“In the event, hopefully unlikely, that updated vaccinations or boosters are needed to respond to this new variant, we will accelerate their development and deployment with every available tool,” said President Joe Biden at a White House press conference today. “My team is already working with officials at Pfizer and Moderna and Johnson & Johnson to […]
South African researchers are reporting the rapid emergence of a highly mutated new COVID-19 coronavirus variant, B.1.1.529. The World Health Organization will likely assign it the Greek letter Nu Omicron* as its more general identifier. Among other changes, the Nu Omicron variant features 30 modifications to its spike protein that the virus uses as a key to […]
President Joe Biden is engaging in political theater in the pretense of doing something about escalating gasoline prices. For his latest act, the president announced earlier today that he is ordering the release of 50 million barrels of oil from the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve in an effort to tamp down rising gasoline prices. Oil […]
The Glasgow Climate Pact was adopted by nearly 200 countries just before midnight on November 13 at the 26th United Nations climate change conference (COP26). The rallying cry of the activists and negotiators in Glasgow was “Keep 1.5°C Alive,” a slogan that distills the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change’s goal of limiting the global average […]
Glasgow – The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), like its predecessors, is dramatically rushing toward its usual inconclusive conclusion. And just as usual, climate activists are furiously furious about that. Some 200 activists staged a walkout of the conference venue earlier today while simultaneously issuing “The People’s COP26 Decision for Climate Justice.” And […]
Glasgow – The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) draft decision document, which is supposed to incorporate countries’ negotiated deals on how to address man-made climate change, includes language focused on protecting and using nature as a way to reduce future warming. Specifically, the document “emphasizes the importance of protecting, conserving and restoring nature […]
The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) is coming to a close. The draft text outlining decisions and commitments made by the nearly 200 countries in attendance has been released. However, the Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDC) group reportedly wants to pull the section devoted to cutting emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) as a way […]
Reason‘s December special issue marks the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. This story is part of our exploration of the global legacy of that evil empire, and our effort to be certain that the dire consequences of communism are not forgotten. Kazakhstan stretches over 1 million square miles in Central Asia. […]
Glasgow—The Freedom and Climate Symposium was convened on November 8 at Strathclyde University by the think tank the Conservative Coalition for Climate Solutions (C3 Solutions) as a concurrent event with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26). The symposium brought together energy entrepreneurs, finance experts, free market climate […]
Ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) issued its Emissions Gap Report 2021, declaring that the world is on track for a global average temperature rise this century of at least 2.7°C (4.9°F). The UNEP found that the greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction pledges made by signatories to the […]
