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Snakes, Bats, Badgers & Rats: Scientists Suspect New Coronavirus Originated In Animals
Snakes, Bats, Badgers & Rats: Scientists Suspect New Coronavirus Originated In Animals As the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases nears 650, scientists inside and outside China have speculated that the Wuhan coronavirus was first passed to humans via snakes, badgers, bats or rats. Some preliminary research that has been picked up by the Western […]
China Quarantines Second City As Experts Warn It’s Already Too Late To Stop Virus
China Quarantines Second City As Experts Warn It’s Already Too Late To Stop Virus As cases of the new coronavirus popped up around the globe, Chinese health officials managed to assuage the worries of the public, and the market, by insisting that the new, deadly coronavirus that emerged late last month in Wuhan had been […]
Coronavirus Deaths Double Overnight To 17, Suspected Case Identified In St. Petersburg
Coronavirus Deaths Double Overnight To 17, Suspected Case Identified In St. Petersburg Update 2: Just as we suspected, Chinese authorities have revised the death toll for the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak to 17 on Wednesday, meaning that in under 24 hours, the death toll has practically doubled. Meanwhile, Russia media reports claim that a passenger from Shanghai […]
Trudeau and His North Van Climate Minister Are ‘Wrestling’ with a Massive Oilsands Decision
Trudeau and His North Van Climate Minister Are ‘Wrestling’ with a Massive Oilsands Decision Teck’s Frontier mine would kill emissions targets, say analysts. The Trudeau government is under intense scrutiny for a looming decision — one that will powerfully signal whether it favours oil patch growth over fighting the climate emergency. Will the Liberals approve […]
China Is Already Blaming A Slowdown In 2020 On The Coronavirus Epidemic
China Is Already Blaming A Slowdown In 2020 On The Coronavirus Epidemic So much can change in just 24 hours. It was just yesterday that China’s top twitter troll and Beijing propaganda voice to the west, Global Time Editor in Chief Hu Xijin was downplaying the risk from the coronavirus outbreak, comparing it to the […]
“No Chinese Allowed”: Hysteria Grips Asia As Millions Travel Amid Viral Outbreak
“No Chinese Allowed”: Hysteria Grips Asia As Millions Travel Amid Viral Outbreak On Wednesday, health officials in China once again announced a sharp increase in the number of reported cases of the mysterious new coronavirus that is now confirmed to have caused at least nine deaths, as we reported last night. As hundreds of millions of Chinese […]
Global Health Officials On High Alert As Wuhan Virus Makes US Landfall
Global Health Officials On High Alert As Wuhan Virus Makes US Landfall Update (1600ET): Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Zhejiang, Henan, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Seoul, Tokyo, Brisbane, Taipei – and now Washington State. The viral pneumonia-like lung illness first discovered late last year in Wuhan, a mid-sized Chinese city in the center of the country, has Beijing’s leadership […]
Clean Tech Versus a People’s Green New Deal
Clean Tech Versus a People’s Green New Deal Rich nations’ proposals for greening the economy need to acknowledge that their wealth rests on economic exploitation and ecological spoliation of poorer countries. The Green New Deal (GND), Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s draft legislation to reduce US carbon dioxide emissions, was literally 2019’s talk of the town. Climate […]
10 Critical Water Scarcity Facts We Must Not Ignore
10 Critical Water Scarcity Facts We Must Not Ignore Why is water scarcity a legitimate concern? It is true that the hydrologic cycle, the process in which the earth circulates water throughout its ecosystems, is a closed-loop cycle that neither adds nor takes away water. In theory, the amount of water on earth will always […]
Why A Flu Outbreak In China Can Spook Global Markets
Why A Flu Outbreak In China Can Spook Global Markets When people talk about empires of the past, they generally mean Rome and Britain. But the biggest and in some ways most interesting empire was built and run by the Mongols in the 13th and 14th centuries. At it’s peak it stretched from China to […]
China Coronavirus Outbreak Spreads; Hundreds Infected As Human-To-Human Transmission Confirmed
China Coronavirus Outbreak Spreads; Hundreds Infected As Human-To-Human Transmission Confirmed Health officials in Wuhan, China reported 139 new cases of a new mystery virus over the weekend, now rapidly spreading to other provinces and surrounding countries, reported CNN. As of Monday morning, three people have died from the pneumonia-like illness, and globally there have been more than […]
Mystery Chinese Virus Has Likely Infected Over 1,700 As It Sweeps Across China And Japan
Mystery Chinese Virus Has Likely Infected Over 1,700 As It Sweeps Across China And Japan While there have been more than 60 confirmed cases of a new mystery virus emerging from Wuhan, China, UK experts estimate that closer to 1,700 have been sickened with the SARS-like pneumonia, according to the BBC. “I am substantially more concerned […]
Europe Leads The World In Environmental Protection
Europe Leads The World In Environmental Protection Earlier this week, the European Union unveiled their European Investment Plan aimed at shifting 1 trillion euros into making the economy more environmentally friendly over the next 10 years. Statista’s Willem Rpoer reports that the investment plan is in line with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s Green Deal, which looks to make the […]
Merkel Inks Deal For Stalled German Coal Exit
Merkel Inks Deal For Stalled German Coal Exit In a move that’s sure to restore a smidgen of Greta Thunberg’s childhood, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has finally hammered out a deal for Germany’s stalled exit from coal-fired power generation, after state leaders agreed to shut down the industry by 2038. We would note that this […]
Permafrost will limit natural gas, oil, and coal extraction
Permafrost will limit natural gas, oil, and coal extraction Preface. For many people, it’s comforting to know that about 25% of remaining oil and gas reserves (we have the know-how and economics to get it) and resources (beyond our technical and monetary capability) are in the arctic. They assume we’ll get this oil and gas […]
