Anonymous ID: 65668d April 11, 2025, 11:24 a.m. No.22898699   🗄️.is 🔗kun

DoD / DIA Reports Suggest Biden Pentagon Suppressed COVID-19 Origins Investigation

 

Two newly uncovered documents - one from the Defense Department and another from a medical intelligence unit within the Pentagon - are renewing scrutiny over how the U.S. government handled early leads about the origins of COVID-19.

 

Released years after the fact, the documents suggest that top military and intelligence officials either ignored or downplayed signs that the coronavirus may have originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China - raising new questions about transparency and accountability, according to Just the News' Jerry Dunleavy.

 

One report, authored by the Defense Department’s Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness in December 2022 but quietly published online only in recent weeks, confirms that the Pentagon never conducted an investigation into whether U.S. service members may have been infected during the 2019 World Military Games held in Wuhan - a city that would soon become ground zero for the COVID-19 outbreak.

 

A second report, produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency’s National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) and dated June 2020, asserts that “the molecular biology capabilities of [the Wuhan lab] and genome assessment are consistent with the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 was a lab-engineered virus.” The analysis, obtained this week through the Freedom of Information Act by the nonprofit U.S. Right to Know, remained classified for nearly five years.

 

The revelations follow years of contentious debate over the virus’s origins, with many scientists and political leaders initially dismissing the possibility of a lab leak as a conspiracy theory. Yet, as more evidence emerges, the narrative is increasingly shifting.

 

Pentagon Report: No Testing, No Investigation

The newly released Pentagon document - just three pages long and first revealed by the Washington Free Beacon, details a minimal response to concerns that American service members may have contracted COVID-19 during the 2019 World Military Games in Wuhan. The report states that seven U.S. military athletes who attended the event reported COVID-19-like symptoms between October 2019 and January 2020. All seven recovered within six days, and none were tested for COVID-19 or antibodies. The reason? “Testing was not available at this early stage of the pandemic.”

 

https://download.militaryonesource.mil/12038/MOS/Reports/2019-WorldMilitaryGames-ReportDec2022.pdf

 

https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/6-20200625-SARS-CoV-2-Genome-Analysis.pdf

Anonymous ID: 65668d April 11, 2025, 11:27 a.m. No.22898703   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Tulsi Gabbard Drops Two Huge Bombshells

 

National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard made a startling revelation during an open cabinet meeting Wednesday, announcing that she has evidence that electronic voting machines have been tampered with to manipulate the results of past US elections.

 

“I’ve got a long list of things that we’re investigating. We have the best going after this, election integrity being one of them,” Gabbard stated.

 

“We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time,” she continued.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tulsi-gabbard-drops-two-huge-bombshells

Anonymous ID: 65668d April 11, 2025, 11:30 a.m. No.22898711   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8793 >>8978

DOJ Releases 700 Pages of Crossfire Hurricane Documents

 

These are the documents President Trump intended to be released in January 2021, but the FBI scooped them up, kept them from going to public release. We sued, tried to fight for them.

 

Donald Trump came back in the office, and he released them a second time. Today, they got to Congress, and then they ended up in the hands of Just the News. In just an hour, you’re going to see our first story…

 

…Perhaps the most important thing in the documents that we found early on. Two informants that were used by the FBI to spy or to snitch on Donald Trump and his campaign was named Stefan Halper. He’s not the most famous. Christopher Steele, the guy that wrote the dossier, he’s the most famous. But Stefan Halper was used quite a bit by the FBI. In fact, he was used for three decades by the FBI, and it turns out, snitching is a pretty lucrative profession. He got paid nearly $1. 2 million by the FBI to be a confidential human source from from the early 1990s to 2017.

 

The last of those payments, $70,000 for his work, stitching on the Trump campaign and the Crossfire Hurricane early investigation. Now, what are we going to tell you about it? It turns out that he got that money and he kept being used by the FBI, and he kept being validated as reliable, even though the FBI detected he had given them an inaccurate, false, or disprovable story.

 

What is it? He’s the guy that told the FBI that Mike Flynn, soon to be Donald Trump’s National Security Security Advisor in the fall of 2016, back in 2014, had left a conference, an overseas conference, while he was a three-star general and the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, alone with a Russian woman.

 

https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2025-04/2025.04.10%20-%20Halper%20files.pdf

Anonymous ID: 65668d April 11, 2025, 11:31 a.m. No.22898719   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8811

"Groundbreaking" FDA Shift Away From Animal Testing Sends Lab Shares Into Freefall

 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a major policy shift late Thursday, signaling the replacement of traditional animal testing—particularly in monoclonal antibody development—with advanced computer modeling and artificial intelligence. The news sent shares of lab companies tumbling on the update, while shares in companies working on biotech AI models jumped.

 

"Today, the FDA is taking a groundbreaking step to advance public health by replacing animal testing in the development of monoclonal antibody therapies and other drugs with more effective, human-relevant methods," the FDA wrote on X, twenty minutes before U.S. cash markets closed on Thursday.

 

AI-based computer modeling to simulate drug behavior and toxicity.

 

Lab-grown human organoids and organ-on-a-chip systems to detect toxic effects more accurately than animal tests.

 

Use of real-world safety data from countries with comparable regulatory standards.

 

Regulatory incentives to encourage adoption of these alternatives, including potential streamlined reviews.

 

Immediate application to new drug applications (INDs), with a roadmap released and a public workshop planned.

 

"With this move, the FDA reaffirms its role as a global leader in modern regulatory science, setting new standards for the industry and encouraging the adoption of innovative, humane testing methods," the FDA stated in a press release.

 

Here's the response from Wall Street analysts (courtesy of Bloomberg):

 

Baird analyst Eric Coldwell

 

says "expect very slow change to the research animal and animal testing services market"

 

"Street got shock and awe news today, and players in this industry likely won't fully recover when it comes to valuation," Coldwell writes in a note

 

Jefferies analyst David Windley

 

says FDA's Modernization 2.0 already stared phasing out animal testing, "but perhaps this is a stronger push with more prescribed plan"

 

"At the least with preclinical spending deprioritized, this is just another reason to pause."

 

Barclays analyst Luke Sergott

 

says while taking out preclinical animal testing testing is "a good goal" — "questions on feasibility and implementation remain"

 

Charles River in the cross​-​hairs, however "this paradigm shift has downstream impacts to late​-​stage trials"

 

RBC Capital Markets analyst Brian Abrahams

 

says "these steps towards increased regulatory flexibility as net positive, especially given recent concerns about potential FDA dysfunction and potentially greater stringency"

 

Antibody innovators Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Amgen, Viridian, BeiGene, Xencor and Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical would likely stand to benefit the most

 

The immediate consequence of the significant testing policy shift sent shares of Charles River, the leading provider of research animal models, plunging by a one-day record of 28%, reaching their lowest level since March 2020 by Thursday's close.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/groundbreaking-fda-shift-away-animal-testing-sends-lab-shares-freefall

Anonymous ID: 65668d April 11, 2025, 11:33 a.m. No.22898727   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9204 >>9212

Three Killed In Cessna Crash Near Boca Raton Airport

 

A Cessna 310R crashed near the Boca Raton Airport in South Florida on Friday morning.

 

Boca News Now reports:

 

We have learned three people were killed. Two bodies were found on the train tracks in the area. The pilot reported a mechanical problem just before the crash. Fire Rescue was responding to the area of the airport when the plane went down.

 

The flight-tracking website Flightrader24 said, "ADS-B data indicates the aircraft is a Cessna 310R (N8930N) that went down shortly after takeoff."

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/three-killed-cessna-crash-near-boca-raton-airport

Anonymous ID: 65668d April 11, 2025, 11:44 a.m. No.22898785   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Leaked Data Reveals Massive Israeli Campaign to Remove Pro-Palestine Posts on Facebook and Instagram

 

A sweeping crackdown on posts on Instagram and Facebook that are critical of Israel—or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians—was directly orchestrated by the government of Israel, according to internal Meta data obtained by Drop Site News. The data show that Meta has complied with 94% of takedown requests issued by Israel since October 7, 2023. Israel is the biggest originator of takedown requests globally by far, and Meta has followed suit—widening the net of posts it automatically removes, and creating what can be called the largest mass censorship operation in modern history.

 

Government requests for takedowns generally focus on posts made by citizens inside that government’s borders, Meta insiders said. What makes Israel’s campaign unique is its success in censoring speech in many countries outside of Israel. What’s more, Israel's censorship project will echo well into the future, insiders said, as the AI program Meta is currently training how to moderate content will base future decisions on the successful takedown of content critical of Israel’s genocide.

 

The data, compiled and provided to Drop Site News by whistleblowers, reveal the internal mechanics of Meta’s “Integrity Organization”—an organization within Meta dedicated to ensuring the safety and authenticity on its platforms. Takedown requests (TDRs) allow individuals, organizations, and government officials to request the removal of content that allegedly violates Meta’s policies. The documents indicate that the vast majority of Israel’s requests—95%—fall under Meta’s “terrorism” or “violence and incitement” categories. And Israel’s requests have overwhelmingly targeted users from Arab and Muslim-majority nations in a massive effort to silence criticism of Israel.

 

Multiple independent sources inside Meta confirmed the authenticity of the information provided by the whistleblowers. The data also show that Meta removed over 90,000 posts to comply with TDRs submitted by the Israeli government in an average of 30 seconds. Meta also significantly expanded automated takedowns since October 7, resulting in an estimated 38.8 million additional posts being “actioned upon” across Facebook and Instagram since late 2023. “Actioned upon” in Facebook terms means that a post was either removed, banned, or suppressed.

 

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data-israeli-censorship-meta

Anonymous ID: 65668d April 11, 2025, 11:45 a.m. No.22898791   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Wall Street at it again. (investors buying up 100s of homes at a time)

 

A Wall Street Landlord bought the entire neighborhood in this new home build development south of Nashville. They now have 15 rentals on the market for houses that aren’t even completed.

 

https://youtu.be/KiWDpKji3IA

Anonymous ID: 65668d April 11, 2025, 11:46 a.m. No.22898804   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8838 >>9274

Trump decided to remove PETER NAVARRO from trade discussions, Bessent will lead – Politico

 

https://citizenwatchreport.com/trump-decided-to-remove-peter-navarro-from-trade-discussions-bessent-will-lead-politico/

Anonymous ID: 65668d April 11, 2025, 11:53 a.m. No.22898858   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Slave-owning Jewish Confederate woman documents wartime Passover in newly published diary

 

Seen in their entirety for the first time, Emma Mordecai’s US Civil War writings paint a seemingly contradictory picture of an anti-emancipation woman who was herself a minority

 

Like this year, Passover in 1864 took place in April. In the penultimate year of the American Civil War, a Jewish Confederate citizen named Emma Mordecai spent the holiday with her cousins in the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. It’s one of the opening memories in the diary she started in the spring of 1864 and continued into the following year.

 

“By all I was most kindly greeted,” she wrote in her diary, “and I was gratified at the unvarying regret expressed at our family having left Richmond, and at the kind invitations I received from various friends to pass days or nights with them whenever I could.”

 

The 51-year-old Mordecai had previously lived in Richmond but left the capital to seek refuge from the advancing Union army at her sister-in-law’s nearby farmhouse. Still, Mordecai was committed to returning to the war-torn city’s Jewish community for the holidays, including that Passover.

 

It was a colder-than-usual spring, making it vital to light fires at the farmhouse and for much of her Passover stay in Richmond. There were other concerns: Her nephew George, after some time away from the Confederate army, had rejoined its ranks with his two brothers.

 

Mordecai’s wartime diary in its entirety is now available to the general public in print for the first time, thanks to the poignant efforts of two scholars, Dianne Ashton and Melissa R. Klapper, both of Rowan University in New Jersey.

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/slave-owning-jewish-confederate-woman-documents-wartime-passover-in-newly-published-diary/

Anonymous ID: 65668d April 11, 2025, 11:54 a.m. No.22898868   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Well look who is in bed together

 

In first, Israeli Air Force participates with Qatar in aerial exercises hosted by Greece

 

Military confirms it sent spy plane to Iniochos drill, doesn’t mention other participating countries; 18-day exercise marks first known military cooperation between the countries

 

The Israel Defense Forces on Friday confirmed that it participated in a just-completed annual aerial exercise hosted by Greece, which this year included the participation of Qatar.

 

Eleven other countries joined Greece in its Iniochos exercise this year: the United States, France, India, Israel, Italy, Montenegro, Poland, Qatar, Slovenia, Spain, and the United Arab Emirates. Cyprus participated with supporting personnel, and Slovakia and Bahrain sent observers.

 

The Israeli Air Force only sent a Gulfstream G550 spy plane from the 122nd Squadron for the drill, the military confirmed on Friday, more than a week after it was reported that the IAF was involved in the exercise.

 

In previous years, the IAF sent several fighter jet squadrons and refuelers, in addition to spy planes.

 

The drill began on March 24 and ended on Friday. The IDF had refused to comment on the drill until it had concluded.

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-air-force-participated-with-qatar-in-aerial-exercises-hosted-by-greece/

Anonymous ID: 65668d April 11, 2025, 11:58 a.m. No.22898899   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9545 >>9547

POLICE OFFICER PERJURED HERSELF IN DEREK CHAUVIN CASE?

 

There is new evidence being uncovered by @LizCollin in the George Floyd "we have 14 police officers that have said Katie Blackwell perjured herself in his trial."

 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1910397211768242660

Anonymous ID: 65668d April 11, 2025, 11:59 a.m. No.22898908   🗄️.is 🔗kun

So apparently the full Nashville Covenant School Shooting Manifesto was released by FBI Kash Patel

 

What’s being revealed so far shows the Nashville Police Department downplayed and omitted key aspects of Audrey Hale’s beliefs.

 

• ’The writings, shared exclusively with Megyn Kelly and provided to the House Intelligence Committee, include notebooks, journals, and digital files from 2020 to days before the attack, revealing Hale’s mental health struggles, gender dysphoria, and violent ideation.

 

• On April 3, 2025, MNPD’s final report claimed no single “manifesto” existed, describing Hale’s writings as documenting her planning and struggles, and downplaying her gender identity as a motive. Megyn Kelly argued this was a complete cover-up, pointing to Hale’s focus on her trans identity.

 

  • Kelly found entries in the manifesto such as as the following:

— “Let Kids Choose Their Sex”

— “Born a Boy, Raised as a Girl”

— “Female pronouns make me feel like I wanna die.”

— “Kill all the white kids. Kill my own race.”

— “I’d like to dispose my vagina.”

— “I hate being in a woman’s body. Need to die.”

— “I have to kill so I can be remembered in the most horrific way possible that no one can ever forget.”

— “Every white person who lived and died, I hate you all”

 

🔴 FINAL ANALYSIS:

I would like to again point out what nobody usually points out…

 

The sheer coincidence that Ashbey Beasley & Shaundell Brooks showed up right after the shooting to talk about why it was so important to change guns laws.

 

The sheer coincidence Ashbey Beasley is also chummy with Nancy Pelosi.

 

https://rumble.com/v2f7qy0-meet-ashbey-beasley-and-shaundell-brooks-quite-the-duo-at-the-tennessee-mas.html

 

https://x.com/i/status/1910332424002609152

Anonymous ID: 65668d April 11, 2025, 12:03 p.m. No.22898937   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Inside the campaign to end Microsoft's collaboration with the Israeli army

 

Meet the two Microsoft employees who helped shine a light on Microsoft's role in Israel's war on Gaza

 

It was early 2025, and Ibtihal Aboussad couldn't believe what she had just read.

 

The company at which she had spent the past three years working as a software engineer in the AI department was actively providing the Israeli military with the AI infrastructure to carry out what several leading human rights groups and experts have described as a "genocide" in Gaza.

 

In the stream of stories she had parsed through, Abbousad found that through an initiative called Project Azure, Microsoft was providing a range of computing services to support Israel's military operations, including AI operations that helped the Israeli military conduct operations in Gaza.

 

These products, including a suite of communication technology, were being used by the Israeli army's notorious Unit 8200 and Unit 81, as well as an air force unit, known as the Ofek, to build "kill lists".

 

She was horrified. Not only was she an employee at Microsoft, she was part of the AI division itself.

Microsoft is a household name around the world for popular software like Office or its operating system, Windows, or for being the parent company of the X-box console, or for best-selling games like Candy Crush. Aboussad told Middle East Eye that like many others, she was unaware that they were also providing cloud storage, computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and facial recognition, among a collection of services for the Israeli military.

 

She was even more shocked to find that as the war on Gaza expanded, so too did Microsoft's entanglements with the Israeli military.

 

The Israeli military's usage of the company's cloud storage facilities in the first six months after 7 October 2023 was 60 percent more than the four months preceding it. Leaked documents show that the Israeli military's usage of Microsoft's AI products also ticked up in the same period.

 

The 25-year-old Aboussad, who worked in the AI division in which she was involved in converting speech to text, says she hadn't realised she "signed up to work on code that directly powers war crimes". This realisation spurred her into action.

 

She joined and began organising with the No Azure for Apartheid campaign, which was created in late 2023 by a group of Microsoft employees who wanted the company to end its contracts with Israel and uphold its own stated values.

 

Together with other employees, including a colleague, Vaniya Aggraval, Aboussad said that over the past several months, they tried to address their concerns through the proper channels.

 

They wrote to management, tried meeting with the CEO, and even sent questions to "Ask me anything" forums, only to be rebuffed and ignored.

 

As news of the company's complicity in Gaza became increasingly public, employees noted that Microsoft appeared more galvanised to suppress and censor internal efforts that tried to draw attention to it.

 

When Israel cut aid and supplies and began bombarding Gaza again in mid-March, killing up to 100 children a day, both Aboussad and Agrawal decided they had had enough.

 

https://youtu.be/CA9l2IbBFoA

Anonymous ID: 65668d April 11, 2025, 12:07 p.m. No.22898963   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Israeli network censors report exposing Oct 7 ‘hero’ as hoaxer

 

Under public pressure, an Israeli network censored a report which would have exposed a key face of Israel’s October 7 PR campaign as a fabulist. Rami Davidian claimed to have rescued over 750 young Israelis and witnessed hideous scenes of rape by Hamas. His bogus testimonies were cited by the UN and filmmaker Sheryl Sandberg.

Israeli broadcaster Channel 13 has announced that it will no longer air an investigation into the fabrications of Rami Davidian, a settler who was lionized as a hero after claiming to have rescued over 750 Israelis at the Nova music festival on October 7, following a major public pressure campaign.

 

“We are aware of the public’s feelings and the consequences of broadcasting the episode and prefer not to broadcast it at this time,” Channel 13 wrote in an April 4 statement. A promotional video published by Channel 13 reporter Raviv Drucker on X the day before attracted hundreds of crude and expletive-filled comments from fanatical Israeli settlers, with the most-liked reply referring to Drucker as a “piece of shit” and accusing him of seeking to push Davidian to commit suicide.

 

Drucker defended the investigation in a post on X, stating that Davidian’s lies were “not slight exaggerations” like “mildly inflating the number of those rescued — absolutely not.” Instead, “these are stories made up from beginning to end. Hair-raising stories that never, ever occurred.”

 

https://thegrayzone.substack.com/p/israeli-network-censors-report-exposing

Anonymous ID: 65668d April 11, 2025, 12:08 p.m. No.22898970   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8999

Two men will vie for the women's title in the

@USAFencing April North American Cup tomorrow.

 

This is 1 week after Stephanie Turner refused to compete against a man.

@tedcruz – hold USA Fencing accountable. Revoke their NGB (natl governing body) status.

 

https://x.com/JenniferSey/status/1910477810851783118

Anonymous ID: 65668d April 11, 2025, 12:10 p.m. No.22898987   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9107 >>9113

33 Shocking Facts That Prove That The Entire U.S. Healthcare Industry Has Become One Giant Money Making Scam

 

#1 The U.S. spends about 5 trillion dollars on healthcare each year.

 

#2 What the United States spends on healthcare is greater than the GDP of the United Kingdom.

 

#3 If the U.S. healthcare system was a country, it would be the 6th largest economy in the entire world.

 

#4 Federal, state and local governments account for nearly half of all healthcare spending in the United States.

 

#5 Today, more than 68 million Americans are enrolled in Medicare.

 

#6 If you can believe it, more than 71 million Americans are enrolled in Medicaid.

 

#7 Does it seem like almost half of the commercials on television are for pharmaceutical drugs? You may not be surprised to learn that pharmaceutical companies actually spend more than 15 billion dollars on television advertising in the United States each year.

 

#8 According to one survey, 61 percent of U.S. adults are currently taking at least one pharmaceutical drug.

 

#9 Globally, the pharmaceutical industry brings in about 1.6 trillion dollars in revenue each year. That is more money than the Pentagon spends.

 

#10 There are 10 pharmaceutical industry executives that received total compensation of at least 20 million dollars in 2023.

 

#11 According to the CDC, 1.5 million people a year are rushed to emergency rooms in the United States because of adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs. 600,000 of those people are age 65 or older.

 

#12 On average, more than 1,200 pharmaceutical drugs are recalled by the FDA each year.

 

#13 In 2023, the six largest health insurance companies in the United States had combined revenues of almost 1.1 trillion dollars. That is also more money than the Pentagon spends.

 

#14 The profits of health insurance companies in the U.S. increased by 287 percent in a 10 year period.

 

#15 On average, annual health insurance premiums for family coverage have reached a total of $25,572 per year.

 

#16 In 2023, the CEOs of the five largest health insurance companies in the U.S. brought home approximately 75 million dollars in total compensation.

 

#17 The CEO of UnitedHealth Group, Andrew Witty, received a total of 23.5 million dollars in compensation in 2023.

 

#18 One survey found that 18 percent of all insured adults in the U.S. have had a health insurance claim denied just within the past year.

 

#19 More than 27 million Americans do not even have health insurance.

 

#20 Why are c-sections on the rise? It is because a vaginal delivery costs approximately $12,235 on average, while a c-section costs approximately $17,004 on average.

 

#33 A study that was conducted a few years ago determined that more than 90 percent of all hospital bills contain errors that can result in “overcharges, unnecessary costs, and insurance claim denials”.

 

https://citizenwatchreport.com/33-shocking-facts-that-prove-that-the-entire-u-s-healthcare-industry-has-become-one-giant-money-making-scam/

Anonymous ID: 65668d April 11, 2025, 12:12 p.m. No.22898997   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9014

Ex Banker Blows Whistle On The Agenda To Keep Americans Enslaved

 

For generations, Americans believed they lived in the land of opportunity - a place where financial freedom was possible for anyone willing to work hard and play by the rules. Our grandparents and great-grandparents built this nation on that promise.

 

But somewhere along the way, something changed. The rules were rewritten. The game was rigged. A small group of banking elites orchestrated a takeover of our financial system so complete, so thorough, that most Americans don’t even realize they’re living in a carefully constructed prison of debt.

 

What started with the secretive creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913 has evolved into a sophisticated system designed to extract wealth from the working class and funnel it to the financial elite. Through carefully crafted policies, deliberate manipulation of markets, and the normalization of crushing debt, they’ve created a modern form of servitude that doesn’t require physical chains.

 

https://youtu.be/HBRPcJ9RJS4

Anonymous ID: 65668d April 11, 2025, 12:20 p.m. No.22899042   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9236

Ten Environmentalist Myths

 

Here are ten issues where environmentalism has been misused, with consequences that have either been of no benefit whatsoever to the environment or have even caused harm.

 

(1) We are in a climate crisis

We may as well begin with the most controversial environmentalist claim, that our planet is at imminent risk of catastrophic climate change. The problem with this claim is two-fold. First, there remains vigorous—if suppressed—debate over whether the data actually supports this claim. There is ample evidence that average global temperatures are not rapidly increasing, if they are even increasing at all. There is also strong evidence that extreme weather events are not increasing but rather that our ability to detect them has improved and that population increases have led more people to live in places that are particularly vulnerable to extreme weather. Second, even if there is some truth to the claims of climate catastrophists, it is not possible to precipitously transform our entire energy infrastructure. The technology isn’t ready, the funding isn’t available, and most nations will not participate. Adaptation is our only rational course of action.

 

(2) There are too many people

Based on extrapolations back in 1970, this may have appeared to be the case because populations worldwide at that time were rapidly growing. But today, in almost every nation, the inverse is now true: birthrates are well below replacement levels. Even in those nations that continue to experience rapid population growth, the rate of growth is following the same pattern of decline. The United Nations now estimates the total global population to top out at around 10 billion people, after which it is projected to decline. This means the rapid population growth we’ve seen over the past two centuries, where the global population octupled from 1 billion in 1804 to over 8 billion by 2024, is over. There is not one trend anywhere on earth that contradicts this pattern. Humanity faces a future of too few people, not too many.

 

(3) We are running out of “fossil” fuel

While this is technically correct, the situation is nowhere close to what was famously predicted in 1956 by American geologist M. Hubbert, who claimed oil production in the U.S. would peak by 1970 and then slide into permanent decline. In the U.S. and around the world, new technologies and new discoveries have put total reserves of oil, along with natural gas and coal, at record highs despite increasing demand. According to the authoritative Statistical Review on Global Energy, based on current consumption, proven reserves could supply oil for 61 years, natural gas for 50, and coal for 208. This grossly understates the big picture, however, because proven and recoverable reserves are being expanded all the time. “Unproven” reserves, waiting to be discovered, will easily double the amount of time left. This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t continue to research new sources of energy. But we have a century or more to sort this out.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ten-environmentalist-myths