#Billionaires use ‘Uber for private jets’ to avoid climate shaming

#Billionaires use ‘Uber for private jets’ to avoid climate shaming

“#Billionaires use ‘Uber for private jets’ to avoid climate shaming” It’s awkward flying private. The ultra-wealthy and corporations are increasingly turning to Uber-like private jet sharing companies to maintain their climate credibility and avoid being “flight shamed” — while still avoiding the masses on commercial flights. Private jet charter companies say they are scrambling to…

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#NY Times’ Master of Misinformation and more

#NY Times’ Master of Misinformation and more

“#NY Times’ Master of Misinformation and more” This column: The New York Times claims The Post exposé on Hunter Biden’s scandalous e-mails is an example of misinformation.NY Post composite; istock; Getty Images We say: In this New York Times whopper of a whopper, Master of Misinformation Ben Smith not only writes about misinformation; he engages…

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#The last gasp of the anti-carbon taxers

#The last gasp of the anti-carbon taxers

“#The last gasp of the anti-carbon taxers” Ontario Premier Ford once got a lot of mileage out of attacking the carbon tax but now seems to be easing off the gas (Nathan Denette/CP) Scott Moe is so unhappy with the policies Justin Trudeau is bringing in to reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions that he declared…

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#Brazil government hid surge in deforestation ahead of UN summit

#Brazil government hid surge in deforestation ahead of UN summit

“#Brazil government hid surge in deforestation ahead of UN summit” Brazilian government authorities kept statistics about a dramatic rise in deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest under wraps during the recent United Nations Climate Summit in Glasgow, according to a report. The Amazon region lost 5,100 square miles of rainforest between August 2020 and July 2021.AP…

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#‘J-Joke’ is on Andrew Cuomo: Goodwin

#‘J-Joke’ is on Andrew Cuomo: Goodwin

“#‘J-Joke’ is on Andrew Cuomo: Goodwin” Count this as another one of those shifting social norms that Andrew Cuomo didn’t know about until yesterday. A decade after everyone else in Albany, he is finally slamming the Joint Commission on Public Ethics as “J-Joke.”  Only this time, the joke is on him. Cuomo is outraged that…

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#John Kerry says US ‘won’t have coal’ by 2030

#John Kerry says US ‘won’t have coal’ by 2030

“#John Kerry says US ‘won’t have coal’ by 2030” US climate envoy John Kerry said Tuesday in Scotland that America, which boasts the world’s largest economy, will stop burning coal sometime within the next nine years. “By 2030 in the United States, we won’t have coal,” Kerry told Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait during an interview at the COP26 climate conference…

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