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Supreme Court rejects RFK Jr. group’s attempt to protect anti-Covid-vaccine doctors from misinformation investigations

Thu, 2024-11-21 10:49 — mike kraft

RFK Jr. Group Denied by Justice Kagan in Covid Vaccine Dispute US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan refused to stop Washington state officials from disciplining doctors who spread misinformation about Covid-19. BLaw

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UN’s Guterres urges COP29 negotiators to reach funding agreement after draft spurned

Thu, 2024-11-21 10:28 — mike kraft

UN’s Guterres pushes COP29 negotiators to seal deal after draft spurned As Baku summit winds down, rich and poor countries at odds over how fight against climate change will be financed. Al Jazeera Al Jazeera

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Developing countries plus China, an influential negotiating bloc, want at least $500bn from developed nations in the form of grants or money without strings attached, rather than loans that add to national debt.

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Cop29 climate finance deal setback; no agreement on funding levels

Thu, 2024-11-21 10:20 — mike kraft

Cop29 climate finance deal hits fresh setback as deadline looms Outcry after draft text contains only an ‘X’ instead of setting $1tn funding goal to support developing countries The Guardian

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U.S. COVID and RSV levels expected to increase in coming weeks --CDC

Thu, 2024-11-21 10:07 — mike kraft

US CDC expects COVID and RSV levels to increase in coming weeks

Nov 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday it expects to see an increase in levels of COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in the country in the coming weeks, as they usually do during the holiday season.

Large gatherings, travel and more time indoors, which typically happen during the holiday season, tend to cause more viruses to spread easily, the health agency said.

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Countering climate change: How cities are becoming more climate resilient

Wed, 2024-11-20 09:50 — mike kraft

Five ways that cities are adapting to extreme heat Heat waves are more frequent and more intense, and city dwellers are being hit hardest. Here's how cities are becoming more resilient. Brian Banks Corporate Knights

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Health agencies warn of measles surge and decline in vaccinations as Trump nominates vaccine-skeptic RFK Jr to head U.S. health agency

Mon, 2024-11-18 10:02 — mike kraft

CDC and WHO warn of rise in measles and decline in vaccinations The CDC and WHO teamed up to warn the world about a concerning explosion in measles cases, suggesting that drop off of vaccine rates is largely to blame Maiya Focht Daily Mail

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Since the Covid pandemic, the number of people skipping vaccinations has been increasing. The new report found only 83 percent of people worldwide in 2023 got the measles vaccine - mostly unchanged from a record low in 2021.

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Four global policies could eliminate >90% of plastic waste and 30% of linked carbon emissions by 2050 --study

Fri, 2024-11-15 11:31 — mike kraft

Study finds four global policies could eliminate >90% of plastic waste and 30% of linked carbon emissions by 2050 A study released in Science determines that just four policies can reduce mismanaged plastic waste—plastic that isn't recycled or properly disposed of and ends up as pollution—by 91% and plastic-related ... University of California - Santa Barbara Phys.org

A study released in Science determines that just four policies can reduce mismanaged plastic waste—plastic that isn't recycled or properly disposed of and ends up as pollution—by 91% and plastic-related greenhouse gases by one-third. ...

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Analysis: Impact of Trump's climate policies 'recoverable'. climate change group estimates

Fri, 2024-11-15 11:11 — mike kraft

Researchers say impact of Trump's climate policies 'recoverable' US president-elect Donald Trump's expected climate rollbacks will likely have a "small" impact on global warming, as long as other countries resist the temptation to slacken their own carbon-cutting efforts, ... Kelly MACNAMARA Phys.org

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In a new analysis of countries' climate plans, the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) project said Trump's potential retreat from the green transition could increase global temperatures by around 0.04C by the end of the century.

Bill Hare of Climate Analytics, one of the groups behind the tracker, said the effect could be "really quite small".

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Current U.N. COP climate talks "no longer fit for purpose" --letter by senior U.N. experts

Fri, 2024-11-15 11:04 — mike kraft

COP29: UN climate talks 'no longer fit for purpose' say experts Call for change comes after host country Azerbaijan's president calls oil and gas a "gift of God". BBC News

The United Nations' COP climate talks are "no longer fit for purpose" and need an urgent overhaul, key experts including a former UN secretary general and former UN climate chief have said.

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