The EU has decided to undermine its own 2030 emissions-cutting targets by counting estimated carbon sinks against the emissions.

This is the same error as trying to plan in terms of "net" emissions (emissions minus absorptions). Any future greenhouse gas absorption is conjectural. Trees won't remove CO2 from the air if they burn up.

A nurse working a privatized immigration prison describes how the management disregard Covid-19, gratuitously allowing it to spread to prisoners and staff.

The saboteur in chief has appointed a global heating denialist to the management team at NOAA, in charge of climate research there.

One of the practices used to shelter denialists is calling them "skeptics". CNN's article does this, but please don't repeat that practice. To be a skeptic means that one is not convinced and wants to do more investigation to determine what is happening. By contrast, Legatos is denying what is well established. He is no "skeptic", he is a denialist.

In general, skepticism is a wise and useful attitude towards claims until they are demonstrated, but it can be carried too far. For instance, there are times when skepticism about an approaching danger must be set aside. When it is time to join the bucket brigade to put out a fire, objecting that there is no proof this fire can spread is not an acceptable excuse for refusing to help put it out.

*A Thank You Letter From Coronavirus to My Enablers in the United States.*

This is not from The Onion.

The wrecker is still actively spreading Covid-19 to his death cult, and now we have proof that he is knowingly lying to them when he denies the danger.

Don't be distracted into disputes about when Bob Woodward really ought to have published this fact. It is a side issue, and it is being raised as a distraction. I see no reason to assume his news would have had more impact in May or July than it has now.