"Focus on Fracking": to repeat -- the weekly update has been posted.
Blog roll: again, the blogs I highly recommend are linked at the sidebar at the right. It is simply amazing how much gets posted by those folks. Really, really good "stuff" and so much posted. I think my favorite was the story of the elephant seal. That story was over at "What's Up With That?" That was a very long post, so if you link on it, you will have to scroll down a bit to find it This was the snippet:
Elephant Seals: Elephant seal sightings have been increasing on Fidalgo and Whidbey Islands in the Puget Sound, Washington. Immediately, these events were claimed to be evidence of CO2-caused global warming. The unnamed “scientists” involved apparently did not check the history of elephant seal hunting.
Elephant Seals range from Baja California to the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Once abundant along the northern Pacific Coast, elephant seals were hunted for fine-burning lamp oil. In the 1880s Elephant Seals were considered extinct. Later, a small population was found on Mexico’s Guadalupe Island (and killed for scientific research). Later, other populations were found, and in 1922 they were protected by Mexico, and shortly thereafter by the US. Since, they have been slowly expanding their breeding grounds north, up the California coast. Global warming has nothing to do with new sightings. But thanks to hydraulic fracturing and high-tech drilling their oil is no longer needed. See https://www.marinemammalcenter.org/education/marine-mammal-information/pinnipeds/northern-elephant-seal/.The Marine Mammal Center: the blog on the elephant seal above links to The Mammal Marine Center white paper on the Northern Elephant Seal.
The northern elephant seal success story: faux environmentalists fail to report the reason why these seals escaped extinction. Quite a story.
Sweden and Wuhan flu: Sweden is getting a lot of positive press about how that country handled the coronavirus. When one actually sees the data, one gets another impression. If one has time to read only one article on Wuhan flu today, this would be the article.
The comments in the ZH article are almost as informative as the article itself. Folks from all over the world voicing their collective opinions. Great read.
ReplyDeleteInfo like this I tend to go to the the comments section first
I am truly conflicted on the whole Wuhan flu story. Truly confused, truly conflicted.
ReplyDeleteOf the many, many aspects involved, it's hard NOT to say the pandemic was politicized. But even our (the US) entering WWII was politicized, so politics is not something new.
Having said that, this is what I find interesting. Sweden is the darling for socialists. Not Russia, not Cuba, not North Korea, but Sweden. As such, Sweden has a huge, huge "fan base" and a very, very good "PR" (public relations) war room.
Now that we have the data it appears to me that the Swedish "PR" war room did an incredibly good job influencing influencers.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influencer_marketing.