its vaccine at Canada’s National Research Council (NRC) in Montreal is contingent on the completion of a new production centre, which won’t be finished until summer or early fall.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2021February 3, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Tucker Carlson slams NYU’s ‘farcical’ study saying claims of conservative ‘censorship’ on social media are ‘disinformation’

Tucker Carlson has labelled ‘farcical’ a New York University study into censorship of conservatives on social media, after the authors admitted there was no data to support their findings.

On Monday NYU researchers published ‘False Accusation: The Unfounded Claim that Social Media Companies Censor Conservatives.’

In their report, the authors stated that claims of anti-conservative bias are ‘a form of disinformation: a falsehood with no reliable evidence to support it.’

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2021February 3, 2021•0•"Big Tech Oligopoly"

Canadian government lists Proud Boys as a terrorist group

The Canadian government will list the far-right Proud Boys movement as a terrorist group, the Star has learned.

The loosely-organized “Western chauvinist” group is expected to be formally added to Canada’s “terrorist entity” list later today.

Oh yea, they’re right up there with Islam as a source of terror activities. This is the terrorism of politics.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2021February 3, 2021•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Rights groups call for boycott of Beijing 2022 Winter Games

TOKYO (AP) — A coalition of 180 rights group on Wednesday called for a boycott of next year’s Beijing Winter Olympics tied to reported human rights abuses against ethnic minorities in China.

The games are to open in one year, on Feb. 4, 2022, and are set to go forward despite the pandemic.

The coalition is composed of groups representing Tibetans, Uighurs, Inner Mongolians, residents of Hong Kong and others.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2021February 3, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Ontario reports new 1,172 China Virus Cases … conducts crackdown on dissenting elderly

Ontario is reporting 1,172 cases of #COVID19 and over 52,400 tests completed. Locally, there are 444 new cases in Toronto, 199 in Peel and 110 in York Region.

As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 348,331 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.

— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) February 3, 2021

WARMINGTON: Octogenarian church-goer hit with lockdown ticket

AYLMER — Martha Oppel survived Hitler’s Nazis and Stalin’s communists without a police officer knocking on her door.

Then along came the COVID-19 pandemic 75 years later. At 85, Oppel is in trouble with the law for attending church.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2021February 3, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

‘Worrying’ new mutation detected in UK COVID-19 variant

The highly-contagious COVID-19 variant that first emerged in the United Kingdom appears to have evolved again to include a “worrying” new mutation, researchers said.

…Experts now fear that E484K has allowed the South Africa and Brazil strains to get past the natural antibodies of those who have already recovered from becoming infected in the first wave.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2021February 2, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

A Trip to Vietnam Reconfirmed My Hatred of Communism

Ten years ago, I wrote a column reflecting on my reactions to visiting Vietnam. Given the lack of revulsion to, and even flirtation with, communism (or its more mildly named version, socialism) among many young Americans, it is worth revisiting.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2021February 2, 2021•0•Communism

Weapons of Mask Distraction – If you don’t wear three masks, you’re killing people.

After running on a promise to fix the pandemic, Biden admitted, “there’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.”

Except wear two masks.

“To Prevent COVID, wear 2 masks,” The Los Angeles Times declares. “Time to double,” The Washington Post urges. “Health authority recommends Laredoans limit leaving their homes, or wear two masks if they must,” The Laredo Morning Times warns.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2021February 2, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

GUNTER: Vaccine failure is Trudeau’s greatest scandal

Last week I wrote that Canada was No. 18 in vaccinating its population. As of Monday, according to Oxford University’s vaccine tracker, Canada had dropped to No. 28.

On Sunday, the U.S. inoculated 1.5 million people. On a per capita basis, the Brits did even better; they got 600,000 vaccinated.

by Blazingcatfur•February 2, 2021February 2, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

We’d be lost without borders – The illusion of a borderless world has been exposed by the coronavirus epidemic

It’s usually the smaller items that convey the biggest news. A few years ago Le Monde reported a study that found seven out of ten French people to be living in the region of France in which they were born. That finding surprised many people, including the reporter involved. After all, we think we live in a transitory world, yet a huge number of people still spend their entire lives close to home. Around 60% of British people live no more than 30 miles from where they resided as fourteen-year-olds.

by Blazingcatfur•February 2, 2021February 2, 2021•0•"Mass Immigration - Follow the money"

Is AOC the most dangerous politician in America?

Since the Capitol riot she has been whipping up a culture of fear that could have dire consequences for liberty.

Here’s what’s funny about The Squad, the toytown radicals in the Democratic Party who titillate the Twitterati but piss off mostly everyone else. These are the kind of people who would have been Bush-bashers back in the 2000s, shaking their heads at the post-9/11 ‘culture of fear’ and warning against the rash introduction of illiberal anti-terror laws. And yet today these people are agitating for a new war on terror, for an all-out crusade against ‘domestic terrorism’, for an unforgiving, even McCarthyite offensive against an enemy that is apparently so terrifying, so evil, that even America’s constitutional norms must be ripped up in the battle against it.

by Blazingcatfur•February 2, 2021February 2, 2021•0•Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives